[At left is Class of 2013 Troy Williams of Hampton, VA Phoebus High!] There are two blue-chip high school junior basketball prospects in Virginia. Last week, I scouted one of these, and did an article on Hampton, Virginia High’s Anthony Barber. Then last night, I went from Charlottesville to Hampton to scout 6-6 Troy Williams. His Hampton, Virginia’s Phoebus High School played at home against Newport News, Virginia Heritage High School.
MaxPreps.com rates Troy Williams as the nation’s ninth-best player in the Class of 2013. ESPNU rates Troy Williams as the number 8 Class of 2013 player in the nation! Rivals.com rates Troy Williams as the nation’s 14th-best player.
The Phoebus Phantoms basketball team won Tuesday’s game against the Heritage Hurricanes by a score of 62-43. Troy Williams only weighs about 175, but he can do anything on the court. In this game, he connected on 8 out of 17 shots from two-point range. From three-point range he shot 0-2. Troy Williams was 4-4 from the foul line, so he scored 20 points total.
#5 is Class of 2013 forward Troy Williams
He played a great all-around game: he had 8 rebounds and 3 assists also. Phoebus led 10-8 over Heritage at the end of one period of play. Then, they narrowly led Heritage 28-25 at the half. But they played much better in the second half, partly because they fed the ball over and over to transfer center, Jalen Ford, who is an unstoppable force inside at the high school level. Ford is a senior, and Phoebus broke the game open by continuously feeding him the ball inside. Howard, Tennessee St., VMI, and Austin Peay are recruiting him the hardest, he told me . I think he’s better than that level of college basketball, in my opinion.
So, Phoebus led 50-36 after three quarters.
