Not the first time. Had they closed that map against EG, they could probably be in Shanghai. It's weird how good they are for the rest of the match but then fuck up the second they are at match point. Today it happened too and if they don't work on it, I don't know how they are reaching champs.
They will face problem the second they come against a team who have fire power.
It's probably the only flaw I saw today, their game looks more refined than Split 1 and that is to be expected.
Wanna see how they do vs KRU and more importantly how KRU does in Split 2 and if they can carry that form.
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Sentinels and their problems with closing maps
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The loss against EG was a choke, the fake cumback by NRG was not a choke by SEN at all. If you watched the minimap during defense, NRG was consistently on the site SEN was gonna hit, except somehow couldn't defend site with 3/4 players. FNS had the reads consistently, it was a complete masterclass especially for a guy who has never played sunset on the stage. Victor showed up with the explosive power, and they utilized the TH comp very well on attack. The only thing SEN exclusively did wrong was the TenZ OP on defense, and that was two rounds.
Reach, a massive difference in the choke against EG and NRG is that sen refused to adapt vs EG, but against NRG, they tried Tenz op, 4 stacking a and retaking b, having zekken on judge, early aggro off a to get a pick, but none of it worked because the chokepoints on a can be dominated by 1 neon stun and that either leads to tenz/zek dying or them being pushed off and then leaving sen to retake.
Sen also got a retake on b but just didnt have enough time. FNS and Vic carried NRG on attack sunset, Sen just needs to take what they learnt from that game and understand how to better counter something like that.
In my eyes, playing retake on a, or switching cypher util would have worked, but sens read may have been different.
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