Move Poitras back to mid.Formerhound wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 4:31 pmCouldn’t agree more with your post. Middies have to do more. When Higgins and Kamish arrived on campus I was excited. Each year though they’ve seemed to regress. As a freshman Higging had 6 G and 14 points in limited duty. As a sophomore he showed his dodging ability and put up 15G. Last year he only had 12 G and only 5 in the last ten games of the season. I really thought he’d become a 20-25 goal per year guys with his physical skill sets. Watching the end of last season and the beginning of this it’s almost like he has lost confidence in dodging off the wing and scoring. Kamish is another one. As a freshman he had 8 G in only 6 games. The following year he had 9 G in only 5 games. The next year was 19 G in 15 games. Again, he regressed last year to 9G in 13 games (he did miss a few with injuries to his knee). This year he’s been absolutely absent. His two shots on Saturday v Maryland were both left handed and from distance. McNaney made easy saves on both. He only had one shot in the first game also. Maybe he’s lost a step from his injury last year but boy has he been a disappointment. From a guy that had 36 goals in his first 26 games to a guy that has 2 G in his last eight games was something I never would have predicted.Wheels wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 6:00 pm Terp fan here but the game really surprised me. Thought we'd see a 1-goal kind of game.
As an outsider, two things stood out to me (aside from your goalie keeping the game as close as it was). One, your rope unit didn't hold up too well. The Terps attacked the shorties and LSMs on inverts for the entire game.Outside of Sally, the physical differences between Greyhound shorties and whoever they guarded was noticeable.
Two, the offensive midfield needs to be more assertive. Since Loyola wanted to run so much of its offense through the attack unit (and it's easy to see why given how good those 3 attackmen are), it made the midfield look like bystanders. I've been a huge fan of Higgins since he arrived on campus there. I always feel like he can be a QB from the midfield kind of guy. When he dodges on inverts, he's so dangerous.
It felt like the game plan success from the Georgetown game affected the game plan against Maryland. The Terps just sat on Loyola's attack unit, and the whole offense bogged down. Expected the midfield to do more.
After Maryland scrimmaged Georgetown, it was apparent that Georgetown's close defense couldn't match feet; and James, Poitras, and Minicus annihilated those match-ups. But Maryland's close defense is the defense's strength. Seemed like a strange thing to attack.
But beat Hopkins!
Matt Heuston, on the other hand, has impressed. 3 G in two games, all on speed dodges and good shots. Binney, who looked good last week was invisible Saturday except for his two turnovers and one shot that landed outside the stadium.
The fifth veteran at midfield is Davis Lindsay who, in my opinion, is a much better attack man than he is coming out of the box. His late goal Saturday was reminiscent of the goals he scored the past few years as an attack.
Would love to see some of the younger middies get some time. Haberman had a great goal dodging from x. While Murphy hasn’t done much in his two games he has good speed. Matt Dixon, Brady West, Ryan McGory and Austin Cote all were very highly recruited. I’ve noticed, however, over the past few years that Van and Charlie seem smitten with their veterans even when they don’t produce. Remember Liam Bateman, Riley Seay and Dan Wigley and how they failed to produce their last two years but kept on being put out there? I get wanting veterans but these young guys need to be given a chance if the vets aren’t producing. Charlie has always liked veterans.
Let’s hope for a turn around this weekend v Hopkins. Can’t wait to be at Homewood Saturday. Let’s hope the offense turns it around. Nothing would make me happier than to see Kamish and Higgins go off and take some pressure off the attack. I’ve seen them do it before and there’s no reason why they can’t do it again. Go Hounds.
Signed,
the father of a fantasy team owner of Poitras and needs him at mdieril because he’s stacked at Attack…