Comments on: Game Grades: NE Revolution vs FC Dallas

By: Ze Bill

Ze Bill — Sat, 03 May 2008 15:31:23 +0000

AND FURTHERMORE! you’d be all happy and content if the guy that Smith succeeded in getting around and subsequently scoring was a Matt Behncke-like mass of inertia?

Because MB is taller than Dax?

By: Ze Bill

Ze Bill — Sat, 03 May 2008 15:24:20 +0000

I think that you guys (plural) Monty KK FriscoFan and Toffee were commenting and succeeding in creating the take-away belief that Dax can’t cover Smith. Dax infact succeeded at a frequency that Monty mentions — *while* Dax was probably carrying health issues with at least his back and possibly hernia. (I don’t know whether the hernia deal didn’t appear days after the N.E. match). My point is that a great defensive specialist man-marker would be happy with the success rate that Dax had v. Smith and that Dax, Moor, Davino, Serioux, and Sala all or individually might have stopped Smith’s scoring opportunity, where lefty Smith kept going to his right and shooting with his right. Now, why are the FCD defenders who gifted Heaps and Christman with wide-open shooting opportunities going unnamed and unblamed? I think Dax should visit that surgeon in Bavaria who worked on Wynalda, et al.

By: Toffee

Toffee — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:54:15 +0000

Who said “hypothetcially god-like”? I’ve carefully reviewed my post, and I didn’t detect anything about Rocha being “perfect.” In fact, I didn’t even comment on Rocha’s ability.

Congrats on defeating an argument no one made. I don’t love Rocha by any stretch of the imagination, But pretty simple physics dictates that Dax shouldn’t have been marking a gazelle.

By: Ze Bill

Ze Bill — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:10:11 +0000

You guys are claiming that Rocha would’ve been perfect against Smith? Hypothetically God-like? Theoretically impeccable?

And add Serioux to the list of FCD dudes who shoulda woulda coulda stopped Mr. Smith on the one time Mr. Smith wasn’t frustrated by McCarty.

FCD allowed N.E. to develop other scoring opportunities to develop which N.E. botched (iirc Heaps, Cristman): scoring chances that were phatter than Smith’s chance that did go in.

By: Toffee

Toffee — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:10:32 +0000

Good grades, Peter. KK is spot on, why Rocha was not switched to cover Khano simply blows my mind. I mean, was there anyone who watched this game that didn’t say uh-oh when you looked on that side? You just knew it was going to happen sooner or later, and then eureka. I’m fairly certain Morrow is getting paid to sort of anticipate these things. Or not. Whatever.

By: KK

KK — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:24:20 +0000

If there was ever a chance to employ the Dax/Rocha switch, I would have guessed this game. Khano Smith is a big boy and needed to be played more physically. Unfortunate that we let this one slip away against a depleted Revs side. But that’s why they play the game.

By: Conor B

Conor B — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:00:35 +0000

Toja should not have been playing last night. He was no where near his normal self. It was painful to see him out there bc he clearly still is not healthy, that seemed to have a lot to do with the slow pace through the middle and why Kenny and Art were basically ineffective. Toja needs to sit anand get healthy so that he can get back to his old ways of running the game for FCD.

By: Skeeter

Skeeter — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:10:39 +0000

I have just about had it with Rocha. I would still like to see him in the wing position, but I think I have seen enough with him in the central role.

By: hutchtx

hutchtx — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:49:00 +0000

I actually enjoyed the game, even though they lost. It was cool to see them possess the ball. Unfortunately, they were rusty/tired/ whatever up top and could not score. I like Reis — just wish he had slipped up at least to let us score. They had good D and we had good D. And they got the lucky shot. and we had lots of fun screaming from section 104.

The only thing that really bothers me is the AA flop — which I even got a photo of. I detest that kind of play. I hope he learns from how BAD he looked last night. Oh, and STOP with the hair style/color changes every time ESPN2 comes around.

By: FriscoFan

FriscoFan — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:58:08 +0000

Two points. Switch Dax and Rocha and AA was a total non-factor.