Your Georgetown Hoyas were absolutely run out of the arena by a No. The Red Storm only needed one half to put away the Hoyas, as their lead at the break was sufficient to bury a reeling Hoyas team. Was this just one bad game? Was it a hangover from the amped-up AMP atmosphere at Providence?
The answer is a resounding yes. But equally, no. Everything is true, and nothing is. Georgetown was beaten by a better team and lacked any coherent form of offense to put up a viable fight. The grades are all bad. It just seems mean. That rule was β¦ challenged in this one. That really was just the first half. He did come out of the half with intensity and was able to hit shots, but the game was over by that point.
Like the rest of his team, he was overmatched in the first half. His turnovers were all a combination of St. In the second half, Cooley started with the same backcourt but quickly switched to either Epps or Mack on the floor, not both. To his credit, Malik raised his level and shot-making in the second half, but he desperately needs a spot on the floor to get an easy shot. Everything is just really challenging right now. The performance was bad. He reminds me of Jay Heath last year, who was playing through injury and was stumbling and falling a lot.
That sucks, and I am sure it is very frustrating as a player. He needs to simplify his game a lot. And I think the Hoyas may need to help him with that, which may include bringing him off the bench. Splitting them up will help defensively and give each more defined role offensively. I think it would help Jayden in particular, as he could come on and just shoot. He did have a number of shots hit the back rim or pop out after being halfway down.
But I am less worried about this becoming a prolonged streak for him. That is, when the team is in rhythm, he is. When the team looks like they had never seen each other before, as they did against St. He still managed some great individual plays defensively in this game, which was impressive.
