NORWALK – The 17th Pangos All-American Camp wrapped up Sunday afternoon at Cerritos College with 60 or so players playing in the event’s two all-star games and with a lot of future college standouts among those non selected to the all-star camps.
That’s the caliber of prep basketball talent that annually participates in this event – it’s loaded with guys on the path to college scholarships and, for the very best, the NBA.
And, to no fault of how they might have performed, a lot of gifted and hard-working players, among the 108 who played over the weekend, didn’t make the all-star cut.
It’s strictly a numbers game.
Of course, the same could be said for a whole lot of kids – in Southern California and beyond – who would have loved to get an invitation from event founder and director, Dinos Trigonis.
My choices for the guys who played the best when I was watching (another caveat; I only watched one at a time during the four rounds of “conference” play, when three games were played simultaneously) were narrowed to “15-Plus”.
The “plus” is to account for the best player and college prospect in attendance, Evan Mobley of Rancho Christian.
But he played just three “conference” games over Friday night and Saturday, missing the final conference game Sunday morning and the top all-star game to undergo physical therapy for some minor issues in order to get as close to fully “healthy in time for the June 15 start of the 19-Under USA Basketball Trials in Colorado Springs.
So – again from my perspective – that left 6-foot-7 Cade Cunningham (PICTURED/from Arlington in Texas but he attends Montverde Academy in Florida) as the easy choice for the top performer at the event from the Class of 2020.
My choice as the junior-to-be (Class of 2021) who was the most consistently outstanding is Isa Silva (Jesuit in the Sacramento suburb of Carmichael).
Silva, the best passer in the event, is joined by Scottie Barnes, Jaylen Clark and Aminu Mohammed as players from the “Arizona” camp team cracking my Top 15 “Plus”.
That squad won its first three games by an average margin of 41 points before edging Cal, 95-93, in its Sunday morning finale.
Note: My evaluations as well as positional and class rankings for each of the players will be part of my BurlisonOnBasketball Scouting Service for college and NBA clients only.
Top 15
Class of 2020
Scottie Barnes 6-7 Davie, FL (University School)
Josh Christopher 6-4 Lakewood, CA (Mayfair)
Jaylen Clark 6-5 Etiwanda, CA (Etiwanda)
Cade Cunningham 6-7 Montverde, FL (Montverde Academy)
Ian Martinez 6-3 San Juan Capistrano, CA (JSerra)
*Evan Mobley 7-0 Temecula, CA (Rancho Christian)
Note: Missed final two games
Daishen Nix 6-4 Las Vegas (Trinity)
Micah Peavy 6-6 Duncanville, TX (Duncanville)
Day’Ron Sharpe 6-10 Winterville, NC (South Central)
Mady Sissoko 6-9 Mt. Pleasant, UT (Wasatch Academy)
Class of 2021
Paolo Banchero 6-10 Seattle (O’Dea)
Moussa Cisse 6-9 Middle Village, NY (Christ the King)
Terrence Clarke 6-6 Wolfeboro, NH (Brewster Academy)
Zion Harmon 5-10 Benton, KY (Marshall County)
Aminu Mohammed 6-4 Springfield, MO (Greenwood Laboratory)
Isa Silva 6-3 Carmichael, CA (Jesuit)
Top 30 All-Star Game
Co-MOPs: Terrence Clarke (Red) and Paolo Banchero (Blue)
Top 60 All-Star Game
Co-MOPs: MarJon Beauchamp (Red/6-7, Class of 2020, Seattle Rainier Beach) & Rahsool Diggins (blue/6-1, Class of 2021, Philadelphia Archbishop Wood)
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