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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That may be your best player. You may have a ringer there.  95% of what you are teaching, that kid is probably already learning in club practice.

I’ve had kids that don’t show up to practice that are very unskilled players.  Then they show up to games expecting to play.  And the rec league will have some rule guaranteeing the kid 2 quarters of playing time or something.

Atleast the kid you are talking about is working on their game.[/quote]

On the flip side of that, I've always had issues where it's really hard to enter basketball at later ages.

In soccer there are more regulations where travel players can't play in rec leagues.

But we know many aau basketball players who play on three or four teams a season, with one of the teams usually being a rec team.

It makes rec leagues and teams very high level and hard for first time or beginner players and teams to compete in.

Rec leagues should be set for beginners or players who are just playing for fun or want to try it out.

I get it that some aau players want to play on the same team as their friends.

So the team/coach has to kind of decide what their goal is.  Is it just for a bunch of friends playing together?  Is it to develop and have the players and team get better and become good basketball players?  Or do they just want to win regardless if the win is a result of their players and team getting better throughout the season or it's because they have a ringer show up to the games?

For some of the rec kids, the rec league is all they have in terms of getting to play organized basketball.[/quote]

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