The questions follow Chase Adams from his house to his second home.
The former Salpointe Catholic High School basketball star is a notorious workaholic; he swears he plays at 20 different gymnasiums throughout town. One of them houses the Tucson Summer Pro League, where entering this weekend he ranked No. 2 — Arizona Wildcats notwithstanding — with 17.6 points per game.
"In the game of basketball, everyone's at the gym," he said. "It gets old really quick. What am I doing?"
One of the best college players in town doesn't have one.
Less than a year after walking away from a spot on the Air Force Academy team, the 19-year-old shooting guard hasn't made a decision about his next destination.
Technically, he has signed to play at Pima College — but calls his college recruitment "wide open." Pima doesn't seem to be even atop his list of junior colleges.
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He could also land at another, much larger, Tucson school.
"People always ask me, 'Chase what are you doing?' " he said. "I don't know the answer yet."
No one does.
Adams hasn't given many hints to his grandparents, with whom he used to live.
"He's kinda keeping us in the dark," his grandfather Ron Adams said.
After being named to the Star's 2008 All-Southern Arizona first team, Adams enrolled at Air Force, and went through boot camp. He credits the school with teaching him "more than I could learn in five years of my life," but the military school didn't fit him.
He said he did well academically, but that he and other freshmen got "egos" and decided they could play on a better program.
Before the season began, Adams transferred to Winchendon School, a prep school in Massachusetts.
There, Adams said he was offered scholarships from smaller Division I East Coast schools.
"But I've always wanted to be on the West Coast," he said.
The 6-foot-3-inch Adams said schools from the West Coast Conference — in addition to Long Beach State and Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo — have shown interest, but do not have scholarships for the upcoming season.
Adams would have to play one season of junior college before signing at any of those schools.
He said he has discussed the possibility of walking on to the Arizona Wildcats team with coach Sean Miller and associate head coach Archie Miller.
While not playing often would frustrate him, the appeal is simple — "to have a chance to put a championship ring on my finger," he said.
Adams pointed to another former Tucson prep star, Santa Rita High School grad D.J. Shumpert, as an example.
Shumpert decided to take one of the UA's vacant scholarships in late August — proof, Adams said, that he can afford to be patient.
"There are always things late in the game," said Adams, who likely would not receive a UA scholarship. "They're not making any quick decisions."
Neither is Adams — and he knows it sounds strange.
"I'm waiting so I don't make another Air Force decision," he said. "It's really late in the game, but there's no one else.
"It's coming up quick — what the heck I'm going to have to do — but that's just life."
If you go
• What: Tucson Summer Pro League
• Where: Northwest Center, 2160 N. Sixth Ave.
• When: Fridays-Sundays through Aug. 2; Friday games begin at 6 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday games start at 2 p.m.
• Admission: Free
