Saturday, February 28, 2009

Georgetown Post Game -- Good Enough?

The breakdown by halves...

OpponentGeorgetown 
 1st2ndGame 
Pace33.831.565.3
 Offense Defense
1st2ndGame1st2ndGame
Rating80.085.682.794.876.185.8
eFG%29.245.236.758.047.553.3
TORate29.631.730.635.641.238.3
OR%47.428.639.433.338.536.0
FTA/FGA66.752.460.016.030.022.2
FTM/FGA54.238.146.712.025.017.8
ARate57.162.560.057.187.568.2
Blk%16.79.513.30.015.06.7
Stl%9.215.512.322.913.018.3
PPWS0.851.030.931.191.051.13
2FG%38.945.541.476.541.762.1
3FG%0.030.018.812.537.525.0
FT%72.770.071.985.776.278.6
%2FG35.357.947.253.839.047.3
%3FG17.623.720.834.622.029.0
%FT47.118.431.911.539.023.7


No highlights for this split. Just imagine the defensive half of the table (except for eFG%) is green, while the offensive side is covered in red. Actually on the offensive side, the 'Cats had a strong assist rate, FTA/FGA rate and offensive rebounding rate. The Hoyas did a better job on defense though...overall a better job. The Hoyas approached this game as if their lives depended on winning. And the 'Cats didn't.

Credit the Hoyas for identifying Reynolds and the two Coreys (Fisher & Stokes) as the players they had to shut down. While those 3 took the largest portion of the team's shots (shot%s of 25.4, 33.9 & 29.6 respectively), they were incapable of efficiently converting those shots to points. Collectively they had an eFG% of 26.0 and a PPWS of 0.75; the rest of the team (collectively) had an eFG% of 50.0 and PPWS of 1.17. The Hoyas knew who they had to lockdown and who could have a good game (Dante Cunningham).

Ref Notes
Jim Burr, Mike Roberts and Mike Stephens whistled the teams for a total of 35 fouls, well below season highs for the Wildcat games. Fouls called and FTAs generally fit the profile for Nova home games. The exception was Hoya FTAs, just .7 below the lower limit of the standard deviation for visitors. Villanova has a 9-2 record when referees have called their game. Each had run at least one Villanova game this season before today.

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