Apparently, Coach Thompson and the Hoyas were also aware of this, as they managed to force the Johnnies into 43 jump shots tonight out of 59 total FG attempts. St. John's didn't make many of them [7/28 2FG jumpers, 4/15 3FG], and the rest was history. Last time at the Garden, the Redmen managed half of their field goal attempts at the hoop, and made 14/24 on their way to the win.
Georgetown won with the second largest victory of the season tonight, 77-52. Only the Appalachian State game was more lopsided.
Hollis Thompson is already trying to work out Big East tournament seeding possibilities to ensure that he gets to play against the Johnnies one more time this year.
This was probably a single-elimination game for the two teams, in that the loser tonight is now firmly settled into the 11th position in the Big East pecking order, with probably only 8 or 9 teams making it on to the NCAAs. With the win, Georgetown has climbed back to 4-4 in the conference heading into a tough Saturday-Monday set at Villanova and vs. Louisville.
Let's run the numbers:
TEMPO-FREE BOX SCORE . Home Visitor . Georgetown St. John's . 1st Half 2nd Half Total 1st Half 2nd Half Total Pace 33 36 68 Points 40 37 77 27 25 52 Effic. 122.8 104.2 113.0 82.9 70.4 76.3 eFG% 64.3 54.3 59.8 36.4 38.5 37.3 TO% 21.5 19.7 20.5 12.3 25.3 19.1 OR% 30.8 26.7 28.6 25.0 23.8 24.4 FTA/FGA 14.3 82.6 45.1 9.1 38.5 22.0 Assist Rate 80.0 81.8 80.8 54.5 33.3 45.0 Block Rate 7.7 11.1 9.1 5.6 6.7 6.1 Steal Rate 9.2 14.1 11.7 12.3 14.1 13.2 2FG% 50.0 53.3 51.5 34.6 38.9 36.4 3FG% 60.0 37.5 50.0 28.6 25.0 26.7 FT% 100.0 63.2 69.6 100.0 50.0 61.5
I don't have too many extra comments for you down here below the fold.
ESPN3 decided to cut out for the first 8 minutes of the second half, so I didn't get to see the 9-1 St. John's run to start the Vesper half that probably gave live viewers some angst.
What I did see included watching Hollis Thompson and Jason Clark combine to shoot 5/6 2FG and 5/5 3FG for the game. Nice.
I suppose the biggest story for the game is the change to the starting line-up: Nate Lubick replaced Hollis Thompson tonight as the starting power forward. Since I can look at such things, I thought I'd break out a few line-up efficiencies for the curious:
Lineup # poss OEff # poss DEff Clark-Freeman-Lubick-Vaughn-Wright 24 112 25 88 All with Lubick 36 114 36 92 All with Thompson 31 126 30 57 All with Lubick & Thompson 7 143 6 67 All lineups 66 117 68 76
What's interesting to me is that I believe that Lubick started over Thompson to improve the defense, but the team played much better defense when Hollis was on the floor. Why?
Thompson played 30 defensive possessions by my count, and on 22 of those, he was guarding the "3" position, as he had some combination of Vaughn/Sims and Lubick/Benimon on the court at the same time. In those situations, the team surrendered 12 points [DEff = 55]. Of course, on the possessions when Hollis was the second biggest player on the court for Georgetown, the team only gave up 5 points.
This is a bit of carryover from the last St. John's game, when Thompson was the best defender on the court for either team. In one sense, we didn't see a lot of of change tonight in spite of the line-up change.
Well, that's true except for one thing:
In conference play before tonight, Hollis spent 39% of his time on the floor as the small forward, and 61% of the time as the power forward. Tonight, he played about 3/4 of his possessions at small forward.
Stats pages will be updated tomorrow night.
INDIVIDUAL NET POINTS STATS Georgetown Off % Pts Def Pts Player Poss Poss O.Rtg Prod Poss D.Rtg Allow Net Pts Wright, Chris 52 23.5 97.5 11.9 54 74.9 8.1 +3.3 Freeman, Austin 51 17.7 123.9 11.2 51 90.6 9.2 +2.5 Clark, Jason 45 14.6 147.7 9.7 46 79.7 7.3 +3.4 Vaughn, Julian 42 12.0 152.4 7.7 44 69.7 6.1 +2.9 Lubick, Nate 36 28.7 91.7 9.5 36 80.2 5.8 +2.5 Thompson, Hollis 31 20.7 170.9 11.0 30 46.5 2.8 +8.1 Starks, Markel 20 22.2 22.0 1.0 21 66.4 2.8 -1.9 Sanford, Vee 6 16.7 0.0 0.0 6 59.0 0.7 -0.6 Dougherty, Ryan 4 0.0 - 0.0 4 35.0 0.3 -0.3 Sims, Henry 16 8.7 214.1 3.0 16 67.0 2.1 +1.4 Benimon, Jerrelle 19 24.8 80.2 3.8 20 67.1 2.7 +0.9 Caprio, John 4 25.0 200.0 2.0 4 35.0 0.3 +1.7 Ayegba, Moses 9 22.2 0.0 0.0 8 30.1 0.5 -0.5 TOTALS 67 110.1 70.7 68 71.7 48.7 +24.1 St. John's Off % Pts Def Pts Player Poss Poss O.Rtg Prod Poss D.Rtg Allow Net Pts POLEE II, Dwayne 35 17.0 66.7 4.0 35 117.1 8.2 -3.6 KENNEDY, D.J 47 19.1 76.0 6.8 44 115.2 10.1 -3.4 HARDY, Dwight 51 23.7 82.0 9.9 50 110.4 11.0 -2.3 HORNE, Paris 34 17.2 75.5 4.4 33 102.5 6.8 -2.0 BROWNLEE, Justin 58 23.0 74.8 10.0 57 116.1 13.2 -4.4 BOOTHE, Malik 38 17.6 81.5 5.4 39 106.2 8.3 -2.2 EVANS, Sean 10 10.0 0.0 0.0 10 103.5 2.1 -1.6 BURRELL, Justin 43 21.6 113.1 10.5 42 109.5 9.2 +0.8 STITH, Malik 18 23.1 8.3 0.3 19 84.4 3.2 -3.0 EDISON, Cameron 6 14.5 100.0 0.9 6 60.0 0.7 +0.2 TOTALS 68 76.6 52.3 67 108.7 72.9 -21.1
HD BOX SCORE
St. John's vs Georgetown
01/26/11 7:00 at Verizon Center
Final score: Georgetown 77, St. John's 52
St. John's Min +/- Pts 2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FGA A Stl TO Blk OR DR PF
POLEE II, Dwayne 19:59 -11 4/30 2- 7 0- 0 0- 0 7/34 1/ 9 1/35 1/35 0/15 1/25 2/12 1
KENNEDY, D.J 29:19 -22 7/35 1- 2 1- 4 2- 4 6/43 2/11 2/44 2/47 2/23 1/33 4/18 3
HARDY, Dwight 30:59 -17 10/41 2- 8 2- 8 0- 0 16/48 0/12 1/50 1/51 0/29 3/35 2/24 2
HORNE, Paris 19:31 -13 5/25 1- 1 1- 2 0- 1 3/28 1/ 8 2/33 2/34 0/17 1/21 0/15 5
BROWNLEE, Justin 34:45 -21 9/47 4-10 0- 0 1- 2 10/51 1/14 1/57 3/58 0/31 3/37 2/25 2
BOOTHE, Malik 21:40 -12 4/31 2- 4 0- 0 0- 0 4/29 3/11 1/39 2/38 0/19 1/17 1/15 1
EVANS, Sean 05:15 - 4 0/ 5 0- 0 0- 0 0- 0 0/ 8 0/ 2 0/10 1/10 0/ 2 0/ 6 1/ 3 2
BURRELL, Justin 24:35 -21 12/29 4- 8 0- 0 4- 4 8/32 0/ 7 0/42 1/43 0/21 0/24 8/17 4
STITH, Malik 11:19 - 5 0/14 0- 3 0- 1 0- 0 4/18 1/ 5 1/19 0/18 0/ 8 0/14 0/ 9 3
EDISON, Cameron 02:38 + 1 1/ 3 0- 1 0- 0 1- 2 1/ 4 0/ 1 0/ 6 0/ 6 0/ 0 0/ 3 0/ 2 0
TOTALS 40:00 52 16-44 4-15 8-13 59 9/20 9/67 13/68 2/33 10/41 20/28 23
. 0.364 0.267 0.615 0.450 0.134 0.191 0.061 0.244 0.714
Georgetown Min +/- Pts 2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FGA A Stl TO Blk OR DR PF
Wright, Chris 31:37 +17 9/60 3-10 1- 2 0- 0 12/44 6/17 2/54 2/52 0/34 1/24 2/33 3
Freeman, Austin 30:45 +25 14/67 2- 5 3- 8 1- 1 13/42 2/18 0/51 0/51 0/33 0/21 1/29 0
Clark, Jason 26:59 +15 16/56 2- 2 3- 3 3- 6 5/33 2/14 2/46 1/45 0/31 0/16 5/27 2
Vaughn, Julian 25:48 +15 9/52 3- 3 0- 0 3- 4 3/35 4/14 1/44 1/42 2/29 0/20 8/28 1
Lubick, Nate 21:24 + 8 6/41 2- 5 0- 0 2- 3 5/27 2/12 1/36 4/36 0/22 3/15 3/20 3
Thompson, Hollis 18:42 +22 15/39 3- 4 2- 2 3- 3 6/23 1/ 9 1/30 1/31 0/18 1/10 5/22 1
Starks, Markel 11:46 + 1 0/15 0- 1 0- 1 0- 0 2/13 2/ 5 0/21 3/20 0/15 0/ 9 2/17 0
Sanford, Vee 02:38 - 1 0/ 2 0- 0 0- 1 0- 0 1/ 1 0/ 0 0/ 6 0/ 6 0/ 4 0/ 2 0/ 3 0
Dougherty, Ryan 01:32 + 1 0/ 2 0- 0 0- 0 0- 0 0/ 1 0/ 0 0/ 4 0/ 4 0/ 2 0/ 2 0/ 2 0
Sims, Henry 10:30 + 8 4/18 2- 2 0- 0 0- 0 2/13 2/ 5 0/16 0/16 0/10 0/ 6 2/12 2
Benimon, Jerrelle 13:05 +11 2/24 0- 1 0- 1 2- 2 2/19 0/ 8 0/20 1/19 2/15 2/11 1/17 2
Caprio, John 01:32 + 1 2/ 2 0- 0 0- 0 2- 2 0/ 1 0/ 0 0/ 4 0/ 4 0/ 2 0/ 2 0/ 2 0
Ayegba, Moses 03:42 + 2 0/ 7 0- 0 0- 0 0- 2 0/ 3 0/ 2 1/ 8 1/ 9 0/ 5 0/ 2 1/ 3 1
TOTALS 40:00 77 17-33 9-18 16-23 51 21/26 8/68 14/67 4/44 8/28 31/41 15
. 0.515 0.500 0.696 0.808 0.118 0.209 0.091 0.286 0.756
Efficiency: Georgetown 1.149, St. John's 0.765
eFG%: Georgetown 0.598, St. John's 0.373
Substitutions: Georgetown 39, St. John's 26
2-pt Shot Selection:
Dunks: Georgetown 5-5, St. John's 0-0
Layups/Tips: Georgetown 7-12, St. John's 9-16
Jumpers: Georgetown 5-16, St. John's 7-28
Fast break pts (% FG pts): Georgetown 8 (13.1), St. John's 11 (25.0)
Pts (eff.) after steal: Georgetown 8 (100.0), St. John's 9 (100.0)
Seconds per poss: Georgetown 17.0, St. John's 18.5
Favorite stat of the night: 21 AST on 26 made FGs.
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