Off-Season Update With Scott Wood

A couple of weeks back someone wrote a comment asking what Scott Wood has been up to in the off-season. I called Scott earlier today and asked him what he has been up to since the season ended and what his plans were before he arrives in Raleigh in late-June.

Scott told me that he has been working out a lot. Coach Towe sent him a workout regimen and he has been hitting the gym 4 days a week along with a lot of jumping rope and running. He also told us that he has 3 All-Star games coming up in the next month as well (The Hickory Husker All-Star Classic, Indiana All-Stars vs. Kentucky All-Stars game and the Indiana All-Stars vs. Indiana Junior All-Stars game).

I told Scott that we all enjoyed the video that we came across on YouTube this past Saturday. Come to find out, apparently Scott's Uncle makes all of the video's of Scott that we have been embedding on the site. Laughingly, he told me that he gave his Uncle a hard time, because he left out his favorite dunk (apparently posterizing someone). Scott said that "A lot of people assume that I’m not very athletic, but I do have a little bit of bounce. I can get pretty high off one foot, but I am still working on getting higher off of two feet."

I asked Scott if the staff had given him any idea which position they were planning on using him at. He said that they would probably use him at the 3 spot, even though he has the capability to play the 1, 2, or 3. This is another incentive for Scott to hit the gym hard this off-season. Scott said that "I believe that I could be a big mismatch problem for defenders if I play the three, but then that can go both ways, so that is why I am working out really hard this off-season."

Wood said that he has been in contact with Jordan Vandenberg, and that he seems like a really nice guy. He also said that he was excited about the possibility of playing with DeShawn Painter, who Wood is familiar with from playing against Painter's Boo Williams team at last years Boo Williams Invitational. He said that Painter plays a "smart game, which is uncommon in a lot of AAU play. It was his basketball IQ that he hurt us with the most."

He also told me that he was excited that Julius Mays was about to come back home, because he is about to wrap up his final exams. He also laughed when he promised me that he would "make sure Julius stayed in good shape."


It was good talking to Scott again, and we will catch up with him again after his All-Star games. Thanks Scott!