04-04-2022, 07:00 AM
(04-04-2022, 06:20 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:An interesting perspective that I heard today was:
- Ironically what got us to that big lead (playing style) ultimately got us to conceding it
- Making changes to stop a run is a short term view (ie within a game), coninuing to play to your identity is the long term view and may cost a win or two along the way.
I thought that was a pretty interesting way to look at it.
Similar to what ol mate Thry says in #51 (Credit to hawthorn for making our strength our weakness)
I was just going to say similar to your first point (and Thry's) but expand on it a bit.
There was 1 obvious difference between the first quarter and the rest. In the first quarter, we literally clunked everything. Harry, Charlie, Jack, Cripps all took big marks I50 in the first quarter. Commentators were raving about how many CM's we had taken and we're at the average early in the 2nd quarter.
From there though, we didn't take those marks (or enough, at the same frequency) and the ball was well cleared as a result.
The big forwards were on fire early and our mids got lazy as a result. "Bomb it up, someone will mark it." worked early, but not often enough later on. Hawks were awake to it and chopping everything off and rebounding, quickly, from there. We were chasing a lot more tail because of it, and ultimately tiring ourselves out......which exacerbated the problem.
In R1, it was the smalls and mids.
In R2, it was the talls.
In R3, it started with the talls, and the smalls barely got a lookin because the ball never hit the deck.