Johns Hopkins 2022

[Hoponboard]

Defense Honor Roll

Martin - 4GB, 1CT

Smith - 2GB, 3CT
McManus - 2GB, 3CT
Lyne - 3GB, 1CT
Szuluk - 1GB, 1CT

Lilly - 1g, 1GB
Shure - 1GB

[DocBarrister]

Immediate reactions?

Keogh and deso look stellar, could be a good 1-2 punch for this offense.

D looks so solid, notably ssdm. Big upgrade from basically nothing.

Offense shows some February rust as a unit. Epstein didn’t make the stat sheet, degnon not finding outside shots like he has. Not a lot of dodging. Angelus needs to be more involved as well.

Goalie play is a disaster. Marcille needs to start against Towson if we want to have a comfortable goalie against Georgetown.

Offense needs to work harder to share the ball and get it in the sticks of Degnon, Grimes, and Epstein for finishing shots.

Too much independent contractor work with Hopkins players solo dodging into double teams. They shared the rock better in the second half.

DocBarrister

[Hoponboard]

Dunn played well. 11/18, 61% and 8GBs.

[DocBarrister]

Defense Honor Roll

Martin - 4GB, 1CT

Smith - 2GB, 3CT
McManus - 2GB, 3CT
Lyne - 3GB, 1CT
Szuluk - 1GB, 1CT

Other than on clears, the Hopkins D did a really nice job in front of a shaky goalie. Good on-ball defense with timely slides. A spirited Jacksonville team (kudos to Coach Galloway) didn’t really test the Blue Jays’ off-ball defense.

Nice work on transition D and man-down D.

Defense is “on schedule” from what I saw today. Nice start to the season. Same for faceoffs.

Offense showed flashes of what they could do.

Goalie play remains a serious problem.

DocBarrister

[DocBarrister]

Dunn played well. 11/18, 61% and 8GBs.

I really liked Dunn’s groundball work.

If Kyle Prouty had a consistent issue, it was winning a faceoff and then getting stripped of the ball after the faceoff “win”. Didn’t see those issues with Dunn today.

DocBarrister

[Sagittarius A*]

D really picked it up in 2nd half, winning GB battle 35-32 after starting 5-14. Plus, 11 CTs should make Doc happy.

Hats off to Jacksonville goalie whose 17 saves kept it close.

The Jacksonville goalie was great. The Hopkins goalie not so much.
There are better options sitting on our bench.
I knew we were in trouble when the coach said, "We're going to play the goalie that's best for the program..."
At least they fixed the 3rd attack spot midgame. Now they need to address some other positions before the Towson game.

[primitiveskills]

Owen Murphy score 4G today. Happy he found a good spot, but not thrilled it is with the Terps!

[jhu06]

Dan Aburn
@dan_aburn_
The Hopkins laxpower forum post on this game vs JAX would have 100 pages right now.

Fan club!
-chauvette started but was benched w/grimes moving up and raposo on 2nd midfield
-not great games from peschko or grimes
-smith seemed a lot more confident
-not sure if its new but shure moving to ssdm seems to indicate confidence in what they have at lsm more than ssdm beyond martin
-nice tributes from quint to schnydman at start of 3rd and to the jaguar kid who lost his dad recently
-epstein has to make the score sheet against a team like this
-zinn and murphy both posted multi point games today
-the size at midfield and experience at ssdm really stood out
-not much in transition for ju today and we won the start to both halves-big positives.
-qk was ENRAGED they ran out of hot dogs-probably a sign more people showed up than they thought which is good sign of interest.
-jaguars were a credible opponent who I am sure will draw interest in ooc games after this
-nice showing for tufts/d3 w/their transfer posting 4 goals for jacksonville.
-cottle did a nice interview w/petro on lacrosse all stars spotify podcast, 75 minutes where he opens up more than his other stuff. The tinney and tom garvey commets were high quality and something that message board all americans perhaps did not see in his tenure.

[primitiveskills]

Dan Aburn
@dan_aburn_
The Hopkins laxpower forum post on this game vs JAX would have 100 pages right now.

Fan club!
-chauvette started but was benched w/grimes moving up and raposo on 2nd midfield
-not great games from peschko or grimes
-smith seemed a lot more confident
-not sure if its new but shure moving to ssdm seems to indicate confidence in what they have at lsm more than ssdm beyond martin
-nice tributes from quint to schnydman at start of 3rd and to the jaguar kid who lost his dad recently
-epstein has to make the score sheet against a team like this
-zinn and murphy both posted multi point games today
-the size at midfield and experience at ssdm really stood out
-not much in transition for ju today and we won the start to both halves-big positives.
-qk was ENRAGED they ran out of hot dogs-probably a sign more people showed up than they thought which is good sign of interest.
-jaguars were a credible opponent who I am sure will draw interest in ooc games after this
-nice showing for tufts/d3 w/their transfer posting 4 goals for jacksonville.
-cottle did a nice interview w/petro on lacrosse all stars spotify podcast, 75 minutes where he opens up more than his other stuff. The tinney and tom garvey commets were high quality and something that message board all americans perhaps did not see in his tenure.

Shure played SSDM last year and was often paired with Martin. Maybe I missed it, but I didn’t notice Jaronski out there. That was the bigger SSDM surprise.

[DocBarrister]

Dan Aburn
@dan_aburn_
The Hopkins laxpower forum post on this game vs JAX would have 100 pages right now.

Fan club!
-chauvette started but was benched w/grimes moving up and raposo on 2nd midfield
-not great games from peschko or grimes
-smith seemed a lot more confident
-not sure if its new but shure moving to ssdm seems to indicate confidence in what they have at lsm more than ssdm beyond martin
-nice tributes from quint to schnydman at start of 3rd and to the jaguar kid who lost his dad recently
-epstein has to make the score sheet against a team like this
-zinn and murphy both posted multi point games today
-the size at midfield and experience at ssdm really stood out
-not much in transition for ju today and we won the start to both halves-big positives.
-qk was ENRAGED they ran out of hot dogs-probably a sign more people showed up than they thought which is good sign of interest.
-jaguars were a credible opponent who I am sure will draw interest in ooc games after this
-nice showing for tufts/d3 w/their transfer posting 4 goals for jacksonville.
-cottle did a nice interview w/petro on lacrosse all stars spotify podcast, 75 minutes where he opens up more than his other stuff. The tinney and tom garvey commets were high quality and something that message board all americans perhaps did not see in his tenure.

Shure played SSDM last year and was often paired with Martin. Maybe I missed it, but I didn’t notice Jaronski out there. That was the bigger SSDM surprise.

Isn’t Jaronski injured?

DocBarrister

[Hoponboard]

The Blue Jays are now just two wins shy of all-time victory number 1,000.

[DocBarrister]

Would welcome MDlaxfan’s take on Kirson’s play today. Replay is available on the ESPN app.

DocBarrister

[DocBarrister]

The Blue Jays are now just two wins shy of all-time victory number 1,000.

Pretty amazing total … 135 seasons in the making.

DocBarrister

[Sidelinehorn!]

Kirson with a 42.9% save percentage today.

Where have we seen that before?

The Hopkins D has not played badly in front of him.

DocBarrister

And one of those was a heave from midfield at the end of the half. Plus two that nicked him on the way to hitting the pipe. Struggling to remember a clean save.

That last one to close the game was clutch lol

Openly rooting against your own goalie is about as lame as it gets...grow up and get a life

[flalax22]

Kirson with a 42.9% save percentage today.

Where have we seen that before?

The Hopkins D has not played badly in front of him.

DocBarrister

And one of those was a heave from midfield at the end of the half. Plus two that nicked him on the way to hitting the pipe. Struggling to remember a clean save.

That last one to close the game was clutch lol

Openly rooting against your own goalie is about as lame as it gets...grow up and get a life

Big difference between rooting against and offering commentary and making light of it at that. The good news for you is I suspect we won’t have to have this back and forth for much longer.

[Sidelinehorn!]

Kirson with a 42.9% save percentage today.

Where have we seen that before?

The Hopkins D has not played badly in front of him.

DocBarrister

And one of those was a heave from midfield at the end of the half. Plus two that nicked him on the way to hitting the pipe. Struggling to remember a clean save.

That last one to close the game was clutch lol

Openly rooting against your own goalie is about as lame as it gets...grow up and get a life

Big difference between rooting against and offering commentary and making light of it at that. The good news for you is I suspect we won’t have to have this back and forth for much longer.

Well you and your sources have been spot on so far .....

[wgdsr]

Dan Aburn
@dan_aburn_
The Hopkins laxpower forum post on this game vs JAX would have 100 pages right now.

Fan club!
-chauvette started but was benched w/grimes moving up and raposo on 2nd midfield
-not great games from peschko or grimes
-smith seemed a lot more confident
-not sure if its new but shure moving to ssdm seems to indicate confidence in what they have at lsm more than ssdm beyond martin
-nice tributes from quint to schnydman at start of 3rd and to the jaguar kid who lost his dad recently
-epstein has to make the score sheet against a team like this
-zinn and murphy both posted multi point games today
-the size at midfield and experience at ssdm really stood out
-not much in transition for ju today and we won the start to both halves-big positives.
-qk was ENRAGED they ran out of hot dogs-probably a sign more people showed up than they thought which is good sign of interest.
-jaguars were a credible opponent who I am sure will draw interest in ooc games after this
-nice showing for tufts/d3 w/their transfer posting 4 goals for jacksonville.
-cottle did a nice interview w/petro on lacrosse all stars spotify podcast, 75 minutes where he opens up more than his other stuff. The tinney and tom garvey commets were high quality and something that message board all americans perhaps did not see in his tenure.

- jaguars will draw interest based on how they do this season, with projection to next season. not based on the opening game sizable loss to hopkins. unless it looks like a chaulk it up win after the other games they play.
- epstein having to "get on the score sheet vs teams like this" runs counter to the narrative espoused.
- zinn and murphy are blowing up

[Sagittarius A*]

Kirson with a 42.9% save percentage today.

Where have we seen that before?

The Hopkins D has not played badly in front of him.

DocBarrister

And one of those was a heave from midfield at the end of the half. Plus two that nicked him on the way to hitting the pipe. Struggling to remember a clean save.

That last one to close the game was clutch lol

Openly rooting against your own goalie is about as lame as it gets...grow up and get a life

Big difference between rooting against and offering commentary and making light of it at that. The good news for you is I suspect we won’t have to have this back and forth for much longer.

I don't expect Kirson to survive much past the Georgetown game. He'll get bombed and be out by halftime. If Gtown doesn't get him Loyola will. He was a stellar 2-7 last year and at this point it's obvious to everyone but our new coaching staff that he can't get the job done. Marcille took the team to the Big Title game. How hard is this to figure out? If they don't want to play Marcille, give GIB and chance and see what he can do.
Kirson is a proven failure.
Whenever the coach says for the benefit of the "program" you know there's some BS factor entering into the decision. Like, for instance, if we don't play this guy we won't be able to get any other kids to transfer. Who knows what factors go into their decisions, but this one is hard to fathom. I can recall another recent Hopkins coach who loyally stuck by his goalie right up until the day they unceremoniously pulled the plug on him.

[molo]

Lars ran about 10 offensive middies today. Zinn ran with what I would call the third but was on the field for the last possession of the first half while the game was still competitive. No work for him at ssdm, where the NC can go about five deep without him.

[HappyGilmore]

Not a great start. Out played in goal. Man-up 5 on 4 and they a poor IQ shot from #51. Need more work.