WaCoJaCo Posted March 20, 2022 Report Share Posted March 20, 2022 32 minutes ago, Tab said: So what is going to be named after Poore? He did something no one at DB could do since 45 Poore-Eastman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SweetScience Posted March 21, 2022 Report Share Posted March 21, 2022 Congratulations to DB. I definitely didn’t see that one coming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaCoJaCo Posted March 21, 2022 Report Share Posted March 21, 2022 42 minutes ago, SweetScience said: Congratulations to DB. I definitely didn’t see that one coming. A lot of people probably didn't. It's really tough to go through the entire season ( 40 + games) just to make it to the state tournament. Then you get there and you're just one of the best 8 teams left. Seems most people were picking Bartlett and Cain Ridge or maybe Bearden going in. DB had played about 5 games that were "state championship caliber" this year. So they had the team to do it if they just put it together at the right time. After the first half of the opening game against Coffee Co. they just played great basketball. I don't think there's any question DB was the best team down there. Four players on the all-tournament team and Browder had a monster game in the final to win MVP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SweetScience Posted March 21, 2022 Report Share Posted March 21, 2022 9 minutes ago, WaCoJaCo said: A lot of people probably didn't. It's really tough to go through the entire season ( 40 + games) just to make it to the state tournament. Then you get there and you're just one of the best 8 teams left. Seems most people were picking Bartlett and Cain Ridge or maybe Bearden going in. DB had played about 5 games that were "state championship caliber" this year. So they had the team to do it if they just put it together at the right time. After the first half of the opening game against Coffee Co. they just played great basketball. I don't think there's any question DB was the best team down there. Four players on the all-tournament team and Browder had a monster game in the final to win MVP. I watched some of the game against Bartlett. The Injuns were on fire early and often in that game. Gillespie (spelling may be off) was lights out. I also noticed one thing about DB, and that was that those boys could shoot FTs, and when you get to state, where the competition is really stellar, a lot of times great FT shooting can be the difference. Unbelievable that y’all hadn’t won one since the 40s. I bet you’re proud as can be. OR hasn’t won one since ‘63 and we came so close in 2014 losing by 2 in the finals to Jauan Jennings and Blackman. A heartbreaker it was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaCoJaCo Posted March 21, 2022 Report Share Posted March 21, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, SweetScience said: I watched some of the game against Bartlett. The Injuns were on fire early and often in that game. Gillespie (spelling may be off) was lights out. I also noticed one thing about DB, and that was that those boys could shoot FTs, and when you get to state, where the competition is really stellar, a lot of times great FT shooting can be the difference. Unbelievable that y’all hadn’t won one since the 40s. I bet you’re proud as can be. OR hasn’t won one since ‘63 and we came so close in 2014 losing by 2 in the finals to Jauan Jennings and Blackman. A heartbreaker it was. Although you lost in 2014 it's still very special to play that final game for a championship. Like I said, it's just very hard to get there. I don't know how it stands now but at one time DB had made more state tournament appearances than any other school. But could never close the deal. Was a shoo in in '73 but lost to Gallatin in the final. A couple times in the 90's they were picked to win it but came up short. One year they were calling DB a college team compared to the rest, but they didn't make it past the semi's. And I think it was in '03 when "that last coach" took a "1" loss team to the tourny and got blowed out by 40 in the first game. So yeah.....finally got one. Edited March 21, 2022 by WaCoJaCo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REBELRON Posted March 21, 2022 Report Share Posted March 21, 2022 I knew 2 years ago Dobyns Bennett was going to be really good. Maryville had a great team 2 years ago and barely beat DB in the substate game. Maryville was mostly seniors. DB was very young. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noonesfool Posted March 21, 2022 Report Share Posted March 21, 2022 12 hours ago, WaCoJaCo said: Although you lost in 2014 it's still very special to play that final game for a championship. Like I said, it's just very hard to get there. I don't know how it stands now but at one time DB had made more state tournament appearances than any other school. But could never close the deal. Was a shoo in in '73 but lost to Gallatin in the final. A couple times in the 90's they were picked to win it but came up short. One year they were calling DB a college team compared to the rest, but they didn't make it past the semi's. And I think it was in '03 when "that last coach" took a "1" loss team to the tourny and got blowed out by 40 in the first game. So yeah.....finally got one. Congratulations Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STILLNUM1 Posted March 24, 2022 Report Share Posted March 24, 2022 Congrats to DB.It was great to see all the real high school teams battle it out.So much better this way than these super teams with transfers from all over winning.Hopefully it stays this way for a while Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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