Johns Hopkins 2024

[JaXKy0521S]

13-8 end of 3rd. Mostly backups now. Again the ride has caused 2-3 more turnovers and creates 2 quick transition goals! Webb went in at 10min mark in the 3rd.

[HopFan16]

McDermott lefty rip off the dodge https://www.instagram.com/p/C2lN6VTMlgQ/

[JaXKy0521S]

Final 16-9 Hop. I’ll post a full breakdown later tonight. Boys look ready!

[HopFan16]

Final 16-9 Hop. I’ll post a full breakdown later tonight. Boys look ready!

Bring on the Pios

Angelus take from X: https://www.instagram.com/p/C2lTZ-jsBA4/

Interesting, looks like Angelus-Degnon-Melendez-Collison-English-Ayers out there together.

[JaXKy0521S]

Here is my breakdown of tonight’s scrimmage. I will say this JHU was far superior athletically. They seem to have even more athleticism all over the field this year. The team flies around as soon as the whistle blows. The offense really seems to flow well and has intentions on every pass. The midfield seems to have studs all over. They mix and match all 8-10 players and can really be a problem to matchup against. Hunter and Jimmy Ayers played through the midfield and looked the part. The team had a line of English, Collison and Either Hunter or Ayers and this was electric to see. Brooks has a whole different skill set and is lightning with the ball in his stick. Face offs were mostly taken by Callahan and he really did a great job going 11-15 in the first have. TD did well as well really being able to push it forward to create quick offense. On the face offs Deans, Brown and #6 were the poles and did great taking the Mazone role and Casey McDermont took the other side really being a bulldog and getting several gbs. Raposo took the wing several times as well and really showed he could be an asset there as well. The cuse transfer did not suit up. The D is really going to be fun to watch. They are long and quick making it tough on the offense. They really extended and caused several turnovers when the starters were in. In goal Chase let in a couple early then really found his rhythm and made a ton of saves. That’s the overview and here is the play by play.

[JaXKy0521S]

Starters Q1
Goalie 22
Defense 44,18, 28
Mids FO 5 LSM 46 wing33
Ssdm 12.77. 20,48
Omids 9,51,33. 4 or 34,25,16. 49,7,33
Attack 31, 23, 40

0-1 FO

UMBC lefty rip off feed from left attack. Just a solid shot.

1-2 FO
Man up
25,3,34,40,31,23

Melendez to Garrett lefty rip great man up really quick ball movement and had several shots on it.

UMBC goal middle dodge down alley goal. Was a weaker shot Chase wanted that back

Solid position crisp on O Degnon rip off pipe and lucky save

Ride is relentless 2 caused TOs in the first 7 minutes. So different than the past 2 year!


Another great ride 44 caused TO gets the GB goes down the field to find Russ Melendez for doorstep goal plus foul

2-2

Off FO passed from Dens to Casey goal 3-2

D is very agressive and pressing out

26 rollback too center snipe from 12-13 out for UMBC 3-3 D seemed to struggle to start but is slowly settling down. Seems they are a little fired up.

#6 legit on wing play. This freshman has it. Super smooth and smart!

UMBC goalie playing out of his mind 3 saves 2 on the doorstep.

Angelus finds Collison from 13 out snipe bottom left. Absolutely beautiful offense

4-3

Casey McDermott off solid wing dodge 5-3. He’s healthy and looks like he is primed for a solid year.

Garbage goal with 1 sec left trickles in 5-4

TD 1-1 on FO

Q2

TD 2-4

Ride broken by hop long pass from chase to Degnon to Peshko pretty goal in transition. They really seem to push transition and are creating quick offense.

6-4

Bauer to attack for Angelus

33 is electric dodges hard scores nice rope 2 goals in 1:40sec

7-4

Crafty split right to left around X by Bauer 8-4. He looks like he’s gotten faster and really has a solid split dodge from X.

Brooks is electric with the split top side to Hunter for a low to high snipe!! 9-4 these two will be a problem to cover on the same line. Hunter only needs a split second and the shots off.

Carson Brown is tough on ball nice 1-1 take away really seems to be taking the next step

Chase is settled and a calming force back there

Angelus back in at attack

Jimmy Ayers looks comfortable playing anywhere on the field. Really nice topside split to Hunter just missed.

Man down 0-1 tough goal that trickles in 9-5

TD wins man down draw but helmet comes off to flip position

Q3
5 3-6

46,6,44 D

Great ride again results in TO and quick transition goal from Degnon to Grimes. goal 10-5

Left to right top dodge 10-6 late slide

Bret Martins brother and 6 in early nice clear and on ball pressing. These two certainly look the part. 13 had a slick go and then split two riding attackmen to clear.

Man up goal skip from x to top right high bouncer goal UMBC 10-7

Webb in at 10min mark goalie

Angelus lightning quick dodge to goal very similar to his move at MD last year. 11-7

Another ride forces a TO creates transition pole goal for Kauffman. That’s now 3-4 goals off the ride and 5-6 caused TOs created. 12-7

#13 huge hustle play wins end line sprint to steal position

Full subs now in the 3rd

Bauer again with the right wing low dodge gets hands free 13-7

TD 1-2

Top side right left alley dodge UMBC 13-8
All backups

13-9 q4

14-9 #24 looks smooth as an initiator and finds Phillips for a goal on the crease off a nice lefty wing dodge.

15-9. #24 again another smooth change of direction dodge to find #27 for a rip.

Gabe looks solid and will be someone to watch in the later parts of the season.

16-9 man up goal slick center skip from Phillips to 24 to 32 pretty goal that shows this team can go really deep with the offensive group they have.

If you all have questions ask and I’ll answer to what I saw but I think they look hungry and really ready to make the next step!

[HopFan16]

Jax, you're the GOAT. Great writeup. Couple of qs:

- Sounds like neither Aviles nor Ince played. Did any of the guys who didn't suit up look seriously injured (e.g. crutches, sling, cast, etc.)? Hoping just precautionary.
- Did Todaro (#55) play SSDM? If so, how'd he look?
- Were the offensive midfield lines played fairly evenly, or were one or two played more than the others? Sounds like there might be three legit lines

Probably not a bad idea to put English and H. Chauvette out there together.

Always thought they should try McDermott on the wing. He's got a motor. Glad that he looks healthy.

#6 is Kilrain, he's a stud.

We should be beating a team like UMBC but nice to hear that they took care of business and look ready to go. 8 days, folks.

[JaXKy0521S]

Yeah no real injuries on the guys that didn’t dress. The SSDM rotation was very similar to last year Jaronski and Martin on the first line then Raposo and Artega line two but I think that’s were Ince and BA fit in. I agree McDermott has a motor and size to be a nice wing piece as well as his midfield role. As far as Jojo I think he looks solid and still adjusting to the role and the different ask he has now. His footwork was solid just may need to work on his angles. The midfield seems to get equal time but if I were to say who played more it was the English, Collison and either Ayers or Hunter Ch. I think this could be that it’s a scrimmage though as well. Grimes looks solid again and in great shape. Peshko has that righty rip and seems to place himself in great spots to free it up. Ryan Evans looked faster as well. I really like what Bauer did from both the attack and midfield spots tonight he really is a Swiss Army knife for the team. Kilrain is most definitely a stud. He’s super patient on ball and really makes you think about Mazone. Not saying he’s there yet but he has a high ceiling. Should be a staple with the younger Martin and Carson Brown.

[JaXKy0521S]

The line with English and Collison plus the two Freshmen was simply fun to watch. You can’t hedge against the speed of Brooks because now you have to slide off of either Hunter or Collison or Degnon. If a team lets Brooks get a running start on his dodge it will be really hard to stop him. His vision is great and he has a sneaky shot as well. I can see this line or something close to it being the bell cows come April/May. That’s not putting down the other group but this one seems to have the “it” factor early.

[jhu06]

thanks jax for posting. also thanks to pm for letting them wear their real numbers. fake jersey numbers were something no one missed when petro left.

LM has their hop preview up which looks like it was written by HF16 with the chauvette and english love etc.
https://www.usalaxmagazine.com/college/ ... opkins-men

Things that stood out-PM really let it fly good for him.
"It says something about Milliman’s insistence that Hopkins have the best role players in the country that neither Angelus nor Degnon are listed above (as preseason aa)."-interesting

"Smith has emerged as their best cover defenseman since Tucker Durkin. Smith’s NCAA quarterfinal performance — limiting Tewaaraton finalist Pat Kavanagh to just one assist in a 12-9 loss to Notre Dame — has some coaches talking about him as a dark horse candidate for the Schmeisser Award."-Sounds like Doc Barrister wrote that.

"When it comes to the transfer portal, Milliman prefers quality over quantity."-Yes PM has said this before butttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt..............
(from a rival) "I know he brought in a lot of transfers and he’s bringing 15, 20 guys a year. I don’t know what they’re going to look like."-How do they run those two comments. They say PM doesn't have big transfer classes, then run that comment from "a rival".

"whom Milliman recruited to Cornell when he was the head coach there. “I was informed that his name was in the portal and I texted him 10 seconds after that,” Milliman said. “We were both excited about it for different reasons...Ierlan’s comfortable with a mic,” Milliman quipped. “I think he’s under the impression that there’s always one.” What the heck does this mean?

“Everybody’s got an opinion when you’re Hopkins. Most people have two,” he said. “There’s plenty of people out there who want to see us go 0-13.”-makes it sound like he's either getting blasted with emails from program alumni, he can't stand quint, he gets printouts of this forum every morning or the terp lax fan section walks to work with him.

[hmmm]

Yeah no real injuries on the guys that didn’t dress. The SSDM rotation was very similar to last year Jaronski and Martin on the first line then Raposo and Artega line two but I think that’s were Ince and BA fit in. I agree McDermott has a motor and size to be a nice wing piece as well as his midfield role. As far as Jojo I think he looks solid and still adjusting to the role and the different ask he has now. His footwork was solid just may need to work on his angles. The midfield seems to get equal time but if I were to say who played more it was the English, Collison and either Ayers or Hunter Ch. I think this could be that it’s a scrimmage though as well. Grimes looks solid again and in great shape. Peshko has that righty rip and seems to place himself in great spots to free it up. Ryan Evans looked faster as well. I really like what Bauer did from both the attack and midfield spots tonight he really is a Swiss Army knife for the team. Kilrain is most definitely a stud. He’s super patient on ball and really makes you think about Mazone. Not saying he’s there yet but he has a high ceiling. Should be a staple with the younger Martin and Carson Brown.

BA isn't hurt. Just didn't play for some reason. Cody is injured and will be out a bit.

[51percentcorn]

It's only a scrimmage - it's only a scrimmage - its only a scrimmage. Just to remind some - maybe one of the most infamous and filled with lunacy comments regarding Hopkins was after a scrimmage for the 2022 season when it was said "best ball movement seen in the last two decades." And while there was some hope for momentum heading into that season based upon the BIG 10 tournament performance - ultimately it was a ship-wreck and still a ways off.

I do want to add my thanks to JaxKY.... it was very gracious to make the notes and give those not present some sense of what transpired. I think the two take-aways I might have are:
- You have to like the observations on the energy and what appears to be excitement and confidence - reamins to be seen when the real bullets start flying but it does sound like they want the season to begin and they know what's ahead of them.
- The one thing about Spring scrimmages different from fall is observations about playing time and personnel. This is a time for less experimentation. You're not throwing Chauvette or Ayers out there to see if they are comfortable anymore, you're thinking they can play and give you something. Along with Crawley's comments on English in the US Lax magazine preview - it appears 2/3rds of the first line are set - Collison and English. If there's another freshman on that line it will require alot of buy-in from seniors that have played alot for you. It also sends a signal that if you can play - you will play at Hopkins which is great for recruiting. If a Soph/Soph/Freshman line emerges on this team I will admit I would be pretty surprised.

When things are plainly obvious it is sometimes frustrating to read comments that don't carry alot of weight. It is fairly easy to see why this 2023 class was big. First, the last Petro class was huge - originally 18 - and they are leaving. Second - the 21 class was decimated by decommits and timing after Petro left. The subsequent classes soming in are not that large - '24 has 11 names - '25 has 14.

[The Orfling]

thanks jax for posting. also thanks to pm for letting them wear their real numbers. fake jersey numbers were something no one missed when petro left.

LM has their hop preview up which looks like it was written by HF16 with the chauvette and english love etc.
https://www.usalaxmagazine.com/college/ ... opkins-men

Things that stood out-PM really let it fly good for him.
"It says something about Milliman’s insistence that Hopkins have the best role players in the country that neither Angelus nor Degnon are listed above (as preseason aa)."-interesting

"Smith has emerged as their best cover defenseman since Tucker Durkin. Smith’s NCAA quarterfinal performance — limiting Tewaaraton finalist Pat Kavanagh to just one assist in a 12-9 loss to Notre Dame — has some coaches talking about him as a dark horse candidate for the Schmeisser Award."-Sounds like Doc Barrister wrote that.

"When it comes to the transfer portal, Milliman prefers quality over quantity."-Yes PM has said this before butttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt..............
(from a rival) "I know he brought in a lot of transfers and he’s bringing 15, 20 guys a year. I don’t know what they’re going to look like."-How do they run those two comments. They say PM doesn't have big transfer classes, then run that comment from "a rival".

"whom Milliman recruited to Cornell when he was the head coach there. “I was informed that his name was in the portal and I texted him 10 seconds after that,” Milliman said. “We were both excited about it for different reasons...Ierlan’s comfortable with a mic,” Milliman quipped. “I think he’s under the impression that there’s always one.” What the heck does this mean?

“Everybody’s got an opinion when you’re Hopkins. Most people have two,” he said. “There’s plenty of people out there who want to see us go 0-13.”-makes it sound like he's either getting blasted with emails from program alumni, he can't stand quint, he gets printouts of this forum every morning or the terp lax fan section walks to work with him.

I don't actually think the "from the rivals" comment is meant as a shot? It's more a math thing -- with a roster of 60, with 20 new players (16-17 freshmen plus 4 transfers) it's moreabout roster turnover and whether you can accurately predict performance with one-third of the faces being new. However, here I'd venture to say you can predict performance (in a good way): Hopkins has such a high level of experience (seniors and grad students); no obvious holes in units/specialist positions; and that way you can rely on the freshmen class to put you over the top if there are guys with breakout talent (like maybe H. Chauvette). Last spring I was curious about the impact of teams with a lot of 4th and 5th year players and the experience (including the 5th years) really correlated with the deep runs into the tournament. I think the Hop is really primed to get to Memorial Day, and the seasoned veteran ratio is a big part of it. Plus having stability in the coaching staff. Crazy hard schedule but I think the Jays will be up to the task.

[DocBarrister]

Here is my breakdown of tonight’s scrimmage. I will say this JHU was far superior athletically. They seem to have even more athleticism all over the field this year. The team flies around as soon as the whistle blows. The offense really seems to flow well and has intentions on every pass. The midfield seems to have studs all over. They mix and match all 8-10 players and can really be a problem to matchup against. Hunter and Jimmy Ayers played through the midfield and looked the part. The team had a line of English, Collison and Either Hunter or Ayers and this was electric to see. Brooks has a whole different skill set and is lightning with the ball in his stick. Face offs were mostly taken by Callahan and he really did a great job going 11-15 in the first have. TD did well as well really being able to push it forward to create quick offense. On the face offs Deans, Brown and #6 were the poles and did great taking the Mazone role and Casey McDermont took the other side really being a bulldog and getting several gbs. Raposo took the wing several times as well and really showed he could be an asset there as well. The cuse transfer did not suit up. The D is really going to be fun to watch. They are long and quick making it tough on the offense. They really extended and caused several turnovers when the starters were in. In goal Chase let in a couple early then really found his rhythm and made a ton of saves. That’s the overview and here is the play by play.

Thanks for the great reports, JaX!

DocBarrister

[JaXKy0521S]

It's only a scrimmage - it's only a scrimmage - its only a scrimmage. Just to remind some - maybe one of the most infamous and filled with lunacy comments regarding Hopkins was after a scrimmage for the 2022 season when it was said "best ball movement seen in the last two decades." And while there was some hope for momentum heading into that season based upon the BIG 10 tournament performance - ultimately it was a ship-wreck and still a ways off.

I do want to add my thanks to JaxKY.... it was very gracious to make the notes and give those not present some sense of what transpired. I think the two take-aways I might have are:
- You have to like the observations on the energy and what appears to be excitement and confidence - reamins to be seen when the real bullets start flying but it does sound like they want the season to begin and they know what's ahead of them.
- The one thing about Spring scrimmages different from fall is observations about playing time and personnel. This is a time for less experimentation. You're not throwing Chauvette or Ayers out there to see if they are comfortable anymore, you're thinking they can play and give you something. Along with Crawley's comments on English in the US Lax magazine preview - it appears 2/3rds of the first line are set - Collison and English. If there's another freshman on that line it will require alot of buy-in from seniors that have played alot for you. It also sends a signal that if you can play - you will play at Hopkins which is great for recruiting. If a Soph/Soph/Freshman line emerges on this team I will admit I would be pretty surprised.

When things are plainly obvious it is sometimes frustrating to read comments that don't carry alot of weight. It is fairly easy to see why this 2023 class was big. First, the last Petro class was huge - originally 18 - and they are leaving. Second - the 21 class was decimated by decommits and timing after Petro left. The subsequent classes soming in are not that large - '24 has 11 names - '25 has 14.

Yeah I agree it’s a scrimmage and things may not correlate when the real bullets fly but I think what I was most impressed with was the look and pace of play on both ends. That’s something that should translate no matter the type of game you’re playing. On defense you see the leaders really pushing the team. They move as one and really understand the scheme. Offense looks light years better in year two. Meaning they didn’t really have those long 1 shot possessions that were taken with 2-10 seconds left on the shot clock. The biggest thing was the transition game. They controlled the field between the box lines. Ride was different and the full team bought in. The clear seems fixed and they will push transition a ton. These are fundamentals that should follow them all year. I can’t wait for next weekend. I think a lot of you will be very impressed if they continue this projection.

[DocBarrister]

It's only a scrimmage - it's only a scrimmage - its only a scrimmage. Just to remind some - maybe one of the most infamous and filled with lunacy comments regarding Hopkins was after a scrimmage for the 2022 season when it was said "best ball movement seen in the last two decades." And while there was some hope for momentum heading into that season based upon the BIG 10 tournament performance - ultimately it was a ship-wreck and still a ways off.

I do want to add my thanks to JaxKY.... it was very gracious to make the notes and give those not present some sense of what transpired. I think the two take-aways I might have are:
- You have to like the observations on the energy and what appears to be excitement and confidence - reamins to be seen when the real bullets start flying but it does sound like they want the season to begin and they know what's ahead of them.
- The one thing about Spring scrimmages different from fall is observations about playing time and personnel. This is a time for less experimentation. You're not throwing Chauvette or Ayers out there to see if they are comfortable anymore, you're thinking they can play and give you something. Along with Crawley's comments on English in the US Lax magazine preview - it appears 2/3rds of the first line are set - Collison and English. If there's another freshman on that line it will require alot of buy-in from seniors that have played alot for you. It also sends a signal that if you can play - you will play at Hopkins which is great for recruiting. If a Soph/Soph/Freshman line emerges on this team I will admit I would be pretty surprised.

When things are plainly obvious it is sometimes frustrating to read comments that don't carry alot of weight. It is fairly easy to see why this 2023 class was big. First, the last Petro class was huge - originally 18 - and they are leaving. Second - the 21 class was decimated by decommits and timing after Petro left. The subsequent classes soming in are not that large - '24 has 11 names - '25 has 14.

My comment was right on the mark. The ball movement we saw in that scrimmage was a preview of what PM and his crew was trying to put on the field.

It took some time to implement the vision in real games, but I think PM is finally putting all the pieces together.

DocBarrister

[Hoponboard]

Reading JaXKy’s notes avidly in Bangkok. A lot of positive takeaways. Thanks for sharing.

Weather looks seasonally encouraging for the first three games.

[51percentcorn]

My comment was right on the mark. The ball movement we saw in that scrimmage was a preview of what PM and his crew was trying to put on the field.

It took some time to implement the vision in real games, but I think PM is finally putting all the pieces together.

DocBarrister

If you were standing on a boat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and threw that comment overboard it wouldn't hit water that's how far off the mark you were.

First, you have a little bit of a timing problem as that season was pre-Crawley. So your "best ball movement in two decades " was generated not by the young boy genius with all the energy and ideas but by many accounts - the hottest mess in offensive coaching for Johns Hopkins in quite a while. Should we invite fla or maybe O'C to the party to walk down memory lane on PM & Jr? So you can't have it both ways - either Crawley changed alot of things and made it much better or Milliman is doing everything.

Second, and more to the point it was simply wrong - based upon a highlight tape that basically only showed goals - it was NOT better ball movement than 2 national championship teams - 2 more championship game appearance teamss and 2 more Final Four teams - all within your two decade time frame when you made the comment.

Finally I forgot to include this initially , when the games counted the offense that produced the best ball movement in 2 decades in a scrimmage could not even break 11 gpg.

It might not climb up to some of the Black Hole's takes but it's Sportscenter Top 10

[HopFan16]

BA isn't hurt. Just didn't play for some reason.

Slightly disconcerting but hopefully he just had a class he couldn't get out of or something.

Some additional thoughts from IL:

-Every Angelus touch was gold, think he may have had 2G, 2A playing sparingly; interchanged with Bauer at X and he also had a hatty
-Kilrain is Mazzone 2.0, and not just because he's a lefty pole wearing 6
-Defense is just as athletic/scary as last year
-Ierlan gave up a couple rebounds, but made up for it with cross-crease stuff
-Stoebner looked solid as third starter, Smith/Szuluk together are so fun to watch
-Degnon/Grimes stay scoring from deep
-Cam and Hunter Chauvette had a catch for about the first 12 seconds of a Q2 SC

https://twitter.com/kevbrown89/status/1 ... 8641648931

A lot of JaX's observations are in line with what I saw in the fall, so it's nice to see the continuity. There's a different energy about them.

[primitiveskills]

Great stuff from JaXKy. Thanks again!

Excited to see this offense. Lots of talk about midfield "lines", but we didn't really see set lines last year and it seems less likely this year. If you assume that Angelus, Melendez, and Degnon are not coming off the field, you've got probably 10 guys (Collison, Grimes, Peshko, English, McDermott, the Chauvettes, Bauer, Ayers, Evans) who the staff feel comfortable putting out there. Obviously some of those guys get a lot more run than others, but what a luxury to be able to mix-and-match to create favorable match-ups, ride the hot hand, etc.