Gibson’s Looking Up

10/27/09

Inside Prep Sports

Detroit, MI.- Michigan’s 2011 class is amongst the best in the nation and forty players could find themselves playing division one basketball in two years. Ten of those players could very well find themselves playing in major conferences. While nothing is given, Percy Gibson is working hard and on his way to be one of those ten. Inside Prep Sports caught up with “Big Percy” and talked recruiting and improving.

No longer the boarder line pudgy eighth grader at Joe Dumars Fieldhouse just off Detroit’s well-known Eight Mile, 6’8 235-pound Percy Gibson finishes with ease and gets up and down the floor well in Detroit Southeastern’s open gym. He still has Brandan Kearney as a teammate and both have a bright future ahead of them.

Improvement is key to Gibson’s improvement and the left handed power forward talked about the difference between now and a year ago, “I’m much more explosive. I get more physical and my right hand is much better.” But he’s not content with that as he stated, “I can shoot the three but I want it to be more consistent.” He also mentioned that college coaches look for him to evolve on the next level, “the three or four (positions),” on the next level.

Gibson told I.P.S. he has offers from Michigan State, Southern Methodist, Providence, Florida International, Fordham, and Dayton but unlike Kearney he will wait to make a decision. (Kearney is scheduled to make an announcement on November third.)

The lefty has recently been acquainted to a 15-pound medicine ball and the weight room that’s sure to bulk him up by the time the high school season tips off. In a couple years time he could easily tip the scales at 250-pounds.

Southeastern’s head coach, George Ward, told I.P.S., “He’s (Gibson) starting to sweat.” Note his picture.

I.P.S. will keep up with Gibson and other players from Michigan and beyond in the future.

By TJ Kelley