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Big Dog wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 2:45 pm

jhu08 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 2:41 pm Seriously. Why do we suck so bad at clearing?

This is not a new thing. We've had trouble clearing for years. It's just been exposed with the 20-second clock.

Maybe the Jays don't practice clearing. Maybe the defense can't replicate what other schools do on the ride if the Jays do practice clearing. A quality D1 school should not look this bad.

Maybe Hop can win garbage time.

DocBarrister wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 2:52 pm Not sure if Hopkins defenders have ever gotten their sticks on Gray’s hands when he’s shooting. Gray personifies why passive defenses belong in the Jurassic era.

DocBarrister

Which is exactly why Petro needs to go. The game has left him behind 3-4 years ago, but the shot clock era has amplified the differences between a Petro and a Lars Tiffany. Plus the kids look like they are having much more fun playing under Tiffany than Petro.

Darby hasn't played poorly. I wouldn't say he played great. One of the bigger issues is that he doesn't get the ball out of the his stick on clears. He holds it way to long.

The bigger issue is the Hopkins long sticks are just awful. There isn't a good athlete among them and their stick work is horrendous - honestly the entire team has substandard stickwork. Good thing they chased Rapine away. They spend way too much time ball watching and not enough time moving. They can't defend a cutter to save their life. I get Petro likes man to man but with this group he has to play zone. There isn't enough speed or talent to match up in man-to-man on Hopkins defense. But, hey, stubborn and loyal tend to be the opposite sides of the same coin.

Blue Jays are trailing by 6 goals with 6 minutes remaining and they’re not even pressing out on defense. Meanwhile, UNC plays the ten-man ride like they’re trailing by 10 goals and gets the ball back.

DocBarrister

How many bad passes did Cole Williams make today? Talking about a senior playing like a freshman.

By the way, trailing by 6 goals with minutes left, where is the HOPKINS ten-man ride?!?

DocBarrister

steel_hop wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 2:56 pm Darby hasn't played poorly. I wouldn't say he played great. One of the bigger issues is that he doesn't get the ball out of the his stick on clears. He holds it way to long.

The bigger issue is the Hopkins long sticks are just awful. There isn't a good athlete among them and their stick work is horrendous - honestly the entire team has substandard stickwork. Good thing they chased Rapine away. They spend way too much time ball watching and not enough time moving. They can't defend a cutter to save their life. I get Petro likes man to man but with this group he has to play zone. There isn't enough speed or talent to match up in man-to-man on Hopkins defense. But, hey, stubborn and loyal tend to be the opposite sides of the same coin.

Not at least showing UNC some zone in this game is inexcusable.

HopFan16 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 2:36 pm

wgdsr wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 2:33 pm what is epstein doing out there?
the staff is risking life and limb!!!

He looks fine

Where is Narewski? Where is Murphy?

i dunno anything about murphy.
angelus can play, i think. gets points....
baskin had some good 2nd line production. i scout hs guys,... aaanndd i dont understand that one. but dont see these guys up close until theyre out there.

1-2 on the year. 9-11 last 20.
up
prouty
down
forry/owen. Forry was at one pt the earliest recruited kid in the country, is a 2x captain and he creates turnovers, doesn't put points on the scoreboard, the offense disappears and he creates emo for other teams. Owen has been on years of underachieving defenses that don't grab gbs, are disorganized+can't stop people.
coaching staff- 9-11 last 20. they're out game planned, can't make in game adjustments, put the same kids who show the same pitiful results week in week out year in year out (connor disimone/forry/baskin), and can't put an elite team on the field. we read all about a better mindset, more hustle and this team is allergic to picking up gbs, makes mental mistakes.
baskin-31 flavors of garbage. Why he and forry are playing over angelus/murphy is bizarre to me right now. where's the accountability.
clearing-a joke
man down-carolina was at 80 coming in, it's not like we didn't know what was coming.
hubler/reinson, they're leaders on that d, play 2 phases and don't get gbs or stop their men.
mcmanus-not a d1 player. terrible.
2nd midfield-we don't have one.
jack lyne-you're not good enough to take penalties.

1-2 with cuse/princeton looming. Lose either and it's win the b1g or miss the tournament and start of a new coaching staff.

This team might legitimately start 1-4.

And the “easy” stretch of MSM, Navy, Delaware suddenly doesn’t look so easy either...

jhu06 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 3:05 pm 1-2 on the year. 9-11 last 20.
up
prouty
down
forry/owen. Forry was at one pt the earliest recruited kid in the country, is a 2x captain and he creates turnovers, doesn't put points on the scoreboard, the offense disappears and he creates emo for other teams. Owen has been on years of underachieving defenses that don't grab gbs, are disorganized+can't stop people.
coaching staff- 9-11 last 20. they're out game planned, can't make in game adjustments, put the same kids who show the same pitiful results week in week out year in year out (connor disimone/forry/baskin), and can't put an elite team on the field. we read all about a better mindset, more hustle and this team is allergic to picking up gbs, makes mental mistakes.
baskin-31 flavors of garbage. Why he and forry are playing over angelus/murphy is bizarre to me right now. where's the accountability.
clearing-a joke
man down-carolina was at 80 coming in, it's not like we didn't know what was coming.
hubler/reinson, they're leaders on that d, play 2 phases and don't get gbs or stop their men.
mcmanus-not a d1 player. terrible.
2nd midfield-we don't have one.
jack lyne-you're not good enough to take penalties.

1-2 with cuse/princeton looming. Lose either and it's win the b1g or miss the tournament and start of a new coaching staff.

The problem with all the accountability talk is that it comes from the guy who isn't accountable

Hop Turnovers - Result

1st quarter

Turnover at midfield - UNC goal

Turnover by Cole Williams - JHU save

Turnover on clear by McManus (long pass) - UNC goal

Turnover in offensive zone resulting in cross check penalty (mishandled pass by Zinn) - UNC EMO goal

End of 1st: 5-4 UNC

2nd quarter

Turnover Williams on pass - JHU save

Turnover immediately on clear - UNC goal

Turnover - checked out of stick on dodge - shot clock violation - UNC turnover

*Turnover - long shot on clear (not counted as a turnover but it might as well have been) - UNC goal

Turnover - shot clock violation - UNC turnover

End of 2nd: 9-5 UNC

3rd quarter

Turnover on clear - UNC goal

Turnover - shot clock violation - UNC turnover

Turnover on pass from X - JHU save and Lyne ran it out

End of 3rd: 12-7 UNC

4th quarter

Turnover on clear - UNC goal

Turnover on Williams bad pass - UNC goal

Turnover on clear - UNC goal

Turnover on offense - ?


7 penalties resulting in 5 UNC goals.


Can we get Dave Metzbower to take over as head coach next year? Originally from Baltimore, Loyola Blakefield grad

One of the most important advantages of playing an aggressive defense and ride is that your team sees that every day in practice. It’s pretty clear the Blue Jays aren’t accustomed to seeing such pressure in practice.

Petro needs to get his team playing faster and more aggressively.

Darby had a decent game stopping shots, but his crew (and it is his crew) failed miserably on clears. Giacalone deserves a chance at starting.

I still don’t understand why Narewski didn’t get more faceoff opportunities. Prouty was “winning” faceoffs but not cleanly. Makes a big difference.

DocBarrister

Well it’s nice to see Petros nephew get a spot full time on the wings.

steel_hop wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 2:56 pm There isn't a good athlete among them and their stick work is horrendous - honestly the entire team has substandard stickwork. Good thing they chased Rapine away.

God this is just so off base lol. Rapine was the worst athlete of that bunch. McManus can handle it and take it up field but that appeared not to be in the game plan.

Response to the 10-man ride was truly embarrassing. At a total loss of words.

13-19 on clears, 6 penalties = automatic loss no matter who you're playing.

steel_hop wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 3:02 pm How many bad passes did Cole Williams make today? Talking about a senior playing like a freshman.

Box score reads 2 turnovers. Forry had three. Going after our leading scorer yet again...sounds about right for this forum.

Angelus played like 5 minutes and had a goal and an assist. Only explanation for the lack of Murphy has to be an injury, otherwise...mindboggling.

steel_hop wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 2:56 pm Darby hasn't played poorly. I wouldn't say he played great. One of the bigger issues is that he doesn't get the ball out of the his stick on clears. He holds it way to long.

The bigger issue is the Hopkins long sticks are just awful. There isn't a good athlete among them and their stick work is horrendous - honestly the entire team has substandard stickwork. Good thing they chased Rapine away. They spend way too much time ball watching and not enough time moving. They can't defend a cutter to save their life. I get Petro likes man to man but with this group he has to play zone. There isn't enough speed or talent to match up in man-to-man on Hopkins defense. But, hey, stubborn and loyal tend to be the opposite sides of the same coin.

Fine for Petro to play man-to-man, but if you do you need to press out and pressure opponents. Get on their hands. Harass them all over the field. To use the key word of the season, if you’re going to play man-to-man in this era, you need full “buy-in” and play man-to-man aggressively.

That’s what Loyola does. That’s what North Carolina does.

Petro’s defenses are more than a decade behind the times.

DocBarrister

According to Hopkins own stats, Darby‘s save percentage for today was .452.

End of every season all the talk is about change. Every season it is just more of the same. Maybe this is the year we really see change.