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Message: [QUOTE="JWILLDADDY101, post: 2617622, member: 3858"] Lots to reply to here. I grew up on Baltic St, one block over from the mentioned Rec Center. It was called Blue Hills Rec Center and Miss Missel was the Rec Center Head for many many years. She used to blow a whistle when she saw you doing something wrong and us kids had a saying..."Oh Miss Missel, please don't blow your whistle." That particular court was only a half court but it was all I knew as a kid. I ended up moving and going to high school in West Haven. The best player I ever saw in person was John Williamson. We used to travel to New Haven and play pickup games at Painter Park. John was dominant whenever he showed up. He was unstoppable both driving and never hardly missed from outside. His senior year one of my buddies who went to Hillhouse High told me that they beat Wilbur Cross one game by assigning two guys to cover him at all times and the rest of the team played three against four and still beat Cross. That particular Hillhouse team had a giant name Curvan Lewis who was very good. The best High School Team I ever saw in person was Wilbur Cross during my junior year. Micky Heard and Roland Jones were the big stars, Soup and Jiggy Williamson (John's younger brother) and a guy name George Powell...(who did all the dirty work) were the starting five. When West Haven and Wilbur Cross met for the first time that year Cross was undefeated and West Haven had only one loss...(unexpected to Lee High School and Sly Williams). Cross ended blowing West Haven out by about forty from what I remember. I thought Micky Heard and Roland Jones would be the college stars. Micky Heard was a long armed power forward and Roland Jones was a tall guard who bombed from the outside. I think Micky Heard went to LSU and Roland Jones ended up at Duquesne. Neither was a star. I could see that Soup and Jiggy had potential. That team ended up losing in the semi-finals to Weaver. That game was considered one of the all time great games and was played at Quinnipiac College. After the game a riot broke out and I remember a couple of people got hurt and one got shot. Weaver ended up playing Hartford Public in the final and winning. Wilbur Cross the next year was dominant and Soup and Jiggy were the big stars. Bob Salisbury the coach for Cross recruited and stole a certain player who lived in a Hillhouse zone and that freshman (John Thomas) helped them dominate the next year. I went into the Navy and lost track of high school basketball in Connecticut for many year. For me, nobody can match Super John Williamson. [/QUOTE]

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