Recruiting Report: Kobe Webster (2017)
Momentum in recruiting has been growing for Kobe Webster since this summer AAU season. After helping his team win a national summer event, the Park Tudor junior has been hearing from plenty of coaches and started to pick up offers.…
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Continue ReadingMomentum in recruiting has been growing for Kobe Webster since this summer AAU season. After helping his team win a national summer event, the Park Tudor junior has been hearing from plenty of coaches and started to pick up offers.
Webster already has offers from Ball State and Cornell and has been hearing from coaches at Xavier, Purdue and Stanford. The 5-foot-11 guard has already taken unofficial visits to Ball State, Cornell and Xavier, and he has participated in camps at Purdue and plans to take an unofficial visit in the future. He’s still early in his recruitment, though, and doesn’t have any plans on making a decision of when or where he will take his official visits.
“I’m not sure on that as of now,” Webster said. “Right now, just focusing on the season. I want to make sure we do what we have to do here, and I’ll definitely talk that out with the coaches, talk that out with my parents and get a plan.”
Webster offers coaches plenty from the guard position and that is why he is ranked the No. 11 recruit in the Prep Hoops 100. While he has played off the ball during the high school season, he played the point during the summer season, which is the likely position he will play in college. He can do a lot with the ball and has improved his ability to drive into the basket. He has also improved his foul shot and can convert from the free throw line when he draws contact. Coaches also like a lot more about his game and attitude.
“Coaches like my leadership for the most part and just my enthusiasm and emotion and passion on the floor,” Webster said. “That definitely plays a role for me. When I’m able to make a good pass for someone else and yell and they get to yelling and the bench gets into it, I feed off that and, so, that definitely helps.”
Webster has also shown a willingness to continue working on his game, and he isn’t done doing so either. It is one reason he has become better in the paint this season and why he could continue to see that rise in recruitment from the summer keep growing as the year progresses.
“The biggest thing (I’m improving) is my speed as a guard, I have to be quicker,” Webster said. “That and finishing in the paint, and I definitely improved that with just working out and stuff like that. That’s kind of boosted my confidence about when I get in the paint, so I’ve been able to improve that.”