Recap: Georgetown 83, Mount St Mary's 62

I didn't get a chance to watch tonight's game, and the WTNT-AM radio feed was also down (no Chvotkin!), so instead I had the pleasure of listening to Roy Sigler (and play-by-play man Steve Stofberg) on WTHU.  I highly recommend it the next time Georgetown plays Mount St. Mary's.

Let's run the numbers:

TEMPO-FREE BOX SCORE
 
.            Home                            Visitor   
.            Georgetown                      Mount St Mary's         
.            1st Half  2nd Half   Total      1st Half  2nd Half   Total
Pace            33        40        73
 
Effic.        119.6     108.6     113.6        86.7      83.4      84.9  
 
eFG%           60.9      45.9      52.9        48.3      47.8      48.1  
TO%            20.9      20.2      20.5        17.9      25.3      21.9  
OR%            33.3      40.9      37.8        16.7      14.3      15.6  
FT Rate         3.1      29.7      17.4         0.0      65.2      28.3  

Assist Rate    52.9      37.5      45.5        66.7      60.0      63.6  
Block Rate     23.8      11.8      18.4        18.2       9.7      13.2  
Steal Rate      6.0      12.6       9.6         6.0      10.1       8.2  
 
2FG%           54.5      45.2      49.1        33.3      47.1      39.5  
3FG%           50.0      33.3      43.8        55.6      33.3      46.7  
FT%           100.0      81.8      83.3          -       73.3      73.3

I won't be offering much of a recap tonight, just a few bullet points of statistical wisdom:

• This was easily the fastest-paced game of the year for the Hoyas.  Last year's game against the Mountaineers was played with 65 possessions.  Mt. St. Mary's had the faster offensive possessions, so it seems that they were attempting to push the pace this year, especially in the 2nd half.
  
  
• This was a fairly humdrum game for team stats (note the lack of color on the tempo-free box).  The biggest advantage for the Hoyas was on the glass, as they did a great job limiting the Mountaineers on second-chances.
  
  
• The Hoyas are shooting 40% on 3FGA for the year, and have made 40% of their attempts in 4 of 5 games played so far - the only struggle was vs. Temple [3/18 3FGA].  After 5 games last season, the Hoyas were at 28% against admittedly tougher opponents.
  

INDIVIDUAL NET POINTS STATS

Georgetown            Off     %           Pts      Def           Pts   
Player                Poss  Poss  O.Rtg   Prod     Poss  D.Rtg  Allow    Net Pts
Wright, Chris          54   19.0  128.8   13.2      55    76.0    8.4      +5.1  
Monroe, Greg           50   36.4  119.4   21.7      51    81.4    8.3     +10.2  
Freeman, Austin        58   20.2   72.1    8.5      57    73.7    8.4      -0.1  
Clark, Jason           56   19.8  110.9   12.3      55    74.0    8.1      +4.1  
Vaughn, Julian         42   20.2  179.9   15.3      42    84.1    7.1      +8.2  
Thompson, Hollis       40   11.7  133.9    6.3      39    84.2    6.6      +1.0  
Mescheriakov, Nikita   10   10.0    0.0    0.0      11    94.1    2.1      -1.5  
Sanford, Vee           17   26.9   68.8    3.1      17    94.3    3.2      -0.6  
Dougherty, Ryan         2    0.0    -      0.0       3   200.0    1.2      -1.2  
Benimon, Jerrelle      11    9.1    0.0    0.0      11   122.1    2.7      -2.0  
Sims, Henry            25    6.4   76.8    1.2      24   103.1    5.0      -2.1  
TOTALS                 73         112.4   81.6      73    83.5   61.0     +20.9  

Mount St Mary's       Off     %           Pts      Def           Pts   
Player                Poss  Poss  O.Rtg   Prod     Poss  D.Rtg  Allow    Net Pts
CAJOU, Jean            56   25.1   77.1   10.8      57   118.1   13.5      -4.2  
GOODE, Jeremy          56   18.8   82.2    8.6      57   107.2   12.2      -3.1  
BEIDLER, Kelly         49   17.3   70.2    6.0      50   106.6   10.7      -3.9  
ATUPEM, Shawn          54   23.9   45.3    5.8      54    99.9   10.8      -6.0  
KRAJINA, Kristijan     27   24.0   60.5    3.9      28   122.9    6.9      -3.5  
BROWN, Pierre          34   13.3  116.1    5.3      35    90.0    6.3      +0.1  
BROWN, Oliver           3   33.3  200.0    2.0       2   120.0    0.5      +1.2  
HARVEY, Mike            3    0.0    -      0.0       2   120.0    0.5      -0.5  
TRICE, Lamar           21   35.8  120.8    9.1      20    91.7    3.7      +3.8  
JACKSON, Tayvon        41    9.1  174.4    6.5      38   127.5    9.7      -0.7  
THOMPSON, Danny        21    8.2   83.5    1.4      22   102.1    4.5      -1.7  
TOTALS                 73          83.8   59.5      73   108.4   79.1     -18.8

Julian Vaughn + more layups - FT attempts = success.

Greg Monroe attempted 19 shots tonight (although at least a few were tip-in attempts on offensive rebounds) without a big hit to his offensive efficiency.

Reports of the demise of Chris Wright's outside shot were slightly exaggerated.   If Wright, Freeman, Clark and Thompson can all keep shooting >38% for the rest of the season, there may suddenly be a lot more space for those backdoor cuts.

Jason Clark got hosed by the official scorer.  He drew a charging foul on Lamar Trice in the 2nd half, but the official scorer accidentally gave the foul and turnover to Clark.  The play-by-play parser complained, or I wouldn't have noticed myself.  The Net Points and HD box scores are corrected.

HD BOX SCORE

Mount St Mary's vs Georgetown
11/30/09 7:30 at Verizon Center
Final score: Georgetown 83, Mount St Mary's 62

Mount St Mary's         Min   +/-   Pts  2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A  FGA    A    Stl    TO   Blk    OR    DR   PF
CAJOU, Jean            30:56  -30  16/41  2- 6  4- 6  0- 0 12/41  0/10  0/57  4/56  0/39  0/26  4/26   5
GOODE, Jeremy          30:42  -21   5/43  1- 4  0- 1  3- 4  5/39  7/15  1/57  4/56  1/39  0/24  3/29   0
BEIDLER, Kelly         28:15  -21   5/36  1- 6  1- 3  0- 0  9/39  1/11  1/50  1/49  2/31  2/27  4/20   0
ATUPEM, Shawn          28:44  -20   6/37  3-10  0- 0  0- 2 10/40  0/10  1/54  2/54  0/33  1/28  3/22   1
KRAJINA, Kristijan     15:08  -10   3/27  0- 2  1- 3  0- 0  5/21  1/ 9  0/28  2/27  0/22  1/12  3/15   1
BROWN, Pierre          18:51  - 2   4/32  1- 1  0- 0  2- 2  1/23  2/11  1/35  2/34  1/32  0/11  2/26   0
BROWN, Oliver          00:59  + 4   2/ 6  0- 0  0- 0  2- 2  0/ 1  0/ 1  0/ 2  0/ 3  0/ 2  0/ 0  0/ 1   0
HARVEY, Mike           00:59  + 4   0/ 6  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 1  0/ 1  0/ 2  0/ 3  0/ 2  0/ 0  0/ 1   0
TRICE, Lamar           11:29  + 5   8/24  1- 2  1- 2  3- 4  4/16  3/ 5  1/20  2/21  0/15  0/ 9  0/11   3
JACKSON, Tayvon        21:29  -12  11/36  5- 5  0- 0  1- 1  5/28  0/ 9  0/38  1/41  2/32  1/14  3/20   1
THOMPSON, Danny        12:28  - 2   2/22  1- 2  0- 0  0- 0  2/16  0/ 6  1/22  0/21  1/18  0/ 9  1/14   0
TOTALS                 40:00       62    15-38  7-15 11-15    53 14/22  6/73 18/73  7/53  5/32 23/37  11
.                                        0.395 0.467 0.733       0.636 0.082 0.247 0.132 0.156 0.622    

Georgetown              Min   +/-   Pts  2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A  FGA    A    Stl    TO   Blk    OR    DR   PF
Wright, Chris          30:48  +24  18/68  3- 6  4- 5  0- 0 11/55  3/22  1/55  2/54  0/30  0/25  3/25   1
Monroe, Greg           27:55  +18  19/59  7-17  1- 2  2- 2 19/47  3/16  0/51  3/50  1/26  5/24  6/24   2
Freeman, Austin        31:13  +22   9/64  4- 9  0- 1  1- 1 10/54  2/23  1/57  3/58  0/31  0/26  1/27   2
Clark, Jason           29:26  +16  12/64  3- 4  1- 3  3- 5  7/54  3/22  4/55  3/56  0/26  2/29  3/21   1
Vaughn, Julian         22:10  + 9  14/44  7-10  0- 1  0- 0 11/37  3/11  0/42  0/42  3/23  3/19  5/18   0
Thompson, Hollis       22:38  +13   5/43  1- 3  1- 2  0- 0  5/40  0/14  0/39  0/40  1/22  3/25  4/18   2
Mescheriakov, Nikita   05:34  - 2   0/ 7  0- 0  0- 1  0- 0  1/ 5  0/ 2  0/11  0/10  0/ 6  0/ 3  0/ 8   0
Sanford, Vee           08:11  - 6   4/11  0- 2  0- 1  4- 4  3/13  0/ 2  1/17  1/17  0/ 5  0/13  2/ 5   0
Dougherty, Ryan        00:59  - 4   0/ 2  0- 1  0- 0  0- 0  1/ 2  0/ 1  0/ 3  0/ 2  0/ 1  0/ 1  0/ 0   2
Benimon, Jerrelle      05:42  + 3   0/16  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 8  0/ 4  0/11  1/11  0/ 4  0/ 6  0/ 4   0
Sims, Henry            15:24  +12   2/37  1- 1  0- 0  0- 0  1/30  1/15  0/24  1/25  2/16  0/14  3/10   1
TOTALS                 40:00       83    26-53  7-16 10-12    69 15/33  7/73 14/73  7/38 14/37 27/32  11
.                                        0.491 0.438 0.833       0.455 0.096 0.192 0.184 0.378 0.844    

Efficiency: Georgetown 1.137, Mount St Mary's 0.849
eFG%: Georgetown 0.529, Mount St Mary's 0.481
Substitutions: Georgetown 24, Mount St Mary's 28

2-pt Shot Selection:
Dunks: Georgetown 3-3, Mount St Mary's 0-0
Layups/Tips: Georgetown 17-29, Mount St Mary's 11-20
Jumpers: Georgetown 6-21, Mount St Mary's 4-18

Fast break pts (% FG pts): Georgetown 16 (21.9), Mount St Mary's 7 (13.7)
Pts (eff.) after steal: Georgetown 6 (85.7), Mount St Mary's 9 (150.0)
Seconds per poss: Georgetown 17.0, Mount St Mary's 15.8

Stats pages won't get updated until tomorrow night.

Fun with lineups

I'm still playing around with new coding for the HD Box Score generator.  Mostly behind-the-scenes stuff to make it run smoother and hopefully in a bit more automated fashion.

One thing I've just added is a possession tracker that compiles performance by lineup.  This is simply the team's offensive and defensive efficiency when any particular set of 5 players is on the court.

For instance, here are all lineups that had at least 15 offensive and defensive possessions last season, looking at all available games from the conference opener at UConn forward.  The compiler ignores all possessions when the game is statistically over (at nominally 69% [1σ] confidence), to avoid garbage time stats.

.                                                Offensive                    Defensive
Lineup                                    # Poss.  Rating Secs/poss     # Poss.  Rating Secs/poss
Freeman-Monroe-Sapp-Summers-Wright             294     108     18.2          280     104     17.8
Freeman-Mescheriakov-Monroe-Summers-Wright     109     102     19.3          101     107     19.0
Clark-Freeman-Monroe-Summers-Wright             74      99     19.6           76     136     18.7
Clark-Monroe-Sapp-Summers-Wright                42     102     15.8           40      92     17.7
Clark-Mescheriakov-Monroe-Summers-Wright        36     106     18.7           35     100     16.0
Freeman-Sapp-Summers-Vaughn-Wright              31      61     23.5           34     112     17.5
Clark-Freeman-Monroe-Summers-Wattad             30     123     14.5           30     107     20.6
Freeman-Mescheriakov-Monroe-Sapp-Wright         30      97     18.3           32     112     20.4
Clark-Freeman-Monroe-Sims-Wright                29     138     18.7           33      45     19.6
Clark-Freeman-Monroe-Sapp-Summers               25     108     18.5           24     133     16.3
Clark-Freeman-Mescheriakov-Monroe-Wright        24      92     19.2           21     100     19.2
Mescheriakov-Monroe-Sapp-Summers-Wright         20     135     20.2           20      90     17.1
Monroe-Sapp-Summers-Wattad-Wright               19      95     19.4           19      74     16.5
Clark-Freeman-Sapp-Summers-Vaughn               16      75     25.0           16     162     17.9
Freeman-Monroe-Sapp-Sims-Wright                 15     147     18.2           15      73     18.5
Freeman-Monroe-Sims-Summers-Wright              15     127     14.9           15      73     16.3
Clark-Freeman-Summers-Vaughn-Wright             15      53     19.4           18     167     18.7

Right now I'm just tracking offensive and defensive efficiencies and average time of possession.

As you can see, this might not be the most informative exercise for the Hoyas, as Coach Thompson likes to run a short bench, so only three lineups had more than 50 possessions together at either end. 

Looking at those three lineups, when either Mescheriakov or Clark substituted for Jessie Sapp last year, both the offense and defense took a substantial hit.  The defense with Clark, Freeman and Wright at the guards, Monroe at center and Summers at forward was especially generous.


How about this season, albeit against lesser competition (no lineup data for the Savannah St. game)?

.                                                Offensive                    Defensive
Lineup                                     # Poss.  Rating Secs/poss    # Poss.  Rating Secs/poss
Clark-Freeman-Monroe-Vaughn-Wright              82      109    15.1          83       63     19.8
Clark-Freeman-Monroe-Sims-Wright                32      113    15.0          32       72     16.9
Clark-Freeman-Monroe-Thompson-Wright            27      115    18.4          26      112     17.7
Clark-Freeman-Sims-Thompson-Vaughn              12      117    15.5          10       80     20.2
Clark-Monroe-Sims-Thompson-Wright               11      136    25.5          12      108     14.8
Freeman-Monroe-Sims-Thompson-Wright             11      136    14.3          13       92     21.0
Freeman-Monroe-Thompson-Vaughn-Wright           7        86    19.7          7        29     20.0
Clark-Mescheriakov-Monroe-Thompson-Wright       6       133    19.7          4       175     20.2
Freeman-Mescheriakov-Monroe-Thompson-Wright     6       133    15.5          7        71     26.9
Freeman-Sims-Thompson-Vaughn-Wright             6       100    21.8          5       120     13.4
Clark-Freeman-Monroe-Sanford-Thompson           6        50    16.5          6        83     11.8

This year's table now updated through the Mount St. Mary's game.

Note that the top 2 lineups are 3-4 seconds quicker per offensive possession than the top 2 last season.  A faster pace than last year, or just feasting on a steady diet of cupcakes?

Someone prod me in a few weeks and I'll update this year's lineup table.

Recap: Georgetown 97, Lafayette 64

Didn't see the game today, so hopefully Alan or Tom can jump in and edit in some useful comments today if they were able to watch.

Let's run the numbers:

TEMPO-FREE BOX SCORE
 
.            Home                            Visitor   
.            Georgetown                      Lafayette         
.            1st Half  2nd Half   Total      1st Half  2nd Half   Total
Pace            36        31        66
 
Effic.        126.4     168.2     146.2        87.1     106.7      96.4  
 
eFG%           53.2      87.5      69.5        53.6      48.2      50.9  
TO%            16.9      16.2      16.6        30.9      16.2      24.1  
OR%            37.5      55.6      44.0        29.4      38.9      34.3  
FT Rate        38.7      21.4      30.5         7.1      28.6      17.9  

Assist Rate    53.3      76.2      66.7        75.0      58.3      66.7  
Block Rate      7.1      12.5      10.0         5.3       5.0       5.1  
Steal Rate     11.2       9.7      10.5        14.0      16.2      15.1  
 
2FG%           63.2      70.0      66.7        42.9      56.2      50.0  
3FG%           25.0      87.5      50.0        42.9      25.0      34.6  
FT%           100.0      50.0      83.3        50.0      75.0      70.0

The game pace was the fastest so far this season, nosing out the Tulane game by a possession.  This wasn't garbage-time slop, as the quick pace was during the 1st half.  Certainly Lafayette's 12 first-half turnovers helped, but it was actually the Hoyas pushing the action, as they averaged less than 15 seconds per possession in the Lift-Off half.

For a time the Leopards were able to keep in the game on the strength of their outside shooting, trailing only by 6 points with 5:10 left in the first half.  Unfortunately for them, the Georgetown closed out the half on a 13-2 run to settle comfortably ahead.

Georgetown made all 12 free throws in the 1st half, hopefully putting an end to that meme before it even gets started.

The 2nd half was easily the best offensive half for the Hoyas all season, thanks in large part to the ludicrous 7/8 3FG shooting (Jason Clark was 3/3 on 3FG in the Vesper half).  Once the lead ballooned to 20 points, Georgetown seemed content to trade baskets with Lafayette for a good stretch, but I'd chalk that defensive lapse to indifference rather than any systematic problem.

INDIVIDUAL NET POINTS STATS

Georgetown            Off     %           Pts      Def           Pts   
Player                Poss  Poss  O.Rtg   Prod     Poss  D.Rtg  Allow    Net Pts
Wright, Chris          54   22.4  121.1   14.7      55    97.1   10.7      +3.4  
Monroe, Greg           51   28.2  130.2   18.7      50    86.0    8.6      +8.2  
Freeman, Austin        49   16.2  149.4   11.8      50    95.6    9.6      +3.3  
Clark, Jason           54   22.8  136.7   16.8      52    74.4    7.7      +8.4  
Vaughn, Julian         37   22.9  122.6   10.4      36    69.9    5.0      +4.9  
Thompson, Hollis       31    8.2  257.3    6.5      32   121.8    7.8      +1.1  
Mescheriakov, Nikita   13    3.2  264.1    1.1      11   164.6    3.6      -1.1  
Sanford, Vee           11   22.4  228.5    5.6      12   102.9    2.5      +3.1  
Dougherty, Ryan         5    0.0    -      0.0       5   110.0    1.1      -1.1  
STEPKA, Stephen         4    9.4  200.0    0.8       4    65.0    0.5      +0.4  
Sims, Henry            21   14.2  139.3    4.2      23    73.9    3.4      +1.4  
TOTALS                 66         141.6   90.6      66    91.7   60.5     +31.5  

Lafayette             Off     %           Pts      Def           Pts   
Player                Poss  Poss  O.Rtg   Prod     Poss  D.Rtg  Allow    Net Pts
Karl, Jeff             35   27.0   87.1    8.2      34   117.9    8.0      -1.3  
Gruner, Michael        44   10.6  174.4    8.1      46   128.0   11.8      -0.7  
Willen, Ryan           37   19.4   79.8    5.7      33   144.3    9.5      -4.2  
Benbow, Darion         28   26.9   71.2    5.4      32   126.7    8.1      -3.5  
Mintz, Jared           43   27.1  114.8   13.4      41   139.4   11.4      -0.5  
Wheeler, Ben           26   15.6  157.2    6.4      23   130.4    6.0      +0.7  
Moore, Andy             9   12.7   30.4    0.3       9   178.4    3.2      -2.3  
Mower, Jim             28   27.8  102.7    8.0      27   159.2    8.6      -2.5  
Johnson, Tony          28    7.7  133.9    2.9      30   143.1    8.6      -2.9  
Giese, Levi            12   22.1   48.8    1.3      13   153.6    4.0      -2.7  
Delaney, Rob            7   10.1  200.0    1.4       7   177.1    2.5      -0.5  
Petkovich, Nick         7   14.3    0.0    0.0       7   162.3    2.3      -1.9  
Orchowski, Alex         7    0.0    -      0.0       7   181.0    2.5      -2.5  
Pelham, J.D            16   14.6   33.4    0.8      17   151.3    5.1      -3.6  
Koltun, Marek           3   66.7    0.0    0.0       4   110.0    0.9      -1.5  
TOTALS                 66          96.3   61.9      66   140.2   92.5     -29.8

We saw signs that Hollis Thompson was starting to get into the groove in the last game against Savannah St., but Mr. Thompson went off this afternoon with perfect shooting (2/2 2FG, 4/4 3FG) and no turnovers.  He's still rather shy in using possessions (<10% today) which may indicate even more room for growth as he continues to gain confidence.

The Gang of Four - Monroe, Wright, Freeman and Clark - did their expected thing against light competition, with only a couple of dings:  five (5!) turnovers for Greg Monroe and 1/4 3FG shooting for Chris Wright.  Both of those stat/player combos will bear further watching, as Monroe's TO rate may become an issue in conference play and Wright's outside shooting may become less important if Clark, Freeman and Thompson can keep up their current clip.

Julian Vaughn was the 6th Hoya in double figures today, and finally made a free throw (1/4 FT).  That brings him up to 1/10 FT on the season.  Henry Sims had another quiet yet efficient game in limited time.  If Vaughn continues to struggle at the FT line, Sims minutes may have to increase.

The rest of the bench (sans an injured Benimon) saw some good run in the 2nd half once the outcome was no longer in doubt - Vee Sanford especially looked good on offense (made his 1st 3FG), and is making the case to slide ahead of Mescheriakov in the rotation.  Special kudos to Stephen Stepka for also hitting his first career 3FG. Or not. Apparently his toe was on the line (h/t CasualHoya).

HD BOX SCORE

Lafayette vs Georgetown
11/28/09 12:00 at Verizon Center
Final score: Georgetown 97, Lafayette 64

Lafayette               Min   +/-   Pts  2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A  FGA    A    Stl    TO   Blk    OR    DR   PF
Karl, Jeff             19:58  - 6   7/41  2- 2  1- 5  0- 1  7/31  2/11  3/34  1/35  0/21  2/19  1/15   2
Gruner, Michael        26:50  -29   9/35  2- 3  1- 3  2- 3  6/33  1/10  2/46  1/44  0/27  1/22  2/19   1
Willen, Ryan           20:50  - 7   3/43  0- 3  1- 5  0- 0  8/29  2/14  1/33  2/37  0/19  2/16  1/13   1
Benbow, Darion         17:27  -16   4/25  2- 5  0- 0  0- 0  5/20  1/ 7  0/32  3/28  0/20  2/12  3/16   1
Mintz, Jared           23:19  -10  16/50  4- 6  1- 1  5- 6  7/35  1/13  1/41  3/43  0/22  2/19  2/15   3
Wheeler, Ben           14:54  - 8   6/24  3- 4  0- 0  0- 0  4/20  2/ 6  1/23  1/26  0/13  1/12  1/ 7   0
Moore, Andy            05:23  -11   0/ 5  0- 0  0- 1  0- 0  1/ 9  1/ 2  0/ 9  0/ 9  0/ 6  0/ 8  0/ 2   0
Mower, Jim             16:33  -14  12/28  0- 3  4- 7  0- 0 10/26  2/ 7  0/27  0/28  0/14  0/16  0/ 9   4
Johnson, Tony          19:17  -13   3/35  0- 0  1- 1  0- 0  1/27  4/13  2/30  1/28  0/17  0/14  1/11   1
Giese, Levi            07:45  -12   2/ 7  1- 1  0- 1  0- 0  2/10  0/ 2  0/13  1/12  0/ 8  0/ 7  0/ 3   0
Delaney, Rob           04:29  - 8   2/ 4  1- 2  0- 0  0- 0  2/ 9  0/ 1  0/ 7  0/ 7  0/ 4  0/ 7  0/ 1   1
Petkovich, Nick        04:28  - 5   0/ 7  0- 1  0- 1  0- 0  2/ 6  0/ 3  0/ 7  0/ 7  1/ 4  0/ 3  1/ 2   1
Orchowski, Alex        03:58  -12   0/ 2  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 7  0/ 1  0/ 7  0/ 7  0/ 5  0/ 7  0/ 2   2
Pelham, J.D            12:21  -10   0/14  0- 0  0- 1  0- 0  1/18  0/ 6  0/17  1/16  1/13  1/13  0/ 8   3
Koltun, Marek          02:28  - 4   0/ 0  0- 0  0- 0  0- 0  0/ 0  0/ 0  0/ 4  2/ 3  0/ 2  0/ 0  0/ 2   0
TOTALS                 40:00       64    15-30  9-26  7-10    56 16/24 10/66 17/66  2/39 12/35 14/25  20
.                                        0.500 0.346 0.700       0.667 0.152 0.258 0.051 0.343 0.560    

Georgetown              Min   +/-   Pts  2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A  FGA    A    Stl    TO   Blk    OR    DR   PF
Wright, Chris          31:35  +18  14/73  5- 9  0- 4  4- 4 13/46  4/22  1/55  2/54  0/22  0/20  2/23   1
Monroe, Greg           29:37  +24  13/71  4- 7  0- 1  5- 5  8/44  6/22  1/50  5/51  1/26  3/18  6/24   1
Freeman, Austin        29:42  +16  12/66  4- 7  1- 2  1- 1  9/43  1/20  1/50  0/49  0/24  1/18  2/25   0
Clark, Jason           30:13  +29  19/76  3- 4  3- 6  4- 4 10/47  6/22  3/52  1/54  0/24  1/19  4/26   1
Vaughn, Julian         21:01  +27  11/54  5- 6  0- 0  1- 4  6/34  2/17  1/36  2/37  0/ 9  2/14  3/14   3
Thompson, Hollis       21:21  +15  16/55  2- 2  4- 4  0- 0  6/28  1/11  0/32  0/31  0/17  1/11  2/22   1
Sims, Henry            14:00  +12   2/30  1- 1  0- 1  0- 0  2/19  2/11  0/23  1/21  2/13  1/ 9  2/18   2
Mescheriakov, Nikita   09:32  + 3   3/21  0- 0  1- 1  0- 0  1/13  1/ 6  0/11  0/13  0/ 6  0/ 7  0/ 7   5
Sanford, Vee           07:13  +12   5/23  1- 1  1- 1  0- 0  2/11  1/ 7  0/12  0/11  0/ 4  1/ 4  0/ 8   0
Dougherty, Ryan        03:12  + 4   0/ 9  0- 1  0- 0  0- 0  1/ 6  0/ 4  0/ 5  0/ 5  0/ 3  0/ 3  0/ 4   0
STEPKA, Stephen        02:34  + 5   2/ 7  1- 1  0- 0  0- 0  1/ 4  0/ 2  0/ 4  0/ 4  0/ 2  0/ 2  0/ 4   0
TOTALS                 40:00       97    26-39 10-20 15-18    59 24/36  7/66 11/66  3/30 11/25 23/35  14
.                                        0.667 0.500 0.833       0.667 0.106 0.167 0.100 0.440 0.657    

Efficiency: Georgetown 1.470, Lafayette 0.970
eFG%: Georgetown 0.695, Lafayette 0.509
Substitutions: Georgetown 24, Lafayette 66

2-pt Shot Selection:
Dunks: Georgetown 3-4, Lafayette 0-0
Layups/Tips: Georgetown 18-25, Lafayette 7-12
Jumpers: Georgetown 5-10, Lafayette 8-18

Fast break pts (% FG pts): Georgetown 8 (9.8), Lafayette 0 (0.0)
Pts (eff.) after steal: Georgetown 15 (214.3), Lafayette 7 (70.0)
Seconds per poss: Georgetown 15.8, Lafayette 20.6

The Hoyas have a fast turn-around, with Jeremy Goode and the Mount St. Mary's Mountaineers coming in to Verizon on Monday night.

Season team and player stats will be updated after Monday's game.

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I've been doing some programming over the long weekend.  I'm adding some capabilities to my play-by-play parser.  Not sure where it's all headed, but it does let me make some new pretty graphics and such.

For example:

Recap: Georgetown 63, Savannah St. 44

The Hoyas traveled down to Savannah today as a favor to Tigers' head coach (and former Hoya) Horace Broadnax, and came away with a 19-point victory.

The play-by-play for today's game does not include substitution data, so only estimated Net Points and no HD box score will be available.

Let's run the numbers:

.                    Georgetown                         Savannah St
            1st Half  2nd Half   Total         1st Half  2nd Half   Total
Pace           27        31        58

Eff.         124.8      93.9     108.4           73.4      77.7      75.7

eFG%          70.8      50.0      60.2           30.8      29.5      30.2
TO%           22.0      29.1      25.8           14.7      22.7      18.9
OR%           41.7      53.3      48.1           26.3      27.8      27.0
FTA/FGA       16.7      32.0      24.5           19.2      68.2      41.7
FTM/FGA       0.0       16.0      8.2            15.4      50.0      31.3

Assist Rate   57.1      75.0      65.4           42.9      33.3      38.5
Block Rate    27.8      31.3      29.4           14.3      4.5       8.3
Steal Rate    3.7       13.0      8.6            14.7      6.5       10.3

2FG%          57.1      50.0      52.8           27.8      31.3      29.4
3FG%          60.0      33.3      53.8           25.0      16.7      21.4
FT%           0.0       50.0      33.3           80.0      73.3      75.0

Attempts/Poss.
2FG           0.51      0.71      0.62           0.66      0.52      0.59
3FG           0.37      0.10      0.22           0.29      0.19      0.24
FT            0.15      0.26      0.21           0.18      0.49      0.34

After last season's 100-38 shellacking, a mere 19-point win by the Hoyas must have felt like some sort of moral victory for the Tigers.  While one's first reaction is to assume that Savannah St. must have run at a much slower pace to minimize the carnage, in fact there were only 7 less possessions this time around.

The real difference was the very high offensive efficiency last year, or perhaps better to say the disappointingly low offensive efficiency this year.  It's not clear to me if the presumed advantage to the opposition the second time they see the Princeton/Georgetown offense is real, but at least we should hope that Coach Broadnax did a much better job preparing his defense.  And we should also acknowledge that the offense this November is far behind last November's.

No, you're not seeing things, there is a red-highlighted number blinking up there at you.  For the third time this season (out of 3 games), the Hoyas turned the ball over well above 20% of the time, and much more than their opponent.  The high turnover rate was something that Alan pointed to as a figure of merit for this season, and the early returns are not promising.

On the year, the Hoyas have turned over the ball on ~25% of their possessions, while forcing their opponents to turn it over only ~18% of the time.  That is, Georgetown has four (4) less possessions with a scoring attempt per game than their opponent.  If this continues into the Big East season, that sort of differential will be a huge handicap for the Hoyas to overcome.

Georgetown also had a miserable time at the FT line today, missing on 8 of 12 chances.  If you're scoring at home ([Olbermann] "or by yourself" [/Olbermann]), Julian Vaughn is now 0/6 on the young season - Vernon Macklin redux?  Thankfully, we still have a small sample size to excuse his futility.

INDIVIDUAL NET POINTS STATS - estimate!

Georgetown            Off      %            Individ     Def             Individ                        
Player                Poss   Poss    ORtg   Pts Prod    Poss    DRtg   Pts Allow   Net Pts
Wright, Chris          46    16.7   135.2    10.4        46     85.9      7.9       +3.1    
Monroe, Greg           35    40.6    86.2    12.2        35     74.4      5.3       +4.3    
Freeman, Austin        46    16.1   128.5     9.5        46     80.4      7.4       +2.8    
Clark, Jason           55    14.2   133.8    10.5        55     74.0      8.1       +3.5    
Vaughn, Julian         32    24.1    78.3     6.0        32     80.2      5.2       +0.3    
Thompson, Hollis       30    10.7   121.9     3.9        30     67.7      4.0       +0.8    
Mescheriakov, Nikita   19    16.3    49.9     1.6        19     89.9      3.4       -1.5    
Sanford, Vee           16    23.4    74.4     2.9        16     60.8      2.0       +0.7    
Sims, Henry            16     6.2   200.0     2.1        16     71.5      2.3       +0.5    
TOTALS                 59           108.4    58.9        59     75.7     45.5      +14.7

These stats were derived from the box score rather than the play-by-play, so take them with a larger grain of salt that you normally would. 

Greg Monroe's usage rate today (41%) was silly and easily the highest of his career (previously 34% versus Cincinnati).  As we'd expect, his high usage comes at the cost of efficiency, just as happened during that Cinci game.  His five turnovers led the team, and were certainly a driver in the large number of possessions used.

My first reaction at looking at Monroe's turnover count was to chalk it up to his operating as the initiator of the offense, much like Jeff Green and his turnover rates looked each of his last two seasons (courtesy of StatSheet.com):

But Greg Monroe has the second-lowest turnover rate (22.4%) among all Hoyas after three games - only Julian Vaughn (!) is lower, at 19.7%.  Unfortunately, turnovers are pervasive up and down the roster, and are my current nominee for early-season bugaboo for Hoya fans.

Hat's off to Hollis Thompson, who, after consecutive Off. Ratings in the 40's to start his career, managed to break the 100+ barrier in his third game - admittedly while only using 10% of available possessions.  Just think what we'll do once he starts making his free throws (0/2)!

And a big "huzzah" for Jason Clark, whose 4/6 3FG shooting brings him up to 50% (9/18) on the season.  Dare I say, a long, athletic Jon Wallace?

With limited stats and no television, I guess I'll leave it there for tonight.
 

Time permitting, I'll start up the 2009-10 team and player stats pages this week.  [Edited - Stats pages now up.]

Box Score

VISITORS: Georgetown (3-0)
.                          2-PT  3-PT          REBOUNDS
## Player Name            FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA OF DE TOT PF  TP  A TO BLK S MIN
04 Wright, Chris....... *  4-5    1-2    0-0    1  3  4   1  11  4  2  1  0  31
10 Monroe, Greg........ *  6-10   0-0    1-4    4  3  7   3  13  2  5  0  1  24
15 Freeman, Austin..... *  2-6    2-3    2-2    1  2  3   1  12  0  1  0  1  31
21 Clark, Jason........ *  1-3    4-6    0-0    0  6  6   3  14  2  2  0  1  37
22 Vaughn, Julian...... *  2-6    0-0    0-2    2  3  5   0   4  3  2  2  0  22
01 Thompson, Hollis....    1-1    0-1    0-2    1  3  4   1   2  3  0  3  1  20
05 Mescheriakov, Nikita    0-1    0-1    1-2    0  0  0   2   1  1  1  1  0  13
11 Sanford, Vee........    1-2    0-0    0-0    0  2  2   2   2  2  2  1  1  11
30 Sims, Henry.........    2-2    0-0    0-0    0  2  2   2   4  0  0  2  0  11
   TEAM................                         4  3  7
   Totals..............   19-36   7-13   4-12  13 27 40  15  63 17 15 10  5 200


HOME TEAM: Savannah St. (2-2)
.                          2-PT   3-PT         REBOUNDS
## Player Name            FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA OF DE TOT PF  TP  A TO BLK S MIN
00 HARDY,Patrick....... *  2-2    0-3    2-3    1  1  2   3   6  3  0  0  1  24
02 RANKINS,Tracy....... *  2-6    1-4    2-2    1  2  3   0   9  0  1  0  1  34
22 HASSAN,Rashad....... *  0-6    0-0    4-4    2  2  4   1   4  0  1  2  2  29
23 SMITH,Cedric........ *  1-3    0-0    2-4    0  1  1   1   4  0  1  0  0  19
34 LOUIS,Arnold........ *  1-6    0-1    1-2    1  3  4   5   3  0  3  1  1  29
01 BLACKMON,Preston....    2-3    0-2    3-3    0  0  0   1   7  2  0  0  0  20
04 MITCHELL,Rod........    0-0    0-1    0-0    1  1  2   0   0  0  1  0  0  11
05 ANDERSON,Andrew.....    0-0    0-1    1-2    0  0  0   0   1  0  1  0  0   2
10 STOWERS,Devin.......    0-0    0-0    0-0    0  0  0   0   0  0  0  0  0   3
14 IZEVBIGIE,Glen......    0-2    0-0    0-0    1  0  1   2   0  0  2  0  0   9
54 JONES,Darnel........    0-0    0-0    0-0    0  0  0   0   0  0  0  0  0   1
55 BAUGH,Darius........    2-6    2-2    0-0    0  1  1   2  10  0  1  0  1  19
   TEAM................                         3  3  6
   Totals..............   10-34   3-14  15-20  10 14 24  15  44  5 11  3  6 200


Efficiency: Georgetown 1.068, Savannah St. 0.746
eFG%: Georgetown 0.602, Savannah St. 0.302

2-pt Shot Selection:
Dunks: Georgetown 1-1, Savannah St. 0-1
Layups/Tips: Georgetown 11-23, Savannah St. 6-19
Jumpers: Georgetown 7-12, Savannah St. 4-14

Fast break pts (% FG pts): Georgetown 4 (6.8), Savannah State University 4 (13.8)
Pts (eff.) after steal: Georgetown 5 (100.0), Savannah State University 8 (133.3)
Seconds per poss: Georgetown 17.4, Savannah St. 23.5

Recap: Georgetown 46, Temple 45

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