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Glenflesk
Freshman
Posts 67
06-20-17 10:11 PM - Post#230242    

Penn has posted its incoming class on PennAthletics.com.

http://www.pennathletics.com/news/men-s-basketball ...

The class includes the four expected newcomers: Jelani Williams 6-5/195, Jarrod Simmons 6-8/220, Eddie Scott 6-6/195 and Mark Jackson 7-3/245.

But the class also includes someone I wasn't expecting: Griffin Halpern 5-11/165, Woodbury, NY Syosset. I must have missed a posting about him. What do we know about him?
westphillywarrior
Sophomore
Posts 196
06-21-17 12:14 AM - Post#230245    

I don't know anything about the kid except what was in your post. But I'd say a good guess is that he was the highest scorer in this recruiting class.
Jeff2sf
Postdoc
Posts 4466
06-21-17 06:58 AM - Post#230246    

yeah, can we not do this? this is 2017. if we don't know anything about a recruit when he starts matriculating, we know everything about that that recruit.
Silver Maple
Postdoc
Posts 3765
06-21-17 08:55 AM - Post#230248    

Griffin Halpern: Ivy POY for both 2019-20 and 2020-21. You can take that to the bank.

"Griffin Halpern-- just wow. If I had half that guy's talent, maybe I'd have a shot at being drafted." Bryce Aiken
Jeff2sf
Postdoc
Posts 4466
06-21-17 09:34 AM - Post#230252    

i thought about that jinx. let's just say that i wouldn't have made that comment on the princeton board because i couldn't have lived with the consequences were i wrong.


AsiaSunset
Postdoc
Posts 4350
06-21-17 11:51 AM - Post#230257    

Heard Mark jackson was attending the 1st session of summer school. If correct he should get a lot of bb and conditioning in over this summer after two years of pain au chocolat
Silver Maple
Postdoc
Posts 3765
06-21-17 12:33 PM - Post#230264    

I prefer to think of it as two years of growing into his 7-3 frame.
AsiaSunset
Postdoc
Posts 4350
06-21-17 01:37 PM - Post#230266    

I think those LDS missions have pretty strict rules about playing ball when you are on one. His coach said he should be a little rusty when he returns when he commented on the mission two years ago. I hope it's not like trying to regain your short game in golf. That almost never happens.
yoyo
Senior
Posts 355
06-21-17 01:50 PM - Post#230267    

He played tennis too. Hopefully that translates to good foot work on the B Ball court
penn nation
Professor
Posts 21086
06-21-17 02:17 PM - Post#230269    

  • AsiaSunset Said:
I hope it's not like trying to regain your short game in golf. That almost never happens.



He's 7'3". We didn't nab him for his short game.



penn nation
Professor
Posts 21086
06-21-17 02:19 PM - Post#230270    

  • Glenflesk Said:
Penn has posted its incoming class on PennAthletics.com.

http://www.pennathletics.com/news/men-s-basketball ...

The class includes the four expected newcomers: Jelani Williams 6-5/195, Jarrod Simmons 6-8/220, Eddie Scott 6-6/195 and Mark Jackson 7-3/245.

But the class also includes someone I wasn't expecting: Griffin Halpern 5-11/165, Woodbury, NY Syosset. I must have missed a posting about him. What do we know about him?



Probably taking the Mo Esformes slot that was vacated last year.

SteveChop
PhD Student
Posts 1150
06-21-17 05:38 PM - Post#230277    

One article that I found about Mr Halpern

http://syossetjerichotrib une.com/2017/04/24/histor...


TheLine
Professor
Posts 5597
06-22-17 06:01 PM - Post#230297    

Video :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5KeYOVEP6E

Page o' stats :

http://scores.newsday.com/sports/highschool/pla yer...

Picture of 11 year old Griffin with Cornell basketball alum father Jonathan :

http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2010/03/jacks onvil...

penn nation
Professor
Posts 21086
06-22-17 06:47 PM - Post#230300    

So maybe the Donahue connection helped.
T.P.F.K.A.D.W.
PhD Student
Posts 1169
06-23-17 08:53 AM - Post#230311    

No doubt Griffin is on a first name basis with Wolfgang Florin.
HARVARDDADGRAD
Postdoc
Posts 2685
06-23-17 11:45 AM - Post#230323    

There was a Florian Homm ('82) who I understood (fortunately for Harvard) couldn't play at Harvard because of previous German pro basketball experience. Florian has since ended up on an FBI Most Wanted Poster and is the subject of an SEC action and civil lawsuits for allegedly making off with hundreds of millions in a scheme involving a fund and penny stock manipulation. Apparently Florian was shot after fleeing to Venezuela but is now back in Germany where the government declines to extradite him. He's written two books including "Rogue Financier."

Flo was a character at Harvard, and a decent 6'7" ball player. In view of the foregoing, my memory of chopping wood with this somewhat aristocratic German giant in the snowy backwoods of Vermont one weekend now seems surreal. Enough said.



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