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They’re certainly not from the local chapter. I can guarantee you that. 

Rarer than a Bigfoot sighting. 

Buna looks good again tonight. They’re looking like the better team. Just need to keep 23 from CH from shooting the 3. 

I was pretty close 🤷🏽‍♂️

Congrats Buna, good luck in Round 1.
For Kountze, a lot to look forward to. They put in the work and will be a problem for this district over the next few years.

Final
82-71 Buna 

I thought the district was very tough last realignment when Woodville & Newton came over to the district .

Well I had kids in his program for 8 years and wasn’t very impressed with him. You can message me or call and I’ll tell me my reasoning. Im not sure how much Buna basketball you have watched but I feel like we should have had more success then what we did. 

Both of these guys can coach. I watched Brian take a Buna club to the playoffs against Woodville over at Kountze and beat a Woodville club that he probably shouldn’t have . 
Coach Wilson stepped in behind the scenes over at HJ when Coach Davis family was dealing with some very serious health issues and did an outstanding job. Buna has had the misfortune of being in the district with some good basketball schools over the years and this year there will be one pretty good club on the outside of the playoffs looking in. Best of luck to both coaches,  they are both good men and better role models. 

The Connell Legacy as a player ends this year. It has been a great run for those boys. They each played 4 years of Varsity basketball for Buna. 

Buna 45 OF 44

There is better reception in a war shelter in Bucharest than the Buna gym.  

All true. I can’t argue with that at all. 

I see people talk about individual coaches, players, etc on these threads. Why should calling out the referee be any different? If so, why is that? Isn't that really part of the issue with the chapter really? These guys don't get held accountable for their actions? I don't want to stop a thread either but if you are a coach, you get much worse treatment than this. 

I watch at least 3-4 HS games per week. Been doing so for many years now.  Same chapter officials for the most part. What I notice from a large portion of the SETX Chapter is the willingness and blatant disregard for consistency and fairness. There are some good and fair referees. But there are some over the top guys like the weather guy from Channel 6 is my case in point. Probably should be doing sub varsity games only. I've been in 5 games he has refereed this year and he is by far the most inconsistent and biased referee in the chapter. Maybe it's just he's new but last night he refereed WOS/BC and seriously had 75% of the calls. He had 2 veteran referees in the crew and they were typical on their calls. Not great but not terrible. But this guy...wow...even at one time the WOS fans chanted "take his whistle".  The referees have a tough job but honestly its a lot of self endured pain. Again, there are some good referees in this Chapter but some really rotten ones too. Just because they are veterans doesn't give them a pass on inconsistent calls and  biased officiating. Some of those guys are really rotten at times too. Calling fouls on a player, giving the score table the wrong number is seriously incompetent and unacceptable. Having to huddle up as a crew after several calls in a row and decide who the foul is on, makes you scratch your head. Just makes the officials look bad. Again, tough job they have but definitely they can relieve some of their pain with additonal training and consistency.

Nothing special about the cut. #24 ran from the wing to the block and his defender was watching the ball and had no clue where his man was. Heads up play by the PG to see him through some traffic, but not good defense by the cougars in that situation.

From my angle it was good.

It was really good. They had control of the game from the top to the finish and were consistent throughout. I really didn’t hear many complaints from the stands on either side. 

Gogo. How was the officiating in that game? 

That’s like saying you shouldn’t be able to criticize a car salesman if you aren’t willing to become one. It’s just silly. I and many others don’t care if officials have another day job. We care about the job they’re doing as officials. I’m not a yeller and screamer at officials during a game. That’s the coach’s job. However, I leave games now more often than ever frustrated at the way a game is officiated. There’s no longer any consistency whatsoever. The post above talked about several rules we should all know. I couldn’t agree more with that part of his post. Although, the officials all call games according to the same rule book, you even see some of the simplest of calls officially drastically different from game to game. It shouldn’t be that way. 

No one asked for NCAA officials for Jr high basketball games. My original post is only speaking on high school varsity basketball games. It’s not too much to ask for officials in a varsity game to be competent. As far as “respect” goes we had an official who approached a fan who he thought had been complaining (he had not but it was someone close by this particular man). The official told the man, “If you don’t shut the hell up I’m going to throw your fat ass out of here.” The man told the official, “it wasn’t me” and he was promptly thrown out of the gym. This was a 70+ year old man who was ejected from the gym for nothing. Officials laughing in the face of coaches and refusing to have a discussion with a coach about a call. That’s unprofessional and disrespectful. These things go both ways. Your attitude that any and every official should be able to do an extremely poor job without being questioned is absurd. If I was as poor at my job as some of these guys I’d have been fired years ago. 

HoopInsider had it as a boys final

That was the girls final

🤣🤣 I’ve seen him play. The kid is really good. He’s no where near the best guard in the district though. Certainly not top 3 and possibly not top 5. He’s gonna be good for sure. That’s not a knock on him. 

Connell from Buna too. Those are the top 3. Regusa, Sells, Connell in no particular order