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Actually playoff would be next friday as the Tigers still have to win friday and tuesday, to force that possibility.

36-28 Hj at the half not very good service in here tonight.

So you give Silsbee and hj the pick over Connaly??

The middle schools played tonight HJ won the 7th grade game by 10 or 12 points I believe. The 8th grade was Silsbee 25 43 57 74 HJ. 1 12 20 27

Well I don’t know if I would call this even basically the district championship at this point. Both teams have games left against opponents that gave them all they wanted and then some in the first round. But this game sure gives a big advantage to the winner. From what I have seen of my Tigers in a couple games lately and that first HJ game, I would have to give the edga at home to HJ. The Tigers have the ability to go out and win but have to play together and smarter than they have at times recently.

One last point on this game that some don’t seem to realize. I have seen comments about beating them last year by 100 and losing this year. One thing of course is we aren’t the same team with what we lost to graduation. A second is the coaching change at HF and the job he is doing. BUT the big point of this post is that THIS is not the same HF team many of these players moved here this year and are not typical of what you have seen at HF in recent past. They came in with a better skill set.

Really tough to equal the number of athletes on that 2017 team. Just saw a pic of that team and 12 will be or are playing b-ball or basketball at the next level and I believe another had an offer for a small school. 12 or 13 out of 15 players.....

I think most talking about this group are talking about that class as graduating class group being that good. But Yeah that is an awful tough expectation to put on them. That one year class may be 7 or 8 deep is what they are saying where as the last few years you had a mixture of graduating classes to reach that depth. Now will they all stay at that level through high school and other variables...we will have to wait and see. For that group to have the top 4 players reach the level of the 4 you mentioned well that will take lots of work and other things to fall in place. Like you said that doesn’t happen often at our level......well at least in small towns!

Yes they have lost those games but they are in the first year of a new coach and have only 1 loss besides the first one to my Tigers by more than I believe 7 points. They are definitely better than last year and I will still say better than the beginning of the year. This group of Tigers is definitely not the same as last years bunch either you don’t graduate two 4 year all state starters like McCain and Adams and another the quality of Tyler and stay at the same level. It was said at the beginning of district this year that any team could beat anyone else and this just proves that. Did the Tigers have an off night, yes definitely in some ways, but HF came out and simply outplayed us and wanted it more. My question for both teams will be how they respond both face HJ this coming week if I remember what I read correctly. A must win for my Tigers if they want to control things and a definite meaningful game for HF to show that this one want a fluke.

Guys this was definitely an upset and a big win for HF but it isn’t near as surprising this year as some are making it out to be. Look at The games HF has played against us and HJ in district. They have definitely improved from last year and even a lot through this year. You can’t base anything for either of these two teams on past years.

Was thinking it was about 25.... definitely need something to come together before tuesday...need some overall focus.

Yes we did have an early lead just not for long. And cant argue with your statements. Only thing i can say about that is that we never had much of a lead and it was early on. They lead pretty much from at least midway through the second until the end. If not earlier than that i cant remember if we got a lead in the second or not.

Could not back off their guard, Hf has proved all year that they are content to stand and hold the ball. We were behind if we back off they stand there and let the clock run. We had to stay with that guy coming down the baseline and deny that pass, we just didn’t do it. Being behind dictated our defense. If we had a lead we could have backed off and clogged the lane. Made them hit the shots.

Yes and that tells you what kind of night it was. The game was definitely fast paced but good defense and an off night shooting kept that score down.

We still are in control of our destiny guys as long as we win tuesday. Hj is in the same boat.

Congratulations HF on a well earned win. Simply outplayed the Tigers tonight. Cant win games when you cant stop a penetration and dish repeatedly. Combine that with not getting many calls at all on our drives and good defense by HF and you see what happened tonight. We had a few chances late to get really back into it but missed a pair of fts and couldnt score on a couple other possesions. Right now we have just a few days to get things straight or it will be a long night in sour lake and a short ride in the playoffs...leave this one behind you Tigers and focus now on the task at hand.

Final Hf takes it 72-65

12.6 secs left 70-63 HF shooting fts

Tigers lose this one final coming up

66:61 1:06 lft

64-61

64-59 2:12 left

64-57 can’t get a foul call on a drive for anything

62-57 3:20 left

4:01 left 62-53