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Georgetown was able to take advantage of an undersized App. State team by pounding the ball inside and kept one of the nation's top scorers in check, thanks largely to Jason Clark's efforts.
Let's run the numbers:
TEMPO-FREE BOX SCORE . Home Visitor . Georgetown Appalachian State . 1st Half 2nd Half Total 1st Half 2nd Half Total Pace 33 35 68 Effic. 125.6 136.2 131.1 98.0 79.5 88.4 eFG% 54.8 72.4 63.3 52.0 32.3 41.1 TO% 15.3 19.9 17.7 24.5 19.9 22.1 OR% 40.0 44.4 41.7 26.7 39.1 34.2 FTA/FGA 22.6 27.6 25.0 32.0 38.7 35.7 Assist Rate 86.7 66.7 75.0 45.5 44.4 45.0 Block Rate 12.5 11.8 12.1 4.5 0.0 2.1 Steal Rate 24.5 17.0 20.6 6.1 14.2 10.3 2FG% 50.0 80.8 66.7 43.8 41.2 42.4 3FG% 44.4 0.0 33.3 44.4 14.3 26.1 FT% 100.0 75.0 86.7 75.0 66.7 70.0
The story of the game for Georgetown was points in the paint [GU 60, App St. 22]. But it wasn't simply a matter of the Hoya big men running wild: Julian Vaughn finished with 8 pts, Henry Sims with 6 and Nate Lubick with 11. Rather, it was the quality of shots that keyed that ridiculous advantage for Georgetown.
For the game, the Hoyas shot 48 times from inside the arc and only 11 of those were jump shots [4/11]. Instead, Georgetown relentlessly attacked the rim, and was rewarded with 6 dunks and 22/31 shooting on layups and tip-ins. This was especially true in the Vesper half, where the Hoyas 3/9 on all jump shots (2FGs and 3FGs), but 18/20 (!) from in close.
Now a bit of that hot shooting was luck, as I recall at least Wright, Thompson and Freeman having acrobatic lay-ins, but the principle was sound - in spite of the constant pounding down low, the Mountaineers could only get one block all game. There was simply little deterrent to the strategy, and the game was blown open by it.
After the Temple game, some may look at the box score and say "Hey, only 12 turnovers!" but an 18% TO rate for the game should be routine, not something to celebrate. There certainly could have been fewer turnovers today, as several Chris Wright dimes were left on the floor, and the game got particularly messy in the later stages of the Vesper half.
It has been pointed out that the 27 assists today tied for the most since Coach Thompson has been at Georgetown. That translates into an assist rate - the percentage of field goals that were off of an assist - of 75%, which is high but not unusual for the Hoyas. Indeed, they actually assisted on more than 80% of their makes earlier this year against Coastal Carolina. This was more the confluence of a high assist rate with a very high number of made shots. For what it's worth, the highest assist rate I've found for the Hoyas since 2004-5 was the day it rained 3s against Villanova in the Big East tournament - Georgetown has 25 assists on 28 made shots (including 17 3FG) for an 89% assist rate.
INDIVIDUAL NET POINTS STATS Georgetown Off % Pts Def Pts Player Poss Poss O.Rtg Prod Poss D.Rtg Allow Net Pts Thompson, Hollis 31 13.4 165.0 6.9 33 71.3 4.7 +3.0 Wright, Chris 49 18.6 115.4 10.5 50 86.8 8.7 +2.2 Freeman, Austin 51 24.4 105.2 13.1 51 101.1 10.3 +1.7 Clark, Jason 45 23.6 104.7 11.1 47 68.3 6.4 +4.3 Vaughn, Julian 20 31.0 137.2 8.5 20 42.1 1.7 +6.4 Starks, Markel 24 7.1 202.6 3.4 22 82.6 3.6 +0.9 Sanford, Vee 24 16.2 151.6 5.9 23 94.5 4.3 +1.9 Dougherty, Ryan 1 100.0 200.0 2.0 1 0.0 0.0 +2.0 Sims, Henry 44 14.8 78.1 5.1 44 103.8 9.1 -2.9 Benimon, Jerrelle 10 22.4 117.7 2.6 9 67.9 1.2 +1.3 Bowen, Aaron 4 12.5 200.0 1.0 4 0.0 0.0 +1.0 Ayegba, Moses 4 37.5 200.0 3.0 4 0.0 0.0 +3.0 Lubick, Nate 33 18.4 184.8 11.2 32 91.3 5.8 +5.5 TOTALS 68 127.9 84.4 68 82.3 56.0 +29.7 Appalachian State Off % Pts Def Pts Player Poss Poss O.Rtg Prod Poss D.Rtg Allow Net Pts Sims, Donald 62 24.5 99.7 15.2 62 101.8 12.6 +1.1 Booth, Jeremi 52 18.5 102.7 9.9 53 129.7 13.7 -3.2 Carter, Omar 43 15.6 51.2 3.4 42 126.8 10.6 -6.1 Woods, Mitch 17 23.5 50.0 2.0 16 150.3 4.8 -3.4 Williamson, Andre 58 15.3 90.9 8.1 58 128.0 14.9 -5.0 Thomas, Anthony 17 25.0 58.8 2.5 19 143.3 5.4 -3.3 Healy, Nathan 23 8.3 87.2 1.7 21 139.9 5.9 -2.6 Wright, Marcus 20 29.0 81.0 4.7 20 106.7 4.3 -0.5 Shaw, Griffin 4 0.0 - 0.0 4 200.0 1.6 -1.6 Archer, J.R 1 0.0 - 0.0 1 200.0 0.4 -0.4 Lail, Jacob 1 100.0 0.0 0.0 1 200.0 0.4 -1.2 Hausley, Petey 42 18.5 102.1 7.9 43 139.3 12.0 -3.5 TOTALS 68 84.9 55.3 68 127.4 86.7 -30.1
My stats parser has decided that Julian Vaughn was the star of the game - how can someone who only played 14 minutes, scored 8 points and committed two turnovers end up with top billing? Defense. After today's festivities, Coach Thompson noted that "the last two days were literally maybe five minutes of offense, it's been all defense." Mr. Vaughn seems to have taken the message.
Nate Lubick had his best game of the season by shooting only from 5 feet or less today, which works well with his skill set. He also delivered an unambiguous foul early in the game that set the tone for the afternoon. Again, within his skill set.
Hollis Thompson had a nicely efficient game on offense, although with light usage. Adrian Branch was calling the game and suggested that Hollis' scoring is the most suppressed by the big three guards. He may be right.
Chris Wright passed the ball, Jason Clark shot the ball and Austin Freeman drove the ball. All succeeded.
Moses Ayegba saw his first minutes of playing time, to general acclaim, and Aaron Bowen and Ryan Dougherty got their first points of the season as well. Ahhh, garbage time.
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Appalachian State vs Georgetown
12/12/10 12:00 at Verizon Center
Final score: Georgetown 89, Appalachian State 60
Appalachian State Min +/- Pts 2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FGA A Stl TO Blk OR DR PF
Sims, Donald 36:31 -16 14/60 4- 9 0- 5 6- 8 14/51 5/16 6/62 2/62 0/44 1/33 1/25 1
Booth, Jeremi 31:13 -18 14/50 1- 1 4-10 0- 0 11/42 0/12 0/53 2/52 0/38 1/27 1/20 1
Carter, Omar 24:40 -25 4/30 1- 4 0- 1 2- 4 5/33 0/ 8 1/42 0/43 0/30 0/26 1/15 0
Woods, Mitch 10:02 -12 2/12 0- 0 0- 0 2- 2 0/ 9 0/ 3 0/16 3/17 0/11 0/ 6 1/ 6 0
Williamson, Andre 34:24 -24 6/51 3- 7 0- 0 0- 0 7/47 3/14 0/58 2/58 1/42 3/31 5/24 3
Thomas, Anthony 10:35 -13 4/14 2- 4 0- 2 0- 0 6/19 0/ 4 0/19 1/17 0/15 0/13 0/ 8 1
Healy, Nathan 12:02 - 6 0/22 0- 2 0- 1 0- 0 3/18 0/ 6 0/21 0/23 0/13 2/13 2/ 3 0
Wright, Marcus 11:36 + 2 8/23 1- 1 2- 4 0- 0 5/16 1/ 5 0/20 2/20 0/12 0/ 9 0/ 7 3
Shaw, Griffin 01:59 - 8 0/ 0 0- 0 0- 0 0- 0 0/ 3 0/ 0 0/ 4 0/ 4 0/ 3 0/ 3 0/ 0 0
Archer, J.R 00:46 - 2 0/ 0 0- 0 0- 0 0- 0 0/ 1 0/ 0 0/ 1 0/ 1 0/ 1 0/ 1 0/ 0 0
Lail, Jacob 00:46 - 2 0/ 0 0- 0 0- 0 0- 0 0/ 1 0/ 0 0/ 1 1/ 1 0/ 1 1/ 1 0/ 0 0
Hausley, Petey 25:26 -21 8/38 2- 5 0- 0 4- 6 5/40 0/12 0/43 1/42 0/30 2/27 0/17 3
TOTALS 40:00 60 14-33 6-23 14-20 56 9/20 7/68 15/68 1/48 13/38 14/24 12
. 0.424 0.261 0.700 0.450 0.103 0.221 0.021 0.342 0.583
Georgetown Min +/- Pts 2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FGA A Stl TO Blk OR DR PF
Thompson, Hollis 20:08 +19 11/44 4- 4 1- 1 0- 0 5/29 1/14 1/33 1/31 1/17 1/11 3/22 1
Wright, Chris 29:38 + 9 6/57 3- 6 0- 1 0- 0 7/44 12/20 3/50 3/49 0/21 0/22 3/25 2
Freeman, Austin 31:14 +16 14/64 6-10 0- 3 2- 2 13/48 3/20 0/51 2/51 0/25 1/23 2/27 2
Clark, Jason 26:44 +20 15/60 3- 6 3- 6 0- 0 12/41 3/20 5/47 2/45 1/21 0/16 1/24 3
Vaughn, Julian 13:20 + 8 8/25 2- 3 0- 0 4- 6 3/20 0/ 8 1/20 2/20 0/11 3/11 5/14 3
Starks, Markel 13:21 +15 4/33 2- 2 0- 0 0- 0 2/22 2/10 1/22 0/24 0/14 0/10 0/15 3
Sanford, Vee 13:05 + 6 4/32 2- 3 0- 0 0- 0 3/17 3/11 3/23 0/24 0/10 0/ 4 0/12 0
Dougherty, Ryan 00:46 + 2 2/ 2 1- 1 0- 0 0- 0 1/ 1 0/ 0 0/ 1 0/ 1 0/ 1 0/ 0 0/ 1 0
Sims, Henry 24:41 +13 6/56 3- 5 0- 0 0- 0 5/37 1/20 0/44 2/44 1/21 0/14 4/21 3
Benimon, Jerrelle 06:02 + 6 2/12 0- 0 0- 1 2- 2 1/ 9 0/ 4 0/ 9 0/10 0/ 8 1/ 5 1/ 7 0
Bowen, Aaron 01:59 + 8 2/ 8 1- 1 0- 0 0- 0 1/ 3 0/ 2 0/ 4 0/ 4 1/ 1 0/ 0 0/ 3 0
Ayegba, Moses 01:59 + 8 4/ 8 1- 1 0- 0 2- 2 1/ 3 0/ 2 0/ 4 0/ 4 0/ 1 0/ 0 0/ 3 0
Lubick, Nate 17:03 +15 11/44 4- 6 0- 0 3- 3 6/26 2/13 0/32 0/33 0/14 2/ 9 5/16 3
TOTALS 40:00 89 32-48 4-12 13-15 60 27/36 14/68 12/68 4/33 10/24 25/38 20
. 0.667 0.333 0.867 0.750 0.206 0.176 0.121 0.417 0.658
Efficiency: Georgetown 1.309, Appalachian State 0.882
eFG%: Georgetown 0.633, Appalachian State 0.411
Substitutions: Georgetown 32, Appalachian State 23
2-pt Shot Selection:
Dunks: Georgetown 6-6, Appalachian State 0-0
Layups/Tips: Georgetown 22-31, Appalachian State 8-11
Jumpers: Georgetown 4-11, Appalachian State 6-22
Fast break pts (% FG pts): Georgetown 14 (18.4), Appalachian State 7 (15.2)
Pts (eff.) after steal: Georgetown 19 (135.7), Appalachian State 3 (42.9)
Seconds per poss: Georgetown 16.4, Appalachian State 18.9
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