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Isn't Keenen a owner?

no, Kutttin

Keenan plays the best kids more often, Aiello plays his favorite kids most.
Otherwise the 2 teams are very evenly matched.
In my opinion WP would be better with a different coach, who son isn't a player on the team

Keenan plays the best kids more often, Aiello plays his favorite kids most.
Otherwise the 2 teams are very evenly matched.
In my opinion WP would be better with a different coach, who son isn't a player on the team

JA plays everyone, that's the difference between the 2 teams and also why it comes down to 1 goal 5x in a row.

JA plays everyone, that's the difference between the 2 teams and also why it comes down to 1 goal 5x in a row.

Taz beat WP.....again..... think that is 5 in a row.

JA plays everyone, that's the difference between the 2 teams and also why it comes down to 1 goal 5x in a row.

JA plays everyone, that's the difference between the 2 teams and also why it comes down to 1 goal 5x in a row.

One brighter note, and should be first and foremost.
the Long Island teams went undefeated against MD, and it was a good competitive day of lacrosse

Is that why kids just quit? To much playing time

How'd Bethesda and team 91 MD look?

Enough with the excuses. TAZ beat WP five times in a row. They are the better team. Much happier with overall experience and coaching as well.

Lets get into it. First I am a parent of another team that played both these teams today. Second I don't care about either team or for LI lacrosse for that matter. Third if you are talking about this game then you better know what your talking about. After reading for months on here the madness I had to see it for myself. Todays game ended with Legacy winning on some ridiculous bad bounce goal that gave them a 1 goal win. Wasn't the winning goal but turned out to be the difference. That's not the point, the difference between the 2 teams is easy to spot. The Taz runs more of an open set offense. This allows there better players to facilitate plays on their own. Dodging, cutting creating opportunities. One on Ones so an individual player can create something. The WP runs play after play. Every time they had the ball a play was called. The Taz started picking up on this and adjusted. The 91 team did not give there better players a chance to create something. Every time they could have went one on one and cleared out for something to happen they called a play. Sometimes coaches at this age need to let the boys play lacrosse and drop the play calling for a while. These boys will lose the love for the game if they are never allowed to shine on their own. On the Taz end their boys play off getting hurt a lot, I'm not saying you don't get hurt I get it I have 4 boys that played football and lacrosse but these boys went down a lot only to pop back up after killing some time. I saw it 2 or 3 times during our game. One boy went down and thankfully he got back up I never want to see any young athlete get hurt. This is my opinion and no one has to agree and I will not be given my 2 cents ever again, but after all the talking on here both teams are highly talented and very impressive. Coaches are as good as I ever been around. My background played in mid 80s so I know a little about the sport and currently have a son gunning for a spot on a local college team here. Not a pro at the sport but know enough to understand what I see. Good luck to all and it was a great day even if we didn't walk away fully successful.

Way to go WP and Taz, way to represent boys. Congrats to all of the Long Island kids and coaches on a great weekend of lacrosse!

This is spot on. When the WP played open set they were very hard to beat

The sport is being played by bigger, stronger athletes. Can a small fast player make it? Yes but they are far and few between and are rarely seen anymore. They also need to be a ridiculous player. 6'1 210-225 is an average size for a lax player at the higher levels. Not hard to look this up, check out any college roster and you will see the #s

How big is Jordan Wolfe and Rob Pannell?

How big is Jordan Wolfe and Rob Pannell?

How big is Jordan Wolfe and Rob Pannell?

Not nearly as big as the other 95% of the players..Making his point exactly...

This is spot on, if the guy new what he was talking about. Taz runs a 1-3-2 motion. Never runs an open set. Go back to Lacrosse School. You need extra help!!

Sport is changing. Just look at last year's Tewaaraton finalists. Still had Cannizzaro (5-9, 175), but the other four were Jones (6-5, 240), Landis (6-2, 195), Molloy (6-0, 220), and Reeves (6-2, 205).

Um, how tall is Paul Rabil?

How pathetic is the TAZ dad posting videos of his son with him screaming like a crazy also pretty sad how they need to get a kid from Connecticut. He is the perfect fit for the TAZ parents NUTS!

Very true, kids are bigger and stronger, but also much faster. 6'1 , 220 pounds is great, but if that kid (high school/college) dosent have speed, it is real hard to compete at a high level.

6-1

you can work harder and increase your speed. You can't do anything about how tall you are.

Voice of reason...well done

You can work on speed and that will help, no doubt about it. It won't make a slow kid fast, a little less slow yes. The best players are the quickest and fastest players. Stick skills can be practiced, but at the end of the day a fast kid with a great stick will always beat out a big slower kid with a great stick. I took my son to high school, college and MLL games last year. I'm just shocked how fast these kids were.

you can work harder and increase your speed. You can't do anything about how tall you are.