Frank Burlison

La Grange, IL – Six-foot-nine Patrick Baldwin Jr. demonstrated precisely Saturday at the Park District facility that he intends on collecting his second consecutive Most Outstanding Player honor for the Midwest version of the Pangos All-Frosh/Soph Camp.

Baldwin (Sussex, WI, Hamilton), making his third appearance at the Dinos Trigonis-fronted event, used his two camp games (with “Cincinnati”) to showcase the remarkable growth – literal and figurative – he has made as a player since he made his debut at the camp two years ago.

The son of the head coach at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee had a strong spring and summer on the grassroots circuit with the Milwaukee-based Phenom University 16s club program while also having a solid effort during the NBPA Top 100 Camp in Charlottesville, VA.

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SAN PEDRO – Rolling Hills Prep High will play host to a 16-team event Saturday at Harbor College that will showcase some of the very best boys’ basketball programs in Southern California.

The event will also serve a sort-of “preview” to the third Classic at Damien (Dec. 26-29) as nine of the teams set to play at Harbor College are part of the Classic at Damien field.

Four of the programs scheduled to play Saturday (Rolling Hills Prep, L.A. Brentwood, Santa Ana Mater Dei and Riverside Notre Dame) won CIF Southern Section championships last March.

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DALLAS – The Pangos All-South Frosh/Soph Camp ended up Sunday afternoon pretty much the say it began with its first game roughly 24 hours before – with Arthur Kaluma and K.J. Adams the best among the 260 or so players in attendance at the Drive Sports Facility.

Kaluma and Adams (PICTURED) scored 17 points and grabbed four rebounds apiece to help the squad wearing white jerseys cruise past the dark jersey crew, 92-67, in the Crème of the Crop Top 30 Game that wrapped up the Dinos Trigonis-fronted event that was once again an ideal showcase for the better Texas players from this coming season’s freshmen and sophomore classes.

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DALLAS – Saturday’s first day of the Pangos All-South Frosh/Soph Camp was held at the oh-so-cool Drive National multi-court facility just a couple of deep 3-point shots from DFW Airport.

And, with approximately 260 players on hand, most of the better players in the classes of 2021 and ’22 from Texas were on display during the 28 games that were played.

Some of the notables on hand among the players about to start their sophomore seasons included 6-foot-8 Arthur Kaluma (Coppel Universal Academy), 6-5 Alec Zambie (Plano West), 6-6 K.J.

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COLORADO SPRINGS – Eighty-plus players (88 were invited; several didn’t play) were on display over three days and five practice sessions during the USA Basketball’s “mini-camp” this past weekend in the US Olympic Training Center.

What follows are my choices as the 15 athletes that most impressed me with the way they played when I watched them over the weekend. The choices are not tied into college or NBA “upside/or potential”.

If you wonder where a bunch of well-known names aren’t listed, Vernon Carey, Jalen Green, and James Wiseman, being prime examples, it’s because I only considered players who were in action the entire weekend and didn’t pack it up early with assorted ailment.

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