FCP All-West Frosh/Soph: Top Playmakers
LONG BEACH — McBride high school played host to the annual Pangos All-West Frosh/Soph camp which featured many of the top prospects from the classes of 2025 and 2026 on the west coast and beyond. Tounde Yessoufou of St. Joseph…
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Continue ReadingLONG BEACH — McBride high school played host to the annual Pangos All-West Frosh/Soph camp which featured many of the top prospects from the classes of 2025 and 2026 on the west coast and beyond. Tounde Yessoufou of St. Joseph (Santa Maria) took home the overall camp MVP honors while he was joined by Modesto Christian guard Rashod Cotton as being selected the Top 30 game Most Outstanding Players. In this piece we take a look at the best playmakers who created for themselves and others.
Braden Moore Braden Moore 6'3" | PG Lee County | 2025 State GA , 2025, Yuma Catholic (AZ)
Moore was one of the surprises of the event as many of the scouts and media members in attendance hadn’t seen nor heard of him prior to the weekend, and, once we found out he recently moved from Georgia to Arizona, it all made sense. The 6-foot point guard was one of few “true” PG’s in the camp per my definition of the position. Moore had the ball on a string, great change of pace and direction that allowed him to get into the lane with ease and, when the defense collapsed, he had the basketball IQ to make the correct read and deliver an accurate pass. Aside from his passing ability and overall feel for the game, Moore showed that he could knock down open three-pointers and get to the rim and finish over and around rim protectors.
EJ Spillman, 2025, Pacifica Christian/OC
Spillman is a beast of a guard who has an uncanny combination of size and physicality to go along with his perimeter quickness and shiftiness. The 6-foot-3 combo guard can be best described as a quick-twitch bully baller whose ball handling and shiftiness allows him to create in isolation regardless of who is defending him. Spillman is a confident attacker of the basket who uses his strong upper and lower body to absorb and finish through contact. The sophomore is also a capable shooter off the bounce, as well, and creates space for a step-back jumper that was consistent throughout the event.
Justice Griffith, 2026, Corona Centennial
Griffith is more of an untraditional playmaker as he’s not ball dominant in the half-court setting, but instead makes his impact on the defensive end and in transition. The hyper-athletic 6-foot guard is adept and anticipating and shooting passing lanes for steals which leads to two-footed transition dunks. Griffith looks up the floor on steals for hit-ahead passes and runs the floor looking for a pass-back or lob to finish the break.
Myles Walker, 2025, J.W. North
Walker was another relatively new face to make a name for himself in this event. The Riverside-based point guard is a small but quick, crafty and smart playmaker both in transition and half-court settings. The 5-foot-9 sophomore uses his speed and tight ball handling to break down defenders in isolation and get into the paint where he finished over big men with floaters and other creative finishes. Walker’s quickness with his first step and ability to hesitate and explode allowed him to get paint touches at-will which opened up the floor for the rest of his team.
Nick Jefferson, 2025, Bishop Gorman (NV)
Jefferson put forth some strong performances a couple of weeks ago in the Ron Massey Fall Hoops Classic and the Bishop Gorman sophomore continued his impressive all-around play in this event. The 6-foot-1 point guard showed his impressive end-to-end speed and remained under control on the break in order to see transition opportunities develop. Jefferson had a great pulse on when to score and when to feed a teammate who had a hot hand. The Chicago-native filled it up from three-point range in one game we saw and in another he took more of a distributing role and excelled in that facet of the game, as well.
Rodney Westmoreland III, 2026, Dougherty Valley
Westmoreland was quite possibly the fastest player – with or without the ball – in the entire camp. The 5-foot-10 point guard looked as if he was shot out of a cannon in transition and used his ability to accelerate, while staying controlled and balanced, to put immense pressure on retreating defenses. The Northern California-based freshman made high IQ decisions in transition, out of ball screen action and impressed with his willingness to make the simple play instead of looking for a highlight-reel. Scoring-wise, Westmoreland is a highly-creative finisher around the basket.