Celtics Pour TAR on da HEEEEELZ, Roll to 65-31 WIN

Tulsa Celtics

Celtics were pitted against the Tar Heels Saturday morning. The Tar Heels knocked off the Eagles Friday night in opening round action. The Dave Bryant coached Tar Heels added three quality players to his roster in Derrick Waters, a 9th grader from Broken Arrow, Creighton Williams and Greg Brown from the Bixby area and it looked like 14 total players.

The Celtics had Sean McIlroy except for the last five minutes because he had to get to his baseball scrimmage where he pitched at All Star park; Jarred Wise, Brock Morton, Brian Benson, Matt Maguire, Kale Larkin and Corey Shannon were the Celtics in attendance. Howver, Corey stretched some tendons in his thumb at practice Thursday night and elected to not suit up.

The game did not get off on a pleasant note as Brown ravaged us inside early. We started in a man to man, planned on going to a zone early. We never once ran the Zone. After the erratic defensive start, the Celtics "locked in" defensively and played inspired defense. Brian basically shut down Derrick until a DUNK shot late in the game.

We played incredible as a team!! Offensively we made very few turnovers. We set good hard picks and didn't force our plays. The Celtics shot lights out from 3 point range and opened up a 40-19 halftime lead. Benson, McIlroy, Morton and Larkin all contributed from 3 pt land; Wise made some great assists from the post position while battling hard for rebounds and inside points; and Maguire performed flawlessly on both ends of the court, applying solid man to man defense, while setting up our offense from the point.

We continued the onslaught in the second half and easily walked away with a 65-31 victory. The "type" of victory caught me totally off guard~ with the personnel the Tar Heels suited up,,, I would have been pleased with a one point victory. Defensive intensity and help, coupled with excellent execution which created open looks gave us the opportunity for quality 3 point attempts, and the boys came through by knocking them down.
We play the Jenks Maroons tonight at 6:30 pm in the quarterfinals of the double elimination tournament