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I've followed this team for almost 30 years, and this is arguably the weakest team they've had since before Sutherland was coaching there. Maybe 2001 or 2002.

I do. The further along we go, the more I wonder how much of the improvement has been Mitchell, and how much has been dropping in classification and having a generational player for the first 3 years after dropping. his only year in 5A he didn't do any better than the guys before him. Once he got away from Central, Ozen, PAM, and Nederland, combined with having the best? player in Lumberton history, they had a couple of good seasons, including the district championship with the fortuitous covid win over silsbee. But since then, we're looking at missing the playoffs 2 out of 3 years, with a 4th place seed the other, which wasn't even a possibility for the guys before him. Would any of the Lumberton teams before 2014 have made the playoffs if 4 teams went? I honestly don't know. I think Mitchell has improved the program some, and the basketball culture in Lumberton to some degree, but I also think it's time to quit throwing his name around with the Jouberts and Greens and Siglers and Sutherlands, etc. like some of his biggest fans like to do. It's great that he has the support of the community, but that doesn't change the results. It's okay for him to just be a coach who had a couple of pretty good seasons with an all-time great player at a school that has traditionally not been very good. Maybe he can get them going back in the right direction, I don't know. .

this HJ team is extremely short on studs, but to fair, his “studs” over the last several years have gone on to play D3 and NAIA, mostly due to the fact that he pushes to get them offers. Listening to you one would think he’s had a steady supply of D1 players coming down the pipeline. Still, in his “worst” ever season coaching (two of the best basketball minds on the board say it’s his best coaching job) he’s got a fighting chance to make the playoffs. I made a commitment last year to not talk about Mitchell, as for a time I admittedly criticized him too much for some stuff that happened off the court. I got past that, but the delusions of his fan club led me into a lot of conversations where I still came off as critical of him, and I’ve heard from enough people to know he’s done some good things over there for the kids and in the community that changed my mind about him to a certain extent. A lot of what seemed like criticism of him was just disputing outlandish claims made by his supporters. That said, you like to take shots at "my guy", so I suppose I can at least be objectively truthful about yours. It seems to some degree he's improved the basketball culture in the community, and the team has had some good seasons under him. None of that changes the fact that the fan club is still delusional. You literally came on here crowing when Lumberton got their only 2-game win streak of the season, and their only win against a playoff team. They're 11-20 and need help not to miss the playoffs in an extremely weak district, and you're still on here trying to act like he's the next Coach K. You’re still trying to crap all over Davis, who's never missed the playoffs at 3 different schools over a long career. The truth is, the further they've gotten from that once in a generation Lumberton D1 player, the more Lumberton looks like they did pre-Mitchell. Not sure exactly what that means, but I can make some inferences.

They’ve been logging in but not posting lately for some reason 🤷🏻‍♂️

Every single article pushed by the leftist media right now is all about how republicans demanded a border bill, the senate negotiated a bipartisan bill, and then the house shot down the bill they demanded. This take is so blatantly disingenuous that it gets my blood pressure up, and you all know I'm far from the most conservative guy around, and also not nearly as conservative as many of you when it comes to immigration. very few senate republicans supported that crap, so quit calling it a "bipartisan bill just because one republican was involved in negotiating it. But more importantly, quit acting like any of the following parts of the bill truly benefit border security: 1. out of a $118.3B bill, only $20B would be used on border security. 2. the new bill would negate border states' ability to challenge issues with border laws in their home states, instead having to do so in ultraliberal Washington DC in front of ultraliberal judges. A better way of putting this is the bill would mean that border states could never challenge any aspects of the bill, because they would be guaranteed to lose. 3. based on the number of illegal crossings required to trigger actual border security through the bill, up to 1.6M illegals would be allowed in unchallenged yearly. I mean, yeah, can't believe those crazy conservatives turned all this down, right?

China is a bigger threat to the US directly, but Russia is a legitimate threat to start WW3. China's economy is failing and they're doing everything they can to hide the fact. They're also buying up land and corporations in the US, which could become a major issue later.

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Orangefield has been playing well, but Kountze has been on another level in district. I think Kountze wins by 15, but should be a great prep for the playoffs for both teams regardless of who takes it

Sorry, I worded that really poorly. I meant if you combined the two districts and took four teams. If you just brought BC or WOS over, I would definitely expect either to compete for and likely take the 4th spot. With the two districts combined it’s Silsbee, then HF-HH-HJ, then everyone else a ways back.

They SHOULD beat them. HJ is an improved team from earlier in the year when they beat BC by 19. The cards have looked good in district, but that district is really bad this season apart from Silsbee. If you combined the districts, apart from Silsbee, who would win it, nobody from that district would even sniff the playoffs in 20-4A. All that having been said, the cards do have a shot. They’re not a bad team, have a little momentum, and the hawks are definitely down this year.

HJ making a run like they always do

Unless HJ led 2-0 (when I started the game they were down 9-2), HJ took their first lead of the game with under 2 min to go in the 4th quarter. This team isn’t as talented as HJ teams of the past, but they play just as hard and don’t give up.

HJ 67 Huffman 63 final

Huffman turnover, timeout again, 6.5 to play

67-63 with 7 seconds to play

HJ about to pull off the upset

With the win tonight and a vidor loss, Lumberton can lock up a playoff spot with a win in either of their final two games. Vidor can force a playin game by beating lumberton and Jasper coupled with a lumberton loss to BC

47 seconds left, HJ ball, timeout

63-63 with a minute to play

HJ up 61-60 with 2:29 to play

Huffman’s stall ball bites them with two quick breakaways for the hawks. 53-49 Huffman with 5:40 to go

33-25 Huffman leads at the half. First time seeing them this year. This is by no means a typical HJ team, but I’ve been super impressed with Huffman’s defensive pressure. Nothing goes uncontested.

HJ yet to score in the 2nd quarter, down 27-17 2 min until the half

Jinx

HJ was down 18-11 with 3 seconds left until Huffman got hit with I guess a flagrant, followed by a technical. HJ made 3 of 4 free throws, then hit a 3 at the buzzer from the volleyball line to pull within one, 18-17 at the end of the first