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Final 71-62 Bridge City BIG TIME UPSET!!! Congrats Bridge City!!! The better team won.

Coaching matters. A lot! But having really good players matters more. It's been proven over and over again.

I've enjoyed reading this thread...there's so many factors involved....another common example pointed out is Todd Dodge...he won a ton at Southlake and Westlake...not so much at his other stops...its definitely a combination of many factors and I think "fit" as well

And that concludes the 2025-26 high school basketball season. Congrats to all the state champions and to all our coverage area teams that had fantastic seasons. Time for me to get some rest and relaxation. Probably won't see much of me around here after college basketball is over. Like the great Forest Gump said "I'm pretty tired, think I'll go home now".

My thoughts on this game. Summit just played an overall better game than BU. They played defense light years better than any other team I’ve seen BU play this year. To say that they’re undersized, they played defense light great in your face defense, their hands are active, they are always in great positions to grab rebounds. Also, on offense, they run plays for their best players. United was a stark contrast. We run NO plays except out of bounds plays. We seem to be out of position on defense a lot. We had size advantage but we never take advantage of it. Instead, we want to jack 3’s up. Tonight, they were not falling at all. I would have liked for our star players to get great looks just like that freshman from Summit. Overall, we return a lot next year. I expect ‘a certain player’ to get a LOT better so we can try to get back to the championship. Been a great ride. Look forward to another fun season next year. Again, congrats to Summit on the win!

Proud of how hard the Bobcats have continued to compete. Lot of heart on the floor and on the bench.

This is the first time in school history that Bridge City has made it to the 3rd round of the playoffs. Also, their current 14 game win streak is the longest in school history. Definitely an historical season for the Cards.

I've asked you this before and you have never given an explanation.. Why are there so many coaches that have won multiple state championships and then never got close again? How many players did SS have that went on to play major D1 football? How many did Phil D. have? Is coaching responsible for that? How many super bowls did Bill Belichick win without Tom Brady? How many state championships did Tom Westerberg win without Kyler Murray? How many NBA championships did Phil Jackson win without MJ or Kobe in the lineup? You're pro "coaching matters".. and I agree, it does. But you will never convince me that coaching matters more than the players on the team. Never. And I know that it could never be proven, but I'd bet that several coaches could reach your definition of elite if they'd had the right players.

Also congrats to Jaden Scales for breaking the all time scoring record at OF

Thank you very much for the kind words and explaining what you have seen over the years! I will make sure he sees it and I know your post will inspire him even more tonight. I really appreciate you sir!

Hats off to a very talented and skilled Westwood team. Our press isn’t what failed us tonight. Was it perfect tonight in the 2nd quarter no, but that’s not why we lost. It’s back to back seasons that have ended because I didn’t have us prepared enough to handle the physical play that takes place this late. That’s my coaching error I will own. I let an amazing group of seniors down and failed. it’s funny how quickly everyone forgets what Onalaska was before the last two years. Before last year our program had zero playoff wins and zero district championships. We now have multiple district championships and back to back regional final runs.

They had to have atleast 20 Official timeouts to wipe the floor. It took most of the rhythm out of the game. But survive and advance!

Final BU 53 Weiss 41

Onalaska and Westwood next round will be a good one.

Offense Amante Martin QB Port Arthur Memorial Defense Kaleb Menard LB Orangefield Congrats to these two well deserving young men.

I really don’t understand urgency, priority or necessity of this.

Including you? You have made some yourself.

7 years

Long time listener first time caller a couple things here on warm ups 1. You are allowed 21 match games and 3 tournaments (can also do 23 games and 2 tournaments and a few other combinations but no one does that), how many games you play in a tournament doesn't change anything. You can play 6 or you can play 3 and it still counts as a tournament. Jamborees or showcases or whatever you want to call them count as one of your 21 games. The UIL changed this to 21/2 or 19/3 about ten years ago and then changed it back after a year or two due to coaches not being happy at all with the change. Not even sure what the original reasoning was for the change to be honest. 2. The warm-up era was huge when the UIL switched from allowing 2 teams to 3 teams to make the playoffs in the late 90's I think it was. At that point in time (most of the 00's) if you won district you had a first round bye which meant not playing for a week and a half and that was felt to be too long by most coaches, so that is when you saw the warm-up game really take off. Once the UIL allowed 4 teams to make it now there is only a week between games and you started to see less and less warm up games. I also think the mandatory UIL one game suspension for an ejection has played into this as well. Now not only are you risking injury with only a week between games you are also risking the potential of having a first round suspension due to an ejection, so that plays a small role as well. In my opinion (just one coach others may feel totally different), the only real value in warm up games now are like what you see with Coach Sutherland at EC and as mentioned above is you lose so many games to the football team making the playoffs and you have an opportunity to make one up because you didn't even get close to your game limit. Also, if you are a massive powerhouse like Silsbee and you more or less ran through your district without any close games at all like they did several times in the last decade, you don't want to go into the playoffs without having played a close game in a month and a half, so going and playing high level competition in a warm-up game adds value. Also think that if the UIL flips to what they did with volleyball ( and rumor is it is probably going to happen) and the regular season ends on Friday and the first round of the playoffs starts on Thursday/Friday the following week, which would leave Monday/Tuesday as your warm up game options, in my opinion the warm-up game is completely dead at that point.

@BMTSoulja1 why does United have a German shepherd on their scoreboard, a coyote mural on the wall, and their mascot is the Timberwolves? 😂

I spoke with family member (mom) of a candidate for Texas House Rep in ‘24. This was during early voting, and they were really, really hoping for a Trump endorsement. They’d reached out and been given the price, but just didn’t have the campaign funds to make it happen. Their opponent got the Trump endorsement during early voting and won the race, unseating an incumbent. Did the challenger pay the $400k? I don’t know. But I BELIEVE that Trump’s people asked the incumbent for that sum, based on my conversation with the incumbent’s family member. They also confirmed the story about the Rep receiving a handwritten letter from Gregg Abbott advising that if he, (incumbent, whose wife is a school teacher) voted against giving handouts to rich people who send their kids to private schools, aka “school choice,” they’d make sure that he wasn’t re-elected. Hence the well-funded challenger who could afford Trump’s endorsement. Fun fact… the challenger (now state Rep) that supported stripping money from public schools to subsidize wealthy kids going to private schools? She’s was the president of her local school board at the time, voting against the interest of the school of which she was the board trustee. You’ve got to do what you’ve got to do if you want to make it to the top, I guess.

President Trump has not ensured that Iran cannot rebuild its facilities—potentially even deeper underground. He often makes statements that sound definitive but are not supported by subsequent facts. In June 2025, following Operation Midnight Hammer, President Trump stated that B-2 stealth bombers and Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from Navy submarines had destroyed Iran’s nuclear program. Eight months later, we have Operation Epic Fury, and we are again told that Iran’s capabilities have been eliminated. All that bluster, yet current events suggest otherwise. Iran continues launching drones and missiles at Israel and at American assets in the Middle East. This raises a fundamental question: was Iran’s nucler program truly neutralized, or are we once again facing a situation where Iran is rebuilding its nuclear capabilities? We hear on the news that Iran still has uranium and no one can find it. Sounds like George W. Bush and Dick Cheney looking for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Absent regime change in Iran, the underlying dynamics will not change. At the same time, the United States is unlikely to commit ground forces, as doing so would likely entail another prolonged conflict with years of uncertainty, solider deaths, and significant cost. If you don't care about that, then go sign up your children and grandchildren first...right after Barron Trump grabs a gun and a uniform. It's easy to support President Trump when its not your child or grandchild serving. Send me photos when your child or grandchild enlists. So, after all of President Trumps marketing bluster and salesmanship, the question remains: what has materially changed in Iran? What has been accomplished? Iran is unlikely to capitulate simply because the United States takes a confrontational posture. President Trump is a bully salesman. Iran is not dropping to its knees because President Trumps says so and continues to throw a fit. Meanwhile, the United States faces significant domestic challenges. The national debt continues to rise, the cost of groceries and fuel has increased, the American education system is in shambles, infrastructure requires substantial investment, no one can afford health insurance, and the country remains polarized along political, racial, religious, and socioeconomic lines. Remember when Republicans cared about those things? Me either. Instead, let's bomb other countries, assassinate others we don't like, spend until the printing press breaks, don't worry about the sh-tshow inside our own borders, and let's tell everyone that we are producing the Epstien files, but while you're at it, fire off another bomb in Iran. One more thing, keep all of those brown people in Mexico, Guatemala, Venezuela, or wherever the hell they're from. Let the good looking women in, grab'em in the p--y, and Make America Great Again.

Great season by Orangefield. One of the best coaches in the area, it’s nice to see success for him. Also great career by Scales. Dude came in to high school with tons of hype and most kids would crumble under that pressure. He flourished and improved every year.

Sometimes we see these Dallas and Houston schools play small schools in the final and it’s a bad mismatch. This didnt feel like that. Orangefield just picked a bad day to have a bad game. This game was winnable.

Everyone competes to win championships and the best team at the end of the season is declared the "champion". That means that if you want to declare someone to be the best coach you would start with championships and then go to "wins". SS can be declared the greatest high school coach of all-time without qualification. However, that does not mean that he has not been in "the right place at the right time" and also been the beneficiary of outside factors such as the fact that there are many more championships available on a yearly basis than what was available before all of the division splits. There are many GREAT coaches in schools that never have the talent level that SS walked into in Carthage and deal with community dynamics that hinder maximum optimization of the talent available. Those coaches may appear mediocre to those not "in the know". It was mentioned previously that a good coach "gets the most out of what he has available" and this is a likely good way to view caliber of coaching. However, the only folks who know what the "most out of what is available" is typically the coaches on the staff. Those who do not spend the hours with the kids when they are out of their comfort zones can only speculate as to what they believe to be "real".

Orangefield has never played that level of defense and I give almost of all of that credit to Whitmire. It wasn’t the easiest gig in the world but he’s gotten his system in place now and most of those kids have learned how to really play aggressive defense under his tutelage. I was watching online so I didn’t see the dead ball stuff. I guess it depends on the official and the nature of the conversations. Some players are great at chopping it up with them and some officials like it, some don’t want to be engaged at all. By and large, it kind of depends on the context. From what I’ve seen this year, the team has greatly improved with that stuff (granted they needed vast improvement from last season) and have seemed to have matured. But again, I didn’t notice any of that so I can’t really speak intelligently on what happened on Friday. I, like you, have been greatly impressed with his game. I’ve seen him since he was barely bigger than the ball shooting on goals between varsity games and knew he was a talent. But he seems to get better every time I see him. Obviously Fairfield was the more athletic team (apparently full of football kids which made sense after watching the game) but he was seemingly doing whatever he wanted with the ball. They couldn’t stay in front of him, disrupt him in the slightest with full court pressure, and he’s just so smooth with the ball. One play in particular really impressed me. After making 4 FTs in a row and the ball his hands up 2 with under 2 minutes to go, he had sliced through the backcourt pressure and was approaching mid court. I see him about to advance the ball off the dribble with his left hand to his teammate up the floor which is, in general, the correct basketball play (obviously). But in the situation (Fairfield had to foul), I’m thinking “no! Keep it!” But instinctually and unselfishly, he flipped the ball ahead and his teammate was fouled. That particular teammate is also a good FT shooter and made both to put the lead back to 4. But it showed me what I knew to be true about the Scales kid. As gifted as he is, he knows how to play the game and is unselfish (sometimes to a fault). But he’s one of those rare players who just makes all of his teammates better. When you are at a school like Orangefield, I don’t think you can make a run like this one without a kid like that. And I haven’t seen one close to him in the 30ish years I’ve been watching Bobcat basketball.

The officials were very good and very consistent. I think the problem here was that they approached this game with a “they need to adjust to the way I am calling” rather than a calling the obvious. When OF did attack the rim they did get the same calls, but I also think that OF played much better help defense and the helper was generally who the foul was called on. Fairfield also did a lot of Iso ball and took bad shots when the help was there and I do think that rather than adjusting to the game in front of them, they called extremely tight the entire night. It’s not very often you see a varsity boys game get to the bonus every single quarter (at least in my opinion)

All in all I think SE Texas has a heck of a showing for the state tournry. Just saying

Prayers up for the Shallowwater community amongst all the chaos. Also a reminder to pour into each other, as you truly never know what the next minute or hour holds. Mental health matters, and each person who reads this should know that how you feel at your lowest is never an indictment on who you are as a person. I hope everyone has a great Saturday! John 10:10

I like the Onalaska pick. I think it’s gonna be a great game, Dont get me wrong I think Palestine Westwood has the most talent between the two teams.. but I think Onalaska is the better team overall if that makes sense.

She will be hired by CNN, MSNBC or The View. That's a certainty.

Brookeland 79 Moulton 58 final Brookeland advances to the Regional Final 3 years in a row!!

Didn't you vote for Trump, CB?

I got OF winning by 15+

These are the teams I am picking to win in our 19 2nd round games: Atascocita over FB Elkins North Shore over Pearland Humble over Dawson West Brook over Kingwood Park Baytown Sterling over Crosby Beaumont United over Lake Creek Livingston over Bullard Huntington over Trinity Orangefield over Hitchcock Buna over New Waverly Onalaska over Central Heights San Augustine over Overton Chireno over Douglass Big Sandy over Granger Brookeland over Lometa I got 15 of our teams moving on to 3rd round. I have Summer Creek, Crosby, Kingwood Park, Bridge City, Silsbee, Trinity, New Waverly, Central Heights and Sabine Pass ending their seasons.

Brookeland 58 #6 Moulton 43 Final Brookeland has advanced to the Regional final for the second year in a row

You can try that nonsense with someone else, I voted for the turd 3 times but will be critical of him if he’s not following through on his promises. You’re a cult member not a supporter. You need to layoff the orange dust.

Yep. Jimmies and Joes.

Looking forward to Warren beating Newton this year when they get a good coach.

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Final BU 58 VM 44

One thing worth noting: when y’all use terms like “libtards”, “pedo-supporters”, etc., just because you’re directing it to a whole group of people on the site versus one specific person doesn’t mean you’re not violating a rule.

I don’t know which is funnier… that Trump lied to y’all, or that you still support him. Repeal and replace Obamacare, release the Epstein files, prices will go down on day one, no new wars, and on and on and on. Y’all are like those wives with a black eye because her husband got caught cheating AGAIN, but you’re still standing by that jerk “because I still love him.”

Heck of a win by Orangefield, Fairfield gave them everything they had and Orangefield kept answering the bell.

Final Beaumont United 62 Fort Bend Marshall 39

I just found out on another thread that Trump got with Israel, our military leaders, and dropped all these bombs on Iran just to distract from the Epstein files. Trump would have got away with it, if it were not for these pesky posters on this forum. It was right there in front of me and the world, and they seen what we couldn’t…..amazing!

My WRS vote: Offense Martin PA Memorial Defense Fontenot WO-S

Very pleased to be wrong on that one. I imagine everyone outside of Bridge City was wrong on that one. BC was the better team.

THIS!!!!!! Didn't make the playoffs this year after winning state championship last year. Graduated basically entire team from last year plus best returning player transferred to Hardin-Jefferson. Yet according to Reagan it's his fault they did not make the playoffs this year. Perfect example of the Jimmy and Joes vs. Coach argument.

Was just informed by a very credible insider that Toby is very interested in Jasper and look for him to apply.