Louis Cartwright and he uses a defense called the curly shuffle. No BS watch some of his matches "king louie" was a dominant goalie and also had a great 2 bar.
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curly shuffle? How many years since King Louie's been on tour ? I dunno, but the past few years, and against technically perfect snakes, I'd say Todd, RobM, and other premier goalkeepers are the only ones anymore THAT I'VE SEEN LATELY, who could consistently fight off all these snakes at the top world level... Spredey's and Billy's and Ryan's .. etal... And a lot more clean, smooth snakes out there from the young'uns and up-n-cummers... helped by the availability of streaming events and the archived vids ...
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I'm sure Louis could get right up there again, if he dusted off and started playing on tour again.. but it seems different the past few years with these snakes... and the defenses in the Open events.. a lot more percentage D, whether with shuffling or baiting, but still always spending the highest percentage of their 2bar and Goal figure blocking 2 of the 3 major lanes that the forwards shoot. Not so much feathering anymore in between 2 lanes.. And that percentage D works on the basic level for pulls and pushkicks too.. the Goalkeeper does his/her best to find the forward's shooting lanes for whichever shot is favored, and strives to ALWAYS be blocking 2 of the 3 main shooting lanes at the time the forward shoots... Shuffle, shake, bait n jump, predictive or whatever.. the defender still has to be blocking 2 of the 3-4 basic lanes at time of the shot.
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why? Coz those are the lanes that that forward has shot for in practice, pickups and matches... for hundreds of thousands of times, prolly for years on tour.. (no idiot practicing on shooting the 3/16 lane or the 17/32 lane... etc .. ).. the best in the world practice the same lanes most players do.. Only the best world players have much tighter more defined lanes than most and more at their disposal.;
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A great confusing shuffle that seems to waste time not blocking lanes might work on this forward or that forward, or some big hole baiting D that switches, but then there'll always be a forward who doesn't care.. and just shoots his/her shot.. and if you're not defending 2 of those 3-4 lanes a high enough percentage of the time... You get shredded...
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And that's what usually separates the pros/PM's from duffers.. they play percentage, just like almost every sport/game in the world that involves direct combat or faceoff.. They are WILLING to concede a certain percentage of either passes or goals scored.. as long as they are in good defense. Duffers will freak and get a hernia to get that dream, totally shut down the opponents' 5 and brick the forward's 3. This may actually happen for a good duffer, for 1 DYP night or 1 pickup night out of 300, and then he/she wonders why the other 299 times they can't seem to anticipate everything... But then that's why they're basically idiots trying to play hero ...