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The game was certainly not a thing of beauty, as Jason Clark and D'Angelo Harrison seemed to be in a contest for who can make a worse three-point shot attempt (clearly won by Harrison) while Karl Hess and John Cahill continually battled for the spotlight in front of the official scorer's table.
The Hoyas may have scored only 71 points today, but the game was the biggest offensive outburst the team has had in conference play. Georgetown averaged 1.25 points per possession today against the Johnnies, for their best offensive efficiency since beating up on the American Eagles in December. Of course, St. John's defense is nothing special in terms of Big East standards, so the conference opener at Louisville will likely stand as the offense's high water mark once we adjust for opponent and venue, but that second half was very nice either way.
Conversely, the defense in the second half was nearly a disaster, as St. John's managed to get the Hoyas lead down to two or three points on several occasions, including at 56-53 with only 4:20 left in the game. Buzz Williams at Marquette is apparently a bowling fan, because he likes to talk about having his defense rack up turkeys - get three consecutive stops - as a way of controlling the game. The Hoyas had their share of turkeys today, but also had stretches were they couldn't string together stops: 12 points allowed in 6 possessions late the first half, 9 points in 5 possessions during the second half.
Most of the defensive issues can be attributed to two things: free throws allowed and turnovers forced. As Fran Fraschilla pointed out during the broadcast, the Redmen just don't have much offense outside of D'Angelo Harrison hoisting from 25 feet or Moe Harkless fading away in the paint so they count on those two attacking the cup to draw fouls and get some points. Fair enough. But today the Johnnies wouldn't give away possessions with turnovers, which was especially a key in their second half scoring. I wonder if it was in part a residue of the Hoyas packed in 2-3 zone which dared St. John's to shoot from outside.
Georgetown has the week off before heading up to New Jersey to face previously-left-for-dead Seton Hall. The Pirates have won two in a row, including a big win against Pitt today behind Herb Pope, although Mr. Pope failed to headbutt anyone in today's game.
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 28 29 57 Points 31 40 71 26 35 61 Effic. 111.5 137.4 124.9 93.5 120.2 107.3 eFG% 44.2 69.6 56.1 48.0 44.4 46.2 TO% 14.4 13.7 14.1 14.4 6.9 10.6 OR% 40.0 41.7 40.7 21.4 38.9 31.2 FTA/FGA 38.5 60.9 49.0 16.0 51.9 34.6 Assist Rate 60.0 78.6 70.8 54.5 40.0 47.6 Block Rate 11.1 35.7 21.9 15.4 0.0 7.7 Steal Rate 3.6 3.4 3.5 14.4 10.3 12.3 2FG% 53.8 76.9 65.4 50.0 42.9 46.9 3FG% 23.1 40.0 30.4 28.6 30.8 30.0 FT% 80.0 57.1 66.7 50.0 78.6 72.2
more stats after the jump
INDIVIDUAL NET POINTS STATS Georgetown Off % Pts Def Pts Player Poss Poss O.Rtg Prod Poss D.Rtg Allow Net Pts THOMPSON, Hollis 44 23.3 102.2 10.5 44 96.4 8.5 +1.3 STARKS, Markel 41 20.9 140.4 12.0 41 105.9 8.7 +3.1 SIMS, Henry 26 23.8 155.2 9.6 27 96.8 5.2 +4.0 CLARK, Jason 54 24.6 103.4 13.7 53 99.4 10.5 +1.8 LUBICK, Nate 41 17.0 172.0 12.0 40 100.9 8.1 +4.4 WHITTINGTON, Greg 35 19.5 166.2 11.4 36 115.3 8.3 +3.3 HOPKINS, Mikael 3 33.3 0.0 0.0 4 150.0 1.2 -1.4 PORTER, Otto 38 19.0 155.9 11.2 36 107.5 7.7 +3.5 TRAWICK, Jabril 3 33.3 0.0 0.0 4 60.0 0.5 -0.5 TOTALS 57 131.2 80.4 57 103.0 58.7 +18.9 St. John's Off % Pts Def Pts Player Poss Poss O.Rtg Prod Poss D.Rtg Allow Net Pts GREENE, Phil 55 18.1 111.5 11.1 55 117.2 12.9 -1.2 HARKLESS, Moe 56 26.4 121.5 17.9 56 121.6 13.6 +2.2 HARRISON, D'Angelo 55 32.4 129.9 23.1 55 120.5 13.3 +5.8 POINTER, Sir'Dominic 48 8.8 107.2 4.5 49 117.0 11.5 -3.7 GARRETT, Amir 38 12.4 75.7 3.6 37 98.1 7.3 -2.4 ACHIUWA, God'sgift 32 16.2 46.8 2.4 32 124.0 7.9 -4.8 WHITE, Jamal 0 - - 0.0 0 124.6 0.0 +0.0 SEALY, Sam 1 0.0 - 0.0 1 200.0 0.4 -0.4 TOTALS 57 110.7 62.7 57 117.2 66.8 -3.9
There was some nice recognition for Nate Lubick during the game by the announcing team, and afterwards on the Hoya interwebs. Nate lead a well-rounded effort by Georgetown today - the net points stat rated five players as between +3 and +4.5 for the game. But before we get ahead of ourselves, Nate has had other games this season where he looked this good: helping to crush IUPUI by controlling the offensive glass, or doing whatever he could to keep the Hoyas in the game against Cincinnati.
Greg Whittington also had a solid effort today - this was probably the second best game of his young Hoyas career. The best? Also against the Johnnies up at the Garden.
HD BOX SCORE
St. John's vs Georgetown
02/12/12 1:00 at Verizon Center
Final score: Georgetown 71, St. John's 61
St. John's Min +/- Pts 2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FGA A Stl TO Blk OR DR PF
GREENE, Phil 37:57 -14 9/57 3- 5 1- 5 0- 0 10/50 4/15 3/55 2/55 0/25 2/33 2/26 3
HARKLESS, Moe 38:11 -10 20/61 6-11 0- 1 8-10 12/51 0/15 1/56 0/56 1/26 2/32 4/26 3
HARRISON, D'Angelo 37:57 -10 24/59 2- 5 5-12 5- 6 17/50 3/13 1/55 1/55 0/24 2/32 0/27 3
POINTER, Sir'Dominic 35:35 - 7 4/52 2- 3 0- 1 0- 0 4/44 1/18 0/49 1/48 0/24 1/25 4/26 5
GARRETT, Amir 27:28 - 4 2/39 1- 2 0- 1 0- 2 3/33 2/12 2/37 0/38 0/18 1/22 3/17 5
ACHIUWA, God'sgift 22:35 - 3 2/37 1- 6 0- 0 0- 0 6/31 0/11 0/32 1/32 1/13 1/20 2/18 3
WHITE, Jamal 00:03 + 0 0/ 0 0- 0 0- 0 0- 0 0/ 0 0/ 0 0/ 0 0/ 0 0/ 0 0/ 0 0/ 0 0
SEALY, Sam 00:14 - 2 0/ 0 0- 0 0- 0 0- 0 0/ 1 0/ 0 0/ 1 0/ 1 0/ 0 0/ 1 0/ 0 0
TOTALS 40:00 61 15-32 6-20 13-18 52 10/21 7/57 6/57 2/26 10/32 16/27 22
. 0.469 0.300 0.722 0.476 0.123 0.105 0.077 0.312 0.593
Georgetown Min +/- Pts 2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FGA A Stl TO Blk OR DR PF
THOMPSON, Hollis 30:01 + 9 10/53 2- 3 1- 3 3- 4 6/37 0/15 0/44 3/44 0/25 2/19 2/24 4
STARKS, Markel 27:27 + 6 11/48 1- 2 3- 5 0- 0 7/33 4/13 0/41 1/41 0/22 0/20 2/28 1
SIMS, Henry 19:57 + 2 9/28 3- 4 0- 0 3- 4 4/22 3/ 8 0/27 1/26 1/17 1/11 1/15 3
CLARK, Jason 35:37 +11 11/70 3- 5 1- 8 2- 3 13/46 3/20 2/53 2/54 0/31 2/25 4/30 3
LUBICK, Nate 27:00 +10 7/53 3- 3 0- 0 1- 3 3/35 5/17 0/40 0/41 4/23 2/19 6/24 3
WHITTINGTON, Greg 25:09 +11 12/51 3- 4 2- 4 0- 0 8/32 1/11 0/36 0/35 0/17 1/18 1/19 1
HOPKINS, Mikael 03:54 - 4 0/ 2 0- 1 0- 0 0- 0 1/ 4 0/ 0 0/ 4 1/ 3 0/ 2 0/ 3 0/ 1 1
PORTER, Otto 26:32 + 6 11/49 2- 4 0- 2 7-10 6/33 1/12 0/36 0/38 2/22 2/22 6/21 0
TRAWICK, Jabril 04:23 - 1 0/ 1 0- 0 0- 1 0- 0 1/ 3 0/ 0 0/ 4 0/ 3 0/ 1 0/ 3 0/ 3 0
TOTALS 40:00 71 17-26 7-23 16-24 49 17/24 2/57 8/57 7/32 11/27 22/32 16
. 0.654 0.304 0.667 0.708 0.035 0.140 0.219 0.407 0.688
Efficiency: Georgetown 1.246, St. John's 1.070
eFG%: Georgetown 0.561, St. John's 0.462
Substitutions: Georgetown 23, St. John's 16
2-pt Shot Selection:
Dunks: Georgetown 0-0, St. John's 4-4
Layups/Tips: Georgetown 11-12, St. John's 5-12
Jumpers: Georgetown 6-14, St. John's 6-16
Fast break pts (% FG pts): Georgetown 2 (3.6), St. John's 4 (8.3)
Pts (eff.) after steal: Georgetown 4 (200.0), St. John's 8 (114.3)
Seconds per poss: Georgetown 20.8, St. John's 21.3
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