Just wondering...

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Matt and I watched the Army v. Navy lacrosse game yesterday. It makes sense that the young men in the military schools would play the game with the same sense of mission and courage that is expected from them should they be sent to a real battlefield. What I saw were guys sacrificing themselves for their team: Waiting that last possible second to make a pass and taking a hit from a defender to get the ball to a teammate at the perfect moment; crashing towards the crease to shoot on-goal knowing a devastating hit would be their reward for their effort; showing the understanding of the value of ground balls, laying full-out, diving headlong out of bounds so as to maintain ball possession; and the willingness to fight for the face-off win. These guys were tough.

Walax.com, in an article about the Stanwood upset win over Lynnwood , said, "We’ve all heard it a million times... 'ground balls win games'.” Winning the ground ball war and fighting for loose balls is nasty work. I appreciate that Brennen Bowman fought for ground balls against Redmond enough to think to kick 3 or 4 balls forward in his attempt to win possession.

The flipside of the ground ball game is NOT to turn the ball over. Turnovers lose games.

Does the team understand that "ground balls win games"?