Kountzer

Somebody help me out.  Silsbee's Jordan Holmes is a Sr. this year.  Good football and basketball player.  Maybe he plays baseball as well. There's another Holmes, Sidney III, who is a So. Jordan's younger brother I'm sure.  Does he play football and basketball?  I get those two mixed up.  they look a lot alike.

It's about to come on.

Kappas, Sigmas, Omegas, Alphas..perhaps there are others I am not aware of.  No disrespect if there are.

what came around came back around.  Congrats D Madison.

kappa alpha psi  or something like that. 

Those warm-up  games they played in Fort Worth didn't mean anything.  I thought Kennedale would do something, but they got blown out by Wylie.  If I remember correctly D Mad. lost a game then too.

[quote name="usedtobe" post="1383277" timestamp="1362631991"] [quote author=Who that !!? link=topic=109900.msg1383268#msg1383268 date=1362630345] Silsbee should of beat Yates and could of beat them if homes are elam was on.. Next year will use 409 reffs... [/quote] Man, don't start that crap.  We lost - it got away from us in the last half of the 4th quarter.  We had our chance and that's all you get in the playoffs.  The referee reference?  Where are you going with that? ::) 8) [/quote] I've said this before.  It could of been different if Silsbee had an outside game, and accuracy at the free line.  I said that earlier in the season, and it was evident during the game, especially in the 4th quarter.  Yates didn't want to run with Silsbee so they slowed down and packed it in.  Smart move.  They dared Silsbee to beat them from the outside and they couldn't. 

I see other people saw the same things I saw.  They need to learn how to shoot.  Running, pressing that's fine and good.  But they need to teach those young people how to shoot a jump shot, and how to shoot free throws.  A  short to medium height team that has 4 or 5 players that can dribble, run, and also stop and pop a jump shot can beat a team like Yates.  If all you do is drive in you're playing into their hand. Little dribblers should hire a fundamentals coach.  This coach should be able to teach the kiddos the fine art of shooting a finger touch jump shot.  I also think Silsbee would get better experience by entering some of those Houston tournaments.  That would be better exposure than that tournament in Sherman, Tx.

I saw three Silsbee Tiger games this season: the 1st Kashmere game @ Kashmere.  I saw the 2nd Kashmere game in Baytown, and I saw the game against Yates last night.  I saw Yates play twice, against HJ and then against Silsbee.  I mentioned all that because I seldom go to games.  Before this the last Silsbee game I went to was at Mt Belvieu against Cleveland I believe.  I mostly keep up with the Tigers via this forum. The Tigers were very quick, a pressing, running,  scrapping team.  I hope they can replace those guards who are leaving.  I wish I could of watched Holmes and Elam play football.  Yates?  Maybe I'll put more effort into watching them play next season.  After all I live in Houston.  Johnson gymnasium is very nice.  They always play the region III finals there, but I never go because the games are on Saturdays, and that's a no no for practicing seventh day adventists.  That's a whole different topic there, but it factors in for me.  I think I said it before, but if not great basketball season Silsbee Tigers.

Well I got to see this season's Silsbee Tigers at full strength.  They are/were very impressive at what they do and that is running.  Good back courts, quick as snakes, and I mean that in a good way.  What they are not good at, and what killed them was shooting free throws, and shooting jump shots in general.  Not only is there outside game missing, they missed too many close in shots and lay ups. Silsbee would of had to play the perfect game to beat Yates tonight.  Yates had the better team.  I see no reason to hate on JY.  I hope they go all the way. p.s. Yates' band and cheer group was very entertaining as well.

Good man, well liked.  Like a God?  Your concept of God is limited. Changing the topic.  How did you and 'Dick Vitale' get from Houston to SeTXsports?  Mostly locals know and care about golden triangle teams, and talent scouts.

Dang, how many McKelvey's they got in Trinity Gardens?  There's been a McKelvey on Kashmere's basketball team every year for the past 40 years, or so it seems.

I've only been to three games this year.  I saw Silsbee vs. Kashmere @ Kashmere earlier in the season.  I saw Yates @ HJ Thursday night. And I saw the Silsbee vs Kashmere playoff game last night.  I normally don't attend games on Friday nights, but I wanted to see what the real Silsbee team looked like.  Elam and Holmes are the real deal, the whole team actually. #1 for Kashmere has a nice jump shot, a nice 3 pt shot.  I like watching team that can run and shoot.  # 23 is a good player as well.  Those two were the ones that did the Tigers in during that 1st game. Yates? They're as athletic as I've ever seen.  They remind me of those old Wheatley teams.  Silsbee has the advantage in the back court.  If they are going to win they will have to press, trap and run, but they know that.  If they get tired, and Yates starts breakin that trap lookout!  It could get ugly.  If the Lord and Proverbs 27:1 say the same I'm putting in to get off work at 4:00pm Tuesday, so I can get to that game.  My supervisor is a Yates alum.  Should be interesting.

What happened? I was there.  I didn't see nothing.

All I know is the coaches mentioned were at Fleming , that's why I know who they are.

Back in the day Kashmere played Silsbee for the first time that I know of.  The game was played in Silsbee, at the old SHS gym.  The new high school hadn't been built yet. Silsbee had this guard, I forget his full name.  His last name was White, if I recall correctly.  Anyway, he had a breakaway lay-up.  He had a nice touch on putting lay ups off the back boards.  He couldn't dunk so he laid it up.  Out of no where Karl Godine flew up and slapped the ball off the glass at least a foot above the rim.  Needless to say that brought the house down.  Silsbee hung around, but Kashmere ended up winning by double digits.

# 12 Melvin Swift for Jack Yates.  Wow!  12 for HJ played a good game as well.

[quote name="Dick Vitale" post="1377266" timestamp="1361469389"] [quote author=5gallonbucket link=topic=109587.msg1377264#msg1377264 date=1361469124] [quote author=Dick Vitale link=topic=109587.msg1377262#msg1377262 date=1361469061] That was 1996. [/quote] who was they lost to? cleveland? [/quote] PAGING AggiesAreWe!!! ;D ;D....I don't remember who it was off the top... [/quote] They lost to Pine Lake, Pine Tree, it was a school with a name similar to that.

Like I said earlier two places I know well, Silsbee Tx, and Kashmere Gardens Houston Tx.

Coach Brazos, Coach Carmen Stewart, Danny Thomas.  They were all at Lamar Fleming when I was there.  My cousins kept me up to date on them when I went back to Silsbee.

Kashmere may have had some good years.  I didn't keep up with them all that hard.    Changing the subject, Coach Frankie Brazos, great guy.  Coach Carmen Stewart, another one.  Danny Thomas?  Among other things he was world class at playing the dozens back in middle school.  I haven't seen the Jamie Foxx movie about the Kashmere Stage band.  I've discussed it with some people I know from that era, like Lorice Rose, Jr, whom I know from church.  Just the same, go Silsbee.

I don't go to many games.  That said, I don't know if I've seen a more athletic team than Yates.  Maybe some of those classic Wheatley teams.  # 12 for Yates had his whole elbow above the rim on a couple of dunks.  Yates' guard play is not the greatest.  Their outside game is so so.  I don't see anyone beating them this playoffs, not in this region.

HJ hanging, but fatigue will set in sooner or later.

43 40 Yates 2nd qtr.

The coaching money must be good in PA, cause the basketball mojo has dried up.