Silsbee Tigers

[Mballer1]

Not really a whole lot of talk about Silsbee’ Basketball I know they are Struggling and it’s a down year with getting acclimated with the new head coach I thought some of the young men that came back from last year’s team would have been a little better did Silsbee stop the run and gun offense and the pressure defense that we are all accustomed to I wass under the impression that the offense would not change and they would work on improving the defense a little more just curious at 1-9 I still feel like they will be  battle tested and ready for district with their non district schedule and get better just curious on what’s going on.

[Tigers94]

Put it to you this way: There's a lot of really good athletes on this Silsbee team. How many are good basketball players is a different story. Hopefully these good athletes can be molded into decent b-ball players by the time district starts.

It's still really early and we just don't have the kids we've had over the past decade or so right now. As much as people don't want to hear this, it's going to take a few years to see if things work out. The community needs to be patient. 

Help will be on the way, but those kids who'll be freshmen next season will need a year's worth of experience and physical growth under their belt before they're really ready. That means it'll likely be 2027 before we see if Silsbee can get back to where they're used to being.

I guess if you want some signs of a bright spot so far this year, they competed well with Humble (who somehow only lost to West Brook by 2 points) and Stafford, while not nearly as good as last year, still came in as a ranked team. They just need to start winning some of these close games.

[Boogy1000]

Does Silsbee play the same way they did under Sigler? Have we won any games? I know Silsbee will be fine. The 7th and 8th grade classes are pretty talented from what I hear. Im 46 this year, and don't remember but once Silsbee missing the playoffs in basketball. That was like 2000 or 2001. 

[AggiesAreWe]

8 hours ago, Tigers94 said:

Put it to you this way: There's a lot of really good athletes on this Silsbee team. How many are good basketball players is a different story. Hopefully these good athletes can be molded into decent b-ball players by the time district starts.

It's still really early and we just don't have the kids we've had over the past decade or so right now. As much as people don't want to hear this, it's going to take a few years to see if things work out. The community needs to be patient. 

Help will be on the way, but those kids who'll be freshmen next season will need a year's worth of experience and physical growth under their belt before they're really ready. That means it'll likely be 2027 before we see if Silsbee can get back to where they're used to being.

I guess if you want some signs of a bright spot so far this year, they competed well with Humble (who somehow only lost to West Brook by 2 points) and Stafford, while not nearly as good as last year, still came in as a ranked team. They just need to start winning some of these close games.

I agree with this assessment. Particularly the part in bold.

IMO, this is one of worst skill level teams Silsbee has put on the floor in quite some time. They are not a good shooting team, very very poor passing team. Combine those two things and you get poor offensive output. It's mostly the reason why you see 40-50 point scoring for the Tigers. Got nothing to do with the "run and gun". Just don't have the horses to run that kind of offense.

What the Tigers do have is effort. That has really improved over these 10 games. They work hard defensively and rebound the ball very well. They get out of position sometimes defensively but that's not because of lack of effort. It's lack of experience.

Silsbee has played some very tough competition in these 10 games. Lot's of close games that with a few better plays here and there could have resulted in a couple more wins. 

I too agree that Tiger Nation needs to show some patience with Coach Brown and the program. It's very obvious that the talent level is much lower than it has been over the last several years. Give him a chance to weather the storm. I think Silsbee will be right in the mix for the district title this year just like they always have been.

[Lumbertonraider17]

Silsbee has some good kids coming just a down year for them..they have a good coaching staff, you need some basketball talent to win games just can’t have athletes out there playing the game for you but I still feel they are a playoff team with the athletes they have but it’s going to be a year they haven’t had in a long time. Silsbee needs to be patient with the process and realize they don’t have any div 1 basketball players out there like the community is use to but give it couple more years and they will have that again. We live in a time where to many kids are specializing in one sport and to worried about getting jobs and etc you could have more athletes playing and now you’re  seeing teams who usually don’t struggle are struggling now, it’s the Nature of the beast for sports these days. Be patient tiger fans