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2 hours ago, 5GallonBucket said:

Sounds like a Davis buddy

I don’t know who it is but he’s correct. Both of these HJ playoff losses came in the first round after they lost their best player. I’m not very well informed on Lumberton basketball but I worked down there for many years. I know I started seeing the basketball courts fill up with kids since Coach Mitchell got there. That’s a good sign when you are trying to change the culture. 

5 hours ago, 5GallonBucket said:

Well the enthusiasm issue:  many factors….parents not pushing their kids and admin issues as in admin tries to have more say over team than actual coaches…..and that’s just one issue.

when you make up stuff to get rid of Jacks(girls coach) after he got them to the playoffs all because certain people s daughters didn’t get to play as much

your not going to attract coaches there.

warren is a stepping stone at best

I can’t disagree with any of this !! 

4 hours ago, TxHoops said:

And Buna is good enough to upset either OF or EC.  The Connell kid has the ability to really get it going.

I think the older Connell kid is an assistant over there now. I’m pretty sure that was him on the bench earlier this year. If so that’s a good move. 

32 minutes ago, 5GallonBucket said:

DC? When?

Somewhere around 06. The first year Leland Hand was there. Beat Mart and eventually lost to a very good EC team. They were competitive for the next few years but had some really good teams in the same district. There’s just not much enthusiasm up there these days around the program. 

On 1/4/2023 at 9:29 PM, 5GallonBucket said:

What’s happened? Nothing much has ever happened.

I can remember when they were at least competitive. Won a district championship and made the playoffs a few years. I don’t think they play much up there anymore. I have seen em a few times this year. I think EC wins the seeding game this year against Orangefield and Buna finishes 3rd. 

3 hours ago, Eagleborn said:

20 years ago. 

That’s a few when ya get my age 😂😂

I didn’t see this one coming 

Kountze will probably be fighting for the 4th spot. They are young and small. The nights the long ball is falling they’ll be competitive when it’s not they’ll struggle to compete. Their biggest shortcoming is lack of depth. They are thin in that department. I don’t know what’s happened to Warren, It doesn’t look like they play much in the off season. OF/EC are the class of the district this year followed closely by Buna/Anahuac/Kountze 

San Augustine won state in football a few years ago and almost immediately got rid of the coach. I don’t think it’s lack of athletes 🤷‍♂️

I was very impressed with Lufkin last week over at HJ’s tournament. #1 was almost perfect from behind the arc, the big kid on the block was very impressive and their 2 guards handled pressure really well. 

14 hours ago, weonlyrun28toss said:

Did ktz go 0-4?

Next year will be 3-1 then 4-0 their senior year.  

I think you may be overly optimistic. 

1 hour ago, AggiesAreWe said:

HD had no answer for Warren's post player #11. He had 18 points, 14 rebounds, 5 assists.

Warren led by 22 early 4th but HD made a run late to lose by 11.

If Warren would have gotten #11 the ball down the stretch last week against Onalaska they win that game going away. He didn’t touch late and some questionable 3’s cost em. Not sure what grade he’s in but he’s pretty solid. 

15 hours ago, bullets13 said:

Might’ve jumped the gun on HF being as good as I thought.  HJ beat Nederland by just about this many.  But it was the loss to PNG that really surprised me.  

HF had a really solid JV group moving up but there’s a huge difference between playing at 5:30 and 7. I gotta think the Hawks are still the favorite in this district!! 

4 minutes ago, Tigers94 said:

Seems like kids doing something to get kicked off the team is a common occurrence in Kountze.

Probably not any more common than anywhere else, Joub holds em accountable . Good for him, if stuff isn’t addressed it always comes back to haunt you. 

2 minutes ago, AggiesAreWe said:

Kountze is small not only in height and length but in numbers. Only suiting out 8 and only 7 play. Hard to press full time with that roster. Joubert had to kick off a couple of kids, one who would have started for sure and been their second best player behind the soph. Sells. He would have been that dawg player for them. Rebounding and defense.

Kountze will live and die by the three (finished 8/33 in LC-M game). Sells can only do so much for them. He will need others to contribute.

Future is certainly brights for the Lions with playing so many soph. but I believe this year, no better than 3rd in district is about what I expect them to finish.

Spot on

13 hours ago, 5GallonBucket said:

 

What happen to pressure defense leading to easy buckets?

I don’t think they have a lot of length on that pressure defense this year. They’ll have some games where they blow people out when the 3 ball is falling and some where teams will beat them that shouldn’t. 

On 9/20/2022 at 11:58 AM, catfever said:

Which player from Kelly transferred to Hardin-Jefferson?

I haven’t heard of one either 

🤦‍♂️

Why in the world would this game be moved to Anahuac?? 

Good game 

5 hours ago, TxHoops said:

And for the record, I was a huge fan of Bullock’s game.  In fact, one of those summers, we had a team led by Kam McGusty and JJ Caldwell.  Our shooter was a kid named Justin McCormack who became the all time leading scorer at Houston Christian (subsequently passed by Noah Kon).  Anyway, McCormack was an incredible shooter, but I told the guy who coached the team there was kid from Dallardsville named Angel who was better.  

I watched Angel in a game over at the HJ Marathon his senior year where he put on one best 3 point shooting performances I’ve ever seen. I think they were playing Nederland but I can’t remember for sure. He was just unconscious from deep. It was a lot of fun to watch 

7 hours ago, Box1 said:

Mckinney was his name, special player as well. Most think they would've beat Thorndale that year if he was at 100%, hurt his knee earlier in the playoffs and wasn't close to the same. 

Seems like I remember him playing on a bad knee in the regional tournament. I think Big Sandy wins the championship that season if he’s anywhere close to healthy.

On 5/23/2022 at 11:22 AM, oldschool2 said:

I don't think he's underrated.  I believe that anyone that knows anything about basketball places him very high on their list of best coaches around here for sure.  Arguably any area. 

I would certainly have him close to the top of my list. I watched his team several years back playing Evadale when Coach Williams had a really good club. Big Sandy had graduated heavy and was clearly overmatched. The late game situational substitutions would have been impressive in their own right but the way the kids were prepared to handle it really caught my attention. Stuff like that with Freshmen and Sophomore players doesn’t just happen. Any time the conversation comes up we see Coach Green, Coach Sutherland, Coach Sigler, Coach English. Id definitely have Coach Foster a seat at that table. 

Kevin Foster consistently makes deep playoff runs with kids that buy into a system. He had the Angele kid a few years ago who was as good a pure shooter as I’ve ever seen. Other than that not many Stud players in Dallardsville. Kevin is the most underrated coach in our area. 

On 5/18/2022 at 2:48 PM, aTmfan06 said:

Kountze’s best player was a freshman. They do lose Joubert’s son but as a team overall should be better than last season. Also have a incoming freshman that may contribute as well.

They also have another little shooter that’s going to be a Sophomore that can fill it up from deep. If the Lions grow a little to make that press a little harder to go over the top of they are gonna start turning some heads.