Comments on: UPDATED: Ryan Powell – Play Fast, Shot Clock Please!

By: How To Speed Up Lacrosse: Stop Crosschecking | Lacrosse All Stars

How To Speed Up Lacrosse: Stop Crosschecking | Lacrosse All Stars — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:34:29 +0000

[...] making sure that the sport remains the fastest game on two feet. Proposed solutions have included adding a shot clock, changing sideline horn rules, changing the stall warning, and I’ve even come up with some [...]

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In Case You Missed It: Weekly Lacrosse Recap | Lacrosse All Stars — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:49:10 +0000

[...] College Lacrosse Goal Ever. So much arguing. Then Nike came out with a new spot, and the Shot Clock debate was given a new life. Guess we’ll see how it all plays out this weekend with Hop – Cuse! UVA scoots by [...]

By: Michael Jones

Michael Jones — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:33:00 +0000

I’m all for a shot clock. The stall warnings don’t do anything substantial to speed the game up.

By: MrEdNCC

MrEdNCC — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:37:00 +0000

A shot clock is needed – the dive I can take or leave. Leave the equipment as is – I played in the 70′s in Nassau County when the Superlight 2 was a new invention (stiil have it) and I play (and coach) now with a 2012 Superlight head + marc mesh 20mm and there is no comparison – the modern equipment should stay. Growing up on LI we hit hard and clean (shoulder -no stick -no crosscheck and never high or from behind) like football and played O & D like basketball – the coaches ran us like racehorses in/before/after practice and called some game formations to run motion around and maybe a time out play here and there but overall coaches were spectators on game day – the organized origins of the modern game involved constant up and down action with lots of clean hard contact (how can roughness be unnecessary in lacrosse?). Middies played two ways like hockey lines (I remember playing large school teams like Sewanhaka who had endless lines of fresh racehorses to deal with – yeesh). Ryan is right – back a ways no shot clock was needed but the coaches (college and HS) have faced greater pressure to win – and to win within the current system may require stalling (it is legal and effective) make it illegal (actually not illegal but stupid to lose a shot opp) through the shot clock and watch coaches develop run and gun athletes and brand new (old?) systems to get up and down the field – then you will see what real lacrosse should look like on TV (Quint’s comments about not needing a shot clock in the Syracuse/VA game was in reference to about 2 back&forth minutes of play – not the entire game).

By: Blake

Blake — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:19:00 +0000

One of the best warm-ups I’ve given my goalie this season using that Superlight II

By: Connor Martin

Connor Martin — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:57:00 +0000

BOOM TOWN! Rhino speaks truth, bring back the dive, bring back the shot clock!

By: Jeff Brunelle

Jeff Brunelle — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:11:00 +0000

Woooops. BRINE Superlight II AKA the red one. Took it to practice the other
day and the guys loved it. Wait till they see the STX Sam with black and
yellow!

By: goalieman10

goalieman10 — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:48:00 +0000

I am a goalie, I can say we do not need an offensive player slam dunking on us. The crease is there for a reason! I have one knee rebuilt not looking to get a matching set.!

By: Esdo

Esdo — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:34:00 +0000

The fact that we hold Miller and Thompson in such high regard only goes to prove my point. Two-way middies are the exception to the rule in today’s increasingly compartmentalized game.

Joel White may be the best defenseman in the country, but he is not a take-defender compared to the likes of Petro and Haus and others from that era. FYI: JW only had 8 CT’s through the first 6 games of the 2011 season.

Face the facts and take a look at the record books: there were more LBCs, CTs and GBs prior to the advent of the offset head.

If you want to see for yourself, watch some the videos from the old NCAA Championships that are on Youtube — a bunch of excting, back-and-forth, high scoring affairs.

By: NOLABlueKnight

NOLABlueKnight — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:15:00 +0000

Joel White, Jovan Miller, Jeremy Thompson? I saw plenty of takeaways by both Hopkins and Cuse defenders, as well as in the Genny-Fisher game I went to the other day…Cuse was working the double-team perfectly

By: The Art of Lax

The Art of Lax — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:57:00 +0000

When I coached last year, there were two dive attempts in two separate games that the goalies got injured – one of them had to leave the game and was on crutches for the season. As a goalie myself, those dives do come close and can be dangerous!

But yes, we need a shot clock! The sport is just too specialized, thus slowing the game down, big time.

By: D. Willson

D. Willson — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:45:00 +0000

And you feel like a lax god when you switch back to an off-set, pinched modern head, right? BTW, that’d be Brine Superlight II or STX Sam… or, phrased another way, are you using the white one or the red one? (GRIN)

By: Jeff Brunelle

Jeff Brunelle — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 02:50:00 +0000

Love that idea! I’ve recently started playing with an old school STX Superlight II and man oh man is it more tough to control the ball!

By: Handsj6

Handsj6 — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:30:00 +0000

Bring back the take-away defenders and the two-way middies!

By: Esdo

Esdo — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:25:00 +0000

Here’s a simple solution to making the game more exciting without implementing a shot clock: Do away with the off-set head. The off-set head has made take-away defenders an endangered species (extinct?). Take-away defenders cause loose balls. Loose balls lead to fast breaks. Fast breaks result in more goals.