“Freshman Focus” is an Inside the Hall series on each of Indiana’s incoming freshmen. Today: Justin Smith.
Justin Smith has been electrifying gyms since he walked through the doors of Adlai Stevenson High School as a 6-foot-5 freshman.
“You could see that kind of bounce, that explosion his freshman year,” said Patrick Ambrose, the head coach at Adlai Stevenson. “By his sophomore year, he was really dunking very well already. He was 6-foot-6 and had a tremendous vertical. By junior year he was just dunking with absolute ease. By senior year, almost everything was a dunk in close.