Hockey or Lacrosse goalie?
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Lacrosse. That ball is hard and the shot velocity has to be 70-90 mph at times. I bet goalies look like Dalmations with their shirts off.
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Dance team moms: āHold my beerā
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Since Iām now a huge lacrosse guy, the Womenās Natty in LAX is on ESPN. Northwestern vs.Carolina. Go āCats!
Full disclosure: My sister played lacrosse at UVA. They won a Natty in ā93. Been hearing hearing about it for over 30 yearsā¦ could explain a few things.
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First name is indeed LAX-ish. If his name were something like Dallin Trank, yes, LAX would have been a no brainer.
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Dallin Hallsbury.
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The third.
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More boring?
- Yentl
- The Piano
- UVA offseason so far
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Jim Brown would like to have a word.
I would not take this bet.
Iād be willing to bet most point guards recruited to a P4 school could switch sports as a freshman and start on the lax team by season two.
Thereād surely be a learning curve that would be painful and funny to watch, but every sport that gets democratized [read: made cheap enough to play that anyone can] very soon starts looking a lot more multicultural than lax
Access to basketball is having shoes (maybe), knowing where someone has a ball, or is already playing. Anyone who is interested can just show up and find out hooping is for them.
Lax has been growing for sure, but it can never provide open access in the same way. And so it forgoes its own access to the very most innately gifted athletes.
You put a stick in those kids hands instead of a ball and itās a matter of time. They lack refinement, but the ore is just different.
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Fascinating plot twist. Maybe the basketball offseason has been boring, but the drama around the lacrosse team is soap opera worthy.
https://twitter.com/terencefoy/status/2058893100848672980?s=46&t=vkjgQUekzGC7z44tIfnIRQ
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What do the lawyers here say.
I donāt really understand how there wouldnāt be a countersign but maybe thatās standard.
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Nope. Not at 18 or 19. For all you can point to about the speed and strength athleticism, the specific hand eye coordination is a refined skill that takes tens of thousands of hours to reach the level of a high end D1 player. A football player or shorter basketball player could potentially become a high end SDM but wouldnāt have enough time to become a starting attackman or offensive midfielder during their college eligibility
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That was 60 years ago. Abe Lincoln was a good power forward as well.
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Not being disrespectful , but this is mildly humorous to me.
If any D-1 point guard or quarterback or receiver or defensive back or wing player in hoops played lacrosse growing up in a ālacrosse areaā and worked on it like they did basketball/football/baseball, they surpass all the 5ā9ā 160 lb guys that play lax.
Itās not the same athletic level and to suggest that lax guys have better hand-eye coordination than baseball (not even close) or basketball (not even close) or football players (maybe debatable in non-skill positions) is funny to me. Iām not picking a fight here, but truthfully, itās not even close.
I still have respect for them, I know they work hard, but they are well below basketball/football/baseball for size speed strength combo.
Itās a bad argument to try to support. Itās basically a sport that is geographically advantaged. If Reece Beekman, or Ty Jerome, or Chance Mallory or Bernie Floriani, or Dante Harris or @DFresh11 grew up on Long Island and chose lacrosse over basketball, they would crush the Carters and Tanners and Woodwardās of the lacrosse world. They would be All Americans for sure.
Basically lacrosse is getting little white guys(for the most part) who grow up in a very specific region.of the country and donāt excel at other sports. There are exceptions- I recognize that. Thatās not me being an asshole thatās just the truth.
Unless you were/are a lax bro, you would agree. Itās a much lower level athlete- smaller, slower,weaker, less competition.
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Iām not saying they have better hand eye coordination. Iām saying itās a specific skill set that takes thousands of hours of repetition to become an expert at. And that skill set falls within hand eye coordination rather than strength/speed/explosiveness athleticism
Ignore lacrosse for a second. Letās look at darts. Do you think if LeBron or SGA started solely focusing on darts at 18 heād be a top 5% (honestly D1 athletes might be higher than 95th percentile but Iām being conservative) dart player by 22? I sincerely doubt it. It would take more time than that or starting at an earlier age
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Yes. If they started playing at 12 they absolutely would. The brain is much more malleable at that age than at 18 or 19 and they would have 4-5 years to develop the sport specific skills. A good example is how poor shooters at 18 rarely become good shooters by 22. But a kid can completely remake his shot between freshman year of high school and senior year of high school
If you threw the top incoming college running back in the country on a lacrosse team heād only have a shot to see the field as a short stick defensive midfielder before he graduated. If you converted the top incoming high school freshman running back to lacrosse heād probably be the best player in country by his sophomore year of college
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Imagine an announcement will come very soon on the coaching front. Feels like Cassese given some discussions this weekend but not totally sure that wasnāt campaigning disguised as info.
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Chemotti out of consideration per this tweet.
If to take @XHoo intel that decision coming soon, then to me feels like Galloway or Cassese. The tweet below infers they havenāt interviewed Kirwan or Buczek. Would prefer both of those guys though.
https://x.com/college_crosse/status/2059270975212986478?s=46
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There it is. Cassese
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