It came up Green for white club in Top 30 Game in NJ

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THOROFARE, N.J. – Seventeen of the 25 players that were my choices as the best in the 2013 version of the Pangos All-East Frosh/Soph Camp reside in Pennsylvania and Maryland.

And, with 11 of those players residents of Philadelphia or reasonably near-by communities, it only figured that a Philly lad sparkle brighter than anyone in the Top 30 Cream of the Crop Game that wrapped of things in the two-day event Sunday afternoon.

Freshman point guard Quade Green of Neumann-Goretti sparked the team wearing the white sides of the camp jerseys to an 87-78 victory, approximately an hour after the squad wearing white pulled away from a team in black jerseys for an 86-81 win in the Top 60 contest.

Green (whose sophomore classmate at Neumann-Goretti, Vaughn Covington Jr., was tremendous throughout the weekend, including while in a black jersey in the final game) dominated at both ends while playing little more than 20 of the 50 minutes slotted for the Top 30 affair.

Green enforced his will defensively with his on-ball pressure and while stepping into passing lanes and converting turnovers into high-percentage attempts in transition for himself and teammates both.

Among the other Top 30 standouts were bespectacled and quick-jumping 6-foot-6 freshman A.J. Wilson (Lanham, MD, Duvall), who couldn’t seem to get out of the habit of leaping high enough to stretch his pectoral muscles on the tail end of dunks for the team in white; and 6-7 Joe Hampton (Hyattsville, MD, DeMatha), whose inside power and perimeter skill – he nailed a 3 – helped keep the squad in black reasonably close throughout.

Three of the more impressive players at the event, freshmen David Caraher (Chapel Hill, NC) and Jordan Tucker (White Plains, NY), as well as sophomore Lamar Stevens (Haverford, PA, Haverford School), were easy choices for the Top 30 affair but couldn’t participate because of injury and travel plans.

In the Top 60 Game, a couple of sophomores, 6-foot Montrel Morgan (York, PA, New Hope Academy) and 5-10 Trent Watson (Woodside, DE, Poly Tech), as well as a freshman (6-2 Trevon Duval of Newark, St. Benedict’s) and even an eighth grader (6-2 Cameron Reddish of Norristown, PA), were all superb.

 

My choices for the Top 25 players in the camp

(Listed by position and alphabetically)

  *Point guard-types – Bryce Aiken (5-10/So./Elizabeth, NJ, The Patrick School); Vaughn Covington Jr. (5-11/So./Philadelphia Neumann-Goretti); Quade Green (6-0/Fr./Philadelphia Neumann-Goretti); Isaiah “Zay” Jennings (5-11/So./Allentown, PA, Central Catholic); Steven Jordan (5-8/So./Fairless Hills, PA, Conwell-Eagan); Mustafa Al-Sadat Lawrence (5-10/So./Newark, NJ, Tech); Alani Moore (5-10/So./Hyattsville, MD, DeMatha) and Jamal Wright (5-10/So./Potomac, MD, Bullis).

  *Shooting guards/wings – Ako Adams (6-3/So./Arlington, VA, Bishop O’Connell); David Beatty (6-3/Fr./Radnor, PA, Archbishop Carroll); David Caraher (6-5/Fr./Chapel Hill, NC); Todd M. Closson Jr. (6-3/So./Baltimore Dunbar); Timmel “Melo” Eggleson (6-5/Fr./Baltimore St. Francis); Austin Harriott (6-4/So./Philadelphia Germantown Friends); Shaheed Haynes (6-3/Fr./Philadelphia Imhotep); Jamal Holloway (6-4/So./Camden, NJ, Camden); Lamar Stevens (6-7/So./Haverford, PA, Haverford School); Kyle Stout (6-5/So./Allentown, PA, Parkland) and Jordan Tucker (6-7/Fr./White Plains, NY);

  *Posts – Nysier Brooks (6-10/So./Radnor, PA, Archbishop Carroll); Joe Hampton (6-7/So./Hyattsville, MD, DeMatha); Sedee Keita (6-10 1/2/So./Saxton River, VT, Vermont Academy); Khalif Kroma (6-8/So./Philadelphia Roman Catholic); A.J. Wilson (6-6/So./Lanham, MD, Duval) and Sidney Wilson (6-6/Fr./New York City, NY, St. Raymond’s).