SomeGuy
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02-18-18 09:01 PM - Post#248541
In response to Old Bear
Curious how much Aiken matters at this point, strangely. There may be an adjustment back at some point, but right now Harvard seems to have figured out how to win with Juzang. It may in part be that they now aren’t susceptible to the same things they were when Aiken first got hurt, and teams haven’t caught up yet.
The bad news for the league and is that it appears Harvard has figured out their PG problem.
I’m also curious if the conventional wisdom is right about how to play Harvard. Everyone seems to be going small against them. Yale, for example, spent more time than usual with Oni or Yates essentially playing the 4. Penn did the same thing.
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palestra38
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02-18-18 10:16 PM - Post#248548
In response to SomeGuy
If Penn shoots like it did last night against Harvard, Penn would have won easily. Figuring that Penn will have better interior defense with a healthier Rothschild and won't shoot as poorly as it did in Allston, I give Penn a helluva chance to win next Saturday.
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mrjames
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02-18-18 10:31 PM - Post#248549
In response to caughtinasnare
He actually lost points in the waning moments (5-0). He got crushed in his first run in the game and in those final moments but was strongly positive for long stretches in between, IIRC.
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whitakk
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02-19-18 12:32 AM - Post#248562
In response to mrjames
I was looking at it today and got about the same numbers. The offensive splits weren't huge (something like .78 vs .72 ppp on/off) but as you mentioned FTs would have made that a little better.
The stats weren't all there but he looked like basically the same player as he was in 2016.
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PennFan10
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02-19-18 01:17 PM - Post#248603
In response to whitakk
I was a bit surprised by the small number of minutes from Antonio, and to a lesser extent, Max this weekend. Perhaps both are banged up or maybe it was due to the matchups.
We did a tremendous job on Gettings and Morgan. When the two of them combine for less points than one of them average, it's a good day.
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Mike Porter
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02-19-18 01:34 PM - Post#248606
In response to PennFan10
I was wondering the same thing about both of them. I assumed Max isn’t back to 100% yet, but I thought Antonio looked a step slower than normal and didn’t show the same athleticism on offense, so was curious if he has a nagging injury.
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Chip Bayers
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02-19-18 04:42 PM - Post#248629
In response to Mike Porter
Antonio lost his minutes to Goodman.
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SomeGuy
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02-19-18 05:17 PM - Post#248638
In response to Mike Porter
I think some of it was just matchups with Max. And maybe not so much about how Max matched up, but more about how AJ matched up, and about whether either team could hurt us without Max on D. We knew from the Palestra that AJ could go off playing as the lone big against Columbia, particularly against Faulds. So I think they quickly went to that matchup. Cornell also plays small a lot. Against both teams, we took advantage of the small opponent lineups to play 3-4 guards at a time ourselves.
As for Goodman, it’s funny — just last week I was saying that out of conference I thought we got some good matchups by playing guys opponents hadn’t scouted for, but that wouldn’t work in conference (everybody knows that if Jones or Donahue comes in, they shoot 3s). But right after I said that, it sure looked on Friday like Columbia didn’t know what to expect from Goodman. What was remarkable was how complete a game he played. Shooting, driving, passing, defending, even setting the screen on Meisner for Wood’s big 3. Maybe you can’t stop a guy who does it all, so it just looked like they didn’t scout him.
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Jeff2sf
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02-19-18 05:19 PM - Post#248640
In response to SomeGuy
re:goodman and scouting. I'm not particularly sure there's anything in a scouting report that would say be wary about him from 3. Even after his first 3 made threes (and possibly even 4), I don't know that you'd want to worry about him from out there.
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