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There is not much about him. He is a totally under the radar late bloomer. I do trust this staff's evaluation skills. He is the one story I found about him. Very smart young man.
Tallis Toure Ready for The Big Stage
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6'10", 210 lb Robbie Cowgill and I concur with this conclusion.Jalen Green Elite is MARQEE.
Jalen Green Elite is like the OAKLAND SOLDIERS type basketball ELITE club.
Players and recruits from Oakland Soldiers, Jalen Green Elite types are usually 3.5 star, 4 star, 4.5 star, etc, at least semi blue chip type recruits.
Now most of the time under the radar, late bloomer types, usually don't end up at Jalen Green Elite, Oakland Soldiers types, but occasionally they late BLOOM, get onto Oakland Soldier as Oakland Soldiers types, and end up as AWESOME recruits, that fly under the recruiting radar.
Tallis Toure, also made the ELITE 100.
Part of the reason he hasn't got as much attention, is that even tho he is a awesome recruit, that has extremely semi freakishly athleticism, he is 6-10, 215, which is extremely STICK FIGURE THIN, which is semi considered a semi liability to some programs, recruiters, coaches, etc.
Awesome get by Smith.
Here is some video I found of him. Look for all the videos with his name on them.
Tallis Toure on Hudl
Watch Tallis Toure's videos and highlights on Hudl. More info: West Park High School - West Park Panthers / C / Class of 2024 / ROSEVILLE, CAwww.hudl.com
I know Jack shit about basketball talent. But a 6’10 kid that can handle the ball pop 3s and block some shots can be taught the rest. Looks like Jones with a long range jumper.O my Gosh, I knew Toure was a AWESOME recruit because of Jalen Green Elite, and making Elite 100, but I did not know he is as good as he is in the videos.
I know that you usually have to take videos with a grain of salt and consider the competition level.
And even tho it's the lower level competition, but still competitive NOR CAL:
In no particular order:
How fast he runs court.
Jumps out of gym.
Drives, slashes, beats defenders off of dribble, semi breaks ankles, gets inside to basket, creating his own shot, by either lay up, dunking, tear dropper, runner, floater, etc, finishing at, near rim, etc, as if he was a guard, and not a 6-10, 215 big. Must have been a guard before he late bloomed, got taller, etc. Great Ball handler, etc.
Has good midrange, outside shot shooting, 3 point shooting etc. Sometimes takes bad shot selection shots.
Is awesome in both high and low post. Has great post moves, like turn around shots, jumpers, fade away shots, up and unders, etc.
He finds ways to score whether by slithering, contortions, twisting, scoring over you, under you, around you, etc, he just finds ways to put ball in hoop.
He receives passes into the post to him well. Has good hands. Passes out from inside well.
Plays defense. Had a line of about 13 points, about 11 rebounds, about 5 blocks, about 1,2 steals, about 2 assist, good defense, etc, against some semi decent, semi ok competition.
Great rebounder
Great shotblocker
great lateral quickness
He is going to make more wish they had given him more attention, and recruited him.
The only downsides are his bad shot selection at times, and that he is STICK FIGURE THIN, which some to a semi lot, consider a liability. But he can use his THINNESS to his advantage, and in time, he might fill out a little, get a little bulkier, etc.
WOW what a fantastic, amazing, awesome, hell of a great recruit, get.
In 2.5 years, those that passed on trying to recruit Toure are going to be kicking themselves.
Maybe more importantly….does this give us some indication where Kyle Smith is? If he was one foot out the door I wouldn’t expect to see guys committing…while we are starting the tourney.
I mean he knows he’s going to have offers from other programs I think that’s a given.
“Once a Coug, always a Coug and We’re Cougs!” Kyle Smith (again and again)
Kyle Smith seems more grounded to me than Dennis Erickson or Kelvin Sampson so, how big-a-bag does a guy really need if he loves his job, his kids are settled throughout their youth and your wife is happy?
Um, that's not how it works, and that is why they have buyouts. Coaches bail on their contracts all the time - they or the new school just have to pay the buyout for leaving early.Isn’t he under contract til ‘26. Contractually he can’t go anywhere
Yeah this is why the buyout is a big deal. The more reasonable the buyout the poaching school can essentially just pay it and off they go.Isn’t he under contract til ‘26. Contractually he can’t go anywhere
Isn’t he under contract til ‘26. Contractually he can’t go anywhere
I was kidding.Yeah this is why the buyout is a big deal. The more reasonable the buyout the poaching school can essentially just pay it and off they go.
Well shit. And we all just thought you were stupid! I was going, this kurt guy usually seems like like he got past 2nd grade. Did he get hit in the head or what?I was kidding.