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After the first 3:24 of tonight's game against the Connecticut Huskies, the Georgetown Hoyas trailed 13-7. They had allowed Jeremy Lamb to score five points on two jumpers (one from behind the arc) and watched Andre Drummond have his way inside with two dunks and two layups; the Huskies only blemish was a missed 3FG by Roscoe Smith. Then the Hoyas turned up the defensive intensity while the Huskies obliged by settling for jump shots, and Georgetown used a 24-8 run to lead by 10 at halftime, then rode that lead the rest of the way for a 58-44 win tonight at the Verizon Center.
Allow me to return to that comment about the Huskies settling for jumpers: let's break out their shot selection before and after the first 3:24 of the first half:
I'd love to tell you that the Georgetown defense was reminiscent of the 1984 Hoyas, but I'm mostly just shocked with how easily Hoyas were able to force UConn to settle for jump shots. If not for Jeremy Lamb making all of his free throws, that couldn't have gone much worse for Connecticut.Dunks Layups 2pt J's 3FGs FTs First 3:24 2/2 2/2 1/1 1/2 0/1 Next 16:36 1/1 1/2 0/11 0/8 4/5
It didn't improve much for them in the second half [21 of 31 attempts were either from behind the arc or 2FG jumpers]. Credit Coach Thompson for playing large portions of the game in a 2-3 zone, especially once he recognized the shooting woes for the Huskies.
As for the Hoyas, the obvious stars of the game were Hollis Thompson (think he was reminded to be aggressive this week in practice?) and Jason Clark. Henry Sims had a spectacular dunk and some nice moments late in the game, but don't be fooled - he is still struggling with turnovers [7 tonight] and shot selection [4/10 on 2FG, but 1/6 on jumpers]. Hopefully that late flourish is something he'll be able to build upon.
The underclassmen were led by Mikael Hopkins, whose driving layup was a revelation in the second half. Otto Porter and Nate Lubick also did some nice things, albeit quietly.
The Hoyas next host the South Florida Bulls on Saturday morning before heading up to Syracuse for perhaps their final road game ever at the Carrier Dome. If you look up "trap game" in the dictionary, you'll see two tickets for USF vs. Georgetown.
Let's run the numbers:
TEMPO-FREE BOX SCORE . Home Visitor . Georgetown Connecticut . 1st Half 2nd Half Total 1st Half 2nd Half Total Pace 33 31 64 Points 31 27 58 21 23 44 Effic. 93.8 88.1 90.8 63.6 75.0 68.9 eFG% 48.1 50.0 49.0 29.3 33.9 31.7 TO% 24.2 22.8 23.5 18.2 16.3 17.2 OR% 31.2 14.3 23.3 18.2 40.0 28.6 FTA/FGA 26.9 36.4 31.2 20.7 22.6 21.7 Assist Rate 63.6 60.0 61.9 75.0 50.0 61.1 Block Rate 5.3 14.3 10.0 15.8 0.0 8.6 Steal Rate 9.1 9.8 9.4 6.1 6.5 6.3 2FG% 42.1 50.0 45.7 36.8 42.9 40.0 3FG% 42.9 33.3 38.5 10.0 10.0 10.0 FT% 85.7 62.5 73.3 66.7 28.6 46.2
INDIVIDUAL NET POINTS STATS Georgetown Off % Pts Def Pts Player Poss Poss O.Rtg Prod Poss D.Rtg Allow Net Pts THOMPSON, Hollis 58 26.9 108.0 16.8 59 58.5 6.9 +8.8 STARKS, Markel 29 14.3 56.1 2.3 28 76.6 4.3 -1.4 SIMS, Henry 52 32.6 77.9 13.2 49 69.3 6.8 +3.9 CLARK, Jason 54 18.5 110.5 11.0 52 60.5 6.3 +4.9 LUBICK, Nate 31 13.1 135.4 5.5 29 78.6 4.6 +1.6 WHITTINGTON, Greg 20 31.8 55.8 3.6 20 85.4 3.4 -0.9 HOPKINS, Mikael 11 19.1 205.6 4.3 13 60.6 1.6 +2.9 PORTER, Otto 50 8.7 108.9 4.7 50 61.6 6.2 +0.3 TRAWICK, Jabril 10 13.9 64.5 0.9 10 55.0 1.1 -0.0 TOTALS 63 96.0 62.3 62 66.1 41.0 +19.9 Connecticut Off % Pts Def Pts Player Poss Poss O.Rtg Prod Poss D.Rtg Allow Net Pts LAMB, Jeremy 60 26.7 85.9 13.7 62 88.9 11.0 +1.1 GIFFEY, Niels 24 5.8 58.7 0.8 26 107.6 5.6 -2.7 BOATRIGHT, Ryan 28 24.5 26.6 1.8 30 73.8 4.4 -2.9 DRUMMOND, Andre 47 23.9 129.1 14.5 49 96.7 9.5 +4.3 SMITH, Roscoe 26 10.9 58.4 1.6 26 75.6 3.9 -1.4 WOLF, Enosch 0 - - 0.0 1 200.0 0.4 -0.4 DANIELS, DeAndre 26 23.9 86.1 5.3 25 95.3 4.8 +0.0 OLANDER, Tyler 39 15.4 67.0 4.0 38 80.5 6.1 -1.5 NAPIER, Shabazz 48 20.0 25.5 2.4 47 92.0 8.6 -6.3 ORIAKHI, Alex 12 33.3 0.0 0.0 11 67.4 1.5 -2.1 TOTALS 62 69.2 44.4 63 88.7 55.9 -11.9
HD BOX SCORE
Connecticut vs Georgetown
02/01/12 7:00 at Verizon Center
Final score: Georgetown 58, Connecticut 44
Connecticut Min +/- Pts 2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FGA A Stl TO Blk OR DR PF
LAMB, Jeremy 38:52 -14 14/44 2- 7 2-11 4- 4 18/59 1/14 1/62 1/60 0/34 3/43 3/29 0
GIFFEY, Niels 15:50 - 6 0/21 0- 1 0- 1 0- 0 2/29 0/ 9 0/26 0/24 0/15 1/20 1/10 1
BOATRIGHT, Ryan 18:25 - 1 0/23 0- 2 0- 2 0- 0 4/27 4/11 1/30 2/28 0/14 0/17 1/15 3
DRUMMOND, Andre 31:18 -10 18/36 9-12 0- 0 0- 4 12/50 2/ 7 0/49 1/47 1/24 3/36 4/20 2
SMITH, Roscoe 17:38 - 7 2/17 1- 2 0- 1 0- 2 3/25 0/ 5 1/26 0/26 1/16 0/19 5/13 1
WOLF, Enosch 00:29 - 2 0/ 0 0- 0 0- 0 0- 0 0/ 0 0/ 0 0/ 1 0/ 0 0/ 1 0/ 0 0/ 1 1
DANIELS, DeAndre 16:28 - 8 5/15 2- 2 0- 3 1- 1 5/20 0/ 3 0/25 1/26 1/16 2/17 1/16 2
OLANDER, Tyler 23:10 - 6 4/29 2- 6 0- 0 0- 0 6/35 2/10 1/38 3/39 0/21 0/25 5/16 0
NAPIER, Shabazz 30:53 -14 1/29 0- 7 0- 2 1- 2 9/45 2/11 0/47 0/48 0/26 2/35 1/22 4
ORIAKHI, Alex 06:57 - 2 0/ 6 0- 1 0- 0 0- 0 1/10 0/ 2 0/11 3/12 0/ 8 0/ 8 1/ 8 2
TOTALS 40:00 44 16-40 2-20 6-13 60 11/18 4/63 11/62 3/35 12/42 23/30 16
. 0.400 0.100 0.462 0.611 0.063 0.177 0.086 0.286 0.767
Georgetown Min +/- Pts 2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FGA A Stl TO Blk OR DR PF
THOMPSON, Hollis 36:47 +10 18/54 4- 8 3- 7 1- 1 15/44 1/12 2/59 3/58 0/38 0/28 9/40 3
STARKS, Markel 16:46 + 5 2/28 0- 1 0- 0 2- 2 1/23 1/10 1/28 2/29 0/19 0/14 1/17 0
SIMS, Henry 31:36 +11 13/48 4-10 0- 0 5- 6 10/41 3/13 1/49 7/52 2/30 0/27 4/33 4
CLARK, Jason 33:05 +12 11/47 4- 7 1- 2 0- 1 9/41 2/12 1/52 1/54 0/33 0/27 5/37 3
LUBICK, Nate 18:56 +11 3/36 1- 1 0- 0 1- 2 1/22 2/12 0/29 1/31 0/21 1/11 1/23 3
WHITTINGTON, Greg 14:32 + 1 3/16 0- 4 1- 2 0- 0 6/19 1/ 6 0/20 0/20 0/14 1/12 1/16 0
HOPKINS, Mikael 08:24 + 3 4/10 2- 2 0- 0 0- 0 2/ 7 1/ 2 0/13 0/11 1/10 0/ 3 1/11 1
PORTER, Otto 32:56 +16 4/45 1- 1 0- 2 2- 3 3/37 1/15 1/50 1/50 1/31 1/24 3/37 3
TRAWICK, Jabril 06:58 + 1 0/ 6 0- 1 0- 0 0- 0 1/ 6 1/ 2 0/10 0/10 0/ 4 1/ 4 0/ 6 1
TOTALS 40:00 58 16-35 5-13 11-15 48 13/21 6/62 15/63 4/40 7/30 30/42 18
. 0.457 0.385 0.733 0.619 0.097 0.238 0.100 0.233 0.714
Efficiency: Georgetown 0.921, Connecticut 0.710
eFG%: Georgetown 0.490, Connecticut 0.317
Substitutions: Georgetown 25, Connecticut 37
2-pt Shot Selection:
Dunks: Georgetown 2-2, Connecticut 5-5
Layups/Tips: Georgetown 9-20, Connecticut 7-12
Jumpers: Georgetown 5-13, Connecticut 4-23
Fast break pts (% FG pts): Georgetown 2 (4.3), Connecticut 4 (10.5)
Pts (eff.) after steal: Georgetown 2 (33.3), Connecticut 0 (0.0)
Seconds per poss: Georgetown 18.4, Connecticut 19.5
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