Can UC's defense shut down a player?

[cincyguy13]

Originally Posted by cincycpaw

This is a good defensive team...but they do lack that shutdown defender 1:1. It's something UC has had a lot over time, but it's missing on this team

As someone mentioned, when an opposing player gets hot, we do not have the ability to stick someone on him and change the game back in our favor.

I think Evans and Clark are great defenders but we have a couple guys that are not. It's hard to stay on your guy if someone gets beat, you have to help. WHen you don't get those 5 star guys that can do it all (offense and defense) you get guys that can only do one of those. I think that's why we suffer from time to time, overall we do alright

[waterhead]

Originally Posted by cincyguy13

I think Evans and Clark are great defenders but we have a couple guys that are not. It's hard to stay on your guy if someone gets beat, you have to help. WHen you don't get those 5 star guys that can do it all (offense and defense) you get guys that can only do one of those. I think that's why we suffer from time to time, overall we do alright

We have enough top level defenders in Clark, Evans and KJ to play top 10 D overall. Caupain isn't bad from a deflection standpoint and he knows the defense well. Washington and Cumberland are still learning but getting better. Cumberland has a nose for the ball which may not be appreciated as much as on ball defense but he gets his hands in there and disrupts things pretty well. Kyle can block a shot or two but needs to work on footwork a little.

Defense is not our issue. We can hold most good teams to 60 or under with a great team effort. This is why we have to be able to score 65 outside of our gym. If we could just do that...we can win some games in March.