Interlude: NY combine part 1

Rolled out with a full car. Got there with little trouble, only a few dicey streets and people before we figured out where the fields were. The combine was pretty sweet. Great experience, lots of good players, saw a lot of friends. Good stuff.

Plus/minus

+No turns

+No drops

+Caught a goal against a returner

+Got one poach d in the air

+In general I was effective at stopping my man from touching the disc

-Got scored on three times

-Oops actually I dropped a hammer from a wacky backwards layout position that would have been a goal. Shitty.

-Got broken a few times

-Set the wrong force once which arguably led to a goal

-No layout d's

-Missed a deep grab due to getting tackled by a teammate, should have just caught it earlier

-Did not get active enough on offense

Gotta go harder next week and we'll see what happens.

Great day.

Ain't no party like a Wolfpack party

Sectionals still has not sunk in, probably due to post sectionals festivities. Played intramural today, lots of fun but not satisfying.

Here talking points of the sectionals post I want to write:

-Why the game against Princeton was one of our best games ever

-Oh no it is the army

-Why the game against Bard was the worst

-Rider? I hardly knew her

-Lessons from playing Rutgers b

-Mistakes I made

-Defining season factors

-The team, then now and the future

-swagger

-Gunx love

Gotta go play beer pong, tune in soon!

Post sectionals

I have a lot to write about but it ain't ready yet.
Could use a break from ultimate, maybe a couple of days.
Too bad, intramural today.
Boom.

You got one more chance to do right

And its tonight.

Anyway.

Today was today. I'll write about it after some time has elapsed. Three more games. Three more games tomorrow, and then done. In the meantime I will take the road less travelled, and pass the path of least resistance by for one more night.

Boom.

Faith and Fairy Tales

'First and foremost, attitude is everything. If you don't actually have 7 players who believe you can actually win, then...your game isn't worth playing.'
-Brett Matzuka

Sectionals. This weekend. Nothing else motivates quite like that knowledge. It is go time, crunch time, time to put our skills to the test and see where our team-wide improvement has got us.

Just putting it out there, for us to achieve anything of significance we have to believe in each other and ourselves. That's simple but it goes a long way. If we don't have faith in this team our play will reflect that. If we do - if we dedicate ourselves to the Gunx, for one weekend, with 100% physical and mental intensity, damn the torpedoes full speed ahead - then we will be able to reach much higher.

Our shot at sectionals success may be a shot in the dark but it is a shot worth taking. As a team and as individuals we have a choice to make. We can give up on being good, and go down in flames at sectionals. Or we can put our faith in each other and the team, fight hard, and get as far as we can.

Remember that part in Half Blood Prince where they talk about the difference between being dragged to a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high? Its like that. Let's prove we have the mental fortitude to make it a good fight, whatever the outcome.

Heart on fire.

Well well

So that's the season. Sectionals to come this weekend. In the meantime we have to figure out how we're going to do sub calling, that will be a big help if we have it figured out.

We have to get our heads in the right place.

The board is set.

The pieces are moving.

Something like that.

Gunx love.

W

Accidentally posted the letter W. As it happens, a very significant letter. Better than L, anyway.

This by-accident post is a perfect place to link an excellent article I came across: http://theshubbard.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-03-03T16%3A24%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=7

Have a good day!