Was this the worst loss of the season for the Hoyas? Not really, the South Florida game still rates worse.
Let's run the numbers:
TEMPO-FREE BOX SCORE . Visitor Home . Georgetown Rutgers . 1st Half 2nd Half Total 1st Half 2nd Half Total Pace 31 31 62 Effic. 103.6 115.7 109.8 106.8 122.1 114.6 eFG% 55.6 53.3 54.4 51.6 50.0 50.9 TO% 29.1 16.1 22.6 16.2 9.6 12.9 OR% 35.7 50.0 43.3 37.5 35.3 36.4 FTA/FGA 7.4 26.7 17.5 0.0 61.5 27.6 Assist Rate 69.2 25.0 44.8 66.7 63.6 65.4 Block Rate 4.5 16.7 10.0 15.8 12.0 13.6 Steal Rate 6.5 6.4 6.5 16.2 9.6 12.9 2FG% 47.4 64.0 56.8 54.5 38.9 47.5 3FG% 50.0 0.0 30.8 30.0 50.0 38.9 FT% 100.0 50.0 60.0 0.0 75.0 75.0
For whatever reason, the Hoyas couldn't be bothered to play defense today in Piscataway. Rutgers came into the game averaging about 0.95 points per possession in Big East play, but managed to score at a 1.15 pt/poss clip in the game.
How did they do it?
- Cut down on turnovers. Rutgers averages a 22% turnover rate in conference, but managed to commit only eight in the game. The 12.9% TO rate for this game was their best performance of the season.
- Made their 2-pt FGs in the Lift-off half. Rutgers has shot about 47% on 2FGs this year, while Georgetown allows teams to shoot about 45%. The Scarlet Knights made 8/15 dunk, lay-up and tip-in attempts, but also shot 4/7 on 2-pt jumpers.
- Made their 3-pt FGs in the Vesper half. Rutgers is shooting 33% on 3FGs in Big East play, but managed to make 4/8 3FGs in the second half. Mike Rosario was 0/6 behind the arc in the first half, but a solid 2/4 in the second.
- Mostly, they just didn't turn the ball over.
Offensively, the game was about as expected for Georgetown. First half turnovers and poor inside shooting were offset by hot outside shooting [Hollis Thompson 2/2 3FGs], and when the 3-ball stopped dropping the 2nd half [0/5, but the last was shot under duress], the Hoyas made their 2FGs [16/25 = 15/19 on layups and tip-ins; 1/6 on 2-pt jumpers] and gathered half of their own missed shots.
An obvious sore spot was the poor FT shooting in the 2nd half: Chris Wright missed both attempts and Austin Freeman missed the front-end of a 1-and-1. While this surely hurt, I'd say the inability to make stops on defense was the critical failure in the game.
INDIVIDUAL NET POINTS STATS Georgetown Off % Pts Def Pts Player Poss Poss O.Rtg Prod Poss D.Rtg Allow Net Pts Vaughn, Julian 41 15.3 74.4 4.7 41 120.8 9.9 -4.1 Monroe, Greg 61 30.6 109.5 20.4 60 109.3 13.1 +3.7 Wright, Chris 56 21.6 52.0 6.3 56 105.3 11.8 -6.0 Freeman, Austin 54 21.8 121.8 14.3 53 111.7 11.8 +1.9 Clark, Jason 58 12.6 121.3 8.9 59 108.9 12.9 -1.5 Thompson, Hollis 34 12.1 185.8 7.6 32 105.3 6.7 +2.1 Sanford, Vee 0 - - 0.0 1 200.0 0.4 -0.4 Benimon, Jerrelle 9 23.0 103.5 2.1 10 39.5 0.8 +1.3 Sims, Henry 2 0.0 - 0.0 3 136.7 0.8 -0.8 TOTALS 63 103.3 64.4 63 108.3 68.3 -3.5 Rutgers Off % Pts Def Pts Player Poss Poss O.Rtg Prod Poss D.Rtg Allow Net Pts MILLER, Dane 60 17.5 135.9 14.2 58 100.3 11.6 +3.2 MITCHELL, Jonathan 52 19.2 141.4 14.1 51 103.6 10.6 +3.6 NDIAYE, Hamady 49 24.8 111.9 13.6 47 96.4 9.1 +3.2 ROSARIO, Mike 58 24.3 70.7 9.9 57 109.3 12.5 -4.0 BEATTY, James 46 3.7 216.9 3.7 45 103.0 9.3 -1.8 JOHNSON, Austin 23 21.6 125.3 6.2 24 101.2 4.9 +1.3 JACKSON, Patrick 3 66.7 0.0 0.0 5 108.9 1.1 -1.6 COBURN, Mike 22 15.2 117.1 3.9 24 101.0 4.8 -0.2 OKAM, Brian 2 75.0 66.7 1.0 4 102.5 0.8 -0.2 TOTALS 63 110.8 66.7 63 102.5 64.6 +3.6
The old saw that Georgetown goes as Chris Wright goes is getting tired - I just wish there was a body of evidence to dispute it. The tally to date:
Chris Wright scores 10+ points: Georgetown 16-0There have been games when Chris Wright didn't score, but was still able to help the team (e.g. at Marquette). This was not one of those games. In spite of playing well on defense [3 steals, 3 def. rebounds], Chris was a severe liability on offense: by either advanced metric [ORating = 52, Pts. Produced = 6.3] this was his worst offensive game of the year, probably most closely resembling his effort against Old Dominion. His missed 3FGA with 0:11 left and the Hoyas trailing 66-67 was certainly defensible (he was wide open), but still caused me to yell "Oh no!" as he took the shot - I would have much preferred that he drove the lane to force the defense to react.
Chris Wright scores <10 points: Georgetown 2-6
Greg Monroe rates quite well tonight: he seemed to able to score against defensive stalwart Hamady N'Diaye with relative ease by using his quickness advantage, once again led the team with 6 assists and 8 rebounds [3 OR, 5 DR] and also had four blocks. His 5 turnovers also led the team, and might hint at something that the stats package doesn't pick up on - 4 of 5 turnovers were by a Rutgers steal, which they converted into 9 points. To be fair, only 4 of those 9 points were on a fast break (i.e. directly attributable to the steal), but this is something that I should be able to track in the future (i.e. next season).
Austin Freeman struggled from behind the arc today [1/6 3FG], his worst outside shooting effort since the ODU game. Otherwise, he was typical Austin Freeman, grinding out points, playing smart offensive and middling defensive basketball. Rutgers was very smart to give that foul with 0:06 left, as the shot he launched afterward was true. Unfortunately for Georgetown, he wasn't able to get a good look at the buzzer (but still almost made it).
Jason Clark played well at both ends, although he was a bit frustrated with the officiating - taking a silly charge late in the game. His defense in the first half on Mike Rosario was outstanding.
Julian Vaughn had a quiet and frankly poor game. He was held to 1 off. rebound for the second straight game, and - to my eye - struggled to recover after hedging out against guards.
Hollis Thompson had a nice game on the road, and Jerrelle Benimon made a
HD BOX SCORE
Georgetown vs Rutgers
2/14/10 4:00 p.m. at Piscataway, N.J. - The RAC
Final score: Rutgers 71, Georgetown 68
Georgetown Min +/- Pts 2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FGA A Stl TO Blk OR DR PF
Vaughn, Julian 24:47 - 4 6/45 3- 4 0- 0 0- 0 4/34 1/15 0/41 4/41 0/24 1/18 2/18 3
Monroe, Greg 38:35 + 4 19/68 7-13 1- 2 2- 3 15/56 6/21 0/60 5/61 4/38 3/29 5/34 0
Wright, Chris 36:36 - 5 6/62 2- 6 0- 2 2- 4 8/50 2/24 3/56 2/56 0/34 0/26 3/27 3
Freeman, Austin 33:37 - 5 17/54 6- 9 1- 6 2- 3 15/47 1/16 0/53 1/54 0/33 2/26 3/29 2
Clark, Jason 36:58 - 6 8/62 4- 5 0- 1 0- 0 6/51 3/23 0/59 2/58 0/37 2/27 4/31 5
Thompson, Hollis 20:32 + 5 10/39 2- 5 2- 2 0- 0 7/34 0/13 1/32 0/34 0/21 1/17 0/18 1
Sanford, Vee 00:06 - 2 0/ 0 0- 0 0- 0 0- 0 0/ 1 0/ 0 0/ 1 0/ 0 0/ 0 0/ 0 0/ 0 0
Benimon, Jerrelle 07:27 + 2 2/10 1- 2 0- 0 0- 0 2/11 0/ 4 0/10 1/ 9 0/ 9 1/ 6 3/10 1
Sims, Henry 01:22 - 4 0/ 0 0- 0 0- 0 0- 0 0/ 1 0/ 0 0/ 3 0/ 2 0/ 4 0/ 1 0/ 3 0
TOTALS 40:00 68 25-44 4-13 6-10 57 13/29 4/63 15/63 4/40 13/30 21/33 15
. 0.568 0.308 0.600 0.448 0.063 0.238 0.100 0.433 0.636
Rutgers Min +/- Pts 2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FGA A Stl TO Blk OR DR PF
MILLER, Dane 36:35 + 9 13/70 4- 8 1- 1 2- 4 9/55 4/21 1/58 2/60 2/39 3/31 7/27 2
MITCHELL, Jonathan 32:24 - 4 24/56 5- 6 4- 6 2- 2 12/47 1/11 2/51 1/52 0/35 1/29 6/22 1
NDIAYE, Hamady 29:04 + 7 11/55 4- 8 0- 0 3- 3 8/44 0/15 2/47 2/49 4/31 5/27 2/22 3
ROSARIO, Mike 35:41 + 9 10/68 1- 6 2-10 2- 3 16/54 3/22 0/57 2/58 0/36 0/31 0/24 1
BEATTY, James 29:09 + 2 2/51 0- 0 0- 1 2- 2 1/42 4/18 2/45 0/46 0/30 0/26 0/19 0
JOHNSON, Austin 15:32 + 5 6/29 3- 5 0- 0 0- 0 5/24 2/ 9 0/24 0/23 0/18 2/12 1/13 2
JACKSON, Patrick 03:25 - 6 0/ 1 0- 3 0- 0 0- 0 3/ 3 0/ 0 0/ 5 0/ 3 0/ 5 0/ 3 1/ 3 2
COBURN, Mike 15:10 - 5 3/23 1- 3 0- 0 1- 2 3/20 3/ 8 1/24 0/22 0/22 0/11 0/17 1
OKAM, Brian 03:00 - 2 2/ 2 1- 1 0- 0 0- 0 1/ 1 0/ 0 0/ 4 1/ 2 0/ 4 0/ 0 0/ 3 0
TOTALS 40:00 71 19-40 7-18 12-16 58 17/26 8/63 8/63 6/44 12/33 17/30 12
. 0.475 0.389 0.750 0.654 0.127 0.127 0.136 0.364 0.567
Efficiency: Rutgers 1.127, Georgetown 1.079
eFG%: Rutgers 0.509, Georgetown 0.544
Substitutions: Rutgers 20, Georgetown 18
2-pt Shot Selection:
Dunks: Rutgers 1-3, Georgetown 1-1
Layups/Tips: Rutgers 13-23, Georgetown 22-29
Jumpers: Rutgers 5-14, Georgetown 2-14
Fast break pts (% FG pts): Rutgers 11 (18.6), Georgetown 4 (6.5)
Pts (eff.) after steal: Rutgers 15 (187.5), Georgetown 4 (100.0)
Seconds per poss: Rutgers 18.7, Georgetown 19.3
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