The games is on FS2, which requires people to access the game through their cable provider.

I think this is the link:
https://www.foxsports.com/live/fs2

Nice win
But the bad free throw shooting is back.

Also, important early season trend: so far, only teams coached by former Penn assistants can beat us. Pretty sure we don’t have a chance to face any of those in Anaheim.

Shooting
Penn: 30-57 53% (19-35 from 2 54%, 11-22 from 3 50%), 10-20 FT 50%
PC: 29-70 41% (22-52 from 2 42%, 7-18 from 3 39%), 10-20 FT 50%

Betley 22, Dingle 19, AJ 17, Goodman 9, Monroe 6

Rebounding
Penn 38 (5 offense, 33 defense), PC 42 (14 offense, 28 defense)

AJ 10, Betley 8

Assists
Penn 17 of 30 (57%) PC 16 of 29 (55%)

Goodman 4, Dingle 4

Turnovers
Penn 14 PC 11

Dingle 5, AJ 4

Points off Turnovers
Penn 18 PC 11

Points in the Paint
Penn 38 PC 38

https://friars.com/sidearmstats/mbball/m edia

Wow. Two Tier A wins and a couple clunkers. We Lafayetted Providence (50% from 3). We are a much better team when Dingle is on the floor with those seniors.

Looking forward to next week.

He might at that. How is it that he was so lightly regarded and recruited?

I think it's more of a deceptive athleticism rather than something that smacks you in the face. But I'm still stunned at what his upper body looks like at this age. He does not look anything like a freshman.

Maybe they thought he was going to play football?

Dingle hit, but those shots seem to be there mainly when AJ is on the floor. The offense just doesn’t work without him right now.

Good point. I think the problem is that without AJ on the floor, we lack the high post facilitator that makes the offense run. Simmons isn't the playmaker AJ is; while he can hit the three point shot from the top of the arc, he isn't the passer who can patiently survey the floor and then find cutters going to the basket. Defenses recognize that and play him accordingly.

I'm more optimistic that Coach can teach perimeter defense than he can teach Simmons to become an effective backup.

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This was something Max R. did so well when AJ was not on the floor.

Simmons, for whatever reason, does not seem to have the ability and his fear of fouling limits him on the defensive end, but he is not terrible there. We have seen him defend well at times.

If substitute big man is our major weakness, we're in really good shape. I think our major weakness is defense on the perimeter, without Antonio. Goodman is great with his hands---not so great with the body. Dingle is just learning. Betley is pretty immobile. Eddie and AJ are just fine. It's really up to the freshmen to provide help since I am dubious Wang will help this year, Jelani is lost and when you have to go to Ray Jerome, you are going to a notably lesser player. The freshmen will have to step up and develop into non-freshmen in composure by the Ivy season.

at his absolute zenith, max Rothschild was a 100 ORAT player. for three out of four years he was a 92 ORAT player who clogged all our spacing while making "hustle" (aka what gets ascribed to white people) plays.

He had certain things to recommend on defense. But let's not have the haze of time past corrupt our memories.

What will be interesting is to see if Mike Wang can do that to give AJ some time to rest (hopefully he is healthy enough to play sooner than later) because he is a very good passer himself.

I am pretty sure that KenPom's ratings reflect assists and turnovers. So a good passer will get some credit.

If our biggest problem this year is being unable to replace Max Rothschild's minutes then we're in a heap of trouble.

Let's say you buy into the idea that advanced metrics underrate Rothschild's contributions. Where would you have ranked his level of importance to last year's team? He was 4th at best behind AJ, Antonio and Dev. You can make a strong argument that Jake was more important by the end of the year.

Nobody doubled Max, either, and indeed, they dropped off of him when he was at the high post.

Also, comparing anyone to Brodeur is a bit unfair because his play is so unique.

I think in this case you have to look at value as something more than a statistical measure. Each player on the team has a role, and there are offensive and defensive tasks required of a 6'8" player whose position is the 4 or 5 that you simply cannot expect a 6' point guard to be able to assume effectively. And, of course, vice versa.

Looks like Friars might not be as good as expected, they lost opening round Wooden Legacy game to 285th ranked Long Beach State (nice upset win by them).

Didn’t see it but looking at play by play, they blew 9 point lead at half, missed free throws that could have iced it and then fouled 3 point shooter with couple seconds left who hit all 3 to win by 1 point...

Think their fans were mad after we beat them, I bet that message board must be apoplectic right now!