JaegerDice
The mark of my dignity shall scar thy DNA
- Dec 26, 2014
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Best summation I've seen thus far:
While there will be a lot of ink spilled tomorrow about “grit,” “want to,” “determination,” and whatever other bull**** we’ve built our career in dispelling, the answer is more simple than that. It’s speed. The Preds can trap, or they can forecheck, they can collapse, but whatever they do they can do it so much faster than the Hawks. When the Hawks simply mishandle a pass, or take an extra beat to get it under control, there’s a Pred there. When they do manage to get it deep, the mobile Preds defense is there. When the Hawks think they have a passing lane, it’s filled faster than they can compute.