Stanford Invite // Qual Scouting Reports

These past two weekends have been great for watching and getting back into the swing of things with ultimate. Seeing as game by game recaps would be boring, and nobody really wants to know the details of me hanging out with X at the 5 booth or hitting on the Texas girls (hot), I figured I'd just throw out some scouting reports (kind of like what I did for club teams this past summer, man, I didn't know what I was talking about, that seems to be a theme). Anyway, here it goes.

From the qual:
UW: They have a lot of height, but they don't seem to be that explosive outside of a few top guys. I think they would benefit from having Dutch and BJ play more on both sides of the disc. On the other hand, they focus really well, and seem to have dedicated coaches. Not much, but that's all I got from one game watching them. Um, force backhand, Dutch's flick is that good.

SDSU: Make Daze work to get the disc. It all runs through him, and if he's tiered he'll have more turns. Also, have the dump defender watch his feet for the first three-four seconds he has the disc. He travels to set up his throws, but not on the throws themselves. Also, their dump set is always the same. First guy up line, front of the stack strait back. It works a lot, but they don't do a good job of going deep from the front, so it should be easy to adjust.

Claremont: You're fucked. :)

From the invite:

Pitt: They move the disc well with their handlers, shut down the around and they'll be hurting. Also, pressure their under cuts, they're not trying to huck right away, so make those first few hard. They have a good 4 man cup zone, and you won't beat it by working the disc side to side; once you're around the cup you need to attack downfield by fast breaking // give-and-go-ing, then they'll crumble (out of the zone).

Arizona: Loppy and Snatch are all region players. I like these guys to give up too much more for free. Um, pressure the dump.

Stanford: Make Sherwood stay around the disc, it's not that hard, because he's often near the front of the stack. Make people besides Ezra, TJ, and Sherwood beat you. Pressure their young throwers, intelligent poaches can hurt them.

Texas: No around, make them prove it with the IO throws. Go deep on them. stay at home, poaching won't help you.

UBC: They want to huck, don't over commit on the first in cut, they're just setting you up to go deep. Make them throw more throws, and expose their lack of depth with patient O.

Wisconsin: Their defenders really want to get the D on the inc-ut, once you turn you hips and take a step or two, they'll close their cushion. Take them deep on the double move, oh, and don't float your huck. Um, try poaching? I really don't know how to stop their O.

That's all I got for now. Maybe I'll write something else, like about how awesome 5ultimate is, or how cultimate is trying to good things, even if they seem unresponsive, but don't count on it.