Excited to see what that looks like with Slavin/Pesce/Hamilton/Faulk/Bean starting the breakouts from the backend. Things could go very right on this front.
This is where I am right now.
I am expecting the additions of these two to have a cascading impact on the team in a positive way. Its not
just how they play, its that their style fits so well into ours by adding the missing pieces to the point where I think it'll end up seeing a lot of little things finally fitting together to have a big net gain. Our counter-attack this year is going to be deadly. If an opponent dares to pinch in a defender against us, we're going to have an odd-man break on the counter, and you're not going to have the speed to get back and cover. Teams are going to have to cheat defenders high to prevent that, which should be a big help to us defensively, where we already have an advantage, which should make the life of Mrazek that much easier.
And, if these guys can actually make our PP respectable, teams won't be able to take as many liberties with us physically this year, because we could actually make them pay. This killed us in the Boston series, where I still believe we were the better team 5v5 until the series was very much out of hand. If we could have made them pay on the PP for the cheap stuff they were doing, its a very different series. We probably at least take Game 1, and we certainly don't allow ourselves to get as frustrated as we did with retaliatory bullshit.
