I’ve seen Georgetown in person five times this season and on TV a couple more, and there’s a pretty clear line of demarcation in the season.
Before the calendar turned to 2009, the Hoyas were a dangerous lot. They won at Connecticut, toppled Memphis before the Tigers figured out who their point guard was and in general looked like they would be a major nuisance.
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Georgetown didn’t look much like the team that upended Memphis when they got out-toughed by West Virginia a little more than a month later. And there was absolutely no resemblance another month down the road against Louisville.
The cold, hard truth is Georgetown simply isn’t a functional team at this stage. The in-game struggles of DaJuan Summers in particular were tough to ignore; the Hoyas actually outscored Louisville by two in Summers’ 10 minutes on the bench. The same goes for Austin Freeman, though he didn’t post a 1-for-8 line from the floor.
The individual numbers are bleak, and so are the team stats. For now, though, here are the plus-minus figures for all of the Hoyas after the 76-58 loss:
| Player | 1st half
| 2nd half
| Total | Min. |
| 3-Summers | -13 | -7 | -20 | 30 |
| 4-Wright | -8 | -4 | -12 | 36 |
| 5-Mescheriakov | -7 | -7 | -14 | 14 |
| 10-Monroe | -8 | +1 | -7 | 30 |
| 15-Freeman | -12 | -8 | -20 | 27 |
| 20-Clark | -8 | -2 | -10 | 22 |
| 21-Sapp | +5 | -8 | -3 | 25 |
| 22-Vaughn | -2 | -3 | -5 | 8 |
| 30-Sims | -3 | DNP | -3 | 3 |
| 31-Wattad | +6 | -2 | +4 | 5 |
– Patrick Stevens
