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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
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
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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