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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will give you a serious answer.  At competitive high schools, public and private, tryouts are a formality. This is sometimes true even at smaller schools.

Basketball has a small roster. There won’t be many on the team.  They often unofficially know who they are taking before tryouts. These can include returning players, players they know from club teams or kids they saw in off season “optional” workouts.  There are often many times more kids at tryouts than they have spots on a HS team.  Politics can also matter greatly.

You are not local here so this might not be true at your school. If basketball somehow isn’t popular and maybe not a lot of kids try out, then they will look at skill, atheism and height.  [/quote]

This is a good point.  At our school over 150 kids show up to tryouts.  The coach already has a good idea of who he is taking.  [/quote]

Same. Our school system filters out in 7th grade.  Tryouts are just a formality.  The coach takes the previous year’s 6th grade A travel team, plus two other practice players, and that’s the roster. Then the 8th grade coach chooses the same kids the following year.  It never varies, unless a superstar moves into the district.  Essentially, the high school team is chosen in sixth grade.  Kids who weren’t on the travel teams no longer bother trying out and either quit or do rec.[/quote]

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