Kountzer

I went to a few Lamar U games. I went to see them play SW Louisiana. SW got busted for cheating so bad they changed the name of the school. They had a big build up for the shooting guard they had named Dwight Bo Lamar. Dude got off the bus shooting. The pistol Pete Maravich aura was still very prevalent in La. In that game Bo shot so much from long range, and missing, his team mates stopped passing him the ball. They didn't have the three point line then, so there was no reason to take those shots. That kind of shooting led to the 3 line so it served a purpose. I went to another game against Centenary. The draw was Centenary's 7'1" center named Robert Parish. He went on to have a pretty good NBA career, to say the least.

RIP.

Not many care if you finish high in the polls. Win state and that's when the fun starts: parades, fire truck rides, plaques from city hall, crawfish boils in the park, along with barbecue.

What is SH guard from Tomball Concordia, Pierce Hellums, how is he doing these days?

Need a 35 sec shot clock.

Using the Mike Epps mindset homeboy need 2 stock up on the antibiotics;

Some of what I say about genetics & all that is tongue and cheek humor. Beaumont is natural draw: good shopping nice housing and subdivisions. I know so many people that have moved to Beaumont, or like me, to Houston. Hopefully Silsbee does what it has to do to carry on. Beaumont? It's aiight. I'm not passionate about the place, but I respect it.

Silsbee played a similar warm up game against Wheatley. It was played in the same gym. The results were not similar. Silsbee got beat by double digits. The Silsbee coach at the time, coach Montgomery, used that slow down walk it up approach. Wheatley was running trapping and freewheeling. I saw Wheatley star Eddie Owens grab a rebound with one hand, he just held it, palmed the ball, with one hand. Yates was not the first team in HOuston with that style, not by a long shot. I went to that game. I don't remember exactly where it was played. I want to say it was played at the old Beaumont high school. That was so long ago. By the time the Montagne center was built guys like Manning & Brannon weren't old, but they were well past playing high school basketball.

this could be over.

BU is losing composure.

I missed that game. We had no internet or twitter back then. News traveled slow. But you were around, you know.

They played a highly rated Houston Wheatley team in Beaumont once. They held their own in the game. We may be talking about the same game. All this occured around 1969-1971 somewhere around then.

Argyle needs a nice 9 pt cushion going into the last of the. 4th quarter. If Harvey has a chance to win the game he will.

That could have been. That was 20 years ago. I remember Bosh was a little shaken. He didn't have his game together. He came back a season later and he was the talk of basketball.

By the time the Montagne was built they were old men.

I think Ozen beat D Lincoln in the state championship in 2001. They had the better team that season. The next year Bosh and D Lincoln came in to their own, so to speak. They beat Ozen. Then Bosh graduated & went to Georgia Tech for a year.

Bosh must have graduated from Lincoln & gone on to Georgia Tech.

Back then they mostly had kill the grass, dirt court basketball. No gyms, not cement courts...those came later. As far as I know, in the modern era, that is when it all started in Kountze. Them hoopers back then could play!

Way back in the day the two big names in Kountze were Manning and Brannon. Y'all too young to know anything about that.

That's a problem for places like Kountze and Silsbee. All the talent, knowledge and genetics tends to move to the big city like Beaumont.

Huffman by 5. After Silsbee lost my interest in hi School basketball dropped of precipitously. NFHS can miss me wid those on demand & stream fees. They'll put the games on tv eventually, I hope. If not somebody will show highlights on YouTube. Good enough for me. That's keep me going for now.

Canadian did it.

Last game against HH was a loss. Barbers Hill was a loss. 2nd game against Lumberton was a loss. Two games against BU were not losses. Those were beat downs.

I guess it's the drive that is among the things that separate the noted coaches & athletes from us ordinary people. Cause if I was Sumlin I'd take the money from U of H, and the money from Tx A&M, and the funds from Arizona and I'd buy a nice horse ranch, if he doesn't already have one. And I would forget NCAA football ever existed.

I went in to The Burger Joint in Houston yesterday. I ordered a veggie burger and onion rings. There was a table of nicely dressed police officers wearing starched white shirts, trousers, badges and guns. I recognized some of those faces. As I waited for my burger It came to me. I went over to their table and asked if they had been on this TV show The First 48 Hours. One of them answered yes, sometimes. I already knew that was so. I watch that show quite a bit. It is one of the few tv shows I watch. And I am good at remembering faces.