Thoughts on what happened on Monday, from someone who wasn't there:
- Every was still digesting all the food from Simon's BBQ.
- We were all anxious to get in line for upcoming Transformers movie.
- Too many all-hammer points.
- Lee Anne von Gouligan turned out to be a triple agent. I can't believe she played us all for chumps.
- Austin, Chris, Dan L and Nadia making their case for MVP.
- Field not marked to correct dimensions.
- You mean we're supposed to catch the disc?
- Thrown off by Godzilla vs Mecha-Godzilla fight.
Any comments, from those who were there? What can we do better?
6 comments:
What can we do better? I think catching the disc really really helps. Which might lead to us not turning the disc over 10 yards from our endzone.
Everyone seems to have become camera shy all of a sudden - I rarely see anyone else commenting on these posts nowadays...
As to the game, well. It was, as I think you North Americans call it, a "comedy of errors". Or a cluster something.
Unfortunately little offensive strategic diagnosis is possible since the disc wasn't in play long enough. However, here are the useful takeaways I recall:
1) on zone O middle handler should mostly be instantly swinging disc
2) poppers crashing into the cup need to come all the way in (CS did this well)
3) Be more aware of when to quickly pick up the disc (getting it out of our endzone / taking advantage of a quick deep strike)
4) On zone O maintain a pair of poppers for each half of the field, rather than drifting across with the disc
5) Use all 3 timeouts - every single game this should give 3 points guaranteed
As for defence, well...we had a lot of practice at that. Top takeaways:
1) They always had the open side cut inside (Carla was good at diagnosing this, but we never really adjusted). Solution of course would have been to mark underneath and rely on "last man back"
2) Even without some of their speedfreaks intercepting anything that went long we were still guilty of waiting for the disc rather than charging everything down.
That's about it; I'm pretty sure there were 10 other players out there, so chime in people!
Oh, and one more thing. We need to be able to catch.
Short answer: Everything!
Simon's made some good points.
We need to remember that we CAN play and to play our game.
I blame society.
I like the comment on fronting on D and relying on last man back. This will however needs a lot of practice and better communication. I don't know how to set that up very effectively, but my guess is to have a guy that stays deep and have the 3 guys figuring out the best coverage based on the other team's running pattern. I might be wrong.
I think we pulled a typical RTH move: we got stressed out and stopped having fun when we started to lose. I think this game might have been even worse than usual because we started psyching ourselves out before the game even started. Mondays are going to be hard - we're going to have just had a long work day, may still be tired from a tournament the weekend before, and maybe even still hungover. We've got to think of Mondays as fun and hard-ass ultimate days, though, and enjoy it, even when we're down.
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