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Adam Woodbury, a 7-foot-1, 230-pound junior center from Sioux City (IA) East, is one of the top big men in the Class of 2012. Woodbury and the Black Raiders are playing South Sioux City (Neb.) Monday night. GopherHole.com will be in attendance along with several college coaches, including Minnesota assistant Vince Taylor. GopherHole.com caught up with Woodbury Sunday evening to learn the latest on his recruitment and play this season.

http://www.forums.gopherhole.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1307
 


Tubby does love himself some bigs.

I will say that if you are 6-11 or taller, have any sort of game and live within 500 miles of Williams Arena, there is about a 99% chance Tubby and his staff is going to see you play.

That isn't a rip or a criticism, FYI.
 

anonymous said:
Tubby does love himself some bigs.

I will say that if you are 6-11 or taller, have any sort of game and live within 500 miles of Williams Arena, there is about a 99% chance Tubby and his staff is going to see you play.

That isn't a rip or a criticism, FYI.
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Hopefully he will love himself some true point guards as well.
Are Cobbs and Mav the only true points he has brought in during the four years?
 

spackler said:
Hopefully he will love himself some true point guards as well.
Are Cobbs and Mav the only true points he has brought in during the four years?
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Dribbling is over-rated. Think if we just started 5 guys over 6-10 and lobbed the ball down the court :cool:. I understand Tubby's preference, but I too hope he uses the last scholarship for this year on a PG.
 


Rivals, ESPN, Scout on Adam

Scout 4star pos Rank #19
"Woodbury is a true center who catches everything thrown his way and has the toughness and desire to be a good rebounder. Also he runs the floor well when he gets to the block he has a feel for how to score. He isn't a great athlete, and doesn't alter too many shots down low, but a solid all-around player."
http://minnesota.scout.com/a.z?s=176&p=8&c=1&nid=4340969

Rivals 3star
http://rivals.yahoo.com/basketballrecruiting/basketball/recruiting/player-Adam-Woodbury-97910

ESPN Rank 93 pos Rank #14
"May, 2010: Woodbury is a skilled lefty post that plays with great energy and urgency on both ends of the floor. He runs extremely well and gets his share of easy baskets on effort alone. Woodbury can score with his back to basket with jump hooks, drop steps, turn shots and from drop off passes created by dribble penetration that he has the ability to finish with either hand. He can hit open mid range shots with range to the arc. He is also a terrific passer with great touch and feel for where to place the ball. It is a great asset to be a great passer at seven feet tall because he will always be able to see over the defense. Defensively Woodbury is a lane clogger and shot changer. He is mobile enough to defend inside and out. He is an excellent area rebounder as well. He upside is off the charts and if he adds strength and maintains his conditioning his future is extremely bright.

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http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/recruiting/player/_/id/104454
 

howeda7 said:
Dribbling is over-rated. Think if we just started 5 guys over 6-10 and lobbed the ball down the court :cool:. I understand Tubby's preference, but I too hope he uses the last scholarship for this year on a PG.
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This kid is a 2012 recruit, at least one big is going to be a neccesity from that class. I wonder if we have a chance with an Iowa kid. It seems they pick Iowa or if they are good enough one of the big schools like Kansas or North Carolina.
 

jovs said:
This kid is a 2012 recruit, at least one big is going to be a neccesity from that class. I wonder if we have a chance with an Iowa kid. It seems they pick Iowa or if they are good enough one of the big schools like Kansas or North Carolina.
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Sioux City isn't as Iowa centric as the rest of the state...they are much closer to Sioux Falls and Omaha than Des Moines or Ia City both by distance and the way the roads run on that side of the state. Plus that market is a Vikings TV market for the NFL, same as Sioux Falls...so that also helps...unlike Omaha/Council Bluffs, Ia which is a KC market.
 




josh087 said:
Agreed. This is 1955 after all.
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Sarcasm aside. This kid would be a nice pickup. Lefty, moves well like the reviews indicate. Decent free throw shooter. Makes a living playing with quality guards for Martin Brothers so is adept at finding space. Love to see him in a Gopher uni. He's not 7'1". He's CI's size but a better athlete.
 

He's going to......

Iowa. They have needs, and he' always been a Hawk fan.
 

GopherHole Staff said:
Adam Woodbury, a 7-foot-1, 230-pound junior center from Sioux City (IA) East, is one of the top big men in the Class of 2012. Woodbury and the Black Raiders are playing South Sioux City (Neb.) Monday night. GopherHole.com will be in attendance along with several college coaches, including Minnesota assistant Vince Taylor. GopherHole.com caught up with Woodbury Sunday evening to learn the latest on his recruitment and play this season.

http://www.forums.gopherhole.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1307
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He has a big game tonight against South Sioux City. They have a good center and a great combo guard.
 




I live in sewer city and need to go check this kid out, Ive heard alot about him and the team. They have another kid who is from Omaha who is pretty raw but 6-11 very athletic, along with the other D1 prospects they are pretty stacked since theyre all juniors.
 


Not talking about this particular recruit, but I'd rather have more 6'7 to 6'9 guys who are more physically mature and coordinated than continue to bring in the 6'10 and taller guys. To use a FOT reference, I'd rather have a Chuck Hayes type or for past Gophers squads John Thomas, Courtney James, and currently Trevor Mbakwe.

Speaking just about Woodbury, he sounds like a good recruit, and I hope the Gophers land him if he becomes a priority for the staff.
 

GoldenHerbs said:
I live in sewer city and need to go check this kid out, Ive heard alot about him and the team. They have another kid who is from Omaha who is pretty raw but 6-11 very athletic, along with the other D1 prospects they are pretty stacked since they're all juniors.
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Akoy is a head case. If you watch his home made high light tape he lists him self as SG/SF. He quit his team for a week this year because he didn't like the shots he was getting in the offense. Not that he wasn't play, or that he wasn't the #1 option. He quit because they wanted a 6'11 kid with a 7'1 wing span to post up 6'7 kids guarding him. I've been told he played up a year for aau but is now quitting the Martin Brothers AAU team that has Adam Woodbury, Mike Gesell, and Marcus Paige. He's quitting to play with a soild aau program that doesn't have any d-1 players on the team so he can get more shots.

His coach has had a great run he has the number one team in the state and he's won 3 of the last 4 state titles but his kids don't have grades. He had what should have been a mid major pg last year but after the season was over he ended up at a juco because of grades. Even if A
 

EG#9 said:
Not talking about this particular recruit, but I'd rather have more 6'7 to 6'9 guys who are more physically mature and coordinated than continue to bring in the 6'10 and taller guys. To use a FOT reference, I'd rather have a Chuck Hayes type or for past Gophers squads John Thomas, Courtney James, and currently Trevor Mbakwe.
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I see a lot of Ben Wallace in Trevor Mbakwe, not only the fact that they're the same height and weight, but in the intensity and ferocity with which they play defense and rebound the ball. They seem to share an identical approach, and both are just physical specimens who are about as athletic as it's possible to be. I'd rate Mbakwe as being a very slightly better shooter at this time, but he really needs to learn to finish on those dunks, as whiffing on those babies is just bad business. He doesn't need to do the spectacular one-handed tomahawk, he can go for the two-handed power slam and have a much better chance of finishing it and have just as spectacular and rim-rattling a dunk.

It might be he just has relatively small hands and thus the struggle to finish on those one-handed dunks, and that would be another similarity he'd share with Wallace.
 

Mbakwe has the biggest hands I've ever seen in person, so I don't think that was the issue.
 



Another game recap--
"The South Sioux City players sprinted to Gesell and swarmed him in jubilation as the Cardinals, No. 6 in The World-Herald Top 10 and No. 1 in Nebraska Class B, improved to 13-2 while dropping Iowa Class 4-A No. 3 Sioux City East to 11-3. Iowa coach Fran McCaffery was in attendance, as were coaches from Stanford and Marquette.
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South Sioux City (13-2)...................17 19 16 6 -- 58
Sioux City East (11-3).....................14 14 15 14 -- 57
SSC: Trey Closter 5, Mike Gesell 20, Austin Groth 16, Kaden Moore 10, Colby Bausch 5, Austin Stark 2.
SCE: J.C. Fuller 5, Alex Imming 8, Adam Woodbury 16, Quinton Behlers 24, Marcel Dunson 2, Mading Thok 2.
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http://www.omaha.com/article/20110131/HIGHSCHOOLS/701319798/-1
 

Mike Gesell Austin Groth are the big guns on that team. Groth is also a very good pitcher he tossed a no hitter as a soph he had 11k's. Both are juniors, I haven't seen Groth all that much but I don't think he's a D-1 player. Gesell, I have already asked this board why the gophers haven't offered him. He holds a number offers from mid majors, and Iowa, Iowa State, and is getting calls from Wisconsin, and Stanford. He has a 4.1 GPA so Harvard has been calling also. As I said before they both play AAU together on a stacked team that has UNC recruit Marcus Paige, Jalen Bradley (a good mid major prospect), Mading Thok (could be a mid major also Woodbury teammate), Kale Abrahamson, (mid major), and had Akoy Agau playing with them a few times.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/recruiting/player-Mike-Gesell-89927
 

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