fairweatherfan

Who at PG averaged 21 ppg, and shot 40%from behind the arc, and has good handles?

Pleasant Grove boys basketball team ended the season ranked 5th by TABC. This was an honor being ranked the top team that did not make the final four and the first time I have seen TABC give Texarkana Boy's Basketball any love. Two of PG's boys received all Region honors - Guards Neronte Threatt and Damien Watts I was surprised to see Threatt did not receive All State Honors http://tabchoops.org/allregionboys.html

I agree 100%

The kid from Yates who hit the five threes is one of the purest shooters I have ever seen at the high school level. His father played on the University of Houston team they dubbed "Phi Slamma Jamma"

This was actually an upset, but seeing the game the better team won.

Ponder is not all they are cracked up to be? If they beat you by double figures what does that make you? I don't have a dog in this fight but you seem to love and shoot teams down but do you have the ability to evaluate your team? As for not being as exciting as the Yates game...I do not think there is a high school team in this country as exciting to watch as Yates. Did you bother staying around for the 5A final? That was also boring compared to watching Yates. Since you are mentioning boring - how do you think the fans felt watching NW stall the entire third quarter of the regional finals? Once again, you shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house. Congratulations to NW on a fantastic season.

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Ponder never ceases to amaze me. Boxell gets so much out of his players and his team as a whole. Everytime I look at the kids from Ponder I think of when I first saw them last year - looking at them you would think you could grap four guys from the stands and beat them in a game of pick-up. Kinda like the movie 'White Men Can't Jump". You can think this all you want, but when you walk out on the court with them, you usually walk away with a kick in the butt from being outplayed. Congratulations to Ponder. They work their butts off and they win state - gotta love it.

If Mrballer05 is not banned from Smoaky for being the absolutely rudest person in its history, then I am wondering what's going on. I have read on other forums where somebody (probably the same guy) was laughing about Tehana's loss and calling the players a bunch of thugs. This has to be a high school kid that lost to them earlier. If it is an adult he needs to be put in time out and stand in the corner for a week. Act like a child, you should be treated as one.

Coach Stine should be commended on working for these kids. It says a lot about a coach to help find his players somewhere to play. Unfortunately there are a lot of coaches that do not feel this same degree of dedication - some are in the same district as Redwater.

You are right about Region 2 being the toughest region, but don't think I am going to let all of you off because some of you above were dogging this region just a month ago.

Pops, Are you in Austin this weekend? I have been sitting behind a few gentlemen from Paris and they are some great guys. I have been kinda wondering if one of them is you.

Were you at the game? Although I think it would have been a good game to plan to make Threatt go left (although he does have a left hand), Madison did not do this. They attempted to do so at the beginning of the game, but after he went left effectively they backed off this game plan. Threatt penetrated many times on Madison (not as easily as on every other team we played this year) but he got deep in the pant numerous times. He just didn't finish as well as he normally does (Madison's big man had a lot to do with this though). Madison also did a great job of covering up the drop off to Wacha and the kick out to Watts, but in the fourth quarter Graves, Brodus and Reid took the pressure off this by dropping baskets. As for slowing it down, once again were you at the game? Madison did not slow down anything or stop taking shots, they just stopped hitting the threes they were making in the second and first half of the third quarter and Wacha and Graves made adjustments to stop their big man down low (who had the best moves I have seen on a big man this year in 3A). I read a lot of your posts and agree with most of them, but I am not sure you saw the game correctly or you may be going by info provided to you by somebody else.

You are your friend came to the right compromise on the missed dunk. Threatt, at 5'8" didn't block it but he contested the attempted dunk, and I feel that it was the only reason this kid missed it.

I wish I could tell you I looked at the film and know 'exactly' what happened. I can tell you what I saw, in the heat of the moment'. Five Madison players on the floor (just got there), one picking up a ball, while two PG players had taken a few steps onto the floor, with two others right behind, and one still on the bench. I did not see a ref counting to five and I do not remember Madison rushing out to beat a count, but this is my memory concerning a very 'exciting' situation. Do you know where I can buy a filming of the game? We were not allowed to take pictures or film in Commerce, but I had hoped somebody did so.