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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's how basketball tryouts go. They really favor the guards and ball hogs and kids good with actually basketball skills e.g., passing, teamwork, moving the ball around, cutting, picks etc get overlooked. [/quote]

We found the same with soccer tryouts, particularly when the kids were young.  "Smart, intuitive players' were overlooked---going to space to receive pass, making runs, giving up the ball for a great pass (to never get it back by a kid that just ball hogged, dribbled into the ground and lost it".  It became crazy like you are telling your kids to play bad, do things that go against good play just to get noticed by the vast majority of coaches that really don't know sh*t.

For us, it just meant we had to shop around Clubs, watch coaches and teams and how they played.  As my kids got older, it became less of an issue.  And, college scouts really notice the unobvious to novices: the kid that knows where to move, where to be and creates opportunities.[/quote]

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