2025 Recruiting: Abdou Toure is MUST SEE TV! Best Guard in Connecticut Since Mustapha Heron!

[UCTitleTown]

Earl Kelley says hello...

Serious question. Anyone know if EK is still living? He was my first favorite Husky.

 

[AntG168]

Has New Haven had any good ball players? /s

Tremont Waters, Desmond Claude, Touré are a few of the more recent. I forget the kids name that went to the Ivy League some years back. He was good too.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

Providence did just get the 5 star center from CT last class and they have two top 100 kids for the next class. He just visited them to watch our game as well. Not saying they should be considered the leader, but I think they have surprising NIL resources.

I assume you’re talking about the kid from PSA last year? He was like a top 50 recruit, not close to a five star. That 40-150 range seems to be their sweet spot. Toure is going to wind up way higher than that and would be a big outlier in recruiting for them.

 

[JesusAllen11]

He kinda has a VJ Edgecome kinda game

 

[caw]

I assume you’re talking about the kid from PSA last year? He was like a top 50 recruit, not close to a five star. That 40-150 range seems to be their sweet spot. Toure is going to wind up way higher than that and would be a big outlier in recruiting for them.

Definitely seems that way.

2025 - 36 and 101
2024 - 44 (though he was a reclass and he was higher in 2025, I want to say he was around 20-25 before the reclass but I may be misremembering and it was super early in the rankings)
2023 - 47 (Dual - now at SHU)

That said, I can't imagine going to play for English with the choices Toure will have. English is sitting at .500 on the dot right now in two years (33-33) in the BE and .400 in league play (16-24). And that was with the BE POY last year. He is 67-62 in his four year career and never made the NCAAT.

Seems like a great guy but hasn't shown he can coach at all.

 

[auror]

He attended a Providence game last week. Hopefully it was the DePaul game.

It was the UConn game lol.

 

[ec33]

Has New Haven had any good ball players? /s

Sly Williams.

 

[uconnfan68]

Super John and Jiggy

/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.

 

[upstater]

Scott Burrell and Tharon Mayes are another couple of good players out of New Haven

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Sly Williams.

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.

 

[HooperScooper]

Scott Burrell and Tharon Mayes are another couple of good players out of New Haven

Scott Burrell is from Hamden. Does that count as New Haven?

 

[upstater]

Scott Burrell is from Hamden. Does that count as New Haven?

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.

 

[HooperScooper]

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.

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?

 

[upstater]

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?

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.

 

[Waquoit]

but West is integrated with Hartford.

Heh

 

[ec33]

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.

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.

 

[mauconnfan]

Sly Williams.

John Williamson, Soup Campbell, Mickey Heard, John Thomas, Tharon Mayes so many others. Back in the day Wilbur Cross, Hillhouse and Lee were loaded.

 

[HooperScooper]

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.

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.

 

[HooperScooper]

John Williamson, Soup Campbell, Mickey Heard, John Thomas, Tharon Mayes so many others. Back in the day Wilbur Cross, Hillhouse and Lee were loaded.

Any of those guys from the New Haven suburbs?

 

[ctchamps]

Scott Burrell is from Hamden. Does that count as New Haven?

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.

 

[Stinger92860]

Super John…cannot believe its been almost 30 years since his death

 

[Stinger92860]

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[upstater]

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.

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.

 

[Zonepress]

Serious question. Anyone know if EK is still living? He was my first favorite Husky.

Saw him a few years ago and was doing very well
Long road back from addiction /prison and lots of dark years

 

[Zonepress]

/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.

My first memories of bb were hh/wc at Payne Whitney with the games televised live by channel
8
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 !!