Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Recap: Georgetown 83, DePaul 75

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Tonight's game was a reminder of just how hard it is to win a Big East conference game on the road, as the Hoyas lead throughout but struggled to put away the DePaul Blue Demons before finally prevailing, 83-75.

The general impression I took away from tonight was that Georgetown wasn't going to get many calls and the Blue Demons were going to make some tough shots.  The Hoyas did themselves no favors on the free throw line, missing 8 of their first 12 attempts.  But thanks to a strong defensive effort in the first half, the Hoyas were able to establish and maintain enough separation to tough out another conference road win.

Markel Starks "could not go" tonight, so Otto Porter had his first career start. While Starks is actually one of the biggest culprits on turnovers [TO Rate = 22%], he's also a primary ball handler against the press, and that's what DePaul threw at Georgetown all night. Sure enough, the Hoyas struggled with turnovers: only at Louisville and at West Virginia did the Hoyas turn it over more. Not clear to me what ails Starks but hopefully he returns soon.


Let's run the numbers:


TEMPO-FREE BOX SCORE
 
.            Visitor                         Home      
.            Georgetown                      DePaul         
.            1st Half  2nd Half   Total      1st Half  2nd Half   Total
Pace            33        40        73

Points          37        46        83          31        44        75   

Effic.        113.1     114.8     114.1        94.8     109.9     103.1  
 
eFG%           58.6      58.9      58.8        46.6      54.3      50.8  
TO%            24.5      25.0      24.8        18.3      12.5      15.1  
OR%            53.3      52.9      53.1        22.2      27.3      25.0  
FTA/FGA        27.6      71.4      49.1        13.8      31.4      23.4  
 
Assist Rate    60.0      26.7      43.3        63.6      52.9      57.1  
Block Rate     31.2       8.7      17.9         9.1      13.6      11.4  
Steal Rate     12.2      12.5      12.4        12.2       7.5       9.6  
 
2FG%           50.0      54.5      52.3        37.5      56.5      48.7  
3FG%           57.1      50.0      53.8        38.5      33.3      36.0  
FT%            37.5      65.0      57.1       100.0      54.5      66.7


More thought and stats after the jump

Obviously the star tonight was Jason Clark.  Immediately after I pointed out his issues shooting from deep during conference play [4/22 3FG coming in], Jason decided to go wild from behind the arc, hitting 5 of 7 attempts, along with his normal array of slashing drives to the hoop.

Some of the other stat lines were a bit more interesting to me:
  • Otto Porter gathered an impressive 14 defensive rebounds in the game, but just couldn't get it going on offense with only one field goal made on 5 attempts to go along with 5 turnovers.
  • Henry Sims was frustrated most of the night with the officiating - he fouled out with 3 minutes left in the game - but still managed 16 points and 7 rebounds.  As we often say these days, hard to believe that a stat line like that would feel ho-hum for Sims.
  • Nate Lubick can look painfully awkward at times, what with the in-bound pass off his back tonight or the near broken ankle on Sunday, but he just keeps grinding and playing defense and actually came out as a net positive on the game thanks to his 6 assists and 3 offensive rebounds.

INDIVIDUAL NET POINTS STATS

Georgetown            Off     %           Pts      Def           Pts   
Player                Poss  Poss  O.Rtg   Prod     Poss  D.Rtg  Allow    Net Pts
Thompson, Hollis       68   21.4  103.5   15.1      68    94.0   12.8      +1.8  
Porter, Otto           64   14.5   50.5    4.7      64    90.8   11.6      -5.3  
Lubick, Nate           45   21.1  101.8    9.7      45    89.7    8.1      +1.4  
Sims, Henry            39   30.8  136.3   16.4      37   106.2    7.9      +6.1  
Clark, Jason           67   25.9  157.3   27.3      66    94.6   12.5     +12.9  
Whittington, Greg      50    8.9  137.9    6.2      51   123.8   12.6      -2.9  
Hopkins, Mikael         5    0.0    -      0.0       5   122.7    1.2      -1.2  
Trawick, Jabril        22   27.7  121.0    7.4      24   125.2    6.0      +0.6  
TOTALS                 72         118.2   86.7      72   101.0   72.7     +13.2  

DePaul                Off     %           Pts      Def           Pts   
Player                Poss  Poss  O.Rtg   Prod     Poss  D.Rtg  Allow    Net Pts
MELVIN, Cleveland      55   27.2  127.7   19.1      56   103.4   11.6      +5.6  
FABER, Krys            12   31.0   43.7    1.6      11   147.9    3.3      -2.8  
CLAHAR, Worrel         49   20.0  113.4   11.1      49    96.8    9.5      +1.6  
YOUNG, Brandon         53   30.7   89.7   14.6      53   122.6   13.0      -1.9  
McKINNEY, Charles      18   28.9   46.1    2.4      17   141.9    4.8      -3.7  
ROBERTSON, Derrell     17    5.6  200.0    1.9      19    98.1    3.7      -0.4  
KELLY, Jeremiah        42    8.2  114.1    3.9      41   108.1    8.9      -2.4  
MORGAN, Moses          40   25.3  143.5   14.5      37   119.3    8.8      +4.1  
CROCKETT, Jamee        37   22.4   96.4    8.0      40    95.8    7.7      +0.2  
KIRK, Donnavan         37    7.6  131.8    3.7      37   114.2    8.5      -2.1  
TOTALS                 72         107.0   80.8      72   110.7   79.7      -0.7 


HD BOX SCORE

Georgetown vs DePaul
1-17-12 6:00 p.m. at Allstate Arena - Rosemont, Ill.
Final score: Georgetown 83, DePaul 75

Georgetown              Min   +/-   Pts  2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A  FGA    A    Stl    TO   Blk    OR    DR   PF
Thompson, Hollis       37:53  +15  14/80  4-11  2- 4  0- 2 15/52  2/23  2/68  1/68  1/37  2/27  3/39   2
Porter, Otto           35:17  + 5   4/74  1- 5  0- 0  2- 2  5/48  1/25  2/64  5/64  2/35  1/26 14/35   2
Lubick, Nate           26:26  +14   4/56  2- 5  0- 0  0- 0  5/41  6/20  1/45  3/45  0/23  3/22  4/26   1
Sims, Henry            23:01  +10  16/47  6- 9  0- 0  4- 6  9/37  2/13  0/37  3/39  1/23  4/20  3/23   5
Clark, Jason           36:40  + 8  31/76  6- 7  5- 7  4- 9 14/54  2/17  4/66  3/67  1/35  1/31  4/36   3
Whittington, Greg      25:33  - 3   5/53  2- 4  0- 2  1- 2  6/36  0/15  0/51  1/50  1/30  3/24  1/30   3
Hopkins, Mikael        02:57  - 7   0/ 1  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 1  0/ 0  0/ 5  0/ 5  1/ 2  0/ 1  0/ 2   0
Trawick, Jabril        12:13  - 2   9/28  2- 3  0- 0  5- 7  3/16  0/ 7  0/24  2/22  0/10  0/ 9  0/ 9   2
TOTALS                 40:00       83    23-44  7-13 16-28    57 13/30  9/72 18/72  7/39 17/32 30/40  18
.                                        0.523 0.538 0.571       0.433 0.125 0.250 0.179 0.531 0.750    

DePaul                  Min   +/-   Pts  2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A  FGA    A    Stl    TO   Blk    OR    DR   PF
MELVIN, Cleveland      30:03  - 4  19/63  8-12  0- 1  3- 5 13/47  1/16  2/56  1/55  1/33  1/27  5/24   3
FABER, Krys            07:01  - 7   0/ 9  0- 1  0- 0  0- 0  1/12  1/ 3  0/11  2/12  0/ 7  2/ 9  0/ 3   2
CLAHAR, Worrel         26:52  + 0   7/56  1- 4  1- 3  2- 2  7/37  5/18  4/49  1/49  0/34  1/21  2/26   1
YOUNG, Brandon         28:46  -14  16/50  5-11  1- 5  3- 4 16/50  1/13  0/53  1/53  0/30  0/33  1/20   1
McKINNEY, Charles      09:46  -13   2/10  0- 1  0- 0  2- 2  1/13  0/ 4  0/17  3/18  0/10  1/ 9  0/ 4   0
ROBERTSON, Derrell     11:14  - 4   2/17  1- 1  0- 0  0- 0  1/13  0/ 5  0/19  0/17  1/12  0/ 7  2/ 9   5
KELLY, Jeremiah        24:28  + 1   3/45  0- 0  1- 3  0- 0  3/41  3/16  0/41  1/42  0/23  0/26  0/18   1
MORGAN, Moses          20:36  + 3  17/46  1- 3  5- 8  0- 0 11/32  0/ 9  0/37  1/40  1/23  0/21  0/14   4
CROCKETT, Jamee        22:18  + 0   5/41  1- 4  1- 4  0- 0  8/40  5/15  1/40  1/37  0/25  1/23  1/22   4
KIRK, Donnavan         18:56  - 2   4/38  2- 2  0- 1  0- 2  3/35  0/13  0/37  0/37  2/23  1/24  0/20   2
TOTALS                 40:00       75    19-39  9-25 10-15    64 16/28  7/72 11/72  5/44 10/40 15/32  23
.                                        0.487 0.360 0.667       0.571 0.097 0.153 0.114 0.250 0.469    

Efficiency: Georgetown 1.153, DePaul 1.042
eFG%: Georgetown 0.588, DePaul 0.508
Substitutions: Georgetown 26, DePaul 52

2-pt Shot Selection:
Dunks: Georgetown 3-3, DePaul 3-3
Layups/Tips: Georgetown 16-27, DePaul 5-9
Jumpers: Georgetown 4-14, DePaul 11-27

Fast break pts (% FG pts): Georgetown 14 (20.9), DePaul 2 (3.1)
Pts (eff.) after steal: Georgetown 19 (211.1), DePaul 10 (142.9)
Seconds per poss: Georgetown 16.4, DePaul 16.8


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