smoke 'em if you got 'em

Almost all teams, even the good ones, have their weak spots or their problem areas.  Hopefully as the season goes on you will improve on those areas and take advantage of your strengths on your way to a successful season.

Georgetown is doing the opposite of that right now.  They entered the season with two major weak spots:

1.  Rebounding
2.  Defense

Both of those problem areas seem to be a function of their 3 guard lineup.

So instead of improving on those weak areas, they have pretty much stayed the same while, at the same time,  they have picked up other problem areas:

3.  Outside Shooting
4.  Turnovers

They are making it nearly impossible to win these close games.  By not rebounding very well they are giving the opposition more chances to score.  By turning it over they are giving themselves less chances to score. (Also remember that turnovers generally lead to easier scores for the other team.)  Right now they are getting the negatives of playing small without the positives.

You can't win like that.  And they aren't.

In their most recent loss their was a sequence where Vaughn and Benimon turned the ball over in the backcourt attempting to hand it off to a guard.  The result?  Back to back lay-ups for WVU.  They just gave them 4 points.  It was pure torture to watch.  Not to be left out of the party Sims had a similar turnover later in the game.


As if that wasn't bad enough, the Hoyas, down by 3 late in the game, turned the ball over on their last 4 possessions. 


FOUR.


It was so bad that I half expected them to drag out my dog after the final buzzer had sounded and have all of the players kick him while I was forced to watch.  I wouldn't have been surprised.


Remember that whole not hitting jump shots thing?  Well that was a large part of a 5 minute scoring draught in the first half.  If you don't count free throws it was almost 7 minutes.  7 minutes is an eternity in a 40 minute games.


So even though I'm a little disappointed that the defense hasn't gotten better, I think they can survive so long as they start scoring more and giving it away less.  It sounds simple but it's not.


Well it's almost time to see if they learned anything in practice since Saturday.


Peace brah