Shack Stanwick is the best passer in college lacrosse. Not only does he make insane feeds, but also they are always exactly on point and even simple passes when moving the ball around look so easy and flawless.

Glad the Hopkins coaches went to the same pattern every time. After a few iterations, Princeton would fix their previous mistake but make the "next" mistake. Wanting to use their strong righty shooters, Hopkins just decided to run this clockwise each time. Goal 1 (0:16) : Inability for interior d-mid to rotate within man-down set. Based on positioning of initial low-left defender (beyond farside pipe not shading over until next-to-last pass), it was probably the d-mid's responsibility to pick up the low-right offensive player in a standard passing rotation. Otherwise the pole would have been at farside pipe much earlier. Inability to rotate and subsequent late "oh crap I was next in the rotation that's my guy" reaction by d-mid led to high-percentage shot. Goal 2 (0:44) : Same as above. Interior d-mid seems rather lost. Doesn't recognize rotation again. Goal 3 (1:10) : Here's what I mean by the "next" mistake. Someone told the d-mid he needed to recognize the rotation, and he did successfully. However, the 'next' thing that has to happen is someone (potentially plural) need(s) to cover the crease guy, recently vacated by the d-mid who just went into the rotation. Inability to do so leads to easy doorstep goal. Goal 4 (1:50) : Another "next" mistake. Coaches told the other defenders to crash crease, but they overdid it. To the point where low-left defender actually checks the crease guy when the pass is going to the GLE attackman. By overcrashing the crease, they leave skip lanes open to the backside (granted, a GLE- to-GLE adjacent pass isn't much of a skip when there's nobody at X, but you know what I mean; they left the lane open). Opportunity 5 (2:20) : Not the "next" mistake, but a rotation mistake nonetheless. Top right D covers both the top right and then tries to do a one-man rotation when the ball gets passed to GLE right. #7 is completely unaware of this and actually has his back turned (should never happen on defense ever, particularly on man down when rotation awareness is so essential) giving up an easy shot, which is saved.

Bob Benson is brilliant. 5 goals from the exact same set/action every single time. Open set into a 3-1-2. Get the ball to the corner and then make a play (score or feed)

Not really sure what Princeton was going for with that defensive setup. It essentially looked like 2-3 trying to play what they thought was a 2-4, but Hopkins kept the wings high, making it a 2-3 guarding a 4-2...uneven situations everywhere. Filthy finishes towards the end obviously, but there weren't any changes to the man-down defense as the game went on. Disappointing year from Princeton so far.

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