Frank Burlison

 

  NORWALK – The 17^th 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.

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  NORWALK – Saturday’s Day II of the 17^th Pangos All-American Camp only served to emphasize what was already a consensus of thought on the subject:

  Evan Mobley and Cade Cunningham are a cut – or two – above the rest of the 100-plus players on hand at Cerritos Community for one of the most high-profile events in grassroots hoops.

   Someone is going to have to turn in whooper performances in the final “conference games played Sunday morning and in the top all-star game later in the afternoon to upset the near-certain scenario expected to unfold with either Mobley (Rancho Christian in Temecula in SoCal) and Cunningham (Arlington, TX, by way of Montverde Academy in Florida) being tabbed No.

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  NORWALK – The 17^th Pangos All-American Camp tipped off Friday night at Cerritos College with its annual gathering of future McDonald’s All-Americans and NBA first-round selections.

   And, for the second year in a row, NBA scouts – the ones actually employed by the NBA, that is – were also in attendance.

    With so many quality players to see and three games going on at the same time, one can get a bit of sensory overload if you spend as much time turning around to watch the game going on behind as you do watching the game in front of you.

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ORANGE, Ca. – Rancho Christian High’s Evan Mobley strapped on the tool belt over the Memorial Weekend and did a nice job of reminding those who showed up at Orange Lutheran just how good a basketball player he is.

  And, at the same time, he and his buddies demonstrated that the Compton Magic Elite 17s squad is in no hurry to abdicate its 2018 status as the best club on the adidas Gauntlet circuit – or anywhere else, for that matter.

   Mobley led the squad to eight wins in as many games in that event that began Friday night, wrapping up things Monday afternoon with a gritty 53-48 over a gifted Dream Vision NEXT club that has a roster chock-full of top-notch players from the Class of 2021.

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ORANGE – The semifinals are set for the top three divisions’ brackets for Monday’s wrap-up of the four-day, Magic Memorial/adidas Gauntlet Regional Qualifier at Orange Lutheran High.

  The semis in the 17U BattleZONE bracket tip off at 12:20 p.m., with the Compton Magic Elite squad facing Basketball Training Institute (BTI/based in the San Fernando Valley) on Court 1 and Dream Vision NEXT taking on Team Harden of Arizona on Court 2.

   The title game is scheduled for 2:30 on Court 1.

   Compton Magic is led by Rancho Christian stalwart Evan Mobley and has also gotten tremendous play over the past three days from Dalen Terry (Hillcrest in Phoenix/PICTURED), Jaylen Clark (Corona Centennial/expected to transfer to Etiwanda) and Yassine Gharram of Foothills Christian El Cajon.

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