Holy Family 88 Chanhassen 63: Five Things to Know

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The top ranked Holy Family Fire looked every bit like the number one team in Class AA basketball Saturday when they knocked off neighborhood opponent Chanhassen by 25 points. Here are my five things to know!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>One. Unstoppable Boden</strong>. The second I saw that Chanhassen had to guard [player_tooltip player_id='962212' first='Boden' last='Kapke'] with a 6-foot-3 strong interior lineman looking post I just knew the only chance the Storm had was either get him in foul trouble or basically send two extra guys at him. With Kapke not getting in foul trouble and the Fire able to move the ball, space the floor, and actively move so well, there was no way to get much extra attention Boden's way. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Then you have to consider that Boden uses his pivot as well as just about anybody, and he keeps himself on balance as well as anybody, and he's extremely strong for a high school senior. The Fire did a magnificent job of getting timed touches to Kapke and from there he dominated. He scored 37 points on 9 of 18 shooting plus he made 18 of 21 foul shots. That was the other thing that helped Holy Family and the Fire, the refs called a boatload of fouls both ways in the first half so any contact on Kapke meant foul shots. And he drained 18 of them!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Two. The Canadian X-Factor</strong>. Need a couple threes? Six-foot-10 Chattanooga committed senior [player_tooltip player_id='1492564' first='Collin' last='Mulholland'] got the Fire two of them. Need another rebounder out there? Collin grabbed nine. Need some more post points? Collin scored 13 points for the game. Need a shot blocker? Mulholland swatted three. And need a ball handler when [player_tooltip player_id='1287442' first='Kole' last='Hanson'] was sitting much of the first half in foul trouble Mulholland handled that job too, for six or seven strong minutes! </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Three. Max to the Max</strong>. [player_tooltip player_id='1287439' first='Max' last='Woods'] is even better than I thought. At what? Everything. He's quicker than I thought as his burst off the dribble drive is exactly what college football coaches love. But I promise you Max will make for a scholarship point guard as well. His crossover is so quick, and so deep that Holy Family players couldn't move with it and the help often couldn't catch up to Woods either. Max also knocked down six threes and scored 40 points despite everybody in green knowing he was Chanhassen's only option to score! Woods made half of his 24 shot attempts, 10 of 13 thirteen foul shots, and he surely made a case for himself as one of the elite junior lead guards in the state and this state has Freitag, Asuma and Chavis! </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Four. Fire Depth</strong>. This is a deep Holy Family team. Keep that in context as we are talking about a small school team, not a big school squad, but for a Class AA team the Fire has more size than anybody (some decent size off the bench too). They have solid role plying wings in [player_tooltip player_id='1492567' first='Braylon' last='Cummings'] (9 points, 5 rebounds), Evan Finley Grice (three threes), and Michael Richelson and all of those players do a great job getting Kapke and Mulholland the right touches. And let's not forget that after a scoreless first half, [player_tooltip player_id='1287442' first='Kole' last='Hanson'] came out and scored 15 second half points. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Five. Defense</strong>. Woods got his 40 but the Fire did a great job of taking away the rest of the Storm players. [player_tooltip player_id='962274' first='Braden' last='Barger'] made two really nice pull-ups in the middle of the lane to start the game but the Fire put more length on him (often Mulholland) and Barger then missed six of his next eight attempts scoring four points for the game. The Storm had no other players score more than one field goal. Woods had the 40 points, Barger scored eight, Mitchell Fix had four points and nobody else had more than two. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Underclassmen Report</strong>. Chanhassen used two sophomores off the bench: guard Riley Johnson and forward [player_tooltip player_id='2104521' first='Mikan' last='Pelowski']. Johnson was one of five from the field scoring once while Pelowski had a board and missed one shot. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->