Rage Practice - Some drills then 7v7, light conditioning
I like the way Hoff talks about frisbee.
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Well, Machine sure showed up to play this weekend! Big wins over Revolver, Sockeye, Bravo. We'll have to wait and see the tape, but per ultiworld the recipe was junky defenses (to disrupt pull plays) and striking deep early/often. This feels like an oversimplification, if it was that easy to disrupt the best teams in the country, why wouldn't everyone be doing this? (aside, I think most teams do try to do this in one way or another.) So, I want to watch the videos and see for myself.
One thing of note is that Machine pretty regularly not only jumped out to early leads, but they also closed out games. This is a good sign for them and I'm glad they were able to put together strong games.
Tangential Aside:
It's almost impossible to tell the difference between a good team who is playing poorly and a less good team who is playing well. For example, going into this weekend Machine was ranked #16 and Temper was ranked #17, each based on most of the seasons-worth of results. Going into the weekend there's not a lot of reason to think that either team is much better than the other. After this weekend's results, it feels easy to say "oh, well machine was a good team who was figuring out stuff/growing", and "temper was an ok team that played well, but then got exposed against real competition". Point being, easy to assign narratives after the fact, but very hard to determine quality beforehand, even with a season worth of results to look at.
I like the way Hoff talks about frisbee.
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Well, Machine sure showed up to play this weekend! Big wins over Revolver, Sockeye, Bravo. We'll have to wait and see the tape, but per ultiworld the recipe was junky defenses (to disrupt pull plays) and striking deep early/often. This feels like an oversimplification, if it was that easy to disrupt the best teams in the country, why wouldn't everyone be doing this? (aside, I think most teams do try to do this in one way or another.) So, I want to watch the videos and see for myself.
One thing of note is that Machine pretty regularly not only jumped out to early leads, but they also closed out games. This is a good sign for them and I'm glad they were able to put together strong games.
Tangential Aside:
It's almost impossible to tell the difference between a good team who is playing poorly and a less good team who is playing well. For example, going into this weekend Machine was ranked #16 and Temper was ranked #17, each based on most of the seasons-worth of results. Going into the weekend there's not a lot of reason to think that either team is much better than the other. After this weekend's results, it feels easy to say "oh, well machine was a good team who was figuring out stuff/growing", and "temper was an ok team that played well, but then got exposed against real competition". Point being, easy to assign narratives after the fact, but very hard to determine quality beforehand, even with a season worth of results to look at.
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