Cashing in on an island return

Prologue
A huge non-conference battle as #2AAA De La Salle hosts #1AAAA Park Center on the island.  Its a return bout from a super intense game last season.  Its also the return of Cash Chavis to DLS after transferring late last season.  Not a super packed crowd since its a weeknight game.  DLS breaking out Chick-Fil-A at the concession stand.  I'm all over that.  YUM!  Got to sit by TWolves guy Matt Bare.  Always great to see him and support the games he puts on at Target Center.

Game Time
Aidan Higgins for 3 and D jumps out to a 5-1 lead.  Then PC goes on a 9-0 run and never looks back.  Nas Whitlock 2nd foul midway thru the half sits him down.  But he comes back in for D and scores 7 in a row to keep the Islanders within 36-31 at 3:30 after they were down by 13.  PC blows it open with a 16-2 run to end the half.  Cash Chavis half of those.  52-33 Pirates at the break.  A long half with 33 FT attempts as both teams racked up the fouls.

DLS with a couple of threes to start the 2nd half but Chavis will stop the momentum with a bomb after an offensive board.  Whitlock with 4 free throws around a Israel Moses triple.  70-56 PC still leading with 11 minutes left.  Chavis 2 more buckets.  Kaden Cook 2 putbacks.  The lead is 88-69 with 2:47 left.  PC pours it on as JJ Ware hits a triple for the century mark.  PC rolls 102-71 though it wasn't quite that bad.

Post Game
De La Salle falls to 0-1 on the season.  Hard to imagine a De La Salle team giving up 102 anywhere but especially at home.  Doesn't get any easier as they have the high powered Minnetonka offense next in the tipoff classic.  Nas Whitlock with 27 points to lead the Islanders.  12 of those at the charity stripe and 1 triple.  PC used multiple guys to harass him.  Plus they'd jump him with a 2nd guy in the backcourt.  Israel Moses with a breakout game.  4 triples and 18 points for him.  But no other firepower for the Islanders.

Park Center with another blowout win to improve to 2-0.  They'll open NW Suburban play at home against Anoka and Coon Rapids next week.  Then they close out the week with the huge game vs #2 Lakeville North at Osseo on Sat Dec 17th.  Cash Chavis goes nuts in his return to De La Salle with 35 points to lead all scorers.  Much of that off the pressure defense for easy buckets.  CJ O'Hara adds 20.  JJ Ware with 17, Jackson Fowlkes with 11.  Also need to mention the great workman effort of Kaden Cook off the bench.  8 points but did all the grunt work asked of him.  O'Hara and Chavis were just a couple of the guys PC used to hound Whitlock on the defensive end.  That ball pressure really disrupted the Islanders offense that really doesn't have many options.

Czar Insights

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Park Center is bigger, stronger, deeper, more athletic and all of that shows in the numbers.  Park Center beat up De La Salle 29-9 on the offense glass for a 30-5 edge in 2nd chance points.  Add in 23 DLS turnovers that PC turned into 34 points.  PC gets 24 more shots out of that.  The bench goes 20-7 thanks to quality minutes from Kaden Cook and Jackson Fowlkes.