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Reg: 11-21-04
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02-04-18 12:11 PM - Post#246032
In response to SomeGuy
Hmmm; a few observations on the back of this thread: As to Simmons, SD wants minutes from him in part because Penn creates matchup problems for just about every team in the League. Simmons adds to that bigly. He also makes it easier to give Max and AJ a blow when they need it. As mentioned above, he overreacts to mistakes and he's a foul machine. Keep in mind though, a number of our best players over the years were like this as frosh (U comes to mind.) One thing I notice though, is that SD seems to prefer using him as a 5 than a 4. Maybe this is due to defensive matchups and maybe it tells us something about his future role.
Otherwise, this was one of those rare games that went down exactly as we suspected it would (unlike the PU-Brown game that many folks were playing more attention to.) Both teams came out pretty sharp, but fatigue set in quickly and things got messy quickly. Thankfully, the official crew ate their whistles (so many walks uncalled) or this could have been painful to watch. This Penn team just took care of business and their mental toughness (plus playing at home) won the evening in the end. Those Silpe 3's really were the turning point though.
Random stuff - word is that the rotation is now quite set (barring injuries) and, perhaps aside from situational minutes for Goodman, what we see is what we get the rest of the year.
Great to see Vince Curran and Steve D. holding court at Wahoos after the game. Coming off the well-done halftime ceremonies honoring the '78 team (almost all of them were present, including Matt White's daughter) and the new atrium/exhibit between the Palestra & Hutch (can't wait to check that out), there is a very positive vibe around the program right now. So nice after the lost decade.
Oh, and congrats to P38 & Stan Lane as they too got a shout out at the half as XPN voices for that 78 team. Gave me a warm feeling back to the days when XPN was about the students and we got to call the games ourselves.
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