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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

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.

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!!

It was just a 4 point game. That's nothing in basketball.

Things have to get better down here or this forum will be shut down completely. Too many violations (some warned, some not) are happening at an alarming rate down here. More violations happen in this forum than all the other forums combined. It also has the most "past banned" members posting which that is about to stop if things don't get cleaned up down here. This is a warning that the owner supports. This forum is not needed that badly. Clean it up guys or this is history.

It should not be that hard to address the topic and not another member. It’s not like accidentally blurting something out in a conversation. It’s typing and you have time to go back and look at it. Not that my opinion matters but I am not a fan of calling people out with the @ symbol. If that person feels like responding he/she will. That person may not even want to read that thread. There is no need for @someone and @you and ask what do you think of YOUR guy now. Post your comment and if no one wants to answer, great. But, that’s just an opinion That is not the same as calling a mod/admin’s attention to something or asking another person an educational question like @bullets13 to ask about being a teacher and/or the rules they follow. It’s really not that hard.

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.

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)

LumRaiderFan got a week vacation. Things really need to get cleaned up down here.

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.”

I agree. I watched the London/Goliad game. Wasn't all that impressed with either team. London didn't shoot well at all, particularly from FT and 3p line. London does play very physical. But in that game, they only played about 7 players. I think Orangefield is the better and much deeper team. The key for them will be their free throw shooting because I see London fouling them a lot. Orangefield will also need to rebound the ball defensively. London likes to crash the offensive boards. I also think Orangefield can play aggressively on the defensive end because of their depth. Fouling London is not a bad strategy due to their poor FT shooting. I honestly think Orangefield could win this game by double digits but I think it will be closer. Fairfield game was much closer than I predicted.

Beat two time defending state champion Hitchcock playing that way last year, beat Westwood earlier this year doing it. They played Westwood closer than anyone else has since December tonight doing it. Go down throwing your fastball, not trying to be something you aren’t.

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

Apparently you mis-read or don't understand...... This poll was not based on Republican leadership......that TDS got you not thinking straight. CNN’s findings are virtually identical to those of a Fox News survey of registered voters published Wednesday showing that 87% of Republicans approve of Trump’s job performance.

I may be in the minority here, but anyone who cheats on their spouse should be considered as someone willing to cheat on other folks and things. That's my opinion. I put marriage in high regard. Some marriages fail without any cheating. Wasn't meant to be in some cases. But cheating is a whole different animal. Someone who cheats on their spouse can't be trusted. That's just me.

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!

This has been a long time coming on what’s going on right now.

I believe you just told on yourself. Only CB would make that comment.

Onalaska and Westwood next round will be a good one.

I don't understand it as well. Good prep for next game at Alamodome. If I am a coach, as the playoffs progress, I am trying to get as large a facility as I can get that is reasonable for both sides.

Shannon King (Teacher in Orangefield) usually goes on fb live when it isn't broadcasted on NFHS.

Phil Danaher is the winningest head coach in the history of Texas high school football coaches. 41 consecutive playoff appearances... since you brought up losing seasons. However, he never won the title. So.. is he elite? Some people (cough cough) would say no, because he never won the state championship. What are your thoughts?

Crude down to $84.90 a barrel. I expect to see my gas station’s price to reflect that on the way home today. Lol

Junkie. lol

Republicans deserve what’s coming because they abandoned all of their principles to support a man who has none of them. It’s so laughable. It took Trump four years to destroy the economy, lose both houses of Congress, get impeached twice, and try to stop the peaceful transfer of power after he lost the election. So the morons re-elected him and it’s happening even faster this time around…. We can toss “raised taxes on working Americans with unlawful tariffs, weaponized the Justice Department to persecuted his perceived enemies and protect a pedophile/trafficking ring of which he was a member, illegally kidnapped the leader of a South American country and stole their oil reserves, and started a global conflict in the Middle East” to the list. And in a couple of weeks, you’ll be able to add attacked Cuba to the list. I pray to God every night that the third impeachment leads to a conviction.

RIP

Cy Springs is my upset pick of all the semifinal games.

6A D1 Flower Mound 45 Summer Creek 55

I bragged about gas at $1.99 a month or so ago and I am complaining about it being $2.79 now. No propaganda here just facts. You aren’t complaining about the price of fuel going up but you praised when it went down.

Here are my picks for our 9 coverage area regional finals: 6A D1 Region III Atascocita by 11 over North Shore 5A D1 Region III West Brook by 19 over Randle 5A D2 Region III United by 4 over FB Marshall 3A D1 Region III Orangefield by 15 over Fairfield 3A D2 Region III Onalaska by 3 over Palestine Westwood 2A D1 Region III San Augustine by 5 over Hawkins 2A D2 Region III Martin's Mill by 12 over Chireno 2A D2 Region IV Mumford by 11 over Big Sandy 1A D1 Region IV Brookeland by 6 over Fayetteville So I have 7 of our coverage area teams moving on to state semifinals. North Shore, Chireno and Big Sandy seasons come to an end.

Had never made it past the third round until this year.

After 3 Beaumont United 36 Fort Bend Marshall 28

Sorry but I don’t believe in tribal politics. I simply just made a statement about your post. I am always critical of both parties but the left just makes it a lot easier. This approval rating does nothing to improve the average Americans life.

You add nothing to this forum.

Helps that the boys don't have football at either school.

Hardly fired. She wasn’t good on public statements or talking when confronted with questions she wasn’t expecting. Typically, when Trump fires someone, they leave immediately and usually with a bad statement from Trump, about how the person was not loyal, incompetent, etc. In this case Noem become the head of an entirely new program dealing with regional defense strategies. If I was to ever get fired in such a case, I would love it to be by going from the head of one program and being reassigned to the head of another program. Apparently Trump liked her political stance and opinions enough to placing her at the head of a program dealing with American defense.

So the title of this thread turned out to be opinion and not fact. Interesting

I strongly disagree that Talarico will be embarrassed by Paxton/Cornyn. Talarico is not Beto. He is a polished, experienced legislator, backed by the Democratic machine. He will get endorsed by national democrats and probably Joe Rogan and other big name independent thinkers. And then add a historically weak opponent in Cornyn (RINO, who pissed off most Texas conservatives with his ridiculous support of Biden gun legislation) and Paxton (crook and absolute scumbag). This one is setting up to be a nail-biter because of the failure of the Texas GOP, who's been hijacked by far right tea party religious zealots, who are more concerned with destroying public schools, subsidizing private school tuition for the wealthy, ten commandments and prayer time in school and primarying any moderate that stands in their way. You can thank looney Dan Patrick and bought and paid for Abbott for getting us to this point and giving moderate republicans and independents poor choices for candidates. It may now have serious implications on the national stage in the US Senate.

Final North Shore 64 Strake Jesuit 53

OF - 68 Mexia - 56 Final I think that was the final, they wiped the score as soon as the buzzer went off

Huntington up 22-18. Half

Need those stickers with president pedo war monger pic on em "I did that" on all the pumps...!