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Looks like Silsbee will be playing South Garland after this game. That's an awfully tall task right there.

Most of their early schedule looks like a suicide run lol. Gonna be a fun season for sure.

There's a kid who works out at the local gym here that has to be at least 6`6. Damn shame you probably ain't gonna see him on the basketball court.

I see kids taller than me (a little under 6`2) all the time when I'm out and about town. That's what ticks me off about Silsbee lol. It's not like the town has a height problem. It's just that height ain't going to the basketball court. Maybe that'll change one day.

Gonna have to let our best players play most of the time if we want a chance of winning a game. Treat it like the Yates or Carter games. I'd be happy with one win and a respectable showing.

Not exactly sure what next seasons roster is gonna look like, but we should be a bit deeper and better than last year. I'm sure McCain and Adams want to do something big for their last year.

Believe it or not, Braylon can dunk.

Calvin Tyler was the only recent player who came to Silsbee and got minutes. Came from Ozen and played last year. That's it. There was talk of a West Brook kid coming, but I don't think that happened.

The only time I might have a problem with it is when kids plan ahead and build an entire super team of sorts. A player here or there don't bother me.

Chapel Hill: The wound that almost never healed. These past two years have made up for it now.

Silsbee had some good dog fights with Livingston and Cleveland back in the day as well. They've really fallen off over the years.

Serious question: Would Yates have beaten Dallas Carter? I know they would have beaten Somerset by 80 points, but I don't know about Carter. Carter was really good.

1 hour ago, Mohead2000 said:

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I have read a lot you guys comments over the past few years and have chosen not to respond until now. First off I am going to give Silsbee it’s props, they have been an exceptional 4A team the past 3 years, anytime you can make it to state 3 years in a row, win 2, and have several potential D1 players on a team that is very commendable. Right now Silsbee is the best team on the 4A level in Texas, and will probably be next year as well. But some of you guys with your commentary are delusional at best, and maybe need to get out of SETX and see more basketball. For someone to think that this Yates team is overrated is either biased, don’t have a clue or both. As it was mentioned in earlier threads Silsbee beat Yates due to Yates style of play and the fact that Mitch was taken out of the game due to foul trouble and that changed the game, even Sigler and Braelon Bush said it in their post game interview in the Houston Chronicle , so it was not just Wise whining about it like it was mentioned in earlier posts. If Yates run a conventional offense/defense and  strategically presses, they become a much harder team to beat because you have 6’8 monster who is very athletic and too many good shooters. Slow the game down i.e Argyle with better athletes, like Yates has and Silsbee is in trouble. Silsbee does not run any type of offense, they just try to outrun you and right now they have the players to do it. You can get away with that on the 4A level. When they play bigger schools Silsbee and even Yates tend to have problems. Wise has been in a press system since he was a player at Madison playing with Greg Kite in the late 70’s early 80’s and when he started coaching. He was my middle school coach in 1990 and we was pressing then. He went on to Houston Lee, Hightower a team he took to state 2 yrs in a row as well, and ended up at Yates and is still running that press. He is going to win or lose with that press. A team or a program is not overrated that has been to the regional tournament 9 out of the last 10 yrs in two different classifications, state tournament 5 out of those 10 yrs with 4 state championships and 1 state runner-up in the past 10 yrs. Even though Dallas Madison won two of them on the court, them and DISD had to used an elaborate cheating scheme where a young man had to lose his life and people lost careers to beat Yates and was exposed. To be honest had it been handled correctly when it was exposed with Kieth Frazier at Dallas Kimball, Yates would have one that one as well and maybe Troy Causey would be still alive today. And to be honest Yates should not even be playing on the 4A level, it has been estimated that a 1000 kids, and some years closer to 1500 kids that live Yates zone get up every morning and go to a different high school in the city. It has only one true middle school that feeds Yates right now and that is Cullen and that is not in Third Ward, they made Ryan a vanguard middle school for health professions, so the actual kids that live in third ward have to be bussed to Cullen. However when the best players in Third Ward, Yellowstone, South Union, Back Streets go to Yates and play then you have have transcendent teams that can play a national schedule and beat everybody they play like Oak Hill and St. Patrick’s in New Jersey and be the best team in the country like 09-10 team that broke national records and was undefeated, the year before that only lost 1 game and won state as well. When any team in SETX can do what Yates has accomplished in the past 10 yrs, then I will listen to who is overrated/underrated, kool-aid drinking or anything else you guys might have to say. I don’t care about any team before 1968 unless they were in the PVIL because the best players were not allowed to play in the UIL before then.

Most folks are simply responding to one particular poster who used to post here. We know Yates history. All he'd have to do is say "good game" and most would chill out. Honestly, it ain't that serious.

As far a team doing what Yates did around here? That would require Beaumont to do like Allen and have one big public school. That hypothetical team with a good coach would make some serious noise. We'll see what happens with United.

Can't even put into words how proud I am of these kids.

That's really all I got to say right now.

Not this year, no. Carter played some close games with Wilmer-Hutchins this year. They lost to them once by 13 points.

Silsbee had their way with Wilmer-Hutchins a year ago in the Dallas tournament. WH might be a lot better than they were back then, I don't know.

That's about as common as it gets.

EDIT: Actually it was last year they played WH. Also forgot about Center.

Certainly hoping for a Silsbee win.

Carter is a really good shooting team from what I gather. Silsbee played a really good shooting team the first game of the year and barely lost. I'd like to think we're a lot better now than we were for that game. They don't seem to have any real giants on their team like the two that lost today did.

I'll take Silsbee by 10.

Good showing. Now come out in the second half and bury them. 

Coby Elam is pretty good. Yes, he's from Silsbee. We'll see if he goes straight to varsity or not next year.

Allen looking to win a ring in football and basketball.

Westlake beat Wagner by 1 point. They're as big as some NBA teams.

Somerset was pressing in some of highlights I've seen. It may have only been temporary though.

Gonna be a LOOOOOOONG night for them if they try to run with us. Surely they won't try it.

Isn't it the coach's job to prepare his players for the game? How hard is it to teach Serialle how to stay out of foul trouble? Maybe he isn't that coachable, I don't know. It's not gonna get any easier for him at the next level.

I thought Hughes was their best player?

I managed to catch the second half of this game online and I wasn't that blown away by Yates. Their defense looked like hot garbage against Silsbee. They did have one kid that had a nice looking three point shot, but that was about it besides Hughes.

Neither one of their bigs looks very athletic. One is a twig and the other looks slow and kinda fat. We'll see, I guess. They play in one of the weaker regions, although all that really matters now is how you play your next game.

Wouldn't mind Levelland part 2 come game time. I'm hoping we jump on them early and never give them hope.

I guess the question is is their bigs any good? Just being big ain't gonna cut it if they're slow and clumsy with no hands. Not to mention if their guards are not very good, then you can forget about it.

They must have done something right to get this far though. It'd be foolish to look past them.

Nobody outruns Silsbee. You might can beat us, but you ain't outrunning us.

And yeah.....Great game, Yates. Y`all had us sweating for 3 quarters.

Well, now we're even at 2-2 for the series.

Don't know why Yates would let Bush beat them again, not that I'm complaining.

All this talk about size and it's the little man coming up the biggest.

I couldn't be at the game, but did Yates really try to press the whole time?

Looking good!

Just hang in there!

I think they're worried about foul trouble. No need for that towards the end of the game.

Looks like this one's going down to the wire.

Are they trying to press Bush? If they are, good.

Coach Wise had better wise up.

Yates big man in foul trouble already.

You'd think their coach would tell him to avoid that at nearly all cost.