Saturday, January 15, 2011

Recap: Georgetown 74, Rutgers 65

Georgetown's outside shooting touch returned in a big way in Piscataway this afternoon, as the Hoyas made 11 of 22 shots from behind the arc in a 74-65 win over Rutgers.

It certainly wasn't a showcase win, but at least the Hoyas were able to end a remarkable cold streak on 3FG in conference play. Now if they can figure out how to improve their defensive rebounding, and win the battle of turnover margin, they just might reach their ceiling.

Stats on the Georgetown athletics department website currently lack substitution info, so you'll only get a tempo-free box score for now.

Hopefully Mex Carey can rectify the situation, and a full recap will be forthcoming tonight.

Stats are now complete.

Let's run the numbers:

TEMPO-FREE BOX SCORE
 
.            Visitor                         Home      
.            Georgetown                      Rutgers         
.            1st Half  2nd Half   Total      1st Half  2nd Half   Total
Pace            28        32        59

Effic.        112.7     134.8     124.7        90.9     125.4     109.5  
 
eFG%           51.9      68.2      59.4        44.4      51.6      48.3  
TO%            21.8      25.1      23.6        21.8      18.8      20.2  
OR%            42.9      46.2      44.4        37.5      55.6      47.1  
FTA/FGA        15.4      68.2      39.6         7.4      35.5      22.4  
 
Assist Rate    41.7      36.4      39.1        81.8      35.7      56.0  
Block Rate     14.3      14.3      14.3         6.2      50.0      23.1  
Steal Rate     10.9       9.4      10.1        10.9      12.5      11.8  
 
2FG%           56.2      30.0      46.2        42.9      47.6      45.2  
3FG%           30.0      66.7      50.0        33.3      40.0      37.5  
FT%           100.0      86.7      89.5        50.0      72.7      69.2

Sometime, I wonder if my take on the game is at all similar to what others think.

The first half of today's game was encouraging to see, even though Georgetown continued to scuffle from deep [3/10 3FG].  Coming into the game, we'd expect the Hoyas to score about 1.15 point per possession, and they got very close simply by grinding away.  Julian Vaughn and Nate Lubick each grabbed two offensive rebounds while the team as a whole went 8/10 on layups (although Vaughn's missed dunk has been noted).  Georgetown still lost the ball too many times (6 TOs on 28 possessions), but at least forced the Scarlet Knights into as many.  Overall, the defense played well, and the offense did enough to build a lead.

The Vesper half was a bit worrisome for me.  The team scored 43 points, but made only 3/10 on 2FGs (including 3/7 on layups) and committed 8 turnovers on 32 possessions.  Instead, the Hoyas shot out of their (conference) minds in the half, going 8/12 from behind the arc.  Meanwhile, Rutgers started to improve their shooting accuracy as well, but also combined a +2 turnover margin in the half with 10 offensive rebounds (on 18 available misses) to manage nine more shots from the floor than Georgetown, while only attempting 4 fewer free throws.

The outside shooting exhibition in the second half is not likely to happen again this season, and the team can't consider itself cured of what ails it.  But what we saw just may be the best (or only) way for Georgetown to win games the rest of the season:  they scraped and clawed on defense and the boards just long enough for the outside shooting to find its way, and once that got rolling, rode it to the win.

It's not a very satisfying way to win games, but sometimes it's all you've got.


INDIVIDUAL NET POINTS STATS

Georgetown            Off     %           Pts      Def           Pts   
Player                Poss  Poss  O.Rtg   Prod     Poss  D.Rtg  Allow    Net Pts
Thompson, Hollis       32   16.9  117.3    6.3      33   109.0    7.2      -0.2  
Vaughn, Julian         44   11.1  130.6    6.4      45   101.2    9.1      -0.6  
Wright, Chris          55   20.9   97.1   11.2      54   109.9   11.9      -1.1  
Freeman, Austin        55   31.2  147.0   25.2      55    94.1   10.3     +12.0  
Clark, Jason           47   19.0  120.5   10.7      48   102.6    9.8      +1.2  
Starks, Markel          9    6.7  300.0    1.8       9   138.8    2.5      +0.1  
Sims, Henry            12   20.5   37.6    0.9      11    99.5    2.2      -1.4  
Benimon, Jerrelle       6   19.7   31.0    0.4       5   131.8    1.3      -1.1  
Lubick, Nate           40   12.9  133.2    6.9      40    95.5    7.6      +0.6  
TOTALS                 60         121.9   69.9      60   103.3   62.0      +9.5  

Rutgers               Off     %           Pts      Def           Pts   
Player                Poss  Poss  O.Rtg   Prod     Poss  D.Rtg  Allow    Net Pts
JOHNSON, Austin        30   12.2   35.8    1.3      29   125.7    7.3      -4.6  
MITCHELL, Jonathan     48   22.0  112.8   11.9      47   132.7   12.5      -1.3  
BEATTY, James          52   12.8  161.6   10.8      53   120.4   12.8      +0.4  
MILLER, Dane           46   14.7  124.4    8.4      46   116.3   10.7      -0.9  
COBURN, Mike           42   24.3   91.8    9.4      43   111.6    9.6      -1.1  
LUMPKINS, Robert       20   18.3   36.3    1.3      20    98.7    3.9      -2.5  
POOLE, Mike            32   20.4   80.3    5.2      30   117.1    7.0      -2.1  
BIRUTA, Gilvydas       30   35.7  129.5   13.9      32   122.3    7.8      +3.4  
TOTALS                 60         105.9   62.2      60   119.4   71.6      -8.7

I don't know how many times I've written this, but I really don't think enough Hoya fans appreciate just how good a scorer Austin Freeman can be when his shot starts dropping.  That was about the quietest 25 point game you're ever going to see - I was shocked he even got to 20, but there he was.  To me, the moment where I said, "Uh-oh, he may have found it" was the fade-away jumper from the elbow near the end of the first half.  When that went in, I wanted to believe.  He seems to have the knack for riding a hot hand without disrupting the flow of the offense.

Chris Wright also broke out his shooting slump with the 3/5 3FG day, but the rest of his game was a bit off [e.g. 0 A : 4 TOs].

Hollis Thompson and Jason Clark had good news / bad news games, with Clark still struggling from outside but scoring efficiently in the paint, while Thompson missing some bunnies but finding the range behind the arc.


 And that's about it from me.  I'll try to get all the stats pages updated sometime on Sunday.  On to South Orange.


HD BOX SCORE

Georgetown vs Rutgers
1/15/11 12 noon at Piscataway, N.J. - The RAC
Final score: Georgetown 74, Rutgers 65

Georgetown              Min   +/-   Pts  2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A  FGA    A    Stl    TO   Blk    OR    DR   PF
Thompson, Hollis       20:35  + 4   8/39  1- 5  2- 3  0- 0  8/26  0/ 8  0/33  1/32  2/19  1/16  1/18   4
Vaughn, Julian         31:15  +11   4/56  1- 3  0- 0  2- 2  3/37  2/17  0/45  2/44  2/28  2/21  3/24   2
Wright, Chris          35:34  +14  15/71  2- 4  3- 5  2- 3  9/44  0/17  0/54  4/55  1/36  0/24  2/32   2
Freeman, Austin        36:56  +10  25/70  2- 6  4- 6  9- 9 12/44  4/16  1/55  2/55  0/39  2/24  7/32   1
Clark, Jason           32:01  +10  13/64  4- 4  1- 6  2- 2 10/38  1/15  2/48  1/47  0/31  0/19  2/22   1
Starks, Markel         06:27  - 7   3/ 5  0- 1  1- 2  0- 0  3/ 7  0/ 0  0/ 9  0/ 9  0/11  0/ 6  0/ 6   1
Sims, Henry            07:56  - 1   2/12  1- 1  0- 0  0- 0  1/11  0/ 4  1/11  2/12  0/11  0/ 6  0/ 6   0
Benimon, Jerrelle      04:12  - 2   0/ 4  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 3  0/ 1  0/ 5  1/ 6  1/ 7  1/ 2  0/ 5   1
Lubick, Nate           25:04  + 6   4/49  1- 2  0- 0  2- 3  2/30  2/14  2/40  0/40  0/28  2/17  2/25   2
TOTALS                 40:00       74    12-26 11-22 17-19    48  9/23  6/60 14/60  6/42 12/27 18/34  14
.                                        0.462 0.500 0.895       0.391 0.100 0.233 0.143 0.444 0.529    

Rutgers                 Min   +/-   Pts  2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A  FGA    A    Stl    TO   Blk    OR    DR   PF
JOHNSON, Austin        19:59  - 8   2/29  1- 2  0- 0  0- 0  2/23  0/ 9  1/29  2/30  1/14  0/13  1/12   0
MITCHELL, Jonathan     32:40  -10  13/53  2- 5  2- 6  3- 4 11/49  3/16  1/47  1/48  0/19  3/29  1/19   1
BEATTY, James          34:27  -13  12/55  1- 5  3- 4  1- 2  9/51  3/17  1/53  1/52  0/24  2/31  2/24   3
MILLER, Dane           31:33  - 5   9/51  2- 7  1- 1  2- 2  8/46  3/17  1/46  0/46  3/20  1/27  4/19   4
COBURN, Mike           28:05  -10   9/42  4- 8  0- 2  1- 1 10/41  2/13  2/43  1/42  0/18  2/25  2/18   1
LUMPKINS, Robert       11:00  + 4   2/26  1- 2  0- 2  0- 0  4/23  0/10  1/20  1/20  0/ 8  0/12  1/10   3
POOLE, Mike            20:02  + 2   4/36  2- 4  0- 1  0- 0  5/26  2/11  0/30  3/32  1/13  1/14  2/16   2
BIRUTA, Gilvydas       22:14  - 5  14/33  6- 9  0- 0  2- 4  9/31  1/ 7  0/32  3/30  1/14  5/19  1/17   4
TOTALS                 40:00       65    19-42  6-16  9-13    58 14/25  7/60 12/60  6/26 16/34 15/27  18
.                                        0.452 0.375 0.692       0.560 0.117 0.200 0.231 0.471 0.556    

Efficiency: Georgetown 1.233, Rutgers 1.083
eFG%: Georgetown 0.594, Rutgers 0.483
Substitutions: Georgetown 31, Rutgers 39

2-pt Shot Selection:
Dunks: Georgetown 0-1, Rutgers 0-0
Layups/Tips: Georgetown 11-17, Rutgers 13-24
Jumpers: Georgetown 1-8, Rutgers 6-18

Fast break pts (% FG pts): Georgetown 6 (10.5), Rutgers 2 (3.6)
Pts (eff.) after steal: Georgetown 8 (133.3), Rutgers 7 (100.0)
Seconds per poss: Georgetown 19.8, Rutgers 20.1


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