Recruiting Report: Adam Trapp (2018)
At 7-foot-2 from Esko, Minnesota, Adam Trapp has a rare gift as maybe the tallest player in high school basketball and he’s produced fantastic underclassmen results. He’s at least the tallest prospect in the upper Midwest in the 2018 class.…
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Continue ReadingAt 7-foot-2 from Esko, Minnesota, Adam Trapp has a rare gift as maybe the tallest player in high school basketball and he’s produced fantastic underclassmen results. He’s at least the tallest prospect in the upper Midwest in the 2018 class.
As an eighth grader Trapp played spring and summer basketball with Minnesota teams but those teams didn’t play him much so Adam went to Wisconsin and found the Wisconsin Playground Warriors who have done a great job working with Adam and helping him build skills and experience.
The Playground Warriors have been a standout at the 16 and Under level nationally with Jordan McCabe at point guard, Tyler Herro at wing, and Adam inside (plus several others). All are prospects with several high major offers.
“The spring with Playground Warriors went really good,” said Trapp. “We won quite a few games and we are playing very well in tough games like we should.
“I think playing has really helped me get smarter about the game and things I need to focus on to improve on. I’m looking forward to playing with my school team to see how I have really improved.”
Trapp has put up fantastic numbers for his high school team for two seasons but at his size it will take him more time to develop. Adam has a really nice touch already and has good shot blocking timing.
When his core strength catches up in the years to come everything will change. In the meantime, Trapp has skill things he is working on every day.
“Well, as always, there is room for improvement in all parts of anyone’s game even the parts everyone thinks are solid,” Adam said. “So I would like to work on my inside game a lot more mainly just going strong at the hoop and facing up simple stuff like that.
“Then potentially working on somewhat of an outside game like 15 foot jumpers and threes from time to time.”
Adam has offers from Iowa, Purdue, and DePaul so far and has done a nice job getting out to visit the schools early. There are several other programs in contact as well.
“People showing interest in me are Purdue, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Oregon State, Nebraska, Sioux Falls, Northern Iowa, Gonzaga, Drake, Creighton, South Carolina, Tulsa, DePaul, and Stanford,” said Trapp. “That’s all I could remember right now (probably most if not all).”
Minnesota is the homestate school and they have seen Adam play recently at the state tournament, at team camp last year (plus team camp this weekend), and they watched him in April during the open period. The Gophers also called Adam when they could starting last week and Adam would like to hear from them even more.
“I am interested in Minnesota, I would like to build up a better relationship with the coaches because at this point it is not very strong,” Adam said.
“I honestly would say for it being my home state they have not really been actively involved with my basketball recruitment until recently.”
Trapp has played two years of high school basketball and both years he has helped lead his team through the four game sectional play gauntlet at the Class AA level getting his team to state.
With Jaxson Turner now graduating and playing college football (Jaxson was the Esko PG for the last four years and they went to state the last four years) things will be different.
That said, Esko does have four of their top seven guys back including double figure wing scorer Isaak Blue, freshman standout guard Camden Burger, and wing Quinn Fischer so they will be very good again with players at all spots.
“I think we have lots of potential this upcoming season. We are almost an entire new team so we need to work on our teamwork and things like that.
“We are a smaller team then we have been the past few years (excluding myself) so some game play might need to change in order to be effective.
“We are playing the hardest schedule we have ever played at Esko school history this year so it will be a challenge but one I feel we will be ready for.”
Trapp led the top ten ranked state tournament team in scoring (14.3 points per game), rebounds (7.1 per on a slow paced team that commonly had 30-45 second possessions), blocks (4 a contest), and field goal percentage (59 percent).