It came upon the stormy night

Prologue
Continuing my video look around the metro, let's take in a section 2AAAA seeding battle between Chanhassen and Prior Lake.  Also a chance to get a look at Malcolm Jones of Prior Lake.  Small crowd on hand during this holiday week.  But with this game, it did not come upon the midnight clear.  It was a Storm(y) night.

Game Time
Malcolm Jones picks up his 2nd foul midway thru the half and has to sit.  But they'll play offense/defense with him to get him some of those lost minutes.  A late 10-0 Prior Lake run comes from a 3 point play from Kyle Haas, a layup off a turnover and a corner triple.  34-20 Prior Lake at the half.

Chanhassen storms out of halftime on a 21-6 run.  Eli Sweeney and Braden Barger leading that run.  That run puts Chan on top 41-40.  Haas 2 more buckets and a pair of Jones free throws put Prior Lake back on top 50-45 with 5:01 left.  That lead is 6 with 3:27 left.  Chan converts 2 out of 3 late Lakers turnovers into points.  Soph PG Max Woods lays one in and then takes a handoff and buries a 3 after another.  He'll add a driving layup for a late lead.  

After Prior Lake makes 1 of 2 free throws with 45.4 left, Chanhassen looks to hold.  After a pair of time outs, they get a 5 second call with 7.5 left to give Prior Lake 1 last chance.  That chance is no good.  So its only fitting that with Jeremy Johnson on the Chan staff that our running twitter joke of FREE basketball occurs.  54 all as we go to the extra no cost session.

Prior Lake misses 4 free throws on the first 3 trips of the overtime.  Jaxon McDonald buries a 3 to put Chan ahead.  Prior Lake decides to stop messing around and throw the ball to Jones inside.  He goes with a man level 3 point play and then rejects a shot on the other end.  All tied at 59.  Prior Lake turns it over on the rejection and its Sweeney going to the spin cycle for a bucket and the foul.  Another missed Prior Lake chance.  Chanhassen makes 5 of 6 charity tosses late but the miss does give the Lakers a chance down 2 with 8.3 left.  Prior Lake drives and no good.  Barger finishes it with 2 free throws and 0.8 left.  Chanhassen wins 66-62 in overtime.

Post Game
Prior Lake falls to 1-4 overall.  Malcolm Jones leads the Lakers with 19 points and close to double digit rebounds.  Kellan Miller adds 10 points.  Jones very effective when he got post touches.  But I was surprised there wasn't more emphasis on that.  They had 5 of their 12 missed free throws in the overtime.  Combine that with 8-29 shooting and offense was hard to come by after halftime.  Quick turnaround for Prior Lake with Apple Valley coming in for the back to back conference opener. 

Chanhassen improves to 2-1.  They too get the quick turnaround with a trip to Buffalo for a back to back.  Eli Sweeney leads the Storm with 15 points. Junior wing Braden Barger and guard Jaxon McDonald each add 12.  Soph PG Max Woods with 7 of his 9 late in regulation to help bring Chanhassen back.  They were down as much as 14 in the first half after cold shooting (7-24) but heated up in the 2nd half

Czar Insights

For details on exactly what the value in the chart mean, click here for the full explanation of Czar Insights. Chanhassen only goes for .83 PPP and still wins.  Both teams under 40% FG and barely broke 40% in the EFG category.