CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Thursday’s second day of game action during the National Basketball Players’ Association Top 100 Camp proved another showcase for some of the top players from the national high school Class of 2021.
Three players who were freshmen this past season – Patrick Baldwin Jr., Terrence Clarke and Moussa Cisse – have more than held up to the competition of players as much as three years older than themselves as the camp heads into its third day of play Friday in the John Paul Jones Arena on the campus of the University of Virginia.
And fourth player from the class who came into event as highly touted as the aforementioned three, 6-foot-9 Mike Foster (Milwaukee Hamilton), has yet to make his debut here because of an apparent ankle sprain.
But his classmate at Hamilton, the 6-9 Baldwin (the son of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Head Coach), has used his four games with the camp’s “Spurs” squad to offer ample support to those who would claim he’s as good as prospect as there is in the Class of 2021.
Baldwin (PICTURED), one of the standouts for the terrific Phenom University squad on the Nike/EYBL16U circuit, is averaging 10.5 points and 3.3 rebounds in approximately 22 minutes per game while hitting seven of 18 shots from behind the arc.
Just as impressive as those numbers, though, is the variety of handling and passing skills he has put on display while often being pressured by players five or six inches shorter.
Baldwin showcased all of these traits during the Pangos all-Midwest Frosh/Soph Camps in Chicago in the falls of 2016 and ’17, respectively.
The 6-6 Clarke (Dorchester, MA, The Rivers School) spent the spring scoring with relative ease – at about 16 points per game – while playing for Expressions on the 17U level of EYBL competition.
It’s been much the same routine since he stepped his Nikes on the floor in John Paul Jones Arena, averaging 12.0 points to go with 3.3 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game for the Bucks.
The nearly 7-foot Cisse, who attends Christ the King in New York with 2019 standout center Kofi Cockburn and is a teammate with him on the EYBL’s New York Rens, did some nifty things during the Pangos All-American Camp in Southern California June 1-3.
Ditto the Pangos comments to describe what he’s done in four games with the Lakers here while averaging 6.0 points and 3.8 rebounds.
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