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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why would anyone want to drive to practice in PG county multiple times a week when they live in Nova? Thats insane.[/quote]

I am "insane"  :wink: !  I drive my DS (under 12 years old) from NoVA to PG county twice a week to practice 1.5-2 hours. We started this routine a year ago. The coaching, development, team work and camaraderie is amazing and worth the hassle of driving through DC at rush hour! Unlike most of the NoVA teams, the PG teams are year-round, playing leagues and tournaments. DS improved significantly and now plays for a top tier AAU team.

Of course the downside is a huge time suck. Little time for other sports or swim lessons. But the upside is less time for YouTube and gaming :D because dinner, homework and reading take up the rest of his evening time twice a week.

OP, figure out what your family and your DS are looking for in a team and your time commitments. Some teams travel and expect you to sign on to weekend trips. And basketball is the number one priority for most serious coaches--no skipping practices once a week for soccer or baseball!

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My kid played for a couple of AAU clubs in PC County.  For our not-very-aggressive kid, what we really valued was that DS’s teams there explicitly taught aggressiveness and contact, which two teams he played for in MoCo did not.  One popular drill was to roll a ball out onto the floor and tell two kids “go”.  They’d race to the ball, and whoever came up with it was on offense for one point.  At end of the drill, kids kids with less than X points ran. Kids did it in good fun, laughing and joking, but they dove for the loose ball and played hard.  There were a lot of drills that taught kids to hit the floor, to play through contact and to not worry about being fouled.  It totally changed how my kid played.  [/quote]

This is a really commonplace basketball drill...my kids did this in rec. [/quote]

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