John Desko
John Desko
John Desko is the head coach of the men's lacrosse team at Syracuse University taking over the reins in 1999 from Hall of Fame coach Roy Simmons, Jr...
moving thinking goal
We knew they were going to be coming at us. I think they got their first two goals by getting underneath us in the crease. The first two goals really picked them up. Dom (Lamolinara) just stood on his head when we needed him with that doorstop save and the last pass with four seconds left. Defensively we're just jelling and we've just got to keep moving.
thinking goal giving
I think we came out and got the first goals fairly easily and fairly quickly. All of a sudden they started to change the defense and they changed things up on us and I thought we got a little too comfortable. I give their goalie credit, he made some very good saves, but we just wanted to score. We changed some things halfway through the fourth quarter and we were able to generate some shots. I think for most of the year we've been good on offense. We haven't really struggled like that. We knew coming into the season that we'd have to share the ball on offense and really be efficient.
thinking winning long
I think this is our ninth one-goal game this year. We lost three by one and this is our sixth win by one. Unfortunately, the guys are used to being in these kinds of situations and made some pretty good adjustments down the stretch to win the game. I thought our defense played great all game long. While we didn't have it at one half, we picked it up on the other side of the field. I'm proud of the guys. Any win this time of year is a great win.
blue forced injury offensive pressure putting team
It was another injury that forced us to adjust. When you give a team like the Blue Jays that many opportunities at the offensive end, that's putting too much pressure on your defense.
adjusted initial since
It did in the initial adjustment, but after a week, you get adjusted to it. Since then, it's been great.
ball came defensive goals good halftime number saw
I thought he saw the ball very well today. I thought they had a number of opportunities early, where they had some good shots, and Pete came up big for us. To keep them to two goals at halftime was really good for our defensive confidence.
defense expect focus form maintain offense work
We need to work on everything. We didn't expect to be in midseason form (Sunday). The offense had a lot of turnovers. I think the defense started out pretty good. We need to maintain our focus and discipline.
I am very disappointed in our play. We had opportunities offensively, and we didn't produce.
ball defense good half job minutes points
We just haven't been able to put 60 minutes of ball together. Our defense did a good job for most of the first half and we couldn't put our points up offensively.
against build draw experience game hopefully means ourselves quality similar teams time win wins year
It means a lot, wins like this against quality teams at this time of year does a lot for your confidence. And to be in a game like this and win it, hopefully we can build on that, and if we find ourselves in a similar situation, we can draw on that experience today.
basically both calm forth game great hard stay
It's hard to stay calm in a game like this. Basically a one-goal game going back and forth in both directions. It's great to come out on top.
clear looked looks struggling sudden year
It looked like we were struggling to clear the ball. We've used the same clear pretty much the whole year and all of the sudden we're not making our looks or our reads.
worried
We were hurting. We were questioning ourselves. We were worried about the season.
job seen worked
We shouldn't be making the same mistakes. We've seen them on film and worked on them in practice; we've got to do a much better job with that.