Isaac Copeland to Transfer from Georgetown: Details, Comments and Reaction

Georgetown Hoyas forward Isaac Copeland has decided to transfer.

Jeff Goodman of ESPN passed along the news Monday and pointed to Copeland's decreased role.

Copeland, who was averaging 19.6 minutes per game this season after playing 32 minutes a night in 2015-16, arrived at Georgetown as a highly touted recruit. He was a 4-star prospect and the No. 6 power forward in the class of 2014, per Scout, and was seen as someone who could stretch the floor with his three-point shooting and battle for rebounds down low.

He isn't the only transfer from Georgetown's 2014 class. Forward Paul White transferred to Oregon before the 2016-17 season as a former 4-star prospect, per Scout.

Copeland largely lived up to the hype that surrounded his game last season and averaged a career-high 11.1 points and 5.4 rebounds per game. He wasn't lights out from behind the three-point line at 27.2 percent, but he posed enough of a risk that defenses had to account for him on the perimeter.

However, the production has been lacking this season, and he missed all 10 of his three-point attempts before deciding to transfer. He also shot an abysmal 27.5 percent from the field after hitting nearly 43 percent of his shots in 2015-16 and 45.1 percent of his field-goal attempts as a freshman:

Season	Minutes	Points	Rebounds	Field-Goal Percentage	Three-Point Percentage
2014-15	20.0	6.8	3.8	45.1	38.9
2015-16	32.0	11.1	5.4	42.9	27.2
2016-17	19.6	5.4	3.3	27.5	0.0

Gene Wang of the Washington Post noted the decreased playing time was about more than just a straight decrease in production.

According to Wang, injuries and "an influx of new players" led to fewer minutes for Copeland. He didn't even play in the Hoyas' 93-78 victory over La Salle on Saturday and appeared for just five minutes in the prior game against Elon.

Wang pointed to the presence of graduate transfer Rodney Pryor and increased playing time for Marcus Derrickson and Kaleb Johnson as reasons for Copeland's diminished role.

Seeing how he wasn't nearly as significantly involved in the rotation this season, Georgetown should still have enough pieces to survive Copeland's transfer. It is riding a four-game winning streak after a 2-4 start but hits the road to face rival Syracuse on Saturday, where it will rely even more on Pryor, Derrickson and Johnson to carry the load without its former highly regarded recruit.