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 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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