Reply to Terrible teammate for travel basketball tryout

Forum Index » Sports General Discussion

Reply to "Terrible teammate for travel basketball tryout"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][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]

Only if there are so few kids that those kids have to stay on the court. During the tryout for my kid's current team, the coaches where constantly shuffling teams and moving then kids to an auxiliary gym until they ended up with 10 kids playing each other in the main gym. Unsurprisingly, those ten kids are the A team now. They made B and C teams out of the kids in the aux gym. [/quote]

Correct. The tryout from the OP sounds like an awful coached team. A good run tryout should have about 50% drills and 50% scrimmages. The drills would be as simple as shooting drills, lay-ups, passing, fast break, etc. and should be applicable to the game. Any try out that is just basically scrimmages is a coach that either has team set and going through the motions or one by a coach that isn't very good or organized.

After drills scrimmages should have players moving in and out of line-ups as coaches look for combination of players they want. Not all the best athletes or tallest players make a good travel team. Good coaches  look for more than the hero ball and will look at how a kid plays defense, is a glue guy, does he rebound, can he shoot, etc. but, as the tryout goes along you can see what players the coach wants or is looking at. But, I have seen coaches take really good players and move them to a B court to see how the player reacts to adversity. i.e., is the kid going to pout or step up his game.

Saying that there is an element of hero ball in tryouts.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics