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thatsmell wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 12:38 pm

houndace1 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 12:11 pm

Peter Brown wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 12:01 pm Where's Houndace1 when we need him!!!

The Hopkins posters are railing DocBarrister (what else is new... ) because he is adamant that Pietremela not only is the best D1 recruiting legend of the last two decades, but he's also a really excellent developer of talent once it arrives on the Homewood campus. I mean, those claims alone are worth 50 pages of comments in the off season, with some Hop fans glumly realistic (WOMBAT), while others like DocB seriously delusional!!

We need some more dissent here, I suppose, to increase page count. The problem is, we're a happy RAC lacrosse family and we support Coach T to the end, win lose or draw.

I hope the Hounds boys are doing sprints til they puke and stare at IL high school position rankings before they suit up against the blue bloods next February. Need some taste of the bitter in us to get the engines roaring.

DocB is costing us the page count lead.

Presenttt, well i know that in 2012 when the team was not ranked in the top 25 to start the season, the assistant coaches made the guys do sprints for every team that was ranked ahead of them

https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/2013/ ... ampionship

NovaHound wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 2:25 pm Ok - I'll give it the old college try...

Great article - was fun to read the recap on 2012. It's been too long since the last Title. I love watching teams play fast and nothing gets a team and fans more fired up than seeing a goal made by a long pole in transition. Ratliff was good at it in 2012. Get a stop. Find the outlet man. Fast Break down the field. Shoot. Score. Grab some momentum. Some of the Poles for the Hounds have cannons and are accurate. Just give them a chance. They work hard for it. (Note: And it seems to work well for UVA. Just putting that out there.) I'm agreeing with PB that this Hound defense is going to be a strength if they remain healthy. A Basketball Coach I once knew made sure his guards fed the big man (Center) inside. Why? The Big Man does the dirty work and gets the rebound for you. You got to feed the Big man. So I think we'll see more transition scoring this year. LSM McNuulty is going to have a big year.

Speaking about the rest of the Defense. I want to see the Hound SSDMs become a strength and I've got a lot of confidence in them. They have experience and athleticism. Some of the miscues and penalties could be atrributed to youth last year. For some reason, not sure why, I believe the SSDM is the most undervalued yet important position on the field. SSDMs don't get the respect they deserve from many casual fans because they don't throw up gaudy offensive or defensive numbers. But just make the slightest mistake and BAM - GOAL. (Just a side note... if you have a true stud Middie like Conrad from UVA you're in luck. He did have impressive offensive and defensive stats - something like 50 points and 80 GBs.) That's crazy. I'll be ecstatic if our Middies can produce half of that per player. Yeah - good numbers to strive for.

Hope this gets our page count up. I've got a few more thoughts too if needed.

Peter Brown wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 2:45 pm

thatsmell wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 12:38 pm

houndace1 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 12:11 pm

Peter Brown wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 12:01 pm Where's Houndace1 when we need him!!!

The Hopkins posters are railing DocBarrister (what else is new... ) because he is adamant that Pietremela not only is the best D1 recruiting legend of the last two decades, but he's also a really excellent developer of talent once it arrives on the Homewood campus. I mean, those claims alone are worth 50 pages of comments in the off season, with some Hop fans glumly realistic (WOMBAT), while others like DocB seriously delusional!!

We need some more dissent here, I suppose, to increase page count. The problem is, we're a happy RAC lacrosse family and we support Coach T to the end, win lose or draw.

I hope the Hounds boys are doing sprints til they puke and stare at IL high school position rankings before they suit up against the blue bloods next February. Need some taste of the bitter in us to get the engines roaring.

DocB is costing us the page count lead.

Presenttt, well i know that in 2012 when the team was not ranked in the top 25 to start the season, the assistant coaches made the guys do sprints for every team that was ranked ahead of them

https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/2013/ ... ampionship

Excellent article.

I'm hoping for one of those moments this year such as when the '12 version Hounds, playing Siena and dropping 21 shots on goal in Q1, the team thought, 'hey, we might be really good this year'.

I truly believe this team will feel that at some stage early on.

thatsmell wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 2:53 pm

Peter Brown wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 2:45 pm

thatsmell wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 12:38 pm

houndace1 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 12:11 pm

Peter Brown wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 12:01 pm Where's Houndace1 when we need him!!!

The Hopkins posters are railing DocBarrister (what else is new... ) because he is adamant that Pietremela not only is the best D1 recruiting legend of the last two decades, but he's also a really excellent developer of talent once it arrives on the Homewood campus. I mean, those claims alone are worth 50 pages of comments in the off season, with some Hop fans glumly realistic (WOMBAT), while others like DocB seriously delusional!!

We need some more dissent here, I suppose, to increase page count. The problem is, we're a happy RAC lacrosse family and we support Coach T to the end, win lose or draw.

I hope the Hounds boys are doing sprints til they puke and stare at IL high school position rankings before they suit up against the blue bloods next February. Need some taste of the bitter in us to get the engines roaring.

DocB is costing us the page count lead.

Presenttt, well i know that in 2012 when the team was not ranked in the top 25 to start the season, the assistant coaches made the guys do sprints for every team that was ranked ahead of them

https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/2013/ ... ampionship

Excellent article.

I'm hoping for one of those moments this year such as when the '12 version Hounds, playing Siena and dropping 21 shots on goal in Q1, the team thought, 'hey, we might be really good this year'.

I truly believe this team will feel that at some stage early on.

I was actually at that Siena scrimmage and remember commenting to my friend something very similar, like, this team really likes to get up and down...they could be REALLY good!"

Multiplying 21 shots put up in the first Q x 4...

NovaHound wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 4:39 pm https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0BwYeLRlQL8

Music a bit different back in the day. 2020 Hounds will be 2012 v2.0

Peter Brown wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 2:48 pm

NovaHound wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 2:25 pm Ok - I'll give it the old college try...

Great article - was fun to read the recap on 2012. It's been too long since the last Title. I love watching teams play fast and nothing gets a team and fans more fired up than seeing a goal made by a long pole in transition. Ratliff was good at it in 2012. Get a stop. Find the outlet man. Fast Break down the field. Shoot. Score. Grab some momentum. Some of the Poles for the Hounds have cannons and are accurate. Just give them a chance. They work hard for it. (Note: And it seems to work well for UVA. Just putting that out there.) I'm agreeing with PB that this Hound defense is going to be a strength if they remain healthy. A Basketball Coach I once knew made sure his guards fed the big man (Center) inside. Why? The Big Man does the dirty work and gets the rebound for you. You got to feed the Big man. So I think we'll see more transition scoring this year. LSM McNuulty is going to have a big year.

Speaking about the rest of the Defense. I want to see the Hound SSDMs become a strength and I've got a lot of confidence in them. They have experience and athleticism. Some of the miscues and penalties could be atrributed to youth last year. For some reason, not sure why, I believe the SSDM is the most undervalued yet important position on the field. SSDMs don't get the respect they deserve from many casual fans because they don't throw up gaudy offensive or defensive numbers. But just make the slightest mistake and BAM - GOAL. (Just a side note... if you have a true stud Middie like Conrad from UVA you're in luck. He did have impressive offensive and defensive stats - something like 50 points and 80 GBs.) That's crazy. I'll be ecstatic if our Middies can produce half of that per player. Yeah - good numbers to strive for.

Hope this gets our page count up. I've got a few more thoughts too if needed.

This '20 team will play uptempo.

And I agree that SSDM is a phenomenally important position. I think our SSDM's and overall defense will be stellar this year. So many athletes, many with that one extra year of work that they needed last year. Our depth is better this year at both those positions. I love our defense.

Our one hole in my eyes is goalie...either Shafer or Teitlebaum, or both, needs to show up better than expected. We got somewhat lazy knowing Jacob was in goal the last 4 years...the kid was dynamite. We need this role to be a role that is not a weakness. I have faith in both and also the other two on the squad.

Peter Brown wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 4:26 pm

thatsmell wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 2:53 pm

Peter Brown wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 2:45 pm

thatsmell wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 12:38 pm

houndace1 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 12:11 pm

Peter Brown wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 12:01 pm Where's Houndace1 when we need him!!!

The Hopkins posters are railing DocBarrister (what else is new... ) because he is adamant that Pietremela not only is the best D1 recruiting legend of the last two decades, but he's also a really excellent developer of talent once it arrives on the Homewood campus. I mean, those claims alone are worth 50 pages of comments in the off season, with some Hop fans glumly realistic (WOMBAT), while others like DocB seriously delusional!!

We need some more dissent here, I suppose, to increase page count. The problem is, we're a happy RAC lacrosse family and we support Coach T to the end, win lose or draw.

I hope the Hounds boys are doing sprints til they puke and stare at IL high school position rankings before they suit up against the blue bloods next February. Need some taste of the bitter in us to get the engines roaring.

DocB is costing us the page count lead.

Presenttt, well i know that in 2012 when the team was not ranked in the top 25 to start the season, the assistant coaches made the guys do sprints for every team that was ranked ahead of them

https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/2013/ ... ampionship

Excellent article.

I'm hoping for one of those moments this year such as when the '12 version Hounds, playing Siena and dropping 21 shots on goal in Q1, the team thought, 'hey, we might be really good this year'.

I truly believe this team will feel that at some stage early on.

I was actually at that Siena scrimmage and remember commenting to my friend something very similar, like, this team really likes to get up and down...they could be REALLY good!"

Multiplying 21 shots put up in the first Q x 4...

Lusby had such a pure shot...he'd drag that lefty crank and almost always found net.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIoKM2XnGJI

houndace1 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 7:50 pm

Peter Brown wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 2:48 pm

NovaHound wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 2:25 pm Ok - I'll give it the old college try...

Great article - was fun to read the recap on 2012. It's been too long since the last Title. I love watching teams play fast and nothing gets a team and fans more fired up than seeing a goal made by a long pole in transition. Ratliff was good at it in 2012. Get a stop. Find the outlet man. Fast Break down the field. Shoot. Score. Grab some momentum. Some of the Poles for the Hounds have cannons and are accurate. Just give them a chance. They work hard for it. (Note: And it seems to work well for UVA. Just putting that out there.) I'm agreeing with PB that this Hound defense is going to be a strength if they remain healthy. A Basketball Coach I once knew made sure his guards fed the big man (Center) inside. Why? The Big Man does the dirty work and gets the rebound for you. You got to feed the Big man. So I think we'll see more transition scoring this year. LSM McNuulty is going to have a big year.

Speaking about the rest of the Defense. I want to see the Hound SSDMs become a strength and I've got a lot of confidence in them. They have experience and athleticism. Some of the miscues and penalties could be atrributed to youth last year. For some reason, not sure why, I believe the SSDM is the most undervalued yet important position on the field. SSDMs don't get the respect they deserve from many casual fans because they don't throw up gaudy offensive or defensive numbers. But just make the slightest mistake and BAM - GOAL. (Just a side note... if you have a true stud Middie like Conrad from UVA you're in luck. He did have impressive offensive and defensive stats - something like 50 points and 80 GBs.) That's crazy. I'll be ecstatic if our Middies can produce half of that per player. Yeah - good numbers to strive for.

Hope this gets our page count up. I've got a few more thoughts too if needed.

This '20 team will play uptempo.

And I agree that SSDM is a phenomenally important position. I think our SSDM's and overall defense will be stellar this year. So many athletes, many with that one extra year of work that they needed last year. Our depth is better this year at both those positions. I love our defense.

Our one hole in my eyes is goalie...either Shafer or Teitlebaum, or both, needs to show up better than expected. We got somewhat lazy knowing Jacob was in goal the last 4 years...the kid was dynamite. We need this role to be a role that is not a weakness. I have faith in both and also the other two on the squad.

A point that i can agree with you both on. SSDM's for Loyola are a badge of Honor, that's where you generally put the biggest, strongest athletes the team has. Job is solely to push back offensive players, disrupt passing lane, collect GB's and spark transition. All of these are statistical categories that are not lauded or tracked so efficiently.

Higgins, our top SSDM's exemplies all of this, But we also have Boland, Benus, Razanka as the Big 4 SSDM's on the roster.

LSM's/ Close D will be Hughes, Johnson, McNulty, Wyers- Am i missing anything?

houndace1 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 7:50 pm

Peter Brown wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 2:48 pm

NovaHound wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 2:25 pm Ok - I'll give it the old college try...

Great article - was fun to read the recap on 2012. It's been too long since the last Title. I love watching teams play fast and nothing gets a team and fans more fired up than seeing a goal made by a long pole in transition. Ratliff was good at it in 2012. Get a stop. Find the outlet man. Fast Break down the field. Shoot. Score. Grab some momentum. Some of the Poles for the Hounds have cannons and are accurate. Just give them a chance. They work hard for it. (Note: And it seems to work well for UVA. Just putting that out there.) I'm agreeing with PB that this Hound defense is going to be a strength if they remain healthy. A Basketball Coach I once knew made sure his guards fed the big man (Center) inside. Why? The Big Man does the dirty work and gets the rebound for you. You got to feed the Big man. So I think we'll see more transition scoring this year. LSM McNuulty is going to have a big year.

Speaking about the rest of the Defense. I want to see the Hound SSDMs become a strength and I've got a lot of confidence in them. They have experience and athleticism. Some of the miscues and penalties could be atrributed to youth last year. For some reason, not sure why, I believe the SSDM is the most undervalued yet important position on the field. SSDMs don't get the respect they deserve from many casual fans because they don't throw up gaudy offensive or defensive numbers. But just make the slightest mistake and BAM - GOAL. (Just a side note... if you have a true stud Middie like Conrad from UVA you're in luck. He did have impressive offensive and defensive stats - something like 50 points and 80 GBs.) That's crazy. I'll be ecstatic if our Middies can produce half of that per player. Yeah - good numbers to strive for.

Hope this gets our page count up. I've got a few more thoughts too if needed.

This '20 team will play uptempo.

And I agree that SSDM is a phenomenally important position. I think our SSDM's and overall defense will be stellar this year. So many athletes, many with that one extra year of work that they needed last year. Our depth is better this year at both those positions. I love our defense.

Our one hole in my eyes is goalie...either Shafer or Teitlebaum, or both, needs to show up better than expected. We got somewhat lazy knowing Jacob was in goal the last 4 years...the kid was dynamite. We need this role to be a role that is not a weakness. I have faith in both and also the other two on the squad.

A point that i can agree with you both on. SSDM's for Loyola are a badge of Honor, that's where you generally put the biggest, strongest athletes the team has. Job is solely to push back offensive players, disrupt passing lane, collect GB's and spark transition. All of these are statistical categories that are not lauded or tracked so efficiently.

Higgins, our top SSDM's exemplies all of this, But we also have Boland, Benus, Razanka as the Big 4 SSDM's on the roster.

LSM's/ Close D will be Hughes, Johnson, McNulty, Wyers- Am i missing anything?

NovaHound wrote: ↑Thu Sep 05, 2019 8:18 am You forgot Railey. Handled the position very well after missing two full seasons. I think he's going to be a confident and vocal leader out there because he's gone through 1 full season and got his chops in. And I don't think he'll be concerened about reinjuring anything. Also - He plays smart defense.

I've heard good things about LeBlanc and he's also battled injuries. Seems like half of Toomey's defensemen have had their share of injuries but someone always seems to step up. That's good coaching and recruiting.

Have not heard how Hughes is doing after his injury. If he's 100% watch out. And I do like the 4 SSDMs you mentioned. I think a couple of them got dinged up last year too. Depth is so important.

Anyway - great lax discourse.

kramerica.inc wrote: ↑Thu Sep 05, 2019 9:20 am Savio is the grizzled veteran that will lead the FOGO squad. Regardless of who has the hot hand, its nice to have someone like Savio out there to steady the ship. His even-keel demeanor, consistency and work ethic last year was really underrated. Taking EVERY faceoff in a season is not for the feint of heart. It will show your true colors. I can't speak to what a fine job he did last year. Much of Loyola's success last year was due to him shouldering that load.

NovaHound wrote: ↑Thu Sep 05, 2019 8:23 am Ah... One more thought to keep the page count up

I think PB is on to something about the 2020 team. They will forge their own identity and much like the 2012 Champs will leverage the lack of respect to create a culture "we'll show them" or something to that effect. They've got holes to fill but Toomey has the pieces to plug the holes.