Men's Lax Syracuse at Cornell 4/2/2024

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New Thread:  Keeping the streak alive for lousy weather at the Cornell home games.

[billhoward]

Make or break game for Cornell. It feels as if we're on the cusp of not making the NCAA tournament if we don't win the Ivy League tournament. And that will be harder with the loss to Penn and the possibility we don't host the tournament. We need Yale and Princeton to step up and knock Penn around.

Meanwhile, let's go, Red. And Penn has a tough final three games: at Yale, vs. Harvard, at Princeton. We may need Penn to lose two.

[chimpfood]

Well that's a horrific start.

[ER]

Don't think they're coming back from this.

[Chris '03]

Well that's a horrific start.

This got ugly fast. 7-0. 4:40 left 1st.

[dbilmes]

Syracuse offensive coordinator just got kicked out of game. Cornell, trailing 7-2 after one period, will have two-man up for nearly a minute and then one-man up for another two minutes.

[mike1960]

Just got in from work. Did I miss anything?

[mike1960]

Wow, we are terrible on defense. I've never seen a Cornell lacrosse defense this inept.

[semsox]

Difficult to believe how bad the defense is. I think the individual close D players are talented enough, I believe in Tully in the long term, and for as much as we lack depth at SSDM, they are only 2 players of the 7 players on that end. There needs to be some sort of overhaul, whether schematically or something else, because what they're currently doing is not going to lead to winning lacrosse.

[semsox]

This 29 to 28 W is going to go down in history...

[mike1960]

That 10th goal for Cornell was huge. We're still in this if we can step it up on D.

[Al DeFlorio]

Losing 2/3 faceoffs doesn't help.

[billhoward]

Cornell got off a terrible start, gave up the first 7? more? goals ... can't win faceoffs ... the defense is challenged in this game at least ... and it feels unclear how we made it into the top ten earlier in the season. And yet we're down only 14-10 at the half. Already Syracuse has given up more goals than its per-game season average.

This matters less than whether Cornell wins but ... Ms. Moore ... you're listening? watching from the webcast?

Today's video production, which now has the imprint of ESPN, is sub-optimal. The camera crew loses the player with the ball for seconds on end ... panning doesn't keep up with fast breaks (pro tip: there's a drag knob, let's you lower the resistance needed when panning, should be used) ... the cameras in the press box should be under cover so why do they seem misty in the rain, and the Schoellkopf House deck camera, it's like an impressionist painting we're seeing.

Our announcers may be following the team's lead and having an off day. It's worse when they talk about a great goal and ... the video doesn't have the goal. The worst: There's confusion about is this a penalty or not, is it non-releasable, which team the penalty is on, will the refs skip the faceoff depending on which penalty is called. Two solutions are possible: STFU and announce less if you dont' know and ... there needs to be better communication to the scorer table on the Crescent side getting through to the press box ... and the press box getting through to the announcers and other press.

Our son is in the video business, he's good at what he does (BU grad), and he can verify there is a surplus of camera guys, gaffers, grips. riggers, etcetera, who know what they're doing. I would add as a (still) photographer who got into Cornell based on a bunch of awards, you get better with practice, practice, practice.

Cornell, please make it better.

[edit add:] Yes, I know we've got a top-notch announcer on the injury list. Get well. But still ...

[mike1960]

That possession looked MUCH better. They spread things out and created space for the shooter.

[semsox]

That possession is what I'd like to see more of from this team. At the Penn game, Penn packed in their defense, and the way to bust that is to bomb from outside. Love seeing Long shoot from long range