After a grinding defensive battle in the first half, Georgetown came roaring out of the locker room to start the second half with a 21-2 run and did enough to hold on for an 8-point win over the Washington Huskies.
Let's run the numbers:
TEMPO-FREE BOX SCORE . Visitor Home . Georgetown Washington . 1st Half 2nd Half Total 1st Half 2nd Half Total Pace 40 40 79 Effic. 75.8 110.5 93.1 73.3 93.0 83.1 eFG% 32.8 63.5 46.6 43.1 53.0 48.4 TO% 22.7 20.1 21.4 32.8 30.1 31.5 OR% 30.4 21.4 27.0 23.5 38.9 31.4 FT Rate 34.4 65.4 48.3 17.2 12.1 14.5 Assist Rate 60.0 68.8 65.4 41.7 31.2 35.7 Block Rate 4.3 9.5 6.8 8.3 9.1 8.7 Steal Rate 20.2 7.5 13.8 17.7 5.0 11.3 2FG% 37.5 68.2 52.2 47.8 61.9 54.5 3FG% 12.5 25.0 16.7 16.7 25.0 22.2 FT% 81.8 64.7 71.4 80.0 50.0 66.7
Despite the score, this game was most certainly played at the Huskies pace - the 79 possessions played was 11 more than the Hoyas' adjusted season average, and 5 more than even Washington averages. The Huskies came into the game as the 25th fastest-paced team in the nation, and that will only go up.
Unfortunately for UW, they pushed the pace in part by turning the ball over more than 30% of the time, uncharacteristic for the normally stingy Husky offense (TO Rate = 17.5% before the game). Actually, Washington turned the ball over 21% and 25% their last two games coming in, so this may become a real problem for them.
Georgetown's offensive struggles in the Lift-Off half were simply from missing shots, particularly jump shots. They made only 1/8 3FG, but also missed 8 of their 9 2-pt jump shots. Hollis Thompson took a bagel (0/4 2FG), perhaps due to some jitters playing in front of family and friends. Greg Monroe (2/6 2FG, 0/1 3FG) and Austin Freeman (1/6 2FG, 1/3 3FG) also struggled from the field. Oh, and Austin Freeman missed a dunk that looked impressive up until the moment of consummation.
Julian Vaughn made all four of his free throw attempts in the half (and the game), so I will recuse myself from further snark for the foreseeable future (I blame the corrosive influence of CasualHoya for that).
Washington's offense had its own set of problems - the aforementioned turnovers, but the Huskies also couldn't grab many of their frequent misses (4 OReb on 17 chances), so when they did manage to get a shot off, it was generally one-and-done. The Hoyas forced 15 2FG jumpshots in the half, but UW was able to make 7 of those to stay close.
The Hoyas opened the Vesper half with Jason Clark taking about a 5-foot leaning jumper. Eight of the next nine shots were either layups or dunks (with a Clark 3FG thrown in for good measure), and the lead had ballooned to 20 points. Georgetown was never able to put the Huskies away, thanks in no small part to 8 turnovers in their last 28 possessions, but Austin Freeman and Chris Wright combined to hit 9/11 FT in the half to keep the Hoyas ahead.
Washington took a cue from the Hoyas and also pounded the ball in the paint in the 2nd half (16 of 21 2FGA were dunks, layups or tips), but couldn't combine their strong inside shooting with either outside shots or free throws to scrap all the way back.
INDIVIDUAL NET POINTS STATS Georgetown Off % Pts Def Pts Player Poss Poss O.Rtg Prod Poss D.Rtg Allow Net Pts Vaughn, Julian 44 23.2 161.0 16.5 45 57.9 5.2 +10.9 Monroe, Greg 73 18.4 105.0 14.1 73 80.7 11.8 +2.8 Wright, Chris 74 20.8 77.7 12.0 74 87.8 13.0 -1.3 Freeman, Austin 72 21.4 87.7 13.5 72 77.9 11.2 +1.9 Clark, Jason 76 17.8 87.8 11.9 75 73.3 11.0 +1.4 Thompson, Hollis 55 14.3 51.3 4.0 54 83.5 9.0 -3.8 Sanford, Vee 3 16.7 200.0 1.0 3 71.1 0.4 +0.6 Sims, Henry 3 33.3 0.0 0.0 4 60.0 0.5 -0.5 TOTALS 80 94.3 73.0 80 77.6 62.1 +12.1 Washington Off % Pts Def Pts Player Poss Poss O.Rtg Prod Poss D.Rtg Allow Net Pts Bryan-Amaning, Matt 56 15.6 55.0 4.8 54 87.7 9.5 -3.8 Pondexter, Quincy 65 29.7 113.4 21.9 67 84.1 11.3 +8.1 Overton, Venoy 43 16.3 34.1 2.4 41 81.8 6.7 -3.8 Thomas, Isaiah 62 27.8 98.7 17.0 63 94.7 11.9 +2.9 Turner, Elston 29 13.6 0.0 0.0 31 106.3 6.6 -5.4 Gaddy, Abdul 42 14.8 82.8 5.1 43 86.0 7.4 -1.2 Trent, Clarence 17 7.5 52.3 0.7 16 64.6 2.1 -0.8 Suggs, Scott 40 13.1 96.6 5.1 39 83.1 6.5 -0.4 Holiday, Justin 24 17.0 104.4 4.3 23 89.2 4.1 +0.4 Breshers, Tyreese 17 17.4 64.5 1.9 19 113.4 4.3 -1.9 Gant, Darnell 5 20.0 0.0 0.0 4 81.0 0.6 -0.7 TOTALS 80 82.0 63.1 80 88.7 71.0 -6.6
The six main players for Georgetown did a good job sharing the ball today, with the starters all averaging between 18-23% of possessions used.
The player of the game was Julian Vaughn, and if you saw the game, you probably didn't need me to tell you that. With two dunks and 5 made layups on 6 attempts, Vaughn scored as efficiently as you could hope. He had only 1 turnover to go along with an assist, 2 blocks, 3 OR and 4 DR in only 23 minutes, as he traded time with Hollis Thompson throughout the game. Vaughn was also the Hoyas' best defensive player.
Greg Monroe also chose to shoot from inside, taking 12 layup attempts and making six. He seemed to be trying to initiate contact without much success, and ended up taking a few layup attempts with a high degree of difficulty. The East German judge was not impressed. This was also easily Monroe's lowest possession usage game of the year (all previous games had been 25%+), helped both by only 2 turnovers and the high number of assists for the Hoyas in the game.
Austin Freeman and Jason Clark gave their typical workman-like efforts, but Chris Wright struggled with turnovers and Hollis Thompson lost his outside shooting touch.
The Huskies were essentially a two-man team, with Pondexter and Thomas producing more than 60% of UW's points. Justin Holiday played well in limited time.
Stats pages will be updated tomorrow.
HD BOX SCORE Georgetown vs Washington
12/12/09 11:00 am at Honda Center, Anaheim, CA
Final score: Georgetown 74, Washington 66
Georgetown Min +/- Pts 2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FGA A Stl TO Blk OR DR PF
Vaughn, Julian 23:13 +24 18/50 7- 9 0- 0 4- 4 9/33 1/11 0/45 1/44 2/21 3/17 4/21 3
Monroe, Greg 36:57 + 3 15/67 6-13 0- 1 3- 7 14/55 3/19 3/73 2/73 1/40 2/35 5/30 3
Wright, Chris 37:40 + 5 13/69 4- 6 0- 1 5- 7 7/54 3/21 0/74 5/74 0/43 0/34 5/34 2
Freeman, Austin 35:56 + 5 11/66 2- 7 1- 5 4- 4 12/51 4/19 3/72 3/72 0/41 3/34 3/32 0
Clark, Jason 37:31 + 6 13/68 4- 6 1- 5 2- 2 11/54 3/18 3/75 3/76 0/41 1/36 3/33 3
Thompson, Hollis 25:33 - 3 4/46 1- 5 0- 0 2- 4 5/40 2/14 2/54 3/55 0/31 0/28 3/22 3
Sanford, Vee 01:20 + 0 0/ 2 0- 0 0- 0 0- 0 0/ 1 1/ 1 0/ 3 0/ 3 0/ 1 0/ 0 0/ 2 0
Sims, Henry 01:50 + 0 0/ 2 0- 0 0- 0 0- 0 0/ 2 0/ 1 0/ 4 1/ 3 0/ 2 0/ 1 0/ 1 0
TOTALS 40:00 74 24-46 2-12 20-28 58 17/26 11/80 20/80 3/44 11/37 24/35 14
. 0.522 0.167 0.714 0.654 0.138 0.250 0.068 0.297 0.686
Washington Min +/- Pts 2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FGA A Stl TO Blk OR DR PF
Bryan-Amaning, Matt 28:25 - 6 5/42 2- 6 0- 0 1- 2 6/43 0/16 1/54 2/56 2/37 1/26 6/27 0
Pondexter, Quincy 33:50 - 8 23/59 10-14 0- 1 3- 3 15/54 2/15 5/67 6/65 0/39 2/29 4/31 3
Overton, Venoy 22:41 - 5 2/34 1- 4 0- 0 0- 0 4/32 1/13 2/41 3/43 0/29 0/18 2/22 4
Thomas, Isaiah 31:53 -10 21/52 6- 8 3-10 0- 2 18/48 2/12 0/63 4/62 0/36 0/28 5/27 4
Turner, Elston 15:01 -21 0/12 0- 1 0- 3 0- 0 4/20 0/ 5 0/31 1/29 0/20 0/16 2/14 2
Gaddy, Abdul 19:53 + 0 2/38 1- 3 0- 1 0- 0 4/35 3/16 1/43 3/42 0/18 3/18 1/16 3
Trent, Clarence 06:13 + 7 0/17 0- 0 0- 0 0- 0 0/14 0/ 7 0/16 1/17 0/ 4 1/ 8 2/ 5 0
Suggs, Scott 19:18 + 7 5/38 0- 1 1- 3 2- 2 4/31 2/15 0/39 1/40 1/20 0/16 0/19 3
Holiday, Justin 11:14 + 5 4/24 2- 4 0- 0 0- 0 4/20 0/ 9 0/23 2/24 0/15 2/ 9 2/13 0
Breshers, Tyreese 09:51 - 6 4/14 2- 2 0- 0 0- 0 2/11 0/ 4 0/19 2/17 1/ 9 0/ 5 0/ 8 1
Gant, Darnell 01:41 - 3 0/ 0 0- 1 0- 0 0- 0 1/ 2 0/ 0 0/ 4 0/ 5 0/ 3 0/ 2 0/ 3 0
TOTALS 40:00 66 24-44 4-18 6- 9 62 10/28 9/80 25/80 4/46 11/35 26/37 20
. 0.545 0.222 0.667 0.357 0.113 0.312 0.087 0.314 0.703
Efficiency: Georgetown 0.925, Washington 0.825
eFG%: Georgetown 0.466, Washington 0.484
Substitutions: Georgetown 21, Washington 29
2-pt Shot Selection:
Dunks: Georgetown 3-4, Washington 1-1
Layups/Tips: Georgetown 19-31, Washington 14-23
Jumpers: Georgetown 2-11, Washington 9-20
Fast break pts (% FG pts): Georgetown 10 (18.5), Washington 10 (16.7)
Pts (eff.) after steal: Georgetown 11 (100.0), Washington 9 (100.0)
Seconds per poss: Georgetown 15.9, Washington 14.2
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This likely only concerns a couple of true stats-geeks, but Alan and I were discussing the Net Points stat last week, which has led me to make a subtle change to the underlying math.
The original method for calculating Net Points was simply to add Points Produced and Points Allowed. Unfortunately, this tends to favor high usage players, who can score at inefficient rates but still put up positive Net Points simply by dominating possessions. An alternative is to multiply (Off. Rating - Def. Rating) by possessions used, but this gives the opposite effect, where low usage players with good efficiencies receiving a disproportionate amount of credit.
What I will do (and have done retroactively for this season) is to simply take the average of the two methods. Hopefully, this will do the best possible job of identifying each game's key players, and provide a useful alternative to the dreaded +/- stat.
P.S. - All of this comes straight from Dean Oliver's Basketball on Paper, Chapter 20, although if you're still reading all the way down here, you probably already knew that.
I don't know if the pun was intentional, but "stats dump" made me giggle.
ReplyDeleteHeckuva game from JV today.
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Truly love the in depth analysis, both stats and commentary, provided here. Appreciate you effort.
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