Pangos All-South: Reese Alston Makes Mark!

There’s all the time pleasure on the Pangos All-South Frosh/Soph Camp and this 12 months’s version closed with a robust Cream of the Crop High 30 Recreation. When the mud settled, the camp’s Most Excellent Participant went to sophomore guard Reese “Lil Skip” Alston of Second Baptist in Houston. The son of former NBA guard Rafer Alston wasn’t the one standout guard, and there was a pleasant set of bigs who shined.

The Cream of the Crop High 30 All-Star Recreation, reserved for the highest members on the Pangos All-South Frosh/Soph Camp, often is a top quality recreation and the separator of the two-day occasion. The previous two years, the camp’s closing video games have informed the story and been high quality video games and there 12 months was so completely different. The gamers chosen have been certainly the camp’s elite among the many 230 plus campers from 17 completely different states who known as the Duncanville Fieldhouse house over the weekend and the participant who took house the camp’s Most Excellent Participant honors clearly confirmed why within the Cream of the Crop High 30 Recreation.

Reese Alston, a bouncy 6-foot-1 sophomore (2027) level guard from Second Baptist (Houston, Texas) with a sophisticated recreation and an unbelievable pedigree, managed the motion along with his excellent level guard talents, whether or not having the ball on a string, seeing the whole ground one step forward, getting high quality paint touches or stopping on a dime to tug up for a shot or a whip to go to a teammate. Alston’s impression was fairly evident from the beginning and he helped his Black jersey-wearing membership leap out to an early lead on the White jersey-wearing membership by hitting a few rhythm 3-pointers and dishing off some nifty assists. Much more than Alston’s numbers, his command of the sport is one thing you do not typically see from rising sophomores.

Alston, the son of former NBA level guard Rafer Alston, then closed out the sport sturdy on his closing line shift and helped the black seal its 83-71 victory over the white. Alston completed with 13 factors and eight assists in 16 minutes of play. He might simply have additionally bagged High 30 Recreation MVP honors, however long-time occasion director Dinos Trigonis historically spreads the love round with regards to people honors.

Alston is primed for a giant sophomore marketing campaign along with his highschool group, as he led Cooz Elite to the 15U circuit title on the Pro16 Circuit and adopted up his terrific summer time with a show-stopping efficiency on the Pangos Frosh-Soph circuit. Alston is named “Lil Skip”, a play on his father’s nickname “Skip To My Lou”, or Skip for brief, that he earned whereas rising up in Bayside, Queens, New York and drawing crowds on the blacktop even earlier than he was a teen attending PS40 Elementary College and IS-8 Center College.

“I do not know, it is simply placing within the work and desirous to displaying everybody what I convey,” Alston mentioned in regards to the motivation behind his camp efficiency.