WEST DEPTFORD, NJ – The Pangos All-East Frosh/Soph Camp wrapped up Sunday afternoon in the RiverWinds Recreation Center in the fashion in which many high school hoops followers in these neck of the woods figured it would:
Six-foot-two guard Cole Anthony of Archbishop Molloy High in Queens was selected the event’s Most Outstanding Sophomore by camp founder and CEO Dinos Trigonis and co-director Gary Charles.
Anthony’s well-rounded skills and aggressive nature (at both ends of the floor) were in full bloom, upfront and center, over the event’s two days during which more than 200 other players from the high school classes of 2019 and ’20 were on display.
I’ll sign off on the choice of Anthony as the top sophomore at the event but there were multiple players on hand who got serious consideration on my end for that honor.
The most notable were three other nice-sized (6-2ish) point guards in Idrissa Bivens, Jordan Livingston and Isaiah Wong.
And three “bigs” were part of my “internal” discussion for Best of the 2019 Bunch at the camp: 6-9 Aidan Igiehon, 6-10 Qudus Wahab and 6-9 Abdou Ndiaye.
Wong and Igiehon were the ring-leaders in the black jersey-wearing team’s 106-99 victory in the Top 30 All-Star Game.
Jabri Abdur-Rahim was my narrow choice as the best freshman at the event but the gap between he and runners-up Justin Lewis and Cartier Bowman was dental floss-thin.
Six-eight Trey Patterson (Rutgers Prep Middle School in Somerset, NJ) became the third eighth grader to play in a Pangos All-Frosh/Camp Top 30 All-Star contest this fall.
Watching him over two days made it understandable why a lot of guys who “rate” pre-high school players call him the No.1 prospect in the Class of 2021.
He scored six points in the Top 30 game and, if you didn’t have a roster and didn’t know who he was, you’d never have guessed that he is still some 10 months or so from attending his first class as a high school freshman.
Outstanding performers in the Top 60 All-Star affair included sophomore point guards Justin Paz (Allentown, PA/Bethlehem Catholic) and Fatayn Wesley (Philadelphia/Imhotep), as well as 6-9 Bernard Kouma (Troy, NY/Redemption Christian) and 6-10 Ray Sommerville (Bryn Mawr, PA/The Shipley School). The first three of those played for the black jersey-winning (88-82) squad.
All in all, I think this was the deepest of the 2016 All-Frosh/Soph Camps. This camp followed the West (Norwalk, CA), South (Dallas) and Midwest (Chicago) versions, with the inaugural Southeast Camp set for next weekend in Orlando.
My “Best of the Camp” selections follow. They are not based upon “college potential/what kind of prospects” they are but how well they played (effort, shot selection and attitude were big factors) when I watched this weekend.
Top 25 performers (alpha listing):
SOPHOMORES (Class of 2019/15 players)
Cole Anthony 6-2 (Queens, NY/Archbishop Molloy)
Idrissa Bivens 6-3 (Brooklyn, NY/Bishop Loughlin)
Jack Cavanaugh 6-3 (Sparta, NJ/Pope John XIII)
Justin Champagne 6-6 (Brooklyn, NY/Bishop Loughlin)
Eric Dixon 6-7 (Abington, PA/Abington)
Aidan Igiehon 6-9 (Lawrence, NY/Lawrence Woodmere Academy)
Tariq Ingraham 6-9 (Wilmington, DE/Salesianum)
Jordan Livingston 6-3 (Burlington, NJ/Life Center)
Maxwell Lorca-Lloyd 6-9 (Gill, MA/Northfield Mt. Hermon)
Jason Murphy 6-8 (Marriottsville, MD/Chapelgate Christian)
Abdou Ndiaye 6-9 (Dobbs Ferry, NY/Masters)
Donta Scott 6-7 (Philadelphia/Imhotep)
Qudus Wahab 6-10 (Ashburn, VA/Virginia Academy)
Bryce Wills 6-5 (New Rochelle, NY/Iona Prep)
Isaiah Wong 6-2 (Lawrenceville, NY/Notre Dame)
FRESHMEN (Class of 2020 plus one *2021/10 players)
Jabri Abdur-Rahim 6-6 (Orange, NJ/Seton Hall Prep)
Posh Alexander 5-11 (Bronx, NY/Our Saviour Lutheran)
Cartier Bowman 6-3 (Lawrenceville, NJ/Notre Dame)
Noah Collier 6-6 (Westtown, PA/Westtown)
Che Evans 6-5 (Timonium, MD/Dulaney)
Ahmad Fair 6-0 (Philadelphia/Neumann-Goretti)
Mikeal Jones 6-8 (Philadelphia/Gerard College)
Justin Lewis 6-6 (Baltimore/Calvert Hall)
Quran McPherson 6-3 (Elizabeth, NJ/The Patrick School)
Trey Patterson* 6-8 (Somerset, NJ/Rutgers Prep)
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