Stolen from another e-mail from another hemisphere:
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So as you all probably know by now we yook 4th. Disappointing, but here is the
story.
We played a very good and very tight firs half with buzz bullets. We started
on O and we each got two breaks on each other, therefore SZ took half 9-8. The
first half was fairly clean on both sides. They D'd one hucka dn we maybe
dropped another pass, an that was about it for our turns, I think.
Buzz plays either very poachy man D (the quickly jump into cutting lnes and
intercept under throws) or they play a zone that transitions to man late in
stall counts. Both were very effective at stifling flow.
We played good old american force one way, don't get broken and use our
bodies. Buzz goes up the line incessantly and move the disc quickly, but when
we got our marks on and stayed aware of the cutting lanes, we stymied them and
forced turns.
In the second half buzz got three consecutive breaks. All were SZ drops or
trow aways. To buzz's credit they forced us into a bad situation with clever
Ds, but bottom line we did it to ourselvs. This perhaps exposed out biggest
weakness, lack of depth. When other teams went on a run against us, we had a
hard time knowing how to mix up the personel to adjust... there weren't many
options!
In the second half we score maybe one or two goals-- ver disappointig. But
hand it to Buzz, they run very hard on O and D. They almost never allowed clean
flow from their opponents, they rset the disc efficiently, and the only TOs they
had were rare executions errors (2 in our game) or a calculated deep risk to a
match up.
The next game was chilly. We were down emotionally and they were content to
have their one 6-5 duse throw hucks to one of the other 6-5 dude and take their
60% completion percentage. We were late changing to a zone, nonetheless we made
it interesting in the end. 17-15 I think. Too bad we would have loved to bring
home bronze.
At the end of the game chilly gave Schmelzle the "game ball" and aussie rules
football. Schmelzle, as deep in the zone, must have gotten 8 jump balls,
bringing us back into the game at the end.
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Start quote:
So as you all probably know by now we yook 4th. Disappointing, but here is the
story.
We played a very good and very tight firs half with buzz bullets. We started
on O and we each got two breaks on each other, therefore SZ took half 9-8. The
first half was fairly clean on both sides. They D'd one hucka dn we maybe
dropped another pass, an that was about it for our turns, I think.
Buzz plays either very poachy man D (the quickly jump into cutting lnes and
intercept under throws) or they play a zone that transitions to man late in
stall counts. Both were very effective at stifling flow.
We played good old american force one way, don't get broken and use our
bodies. Buzz goes up the line incessantly and move the disc quickly, but when
we got our marks on and stayed aware of the cutting lanes, we stymied them and
forced turns.
In the second half buzz got three consecutive breaks. All were SZ drops or
trow aways. To buzz's credit they forced us into a bad situation with clever
Ds, but bottom line we did it to ourselvs. This perhaps exposed out biggest
weakness, lack of depth. When other teams went on a run against us, we had a
hard time knowing how to mix up the personel to adjust... there weren't many
options!
In the second half we score maybe one or two goals-- ver disappointig. But
hand it to Buzz, they run very hard on O and D. They almost never allowed clean
flow from their opponents, they rset the disc efficiently, and the only TOs they
had were rare executions errors (2 in our game) or a calculated deep risk to a
match up.
The next game was chilly. We were down emotionally and they were content to
have their one 6-5 duse throw hucks to one of the other 6-5 dude and take their
60% completion percentage. We were late changing to a zone, nonetheless we made
it interesting in the end. 17-15 I think. Too bad we would have loved to bring
home bronze.
At the end of the game chilly gave Schmelzle the "game ball" and aussie rules
football. Schmelzle, as deep in the zone, must have gotten 8 jump balls,
bringing us back into the game at the end.
End quote.
posted by sometallskinnykid at 11:11 AM
1 Comments:
The Buzz defense sounds really good. You (actually, your teammate) say "bottom line is we did it to ourselves", and I suppose that this is true. But the thing is, it's virtually always true. With the exception of a handful of insane plays (Nord's D on Doug Moore in the '05 semis comes to mind), virtually every turnover in elite open is a mistake - either bad execution or a throw that should not have been made. Buzz had a creative D that managed to disrupt the other team and create more possibility for mistakes. Hats off to them.
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