PennFan10
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03-16-17 09:40 AM - Post#227199
In response to SomeGuy
Disagree on this. If Donahue has another AJ level big, he'll play him. He did it at Cornell when the personnel dictated it. Moreover, Donahue has bucked some historical tendencies with the defense as Penn coach. So I don't think we can be certain of what he'll do simply because of what he did in the past.
On Simmons, though, it is of course possible that he isn't ready to contribute immediately in the way AJ was. So we may end up playing the way we did this year. If he's ready to contribute a little, that still may free us up to play Rothschild with AJ together more, as there may be less nervousness about foul trouble leaving us with zero bigs. Offseason for Max should be defense, defense, defense.
Max is not far off AJ. He played 20 minutes maybe 1 time this year. Last year in the 3 games he played more than 20 minutes he scored 18,18,14. Many games this year he had great first half (6 pts, 5 reb) and played 1-2 minutes in the second half. Donahue does not want to play 2 bigs. That's a fact. In the sweet 16 run, they had 2 bigs who played a lot during the season and he played with 1 big the last part of the year and in the tourney.
He doesn't want to play 2 bigs. He tried it a bit this year but never for any kind of stretch, even when it was working. It was not because of a lack of talent or belief in Max.
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