I wasn't able to watch the game live today - I had
Rich Chvotkin to keep me company at work - so I'm watching the game for the first time right now as I post this recap. As I type, we've reached the under-4:00 timeout in the 1st half, and I have to say, this half of basketball has been brutal.
Let's run the numbers:
TEMPO-FREE BOX SCORE
. Home Visitor
. Georgetown Temple
. 1st Half 2nd Half Total 1st Half 2nd Half Total
Pace 29 32 62
Effic. 64.6 83.8 74.7 44.2 99.4 73.1
eFG% 32.6 47.4 39.3 21.2 46.7 34.8
TO% 27.2 24.8 26.0 17.0 15.5 16.2
OR% 17.6 14.3 16.1 21.7 35.0 27.9
FT Rate 21.7 73.7 45.2 19.2 26.7 23.2
Assist Rate 57.1 37.5 46.7 60.0 69.2 66.7
Block Rate 0.0 5.9 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Steal Rate 3.4 6.2 4.9 3.4 18.6 11.4
2FG% 46.2 54.5 50.0 25.0 64.7 45.5
3FG% 10.0 25.0 16.7 10.0 15.4 13.0
FT% 80.0 64.3 68.4 40.0 50.0 46.2
The pace of this game may have seemed glacial, but the 61 possessions was not an exceptionally slow pace for a Hoya game (Georgetown played 6 games last season with a pace of 61 or less).
There's simply no green marks for the Hoyas offensively tonight, as they simply didn't do any single thing well when they had the ball. Okay, I just changed it and highlighted that they never had a shot blocked by the Owls in the game. Woo-hoo!
Temple did themselves no favors today, with <50% shooting from the FT line and 13% on 3FGAs. Even worse for the Owls, in the 1st half they attempted 26 shots from the field, with 24 as jump shots (10 3FGA, 14 2FGA jumpers) - they made only three of them. Of course, some of that should be credited to the Hoyas defense, which didn't give up a lot of space inside.
I originally thought that 44.2 Def. Efficiency would have been some sort of historical low, but just last season the Hoyas held two teams lower (
American,
Savannah St.) in consecutive games.
Georgetown also had their problems shooting in the 1st half, but also struggled to hang on to the ball to even get a shot off. They did little on the offensive glass throughout the game, although rebounded well defensively.
To
Fran Dunphy's credit, Temple adjusted at half time and managed to take 11 of 17 2FGA as layups or dunks in the 2nd half (and made 10 of them). From my eye and for what it's worth, the Owls' big run in the Vesper half (24-6 over 9:21) was mostly against Georgetown's 2-3 zone defense. Thankfully, Temple's struggles at the FT line continued in the 2nd half, with 4 misses on 8 FTA (including twice on the front end of 1-and-1).
In the end, the Hoyas did enough to win the game, especially with some good defensive stops in the last few minutes of the game.
INDIVIDUAL NET POINTS STATS
Georgetown Off % Pts Def Pts
Player Poss Poss O.Rtg Prod Poss D.Rtg Allow Net Pts
Wright, Chris 51 23.6 106.6 12.8 50 74.0 7.4 +4.7
Monroe, Greg 56 25.5 82.6 11.8 56 46.0 5.2 +5.9
Freeman, Austin 59 19.7 79.6 9.3 59 69.7 8.2 +1.1
Clark, Jason 54 16.9 87.3 8.0 53 70.0 7.4 +1.1
Vaughn, Julian 34 17.6 0.0 0.0 34 64.1 4.4 -4.1
Thompson, Hollis 37 17.3 46.3 3.0 34 70.9 4.8 -1.7
Mescheriakov, Nikita 3 33.3 0.0 0.0 4 75.0 0.6 -0.7
Sims, Henry 16 6.2 0.0 0.0 15 103.4 3.1 -2.1
TOTALS 62 72.9 44.8 61 67.3 41.1 +3.6
Temple Off % Pts Def Pts
Player Poss Poss O.Rtg Prod Poss D.Rtg Allow Net Pts
Ryan Brooks 61 19.2 43.6 5.1 62 68.6 8.5 -3.2
Juan Fernandez 26 29.3 53.3 4.1 25 81.5 4.1 -1.1
Luis Guzman 54 9.6 48.2 2.5 57 68.8 7.8 -3.2
Lavoy Allen 60 25.3 95.2 14.5 61 61.9 7.5 +6.0
Micheal Eric 22 25.9 81.7 4.7 22 61.4 2.7 +1.6
TJ DiLeo 3 0.0 - 0.0 4 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Ramone Moore 39 17.5 83.3 5.7 38 77.0 5.9 +0.1
Craig Williams 26 17.1 79.3 3.5 20 101.2 4.0 -0.8
Jake Godino 14 27.1 98.2 3.7 21 57.5 2.4 +1.4
TOTALS 61 72.3 43.7 62 69.3 43.0 +1.3
This may surprise most Hoya fans, but the most efficient player today for Georgetown was
Chris Wright. While his three turnovers may have been more memorable, Wright was able to score 6 points at the FT line (on 7 attempts) to grind his way to the only 100+ offensive rating in the game.
The most valuable player for the Hoyas was
Greg Monroe, and not only for his game-winning layup with 6 seconds left in the game. He also led Georgetown defensively, and his absence from the game was most noticeable in the 2nd half when he sat at 15:12 (
Henry Sims came in) and the Owls quickly ran off 7 points on 2 dunks and a layup (and an and-1).
Not much more to add to this one, other than I was glad the good guys pulled it out.
And if you're
in a panic over the game, just repeat after me, "It's only November.
It's only November. It's only November. Serenity now!"
HD BOX SCORE
Temple vs Georgetown
11/17/09 4:00 at Verizon Center
Final score: Georgetown 46, Temple 45
Temple Min +/- Pts 2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FGA A Stl TO Blk OR DR PF
Ryan Brooks 40:00 - 1 6/45 1- 5 1- 9 1- 1 14/56 1/16 2/62 3/61 0/24 0/43 3/31 1
Juan Fernandez 15:49 -10 5/11 1- 4 1- 3 0- 0 7/21 0/ 2 0/25 1/26 0/ 9 0/18 2/14 3
Luis Guzman 36:20 - 2 0/39 0- 2 0- 1 0- 0 3/50 6/16 1/57 2/54 0/24 1/38 4/29 1
Lavoy Allen 39:35 + 1 12/45 5- 9 0- 1 2- 5 10/56 3/13 2/61 2/60 0/23 8/43 6/31 3
Micheal Eric 13:50 - 5 5/11 2- 4 0- 0 1- 2 4/19 0/ 2 0/22 2/22 0/ 9 2/15 2/14 3
TJ DiLeo 02:44 + 3 0/ 3 0- 0 0- 0 0- 0 0/ 2 0/ 1 0/ 4 0/ 3 0/ 3 0/ 2 0/ 4 0
Ramone Moore 25:10 + 7 8/37 4- 7 0- 2 0- 1 9/39 1/11 1/38 0/39 0/12 0/28 4/15 1
Craig Williams 14:35 + 6 5/24 1- 1 1- 6 0- 0 7/27 1/ 9 0/20 1/26 0/ 8 0/18 1/ 8 2
Jake Godino 12:00 - 4 4/10 1- 1 0- 1 2- 4 2/10 0/ 2 1/21 0/14 0/ 8 0/10 1/ 9 1
TOTALS 40:00 45 15-33 3-23 6-13 56 12/18 7/62 11/61 0/24 12/43 26/31 15
. 0.455 0.130 0.462 0.667 0.113 0.180 0.000 0.279 0.839
Georgetown Min +/- Pts 2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FGA A Stl TO Blk OR DR PF
Wright, Chris 30:56 + 3 15/39 3- 4 1- 4 6- 7 8/32 1/ 9 0/50 3/51 0/25 0/23 1/35 4
Monroe, Greg 36:56 + 2 11/38 4- 9 0- 1 3- 6 10/40 3/10 2/56 4/56 0/29 2/29 7/41 3
Freeman, Austin 38:39 + 3 10/44 4- 6 0- 4 2- 2 10/41 0/11 0/59 2/59 0/31 0/30 5/43 2
Clark, Jason 35:15 - 2 8/40 0- 0 2- 6 2- 2 6/36 0/10 1/53 2/54 0/31 2/28 5/35 0
Vaughn, Julian 22:30 + 3 0/26 0- 3 0- 1 0- 2 4/23 0/ 8 0/34 1/34 1/20 0/18 4/24 2
Thompson, Hollis 23:20 + 1 2/28 1- 1 0- 2 0- 0 3/24 3/ 8 0/34 3/37 0/16 0/16 4/25 4
Mescheriakov, Nikita 02:21 + 0 0/ 3 0- 0 0- 0 0- 0 0/ 2 0/ 1 0/ 4 1/ 3 0/ 2 0/ 1 0/ 3 0
Sims, Henry 10:03 - 5 0/12 0- 1 0- 0 0- 0 1/12 0/ 3 0/15 1/16 0/11 0/10 2/ 9 3
TOTALS 40:00 46 12-24 3-18 13-19 42 7/15 3/61 17/62 1/33 5/31 31/43 18
. 0.500 0.167 0.684 0.467 0.049 0.274 0.030 0.161 0.721
Efficiency: Georgetown 0.742, Temple 0.738
eFG%: Georgetown 0.393, Temple 0.348
Substitutions: Georgetown 20, Temple 28
2-pt Shot Selection:
Dunks: Georgetown 0-0, Temple 3-3
Layups/Tips: Georgetown 8-12, Temple 9-10
Jumpers: Georgetown 4-12, Temple 3-20
Fast break pts (% FG pts): Georgetown 0 (0.0), Temple 4 (10.3)
Pts (eff.) after steal: Georgetown 4 (133.3), Temple 12 (171.4)
Seconds per poss: Georgetown 18.7, Temple 20.2
