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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So my DC joined a competitive basketball team for the first time. He is pretty good about the same as the other players on his team. This past weekend their team got destroyed at their game. They lost 0-30 something. It made me realize a couple of things:
1. All kids in our team sucked compared to the kids on the other team

2. In order to improve my DC and others on his team need to put in a lot more work. Maybe one on one coaching and more practices. But then how much should one pursue this? They still might not be as good as the other team.

3. Met a mom of a kid on my DC’s team and that kid had been on another competitive team for 2 years. This kid was not that great, maybe worse than my DC. She mentioned that her kid hardly got any play time on the other team he was on. Up until this point I was thinking that with time my DC and others will improve but if this kid has been on a competitive team for 2 years and is still not that great, what hope do I have for my own DC?

Also, it seems that a lot of this competitive/travel teams are scams if they just take everyone and then bench them?

What is the point of all this? The mom told me that for 2 years they would drive to all these games all the way to Virginia beach etc and the kid would play for maybe 5 min at the most.

[b]So, how much time and money do you pour into sports and travel and when do you stop?[/b] [/quote]

Depends how tall he is likely to be. I wouldn’t spend anything on travel basketball unless it was very likely my kid would be tall. Just being honest. [/quote]

You just have to realize that you’re doing it for the kids’ enjoyment and not to get onto a high school or college team. If they don’t enjoy being on a team at that level and going to the tournaments then don’t do it.
Travel can provide a little more experience than what is provided at the rec level. For example, my DC thinks the rec league is too easy and would get upset that other kids didn’t know how to play. It’s not they were a superstar on the travel team, but they liked it better.[/quote]

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