Kountzer

Delmar stadium gym would be a good location.

[quote name="BLUEDOVE3" post="1165696" timestamp="1327499906"] [quote author=Kountzer link=topic=94735.msg1165575#msg1165575 date=1327465538] PA may have all the talent in the world.  Playground ball is just exercise, recreation.  If the talent is not on the court winning games it is wasted IMO. I haven't seen PA basketball in awhile.  I'm just going by what I see in the papers and on the internet, especially here.  Also, PA just being in the playoffs, I don't know.  That's good; I'm not knocking.  But I don't have to recite PA basketball history.  You know it better than I do.  There used to be a time when as soon as basketball practice started for the season, and the players @ Lincoln tied up their sneakers, every team and high school basketball fan in the state of Texas took notice.  Those teams in the DFW, in Houston, they all knew about PA basketball being played at Lincoln.  To go from that to 'we make the playoff, that a serious change.  Please read & hear what I'm saying.  I am not dumping on PA basketball.  I wish coach Williams the best.  I just made statement based on the results, and what I am feeling about the results. [/quote]So no one fears southeast texas basketball anymore ;) [/quote] Most of the attention is directed toward a few teams in the Houston/Ft Bend area, and especially on the teams in DFW.

PA may have all the talent in the world.  Playground ball is just exercise, recreation.  If the talent is not on the court winning games it is wasted IMO. I haven't seen PA basketball in awhile.  I'm just going by what I see in the papers and on the internet, especially here.  Also, PA just being in the playoffs, I don't know.  That's good; I'm not knocking.  But I don't have to recite PA basketball history.  You know it better than I do.  There used to be a time when as soon as basketball practice started for the season, and the players @ Lincoln tied up their sneakers, every team and high school basketball fan in the state of Texas took notice.  Those teams in the DFW, in Houston, they all knew about PA basketball being played at Lincoln.  To go from that to 'we make the playoff, that a serious change.  Please read & hear what I'm saying.  I am not dumping on PA basketball.  I wish coach Williams the best.  I just made statement based on the results, and what I am feeling about the results.

Port Arthur Lincoln has been gone at least ten years.  What happened high school basketball in Port Arthur would be a better question.

What's keeping that talent from getting on the court?  Grades?

Coach Williams had a nice pipeline of basketball talent coming off the play grounds of Silsbee.  Not so much in PA, at least not now.  But I am sure a nicer paycheck smoothes out all that.  Back in the day the idea that there is prolly more basketball talent in Silsbee than PA would of been laughed at.  Time brings about a change I guess.

Best case scenario for Silsbee: lose in Sour Lake, then win again against HJ in the Regional.

This game shows that your can't really depend on high school team rankings in polls. 

Good game, good win Silsbee Tigers.  Anytime you can get a win like this is a good time.  As for HJ, this is the best time to absorb a loss like this.  It is far better to lose while ranked # 1 in the polls, relatively early in the district games,  than it is to lose in the first round of the playoffs.  HJ has another game against Silsbee at home.  They also have a chance to go to the playoffs, do damage, and possibly show that they really are the # 1 team in conference 3A in the state. Real talk from a Silsbee fan and native.

[quote name="BADSANTA" post="1136793" timestamp="1322787763"] They did play well vs Ball lt year and that Ball team was just as good as this years Kimball. Good luck Tigers you will need it! [/quote] This is a different year, different season.  silsbee has a different team. 

Things are lined up for me to go to this game: It starts after the sabbath, (I am a seventh day adventist) I have the $, and the means of transportation.  But, we went out veterans day and bought some furniture that will be delivered Saturday night @ 7pm.  Oh well...

My bad.  You must be a Waltrip alum, lol.  Waltrip is a good school, btw.  Nice students there.  One of my co-workers had a daughter that graduated from there last year.  I see Waltrip more often than I do Silsbee High School.  That's what happens when you move to Houston I guess. I could of sworn that title was taken way from Waltrip.  They got a lot of bad publicity in the Chronicle.  No biggie to me.  I don't have a dog in that fight.  Quite a bit of high school basketball is shady.  I don't know what the percentage is, but something is going on.  I don't anticipate any of the schools to the immediate South of me to rise up and do anything sports wise.  I am talking about Waltrip and Scarborough.  Eisenhower is down the street.  They do okay.  Most of the students in this area go to Klein Forest.  I think they had a big victory here lately in football.  To be honest I don't keep up with high school football that much.  Unless a player of a team starts doing amazing, atttention grabbing stuff, like Yates 2 years ago, I don't pay much attention.  I did see Falu though.  He's bumping around town somewhere.

[quote name="BADSANTA" post="1040565" timestamp="1314288527"] The team Waltrip beat in state had a great center who played pro baseball as well. SIlsbee has come up short so many times I have lost count. [/quote] That Waltrip state championship was later taken from them.  That team was tainted.  I saw that big point guard who played for Waltrip about a year ago.  He was from Puerto Rico, or was of that heritage.  No one else knew who he was, but I walked up to him and asked about his basketball career.

I don't live all that far from Waltrip.  I don't think athletics is a priority there, at least not in football.  HISD schools have so many issues to contend with these days: budget restraints, all the better student athletes go to private schools or better public schools.  The football program gets what's left.  Don't get it twisted though, I'm a Silsbee Tigers fan.

Wasn't Sigler the coach back in '95 when Silsbee was ranked #1 and undefeated alll season long, then lost in the first round of the playoffs?

I wasn't expecting anything from Silsbee this year.  I started paying attention when the season got started and I was surprised to find out that they were ranked as one of the best in the golden triangle, and in the top 10 in the TABC poll. The same will hold for next season.  I'll start checking posts here when the season gets going.  If the Tigers are doing good I will check in here frequently.  If not I won't.  It's that simple for me.

[quote name="ST413" post="978545" timestamp="1299385312"] [quote author=bmrm link=topic=81307.msg978527#msg978527 date=1299382010] No offense to either Mexia or Athens, but did anybody really have these two teams meeting up in the Region III final?  [/quote] No way, I would never have imagined before the playoffs that my Tigers wouldn't have made it, or HJ or Cleveland. [/quote] Two stories have been coming out of Cleveland the last few days.  One story effects the other.  Story one is the state ranked b-ball team in the playoffs (at one time).  The 2nd story is that 2 members of that team were arrested in regards to a certain assault case that first occurred around thanksgiving.  Had that not happened Cleveland prolly would of taken region 3. 

[quote name="True Blue" post="974479" timestamp="1298989818"] ;D ;D you guys sound like a bunch of Dallas Cowboy fans.. Talking about how great you use to be :D No one cares about yesterday ,other that people that just live in the pass. Everyone is looking to tomorrow night. Then the weekend then the State Tour. Good luck to all the teams still in the playoffs, and to the one that are out.. just work harder next year. [/quote] Read the subject and that is usually what the discussion is about.  Duh.  This is not rocket science.  There are all sorts of 'x' out icons, entrance icons.  If you don't like what you are reading, step to a top that you like.  Quit being a butt head.

I'm giving away my age, lol, but here goes: I don't remember the season '69-'70.  I was in the 8th grade and hadn't really discovered high school basketball.  The '70-'71 team was in class 4A and was a very good team.  I can't recall if they were ranked, but like I said, they were prominent.   Players on that team: David Matthews, Bush, Joe Price, and Larry Irvin, rip.  That's all I can remember.  Coach Dan Montgomery. The '71-'72 team was a very good team.  They were probably ranked # 1 at one time, but I don't remember. I think it was a 3A team.  5A hadn't come up yet.  6'8" all american David Brown at Strong post.   Super athlete James Hunter playing wing/forward.  Lots of good role players.  They made it to Austin, but got toasted by Odessa Ector.  I went to that game. Lots of good people, good citizens on the teams in 73 and 74.  Herb Sapp.  James E Simmons.  Predestrian teams. 73 to 75 was the time of Michael Dabney.  IMO he could hoop with anybody that has ever come out of Silsbee.  He was magical; you have to see him play to believe it.  Too bad video wasn't as prominent then as it is now. '76 was a good team lead by Anthony Brown, David Brown's younger brother.   Good b ballers on that team.  Brown was the tallest at 6'2".  Lack of height was their weakness.  If that team had some height, who know? My half brother Randy played on a #1 ranked team.  This was around 78, 79, 80, somewhere in there.  I was away in the military, but I kept up with them via newspaper microfiche.  No internet in those days.   I never saw them play, but they had height.  They fell in the playoffs, rather early.  A trend? I missed the David Greens, the Darrell MacArthur's , etc.  I've been told many times they were very good.  I started paying attention again in 95.  DFW sports writer Dwaine Price could tell you about that 70s era, as good as anyone can.

I can remember when for a year, maybe two Silsbee was a ranked 4A team, back when 4A was the largest Class.  They hadn't come out with 5A yet.  So, Silsbee was a ranked 5A school, more or less, at one time.

That was the team that was undefeated and ranked#1 then lost their first playoff game in the area round.  I thought about all that after the loss Friday night.

The game I saw was the regional finals, played in Deer Park.  That was the most impressive line-up I've seen for Silsbee.  They had size in the front court and talent in the back court.  Silsbee had 2 6'5" post players.  They weren't skinny post players either.  Both of those guys looked like they had been pumping iron. As impressive as Silsbee's line up was, Lincoln's  team was a  better.  I still believe if Silsbee could of gotten past Lincoln, and they came close, they would of won state that year. Who were those 2 post players for Silsbee?  It would of been nice if they had left those genes/dna in town.

I went to last year's game in Baytown.

[quote name="tigersvoice" post="973054" timestamp="1298731986"] [quote author=Kountzer link=topic=80875.msg972879#msg972879 date=1298696203] Coach T should at least consider giving up coaching, and trying something else. [/quote] Unless you want to explain this - then you are D U M B !!!!! [/quote] I like Coach T as much as anyone.  Cardio vascular issues are serious.  At some point you may have to separate Coach T from Travis Williams, the person, and do what's best.  I'm sure his Doctors and medical consultants have brought this issue up.   Personally I hope he recovers fully and coaches as long as he wants.  It's rather naive and D U M B to think that the issue of stepping down hasn't crossed Coach Williams mind.

Coach T should at least consider giving up coaching, and trying something else.