Johns Hopkins 2022

[DocBarrister]

WOW! If Lars had not pulled (9 for 10) LaSalla when the score was 10-1, the final score could have ended up 30 to 3. When was the last time Hopkins had an opponent clear their bench mid way through the 3rd Quarter? There was a very distinct difference in athleticism today.

Hopkins really needs to write 2022 off and start developing under classmen for the future. The current trend is extremely dangerous. College lacrosse is better when Hopkins is one of the top teams every year. They cannot let this downhill momentum drive them past the point of no return.

Uh, NO.

Hopkins really needs to focus on winning the Syracuse game.

DocBarrister

Band-Aid on a ruptured artery. Triage-- 2022 season="Expectant!"

We have at least seven winnable games in a row coming up, and you want the Blue Jays to throw in the towel? That’s not how the program won a thousand games.

DocBarrister

[DocBarrister]

Hopkins seems to put a lot of guys on the field who are short and not particularly fast. Weren't most of these kids ranked really highly in the recruiting rankings? Something isn't adding up.

Almost all of thise guys are Peteo players and are typical of the last 7-8 years recruits. It takes some time to clear that out. Millman recruits won't even hit Himewood until this fall and even then it is a full recruiting class from his committs.

Hopefully for the sake of Hopkins they are bigger and faster. It's going to be hard to compete with the top teams with small slow guys and bigger slow guys.

Come on … steelhop would criticize the team even if they won a national championship.

DocBarrister

[1766]

WOW! If Lars had not pulled (9 for 10) LaSalla when the score was 10-1, the final score could have ended up 30 to 3. When was the last time Hopkins had an opponent clear their bench mid way through the 3rd Quarter? There was a very distinct difference in athleticism today.

Hopkins really needs to write 2022 off and start developing under classmen for the future. The current trend is extremely dangerous. College lacrosse is better when Hopkins is one of the top teams every year. They cannot let this downhill momentum drive them past the point of no return.

Uh, NO.

Hopkins really needs to focus on winning the Syracuse game.

DocBarrister

Band-Aid on a ruptured artery. Triage-- 2022 season="Expectant!"

We have at least seven winnable games in a row coming up, and you want the Blue Jays to throw in the towel? That’s not how the program won a thousand games.

DocBarrister

They won 1,000 games by having better players. Now they don't.

[GSP]

I have not watched Hopkins this year until today. It seemed that Epstein #32, who I remembered as a very dynamic player, seemed extremely disinterested, particularly after Kastner undressed him and then scored. Is Epstein hurt or playing through an injury? He seemed to be just going through the motions.

[jhu06]

-13 years for Daniels as President of the University. 3 classes including mine are slated to return for homecoming in a few weeks and "we made a virus ticker" isn't going to sell watching this kind of garbage week in week out when we used to see all americans compete for final fours and titles.
-Bob Benson landing any kind of job in organized lacrosse with this offense he left behind is really the definition of failing upwards.
-22 months, 2 offseasons, 19 games and the clock is only going to tick louder and louder on this staff who've shown no progress to this point. The offense was spared for the most part and has made no improvement.

[HopFan16]

-22 months, 2 offseasons, 19 games and the clock is only going to tick louder and louder on this staff

You're a joke. Absolutely no one here respects you or takes you seriously with these deranged statements that are better off said to a therapist than on a public forum. Seek help.

[GSP]

WOW! If Lars had not pulled (9 for 10) LaSalla when the score was 10-1, the final score could have ended up 30 to 3. When was the last time Hopkins had an opponent clear their bench mid way through the 3rd Quarter? There was a very distinct difference in athleticism today.

Hopkins really needs to write 2022 off and start developing under classmen for the future. The current trend is extremely dangerous. College lacrosse is better when Hopkins is one of the top teams every year. They cannot let this downhill momentum drive them past the point of no return.

Uh, NO.

Hopkins really needs to focus on winning the Syracuse game.

DocBarrister

Band-Aid on a ruptured artery. Triage-- 2022 season="Expectant!"

We have at least seven winnable games in a row coming up, and you want the Blue Jays to throw in the towel? That’s not how the program won a thousand games.

DocBarrister

Hopkins will be VERY, VERY fortunate to go 4 and 3 over the next 7 games. 4-4 after Maryland would leave them 7-7 and needing to win the 1st round of the Big 10 tourney to even be NCAA Tourney eligible.

Better for the sport of Lacrosse and Hopkins to concentrate on getting back to relevance. They are in a very precarious position. 3 more non-tourney years will likely start some very troubling conversations for Hopkins internally.

[molo]

The silver lining is that UVA is pretty fg good.

[wgdsr]

WOW! If Lars had not pulled (9 for 10) LaSalla when the score was 10-1, the final score could have ended up 30 to 3. When was the last time Hopkins had an opponent clear their bench mid way through the 3rd Quarter? There was a very distinct difference in athleticism today.

Hopkins really needs to write 2022 off and start developing under classmen for the future. The current trend is extremely dangerous. College lacrosse is better when Hopkins is one of the top teams every year. They cannot let this downhill momentum drive them past the point of no return.

Uh, NO.

Hopkins really needs to focus on winning the Syracuse game.

DocBarrister

Band-Aid on a ruptured artery. Triage-- 2022 season="Expectant!"

We have at least seven winnable games in a row coming up, and you want the Blue Jays to throw in the towel? That’s not how the program won a thousand games.

DocBarrister

historical average of 7 wins per season is still in play. as long as that's the case, play for dubs.

[DocBarrister]

WOW! If Lars had not pulled (9 for 10) LaSalla when the score was 10-1, the final score could have ended up 30 to 3. When was the last time Hopkins had an opponent clear their bench mid way through the 3rd Quarter? There was a very distinct difference in athleticism today.

Hopkins really needs to write 2022 off and start developing under classmen for the future. The current trend is extremely dangerous. College lacrosse is better when Hopkins is one of the top teams every year. They cannot let this downhill momentum drive them past the point of no return.

Uh, NO.

Hopkins really needs to focus on winning the Syracuse game.

DocBarrister

Band-Aid on a ruptured artery. Triage-- 2022 season="Expectant!"

We have at least seven winnable games in a row coming up, and you want the Blue Jays to throw in the towel? That’s not how the program won a thousand games.

DocBarrister

Hopkins will be VERY, VERY fortunate to go 4 and 3 over the next 7 games. 4-4 after Maryland would leave them 7-7 and needing to win the 1st round of the Big 10 tourney to even be NCAA Tourney eligible.

Better for the sport of Lacrosse and Hopkins to concentrate on getting back to relevance. They are in a very precarious position. 3 more non-tourney years will likely start some very troubling conversations for Hopkins internally.

Blue Jays still have a lot of upside. I can see them going 5-2 (or maybe even better) before playing Maryland.

I just can’t figure out what they’re trying to do on offense.

Is it a motion offense? No.

Canadian style offense? No.

Do they focus on playing two-man games? No.

Work hard to get a good short-stick matchup and then dodge? No.

What?

They have no chemistry on offense. None.

And that’s the funny thing about this season. Going in, everyone was worried about goalie play and our defense. Those parts of the team are coming along. Still lots of room for improvement, but coming along.

Offense? It’s a compete mess.

DocBarrister

[Maverick]

-22 months, 2 offseasons, 19 games and the clock is only going to tick louder and louder on this staff

You're a joke. Absolutely no one here respects you or takes you seriously with these deranged statements that are better off said to a therapist than on a public forum. Seek help.

Why so sensitive about a take that's really not unreasonable? Saw a gunshy team get throttled today. No one willing to play the hero or stir the pot. He's not criticizing you, but the state of a team that just got knocked out very very early

Hopkins is not good, those criticizing aren't wrong. It's ok for fans to want better for a team that was great that looks awful. Being ok with mediocrity is worse than wanting things to get better imo

[Mr. F]

Last time hopkins lost this badly was a 20-9 pounding against penn state in 2019. What did we do after that? Run away with wins against maryland twice in 5 days and push penn state to overtime in the big ten tourney. This team still has a lot of those players and I have no doubt they can do that against Syracuse next week. They just can’t let it get out of hand. Based on Gtown and unc games (and now this one) once the damn breaks it floods. How are they going to respond to 3 or 4 goal runs?

[CU77]

Why so sensitive about a take that's really not unreasonable?

That "the clock is ticking" on the staff is complete nonsense. It shows a total lack of understanding of how ADs think and work.

[HillsLax]

If the the 10-man ride was as good as some think, then every team would be using it for every ride. And this is not the situation. It seems those who call for using this have not coached much, if at all. The absolute key part of a 10-man ride is having a very athletic goalie, and few teams do.

[DocBarrister]

Why so sensitive about a take that's really not unreasonable?

That "the clock is ticking" on the staff is complete nonsense. It shows a total lack of understanding of how ADs think and work.

I agree. The AD is invested in having this coaching staff succeed.

This isn’t really even season 2, more like season 1A.

DocBarrister

[HopFan16]

-22 months, 2 offseasons, 19 games and the clock is only going to tick louder and louder on this staff

You're a joke. Absolutely no one here respects you or takes you seriously with these deranged statements that are better off said to a therapist than on a public forum. Seek help.

Why so sensitive about a take that's really not unreasonable? Saw a gunshy team get throttled today. No one willing to play the hero or stir the pot. He's not criticizing you, but the state of a team that just got knocked out very very early

Hopkins is not good, those criticizing aren't wrong. It's ok for fans to want better for a team that was great that looks awful. Being ok with mediocrity is worse than wanting things to get better imo

That wasn’t criticism. You think the clock is already ticking on this staff? It’s not reasonable. It’s unhinged. They haven’t even brought in one full recruiting class yet. Completely insane take to say it’s reasonable.

[DocBarrister]

If the the 10-man ride was as good as some think, then every team would be using it for every ride. And this is not the situation. It seems those who call for using this have not coached much, if at all. The absolute key part of a 10-man ride is having a very athletic goalie, and few teams do.

No doubt an athletic goalie is a major plus, but there are teams that employ the ten-man ride every season, no matter who is in goal.

Ten-man rides are difficult to perfect and the teams that employ it best tend to use it every season. I think that makes sense since it probably takes years to perfect it and players need to start learning it from the moment they step on campus.

I also think ten-man rides create a certain culture that emphasizes team play and full buy-in and an aggressive mind set on the field. I’ve been hoping to see the Blue Jays employ the hard ride for a good decade now, and I’ve been disappointed every season.

Anyway, the Blue Jays just completed a brutal stretch of their season. Part two of the season lies just ahead.

DocBarrister

[Maverick]

Why so sensitive about a take that's really not unreasonable?

That "the clock is ticking" on the staff is complete nonsense. It shows a total lack of understanding of how ADs think and work.

Clock is always ticking.... That's how time works. And the worse things go the louder it ticks. Not saying they need to make a change but to say things are going in the direction they want is just a bad take

[Maverick]

Why so sensitive about a take that's really not unreasonable?

That "the clock is ticking" on the staff is complete nonsense. It shows a total lack of understanding of how ADs think and work.

Clock is always ticking.... That's how time works. And the worse things go the louder it ticks. Not saying they need to make a change but to say things are going in the direction they want is just a bad take

[Sagittarius A*]

It's pointless to criticize the coach's strategies in a blow out.
There's also no easy fix.
All the team can do it try to improve from week to week.
At least they are home next weekend. All three blowouts were on the road.
A win against SU could give them a boost and head the ship in the right direction.
They don't play UMD till the end of the season. Every other game is potentially winnable.