rbg
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11-13-18 08:51 PM - Post#265455
In response to 10Q
Penn
50% FG
31% 3 FG (5-16)
100% FT (5-5)
Lafayette
46% FG
27% 3 FG (3-11)
0% FT (0-1)
Leading rebounds 17-15
Goodman 12, Woods 8, Simmons 8, Rothschild 5, Brodeur 4, Washington 3, Silpe 2, Wang 2
Brodeur and Jerome with 2 fouls each
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Silver Maple
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11-13-18 08:59 PM - Post#265457
In response to rbg
Lafayette has 10 turnovers. Penn has 5. That's most of the difference right there.
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rbg
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11-13-18 09:01 PM - Post#265458
In response to Silver Maple
Max with the sweet behind the back pass to Brodeur for the layup.
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AsiaSunset
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11-13-18 09:08 PM - Post#265460
In response to rbg
Don’t want to jinx us but this is a nice looking team. Steve is playing a lot of guys and they are all contributing
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dperry
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11-13-18 09:09 PM - Post#265462
In response to AsiaSunset
Just abusing these guys inside now.
David Perry
Penn '92
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rbg
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11-13-18 09:09 PM - Post#265463
In response to rbg
Max with another great assist to Brodeur and then went coast-to-coast for two!
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Silver Maple
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11-13-18 09:09 PM - Post#265464
In response to AsiaSunset
This is the best passing frontcourt I've ever seen at Penn.
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TheLine
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Lafayette 11-13-18 09:32 PM - Post#265471
In response to Silver Maple
This reminds me of what Penn basketball was like.
Better in some ways - the back of the bench wasn't this good in my day.
Edited by TheLine on 11-13-18 09:35 PM. Reason for edit: No reason given.
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dperry
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Re: Lafayette 11-13-18 09:46 PM - Post#265473
In response to TheLine
Yeah, nice to take a bad team and, you know, make 'em look bad.
David Perry
Penn '92
"Hail, Alma Mater/Thy sons cheer thee now
To thee, Pennsylvania/All rivals must bow!!!" |
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Silver Maple
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Lafayette 11-13-18 09:52 PM - Post#265475
In response to dperry
Usually I consider depth to be overrated, as it's harder to use your deep bench than it looks to amateurs. But I think this coach might know how to do it. We'll see if this holds up against better competition.
I believe in Steve.
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rbg
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11-13-18 09:53 PM - Post#265477
In response to TheLine
Penn
57% FG
45% 3 FG (13-29)
89% FT (8-9)
Lafayette
50% FG
40% 3 FG (8-20)
33% FT (1-3)
Rebounds in Penn's favor 29-25
19 assists, 10 turnovers
Goodman 16, Woods 14, Simmons 11, Brodeur 10
Rothschild 9 points, 6 rebounds, 6 assists
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SomeGuy
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Re: Lafayette 11-13-18 10:07 PM - Post#265481
In response to Silver Maple
I think this is working better than previously for Steve (even with these same guys). Two years ago when we would play a million guys toward the end of the first half, we always looked pretty bad. Tonight, at least in the first half, the extended run for some backups worked great.
We just look a lot deeper than our opponents. Not much tentative play right now — like last year, this looks like a group that buys in. The backups don’t generally look like they’re trying to do too much — instead they look like they know exactly what their role is.
These first 3 may not have been the toughest opponents, but it is fun to beat the teams you are supposed to beat, and at least tonight, beat them a lot more convincingly than we were supposed to.
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10Q
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11-13-18 10:25 PM - Post#265484
In response to SomeGuy
Really the only rough stretch of the game was when we had the 2 freshmen in early. Steve corrected that and we re-established our dominance.
I can't get over that behind the back pass.
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palestra38
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11-13-18 10:35 PM - Post#265485
In response to 10Q
Man that was fun. And not long ago, an opening 3 with a road game against an A-10, a home against an C-USA and Lafayette would be 1-2 at best.
Our top 8 are so much better than I would have expected given the Betley injury. I am really optimistic--we can post, shoot the 3, and play really tough D. Goodman is a revelation.
Too bad we don't have another home game for a week and a half and then it's Atlantic City U. But all I can say is that Donahue is a genius.
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PennFan10
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11-13-18 10:54 PM - Post#265487
In response to palestra38
Don't look now but two games in a row of making FT's.
I just jinxed us.....
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SomeGuy
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11-13-18 11:03 PM - Post#265490
In response to palestra38
Goodman was great on both ends of the court tonight. He drew the toughest assignment tonight, perhaps because of Woods being a bit gimpy, and he totally shut his man down.
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Chip Bayers
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11-13-18 11:05 PM - Post#265492
In response to SomeGuy
Yeah, holding Jaworski to single digits might have been the best thing about the night.
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SomeGuy
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11-13-18 11:06 PM - Post#265493
In response to PennFan10
Hey, even the one game they missed them was fine for the Some Guy Family — we got a Penn win and we got Free chick-fil-a. Sounds like a win win to me.
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Quakers03
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11-13-18 11:25 PM - Post#265496
In response to SomeGuy
Just an incredibly impressive team performance. He’s going to have to work his butt off but Steve may end up counting this as one of his favorite seasons. To say they have all bought in would be an understatement. What a pleasure.
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Penndemonium
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11-14-18 01:19 AM - Post#265501
In response to Quakers03
I'm going to have to watch the game on replay when I get home, but one observation I have from the box score and the board commentary is that this will not be a year of a fixed bench rotation. We will have our core four, but after that Donahue will play the matchup and somehow get the right contributions from different players. In the first game, Wang was a monster and Hamilton made strong contributions. Against Rice, Washington and Silpe stepped up. In this game, it appears that Simmons was huge.
It doesn't seem ordained that any of these guys will see a lot of time in any particular matchup, but all seem poised to get time. I won't be surprised if these guys, Donahue, Scott, Imegwu, and others wind up to be the heroes in a particular game. This team seems poised to continue the selfless "next man up" attitude that they demonstrated last year.
Finding a consistent pattern in the rotation would make things easier for us pundits - but this team seems content to play as a selfless whole in their own style.
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