Johns Hopkins 2022

[Sagittarius A*]

We haven’t had the most success so far on the offensive end this season, but we’re building an identity that guys are committing to,” Johns Hopkins second-year coach Peter Milliman said. “I don’t have that much of an issue if we get outshot by 25, as long as we’re doing our job as a group.”

OK - that's exactly the quote from the press conference I was referring to. What does the first sentence even mean and what is that identity? The second quote - pretty easy to say after you won getting outshot by 25 but how is that straight shooting? Straight shooting is making uncomfortable but true observations that people need to hear. Straight shooting to me would be the following:
"From an overall perspective we did not play well. We lost too many face-offs, too many contested ground balls and we had the same number of turnovers as shots on goal. We had 8 failed clears - that is unacceptable and we cannot expect our close defense and goalie to bail us out every time. We had decent offensive efficency but 21 turnovers denied us the opportunity to exploit that efficency - that is my responsibility to get these players ready to hande those issues."

That would be straight shooting.

There's a fine line here. A coach doesn't want to be dissing his team. HE's admitting his O isn't great yet, and he got outshot (encapsulating the clearing and faceoff issues) but also saying hey, we're efficient and we're trying to play a certain way and it will come in time. You have to strike a positive note as a coach. I think he's hitting it just right tbh. Hey, we've got some issues to work out but we're trying to come together as a team. He's striking the right chords in my opinion. It's a balancing act of course. So far, he's winning the games we think he could win. Let's see how this plays out.

[OCanada]

Ducking and covering and misrepresenting

What happened to Rambo? Early recruiting? You have an ac to grind and indulge it. You are not really interested in reality if it contradicts it. Reading comprehension is not a strong point or the ability to stay on topic or follow a thread. You question what i write and when i explain how i know you accuse me of name dropping. Those contacts ate the difference between knowing something and someone who doesn’t. And you don’t. Rather than adapt to new information you tune it out rather than incorporate it. Pathetic.

A few months ago i got an email asking who the deleted you were, i con’t know snd don’t care until you write dome self indulgent fiction and try to claim knowledge you don’t have.

I don’t post much about the team. Never have. But since gou asked it is more talented than last year. 7 gsmes into the season they still can’t clear. They still turn the ball over too much. Offense isn’t good. They could easily have lost to the worst Cuse team in years. 7 pipes part of which is attributable to the goalie do many were slamming earlier. Epstein will never be his old self.

[OCanada]

Ducking and covering and misrepresenting

What happened to Rambo? Early recruiting? You have an ac to grind and indulge it. You are not really interested in reality if it contradicts it. Reading comprehension is not a strong point or the ability to stay on topic or follow a thread. You question what i write and when i explain how i know you accuse me of name dropping. Those contacts ate the difference between knowing something and someone who doesn’t. And you don’t. Rather than adapt to new information you tune it out rather than incorporate it. Pathetic.

A few months ago i got an email asking who the deleted you were, i con’t know snd don’t care until you write dome self indulgent fiction and try to claim knowledge you don’t have.

I don’t post much about the team. Never have. But since gou asked it is more talented than last year. 7 gsmes into the season they still can’t clear. They still turn the ball over too much. Offense isn’t good. They could easily have lost to the worst Cuse team in years. 7 pipes part of which is attributable to the goalie do many were slamming earlier. Epstein will never be his old self.

[51percentcorn]

I have zero Axes to grind
There are several facts that exist however - not misrepresentations
Rambo committed to Maryland in the summer of 2011 - after his sophomore year at LaSalle after transferring from Abington - FACT
That means he was being recruited in 2010 - FACT
We are still 5-6 years away from Alanna - FACT
Calder is still the AD and will not announce his reassignment for 5 years - FACT
Big Ron has been on the scene less than 2 years - FACT

So help me with the issue here - the child has just finished a year at a college prep school in a Major city - has only 2 years of high school transcripts - has not taken the SATs or ACTs yet and Dave and Bob already know Ronnie won't let them smoke this one by? AND I never denied that it could be true but that must be one helluva transcript. All I ever said was I was told Rambo wanted a bigger school and chose Maryland pretty quickly. I would have thought if he wanted to come to Hopkins so badly - we would have whipped out one of those conditional acceptances and had La Salle coach him up a little bit. And why would he have to worry? He decommits from Hopkins virtually any program in the country would snap him up in a NY minute.

So you are telling me that if Brody was still the president - Rambo would have played for Hopkins?

few months ago i got an email asking who the deleted you were, i con’t know snd don’t care until you write dome self indulgent fiction and try to claim knowledge you don’t have.

I'm glad you don't know me - give it a deleted rest. I don't give a flying f who you are and who/what you purport to know. I think there are some kids on your lawn - better go look.

[Sagittarius A*]

Kirson won BIG specialist of the week award and Smith won BIG Defenseman of the week award:

https://hopkinssports.com/news/2022/3/1 ... onors.aspx

Good to see them get some national recognition.

[jhu06]

https://www.localsyr.com/orange-nation/ ... tion-show/
Gait reviews the Hopkins game and notes that cuse had the possessions at "under 30 for hopkins and near 50 for cuse"-that's not going to win us a lot of games and the clearing, faceoffs, turnovers should not be an issue like this midway through year 2.

[OCanada]

Pathetic really. Its amazing how you manage to recharacterize. Almost sociopathic

All your “facts” ate Irrelevant to the question. Fact.

Language. Grow up, The only one on my lawn is some juvenile nicknamed 51percentcorn. Off by 49% but a start. Y now i know you don’t care about reality. Narcissists have that qualify. Niedermeyer might be better.

In the event the events of the last couple of weeks make it difficult to engage right or devote time now so have at it.

[51percentcorn]

There's a fine line here. A coach doesn't want to be dissing his team. HE's admitting his O isn't great yet, and he got outshot (encapsulating the clearing and faceoff issues) but also saying hey, we're efficient and we're trying to play a certain way and it will come in time. You have to strike a positive note as a coach. I think he's hitting it just right tbh. Hey, we've got some issues to work out but we're trying to come together as a team. He's striking the right chords in my opinion. It's a balancing act of course. So far, he's winning the games we think he could win. Let's see how this plays out.

I agree with this. It's just semantics - IMO he's deflecting by really not saying much at all - maybe because the team got blistered by the coaches after UVA and UNC where they did not look competitive - so he took a more mild approach. I just wouldn't call it straight shooting.

[HopFan16]

I don’t post much about the team. Never have. But since gou asked it is more talented than last year.

Come again? How is it MORE talented than last year? It's the exact group of contributors, except our best FOGO has been out all year and now a starting attackman is injured. And no Williams, Reinson, Delaney, or Zinn. It's less talented than last year. The only new significant contributor who was not on the team last season is Jennings and he's the #2 or #3 LSM.

We know you don't post anything about the team, you don't need to remind anyone of that. I'm not sure what you get out of being here to be honest other than lecturing people and making it clear you don't support the program anymore. That's your prerogative but if that were me I'd be long gone by now, probably posting on the Cuse boards where it seems like you'd rather be.

https://www.localsyr.com/orange-nation/ ... tion-show/
Gait reviews the Hopkins game and notes that cuse had the possessions at "under 30 for hopkins and near 50 for cuse"-that's not going to win us a lot of games and the clearing, faceoffs, turnovers should not be an issue like this midway through year 2.

Clearing and turnovers obviously must improve but lumping faceoffs into that category without acknowledging the context that Matthew Narewski has not played yet this season is BS even for you. The BACKUP, who had to step up as the main guy on short notice, is 51% on the year and 25th in the country in GBs per game against the #1 SOS in the nation — I would say that's a decent adjustment and outcome considering Dunn was 36% last year.

[jhu06]

They knew narewski was banged up going into the season and should've adjusted by putting more emphasis on ball security and clearing. That does not require 5 star recruits, hall of fame coaches, and low admissions standards for recruits.

[wgdsr]

They knew narewski was banged up going into the season and should've adjusted by putting more emphasis on ball security and clearing. That does not require 5 star recruits, hall of fame coaches, and low admissions standards for recruits.

how much more emphasis do you think they should've had?

[jhu06]

They knew narewski was banged up going into the season and should've adjusted by putting more emphasis on ball security and clearing. That does not require 5 star recruits, hall of fame coaches, and low admissions standards for recruits.

how much more emphasis do you think they should've had?

Whatever it takes for the fans not to see videos of arch rival coaches bragging about being +20 possessions after a game.

[wgdsr]

They knew narewski was banged up going into the season and should've adjusted by putting more emphasis on ball security and clearing. That does not require 5 star recruits, hall of fame coaches, and low admissions standards for recruits.

how much more emphasis do you think they should've had?

Whatever it takes for the fans not to see videos of arch rival coaches bragging about being +20 possessions after a game.

well, you understand that they actually had a plan for all that ball security? 06, you can do what you want, but am pointing out you have absolutely no idea how much emphasis they put on it. maybe 90% of practice? it should be 99%? or is it 20-30% of time? either their plans or execution or both didn't work out. so you figure out which. and adjust. if ball security and clearing get double time are you good with them shooting 20% and not being able to make slides?

[HopFan16]

They knew narewski was banged up going into the season and should've adjusted by putting more emphasis on ball security and clearing. That does not require 5 star recruits, hall of fame coaches, and low admissions standards for recruits.

how much more emphasis do you think they should've had?

Whatever it takes for the fans not to see videos of arch rival coaches bragging about being +20 possessions after a game.

they lost though

[51percentcorn]

Seems to me ball security is pretty important regardless - you can have Trevor Baptiste but what good is it if your team throws the ball all over the parking lot. Maybe if you are 1990 Syracuse or a team like that you can think - hey a few more loose turnovers are made up for by the talent and style of play but Hopkins has been struggling a bit with turnovers and clears for a while - 85% last year is better than 79 for sure but it is still meh - they were at 78% for the 6 games in '20 and 85% in 19. Before that it seemed to be a pretty consistent 89 or above. AND I would think with a goalie save percentage conistently below 50 for the last few years ball security and clearing would be at the fore front - I've been saying for years that to be successful this team needed to maximize possessions and take care of the ball. That doesn't end with whether your face-off man is successful or not.
It's helps to begin with that.

[admin]

I have zero Axes to grind... kids on your lawn - better go look.

Pathetic really...now so have at it.

Ocanada, 51%, let's give it a rest. No personal attacks...

[Big Dog]

We haven’t had the most success so far on the offensive end this season, but we’re building an identity that guys are committing to,” Johns Hopkins second-year coach Peter Milliman said. “I don’t have that much of an issue if we get outshot by 25, as long as we’re doing our job as a group.”

OK - that's exactly the quote from the press conference I was referring to. What does the first sentence even mean and what is that identity? The second quote - pretty easy to say after you won getting outshot by 25 but how is that straight shooting? Straight shooting is making uncomfortable but true observations that people need to hear. Straight shooting to me would be the following:
"From an overall perspective we did not play well. We lost too many face-offs, too many contested ground balls and we had the same number of turnovers as shots on goal. We had 8 failed clears - that is unacceptable and we cannot expect our close defense and goalie to bail us out every time. We had decent offensive efficency but 21 turnovers denied us the opportunity to exploit that efficency - that is my responsibility to get these players ready to hande those issues."

That would be straight shooting.

There's a fine line here. A coach doesn't want to be dissing his team. HE's admitting his O isn't great yet, and he got outshot (encapsulating the clearing and faceoff issues) but also saying hey, we're efficient and we're trying to play a certain way and it will come in time. You have to strike a positive note as a coach. I think he's hitting it just right tbh. Hey, we've got some issues to work out but we're trying to come together as a team. He's striking the right chords in my opinion. It's a balancing act of course. So far, he's winning the games we think he could win. Let's see how this plays out.

yeah, I'm not a fan of dissing your team either, but one can't also ignore the elephant in the room. When the whole world knows that you are 57th in clearing and (related) 51st in Turnovers (per NCAA published stats), a straight shooting coach would not just ignore it: "yes, we had a good day in shooting efficiency, but we need to get better with ball control, so we can make even more SOG's, and ball control is something that we will be working on."

[HopFan16]

It was a 20-second response out of context included in a promotional video by the program — the fact that ya'll are analyzing it to this degree is a little disturbing. Who knows what else he did or didn't say in the press conference. It sounded to me like a completely normal thing to say, nothing more or less. None of this matters. Eyes on the prize. Midshipmen come to town Friday night under the lights.

[jhu06]

It was a 20-second response out of context included in a promotional video by the program — the fact that ya'll are analyzing it to this degree is a little disturbing. Who knows what else he did or didn't say in the press conference. It sounded to me like a completely normal thing to say, nothing more or less. None of this matters. Eyes on the prize. Midshipmen come to town Friday night under the lights.

"I remember Bill Belichick used to say, 'When you are carrying the football, you're not only carrying the football for the team and everyone in the building, but you're carrying it for everyone in the region. The fate is in your hands. '"

[Sagittarius A*]

It was a 20-second response out of context included in a promotional video by the program — the fact that ya'll are analyzing it to this degree is a little disturbing. Who knows what else he did or didn't say in the press conference. It sounded to me like a completely normal thing to say, nothing more or less. None of this matters. Eyes on the prize. Midshipmen come to town Friday night under the lights.

The million dollar question: Will we have Narewski back?
and if so,
Will he be 100% or close to it....