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'15 FL PF Andre Adams

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Goose

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IMG Academy (Bradenton, FL)

AAU Team: Arizona Magic

Ht: 6-foot-8
Wt: 200 lbs

Rivals rating (2014): 3*; unranked PF (#130 overall)
Scout rating (2014): 3*; #36 PF
ESPN rating (2014): 3*-71 grade; #61 PF
247sports rating (2014): 3*-89 grade; #29 PF (#126 overall)

Reported offers: Colorado, Arizona State, Boise State, CSU-Northridge, New Mexico, Northern Arizona, Oregon State, UNLV, USC, Washington
 
Another combo forward who would be perfect for us because it would allow us to continue to scream "Dre's ball!". Rivals had a nice write-up on him this summer:

During his sophomore year at Avondale (Ariz.) High, 6-foot-8 big man Andre Adams wasn't a huge factor. But, young post players often take a little more time to develop. Given his play with the Arizona Magic Elite's 16 and under team at the sweet 16, Adams looks to be kicking that development into overdrive.

A skinny kid who only weighs 190 pounds, Adams is a southpaw with impressive natural instincts on the glass and as a shot blocker. He's got length, good timing and he changes directions very well. On top of that, he plays with a high level motor.

Offensively, Adams is relatively raw. However, he shows good touch out to around 15 feet, made an impressive baseline drive for a dunk while also whipping some sharp one handed passes out of the high post.

On Friday night, Adams was watched primarily by mid to upper end mid major programs but his coaches report that most of the Pac-12 has indicated that they will watch him. Judging by what Adams did, he looks to be a no brainer for high major programs to be monitoring as he matures. Especially since Adams told Rivals.com that he's grown five inches in the last year.

"On defense I'm a lot better," said Adams of his improvement. "I have to get more strength and be more comfortable on offense.
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New Rivals article says he's 6'9" now after growing over 5 inches in the past year.

"They're really good, good all around," he said of the Buffaloes. "Their defense is great…everything that you want in a school is there."

Tad Boyle has reciprocated that love, including the choice to be the only head coach in attendance for Adams' initial breakout game last July.

Rivals subscribers should check out the full article.
 
It sounds like we're going to be head-to-head with ASU on a lot of prospects this cycle. It's not really surprising, since we're recruiting AZ pretty hard, but both schools seem to be targeting similar players.
 
mattrob said:
It sounds like we're going to be head-to-head with ASU on a lot of prospects this cycle. It's not really surprising, since we're recruiting AZ pretty hard, but both schools seem to be targeting similar players.
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Yep. And we have to win those battles. Obviously, conference affiliation is a tie and for the AZ kids location likely works in the favor of the Sun Devils. Playing time may be in their favor, too. But from the standpoint of where the programs are, we're ahead. They didn't make the Dance even with Carson and Felix - what are they gonna be without them? We've been the past 2 years while we were rebuilding. Our head coach stability is also a much clearer picture.
 
Buffnik said:
Yep. And we have to win those battles. Obviously, conference affiliation is a tie and for the AZ kids location likely works in the favor of the Sun Devils. Playing time may be in their favor, too. But from the standpoint of where the programs are, we're ahead. They didn't make the Dance even with Carson and Felix - what are they gonna be without them? We've been the past 2 years while we were rebuilding. Our head coach stability is also a much clearer picture.
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Agreed. There are always kids who want to stay close to home, but we really need to land at least one of our AZ prospects this year. For one, there are four damn good prospects that could really help the program, but I also think it'll be important to help establish inroads in the area. I don't want to see the Sun Devils clean up on those kids this year, then build on that momentum in future classes.
 
AZ is blowing up as a talent hot bead. Many of these kids left East LA and the Smog valleys east of there aka as the Inland Empire.
 
ESPN updated their scouting report on 4/22.

I liked this bit: "while operating on the block he showed a developing jump hook over his right shoulder".

That's the perfect counter-move to his left-handed post moves. (Exactly what Jelly's been developing.)
 
Now that Dom is locked up (God it's fun typing that) and Perkins is probably headed out of state, this is my #1 target.
 
Goose said:
Now that Dom is locked up (God it's fun typing that) and Perkins is probably headed out of state, this is my #1 target.
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Give me a shooter and one of either Andre or Zylan Cheatham and I'll be ecstatic. I think we'll get our last two commits out of Arizona.
 
Goose said:
I don't think we'll have 3 scholarships next year.
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If we don't take another one this year, we will. Next year we'll have Dinwiddie, Booker, XJ, Gordon, Scott, Jenkins, Fletcher, Hopkins, Thomas, Talton, Stalzer, and Mills. That's 12, and we'll lose 2 with Dinwiddie leaving. You can have 13 scholarshipped players, so there will be 3 open slots.
 
Medford M. said:
Give me a shooter and one of either Andre or Zylan Cheatham and I'll be ecstatic. I think we'll get our last two commits out of Arizona.
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I love Cheatham's game, but if we only have 1 more scholarship, Adams would be the best fit as a defender and shot-blocker.
 
Medford M. said:
If we don't take another one this year, we will. Next year we'll have Dinwiddie, Booker, XJ, Gordon, Scott, Jenkins, Fletcher, Hopkins, Thomas, Talton, Stalzer, and Mills. That's 12, and we'll lose 2 with Dinwiddie leaving. You can have 13 scholarshipped players, so there will be 3 open slots.
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I'm pretty sure Goose knew that. :smile2:

He thinks we're going to bring in another guy this year. I think so too. Based on the last time I talked to Goose about this, I think we're both unsure about that. Good arguments both ways. Do you take a go-ahead field goal off the board? The guy Tad found is really, really good.
 
Buffnik said:
I'm pretty sure Goose knew that. :smile2:

He thinks we're going to bring in another guy this year. I think so too. Based on the last time I talked to Goose about this, I think we're both unsure about that. Good arguments both ways. Do you take a go-ahead field goal off the board? The guy Tad found is really, really good.
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You guys seem awfully confident in a guy who appears to be completely off the radar, my initial instinct is to bank the scholly unless we've made some ridiculous stealthy play for a pipe dream player like Wiggins. I don't think there is a single top 150 guy still in play outside of him since Freeman just flipped from UCLA to (eff) Baylor (they have got to be so dirty). Yeah I get that it seems selfish to only want to take top 150 level guys...but that is where we are. :thumbsup:
 
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You guys seem awfully confident in a guy who appears to be completely off the radar, my initial instinct is to bank the scholly unless we've made some ridiculous stealthy play for a pipe dream player like Wiggins. I don't think there is a single top 150 guy still in play outside of him since Freeman just flipped from UCLA to (eff) Baylor (they have got to be so dirty). Yeah I get that it seems selfish to only want to take top 150 level guys...but that is where we are. :thumbsup:
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This is really a case of trusting Tad and the staff. It also helps when the player has D1 talent, but for various reasons, didn't get the opportunity to showcase that talent as much. This seems to be a case where there are pretty legitimate reasons for the kid being under the radar.
 
SuperD said:
You guys seem awfully confident in a guy who appears to be completely off the radar, my initial instinct is to bank the scholly unless we've made some ridiculous stealthy play for a pipe dream player like Wiggins. I don't think there is a single top 150 guy still in play outside of him since Freeman just flipped from UCLA to (eff) Baylor (they have got to be so dirty). Yeah I get that it seems selfish to only want to take top 150 level guys...but that is where we are. :thumbsup:
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I think there's a difference between being confident about the player, and confident that we're using the scholarship on him. I firmly believe that Tad will sign one more member of the class of 2013 before the signing period ends next week. I am uncertain on if that is the right move, but Tad & Co. have more than done enough to make me trust them in their evaluations.
 
Reported offers: Colorado, Arizona State, Boise State, New Mexico, Northern Arizona, Oregon State, UNLV, USC, Washington

In all seriousness, we should be able to out-recruit all these schools for a basketball player.
 
sackman said:
Reported offers: Colorado, Arizona State, Boise State, New Mexico, Northern Arizona, Oregon State, UNLV, USC, Washington

In all seriousness, we should be able to out-recruit all these schools for a basketball player.
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Yes. The schools in that list that have the best chances to win their conference are in the Mountain West. The rest don't have the upside that we've shown the last three years and have been mediocre since these recruits started playing AAU ball.
 
aik said:
Yes. The schools in that list that have the best chances to win their conference are in the Mountain West. The rest don't have the upside that we've shown the last three years and have been mediocre since these recruits started playing AAU ball.
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Huh? UW won the P12 regular season title just last year and Romar is an excellent recruiter.
 
Romar and UDub are at a crossroads. I think he'll be a victim of his own success if his new high-post offense doesn't pay immediate dividends. The trajectory isn't good since they've started pulling in more elite players.
 
247 has two predictions (one is AZ)to Arizona State. Twitter mentions OV's to USC, CS Northridge, and SDSU
 
I wonder if we're still recruiting Adams as hard as we were. He hasn't had a strong AAU showing and his stock has been dropping. I haven't heard Will mention him for awhile either.
 
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Wonder if he could be this year's Tory Miller.
 
Goose said:
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Wonder if he could be this year's Tory Miller.
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Very interesting. Got the frame to put on a lot of good weight.

I also think he's taller than 6'8". Check out these 2 photos of him standing next to Michael Humphrey, the 6'10" PF who committed to Stanford:

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Perspectives are a bit different in the 2 photos, but it looks to me like their shoulder height is the same.
 
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