JimThorpe

I stayed and watched the Yates-Huffman game and there is a lot to what you say. On paper the comparison is apt because Yates was playing just as hard as they possibly could to beat Huffman. Couple that with the fact that North Forest is not a bad team. They won 17 of their last 19 games. The two loses were to Yates by 11 and to Bellaire (who was upset by Cinco Ranch incidentally) and one of the wins was over Yates by 19. But again, that's all on paper. I'll tell you one thing. From a certain perspective, as a Tiger fan, I'm kind of glad Yates pulled it out. Huffman was starting to get that ominous "team of destiny" look about them. You know, when all of a sudden a group of young men suddenly find themselves and discover that they are a lot better than they thought they were? Then fate takes the wheel.

Stayed to watch and boy am I glad I did. Very entertaining game. Yates and Huffman was a much better match up than I expected. You never know what's going to happen when a couple good, well coached teams meet and neither has a let down.

208 points is the most I've seen in 36 minutes at any level. It was a fun game to watch and it was a statement. The second quarter let down wasn't as pronounced as the one against HJ. Every time North Forest started to make a move the Tigers recognized it and responded with increased intensity, from the opening tip to the moment the starters were pulled.

They beat Yates by 19, then turned around and lost the second time by 11. Interesting. They've got one kid who is averaging over 29 pts and 11 rbds a game. They've won 17 of their last 19 and the two loses in that period were to Bellaire and Yates.

Sigler understands that and so do his kids. Silsbee can play that game and they had to when they faced some of the tall, athletic 5A and 6A competition in the preseason. We saw them play Waxahatchiiiiee (however you spell it, they're ranked 3 in 5A) up in Dallas over the holidays. The Tigers won in OT and there was a good deal of half court basketball in that game. Watched the Lincoln game online and it was mostly straight basketball. Course that was when they were full strength and now they are nursing their self inflicted wound. So yes, they can play standard basketball if that's what it takes to win. They will always move the ball rapidly but they will pull up and run an offense when circumstances dictate. They can and they will. But why ask them to plot up and down the court before you have to?

Much more interesting than I thought it would be

Yates has a really good team they feed off lots of turnovers created by suffocating defense diboll was severely overmatched and lack of depth killed them but I give diboll credit for getting that far and not backing down to Yates silsbee and Yates mirror each other and if that game happens it will be a great game let's hope so They could (should?) meet at the Region final. Silsbee may have a bit of a harder path perhaps but if these teams continue to play well they will meet and it will be fun.

Yes but that one, and for that matter all other sports disasters, pale to insignificance compared to the spring of 1997 and the biggest sports upset I ever witnessed in person. Silsbee was 31 - 0 and ranked No. 1. We had a first round bye. Then we lost in the area round to Tyler Chapel Hill. The specter of the game still haunts me. Lufkin's old high school gym I believe. We sat there paralyzed in stunned, silent disbelief. The score board read 66-62. It was like watching the Hindenburg on the ground, a burning broken mangle of junk. Oh the humanities! Meanwhile the kids on the other team enjoyed the happiest moment of their lives. Many of our kids (and fans) were crying but I think some of their's were too, out of sheer joy and perhaps the astounding unlikeliness of it all. And then Chapel Hill, a fair team but far from great and one that we could have easily dusted off any other time, lost a not very close game to Cleveland in the next round. The only joy I can take out of it is a perverse one. I'm certain that this was the high point of those Chapel Hill peoples lives and it's been all downhill from there. Anyway, for me, when it comes to unexpectedness this one is up there with the The Miracle On Ice - but in a bad way. I'm just glad they didn't make a movie. But it's apples and oranges. Everything is different. It's like a giant meteor has just hit the Earth so it can't happen again, right? Not in the same lifetime anyway. Impossible odds, right? Maybe I shouldn't even be talking about this. Isn't there some rule for Silsbee people that makes it taboo to even think of it? If not perhaps there should be.