MGoPodcast 7.21: Dudes

51 minutes

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[Bryan Fuller]

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Big Ten Tourney

Could have gone worse, got Michigan in by a hair. Playing Purdue is never good for your post-recruiting blood pressure. Rutgers cost everyone in the league a seed line. Michigan didn't help themselves either.

NCAA Tourney Preview

starts at 16:08

Ace has observed the Fighting Hurricane and Golden Irish and I quiz him about how enormous and destructive the opposition's posts are (not very) and what they do well (score with their guards getting in the lane). One million MGoPoints for whoever leaked the bracket.

Ace's Hockey Podcast

starts at 29:09

Hooooboy if they play like Dr. Awesome Goals instead of Mr. I Never Cover My Own Slot we could be on to something.

Gimmicky Top Five: Wildcard Dudes

starts at 42:12

Non-obvious folk who will be given the title of Dude this year by Don Brown. Ace and I have varying definitions of "non-obvious" but returning starters and Rashan Gary are more or less collectively off the table.

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Comments

kevin holt

March 16th, 2016 at 10:07 AM ^

I think you guys are underestimating Virginia. They're damn good this year. At their potential they can eliminate Valentine (Brogdon is a great defender) and even possibly walk over State. Aaaand it's in Chicago fuck

JeepinBen

March 16th, 2016 at 11:32 AM ^

Details here:

http://mgoblog.com/diaries/hockey-special-teams-1-powerplay-basics

 

In this formation you have 3 players high in the zone, with one in the middle. This formation works best if the man on the left circle is a right-handed shot and the man on the right circle is a left-handed shot as seen here:

 

Right now the wing players are on their “opposite” sides, which allows them to be open to a pass from the middle and one-time the puck right away. We used to teach our “Quarterback” – the player at the top of the umbrella – to shoot it right away the first time he got it and establish himself as a threat. You make the PK commit to the middle player and he’ll have options on either side. In the above frame against Western, the WMU penalty killer approaching the puck is doing so after challenging the QB up top.

If you’ve got 5 minutes, this video does a good job of breaking down the Umbrella:

In the frame above, Michigan actually ran a different set off an umbrella look that lead to a goal. Rather than just cycling the puck among the top 3 guys, Michigan flipped the puck low and took advantage of what Western gave us. The same principles apply here though – get a scoring chance to a guy in space.

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