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Message: [QUOTE="auror, post: 5315658, member: 1329"] We've watched Abdou Toure a lot this summer. Of the names shared on StorrsCentral right before the 4 big summer recruiting weekends (Top 100 Camp, Scholastic Live, Session IV/3SSB Champ, Peach Jam/3SSB Earn Your Stripes), Toure was mentioned as someone the staff was watching on all 4 weekends. He's the only guy listed in all 4 reports in fact (but there are some extenuating circumstances for some others like their team not playing on Scholastic Live weekend). It's true Dan didn't go watch him last session, but the Adidas event was in California, while both EYBL and the event Diane was playing in was in the same area on the east coast. Toure didn't even play in a bunch of the games this past week, and may have been trying to skip the whole weekend, but his team was unbelievably short-handed. On the other hand, Finkelstein is a UConn guy and talks to the program, and also is a national 247/CBS analyst and has a ton of sources around. You can hear him in the interview redirect the question about who we were targeting, and presumably he has reasons not to say certain things. "I'm just not sure he's their top priority at that wing spot" is pretty blunt, though. It could be that Fink knows something [I]else [/I]that informs his opinion to be beyond the logistics, like that we're getting Cloer and the staff doesn't want 2 wings, or that Samuels or Howard is above Toure in the staff's opinion (and we have a good shot, Howard announced we're getting a visit) or even something that Toure told him. [/QUOTE]

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