JimThorpe

Connolly doesn’t have a prayer if they try the same old thing. These coaches are throwing the same old stuff at the problem. They are letting their teams down, their players down and their followers down. Nobody has the will to try and alter the experiment. A pox on all their houses, Silsbee too if they won’t stand up and fight.

The defense on Friday was sometimes porous but the Tigers looked like a group of guys who were really pretty comfortable together.

If Silsbee is playing offensive ball like they did Friday, and they play at least one good quarter of really good defense, like they did Friday, they should win comfortably, like they did Friday. Getting the other team's key player in foul trouble early doesn't hurt. And if they make it to Huntsville they've pretty much equalled last year's effort.

Poor LaMarque? In Region 3 ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee. Graduation hit Silsbee very hard but it's not too far fetched to think that this year's team could make it just as far as last year's did.

I high school I was always worried about his foot. He seemed to have a chronic sore foot. Never stopped him or even slowed him down much in action but between plays he would seem to favor it. Well, he's certainly healthy now.

Washington must be a pretty good team because HF is a pretty good team. The Tigers will have to bring their best game to advance. Congrats on a fantastic season. And I'm going to have to second that nomination for Rideaux for coach of the year. Hands down. I watched him pretty closely in the two Silsbee games and I have to say I'm impressed especially the second meeting. It was exactly the right blend of emotion and tactics. He was made all the right moves.

I have a question. How far away from the school do the the transfers at Yates live? Do they get financial assistance to go to school there. How does this work?

When the Tigers start clicking they really look like they should be that No. 14 team.

Isn't it crazy? Somebody looking ahead with some concern about a potential meeting with HF? Brave new world.

I'm sure those good ol' UIL folks are losing sleep over the disparity and fretting day and night about it. Not doubt it will all be rectified in the very near future. In fact, I think I'll hold my breath till they do. Excuse me for a moment..... 1... 2... 3....

Perhaps they resent child sacrifice.

Yea they'll break 100 for sure but maybe by not too much. I saw that in HJ when we played them. They are good kids, on the up and up. In other words, cannon fodder. I wish somebody would alter the experiment. Where's Professor Brainard and his flubber when you need them.

I hope Silsbee can survive to get massacred too when their time comes. We who are about to die salute you.

Have you considered the benefits of the maritime program. Helps you navigate a packed in zone and handle the stormy seas of playing these teams from the giant metropolises like Sour Lake and Silsbee.

Me either. These teams are very different than the ones that met 3 years ago. But it is an interesting matchup and I'm sure it will be a good game.

La Marque is ranked No. 4. it would be a big upset but not an outrageous one.

I think that HJ can keep them below 100. Achieving that is essential if the Hawks are to have any chance at all. And that in itself would be something of a moral victory.

I haven’t crayola’d them in. I’ve chipped it in granite. It’s like already a memory. Yates hasn’t scored less than 100 since the end of November. But all that running and pressing and high scoring is just window dressing. They could play modest ball control game and still run away with it. You do have to play the games, like stepping on the bases after a home run.

Agreed! Hands down.

You get my point. There wouldn’t have been any conceding if one bracket yielded a reasonable shot at making it to the the Region Tourney and the other led to oblivion. And I believe that Yates could win Region 3 5A.

Just about anybody, but not Yates. Nobody in 4A can play with Yates. Yates could win the 5A championship and would have a good shot of winning Region 3 in 6A. It’s time that these conglomeration schools to be forced to play at the 5A level. And if they want to keep the school small? Fine, keep it small. But you’re not going to be permitted to ruin 4A and below. There’s zero chance of an upset. If any team in this Region beats Yates it would make the 1980 Miracle On Ice look like an easily predicted outcome. Ned and Memorial flipped a coin. Apparently Godzilla doesn’t reside in Region 3 5A. If he did there wouldn’t have been any coin flipping. Every post season game is played to extend your season but this one has a weird kind of vibe.

What does the height picture look like? Quantity has a quality all its own. Quantity as in inches.

He'll get his 30, because he's just that phenomenal but they will double him and there's only so much he can do. The formula is well developed by the better coaches in the district.

I predict a 15 point win for the Hawks. HJ will have a small lead in the middle of the 4th and Silsbee will get desperate and start taking chances and it won't work and HJ will pull away in the closing two and a half minutes. You asked for predictions so there it is. It's what happened last year against Yates and it's what happened Friday against HF. And the winner of 22 4A will make it to Huntsville.

The Longhorns didn't really have that much of a height advantage, an inch here and there but manageable. What they did have was good ball handling and very good passing. Any kind of pressure Silsbee mounted was handled fairly well. The few turnovers because of the pressure were easily made up for by Silsbee's porous defense down low. I think that overall it was simply that the Tigers didn't have any respect for the skills of the Longhorns. Hampshire Fannett clearly had enough talent and speed to impose their style of offense on the Tigers last night. Silsbee never recognized that on the court and never compensated. But that should not have been decisive. The Tigers are fast and talented but they simply didn't have enough speed or talent to steamroll teams like the Longhorns any more. If the Tigers had played smart, taken what was offered, not thrown away possessions, made the extra pass, they could have slowly pulled away to a 20 point win just like they did at Hampshire Fannett. I just have to say it again, the Tigers simply aren't big enough or good enough to blast people. If they play with smarts and intensity they are good enough to slowly and patiently pull way. They were at that point in the first quarter. I think they had a 10 to 3 lead. That should have been the springboard to a not very flashy but convincing win.