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Which adults are you referring to?

They attacked the individual even passed up some players. Then it escalated for a brief moment.

Like I said I would love to watch him and this years 2 freshmen play together the next 3 years.

I don't know if those two freshmen are going to jump to varsity right off or not. But if and I say if 2 of those 3 were to move in they would be on varsity if for no other reasons than being seniors(if I remember right they are both srs). That 8 th grader from Legacy might be a straight to varsity player not sure. Would be nice to go from this year to having just as many or more next year but I will believe all of it when I see it.

4 Silsbee players graduate this year including 3 of those in the top two rotations.

I will not say anything towards the player because I know nothing of it. But as a dad of a little girl, if this were to happen to her,. Let's just say he better hope he gets locked up!

Probably Bridgeport,. Couldn't even put this one on sour lake!

Shouldn't have let the cat out of the bag now HJ will start a theology program to keep up!

Hmm.......

In regards to that, I will never say it's certain until it happens. I was told directly from the family earlier in the year that he was coming back as well so as you and I both see things can change either way.

And your statement on other big men is exactly correct. Others don't have those two, and I am not sure they had anyone comparable to either one like I said I don't know what plans the coaches had there or if they just wanted to play good defense all around,. But I definitely could see them trying to limit the outside duo since our height was going to make it harder to do so on the inside one. Like has been done many times take one or two of those top choices out and make the other beat you.

That last statement is easy, we didn't get open lay ups. As I stated Roberts did real good down low. You may not want to believe it but I was told by more than one in the locker room that was exactly what we wanted to do in at least a large portion of the second half. And if I remember correctly it was stated earlier in this thread we shot 18 3s in the first half but only 7 in the second,. I would say that's significantly less. AAW stated that just shortly after his stats. And yes that strategy was counterproductive as far as point spread but it did finish off the win.

As for Roberts, we definitely didn't have the answer for him last night. I will be interested to see what approach and if there is any difference in the next game. I know we have done better jobs on some big men in the past. I wonder if we were more geared to limit Saladin and Parquet in this game. Kind of a pick your poison type thing. Try to limit the three balls and keep those two from rolling and take your chance with him. If so he took full advantage and had a great game. Not sure trying to focus on him would be the best move because of those other 2. That's a job for the coaches before that next game. Either way he impressed me way more last night that when I saw him last year.

Of course reducing possessions for the other team limits your possessions but with a 20 pt lead and less than a half lead, you would be basing that strategy on being able to score on an ample number of your possessions to not allow that opposing team to have enough chances to catch up. It worked we still won by 10. I can admit it frustrates me when we do this because our leads do tend to dwindle against good teams however I am not the coach and his strategy still worked. That strategy and good defense in the second half definitely limited the Tigers output and dropped our shooting numbers. I am like AAW, overall I don't think we shot bad at all,. I do think we shoot better though in transition like in the first half. For both reasons of just getting in a rhythm and the defense having more trouble getting to the shooters.

I don't disagree with that. I can admit to being happy with the win but I can also admit that I would love for once when we get that 20 pt lead and put the game away!!

This we can agree on. I have been real impressed by him and Adams as freshmen both with their play and attitudes. Yes they may have reaction to a call or something but haven't seen anything major from either one. Excited to watch how their high school careers pan out.

I am not going to get into the HJ part of this. I do agree with your statements on the Tigers. Height is a worry inside. I know we have been working on ways to deal with it. As far as a go to guy,. I would have to say I agree with the other statements I would put the ball in Devon's hands or Grubbs. The good part is they can handle the ball but if we need a shot they have several that they can dish it too and they are both two of the better finishers going to the basket.

Hmm lets see I have said our defense had some effect on HJs shooting by maybe speeding up the shots. I also said in the second half HJ did a good job staying with our shooters basically doing the same thing. I have no idea where you came up with the statement that our shooting in the second quarter was just because we are better. And stating that we slowed our offense down was not only visible but a statement from within the team. Was it the reason we "didn't win by 20" not really but it could be a reason we didn't win by more than 20. HJs defense in the half court had a lot to do with us not scoring as much in that half. It sounds like you have a problem with the Tigers. First you think that losing a three year starter and if I remember right an all stater last year doesn't have an effect and now all of this. It must be awful to be o. Your side of things.

I agree the officials were good only a couple of what I thought may have been missed calls that I can even remember. One for each team I could hear the slaps up in the top of the stands. And yes there was a sequence in that JV game that was horrible.

Definitely shocking!

I don't know if I would say we let up. We slowed down on the offensive end. I believe that was on purpose. HJ did a good job staying with our shooters in the second half and we couldn't get to the basket too well with Roberts inside.

Good balanced night by the Tigers.

Roberts really impressed me tonight. I know last year I am not sure how much he got to play last year against the Tigers. It seems like he missed one if not both. But I did see him a few times early last year and he seems to have made great progress. I don't doubt that he had a triple double tonight.

We have plenty of talent but yes he is missed. He makes us another player deeper. He is on one of those two rotations, of which you could start either one. Now in no way am I knocking any other player, but you do miss one who has been starting since his freshman year. But he is out, so next man up!

No but not a big surprise to me. If Diboll is playing well they can hang around and beat you.