This past weekend, Phenom Hoops traveled down to Rock Hill, South Carolina for our final travel ball event of the summer season. The Summer Finale featured a slew of highly talented players (most of whom played with new/local/random teams), which made for an extremely entertaining weekend of basketball. Effort and motivation are always going to determine how enjoyable the actual competition is and, fortunately, majority of these guys showed up to compete. Outsiders can try to ridicule kids (again, kids) for wanting to play basketball instead of individually working on their craft (for literally two days), but it just comes across corny. There were many standouts and general takeaways from the two-day event, but this article will merely take a closer look at five personal favorites. Let