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I don’t disagree with the fact that this year was the year that they had a shot at state. Silsbee and Yates were both way down, and it was probably the most talented team he’s had at HJ. Had they made it through that first game and got some guys healthy, and through the suspension of their best player, they had a chance to make a deep run. But as for the three rounds deep comment, until this year there was exactly one local team with the talent to make it past the third round since 2015, and it wasn’t HJ. I don’t care how good of a coach someone is, they’re not taking a couple of D3 guys and a bunch of roll players and beating teams from houston full of 6’5” to 6’9” guys with D1 talent (or Silsbee with its three D1 players). There comes a point where coaching ability can’t make up a gap in talent and athleticism. I remember going and watching HJ play Houston Sterling in the 2nd round in 2015. HJ had a good team that year, but Sterling had 9 guys on their roster over 6’2, and had four starters between 6’4” and 6’7”. HJ played a fantastic game and lost by 11. Sterling made it to the state finals. Those are the kinds of teams HJ has consistently faced in the 2nd or 3rd round of the playoffs. Coach K isn’t winning those matchups. Look what happened with lumberton this year. Had a D1 player and some other solid guys around him and got ran out of the gym by Huffman because they just couldn’t compete with the talent. Or is the Huffman coach just that much better? And this year’s huffman team would’ve gotten run out of the gym by the Yates and Silsbee teams from a few years ago that Davis couldn’t get past.

The problem with max preps is not every game gets posted. Actual records of HJ under Davis: 14-15: 28-8 15-16: 26-9 16-17: 24-14 17-18: 31-10 18-19: 28-10 19-20: 27-12 20-21: 20-6 (no tournaments) district record during that span: 65-11 (includes 4 district champ/co-champ and 3 district runner ups)

Or finishing district runner up to the state championship Silsbee teams with three D1 players.

The program didn’t get yates in the 2nd or 3rd round most years before he coached there. You’re a broken record. Just say you don’t like him, because you’re ignoring the obvious while repeating the same arguments over and over. HJ has had less talent and faced MUCH tougher playoff competition since he took over. He’s still kept them in the hunt for district championships and won playoff games every year but one. If you think Sutherland would’ve done any better against Silsbee and Yates over the last 6 or 7 years you’re delusional.

How? Because he was in a district with Silsbee who had the talent for several years to possibly make it to state a division higher? Because he keeps running into Houston AAU teams in the playoffs? The talent level isn’t what it was at HJ 10 years ago. They’ve had some good players, but not like before he took over. All he does is win 20+ games a year and competes most years for a district title with decent athletes. It sounds like you have some sort of axe to grind more than anything else.

Admittedly a biased post here, as Clay coached me when I was a kid, and I’ve always liked him. I did a little research, and talked to some HJ folks as well. As best I can tell, Tatum won about 7 games in two years before Davis got there, then won 19 his first year, 26 his second. Two district titles in his two years there, and a regional tourney appearance. Took over Jasper and won the district his first year, and took them to the regional quarters. Missed the playoffs the next year, which was the year he was dealing with some family stuff that led to him coming back to HJ as an assistant. I believe his playoff runs at those schools were the deepest both schools had ever gone at the time. HJ hasn’t gone as far under Davis as they did under Sutherland in the playoffs, but they’ve lost in the playoffs to Sterling, Navasota, Yates x 3, and Silsbee. Every one of those teams went to state or the regional finals. He took over basically right at the time that houston all of a sudden had 4A AAU teams, and Silsbee was able to play 3 D-1 players at once. HJ has had some good players in his time at HJ, but nothing compared to what Sutherland coached there, and the route to state has been infinitely harder since he took over. The playoff loss this year was really the only bad playoff loss he’s had in his career, and his best player was suspended and two other starters were injured (he’d tell you himself that they still had no excuse losing). Davis may not have a state championship, but he consistently takes decent athletes and builds really good small school basketball teams. He may not be the best coach in the area, but he’s earned the right to be on a list of the best coaches around here. He’s also undoubtedly had the opportunity to move to schools that would give him a better shot of advancing, but has stayed loyal to HJ.

A lot of those “any level” players are kids that don’t even look like they could dominate a middle school game. It’s impressive what they’ve done with those guys.

You’ve literally said the same thing three times. By college type players are you talking about D3? NAIA? You’re severely overstating the quality of players and talent going through HJ. What HJ does is build good players, but they’re not overrun with college ready athletes like you keep saying.

Not sure. One thing I do know, is people i know are starting to get sick again, and they all have one thing in common.

He’s also had to coach in the era where 4A has become a big city classification, with all of these houston and Dallas schools somehow fielding 4A squads. Not to mention the insane talent silsbee has put out. It’s kind of funny that you talk about the talent he inherited, but want to give Mitchell full credit for making the playoffs 3 years in a row with a D1 player (something I’m not positive Davis has ever had, except for a couple of seasons with Parquet).

If they lied about half of them then only 100x as many unvaccinated people died as vaccinated.

They said going in that some people would still get it after being vaccinated. It prevents it in the vast majority of people, and greatly reduces the symptoms for most of those who do get it despite being vaccinated. People can question “future side effects” if they want, but it’s unarguable that the shot is incredibly effective in fighting Covid.

Of the nearly 9,000 Covid deaths since February in Texas, all but 43 occurred in the unvaccinated. For whatever that’s worth to y’all. I’m all for people choosing to get it or not, but these numbers are pretty telling. [Hidden Content]

I wish I’d woken up in the middle of the night to watch them lose.

Interesting topic. It brings up a lot of questions: does one only become a citizen by being born in the state? Can the state reject your moving into the state based on your political beliefs? What about college students who want to attend college out of state? I can think of a dozen more

Probably a golf cart salesman or something important like that.

Completely asinine. And I spent so much time on here thinking you were reasonable and intelligent. Care to tell us what you do for a living?

I’m surprised more of these folks haven’t been shot. If I was driving through a city and protestors surrounded my vehicle, started screaming, banging on the vehicle, etc., I don’t think it would be unreasonable to fear for my life in that situation. If my wife and kids were with me, I’d be very quick to get out of the situation, no matter what it took.

I worry about that stuff. I do a lot of fishing in the summer, and it’s hard to go on a trip and not end up cut by something, whether it be a fish fin, or a hook, or any other number of things. I got sliced up a couple of years ago pushing a stuck boat in lighthouse cove, and I didn’t relax for about 2 days.

Why do you hate teachers so much? Sure, there are some bad ones, but there are a lot of great ones, and the vast majority of us are at least competent. This entire thread all you’ve done is insult the profession. You’ve labeled teachers, belittled them, downplayed the difficulty of the job. According to you we’re lazy, whiners, don’t want to work, and anyone can do the job. I’d sure like to know what you do for a living.

One thing I thought about later was this: say the shooter attacks the victim, the victim pulls the knife in self-defense, then the shooter pulls the gun and shoots him. You can’t claim self-defense if you’re the original aggressor. We’ll see if more facts come out.

In an article I read yesterday it stated that the victim pulled out a knife before being shot. If that’s the case I don’t know that the murder charge will stick.

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Ridiculous.

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