re: Anyone know what Donovan was referring to?

It's an accurate quote. The truth is that all good defensive teams "figure out" the officials early and find out how physical they can be and get away with it.

Compliment or not, it's accurate. These guys defensively remind me a lot of the 2004 Pistons. If you drive to the goal, a defender will give you just enough of a hard-to-spot hip bump to slow you down just enough that it's a little harder to take it to the goal.

Simply put, the team is ballsy enough to be really aggressive but smart enough to pull back when they've figured out how far they can go with it. It's a smart team with a smart coach. And Donovan, a smart coach, noticed it and pointed it out.



Oh yeah, and GERMANS.