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Good season HJ! Someone please find a way to beat Yates 

3 minutes ago, ST413 said:

That is part of what I am talking about

You gotta be mentally prepared to play well against a team that’s longer and more athletic than you. It’s hard for a coach to get his team mentally prepared if they haven’t faced a team like that yet 

On the positive side looks like HJ may hold Yates under 100 

3 minutes ago, ST413 said:

Don’t have to hit 3s with that going on inside!

Or when you have 8 blocked shots first quarter. That’ll get the other team shook up and cause them to make more mistakes like turning the ball over 

2 minutes ago, AggiesAreWe said:

Samaha has had 3 good opportunities to score but shot was blocked each time.

How do good opportunities get blocked? Lol 

9 hours ago, BMTSoulja1 said:

This team is not very good and the reason they're in the playoffs is because the district is very bad.  But it will still be a close game.  

HF by 6

That district is not as bad as Yates made them look lol. This game is a toss up though. I’ll take HF by 4. I think they’ll just keep playing better the more they play together. Silsbee better be ready if they have to meet HF 3rd round. If I were Silsbee I’d be hoping HF looses lol 

I think Lumberton will probably play them closer than most people think because of their style of play and might have a chance to win if they play like they did the first half of the Tarkington game. La Marque is the favorite though and I’ll give them a 8 point edge. 15 points max

3 hours ago, Coach P said:

Silsbee MS score vs LCM 

1/30/2020 - Little Cypress (Win) 67-14
2 /3/2020 - Mauriceville (Win) 71-8

Goodness 

Kountze will have to play some defense to win this game. They did ok on the defensive end against Woodville but Coldspring is a different beast. They definitely won’t be able to outscore them. Good luck Kountze! 

10 minutes ago, BadgerNation said:

I sure hope so. Still no confirmation on where the game will be played. I know La Marque wants to play in La Porte or Deer Park. They are not wanting to split the travel difference.

 

i figured they would play in Winnie

Interesting......Good luck Raiders! 

Yates is gonna be a super tough task for HJ. I think if HJ can slow the game down, play solid D, limit turnovers, and have a really good shooting night or maybe get 1 or 2 of Yates top guys in foul trouble they have a chance to win. Basically a perfect game and a few mistakes from Yates lol. Good luck though HJ! 

Lumberton was really impressive in this game. Especially the first half. Might just be up to the task against La Marque in my opinion

Good win HF! 

Was a good game. Freshman post from Woodville had a huge game! Good luck against Coldspring Kountze! 

Good luck HJ! 

1 hour ago, SportsJunkie32 said:

I watched North Forest vs Brazosport Game last night, Brazosport had a difficult time beating a bad North Forest Team. Silsbee should win easily/double digits 

North Forest isn’t a great team but they’re not a bad team. Maybe by Yates standard. But Brazosport isn’t on Yates level and Silsbee hasn’t played at that level this year either. Silsbee COULD win by double digits depending on what type of night they have but it won’t be an automatic win. Brazosport has shown they can score almost as well as Silsbee. Neither team has been that great on the defensive end this year. 

Likely to be a high scoring game. I’ll give Silsbee the edge but wouldn’t be surprised if Brazosport wins 

2 hours ago, Mohead2000 said:

Nobody says anything when these small town schools beat the big city small schools in other sports like football. You guys can't have it both ways. And the majority of these smaller town schools can compete with and beat pretty much all of the smaller schools in Houston with the exception of Yates. 

1 hour ago, Ghost Writer said:

Houston and Dallas are able to get away with recruiting because they are their own DEC (District Executive Committees). the entire 4a district in HISD and DISD work for the same AD respectively. What coach is gonna report kids transferring for athletic purposes within their district with the threat of losing their job  hanging over their head because the district is loading up their "showcase school" ? Also, just like basketball kids are steered to Yates in this way, football kids are steered to a certain school(s) as well. That's why small towns can fair well against most of the other Houston schools and not these. As stated before, if these schools have this unfair advantage then they should either be in 5 or 6a or in their own league. And yes, there are exceptions when talking about small towns competing. However, in most instances, small towns cannot compete on a consistent basis.  

Mohead, I think Ghost Writer explained pretty well why bigger cities have schools that are really good and schools that are really bad. All the really good athletes are lured to certain schools. Football athletes are less likely to be lured to a small school. That’s why the football teams at small schools in big cities are often verry bad. Certain small schools however often benefit from b-ball players being lured there 

Should be the easiest win Silsbee’s had in a minute. I honestly thing BC could beat Livingston 

Or no they lost to Jasper but still 

1 hour ago, AggiesAreWe said:

I replaced them with Orangefield. Kountze lost last night

They lost to EC lol. They lost in a respectable fashion and Buna and Orangefield both lost to EC both times 

Where is Kountze? 

10 minutes ago, Mohead2000 said:

HISD has open enrollment, which means any student can go to any school in the district from elementary to high school. As long as the school has room for them. And Yates has plenty of room since about 1000 or more kids leave the zone everyday to attend other high schools. That policy has been around since the late 90's long before Yates Basketball came on the scene. The UIL is very aware of the policy. Like Sportsjunkie32 said HISD is not doing Yates any favors. If all of kids that lived in Yates zone went to Yates, then Yates would be at least 5A, but probably a 6A school. And when Yates was a 5A school, they still went to the 5A region 3 tournament two years in a row.

Which is why small schools in rural areas shouldn’t have to compete against “small schools” in big cities. Yates can handpick out of all the kids in Houston basically while they compete against schools that don’t have that privilege 

5 minutes ago, BMTSoulja1 said:

I know it's  off topic, but how was this allowed to happen.  These extremely tall kids allowed to transfer  in without having to sit put a year?

There’s always loop holes around the rule. Ain’t nothing going to stop someone from breaking rules except integrity 

1 hour ago, JimThorpe said:

You get my point.  There wouldn’t have been any conceding if one bracket yielded a reasonable shot at making it to the the Region Tourney and the other led to oblivion.  And I believe that Yates could win Region 3 5A. 

They could also loose Region 3 4A. Chances are really unlikely but it could happen. It’s basketball. There’s no such thing as zero chance