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HooperScooper said:
Scott Burrell is from Hamden. Does that count as New Haven?
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Yes. I mean, Earl Kelley's Wilbur Cross is the same distance from Hamden High (3 miles) as it is from the Hill in New Haven.
 
upstater said:
Yes. I mean, Earl Kelley's Wilbur Cross is the same distance from Hamden High (3 miles) as it is from the Hill in New Haven.
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That's strange reasoning. Burrell played at Hamden High. Hamden High is not in New Haven but Wilbur Cross is. Doug Wiggins was from East Hartford. Does that count as a player from Hartford?
 
HooperScooper said:
That's strange reasoning. Burrell played at Hamden High. Hamden High is not in New Haven but Wilbur Cross is. Doug Wiggins was from East Hartford. Does that count as a player from Hartford?
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Why is it strange? Hamden is a suburb and it's as close to the heart of New Haven as other parts of New Haven, like Fair Haven, Foxon or the Cove, or even the Hill and Westville or Allingtown. Coming into Hamden on Dixwell, the two parts of town are indistinguishable.

A better question would be NOT East Hartford, but West Hartford. East is cut off by the river and highway and a lot is industrial, but West is integrated with Hartford.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
Sly was as talented as anyone. Unfortunately he had so little common sense it's amazing that he did (briefly) make it to the NBA.
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New Haven talent specialized in being knuckleheads for a good stretch there. And Sly was the best of them (at both basketball and foolishness).

The UConn/URI games during that era were a lot of fun.
 
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upstater said:
Why is it strange? Hamden is a suburb and it's as close to the heart of New Haven as other parts of New Haven, like Fair Haven, Foxon or the Cove, or even the Hill and Westville or Allingtown. Coming into Hamden on Dixwell, the two parts of town are indistinguishable.

A better question would be NOT East Hartford, but West Hartford. East is cut off by the river and highway and a lot is industrial, but West is integrated with Hartford.
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So a river cuts off where someone is from but not a town or city border? That's even more strange than your other post. I guess they do stuff a little differently in the Buffalo area. Here in Connecticut municipalities have town and city borders. Not worth arguing about but Scott Burrell is from Hamden and not New Haven. If you want to say "New Haven area" then that's true.
 
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mauconnfan said:
John Williamson, Soup Campbell, Mickey Heard, John Thomas, Tharon Mayes so many others. Back in the day Wilbur Cross, Hillhouse and Lee were loaded.
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Any of those guys from the New Haven suburbs? :)
 
HooperScooper said:
Scott Burrell is from Hamden. Does that count as New Haven?
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No it doesn't. My home was 75 feet from the New Haven border. Scotty lived one block away so further from the border. When people asked where I lived I said Hamden. Never said New Haven.
 
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HooperScooper said:
So a river cuts off where someone is from but not a town or city border? That's even more strange than your other post. I guess they do stuff a little differently in the Buffalo area. Here in Connecticut municipalities have town and city borders. Not worth arguing about but Scott Burrell is from Hamden and not New Haven. If you want to say "New Haven area" then that's true.
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This is quite a conversation.

I grew up in New Haven.

This whole thread is about Toure. When asked for "other" kids from New Haven, that must mean Toure counts as one of them. He plays in West Haven. Tremont Waters also played there. I went to school there as well. Both attended the same middle school in Newhallville, closer to Hamden High than it is to Notre Dame. This is a very small area. Compared to Buffalo, much smaller. The distances we're talking about when it comes to New Haven is a couple miles.
 
uconnfan68 said:
/s = sarcasm. I’m well aware of the long and storied history of New Haven hoops. Used to watch Hillhouse-Cross on ch8 in early 60s. Watched the best hs team in the country live.
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My first memories of bb were hh/wc at Payne Whitney with the games televised live by channel
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From the 50s - early nineties was an incredible time
For hs basketball in New haven Hartford and Bridgeport
New haven teams played lots of out of state teams
Was fortunate to see lots of great games and players
A time before the best players going to prep /catholic Schools
The world changes but their are still lotsof fond memories !!
 
Sly Williams, Tremont Waters, John Williamson, Bruse Campbell, Tharon Mayes, Tremont Waters - those come to mind from New Haven
 
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HooperScooper said:
Scott Burrell is from Hamden. Does that count as New Haven?
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Scott was born in New Haven, and raised in Hamden... I take "out of New Haven" though with a liberal amount of belief.
 
6Nattys4Us said:
Scott was born in New Haven, and raised in Hamden... I take "out of New Haven" though with a liberal amount of belief.
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Was he born in New Haven because that’s where the hospital is or did his parents live in New Haven when he was born? If it’s the latter then when did he move to Hamden?
 
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HooperScooper said:
Was he born in New Haven because that’s where the hospital is or did his parents live in New Haven when he was born? If it’s the latter then when did he move to Hamden?
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Unsure - we were both student athletes more or less the same years, but I did not know him. Just knew he was born in New Haven as sometimes coaches would give us UConn-wide stats on where athletes were "from" but to say if Coach Marshall had anything more than a name and a location would be stretching it.
 
huskyjawz said:
Tremont Waters is so good that he gets mentioned twice!
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not really just an error trying to multi-task at work!!!

As I remember I was watching a tournament game live years back and the program said this kid from U of Iowa with last name Stokes came from New Haven. I also remember him playing in the NBA - cant recall his 1st name
 
husky99 said:
How did he play tonight?
Any staff there?
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I wasn't able to attend this one, but they won so folks will be able to see him play for back to back state titles at Mohegan Sun this weekend. If UConn makes it to the Big East Final there won't be any UConn coaches there to see it. Definitely interested in hearing how he played today.
 
UCTitleTown said:
I wasn't able to attend this one, but they won so folks will be able to see him play for back to back state titles at Mohegan Sun this weekend. If UConn makes it to the Big East Final there won't be any UConn coaches there to see it. Definitely interested in hearing how he played today.
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Just like the game I saw him play last year in the tournament at U of H he didn't force anything in the first half and then he asserted himself in the second half. It may be a pattern for him.

In the second half he had a nice two-hand breakaway jam, a beautiful spin move in the paint and layup off the glass, one or more ferocious blocks and a sweet 3-pointer as he was being fouled. ND Fairfield came back from 20 points down in the 2nd half to tie it or maybe even go ahead by a point or two but then ND West Haven recovered and won by 8-10 points or so.

He's the real deal.
 
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