While it has been very quiet around these parts for the past few months, I was prodded by someone over at Hoyatalk to dust off the old Cray II computer in my mom's basement and run some lineup stats for your beloved Georgetown Hoyas.
Now this is a bit of a tricky task this year, since the loss of Greg Whittington has forced the team to re-make itself on the fly, to surprisingly good results.
So, in light of the new WithOut Whittington era now upon us, I decided to break out the season into two parts,
much like OverTheHilltop did over at Casual Hoya. One difference, though: instead of looking at all thirteen games played with Greg, I decided to pare the list down to the nine games either against top-150 competition or where the game remained competitive into the second half.
WithWhit WoW
Duquesne St. John's (a)
UCLA Providence
Indiana S. Florida
Tennessee Notre Dame
Texas Louisville
Towson Seton Hall
W. Carolina St. John's (h)
Marquette (a) Rutgers (a)
Pittsburgh Marquette (h)
. Cincinnati
First, let's take a look at lineup minutes by position, using the same rules
we've used before
- players are sorted by height, shortest to tallest, with weight
serving as the tie-breaker (
one exception here: even though Whittington is bigger than Porter, I slot Otto in the bigger position between the two). All heights and weights come from the
GU website. Not all slots will add up to 40 minutes, both due to rounding and
because I don't show any player with less than a minute played at a
position.
WithWhit:
- Starks [31], Smith-Rivera [9]
- Trawick [19], Whittington [9], Smith-Rivera [9], Domingo [2]
- Whittington [24], Porter [11], Trawick [4], Domingo [2]
- Porter [23], Lubick [14], Whittington [3]
- Hopkins [22], Lubick [14], Ayegba [4]
WoW:
- Starks [37], Smith-Rivera [3]
- Smith-Rivera [26], Trawick [13], Caprio [1]
- Trawick [15], Porter [15], Bowen [9]
- Porter [19], Lubick [18], Bowen [1], Hopkins [1]
- Hopkins [20], Lubick [11], Ayegba [9]
In spite of starting as the shooting guard, Greg spent about 2/3 of his time on the court as the small forward - his natural position - and this is where Coach Thompson had to now find players to fill those minutes.
Jabril Trawick has picked up about 10 of those available minutes per game, playing as a slightly undersized "3" in conference play, depending upon match-up. Also, Aaron Bowen has stepped into the lineup for about nine minutes a game (skipping over Stephen Domingo, who struggled in the OOC).
But this also causes a bit of a cascade effect, as DSR is now playing the major role as the shooting guard on the team (with some help from Trawick), meaning that Markel Starks has to play nearly the entirety of every game as the point guard.
Otto Porter is also playing a few more minutes as the small forward (i.e. his position in the starting lineup), but this is really from the effect of playing Moses Ayegba a bit more each game, letting Nate Lubick spend less time as an undersized center.
After the jump, lineup efficiencies.
