Syracuse vs Virginia Lacrosse Highlights | 2024 College Lacrosse

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[@CharLie-hz2qv]

Thank you bro this is the lords work

[@EagleSlightlyBetter]

fantastic game. fantastic edit as always.

[@huckfin1598]

Spallina just camps behind the goal. It's almost like syracuse is playing man down offense the whole game. Spallina's guy becomes an additional defender to clog up the middle.

[@NoToBigBro]

He did have a monster covering him the whole game.

[@dylanbob3909]

Not to mention he visibly cries every time he messes up

[@ta34809]

He ain’t all that

[@jacobrose1855]

worked well enough to win, Oneil and Shelly both cry when they mess up too

[@dylanbob3909]

@@jacobrose1855 ya but those guys are actually good?

[@GraysonBWest]

wow what a game

[@johnallen9583]

Awesome

[@mattc.8887]

What a game so many ballers on cuse. Less athletic than Virginia but so much craftier

[@cmshorts923]

I was there

[@LayOReyesURL]

Who is responsible for the XRS...

[@sciencefellas]

Connor Shellenberger is Spallinas father

[@RabbidM0nkey123]

I find it so weird that spallina seems to disappear when facing other great opponents. I understand you have their best dman on you, but seemingly he doesn’t touch the ball or drive the play from x against ranked opponents

[@byhiby35]

5 points against Johns Hopkins and 7 against Cornell. It's not great opponents specifically, it's teams that have a big shutdown eraser type long pole that cover him. His bag of dodges is still very small, it really consists entirely of bump and run type dodges from behind the goal, which works against similar sized or less talented defenders, but trying that against Kastner or Zapitello simply will never work. He hasn't shown much growth in this department either which is concerning. I'm not sure what was going on this game, against other ranked teams he at least attempted to drive the play, but he did close to nothing on Saturday. Even if he's not able to successfully drive to the cage, we've seen in other games this year he is capable of finding an open man when a slide comes. You'd have to assume the game plan must've been just keep Kastner occupied, play from the top, and let the middies run the show. Syracuse's offensive mantra is very free flowing, both Gait and March allow the players to dictate much of the tempo. The midfield got the show going early, so they stuck with them. With the ACC and NCAA tournament coming up you'd hope that they can figure it out, but this late in the season you might be better off sticking to who's hot. You can tell he's frustrated with his performance, but I'd like to see less head hanging. I'd also add that in the full game he had 5-6 passes that could've led to goals, but the shots just didn't go in today. Sorry for the wall of text I could probably write a whole article about it lol.

[@RabbidM0nkey123]

@@byhiby35 I sincerely appreciate it, I don’t have the focus to hook up all the numbers. But it seems like every time I watch a Syracuse game against the shutdown defense he is nonexistent. But you cannot say that for some of these other tewarreton hopefuls. It’s not like spanilla doesn’t have dodges in his game though, I’ve seen some of his stuff in box and it is spectacular. I don’t understand the slump

[@NoToBigBro]

@@byhiby35 Very insightful comment on Spallina. I think Spallina plays like a big man, but he is not a big man. When faced with an elite D or a large monster, he seems to struggle. I also wonder if his knee surgery/injury before college impacted his ability to cut. Cuse needs an elite X guy and put Spallina on the right wing as a finisher.

[@huckfin1598]

His teammates realized that the offense plays Bette when Spallina has the ball less. There were multiple times they could have passed to Spallina wide open but chose it to and instead made a tougher pass. Spallina camps behind the goal allowing his defender to hedge and essentially play with an additional defender yet Syracuse offense looked way bette this way with Spallina getting the ball less.

[@byhiby35]

@@huckfin1598 That is just not an accurate assessment of what happened in the game. Syracuse doesn't really use a crease guy all that often, their outside shooters Rhoa, Hiltz, etc. score from 10+ yards out. Clogging the middle isn't really going to do anything. Regardless, Schroter really wasn't able to hedge often despite what you're saying and when he did he was late. I mean Syracuse scored 18 goals lol, you think they would have even more if Spallina wasn't behind the goal? On Mule's first goal Schroter couldn't slide in time because he was below GLE with Spallina. Hilt'z first goal Schroter closes out late, because he is at GLE watching Spallina, allowing Hiltz to roll dodge and get an easy goal. Hottle's goal Schroter can't get to in time to disrupt his shot because he is standing by the sideline with Spallina. Wright's goal, Schroter chases Spallina up to the 20 yard line when there is already a short stick there leaving a wide open player on the crease, fun fact you can even see Schroter throw his head back on this one like damn what was I doing. Thomson's first goal Schroter closes out late because he is at GLE watching Spallina. Mule's goal early in the 4th, I won't blame Schroter too much for this as it was a fast break and the Virginia D was out of position, but Schroter decided the shade Spallina who was on the opposite side of the field than the ball and left 2 players wide open on the crease. Steven's goal midway through the 4th, you can literally see Schroter slide late because he is checking on Spallina. Thomson's second goal is a blown coverage by Virginia's D 100%, but Schroter has no chance to even try and close out because he is standing in the crease watching Spallina. But I'm sure they really enjoyed his ability to hedge all night. Lesson over, learn ball.