Cornell Men's Lacrosse 2015

[Johnny 5]

But, like the announcer said....14 seniors.
::help::

[Greenberg '97]

Laxpower gives them a 100% chance of getting an at-large bid.  I have no idea how accurate this is, just throwing it out there since we need something to talk about and polls are meaningless.

[RichH]

Laxpower gives them a 100% chance of getting an at-large bid.  I have no idea how accurate this is, just throwing it out there since we need something to talk about and polls are meaningless.

SOS is certainly helping us out this year.

Subtly, that link contains the "odds" for the Ivy Tournament via the AQ Prob. column:

1 Cornell: 32.53%
2 Brown: 30.03%
3 Princeton: 19.54%
4 Yale: 17.90%

Don't know if that's a KRACH style calculation.

[upprdeck]

say the worst happens.. we lose yale wins out and princeton loses in the finals

are we solid ahead of brown and or princeton?
it has to help albany and colgate have finished well.

[semsox]

Despite what some of the more cautious Big Red fans are saying, I think we're basically a lock at this point. I don't think that would be the case every year, but the fact of the matter is the Ivy was pretty clearly the 2nd best conference this year, with really poor out-of-conference showings by some of the other mid-tier conferences (Patriot, Big Ten, CAA, etc.). We have 0 bad losses, and more quality wins than anyone else on the bubble, even if they're not against the top 5.

[Swampy]

Yeah, but getting and not getting screwed by the seed are two different things.

Just win, baby, just win!

[semsox]

Well that is a different story. I think the absolute best case scenario is that we win the ILT and host Colgate in the 1st round as the 7 seed. A medium case scenario is losing in the first round of the ILT and going on a road trip to, say, College Park (AGAIN). Worst case scenario is probably winning the semifinal matchup and/or the championship and being 'rewarded' with a home game with Albany.

[Greenberg '97]

Laxpower gives them a 100% chance of getting an at-large bid.  I have no idea how accurate this is, just throwing it out there since we need something to talk about and polls are meaningless.

And after yesterday's results, they now have an 80.92% chance of receiving an at-large bid.  So I guess that 100% from earlier in the week wasn't really 100%.

[KenP]

Today's game vs Princeton has a live video stream at espn.go.com.

[Al DeFlorio]

And after yesterday's results, they now have an 80.92% chance of receiving an at-large bid.  So I guess that 100% from earlier in the week wasn't really 100%.

Wonder what it is after today's debacle.  Three goals in three periods against a porous defense?  With five returning players in the offensive end, two of whom are All-Americans, you'd think they'd have a consistent offense.  Long scoring droughts are the norm this year.  Offense is stagnant with little movement and seemingly little purpose much of the time.  I'm not convinced about Kerwick.  He's wasted a lot of senior talent this year.

[semsox]

And after yesterday's results, they now have an 80.92% chance of receiving an at-large bid.  So I guess that 100% from earlier in the week wasn't really 100%.

Wonder what it is after today's debacle.  Three goals in three periods against a porous defense?  With five returning players in the offensive end, two of whom are All-Americans, you'd think they'd have a consistent offense.  Long scoring droughts are the norm this year.  Offense is stagnant with little movement and seemingly little purpose much of the time.  I'm not convinced about Kerwick.  He's wasted a lot of senior talent this year.

The long scoring droughts weren't due to lack of offense, we just didn't have the ball. I don't think we had a single set offensive possession until < 4 minutes to go in the 3rd period. Part of that was Currier eating Massimilan's lunch at the face-off X. I don't know what the final numbers were, but that adjustment won the game for Princeton. Would have like Kerwick to try Schattner there like he did last week for a short stretch. If Princeton wants to muck it up, might as well do the same. Discouraging effort going into the most important part of the season. Wonder where the team will get sent this year.

[Tcl123]

And after yesterday's results, they no80.92% chance of receiving an at-large bid.  So I guess that 100% from earlier in the week wasn't really 100%.

Wonder what it is after today's debacle.  Three goals in three periods against a porous defense?  With five returning players in the offensive end, two of whom are All-Americans, you'd think they'd have a consistent offense.  Long scoring droughts are the norm this year.  Offense is stagnant with little movement and seemingly little purpose much of the time.  I'm not convinced about Kerwick.  He's wasted a lot of senior talent this year.

Wonder where the team will get sent this year.

Might as well just get sent home.

[Al DeFlorio]

The long scoring droughts weren't due to lack of offense, we just didn't have the ball. I don't think we had a single set offensive possession until < 4 minutes to go in the 3rd period. Part of that was Currier eating Massimilan's lunch at the face-off X.

Nonsense.  Faceoffs were 6-3 Cornell at the half.  Cornell couldn't hold on to the ball in the offensive zone.  We again made an ordinary goalie look like Butch Hilliard with weak shot selection.  

We had a drought against Brown in periods two, three, and four.  Followed by a shut-out first period against Princeton.  Second half against Penn and Colgate.  First 50+ minutes against Virginia.  Happened too often.  Offense simply sucks.  Reminds me of the Bill Courtney half-court basketball offense.

[rss77]

Agreed much like the basketball team-Many shots on goal but subpar shooting percentage.  I think at one time they were 51st in the country in shot percentage.  Again Cornell has shown an inability this season to establish an inside offensive game and the attack outside of Donovan was subpar.

[Swampy]

To add to the discontent: for a veteran team, some players made incredibly stupid decisions.

Case in point: Who was it that tried to make that 100-yard pass that was intercepted? It came while we were making our run and had just caused a turnover. We may be lucky that our player on the receiving end of the pass didn't catch the high floater because he might have had his clock rung if he had.

The players seemed to forget even fundamental things like running through groundballs rather than standing and raking.

As others have pointed out on the Laxpower forum, there's no evidence younger players have developed this season or even that developing them has been a concern.

The faceoff stats are misleading. Dom won the initial faceoff even more than the statistics indicate. But Princeton coaches noticed his limited ball-handling skills and average speed, and they figured out that if they double-teamed him they could make him cough up the ball -- something he did regularly. If I were his coach, I'd have him spending at least half an hour at practice each day working on ball handling skills and have him play box lacrosse in the off season. Also, running stairs to add a step.

I couldn't help but notice how quick and crisp Princeton's passing was, especially when man up. Ours was fine -- as long as we were passing around the perimeter and not being covered. When we passed into dangerous locations, Princeton was right there and often intercepted.

And I don't know how many goals Princeton scored from the midfield, but it seems most of them came from there. If you look at film from the Harvard and Brown games, I think you'll find their goals came from more or less the same spots and the same way: get a step on one of our SSDM's and fire from around 15 yards out! Maybe we just don't have the horses, but you would think our coaches would have plugged this hole by now.
 
Aargh! ::bang::