Phi-Lacrosse-ophy Podcast Ep. 29 - Darris Kilgour Phi-Lacrosse-ophy Podcast

Darris Kilgour

00:30 Intro and Journey as a Player
-St. Catherines and won 2 Minto Cups
-5 Mann Cups with Six Nations
-Played and Coach Bandits
-Grew up in Tuscarora
-Played in Canada
-Learning humility early

03:04 Turning The Clock Back
-Personnel Darris played with in St. Catherines
-Becoming leaders

05:13 Organized Lacrosse vs backyard Lacrosse growing up
-Dad broke the game down and taught how to play the game
-Playing with guys that were older
-Becoming a good shooter in the backyard
-Learning the feel of the game
-Learning different ways to score
-Learning to shoot with tennis balls
-Learning to shoot a curveball
-Staats brothers curveballs best in the NLL
-Cody Jamieson
-Pass it down

12:10 Curveball explanation

14:00 Greatest Players Darris Played With and What He Took From Them
-Learning focus and toughness
-Learning how to score from John Tavares
-Pat Coyle intensity
-How Jamie and Darris met
-Talking lacrosse
-Athletics team Darris' son Kyler plays on

20:38 1992 Championship Game and Playing Majors / Pros
-Short side top corner shot
-Juniors to Majors
-Hitting the goalie in the head after missing his spot
-Goalie got married the next day

25:17 Memories From the Best
-Mann Cup memories
-Playing in dust
-Players involved in those championships

28:06 Shooting Philosophy
-Accuracy
-Deception
-Velocity
-The learning process of deception
-Used accuracy as a go to move
-Pointing your foot
-Shooting without a ball
-Using weight transfer to fool goalie
-The light bulb from shooting on a goalie a lot

37:30 Finishing Philosophy
-Setting up the goalie
-Reaching around far side
-Using shuffle to fool goalie
-Shooting jump shots
-Behind the back fake as a hesitation
-Victoria look back

49:16 2 Man Game
-Creating 2v1's
-Slip picks
-Seal pick
-Fight throughs are cue to cut
-Using video to identify things
-Swinging the ball and getting the ball from one side to another
-Defending a 2 man game

1:02:34 Best Box Lacrosse Player of All Time
-Casey Powell
-Couldn't pressure him the same
-Learned box lacrosse
-Learning to suck out other players to open up other players

1:05:00 Jeff Teat and Austin Staats
-Reminder of John Travares
-Did it the right way
-Made scoring look easy
-Involving others in the offense
-Off ball player
-18 Year old playing in the Mann Cup