My choices for “best of the best” at Pangos No. 11

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LONG BEACH, Ca. – The 11^th version of the Pangos All-American Camp wrapped up mid-Sunday afternoon at Cabrillo High.

A couple of years’ worth of hindsight – at least two college seasons and one NBA draft – will provide some reasonable perspective as to really how “good” No. 11 was.

But the immediate inclination – at least on my part – is to suggest that the players in the camp, as a collective, could end up holding up pretty well against those in attendance at the first 10 sessions.

A survey of media- and scouting-types in attendance by event founder and director Dinos Trigonis resulted in Stanley Johnson (Santa Ana, CA, Mater Dei) getting the nod as the “Player of the Camp” with Emmanuel Mudiay (Dallas, TX, Prime Prep) and Rashad Vaughn (New Hope, MN,  Robbinsdale Cooper) share top performer honors for the Top 30 All-Star Game.

I’m alright by those choices, although Mudiay (the most serious challenger to Tyus Jones of Minnesota for the No. 1 tag at point guard in the Class of 2014), Vaughn (every bit the “pure scorer” that Johnson is) or Chris McCullough of Wolfeboro, NH, Brewster Academy (committed to Syracuse) could have received the “top player” tag and it shouldn’t have caused calamity to break out in the gym.

My pick as the top underclassman at the event was a player who made his “national debut” at the event as an eighth grader two years ago – Stephen Zimmerman of Bishop Gorman in Las Vegas.

I doubt many who watched all three days of the event would have debated very passionately in opposition to that choice.

Anyway, without further ado, here are my choices (not “hard and fast”, just based on the way they played when I tried to zero in on the games they played Friday, Saturday and Sunday) for the guys who most impressed me over the weekend. These lists are not necessarily the “best prospects” – I thought some very good “prospects” didn’t play as well as they were capable over the weekend, for a variety of reasons.

The “surprise seniors” list is made up of players whose national “profiles” weren’t nearly as pronounced as many of the other players in attendance.

The lists are alphabetical and include the players’ sizes, high schools and camp teams:

 

Top 10 Seniors –To-Be

*Brekkott Chapman (6-foot-8/Roy, UT, Roy HS/”Team Duke”)

*Daniel Hamilton (6-7/Bellflower, CA, St. John Bosco/Georgia Tech)

*Jacob Hammond (6-10/Oklahoma City, OK, United Prep/Miami)

*Stanley Johnson (6-6/Santa Ana, CA, Mater Dei/Cal)

*Jalen Lindsey (6-6/Huntington, WV, Huntington Prep/Stanford)

*Chris McCullough (6-9/Wolfeboro, NH, Brewster Academy/North Carolina)

*Dwayne Morgan (6-7/Baltimore, MD, St. Francis/Maryland)

*Emmanuel Mudiay (6-3/Dallas, TX, Prime Prep/Washington)

*Josh Perkins (6-2/Huntington, WV, Huntington Prep/USC)

*Rashad Vaughn (6-5/New Hope, MN/ Robbinsdale Cooper/North Carolina State)

 

Surprise Seniors To Be

*Leon Gilmore (6-7/Manvel, TX, Manvel/Arizona)

*Michael Humphrey (6-9/Phoenix, AZ, Sunnyslope/Georgia Tech)

*Jaylen Johnson (6-9/Ypsilanti, MI, Ypsilanti/Maryland)

*Kodi Justice (6-4/Mesa, AZ, Dobson/UCLA)

*Thomas Welsh (6-11/Los Angeles, CA, Loyola/North Carolina)

 

Underclassmen

*Carlton Bragg (6-9/2015/Cleveland, OH, St. Joseph/Georgia Tech)

*Isaiah Briscoe (6-2/2015/Henderson, NV, Findlay Prep/UCLA

*Marquese Chriss (6-7/2015/Elk Grove, CA, Pleasant Grove/Stanford)

*Tyler Dorsey (6-4/2015/Bellflower, CA, St. John Bosco/Arizona)

*Leland Green (6-1/2016/Redondo Beach, CA, Redondo/Arizona)

*Chase Jeter (6-9/2015/Las Vegas, NV, Bishop Gorman/Arizona)

*Thon Maker (7-0/2016/Martinsville, VA, Carlisle School/Duke)

*Rex Pflueger (6-5/2015/Santa Ana, CA, Mater Dei/USC)

*Elijah Thomas (6-8/2015/Dallas, TX, Prime Prep/Washington)

*Stephen Zimmerman (6-10/2015/Las Vegas, NV, Bishop Gorman/Stanford)