BADSANTA

Jones will play this game close!

Silsbee was very dominate as a 4A school as well Scooter. Go to the school and look at that wall. They went to state twice in 4A. They have a ton of district titles and made the playoffs every year but 1. Remember until like 199f, only 2 teams went to the playoffs. It was always Silsbee and Cleveland or Silsbee and PA Lincoln.

Silsbee has won 20+ games 26 out of 30 seasons. I think in the schools history they have been to state 5 times. With the talent we have had, you would think Silsbee would have 2-3 state titles and 8-9 appearances. Not the case. Playoff basketball is so different from the regular season. This groups that's about to graduate has been the most successful of any. They have been to state 2 times and have 3 district championships. Thats damn awesome to me! No other school besides HJ can say that over the past 4 yrs.

Yea I think both teams were over confident and the other teans brought their absolute best games. It seems Silsbee can't ever get over the hump in basketball. Some people talk about its coaching. IMO I think its a game of how the ball bounces. If state championships were given out during the regular season, Silsbee would have 20 of them!

The 96/97 Lineup had more talent with Lewis Airline, Holden, Cartwright, Andre Henry, T. Airline, and Hugh Davis.

Looking at the Silsbee program from last night, they have about 5 guys returning from this team but zero height. Not sure what the JV team looked like but Silsbee could go thru a slump for a year or so. Still a playoff team,but back to state could be a bit of a hurdle even more than this years team.

That years Starting Lineup was Donyell "Boo" Allen 6'4, Damion Bush 6'0 (1st Team Allstate), Willie Jones (played QB) 6'4, Russel Whitmore 6'5, Al Henry 6'2 (2nd Team Allstate). Silsbee also have 2 6'4 guys coming off the bench and 2 guards in Edwin Elam and D.D. Taylor who could play with the best of them. Donyell was a also a high jumper and Wille Jones played Football and ran track. All players in that lineup played college ball.

[quote name="LAZEEK" post="973056" timestamp="1298732075"] [quote author=LAZEEK link=topic=80785.msg971067#msg971067 date=1298495327] [quote author=BADSANTA link=topic=80785.msg970969#msg970969 date=1298486658] If the same Silsbee team I saw play Kountze, HJ, and West Brook shows up for the playoffs, there is no one in 3A who could beat them. They have some much quickness and that 11 player sub system is hard for a team to play with. The Kountze and HJ players were sucking wind late in these games. If we can get Sealy to run with them, look for Silsbee to roll. [/quote] I can think of at least 2-3 teams that might have something to say about that!!!! [/quote] Just for the record......Sealy was not one of the teams I was thinking about!!!  Still in shock this morning!!! [/quote] Lazeek, Silsbee played horrible! Like ST413 said, they looked bad in warm ups and even worst in the game. I knew Sealy wouldnt lay down.

HJ will do it! You guys always come to play in these games vs Cleveland. I enjoy watching HJ spoil their team every year.

If you didn't watch the game, here it is plain and simple. Sealy out hustled and out played Silsbee. There were times when Silsbee seemed to be frustrated with each other and not playing together. I don't blame this on the bye but on the weak warm up game. Silsbee didn't do a great job of rebounding and I think made one 3 pointer. To be honest Sealy has 2 good players and the others just stand down low and rebound. The lack of pressing in the back court combined with horrible FT shooting. Is what lost the game. The b all didn't bounce Silsbee's way one time tonight. Seals-Jones work the boards for Sealy like Dennis Rodman a nd the Tigers had no answer. They started players 6"8, 6'5, 6'6. Most of them were slow but crashed boards and had good put backs. Maybe Silsbee can learn from this and move on to next season. I think HJ will be the favorite going into the 11/12 season.

Since Silsbee is home Badsanta will all out support HJ. Hawks please beat the Heck out of Cleveland and put 21-3A back in state! Good luck Hawks.

Bjimbo I'm a Silsbee fan and I didn't enjoy the game. I'm willing to put money that HJ send Cleveland to the sideline with Silsbee next week. Ejoy this blow because Tuesday your season will end as well! Go Hawks! FYI Aggie didn't committ the crime as far as I know and its to proven that the Cleveland kids did yet either. If Cleveland does make it to state it will be about darn time. 40 yrs of ALMOSTS isn't good!

I heard coach was doing ok but he couldn't handle the last qtr and stayed in the locker room.

Guys Silsbee was just too small down low. They missed a gang of layups and FT's. Sealy played about as well as they have possibly played all year. Don't hang your head Silsbee. You played your hearts out and that's all we as fans can ask. I for one had a blast getting back in the mix as a fan and following you.

Great season Tiger! Sealy just wore Silsbee out on the boards. Silsbee left about 20 points on the floor tonight.

You shut up DB!

FT like I said last week is killing Silsbee. They have had to miss at least 15

Silsbee coming home tonight with a L! Sealy is too long!

I'm going with Silsbee by 13.

Let's go Eagles! Woodville will win by 3 if they play smaryt and limit the turnovers.

I expect Silsbee to draw a lot of fouls early in this game. When a team gets tired, they start making silly fouls. Silsbee needs to shot around 70% from the FT strip to put this team away.

Hawks 68 Stafford 63

2 players will miss tomorrows game. Both coming off the bench. Not naming any kids name in this.

Cleveland is still a hard team to beat! Go get em Hawks!

Tha >:(