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COACHES: When I do faceoff stats - I don't do it for the centers. I do it for lines. Because faceoffs are often won or lost by the players NOT taking the draw. Coaches refer to faceoffs like the "line of scrimmage" in football. It's the trenches that take...

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Faceoff stats should be taken as a line, not as centers. So many draws are won or lost not by the center, but by the support winning battles for space and possession.
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Faceoff stats should be taken as a line, not as centers. So many draws are won or lost not by the center, but by the support winning battles for space and possession.

Topher Scott

11,072 views • 2 years ago

COACHES: For a lot of goals, you can rewind the clip back 10-15 seconds and you'll see some sort of effort or buy in play to win possession or get the puck back. I would show these clips to our players and call them "Effort Before Offense" plays. This goal from Vegas is a perfect example. Holtz explodes off the puck drop and wins possession for the team even though the puck gets "won" to Anaheim's side. Great effort, detail play. Then their star play in Jack Eichel wins a foot-race and battle to the puck in the offensive zone setting up Barbashev for the goal. Two great effort plays leading to the goal and a great clip to show your teams!!
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COACHES: For a lot of goals, you can rewind the clip back 10-15 seconds and you'll see some sort of effort or buy in play to win possession or get the puck back. I would show these clips to our players and call them "Effort Before Offense" plays. This goal from Vegas is a perfect example. Holtz explodes off the puck drop and wins possession for the team even though the puck gets "won" to Anaheim's side. Great effort, detail play. Then their star play in Jack Eichel wins a foot-race and battle to the puck in the offensive zone setting up Barbashev for the goal. Two great effort plays leading to the goal and a great clip to show your teams!!

Topher Scott

11,845 views • 7 months ago

When I was coaching at Cornell, I worked mainly with the forwards and one of the things I loved to show on video was “Effort Before Offense” plays. A great effort to force a turnover where we could then go in transition. A won battle or race for possession of the puck. Taking a hit to make a play so teammates could get a scoring opportunity. The players loved it and it helped us buy into a relentless identity we wanted to have to pursue pucks…so we could have it more…so we could play more on offense. This would be one of those clips. It’s a great effort from the Caps’ Raddysh to win the shot retrieval battle. He then gets it up to the point, goes to the dirty area of the ice, and gets rewarded with the goal. Winning the shot retrieval battle. Getting to the dirty area. Effort/desire decisions that led to the goal. Great job!!
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When I was coaching at Cornell, I worked mainly with the forwards and one of the things I loved to show on video was “Effort Before Offense” plays. A great effort to force a turnover where we could then go in transition. A won battle or race for possession of the puck. Taking a hit to make a play so teammates could get a scoring opportunity. The players loved it and it helped us buy into a relentless identity we wanted to have to pursue pucks…so we could have it more…so we could play more on offense. This would be one of those clips. It’s a great effort from the Caps’ Raddysh to win the shot retrieval battle. He then gets it up to the point, goes to the dirty area of the ice, and gets rewarded with the goal. Winning the shot retrieval battle. Getting to the dirty area. Effort/desire decisions that led to the goal. Great job!!

Topher Scott

16,328 views • 1 year ago

Alexander Command could "Command" a big role in your middle six! The 6'1" Center won 61% of his faceoffs Good in front of the net, strong and tough to push off the puck + he averaged 1.39 hits per game Command had 17G 27A 44P in 30GP in the U20 Nationell
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Alexander Command could "Command" a big role in your middle six! The 6'1" Center won 61% of his faceoffs Good in front of the net, strong and tough to push off the puck + he averaged 1.39 hits per game Command had 17G 27A 44P in 30GP in the U20 Nationell

The Prospect Don

38,954 views • 4 months ago

Asked Rudy Gobert what he meant by accountability and where that accountability needs to come from. "It starts with ourselves, but it seems like we don't have that. So I think at some point, from the coaches, yeah, from the coaches. It's not an easy position for a coach to take guys out of the game. It's not something you want to do. But I think if the players don't show any effort, at some point, no matter how talented we are as a team, if you don't have that, we just can't be a winning team. It starts with me. If I'm not showing effort, take me out the game. And everybody else gotta follow. Our best players, our leaders, if you don't show any effort, don't matter if you score 50, we're just not gonna win. So at some point, we're not mature enough to have that accountability ourselves. That might be the solution. And I guarantee (if that happens), when we come back on the court, we'd show effort."
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Asked Rudy Gobert what he meant by accountability and where that accountability needs to come from. "It starts with ourselves, but it seems like we don't have that. So I think at some point, from the coaches, yeah, from the coaches. It's not an easy position for a coach to take guys out of the game. It's not something you want to do. But I think if the players don't show any effort, at some point, no matter how talented we are as a team, if you don't have that, we just can't be a winning team. It starts with me. If I'm not showing effort, take me out the game. And everybody else gotta follow. Our best players, our leaders, if you don't show any effort, don't matter if you score 50, we're just not gonna win. So at some point, we're not mature enough to have that accountability ourselves. That might be the solution. And I guarantee (if that happens), when we come back on the court, we'd show effort."

Dane Moore

328,159 views • 7 months ago

Overload vs LBC I think I prefer Possession Game over Overload when playing agaisnt LBC since you do get better runs and a better defensive shape in Possession Game and you can actually counter Overload in a Possession Game if you play with wide players quite easily so I'll have to give the edge to Possession Game. Overload is more of an extreme controlling the game playstyle and also it is very weak when you are on a counter attack since your team just does not make any direct runs which you kinda need in eFootball especially.
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Overload vs LBC I think I prefer Possession Game over Overload when playing agaisnt LBC since you do get better runs and a better defensive shape in Possession Game and you can actually counter Overload in a Possession Game if you play with wide players quite easily so I'll have to give the edge to Possession Game. Overload is more of an extreme controlling the game playstyle and also it is very weak when you are on a counter attack since your team just does not make any direct runs which you kinda need in eFootball especially.

Jacques

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“I loved the goal. It was a long passage of possession anyway before that, which was what we needed to do to calm the game down again” - Kieran McKenna on the winning goal yesterday. #ITFC
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“I loved the goal. It was a long passage of possession anyway before that, which was what we needed to do to calm the game down again” - Kieran McKenna on the winning goal yesterday. #ITFC

IPSWICH TOWN FANS

24,303 views • 7 months ago

José Mourinho answers on what is important for a coach nowadays, compared to 20 years ago. "I'd say that today the most important thing is to speak very well. Because nowadays it's all about perceptions. In the past, the best coaches were the ones that won. Now, the best coaches are the ones with the better looking perceptions. You used to get important jobs by winning, today you get important jobs just with perceptions. When I went to the Premier League in 2004, only 2 foreign coaches arrived to the league: me as a European Champion, and Benitez as the Europa League winner. Benitez won with Valencia and went to Liverpool, I won with Porto and went to Chelsea. Nowadays some coaches go to the Premier League and I don't even know their names. And I don't say it in a disrespectful way, it's just the reality. There are coaches who are chosen based on data, numbers, and it's not on the number of wins. Nowadays there is this idea that winning is not as important as playing like this, or looking like that. In that aspect, things changed in a radical way."
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José Mourinho answers on what is important for a coach nowadays, compared to 20 years ago. "I'd say that today the most important thing is to speak very well. Because nowadays it's all about perceptions. In the past, the best coaches were the ones that won. Now, the best coaches are the ones with the better looking perceptions. You used to get important jobs by winning, today you get important jobs just with perceptions. When I went to the Premier League in 2004, only 2 foreign coaches arrived to the league: me as a European Champion, and Benitez as the Europa League winner. Benitez won with Valencia and went to Liverpool, I won with Porto and went to Chelsea. Nowadays some coaches go to the Premier League and I don't even know their names. And I don't say it in a disrespectful way, it's just the reality. There are coaches who are chosen based on data, numbers, and it's not on the number of wins. Nowadays there is this idea that winning is not as important as playing like this, or looking like that. In that aspect, things changed in a radical way."

IM🇵🇹

396,646 views • 1 year ago

Yesterday I posted that the Flyers' 4th line all deserved assists on this goal by Porter Martone. Here's why: This is the game within the game. They're matched up here against Malkin's line and they spend the entire shift in the Ozone. Winning races and battles for pucks, wearing them out with possession forcing them to have to defend the entire shift. Selflessly changing in the offensive zone to get their top line out there against a tired Malkin line who eventually scores the opening goal. They played their role perfectly. Just look at the hard work and compete. They get an offensive line for the Pens to have to play in the Dzone for an extended period of time. And set the table for their own offensive line coming out next to do their thing. Amazing TEAM hockey for the game winning goal. The 4th line didn't get actual assists on the scoresheet, but you better believe they'll be on the team video for their effort in the morning.
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Yesterday I posted that the Flyers' 4th line all deserved assists on this goal by Porter Martone. Here's why: This is the game within the game. They're matched up here against Malkin's line and they spend the entire shift in the Ozone. Winning races and battles for pucks, wearing them out with possession forcing them to have to defend the entire shift. Selflessly changing in the offensive zone to get their top line out there against a tired Malkin line who eventually scores the opening goal. They played their role perfectly. Just look at the hard work and compete. They get an offensive line for the Pens to have to play in the Dzone for an extended period of time. And set the table for their own offensive line coming out next to do their thing. Amazing TEAM hockey for the game winning goal. The 4th line didn't get actual assists on the scoresheet, but you better believe they'll be on the team video for their effort in the morning.

Topher Scott

75,712 views • 5 months ago

It would be easy to call out the defense for this one, but the issue is complete lack of game management. It’s been an issue for years and it must improve. There are 10-15 passes that second half where Utd really would have benefited from controlling the game more — but lose possession from bad decisions. Like, 60 minutes into the game when Everton has pinned us down in our own end and we are up 1-0, it is impossible to justify from a risk/reward perspective to try to make a low percentage pass in behind the defense to a Sesko running down towards the corner flag just after we have won possession. All United fans knows how it feels like when you are down a goal against City and they just play off 15-20 minutes. How can they be so good at it? Check the videos from the City documentary. I couldn’t find the best clip I’ve seen, but the below is a good example. Pep is absolutely losing his mind after players losing possession of the ball. In another video he literarily starts to cry. United doesn’t have to become City II. But this is an area we just must improve and it’s long long overdue. It really is as simple as this. If you are patient and get enough players up pitch — the opponent must defend with the same numbers. If you lose the ball in that position when the opponent is defending with 10 players in the lap of their keeper — it is very hard for an opponent to counter attack on you effectively. So you get every chance to win the ball back even if you lose it. When we have a lead in a game like this — we just can’t help ourselves. Give it 15 seconds and a Dalot or Maguire or Rashford or Bruno or Cunha or Mbuemo will try a play to get into a scoring chance. This must improve and it must improve soon.
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It would be easy to call out the defense for this one, but the issue is complete lack of game management. It’s been an issue for years and it must improve. There are 10-15 passes that second half where Utd really would have benefited from controlling the game more — but lose possession from bad decisions. Like, 60 minutes into the game when Everton has pinned us down in our own end and we are up 1-0, it is impossible to justify from a risk/reward perspective to try to make a low percentage pass in behind the defense to a Sesko running down towards the corner flag just after we have won possession. All United fans knows how it feels like when you are down a goal against City and they just play off 15-20 minutes. How can they be so good at it? Check the videos from the City documentary. I couldn’t find the best clip I’ve seen, but the below is a good example. Pep is absolutely losing his mind after players losing possession of the ball. In another video he literarily starts to cry. United doesn’t have to become City II. But this is an area we just must improve and it’s long long overdue. It really is as simple as this. If you are patient and get enough players up pitch — the opponent must defend with the same numbers. If you lose the ball in that position when the opponent is defending with 10 players in the lap of their keeper — it is very hard for an opponent to counter attack on you effectively. So you get every chance to win the ball back even if you lose it. When we have a lead in a game like this — we just can’t help ourselves. Give it 15 seconds and a Dalot or Maguire or Rashford or Bruno or Cunha or Mbuemo will try a play to get into a scoring chance. This must improve and it must improve soon.

The Swedish Rumble 🔰

37,172 views • 15 days ago

Arteta says Football has evolved and unless they change rules it won't change: 🗣️ “I was really upset the way we (Arsenal) conceded a goal against Chelsea. And Chelsea, look, the quality that they have, the amount of set-piece they scored. “Manchester United, they're doing so well. The same, I was at Man City, used to work a lot on them. So it's something. “There are phases, and there are moments when a team has an opportunity to do certain things and the game is evolving, and the game is becoming more and more difficult. “Before, when you used to do a game plan and you just invert a full-back and bring an extra player in midfield or a false nine, opponents are finished. Big overload. 4v3 inside, 2v1 inside, time on the ball. So dominant 78% of possession, the other opponent two counterattacks, set pieces, the game is done now. “Teams are adapting, teams know, after every sequence of play, whether it's a throw-in, a restart of play, an open-page situation, after direct play, exactly what they have to do. “And everything is almost man-to-man. So it's going to be a different game unless we change the rules, because the evolution of the game is that.”
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Arteta says Football has evolved and unless they change rules it won't change: 🗣️ “I was really upset the way we (Arsenal) conceded a goal against Chelsea. And Chelsea, look, the quality that they have, the amount of set-piece they scored. “Manchester United, they're doing so well. The same, I was at Man City, used to work a lot on them. So it's something. “There are phases, and there are moments when a team has an opportunity to do certain things and the game is evolving, and the game is becoming more and more difficult. “Before, when you used to do a game plan and you just invert a full-back and bring an extra player in midfield or a false nine, opponents are finished. Big overload. 4v3 inside, 2v1 inside, time on the ball. So dominant 78% of possession, the other opponent two counterattacks, set pieces, the game is done now. “Teams are adapting, teams know, after every sequence of play, whether it's a throw-in, a restart of play, an open-page situation, after direct play, exactly what they have to do. “And everything is almost man-to-man. So it's going to be a different game unless we change the rules, because the evolution of the game is that.”

Connor Humm

1,120,667 views • 6 months ago

KIDS: This may be one of the most scathing clips I've ever done, but it's a great teaching point from a coaches perspective that I think is important for all young players to hear. This shift started with a faceoff at 12:08 on the clock. When Hall gets this puck midshift and chips it in, it's at 11:32 - 36 seconds later. Being on the ice for 36 seconds already - two or three of the Chicago players should change. But no. They are clearly tired yet decide to go and forecheck in the ozone anyway. And the effort on the forecheck and track here are absolutely abysmal. When a player extends their shift when the puck is going up the ice offensively in a situation when they're tired and should change, it's one of coaches' biggest pet peeves. All in all - it's selfish. And in this case, it ends up in the back of their net. Just look at the effort on the forecheck and the backcheck...yikes. I looked up the three players and how they're doing this year. All immensely talented players but between Hall, Bertuzzi, and Kurashev... They have a combined 18 games played and 4 points. On a team where Kurashev is fighting for a top 6 role and Hall/Bertuzzi were brought in to provide veteran leadership. This is one of those plays that gets highlighted in team video the next day. It can't happen. It's putting yourself above the team and not focusing on the little things that don't show up on the scoreboard that championship teams do. This is a culture teaching clip.
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KIDS: This may be one of the most scathing clips I've ever done, but it's a great teaching point from a coaches perspective that I think is important for all young players to hear. This shift started with a faceoff at 12:08 on the clock. When Hall gets this puck midshift and chips it in, it's at 11:32 - 36 seconds later. Being on the ice for 36 seconds already - two or three of the Chicago players should change. But no. They are clearly tired yet decide to go and forecheck in the ozone anyway. And the effort on the forecheck and track here are absolutely abysmal. When a player extends their shift when the puck is going up the ice offensively in a situation when they're tired and should change, it's one of coaches' biggest pet peeves. All in all - it's selfish. And in this case, it ends up in the back of their net. Just look at the effort on the forecheck and the backcheck...yikes. I looked up the three players and how they're doing this year. All immensely talented players but between Hall, Bertuzzi, and Kurashev... They have a combined 18 games played and 4 points. On a team where Kurashev is fighting for a top 6 role and Hall/Bertuzzi were brought in to provide veteran leadership. This is one of those plays that gets highlighted in team video the next day. It can't happen. It's putting yourself above the team and not focusing on the little things that don't show up on the scoreboard that championship teams do. This is a culture teaching clip.

Topher Scott

69,061 views • 1 year ago

Are humanoids the largest addressable market in history? Andrew Kang says "to understand that you have to look at what is the total market for human labor. It's something like 50% of GDP, some people put it at $40 trillion or $60 trillion." "The way that I would think about it is a humanoid can do everything that a human can do in the future, but it doesn't need to rest, it doesn't need to take breaks, it doesn't need to go on vacation. It's not going to quit on you, so you don't need to hire and retrain somebody else."
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Are humanoids the largest addressable market in history? Andrew Kang says "to understand that you have to look at what is the total market for human labor. It's something like 50% of GDP, some people put it at $40 trillion or $60 trillion." "The way that I would think about it is a humanoid can do everything that a human can do in the future, but it doesn't need to rest, it doesn't need to take breaks, it doesn't need to go on vacation. It's not going to quit on you, so you don't need to hire and retrain somebody else."

Anthony Pompliano 🌪

109,720 views • 3 months ago

Croatia was kicked out of the match because Matanic touched the ball with his hair AND the referee had to decide if Viega’s contact with the ball is considered “deliberate play”. If yes, the goal was correct, but the referee decided “no”. But what are the rules saying? In FIFA and IFAB Laws of the Game, deliberate play is when a player has control of the ball and attempts to pass, gain possession, or clear it. *‘Deliberate play’ (excluding deliberate handball) is when a player has control of the ball with the possibility of: •passing the ball to a team-mate; •gaining possession of the ball; or •clearing the ball (e.g. by kicking or heading it) ➡️clearing the ball (e.g. by kicking or heading it) And that’s what Viega did. He cleared the ball. But a Croatian player managed to intercept the ball before it went out of play; that led to the goal. Croatia was robbed. Source in comments.
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Croatia was kicked out of the match because Matanic touched the ball with his hair AND the referee had to decide if Viega’s contact with the ball is considered “deliberate play”. If yes, the goal was correct, but the referee decided “no”. But what are the rules saying? In FIFA and IFAB Laws of the Game, deliberate play is when a player has control of the ball and attempts to pass, gain possession, or clear it. *‘Deliberate play’ (excluding deliberate handball) is when a player has control of the ball with the possibility of: •passing the ball to a team-mate; •gaining possession of the ball; or •clearing the ball (e.g. by kicking or heading it) ➡️clearing the ball (e.g. by kicking or heading it) And that’s what Viega did. He cleared the ball. But a Croatian player managed to intercept the ball before it went out of play; that led to the goal. Croatia was robbed. Source in comments.

Goran Majić

35,165 views • 2 months ago

Real Madrid won today but they have to me more clinical with their chances. 6 big chances missed in 1 game is unacceptable. The lack of possession was obviously due to the lack of midfielders today but players like Valverde, Hujsen and Particularly Courtois stepped up.
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Real Madrid won today but they have to me more clinical with their chances. 6 big chances missed in 1 game is unacceptable. The lack of possession was obviously due to the lack of midfielders today but players like Valverde, Hujsen and Particularly Courtois stepped up.

Adika

56,165 views • 13 days ago

Mike Brown shouts out defensive player of the game Josh Hart and Karl-Anthony Towns for their efforts tonight. On Hart: "Giannis is a tough cover for anybody, especially when you're giving up 6-7 inches or whatever Josh is giving up. He fought all night. On Towns: "I thought the two biggest plays of the game were KAT's offensive rebound late in the game. It was going to be a one-possession game if they got that, but he gets the offensive rebound, I think it puts us up by four. But more importantly than that, he stole the jump ball."
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Mike Brown shouts out defensive player of the game Josh Hart and Karl-Anthony Towns for their efforts tonight. On Hart: "Giannis is a tough cover for anybody, especially when you're giving up 6-7 inches or whatever Josh is giving up. He fought all night. On Towns: "I thought the two biggest plays of the game were KAT's offensive rebound late in the game. It was going to be a one-possession game if they got that, but he gets the offensive rebound, I think it puts us up by four. But more importantly than that, he stole the jump ball."

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69,195 views • 9 months ago

Nick Saban says he thinks more about the 3 national championships he lost than the 7 he won “I think we were in the playoffs 12 times, and we played in 10 national championship games, won seven and lost three. I think more about the three that we lost than I do about the seven that we won.” “So for me to say what is my favorite game, I can’t pinpoint one thing. I can’t pinpoint one team. If you ever played on a championship team, and I think anybody out there that has played on one, you know how special it is to be a part of that, to have everybody buy into the principles and values and the things they need to do to be successful and the team needs to do to be successful.” “All those teams were something that I hold in high regard as having the opportunity to be a part of. But I think a lot more about the games we lost and what I could have done to change it. That haunts me more than thinking about the games that we won.”
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Nick Saban says he thinks more about the 3 national championships he lost than the 7 he won “I think we were in the playoffs 12 times, and we played in 10 national championship games, won seven and lost three. I think more about the three that we lost than I do about the seven that we won.” “So for me to say what is my favorite game, I can’t pinpoint one thing. I can’t pinpoint one team. If you ever played on a championship team, and I think anybody out there that has played on one, you know how special it is to be a part of that, to have everybody buy into the principles and values and the things they need to do to be successful and the team needs to do to be successful.” “All those teams were something that I hold in high regard as having the opportunity to be a part of. But I think a lot more about the games we lost and what I could have done to change it. That haunts me more than thinking about the games that we won.”

Josh Chambers

111,405 views • 1 month ago