If MG loses and fails to make adjustments, then she is
out coaches. It happens to the best of coaches to get out coached. Even professional coaches admit when it happens.
To answer the GCS coach or parent that keeps asking:
1. SPSG lost the first 3 draws and then made adjustments to win draw. That is 1st example.
2. GCS couldn’t contain SPSG offensive threats. It’s called face guarding. That is 2nd example.
3. GCS runs same offense over and over. Leads to missed opportunities. Defense figure out that one girl feeds from X. That is the 3rd example.
4. If the game is getting away, substitution of players might be an option. Keeping same girls on the field when it’s not working is a recipe for disaster. That is 4th example.
Sorry coach BR, you didn’t have your best game in the coaching box.
See below:
1. SPSG lost the first 3 draws and then made adjustments to win draw. That is 1st example.
SPSG has 3 players to use for the draw. GCS and most schools does not. Even MG said that having 3 is an advantage that most teams do not have. This has nothing to do with coaching
2. GCS couldn’t contain SPSG offensive threats. It’s called face guarding. That is 2nd example.
Face guarding is when you shut a player off completely (what teams used to do to Megan Whittle) You cannot face guard multiple players at the same time. you run the D that best fits the personnel on your team. Sometimes it works and sometimes it does not.
3. GCS runs same offense over and over. Leads to missed opportunities. Defense figure out that one girl feeds from X. That is the 3rd example.
Once again, you run the offense that best fits your personnel. Sometimes it works and sometimes it does not.
4. If the game is getting away, substitution of players might be an option. Keeping same girls on the field when it’s not working is a recipe for disaster. That is 4th example.
Obviously you did not look at the number of players that GCS carries on varsity. They only carry around 20 so they can also field a JV team. GCS is a very small school( average class size around 80 students and also co-ed) and does not have the student-athlete population that SPSG, McD or NDP has to choose from. That said GCS has made the semi final each year they have been in the A Division with small rosters
GCS was also missing a starting middie and attacker. When you have a small squad even a few injuries can make a big difference
GCS did not play well as a team on Monday, but BR did not get out coached, GCS just got out played...it happens,
