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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bumping to ask about basketball tryouts that started Friday. Anyone know how many kids tried out?[/quote]

The problem is that the school is too big. The tryouts are meaningless.  The kids who will be on the team were identified long ago.  Maybe one or two true walkons. [/quote]

I’m referring to 6th grade team. Couldn’t have been identified long ago. [/quote]

you sweet summer child[/quote]

You can be condescending all you want. I know what I know. Was simply asking if anyone had a kid that attended tryouts and have impressions on the new coach. Also, to anyone that played in prior years, [b]I hear that 6th grade team suffers mostly losses due to only playing 7th/8th grade teams at the ECs[/b]. Anyone know if they won any games last year? Trying to ascertain whether it’s worth it to let my DS play. [/quote]

This is true. The whole point of a 6th grade team is because there were way too many kids trying out and 6th graders just aren't good enough to make a team when trying out with the older kids. Unfortunately there are no other 6th grade teams (are there?) for them to play against so the 6th graders end up playing against 7th/8th graders anyway. Some of the ES all stars start riding the bench exclusively and the emerging talent (because now they are old enough for talent to begin to outweigh the opportunity parents create for them in ES) plays to try to win games where they are likely outmatched.

Our son played for his ES team, he plays AAU now on a great team. He didn't even consider trying out for the Deal team because being part of the school team is meaningless to him and he's getting great coaching and experience on his current team. I have known a lot of 6th graders who gave up basketball at the end of the season (some committing to another sport, some realize they just aren't going to cut it when 7th grade starts.)[/quote]

Also, how do ES all stars ride the bench? I know there are some kids that don’t come from feeders but if there are 1-2 all stars from each feeder, I imagine most should get playing time. No?[/quote]

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