Hot topic questions surrounding the updated 2025 On3 150

On Monday, On3 released an updated 2025 On3 150 ranking. The previous update for this class was in June. In the time since the previous update, we have seen travel ball championships and NCAA Live Evaluation Periods. The On3 national team has racked up the miles along with watching countless hours of streams and film. 

Storylines from the 2025 On3 150 Ranking Update

This update saw AJ Dybantsa continue in the No. 1 spot for his fourth update. On3 first moved Dybantsa, originally in the 2026 class, to No. 1 when he announced his re-classification in October. Dybantsa won his second gold medal with USA Basketball and led his Oakland Soldiers team to the championship game of Nike’s Peach Jam.

On3’s rankings use a baseline of first projecting for the NBA Draft, with a career in the league being a secondary projection tool. Our goal is to assess a prospect’s long-term potential, ultimately manifested by the NBA Draft. We look at a player’s career developmental arc and how their game projects moving forward. 

Here are some of the hot topic questions, applied to the 2025 On3 150 class update.

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How close was the race for No. 1?

The conversation for the No. 1 overall spot in the August update of the 2025 On3 150 did not take long at all. Through the USA Basketball Training Camp in June and Nike’s Peach Jam in July, it became pretty clear to us that AJ Dybantsa was in a tier of his own.

The second tier of these updated rankings has started to differentiate itself as well as it runs from the No. 2 spot through the No. 6 spot. Cam Boozer, Nate Ament, Darryn Peterson, Chris Cenac, and Caleb Wilson have all had big summers in their own right. To be fully transparent about the process, the conversation about the order of the second tier of players lasted until the day of the rankings release. Each player in this group is different, but they all continue to be very productive against the highest levels of competition and they possess traits and qualities that are coveted at the highest levels of basketball.

As for Dybantsa remaining at the top of the ranking, he continues to show added pieces to his game. Already blessed with coveted positional size and a plus wingspan, his natural length and frame will intrinsically draw the attention of the highest levels. But then when you see watch his diverse scoring packing, overall skill set, and two-way upside, you see a unique player amongst his peers.

This summer, Dybantsa won his second gold medal with USA Basketball winning the FIBA U17 World Cup while averaging 14.1 points, 4.1 assists, and 1.6 steals while shooting 58.7 percent from the field.

After earning Offensive MVP and league MVP honors of the Grind Session this high school season, Dybantsa had a strong Spring with the Oakland Soldiers program leading them to a 16-1 overall record and finishing the EYBL regular season fourth overall in scoring (22.6). He came back from the World Cup to average 23.1 points during Nike’s Peach Jam, leading the Soldiers to the Championship game.

Though Nike EYBL and FIBA play this summer, Dybantsa’s teams finished 30-2 overall. In his 32 games played this summer, through all competition, he averaged 20.9 points, 3.0 assists, and 1.5 steals while shooting 49.6 percent from the field.

Which player(s) are you higher on than others?

There are a few players throughout the updated 2025 On3 150 that could fall into this section. Players like Nate Ament, Tounde Yessoufou, Matthew Able, and Kai Rodgers. But for the purposes of this writing, I am going to focus on two players. No. 10 ranked Dwayne Aristode and No. 13 ranked Kingston Flemings.

Let us begin with Dwayne Aristode. For starters, the frame is the most identifiable part of his game. You immediately see a player who is 6-foot-7, maybe pushing 6-foot-8. He is well built for a 17 year old, pushing 205 pounds and he has excellent length. The first time he attacks a closeout, you quickly see that Aristode also carries impressive athletic pop. He is able to get on the rim in transition as well be a threat to play above the rim in the half court.

Watching Aristode play, he has steadily been solid. For high school he plays with Wolfeboro (NH) Brewster Academy in Nike’s EYBL Scholastic League. For travel ball he plays with the Expressions program on Nike’s EYBL Circuit. And this summer he played minutes with his senior national team for his home country, the Netherlands. Each of these are among the highest levels of play for a player his age.

Through the high school games played in the league, the travel games played on the circuit, and the senior national team games, Aristode averaged 11.5 points, 5.8 rebouns, 1.3 steals, and 1.4 threes per game. The numbers are solid across all levels, and even while growing, that level of production has remained consistent. A glance across the highest levels of basketball and you see a trend of lengthy players with positional size, athletic pop, and a translatable skill sets. While he needs to continue taking steps forward, Aristode has shown he can knock down shots from three, has defensive instincts, and carries positional size toward the top end of the spectrum.

Kingston Flemings is currently listed as the top point guard in the 2025 class. He stands at a lengthy 6-foot-3 and played at San Antonio (TX) Brennan High. Why does On3 hold Flemings in such high regard? As we have stated previously, he is the best two-way point-of-attack point guard in the class.

What does it mean to be the best two-way point-of-attack point guard in the class? Flemings can wreck havoc on the defensive end. Sliding his feet for 94-feet and turning the ball handler and keeping the other team’s point guard out of the paint. Offensively, Flemings quick-twitch athleticism and natural change-of-pace handle puts his two feet in the paint often. He dominates the point-of-attack on both ends.

While having these key skills on both sides of the ball, Flemings also has good positional size with length and top-end explosive athleticism. He will need to continue ironing out his shooting touch from three, but for me, when assessing point guards, toughness is a big thing, both physically and mentally. Flemings ability to control the point-of-attack while elevating the play of those around him has him this high on the list for On3.

Who was the toughest player in the class to rank?

This was the eighth update for the 2025 class at On3. We are starting to get a feel for the players long-term outlooks in the cycle. One player who continues to ebb and flow for me is Atlanta (GA) Overtime Elite shooting guard Jasper Johnson.

Johnson has remained in the top 30 throughout the process, so his ranking has not been volatile, however there have been a couple of shifts along the way. Early in his career, the 6-foot-4 Johnson was billed as a point guard. Johnson was consistently able to put up big numbers with his shooting prowess, but he was consistently a half second late on reads and struggled at times off the bounce, especially with his right hand.

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While Johnson has excellent athletic lineage, he has good size and frame and continued to put up big scoring numbers. He did not put much pressure on the rim and defensively, was inconsistent. However, the shooting kept him high in the rankings, as Johnson has hoovered in the 25-30 range for the majority of this cycle.

Two updates ago, in April of 2024, the positional lens shifted in scouting Johnson. We stopped looking at his deficiencies as a point guard, or even a combo guard, and started scouting him as a straight shooting guard. Then things opened up for Johnson. The lefty has deep range with an unconscious trigger.

Last season at Branson (MO) Link Academy, playing along side four-star point guard Labaron Philon, he was mostly off ball. This summer, with the Team Thad program, he continued off the ball and knocked down 19 points on 2.1 threes per game.

Now, that the scouting lens has been corrected for Johnson, it is about him cleaning up his game as a scorer. The range is deep, but so many of his shots are settling, which, in turn, many times makes them contested and off-balanced looks. An example of this is that during EYBL play he shot 27.5 percent from three, but he shot 89.7 percent from the free-throw line.

Johnson has settled in at No. 22 in the updated 2025 On3 150. While it can be hard to overlook the inefficiencies and a shooter and his negative assist to turnover ratio, shooting is one of the more valuable parts of the game at its highest levels. In watching film and looking a bit deeper into the stats, you see that Johnson can shoot with a clean release and a consistent shot load, especially off the catch. Now, it is about fine-tuning core and base work and minimizing his game. There is something there, with the shooting touch, size/length, and athletic pop. It will interesting to monitor over the next eight or so months.

Which player(s) could you see outplaying their ranking?

The highest debut for domestic players in the August 2025 On3 150 update was with CJ Ingram at No. 26. Ingram is a 6-foot-5 shooting guard who just announced he would be attending Orlando (FL) Oak Ridge School for his senior season.

How did Ingram go uncovered for so long? He was a P6-level football recruit whose dad played in the NFL. Ingram is the son of former tight end Cornelius Ingram. A three-star football recruit in his own right, CJ Ingram carried offers from programs like Florida (his dad’s alma mater) and others.

Along with transferring schools, Ingram also made public that he would be focusing full time on basketball. His break out came at the 2024 Pangos All-American Camp. Throughout the camp, Ingram showed a high-flying arsenal of dunks. His ability to make a move and get downhill toward the rim was as impressive as his vicious and purposeful play above the rim, in traffic. He finished the camp with multiple dunks that were among the top five for the week.

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However, for me, moreso than the high-flying athleticism, Ingram consistently made some impressive passing reads. Not only processing the play on the ball, but delivering passes with pin-point accuracy to open teammates for easy baskets. There is a real scenario where Ingram could play on ball as a primary initiator in the future. At the very least, a team should be able to run some fun actions with him as a secondary guy in the half-court.

The shooting will need to continue to progress, but this summer is the first one where he has focused full-time on basketball. Not only is he young for his grade, but the 6-foot-5, maybe 6-foot-6, wing is still light on in-game reps and in-game experience. No. 26 overall is the starting point for Ingram, continue to monitor him throughout the year to see what kind of developments his game makes. While he is still new to being a full-time basketball player, and there is not much more room for upward growth from No. 26, Ingram has some natural tools and feel that could very well make him a unique prospect in the long-run.