Kountzer

I'm not saying this because I live in Houston and BT Washington is not that far away. Also not because I kinda know their coach. I"m saying put some respeck on BT Washington's name. I've seen Silsbee 3 or 4 times this year. I have not seen Washington. That should tell you where my loyalty lies. Washington has good height their best big man Lewis has a reputation as a good player. Silsbee's press is not as good as it usually is this season. Every dog has it's day. If I have to eat cheese if when Silsbee wins regional so be it. I don't bet so I don't have any tangible skin in this game.

You gotta remember that last championship team in 2018 had 3 star guards And they had 3 or 4 really good guard like players: Langdon Tyler, Chris Martin, Kalon Barnes,. and some good bench players. This team does not. have that kind of depth. All the guys on this team are appreciated just the same.

There is sports psychology to all this. Last year Silsbee had some solid seniors. They had Baltrip who could jump and rebound. They had Gilder who hustled and hit timely 3s. Then they beat Yates. Yates was making it on name inflation. they were good but not as good as their ranking. The tigers beat them and we enter this season # 2. Maybe they really should be # 4 or # 6. We beat some then ranked 6A teams and the teams confidence is high. We were confident enough to beat Madison on our turf. Then we come to the DISD tournament in Dallas. Dallas is like the Mecca of high school ball. There's talent all over the state. BU proved that. Still, there is basketball mindset in the Dallas area that is like no other area. Then you play Carter. You get behind but you can't comeback and beat them. At that point the team is down, not depressed but sort of questioning themselves. But they really didn't have time to recover cause they got beat soundly by Bishop Lynch at 6pm that same evening, yesterday. They beat Wilmer Hutchins only to play Madison again. They came back and beat Mad. before in Beaumont but this time they are in Dallas. D Madison is out to settle the score. So now the tigers go home. Get some rest. Get some practices in and start district play. They should be wiser and stronger. They should easily make the playoffs. How far do they go? Who knows?

Tim Bush.

Did anybody see that Silsbee v Bishop Lynch game? What was so special about Lynch? Were they tall? Did they all shoot really well? Or maybe Silsbee just had a let down. That could happen too.

Everyone says the rankings don't mean anything, but we all follow the rankings just the same..

All those private schools probably messed Lincoln up. Schools like FF taking the talent. Kimball getting some. Duncanville. MADISON. Speaking of Madison I heard Josh Lamb on his BU broadcast intimate that Madison prolly won't come back to the YMBL because the refs home cooking helped Silsbee to win. I remember the play in question toward the end of the game. B4 ya'll jump I'm just repeating what I heard. I luv dem two championships as much as anybody. Can't take them away. That's history. With that in mind the tables are turned. We on Mad's turf now. Silsbee got to deal with their type of refs. They're probably a lot like the refs in the Carter game. I finally got to see that Carter game from yesterday. Those refs were calling it really close, almost tacky tacky. Carter has adjusted their game accordingly. They really like to take charges. Come to think about it they set up for a lot of charges in that championship game in SA. A lot of them were charges. One dude jumped in front of Miller and his feet were not set, but Dre got the charge anyway. I don't think the ref was cheating. Sometimes you miss a call. Perhaps the tigers learned from all that and will act accordingly.

I watched the two Silsbee championship games on NFHS. It was good; had a clear picture. Maybe they used their best personnel for the really big games. As far as what I've experienced with them during this tournament, nah I'll just go to the games or read about it on a message board.

Silsbee, maybe.

A rematch with Madison. That should be interesting. Too bad I may not see it.

If a team is going to drop in the polls now is the time to do it.

Are you viewing thru NFHS?

NFHS is a ripoff

U heard about end the frustration, I lived it. I've been watching the young tigers, old tigers, mid aged..since way b4 you were born. I was listening to the tigers play on my old zenith radio. No internet then, game was broadcast on KKAS. Heard of them lately? or at all? KJET was playing Hey Joe by some guy named Hendrix. I heard and seen tigers like Manuel Tyler, Ralph Davenport, Rob Shelton, Mark Yawn, Tim, (can't remember his name. Charlottes friend back in high school), Rufus Cook, the late Larry Irvin MD, J Hunter, David Brown, Mike Dabney, who had he not blown out his knee might have made it to the NBA. He was that good. I appreciate all the talent and work sweat it took to win those rings. In every championship a little serendipity plays a small part. It's in the dictionary, look it up.

If/when Argyle breaks into a run & press that is a sure sign to read the book or revelation.

Silsbee battled with Carter and Carter has as much height as Washington. I don't know if any of their bigs are as good as BT's Lewis. So I feel a bit more confident should those two teams square off.

# 1 needs a pull up jumper. A quick accurate one at that. A floater would be good too. He shoots good set 3s. Lotta set 3 shooters on the team. Love to see him glide to the bucket though. and steal the ball with those long limbs. With a quick jumper, when the ref is calling it a certain way, just pull up & burn them from the outside. Those kinda skills don't grow on trees. Along Hitting the breaking ball, throwing a split finger 96mph, a slider just as fast, high pointing the ball with 4.27 speed, enuf sense not to drive a vette like lighting while lit enough to double the legal limit, 10 inch hands, They pay the big bucks for those kinda skills. Jayce? well some things are bigger than sports. Don't under estimate BT Washington in reg III. I'm not sure about Furr or anyone else.

Next..

Maybe NFHS doesn't work on Macs. I haven't seen dish.

I don't think argyle is as strong this season like last. Maybe all those big posts they had are gone. Or the key post is gone. The season is still young. Barring the un foreseen (like covid) FF may have a clear shot at another trophy.

Good experience. Better to learn from mistakes now than learn in a critical playoff game.

I presented a hypothetically scenario. Not tryna re write history. You don't know if the ref remembers or not, neither do I.

Silsbee needs to learn how to shoot and hit floaters. The last significant call by a ref in the championship game Silsbee vs Carter in SA. Maybe a minute left in the game. Devon McCain drives down the lane, the Carter guy sets up to take a charge. Silsbee was ahead by one or two points. The ref called blocking foul. Devon hit a FT and that sealed the game. It could of gone either way. Especially the way Carter was shooting lights out from the 3 line in that game. Said that to say this: maybe the ref remembers all that.

Did y'all watch by stream? I couldn't find it.

Will have to beat Dallas Carter and their Dallas refs.