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I think it's too early to say "could be the best of all-time". Are you discrediting the future teams? Besides, didn't NCA break the record for the most irrelevant posts about a basketball team this past season? We get it. Your team is good. Let it rest.

We only had 2 seniors on the basketball team,  Nick is going to play at Trinity in SA and Brandon did not want to play basketball in college, he is headed to LSU.
We have 3 starters back and Patureau will be the only senior on the team this year.  With lots of prayers, we will have (2 transfers) that will have a HUGE impact for the next few years.

guys TAPPS 2a is a pretty big joke..... especially in the 2A class. anyone who really brags about that must really feel small inside.  Take any TAPPS 2A team and let them play with 5a UIL teams, it wouldnt be pretty out of all the 5A teams in the state, they may beat 30. so lets please stop braggin about basketball. Your school is good.....for 2A. and i spoke with that point guard via facebook... He said no D1 schools ever sent him letters or any BS, that was all crap, as you may know. But he also said he never sent tapes out, or even tried play at the next level, he is happy going to LSU.  but he may regret that decision later on in life.  He led NCA to two state titles... and he still agrees with me that winning in 2a is not worth bragging about. so can we please stop this talk about how the next nca team will be competing with yates for a national title.


on another note, it says mcdonald is playing at trinity, the guard for kingwood.. schleigh. who was one heck of a player if you ever watched him is going to ut dallas, they are both D3 schools, i am wondering how mcdonald is able to play at that level, unless he grew 5 inches taller, and got alot faster..... and can dribble

well i may have exaggerated, but still no 2A team deserves this much talk... they almost didnt make it to the state tournament last year, victoria almost beat them. they were good, but when people read this board and watched them play, they probably felt disappointed, i knew what they had 2 years ago, a good little squad who let the basketball do the talking, now it seems the talking is louder than the dribbling, if you catch my drift

The NCA of last year was not comparative to the NCA of the past in any form in my opinion.

likemike23 wrote:

NCA is really gonna be competing with yates and st patricks for the national title this year.  and i didnt see the past NCA teams, and no disrespect but i dont care how they compare, if the other nca teams handled their business without letting the world know how good they were i support them, and i still like NCA, it is not the schools fault parents get on here and yap, it just gets old, you all may not agree with me, but it is hard to take 2A serious when their are schools for handicap in districts playing basketball.  I agree NCA is good for 2A, but are they this good to talk about all the time.... time will tell and we will see next season.  But when you walk into a gym expecting to see a team like the Lakers, and get the knicks, you are gonna be let down, because nca couldnt live up to the hype last year even though they won, they were suppose to blow out every team by 20, it just sets the kids up to fail in my humble opinion

Ah, LikeMike23, an expert at the "straw man" argument: attribute something to someone that they didn't say, and then attack that straw man you created outta thin air. Quite effective, unless exposed for the weakness it is. F'xample: when did anyone anywhere say NCA could compete with the top 5a teams, much less Yates/St Pats? If you answered no one. You're correct, but then why create that straw man argument? There are other similar stmts thruout your rant. But how about the whole 2a private vs 5a public comparison? Do you know why there are multiple classifications, privater and public? Either you don't know or choose to pretend it doesn't matter. Different errors, but errors either way. Errors of this size are seldom made innocently. My experience is that belittling the accomplishment of a State Championship is most often done by those without such accomplishments of their own. Am I right or wrong?

dont know what games you watched.... All im saying is no team in TAPPS 2A deserves this much hype, its almost a joke, their are a couple good players, but nothing compared to any other class above it in TAPPS, or any other UIL classes, take NCA to a 1A UIL state tournament, they would get destroyed. Here is a tip since u know so much about basketball, a good team doesnt have 2 good players, and the rest of the team cant even dribble. as i saw with NCA the past year. a good team is a bunch of BASKETBALL players, not some people you dragged out of the hall so you could have enough people to play. I dont mean anything negative to NCA, they do it and do it well. They simply dont need all this talk about them

likemike23 wrote:

....I dont mean anything negative to NCA........

Really? IMO, one of the more cowardly things to do on forums like these is to attack and them claim the oppoosite.  But perhaps, someone has stolen your login password. Suggest reading posts above written by someone using the likemike23 ID and see if there's "anything negative" about NCA in them. Report your findings back here if you like.......mike

likemike23 wrote:

.....You build up these kids saying how great they are, and talk about d1 schools recruiting them, and I guess thats fine, even though lying is a sin.....

Who lied? and about what?

drthomassalami wrote:

......So that very well could be 0 for 2 for NCADAD and his handy crystal ball.....

What two predictions of NCADAD are you referring to?

Ninja, I must have gotten confused in the midst of mikemc007 and ncadad bantering back and forth and missed the fact that it was mikemc007 who made one of the predictions (solid D3) I was referring to..but I do remember ncadad being a cheerleader for hire for quite some of that time..here are some posts in case I have to refer back to previous predictions again...

LOL........No D1 players WOW...  Lets see were to begin.  Rice, Liberty, U of Penn, the Citdal, the U (Miami), Air Force, SMU are trying to buy the services of 6'6 205 Chris Patureau.  Just think guys, Chris is only a junior.  We will see you at STATE.   Get your popcorn ready DALLAS..........

NCA has got two legitimate D1 players(Trower and Patureau, both returning 1st team All-Staters) along with a solid D3 player(McDonald) who shoots lights out with being a really good on-ball defender. Trower was virtually unstoppable this summer with his dribble penetration(against public 5A & 4A schools) with Patureau being his usual dominating self.  ---This is quote I confused him with, cllassicc mix up

The point is why can't we just settle on talking about confirmed facts and players that are "solid" TAPPS 2A players instead of acting like NCA is Oak Hill or something...much more realistic and maybe a few more alumni will support NCA if the attitude changes a bit or you can get the empty seats ready

drthomassalami wrote:

Ninja, I must have gotten confused in the midst of mikemc007 and ncadad bantering back and forth and missed the fact that it was mikemc007 who made one of the predictions (solid D3) I was referring to..but I do remember ncadad being a cheerleader for hire for quite some of that time..here are some posts in case I have to refer back to previous predictions again...

LOL........No D1 players WOW...  Lets see were to begin.  Rice, Liberty, U of Penn, the Citdal, the U (Miami), Air Force, SMU are trying to buy the services of 6'6 205 Chris Patureau.  Just think guys, Chris is only a junior.  We will see you at STATE.   Get your popcorn ready DALLAS..........

NCA has got two legitimate D1 players(Trower and Patureau, both returning 1st team All-Staters) along with a solid D3 player(McDonald) who shoots lights out with being a really good on-ball defender. Trower was virtually unstoppable this summer with his dribble penetration(against public 5A & 4A schools) with Patureau being his usual dominating self.  ---This is quote I confused him with, cllassicc mix up

The point is why can't we just settle on talking about confirmed facts and players that are "solid" TAPPS 2A players instead of acting like NCA is Oak Hill or something...much more realistic and maybe a few more alumni will support NCA if the attitude changes a bit or you can get the empty seats ready

No problem. I get confused too from time to time. Just trying to make sure I didn't miss something amid the voluminous postings.

I want to point out something that the anti-NCA crowd -- I'll risk it that you are among them -- might want to consider: Y'all claim no ill-will toward NCA, only that y'all believe NCADAD, among other pro-NCA folks here, are over the top......then the replies (yes, I lumped y'all together, possibly unfairly) also go over the top EXACTLY THE SAME WAY THAT YOU DON'T LIKE TO SEE from NCADAD et al............at least until the factual aspect of those replies are challenged here. I have no problem with rose-colored opinions, even over the top ones, concomitant with the additional pressure it creates. Sort of the you-made-your-bed-now-sleep-in-it approach. Don't y'all see the response is IDENTICAL to the tone y'all find so distasteful?  Some (not nearly all, thank goodness) even sink to bashing the KIDS. That ain't acceptable. Period.

Last edited by stealthninja (08-09-2010 3:58:23)