Garden City crushes Frank Phillips

Borger, TX-Garden City needed this one.  

Braxton Jones finished with a game-high 26 points, Brody Robinson had 14 points, nine assists, and six rebounds, and Garden City pounded Frank Phillips, 82-52 at the Borger Community Activity Center Tuesday night.  

"Our goal when we came in here was to take the crowd out of it," Head Coach, Rusty Elmore said. "That's what we didn't do at Lamar. We let them hang around, and it really affected us." 

The Broncbusters shot a season-high 50% from the field and hit 10 3-pointers while limiting the Plainsmen to just 19-of-60 shooting (31.7 percent). Garden City also had a season-low four turnovers. 

"We look a lot different with Charles Chukwu out there," Elmore added. "He gives us a presence inside."

Chukwu, the transfer from Tulsa, made his regular-season debut on Tuesday, finishing with six points and six rebounds in 21 minutes. He was 3-for-3 from the field.  

"We've been guarding during these losses," Elmore explained. "It's been our offense that's been an issue. But we got things going tonight." 

Garden City, which improved to 3-2 heading into their conference opener on Saturday vs. Colby, never trailed in this one. Jordan Frazier's silky-smooth jumper from the top of the key gave the Broncbusters a 6-0 advantage three minutes into the contest. Brody Robinson's steal and layup later in the period gave the visitors their first double-digit lead, 27-16 before the sophomore point guard added a 3-pointer and another transition layup, Chukwu drilled a midrange jumper; then strolled in for a two-handed jam off a pretty assist by Thomas Tut, and Garden City was up, 36-21 at the break.  

"Guys were able to hit some shots and get going," Elmore said. "I'm just glad we could get a win because now the real stuff starts." 

As impressive as Garden City was in the first half, they one-upped themselves in the second. They outscored Frank Phillips 46-31 over the final 20 minutes, building their lead to as many as 38 after Frazier connected from deep to make it 73-35 with 6:39 to play.  

Jones, who scored 21 of 26 points in the second half, finished 7-of-15 from the field (6-of-7 in the second half) and was 5-of-10 from downtown. Tut added 16 points, nine rebounds, and three assists, and Frazier chipped in 14 points and six boards in 29 minutes.  

Benny Kazadi paced Frank Phillips with 18 points off the bench. Odanis Done had 10 on 4-of-11 shooting.