Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Recap: Syracuse 73, Georgetown 56

Sometimes this team can take apart a zone, and sometimes they look completely clueless.

Credit the Orange for forcing the latter, though the Hoyas played their own role. After getting out to a quick 14-0 start, Jim Boeheim made the simple adjustment of extending the zone on the shooters (and specifically Austin Freeman), forcing the Hoyas to either take deeper threes or to try and attack the seams in their 2-3 zone.

The Hoyas were tricky. They did neither.

Instead, the Hoyas committed turnovers on 7 of their next 13 possessions and watched their lead shrink to two points.  In fact, that was the start of a 48 possession stretch (from 16:36 in the 1st half to 6:27 in the 2nd half) where Georgetown committed 19 turnovers - that's a TO rate = 39.6%.  Which generally makes folks think of Bill Paxton in "Aliens": Game over.

However, it was worse than that. On most possessions, the Hoyas refused to attack the zone, often tossing the ball back and forth across the top. In the early going, this often led to a poor shot or a lazy turnover as they became predictable.

The few times the ball did go to the holes in the zone, the result was often a turnover. Much credit should go to Syracuse's length. They kept the Hoya guards from attempting many passes -- even skip passes across the zone rarely occurred, presumably because of worries about Syracuse's height and quickness.

When the team didn't turn it over, generally good things happened, though Syracuse's size often posed an additional problem in terms of converting down low.

It was ugly, and there's really no getting around it.

The good news is that the Hoyas really aren't this bad, and I'm not sure this game even says that much about the Hoyas-Orange rematch at Verizon later this year. Hopefully it turns into a learning experience and motivates the team. Because there's not much else good there.

Let's run the numbers:

TEMPO-FREE BOX SCORE 

.            Visitor                         Home      
.            Georgetown                      Syracuse         

.            1st Half  2nd Half   Total      1st Half  2nd Half   Total

Pace            31        38        68
Effic.         94.2      71.9      82.1       110.4     103.8     107.0   

eFG%           60.4      42.0      51.0        60.4      54.8      57.8  
TO%            32.5      24.0      27.8        16.2      26.6      22.0  
OR%            25.0      10.0      15.6         9.1      35.7      24.0  
FTA/FGA         0.0      44.0      22.4        25.0     104.8      62.2   

Assist Rate    66.7      66.7      66.7        76.9      72.7      75.0  
Block Rate     11.1       0.0       5.9        14.3      42.9      28.6  
Steal Rate      3.2      21.3      13.2        22.7      16.0      19.1   

2FG%           50.0      42.9      46.4        55.6      62.5      58.8  
3FG%           50.0      27.3      38.1        50.0      20.0      36.4  
FT%             0.0      54.5      54.5        83.3      72.7      75.0


The only thing to note here is that no one had a good game. Oh, Austin Freeman and Jason Clark shot relatively well, but no one played well.

The guards refused to test the zone with any consistency, despite better results when they did. The bigs barely saw the ball, but turned it over often when they did and failed to grab any offensive boards to make it easier on them.

Defensively, the team wasn't strong but became an absolute sieve when the bench came in. And the offense got worse.

There's nothing much to see here.

On the other side, it doesn't help when you hit a game where Rautins is on fire and somehow Scoop Jardine is making shots all over the place. I wasn't impressed with the defense watching it, but the results actually weren't all that poor, considering how good Syracuse has been and the fact that the game was at the Dome.

INDIVIDUAL NET POINTS STATS

Georgetown            Off     %           Pts      Def           Pts   
Player                Poss  Poss  O.Rtg   Prod     Poss  D.Rtg  Allow    Net Pts
Vaughn, Julian         38   13.9   73.7    3.9      40    85.2    6.8      -1.8  
Monroe, Greg           48   25.4   52.2    6.4      47   103.5    9.7      -4.8  
Wright, Chris          66   18.5   83.2   10.2      67   105.6   14.2      -3.4  
Freeman, Austin        68   29.0   99.8   19.7      67   101.1   13.5      +2.9  
Clark, Jason           58   21.8  104.5   13.2      56    96.3   10.8      +1.7  
Thompson, Hollis       26    8.6   23.5    0.5      24   108.3    5.2      -3.3  
Sanford, Vee            5   26.2   59.5    0.8       5    96.0    1.0      -0.3  
Benimon, Jerrelle      36    8.9   13.8    0.4      34   114.5    7.8      -5.3  
Sims, Henry             5   20.0    0.0    0.0       5   140.0    1.4      -1.4  
TOTALS                 70          78.9   55.1      69   102.0   70.4     -15.6  

Syracuse              Off     %           Pts      Def           Pts   
Player                Poss  Poss  O.Rtg   Prod     Poss  D.Rtg  Allow    Net Pts
JACKSON, Rick          36   22.4  100.7    8.1      38    78.8    6.0      +1.9  
JOHNSON, Wes           66   25.7   80.9   13.7      66    70.8    9.4      +3.0  
ONUAKU, Arinze         42   18.5   85.9    6.7      43    88.9    7.6      -0.6  
RAUTINS, Andy          66   19.6  128.4   16.6      67    64.9    8.7      +8.0  
TRICHE, Brandon        43   16.4   73.8    5.2      45    98.8    8.9      -2.7  
JARDINE, Scoop         34   16.4  144.7    8.1      31    80.9    5.0      +3.3  
REESE, Brandon          0    0.0    -      0.0       1   300.0    0.6      -0.6  
JOSEPH, Kris           58   14.5  142.9   12.0      59    72.4    8.5      +4.7  
TOTALS                 69         105.5   70.4      70    78.2   54.7     +17.4


HD BOX SCORE

Georgetown vs Syracuse
1/25/10 7:03 p.m. at Carrier Dome, Syracuse, NY
Final score: Syracuse 73, Georgetown 56
Georgetown              Min   +/-   Pts  2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A  FGA    A    Stl    TO   Blk    OR    DR   PF
Vaughn, Julian         24:37  + 1   3/36  1- 2  0- 0  1- 2  2/25  1/12  1/40  2/38  0/24  1/15  2/21   3
Monroe, Greg           28:34  -15   8/38  4- 7  0- 0  0- 0  7/33  0/10  1/47  7/48  1/26  0/22  4/16   5
Wright, Chris          37:33  -22   7/48  3- 4  0- 6  1- 3 10/46  7/15  1/67  1/66  1/33  0/32  2/23   4
Freeman, Austin        38:37  -17  23/54  5-11  4- 7  1- 2 18/47  0/11  2/67  3/68  0/32  3/31  3/24   1
Clark, Jason           33:05  - 6  15/52  0- 3  4- 7  3- 4 10/42  3/15  2/56  2/58  0/26  1/27  2/22   3
Thompson, Hollis       14:45  - 8   0/20  0- 0  0- 1  0- 0  1/19  1/ 8  1/24  1/26  0/13  0/11  1/ 7   1
Sanford, Vee           01:19  - 1   0/ 5  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 4  1/ 2  1/ 5  1/ 5  0/ 0  0/ 2  0/ 0   0
Benimon, Jerrelle      18:52  -15   0/22  0- 1  0- 0  0- 0  1/25  1/ 9  0/34  2/36  0/13  0/18  2/10   2
Sims, Henry            02:38  - 2   0/ 5  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 4  0/ 2  0/ 5  1/ 5  0/ 3  0/ 2  1/ 2   1
TOTALS                 40:00       56    13-28  8-21  6-11    49 14/21  9/69 20/70  2/34  5/32 19/25  20
.                                        0.464 0.381 0.545       0.667 0.130 0.286 0.059 0.156 0.760    

Syracuse                Min   +/-   Pts  2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A  FGA    A    Stl    TO   Blk    OR    DR   PF
JACKSON, Rick          20:29  + 7   8/38  4- 8  0- 0  0- 2  8/22  1/ 9  1/38  1/36  3/15  2/12  2/19   2
JOHNSON, Wes           38:51  +20  14/71  4- 7  1- 2  3- 3  9/45  2/19  3/66  7/66  4/27  1/25  8/30   0
ONUAKU, Arinze         25:42  + 6   7/42  3- 7  0- 0  1- 3  7/31  1/13  0/43  1/42  0/15  1/17  6/18   3
RAUTINS, Andy          38:10  +22  15/73  0- 2  2- 6  9-10  8/43  6/22  6/67  1/66  0/27  0/23  1/32   2
TRICHE, Brandon        24:42  + 3   5/44  1- 1  0- 1  3- 4  2/25  2/12  0/45  3/43  0/17  0/15  3/22   2
JARDINE, Scoop         18:23  +13   9/35  3- 3  1- 1  0- 0  4/22  4/ 7  0/31  2/34  0/13  0/12  2/12   0
REESE, Brandon         00:20  - 3   0/ 0  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 0  0/ 0  0/ 1  0/ 0  0/ 0  0/ 0  0/ 0   0
JOSEPH, Kris           33:23  +17  15/62  5- 6  0- 1  5- 6  7/37  2/14  3/59  0/58  1/26  0/21  2/27   0
TOTALS                 40:00       73    20-34  4-11 21-28    45 18/24 13/70 15/69  8/28  6/25 27/32   9
.                                        0.588 0.364 0.750       0.750 0.186 0.217 0.286 0.240 0.844    

Efficiency: Syracuse 1.058, Georgetown 0.800
eFG%: Syracuse 0.578, Georgetown 0.510
Substitutions: Syracuse 20, Georgetown 27

2-pt Shot Selection:
Dunks: Syracuse 4-5, Georgetown 1-1
Layups/Tips: Syracuse 11-13, Georgetown 9-16
Jumpers: Syracuse 5-16, Georgetown 3-11

Fast break pts (% FG pts): Syracuse 10 (19.2), Georgetown 11 (22.0)
Pts (eff.) after steal: Syracuse 13 (100.0), Georgetown 13 (144.4)
Seconds per poss: Syracuse 15.8, Georgetown 19.0



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