Let's run the numbers:
TEMPO-FREE BOX SCORENeither team plays at a particularly fast pace this season, and the game was just a few possessions faster than expected.
. Home Visitor
. GU West Virginia
. 1st Half 2nd Half Total 1st Half 2nd Half Total
Pace 34 35 69
Effic. 76.0 89.7 83.2 90.6 123.4 107.6
eFG% 47.9 35.2 41.2 45.2 64.5 54.8
TO% 32.2 22.4 27.3 23.4 22.4 23.0
OR% 21.4 39.1 32.4 31.6 57.1 42.4
FT Rate 20.8 74.1 49.0 9.7 22.6 16.1
Assist Rate 36.4 44.4 40.0 50.0 44.4 46.7
Block Rate 15.0 0.0 7.7 17.6 11.1 14.3
Steal Rate 14.6 11.2 12.9 11.7 5.6 8.6
2FG% 58.8 44.4 51.4 40.0 73.7 56.4
3FG% 14.3 11.1 12.5 36.4 33.3 34.8
FT% 60.0 65.0 64.0 100.0 57.1 70.0
There is an axiom that I trot out from time to time, and that is that nobody can stop the Georgetown offense when the team gets hot shooting from outside. While this is obviously a great simplification, and actually wasn't very strongly demonstrated last season, it does seem to hold true this year. The logical inverse of this statement (anyone can stop the Georgetown offense when the team goes cold from outside) was demonstrated tonight, as the Hoyas made only 2/16 3FG for the game, and ended with easily their least efficient offensive effort of the season - previously vs. Wichita St.
If you will forgive a chart in the middle of this recap (click image to enlarge):
I won't go into much detail here about offensive performance - if you are even a semi-regular visitor, I hope you check the team performance charts linked on the right - but it is simply the number of points scored minus expected points scored, based on Ken Pomeroy's stats. It can be thought of as a measure of offensive efficiency, adjusted for the quality of the opponent's defense. The red dots represent Hoyas games this season before tonight, and the blue dot is tonight's performance.
What makes this especially interesting is that G'town is scoring a lower percentage of their points on 3FG this season than any previous in the JTIII era.
Now that is not to say that there weren't other important factors in tonight's game:
- the very high turnover rate in the 1st half
- the poor defensive rebounding in the 2nd half
- the high shooting efficiency allowed in the 2nd half
All in all, a forgettable effort by the Blue and Gray tonight.
INDIVIDUAL NET POINTS STATS
GU Off Poss Individ Def Individ
Player Poss Used ORtg Pts Prod Poss DRtg Pts Allow Net Pts
Summers, DaJuan 65 12.7 87.2 11.1 64 116.0 14.8 -3.8
Wright, Chris 51 11.9 91.0 10.8 49 107.9 10.6 +0.2
Monroe, Greg 62 15.4 89.5 13.8 62 94.2 11.7 +2.1
Freeman, Austin 61 9.6 86.9 8.4 62 94.3 11.7 -3.3
Sapp, Jessie 34 2.3 140.0 3.2 35 95.6 6.7 -3.5
Mescheriakov, Nikita 4 0.0 - 0.0 3 133.3 0.8 -0.8
Clark, Jason 45 9.5 31.7 3.0 43 117.3 10.1 -7.1
Vaughn, Julian 8 4.3 16.0 0.7 7 178.3 2.5 -1.8
Sims, Henry 3 1.5 66.7 1.0 3 56.0 0.3 +0.7
Wattad, Omar 17 1.2 200.0 2.4 17 84.7 2.9 -0.5
TOTALS 70 68.4 79.4 54.4 69 104.5 72.1 -17.7
West Virginia Off Poss Individ Def Individ
Player Poss Used ORtg Pts Prod Poss DRtg Pts Allow Net Pts
Butler, Da'Sean 65 17.4 118.6 20.7 66 83.7 11.0 +9.6
Ebanks, Devin 58 12.2 80.7 9.9 57 82.8 9.4 +0.4
Ruoff, Alex 64 9.7 141.2 13.7 65 80.1 10.4 +3.2
Bryant, Darryl 45 10.6 86.1 9.1 44 91.5 8.1 +1.0
Smith, Wellington 45 9.7 100.7 9.8 47 69.4 6.5 +3.3
Thoroughman, Cam 9 0.0 - 0.0 10 74.6 1.5 -1.5
Jones, Kevin 29 4.0 102.5 4.1 30 75.8 4.6 -0.4
Flowers, John 30 4.1 117.5 4.8 31 60.8 3.8 +1.1
TOTALS 69 67.7 106.3 72.0 70 79.0 55.3 +16.7
Sorry, no comments for individual players tonight (I'm running late), so just a few more bullet points:
- The continuing disappearance of J. Sapp is starting to become the storyline of the season for me. Sapp actually played an efficient game at both ends tonight, but used only 7% of possessions played (2.3/34). As the only senior and one of only two upperclassmen in the rotation, this regression is a big problem.
- The rest of the starters were all generally inefficient, albeit in different ways - D. Summers: 1/7 3FG, C. Wright: 3 TOs, G. Monroe: 4/10 2FG & 4 TOs, A. Freeman: 1/4 2FG, 0/2 3FG.
- The bench, mostly J. Clark with some O. Wattad on the side, didn't provide much assistance. I should say that Wattad played well.
- Dare I say . . . free Henry Sims?
But I will give a tip-of-the-cap to D. Butler for leading all players in net points produced.
HD BOX SCORE
West Virginia vs GU
01/22/09 7:00 at Verizon Center
Final score: West Virginia 75, GU 58
West Virginia Min +/- Pts 2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FGA A Stl TO Blk OR DR PF
Butler, Da'Sean 37:52 +16 27/72 7- 9 4- 9 1- 1 18/60 0/18 0/66 4/65 0/34 2/33 6/36 2
Ebanks, Devin 33:32 + 7 9/57 4- 8 0- 1 1- 2 9/53 0/20 1/57 4/58 1/27 3/31 4/28 2
Ruoff, Alex 37:11 +18 10/73 2- 3 1- 7 3- 4 10/57 9/26 2/65 1/64 0/34 0/30 1/34 1
Bryant, Darryl 26:41 + 5 13/46 2- 5 3- 5 0- 0 10/42 2/14 0/44 4/45 0/26 0/23 5/19 4
Smith, Wellington 25:48 +14 10/47 5- 8 0- 1 0- 0 9/40 2/14 1/47 1/45 3/24 2/21 2/29 4
Thoroughman, Cam 06:16 + 7 0/15 0- 0 0- 0 0- 0 0/ 8 0/ 5 0/10 0/ 9 0/ 6 0/ 4 1/ 8 3
Jones, Kevin 15:04 +13 4/38 1- 3 0- 0 2- 2 3/24 0/13 2/30 1/29 1/12 1/12 0/11 2
Flowers, John 17:36 + 5 2/27 1- 3 0- 0 0- 1 3/26 1/10 0/31 1/30 0/12 4/16 4/20 4
TOTALS 40:00 75 22-39 8-23 7-10 62 14/30 6/70 16/69 5/35 14/33 25/37 22
. 0.564 0.348 0.700 0.467 0.086 0.232 0.143 0.424 0.676
GU Min +/- Pts 2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FGA A Stl TO Blk OR DR PF
Summers, DaJuan 36:29 -17 12/52 3- 7 1- 7 3- 6 14/48 1/14 0/64 2/65 1/38 1/35 2/30 0
Wright, Chris 30:03 -11 13/45 5- 6 0- 2 3- 5 8/34 0/11 1/49 3/51 0/27 0/21 3/25 4
Monroe, Greg 36:15 - 9 11/54 4-10 0- 0 3- 6 10/48 4/15 2/62 4/62 2/37 4/35 4/34 3
Freeman, Austin 34:17 -25 9/44 1- 4 0- 2 7- 8 6/44 0/14 5/62 1/61 0/38 1/35 2/29 3
Sapp, Jessie 21:12 - 1 3/29 0- 0 1- 2 0- 0 2/27 2/10 0/35 0/34 0/20 1/17 1/19 3
Mescheriakov, Nikita 01:24 - 1 0/ 3 0- 0 0- 0 0- 0 0/ 7 0/ 1 0/ 3 0/ 4 0/ 2 0/ 7 0/ 0 0
Clark, Jason 23:44 -21 4/33 2- 4 0- 2 0- 0 6/31 0/ 8 1/43 5/45 0/25 0/27 3/19 1
Vaughn, Julian 03:45 - 8 0/ 4 0- 1 0- 0 0- 0 1/ 3 1/ 1 0/ 7 3/ 8 0/ 2 1/ 2 0/ 0 1
Sims, Henry 02:38 + 1 2/ 4 1- 1 0- 0 0- 0 1/ 3 0/ 1 0/ 3 1/ 3 0/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 3 0
Wattad, Omar 10:13 + 7 4/22 2- 2 0- 1 0- 0 3/10 0/ 5 0/17 0/17 0/ 5 0/ 5 0/11 1
TOTALS 40:00 58 18-35 2-16 16-25 51 8/20 9/69 19/70 3/39 12/37 19/33 16
. 0.514 0.125 0.640 0.400 0.130 0.271 0.077 0.324 0.576
Efficiency: West Virginia 1.087, GU 0.829
eFG%: West Virginia 0.548, GU 0.412
Substitutions: West Virginia 27, GU 27
2-pt Shot Selection:
Dunks: West Virginia 5-5, GU 0-0
Layups/Tips: West Virginia 11-18, GU 15-26
Jumpers: West Virginia 6-16, GU 3-9
Fast break pts: West Virginia 6 (0.088), GU 2 (0.048)
Seconds per off. poss: West Virginia 18.7, GU 15.7
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