Christian Wood has had a rollercoaster of a last few years. As a high school senior at Findlay Prep, he was lightly recruited, with only USC and his hometown UNLV extending scholarship offers. Scouts dinged him for playing without effort, saying:
He needs to play with greater energy and utilize his size more often to diversify his game. At the next level he'll need to do more at both ends than just float around the perimeter and launch 3-point shots.
Despite prodigious physical tools that should have catapulted him towards the top of his recruiting class, even one as talented as the vaunted high school class of 2013, Wood was perceived as only a 4-star recruit, and ESPN ranked him 71st in the class.