Patrick McEwen

00:28 Patrick McEwen Backround

-Mastermind behind Lax Film Room

-Self made lacrosse expert

-Jamie's thoughts on Patrick's insight

01:47 New Rules in NCAA Lacrosse - the Dive

-Dive is a zone buster - better then a 2 pointer

-NY Lizards zone x's and o's

-Analytics for offenses against zones

-Calls for diving "at the mouth of the goal"

-Penalties that the dive will bring

-Differentiating safe dives vs. unsafe dives with goalies

06:52 How to defend the dive and how the dive creates chances

-Officiating will play a big role

-Triping penalties

-Defensive adjustments

-Slide earlier

-Offense creation

-Fake inside rolls and come topside will open up

-Dive legends and Dom Starsias role

-Injury concerns

13:35 New Shot Clock Rules

-More normal play

-Face offs will survive now

15:25 Shot Clock for Defense vs Offense

-New rules get allows more risks

-Scoring efficiency was too high

-Opens up more freedom for players

-Canadians may have an advantage

-Fewer bad risks

-Over selling how many two way middies there will be

-The subing game may be less different then people think

-Less time wasting

24:09 Why Zones might not be a big deal and philosophies

-Not a lot of zone teams have been seen a lot

-Its already happening

-Different zone offense philosophies

-Teams will be better at zone offense with short time

-Switches will be more prominent

-Exploit people who can't dodge

-Pressure defense is still key

-End of shot clock philosophy

-How to take advantage of peoples weakesses

34:22 Other Strategies with the Shot Clock

-More close defender involvement with clearing

-Will change how defensemen are recruited

-End of Denver Chesapeake game sub game

-Riding vs transition

-Clearing clock is still there

41:54 Will there be More Riding or Less Riding or More of the Same?

-Teams are going to clear differenty

-Push it more then before

-More time on offense if you clear quickly

-Ride philosophies

-More riding/clearing opportunities in a game

-Differences between a good riding and bad riding team is marginal

-Defense will now be able to make up for a sub par face off guy

-Offensive efficiency

47:44 80 Second Resets

-Only less than 10% of possessions resulted in a reset

-Majority of possessions already happened inside of 60 seconds

-End of game situations

-Hard to get a reset

-Score and try to win a faceoff is the best end of game move

-Teams electing to just roll the ball in the corner

-May change how and where shooters shoot

51:32 Value of time with the shot/efficiency as a function of time left on the shot clock

-How valuable are the little things?

-Value of zone rides

-Differences in time left in the shot clock

-How do offenses respond when there is 50 seconds left vs 25, 20, 15, 5, etc.

55:52 Gathering Data from College Coaches

-Anonymous data exchange

-Give a baseline to teams

-Will give major contribution of the big picture

-Will tell you when chances are most worth taking

57:33 Ground Balls from Over Rated to Under Rated Stat

-20/30 years ago "ground balls win games" was a big idea

-Context matters with ground balls

-Stat can be skewed with simple drops and a recollection of the ball

-Ground balls impacts more than just efficiency

-Face off ground balls vs other ground balls

-Most impactful ground ball is on defense

1:04:40 Last Points

-Not good stats for possessions and changes of possessions

-Turnover stats

-Subjectivity of some stats

-Defining a turn over

-Add to the box score stats