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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So no parents who have HS players to share experiences for us?[/quote]
I’ll bite. Some observations from a parent whose kid played:

- it’s a good idea to go into the summer before high school knowing the high school coach. Coaches at competitive schools know just about all varsity players, most JV players, and many freshman players before tryouts. Look for open gyms or just stop by the coach’s office on a shadow day and ask what to do to get ready for tryouts.

- rising freshmen can try out for and play on the school’s summer league team.  That makes playing during the season much more likely.

- it’s hard to stand out at tryouts.  One piece of advice is that kids need to take charge of the things they can control — don’t wait for passes. Get  rebounds, lead breaks, set screens, go for steals.  Putting back other kids misses is an easy way to score, and getting offensive rebounds is a way to get the ball on offense without getting a pass. Also, trapping a player who picks up his dribble when on defense (and forcing a turnover).  And running to help a teammate who is stuck and can’t find someone to pass to.  Other kids will pass to a kid who plays proactively like that.  My kid got that advice from his trainer at a showcase after a terrible first game where he just waited for passes and got none. At the beginning of the second game, he got a steal, made a long outlet then sprinted down court and got the ball back and made the layup - basically a full court give and go.  Next play he got the rebound, passed to a guard, then got a putback by trailing the guard and tipping in his failed dunk attempt.  From then on, he at least touched the ball every possession.  I’m not really explaining it well, but so many kids at tryouts just passively wait for passes, whereas if they were as active as they could be and really maxed out everything in their control, the passes would come.

- play AAU.  If you don’t make the freshman team, find a trainer, find and AAU team and get better, then try for JV the next year.  My kid played with a kid who did this.

- Depending on where you play, there is a lot of… corruption. I guess you’d call it.  Players getting a pass on academics, getting special treatment from admins, getting fake jobs that pay them to train or sleep on the job, parents being hired as coaches in order to lock kids in, etc.  It’s not the lesson you want for your kids, and you kinda have to decide how much of that you’re willing to tolerate. It’s much worse for star players, which my kid wasn’t, but he saw enough to be pretty disgusted. [/quote]

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