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
