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Some of Silsbee's best basketball teams


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3 hours ago, BADSANTA said:

Willie is 3 years older than me. He was very smart in school and a big heart off the court. I was good friends with him and DD Taylor. He was all district in baseball, football, and baseball.

I need to find out who you are Santa. Lol Willie Jones and DD are both great friends and always will be .! Both great Men. 

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By the way that 82-83 team is the reason I have been hooked watching Tiger bball all these years.  Watched them several times as a 12 year old. Can still remember names, things I read and things I saw that year as well as the next two or 3, even though I was no longer in Silsbee at the time.

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20 minutes ago, ST413 said:

By the way that 82-83 team is the reason I have been hooked watching Tiger bball all these years.  Watched them several times as a 12 year old. Can still remember names, things I read and things I saw that year as well as the next two or 3, even though I was no longer in Silsbee at the time.

They were special. Should have beat Borger in the semi final.

To many missed free throws. Remember that game all to well

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20 hours ago, AggiesAreWe said:

Yes it was.

In no particular order, these were some of the better Silsbee teams:

'71, '72, '75, '76, '79, '82-'86, '89, '92, '95, '97, '98, '05, '07-'16

I've often thought about the following about the team I support, what if you could put all these teams in a sixteen team tournament. Be interesting to see how the finals would work out. 

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All these teams wouldn't fit in a 16 team tourney.:). That's a big list!! But it would be hard for me to put a list together.  I can't include all the teams because I didn't see all of them  but from the ones I have seen I would have to include that 82-83 team as well as 09-10 and this years team.

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2 hours ago, BADSANTA said:

I was told the best two Silsbee teams ever were 1971/72 and 1982/83. 82/83 had both MacArthur brothers. What did Silsbee do during the years David Green was leading them as a Allstate guard?

David was a great PG.

Unfortunately Silsbee was in the district with Beaumont Hebert and only 1 team made the playoffs back then.

Silsbee lost a heart breaker against Hebert in 79 in the old Panther gym in Pear Orchard. The game was marred with a post game brawl between players and fans. Had to have a Police escort out of Beaumont. 

I will go to my grave saying Silsbee was screwed by the refs and the timekeeper.

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On ‎2‎/‎26‎/‎2016 at 8:36 AM, Pepper Brooks said:

David was a great PG.

Unfortunately Silsbee was in the district with Beaumont Hebert and only 1 team made the playoffs back then.

Silsbee lost a heart breaker against Hebert in 79 in the old Panther gym in Pear Orchard. The game was marred with a post game brawl between players and fans. Had to have a Police escort out of Beaumont. 

I will go to my grave saying Silsbee was screwed by the refs and the timekeeper.

I was at this game. Silsbee made the winning shot at the end of the game. The refs counted it but the timekeeper did not put it on the score board. There was a meeting at the scorers table with the refs and coaches, someone pulled the scorers box off the scorers table and turned over the scorers table and then all he)) broke lose.  Needless to say the points where not added and Silsbee was cheated out of a win to go to the playoffs that year.

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2 minutes ago, ST413 said:

Ok it was Harper i had trouble remembering as the starter,  off hand don't remember Jackson.  I do remember another Tiger maybe from that team if not it was the next few years. I remember him because he could jump out the gym, Kevin Dodd, I believe that's right anyway.

Dodd was on that team, He was a heckuva a player, not very tall, but you are right he could jump out of the gym.

 

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5 minutes ago, STiger85 said:

I was at this game. Silsbee made the winning shot at the end of the game. The refs counted it but the timekeeper did not put it on the score board. There was a meeting at the scorers table with the refs and coaches, someone pulled the scorers box off the scorers table and turned over the scorers table and then all he)) broke lose.  Needless to say the points where not added and Silsbee was cheated out of a win to go to the playoffs that year.

Yep! I think Silsbee finished 39-2 and did not make the playoffs

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I'm kinda partial to the 84-85 team. Only lost two games that year, one to #1 Lincoln and one in the Regional finals to Bay City by four points. Oh, after the lost to Lincoln the first time we played them we beat them the second time we played them. The game with Bay City in the Regional finals was as a very good game.

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