Cornell lacrosse: Yale, Friday 5/5/23, 6 PM.

[mike1960]

Yale was much better than us at the faceoff X and at goalie, two positions we felt pretty good about going into the game.  It's a tough day, but we usually come back pretty strong after a loss.

[ER]

They were much better than us at everything. Seeing it live, it looked like we were sleepwalking.

[mike1960]

They were much better than us at everything. Seeing it live, it looked like we were sleepwalking.

We definitely did not match their intensity. We needed to play all game the way we played in the late fourth quarter.

[jjanow99]

Any idea why they didn't use Petrakis more on FO? Especially after how he dominated last week.

[rss77]

I looked at the game stats and outside of the faceoff and shot percentage dominance the stats did not reflect the score.  I was surprised to see the ground balls dead even and for Cornell to have more shots on goal and Yale turnovers at a 3:1 ration over Cornell's.  One wonders if Petrakis was hurt?  Possession is everything in the game of lacrosse and the time and room that Yale had for shots was unnerving even on long stick defenders.  Ierlan was definitely off (24% save percentage adding in a couple of Goalie free goals) and the Goalie in the lacrosse has to come with a couple of unbelievable saves like Pacquette (19 saves and 56% save percentage)  had last night to fire up of the defense. There were 4 or 5 goals right off the faceoff and one can say that was the difference in the game for Yale.  One cannot blame the loss on the officials but it was pretty weak last night missing some calls and screwing up a couple of faceoffs.

[mike1960]

One thing we learned is that for Cornell to be successful in the postseason, they'll need to be fired up all the way to 11 from the first whistle. Andy Shay knew which buttons to press to make this happen. I expect the loss will energize this team quite a bit.

[BearLover]

I looked at the game stats and outside of the faceoff and shot percentage dominance the stats did not reflect the score.  I was surprised to see the ground balls dead even and for Cornell to have more shots on goal and Yale turnovers at a 3:1 ration over Cornell's.  One wonders if Petrakis was hurt?  Possession is everything in the game of lacrosse and the time and room that Yale had for shots was unnerving even on long stick defenders.  Ierlan was definitely off (24% save percentage adding in a couple of Goalie free goals) and the Goalie in the lacrosse has to come with a couple of unbelievable saves like Pacquette (19 saves and 56% save percentage)  had last night to fire up of the defense. There were 4 or 5 goals right off the faceoff and one can say that was the difference in the game for Yale.  One cannot blame the loss on the officials but it was pretty weak last night missing some calls and screwing up a couple of faceoffs.

Yeah, I mean, I'm just an amateur observer, but Cornell was within striking distance almost the entire game despite getting decimated on faceoffs and in goal. So that suggests the rest of the stats were even or advantaged Cornell. If Cornell was at parity on faceoff and save percentage, they would likely have won the game. Sometimes a loss is as simple as not getting enough possessions. It stinks because it seemed like Cornell was past losing games this way.

[mike1960]

Any idea why they didn't use Petrakis more on FO? Especially after how he dominated last week.

To answer the question, I would guess the reason was that Petrakis was 1-3 and he has a tendency to get procedure penalties. Things were bad enough at the faceoffs anyway, and Cornell could ill afford to go man down on faceoffs in the second half as they did in the first half.