JimThorpe

Really it's privilege to get to face a team like this. Most teams get eliminated by teams that themselves will get eliminated. The young Tigers had a wonderful opportunity to see what it's like at this level. Playing a team this good in this setting at the Montagne in the third round is a great experience. Frankly the Montagne is a much better basketball venue than the Alamodome. There's not a bad seat in the house. The Alamodome is a terrible venue. The state championship should be played in a venue designed for and dedicated too basketball. There were two tacks the Tigers could take have taken tonight. They could shorten the game and keep all scoring down or play at their normal pace which is up tempo and score as much as they could. Obviously Silsbee choose the latter. The 63 points the Tigers scored tonight is the second highest point total this season against HJ. Only Atascocita, a 6A team, scored more than the Tigers with 66 points. And there's a fair chance that that nobody else in the remaining 4 games, even Argyle, will score 63. And that ain't bad.

I firmly believe they are the best team in the state. Time to dethrone Argyle!

WOS may have been the toughest 4th place team in 4A.

Silsbee thinks that they are playing Orangefield. Somebody needs to tell them they are playing the best team I’m the state and they need to shorten the game as much as possible. It really it was too late already 2 minutes into the second period. So never mind.

Silsbee won’t slow down and run an offense. Throwing away whatever change they have.

I think y’all should all go to the boy’s game. Those Mustangs can be dangerous. We Tiger fans will keep you posted on what’s happening at the Montagne.

I agree that WOS has the manpower to be in this game and even win it. But do they have the composure, the mental toughness? At some point HJ will make a run. When that happens will WOS rise to the occasion or will they fall apart? It could go either way. The Mustangs could win a close game or lose by 25.

It happened at least twice on the girls side in 4A.

Ouch. For one game? Not a subscription? I wonder about the reception in the Montange. Got to go to the girls game. If the Tigers upset HJ and we miss it that would be terrible. And if Livingston upsets the Tigers and we see it that would be terrible! Plus I’d like to see the Lady Hawks anyway.

Well, we won't be there. They scheduled the girls game between Silsbee and HJ for Monday. That's a little more..... desperate? than this one. Will this game be streamed somewhere?

So Washington made a run. 21 points in the 4th. We left at half. I figured the Bears had it well in hand after a somewhat shaky start. Good luck with Hargrave. You've got a shot at making it to Region. Maybe the Tigers will see you there. But I doubt it. We're afloat in an inflatable raft in the open sea and that prehistoric megalodon shark of 4A basketball team out of Sour Lake is closing in. Did you know it swallowed Orangefield whole, in one gulp, without even chewing?

Some of these spreads are wild. It was really wild in the first round. But a couple of 4th place teams won their first round and several did pretty well.

No it wasn't. But your line with a big blank spot below was really funny. I'm home now in front of my computer and I can see the clip and it's perfect. But I think the way I saw in on my phone may be even more ominous. By the way, how did Livingston do against Brazosport?

Ouch.

Is what? Oblivion?

That what we’re hoping for. I’d rather go out to the best team in the state. Who knows, we might give them a good game.

It's a tough grind for HJ. WOS certainly isn't a pushover if they keep their heads in the game. Witness the 3 point game against Silsbee. Yates lost to Booker T by only 8 in their last meeting. But I still think HJ will meet Silsbee in the 3rd round.

Apparently Livingston has a warmup game Friday against 12th ranked Brazosport. Which seems a little weird but it's interesting. Is Brazosport like Silsbee at all?

Not a lot to talk about. The Tigers had a couple of 35 point quarters.

You make a very strong case. You'll be even less pleased with the MaxPrep ranking which has them at No. 6. They have La Vega at No. 2.

District 231. Yates2. Washington3. Furr4. Kashmere I don't think that TABC was paying close enough attention to 23 either. Booker T went out in the first round last year but they were building. And Kashmere is out of the picture.

Lady Tigers take first round game over Lady Panthers. Game was played in Silsbee.

No. In fact they could have been a little more deliberate on offense. The Tigers got them running in the 3rd and it soon got out of hand.

LCM got several nice dunks in transition. Which is fun but really just sauce for the goose for the Tigers. Anything that gets them running is fine with us. There was one really funny moment. The Bears got a defensive rebound and Coach Jeffcoat immediately signaled timeout. But the play was developing into an easy fast break for LCM. He realized it a split second later. Too late! The ref saw it and called time. Everybody got a chuck out of that one, even he was laughing, even the LCM fans were laughing.

91 - 54 final Troy scored! Nice little 10 footer in the center of the lane. Nothing but net.