And Now We Wait

The regular season fades into cool days of fall and anticipation of the postseason. 

Melrose captures a share or outright Middlesex League division title for the fifteenth consecutive season. 

Freedom Division MVP Elena Soukos finished atop the kill leaders with a pair of All-Star teammates Chloe Gentile and Gia Vlajkovic in the top ten. 

But statistics reset for the postseason and what matters is playing well, staying healthy, and getting a favorable bounce from time to time. 

Game Changers by Fergus Connolly shares how to analyze possessions in any sport. In addition to structure, ball circulation, player movement, and resulting space and timing the final attack depends on:

1) Construction of the attack

2) Penetration of the defense

3) Execution 

The offense chooses how and where to attack and how to displace defenders by attacking the middle, strong side, back side, or from the back row. For example, more attacks from the middle may "pin" the middle defender and make double blocking harder. 

And now we wait for the MIAA rankings and resultant playoff schedule.