Kountzer

bellaire has high academic standards.  Yates not so much.  Basketball is something on the side at bellaire.  Whereas Yates is a basketball factory. 

I live in Houston as well, consistently for the last 30 years.  Before that I spent most summers in Houston as well as in Silsbee, my hometown.  I just happen to like the name kountzer.  I went to school in HISD for about 2 years.  IOWs I have a good idea of what's going on here.  I've been following Wise & sons for years, from Missouri City to Kingwood to 3rd ward.  I don't have a problem with coach Wise.  He's got a good thing going, mo' power to him.  Just don't try and blow smoke, cause it is more than coaching ability that turned the Yates program around right about the time he showed up there.  Too many coincidences is not a coincident.

Quite a bit of AAU activity happens around U of H and TSU in the summer.  Yates is around the corner.  Wise is a AAU administrator/coach whatever you want to call it.  Wise becomes Yates coach, and the program takes off.  It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it all out.  Year in and out there is not that much talent naturally occurring in 3rd ward.  But hey, the UIL can't or won't do anything about it.  It is what it is, probably for a long time.  They could dominate 3A for decades, just like the Canyon girls.  I hear they recruit also.

If you got'em down, you gotta keep them down.  You have to give it to Waco LV for dealing with the pressure of being #1, undefeated, and making it to Austin.  They obviously have mental toughness.  They may take it all.

[quote name="AggiesAreWe" post="1191427" timestamp="1330792781"] Silsbee looking to make their 3rd trip to Austin in last 5 years (6th overall '72, '76, '83, '08, '10, **) LaVega looking to make their 2nd trip to Austin. Only one player in this game tonight has played in the Frank Erwin Center, Silsbee's Kelton Gaines. [/quote] I attended the '72 game.

IMO this is the 3A game of the year, so far.

I am mindful of the sabbath every year when they have the regional tournament, which I don't attend for this reason.  It is not that big of a deal for me, I'm just bringing it to attention. [url=[Hidden Content]]

Athens vs. Silsbee, my, my.  Two of my favorite town going at it head to head.  I love Athens.  I've been there a few times.  My church conference owns a spot of land there, and we going there and have church camp meetings every summer.  Beautiful area, hard water and all.  Several lakes, lots of fishing, you name it. Silsbee is home though.  Blood is thicker than turnip juice, lol.  Go Tigers!  I won't be at the game though.  I plan to observe the sabbath, being I am a Seventh Day Adventist christian.  They had a big write up on the sabbath in the Houston Chronicle, as it relates to the playoffs.  Check it out. 

Well, I had a nice visit to beautiful, and fragrant Mt Belvieu Tx, lol. Man, their school district has an athletic complex second to none.  No game though.  I should of brought my laptop to work and got updated at lunch.  Oh well..

Silsbee vs. ColdSprings Tuesday 2/28/12, at Barbers Hill.  Hmmm.  I can make that.  I went to one other playoff game there before, a few years ago.  I'm working two jobs though.  I may be tempted to just go home and go to bed. This is a rare opportunity for me to the the Tigers though.  Decisions, Decisions.

[quote name="CATMAN" post="1182731" timestamp="1329884173"] [quote author=Kountzer link=topic=96431.msg1182644#msg1182644 date=1329880650] I didn't know summer creek high school existed until right now. [/quote] U need to get out of Kountze more. [/quote] Lol, no doubt, I need to move around more, but I live in NW Houston.

I didn't know summer creek high school existed until right now.

Good chinese style buffet restaurant called Yank Sings.  It's located on Mangum, just across from the stadium.  I'm off today, but I work two blocks away from Delmar.

Delmar stadium gym would be a good location.

[quote name="BLUEDOVE3" post="1165696" timestamp="1327499906"] [quote author=Kountzer link=topic=94735.msg1165575#msg1165575 date=1327465538] PA may have all the talent in the world.  Playground ball is just exercise, recreation.  If the talent is not on the court winning games it is wasted IMO. I haven't seen PA basketball in awhile.  I'm just going by what I see in the papers and on the internet, especially here.  Also, PA just being in the playoffs, I don't know.  That's good; I'm not knocking.  But I don't have to recite PA basketball history.  You know it better than I do.  There used to be a time when as soon as basketball practice started for the season, and the players @ Lincoln tied up their sneakers, every team and high school basketball fan in the state of Texas took notice.  Those teams in the DFW, in Houston, they all knew about PA basketball being played at Lincoln.  To go from that to 'we make the playoff, that a serious change.  Please read & hear what I'm saying.  I am not dumping on PA basketball.  I wish coach Williams the best.  I just made statement based on the results, and what I am feeling about the results. [/quote]So no one fears southeast texas basketball anymore ;) [/quote] Most of the attention is directed toward a few teams in the Houston/Ft Bend area, and especially on the teams in DFW.

PA may have all the talent in the world.  Playground ball is just exercise, recreation.  If the talent is not on the court winning games it is wasted IMO. I haven't seen PA basketball in awhile.  I'm just going by what I see in the papers and on the internet, especially here.  Also, PA just being in the playoffs, I don't know.  That's good; I'm not knocking.  But I don't have to recite PA basketball history.  You know it better than I do.  There used to be a time when as soon as basketball practice started for the season, and the players @ Lincoln tied up their sneakers, every team and high school basketball fan in the state of Texas took notice.  Those teams in the DFW, in Houston, they all knew about PA basketball being played at Lincoln.  To go from that to 'we make the playoff, that a serious change.  Please read & hear what I'm saying.  I am not dumping on PA basketball.  I wish coach Williams the best.  I just made statement based on the results, and what I am feeling about the results.

Port Arthur Lincoln has been gone at least ten years.  What happened high school basketball in Port Arthur would be a better question.

What's keeping that talent from getting on the court?  Grades?

Coach Williams had a nice pipeline of basketball talent coming off the play grounds of Silsbee.  Not so much in PA, at least not now.  But I am sure a nicer paycheck smoothes out all that.  Back in the day the idea that there is prolly more basketball talent in Silsbee than PA would of been laughed at.  Time brings about a change I guess.

Best case scenario for Silsbee: lose in Sour Lake, then win again against HJ in the Regional.

This game shows that your can't really depend on high school team rankings in polls. 

Good game, good win Silsbee Tigers.  Anytime you can get a win like this is a good time.  As for HJ, this is the best time to absorb a loss like this.  It is far better to lose while ranked # 1 in the polls, relatively early in the district games,  than it is to lose in the first round of the playoffs.  HJ has another game against Silsbee at home.  They also have a chance to go to the playoffs, do damage, and possibly show that they really are the # 1 team in conference 3A in the state. Real talk from a Silsbee fan and native.

[quote name="BADSANTA" post="1136793" timestamp="1322787763"] They did play well vs Ball lt year and that Ball team was just as good as this years Kimball. Good luck Tigers you will need it! [/quote] This is a different year, different season.  silsbee has a different team. 

Things are lined up for me to go to this game: It starts after the sabbath, (I am a seventh day adventist) I have the $, and the means of transportation.  But, we went out veterans day and bought some furniture that will be delivered Saturday night @ 7pm.  Oh well...

My bad.  You must be a Waltrip alum, lol.  Waltrip is a good school, btw.  Nice students there.  One of my co-workers had a daughter that graduated from there last year.  I see Waltrip more often than I do Silsbee High School.  That's what happens when you move to Houston I guess. I could of sworn that title was taken way from Waltrip.  They got a lot of bad publicity in the Chronicle.  No biggie to me.  I don't have a dog in that fight.  Quite a bit of high school basketball is shady.  I don't know what the percentage is, but something is going on.  I don't anticipate any of the schools to the immediate South of me to rise up and do anything sports wise.  I am talking about Waltrip and Scarborough.  Eisenhower is down the street.  They do okay.  Most of the students in this area go to Klein Forest.  I think they had a big victory here lately in football.  To be honest I don't keep up with high school football that much.  Unless a player of a team starts doing amazing, atttention grabbing stuff, like Yates 2 years ago, I don't pay much attention.  I did see Falu though.  He's bumping around town somewhere.