Kountzer

Did # 1 Q Sanders grow up on Lyons ave, or market st and shoot hoops at finnegan park? It could be that but i doubt it. Players like that come from the 4 points of greater Harris county summer league AAU teams.

I am not a Wheatley homer because I live in or near Houston. I am much more familiar with Wheatley than i am 3rd ward so the same thing goes for Yates. I am as surprised as anyone that they have teams in the playoffs. Given today’s political climate especially towards public schools, that is a miracle. Yates coach Wise is a respected coach. But the Wheatley coach, and I don’t know his name, he pulled a rabbit out of his hat. Kudos to him for getting his team to where they are now. Don’t get it twisted. Go Silsbee Tigers

I usually watch 3 or 4 Silsbee basketball games a year, either live at one of those thanksgiving showcase games or on stream. Rice has come a long way. Same for Boulwen (i hope I spelled his last name right). It is a waste of time to me to discuss where they need to improve. They’re both Srs & their time in a Silsbee uniform are numbered. Bridge City won state in football? That was 55 or 56 years ago back in the days of Steve Wooster. But it is true, Silsbee has not accomplished that in football. Correction that was in 1966. So it was more like 59 years ago. (Some of us gotta come correct around here.

I just looked it up. D Lincoln had 3 championships before they played Silsbee in the state finals. Their W over Silsbee was # 4. My facts were good boss man.

It was Huntington.

Braelon Bush. I’m getting old.

I came up with the word psyched. I couldn’t think of anything else. So it was not a well planned theory. I think i saw Tarkington Vs Silsbee when the tigers had McCain, Adams and the 3rd guard (cańt think of his name) the one that went to McNeese for awhile. I think the opponent was Tarkington. The location wqs Livingston high school. Good game, but Silsbee was in loaded, and won. One of the great psych games, if you want to call it that was when Silsbee made it to the finals and lost to Dallas Lincoln. MCCain got seriously injured. Silsbee had the best team but just came apart, trying to end the frustration. Lincoln had good players, they also had this thing, this quiet confidence of winning state cause their school basketball program had done it 3 or 4 times before. There is something about crossing that threshold. Until you do it, that doubt will linger. Now was that the case with Tarkington? I don’t know. TBH i don’t have anything against them. I really don’t care too much one way or another.

That is your opinion.

Psychology factors into every sporting event. It is in long term history and short term history. Perhaps it wasn’t so much that the Tarkington team was psyched out, but that the Wheatley team was psyched in. No doubt the Wheatley coach has reminded his team of their basketball tradition. He probably has reminded them of their success this season, and of the success and schedule of their opponent. He probably told them of the talent this team has and who they have played this season and the victories they have had. IOWs being psyched and psychology in general is definitely a two way street,to say the least. More can be said but to me this is not a hill worth dying on, figuratively speaking.

Sports psychology is a vast subject. They got people with phDs studying this subject. It is not always predictable but it is a factor. If you take a program like Tarkington, and they play Silsbee, most of the time Silsbee will.win. Maybe because the winning team has better players. But they have better players because that community mindset towards basketball has a positive effect. It is like when Silsbee plays Cuervo in football. C has the psychological advantage. I could say more but I do not want to type that much lol.

Tarkington & HF probably psyched themselves out of a W because they played some teams with known basketball traditions.

I finally got to see Silsbee play this season. I take that back, I saw some of that first Center game. Good win Tigers.

Johnson for Center has some skills.

Shoulders is nice from 3 pt line this game.

Late called foul on j Johnson.