TxHoops

Kimball trying to claw their way back in the 4th against Lancaster.

It truly is amazing the game came down to the end as poorly as they shot it. Congrats to the Falcons though.

Yeah need one more win and then we might get the clash of the titans the state has been waiting to see.

Yeah that lineup starting 2 freshmen and 2 sophomores, hard to believe they got as far as they did. This was definitely the year to give everyone else a chance. And they almost took that away. Great season Tigers! The Region 1 vs Region 2 game should be the de facto state championship game.

Really bad.

Nobody is beating BU until SA but BU. They are just too talented.

My thought exactly. Huffman was starting to fold under pressure, coughing that thing up like it’s hot. Tigers need more from seniors than air ball 3 and turnover off back to back steals too. Get to the cup more and stop settling for first jumper you see.

There have only been 4 coaches in the history of Lamar Basketball (since the junior college days) who have had a career winning record. Jack Martin, Billy Stubbs, Pat Foster, and Tic Price. Lamar didn’t get the invite to join the WAC with SFA, Sam Houston, and Abilene because of their football program. Tic is well respected among the NCAA coaching fraternity for a reason. I do agree however with points made about some of the other programs, most notably baseball. Lamar should never be a doormat there.

My senior year we got an invite to the Kerrville Basketball Festival. At the time, it was a big deal because that was THE holiday tournament in the state and basically only invited ranked teams. I remember sitting in the stands at Tivy HS when the biggest kid is ever seen walked in, with a clock on a chain around his neck ala Flavor Flav. It almost looked like a regular medallion on him. That was Shaq and SA Cole was in our division. Prior to the internet, we had no idea who he was before then. They smoked everyone, including our rival Edgewood (who would go on to win state in 2A that year) in the Finals. And the person was right, it was Shaq and just some other dudes. The Chuckwu kid is a nice player. He is not in the same hemisphere Shaq was in HS. But then again, not many ever have been.

He’s in the middle of the ultimate fight and needs some major heavenly intervention at this point.

This is definitely true. This is the biggest problem I have with the way Yates plays. They always have superior athletes and it usually gets them pretty deep. But when they run into a team with an elite guard or two, it’s crispy toast.

Very diplomatic no-look. We need to be kind to Hagar as he is approaching “super senior” status.

Love and prayers for stevenash. I hope this stays up. The more prayers going up for him the better.

I loved the reply too. Do we really need to include “animal” in the above sentence? (And this absolutely falls under the “takes one to know one” category...)

What in the ❄️ does it matter who I root for? Many times I root for a school that has a particular kid on it, sometimes it’s geographically, sometimes because I’m rooting for karma due to a BS vote. Maybe next time adults will think twice about taking a year away from a kid. Regardless, I guess “cool” is in the eye of the beholder. I wasn’t going to say anything else on this matter, as it has been discussed ad nauseum, but like Michael Corleone, I keep getting dragged back in. But for the record, if you don’t think some HJ fans root for non-southeast Texas teams against Silsbee (and vice versa), you would be mistaken. Is it cool? My thoughts are who cares - it’s their prerogative. For what it’s worth, I have known one of your assistants (maybe your only assistant) for much of her life so Huffman is my absolute favorite cross country team in the state. That is the 100 percent truth. As for Hoops, go Tigers! Jump on that gas early and keep the pedal down.

I would say you took a lot of good from your time with him. Pretty amazing how formidable that little school was in basketball and baseball. The joke was always, at least they don’t play football!

I have found that “coachable” kids is often times directly related to the coach. Kids who were deemed to be difficult, are all of a sudden very coachable with the right coach. When they have great respect for their coach, there isn’t much they wouldn’t do for him or her.

I’m rarely surprised by how well his teams performed. But this team had no business being two games from “State.” Like BSWildcats said in another thread, this run would not have been surprising next year. This year was a bit of a shocker. But then again, Foster ALWAYS gets the most out of his team. Credit those kids for always “buying in” as well.

He is as good a man as he is a coach. I hate making comparisons between the great ones but I will just say he is as good as any I’ve seen.

SC won 57-52

48-46

Very solid. I don’t think he’s better (or even as good) as the big from Foster though.

What a run! Great season!

Let’s goooooo!

C’mon Wildcats!