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Hey Coach.....what does Foley do on Spencer's first possession ? yup.....takes the ball away. Now, Spencer picked up the gb, but isn't THAT the exact same thing you did to Gait? What your fellow Hopkins fans LOVE to show to prove you were better than, say, Wickwire. Same as it evah was. Let the D h...

johnnyonthegunpowder wrote: ↑Sun Feb 17, 2019 12:26 am "A worse defense in decades", Doc. Please. You have a short memory.

Well ... when was the last time Hopkins surrendered 35 goals in the first two games? I don’t know, I’m asking.

DocBarrister

I'm more than a little concerned after hearing the press conference. Petro is putting this all on the D. Said the O was improved. Well Epstein was better and Marr scored a few more but the rest was horrible. Sending out the smurf crew wont get it done and he is about to learn a hard lesson against ...

admin wrote: ↑Sat Feb 16, 2019 7:18 pm During a break in play, Referee pulls Doc Barrister aside and says, "Number Doc, there are kids in the stands watching the game. take it easy on the s- and f- words." Play resumes...

Aw, c’mon ... that’s bullpucky! I even used asterisks.

DocBarrister (innocent)

Not sure. He would still draw a pole and the thought of Williams having to play D is ...um...not good. He's 6'5'', 210 lbs, and athletic. He can't possibly play worse defense than the current cast of middies. He'd likely still draw a pole but I feel like he wouldn't have to work as hard to switch t...

One of my lax friends researched this. The most important stat for predicting national championship contenders is clearing percentage. Jays are going nowhere with Darby in goal. He is a lousy passer and gives up soft outside goals. However, it didn’t help Darby’s confidence to have #11 completely l...

SJUhlRoBL8M moore mr. briteside.....BIG conference games can't start soon enough. Not fairing well against Patriot league so far, but not to worry, Patriot is only a one team bid invite league, so plenty of room for those BiG teams with barely above .500 winning percentagle. Big 10 will get 5 teams...

Stat of the game: Hopkins 8 of 15 on clears. DocBarrister :? Felt even worse than that. Shades of 2016-2017. Negated the faceoff advantage. Would love to see the poles more active in the clearing game. I'd rather them get stripped at least making an effort to move the ball up the field than having ...

Stat of the game: Hopkins 8 of 15 on clears.

DocBarrister

looks like they found something in weston narewski. absolute dumpster fire of a 6v6, marr/williams/concannon another nothing disaster and picking nothing off the turf. Epstein is an absolute beast. Epstein had 3 goals and 3 assists against a top-notch Loyola defense. :shock: Narewski won 17 of 28 f...

We need to get those 6-footers sitting on the bench more playing time. It’s puzzling we didn’t see more players come off the bench. Having said that, this team’s main problem is cognitive, not physical. Especially true on defense, where no one seems to have their head in the game. That’s squarely on...

Let me be among the first to say this: Joey Epstein is the best player on the Johns Hopkins lacrosse team. I couldn’t give a terd that he’s a freshman with just two games under his belt. It’s just a fact. What that means is that he should at least touch the d*mn ball on each possession. But what do ...

Smith’s last minute shot when he should have held it (to have possession to start the 4th quarter) is just exemplary of these boys not having their heads in the game. Second absolutely stupid error from a captain in this game.

DocBarrister

Petro had a prescient quote many years ago when a similarly veteran defense returned ... he said it didn’t matter and that you have start all over again each season. Marr’s three goals are nice, but he really screwed up the Blue Jays for about 6 or 7 minutes with a turnover and a truly stupid penalt...

Epstein looks like the only Blue Jay ready to play today.

Good comeback by the faceoff crew.

Defense is a complete mess. How can Pat Spenser be left so wide open with no one defending him?

DocBarrister

Amusing tidbit ... was watching briefly the Harvard-North Carolina game. Both announcers had Southern accents and apparently were more accustomed to calling baseball games than lacrosse. After a Crimson goal scored on a shot that was described as a “changeup,” one of the announcers proclaimed, “That...

Raescreek wrote: ↑Sat Feb 09, 2019 2:28 pm Well I guess that answers that...

17-8 Tigers win

Loved the energy and aggression of the Tigers. Nadelen has Towson back in form.

DocBarrister

Interesting to notice Terry O' Riordan indirectly taking Cole Williams to task on Dan Aburns post about former Loyola teammates "dapping" each other after a Towson goal. https://twitter.com/Dan_Aburn/status/1094683659267985409 Does anyone doubt that Coach Petro (and/or the captains) had a...

Wasn’t much in Petro’s press conference that I disagreed with. Don’t agree with his use of zone D. I understand the technical and tactical rationale behind that decision, but his crew needed to ramp up their aggression, not retreat into a passive stance. Darby improved his overall game after the hal...

MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 04, 2019 10:10 am Very nice tribute by US Lacrosse on Bo Moore UVA '54.

https://www.uslacrosse.org/blog/us-lacr ... asses-away

So sorry to hear of your loss. Your family has contributed so much to the game.

DocBarrister