The Georgetown Hoyas swept
the individual awards this week, and rightfully so. Each player
finished with a career high in points in an individual game; a feat that one
player accomplished in one game while his teammate did it in another. One
was just a little bit more important than the other…
Player of the Week:
Otto Porter
Otto Porter finished
with 33 points, 8 rebounds, 2 assists and 5 steals in the Hoyas enormous win at
Syracuse on Saturday afternoon. Porter played all 40 minutes and pretty
much singlehandedly willed Georgetown to a 57-46 victory in their last
conference game at the Carrier Dome.
Otto had been slowly creeping his way into the National Player of the
Year discussion, and his performance over the weekend put him smack dab in the
middle of it.
Porter also accumulated 11
points and 3 rebounds in an easy win over DePaul earlier in the week at
home. He banged his knee and ended up only playing 20 minutes, as the
fate of the game was pretty much determined fairly early into the second half.
Rookie of the Week:
D'Vauntes Smith-Rivera
D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera tallied
a career high 33 points in Georgetown’s win over DePaul in the middle of last
week. That was the best freshman scoring performance for Georgetown in 17
years. He finished 10 of 12 from the field, including 5 of 6 from 3-point range.
He also made 8 of his 10 free throw attempts while chipping in with 3 rebounds
in the 34 minutes of playing time he got.
Georgetown tends to struggle from the field for longer than desired
stretches (including Satruday – everyone but Porter struggled), but if
Smith-Rivera can become more consistent the Hoyas will become less prone to
erratic offensive performances.
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