Its hard to make the teams after 5th grade. Your kid basically has to be one of the best 5 at the tryout. The coach isn't going to replace a known, liked bench player with a new mystery bench player.

Yep if you compare to from year to year you will see fewer and fewer teams wanting to play in the first division each year. You will notice that even though the league says the top team in division two must move up to division one, they rarely actually do. 8th grade boys first division is usually the fewest amount of teams because everyone with a good but Non-AAU teams has learned their lesson trying to compete by then.

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Anonymous wrote:go to ALL the open gyms and every night of tryout.

Yes, if you really want to make a team, go to *everything*. Just because only one tryout is required doesn't mean you should only attend one tryout.

The corollary is don't be surprised if a much better group of kids show up to tryouts. DS and his teammates will be skipping their team's open gyms this season because it's at the same time as their AAU practice. The coach knows and told them to go to practice

Your son and his teammates from his FCYBL team are all on the same AAU team?

4 kids, three plus my son

Thats basically like half the team? Usually AAU teams pull from a much bigger area than four-ish zip codes.

Most of the division 1 teams play together year round under another name and use the zip code exceptions sometimes more than 2 or cheat/lie about addresses. The coaches also recruit for players year round. That's why the regular teams that try out and start practicing together in November can't compete with them and refuse to play D1. The league has a really hard time getting teams to agree to play in D1.

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Anonymous wrote:go to ALL the open gyms and every night of tryout.

Yes, if you really want to make a team, go to *everything*. Just because only one tryout is required doesn't mean you should only attend one tryout.

The corollary is don't be surprised if a much better group of kids show up to tryouts. DS and his teammates will be skipping their team's open gyms this season because it's at the same time as their AAU practice. The coach knows and told them to go to practice

Your son and his teammates from his FCYBL team are all on the same AAU team?

4 kids, three plus my son

Thats basically like half the team? Usually AAU teams pull from a much bigger area than four-ish zip codes.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:go to ALL the open gyms and every night of tryout.

Yes, if you really want to make a team, go to *everything*. Just because only one tryout is required doesn't mean you should only attend one tryout.

The corollary is don't be surprised if a much better group of kids show up to tryouts. DS and his teammates will be skipping their team's open gyms this season because it's at the same time as their AAU practice. The coach knows and told them to go to practice

Your son and his teammates from his FCYBL team are all on the same AAU team?

4 kids, three plus my son

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:go to ALL the open gyms and every night of tryout.

Yes, if you really want to make a team, go to *everything*. Just because only one tryout is required doesn't mean you should only attend one tryout.

The corollary is don't be surprised if a much better group of kids show up to tryouts. DS and his teammates will be skipping their team's open gyms this season because it's at the same time as their AAU practice. The coach knows and told them to go to practice

Your son and his teammates from his FCYBL team are all on the same AAU team?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:go to ALL the open gyms and every night of tryout.

Yes, if you really want to make a team, go to *everything*. Just because only one tryout is required doesn't mean you should only attend one tryout.

The corollary is don't be surprised if a much better group of kids show up to tryouts. DS and his teammates will be skipping their team's open gyms this season because it's at the same time as their AAU practice. The coach knows and told them to go to practice

Anonymous wrote:go to ALL the open gyms and every night of tryout.

Yes, if you really want to make a team, go to *everything*. Just because only one tryout is required doesn't mean you should only attend one tryout.

go to ALL the open gyms and every night of tryout.

Attending open gyms and having a great attitude are a must for a mid rec player. You need to target the largest org in your area. Tall will help.

5th will be the easiest. They need to go to open gyms and be enthusiastic

What's your zip code? If he's tall, he has a shot at a spot on a third team.

What's your zip code? You need to focus on orgs that might have three teams. Third round in rec draft, if accurate spot, is not great.

DC is in 5th grade and interested in trying out for FCYBL. Has only ever played rec basketball. They were picked in the third round of the draft in our large rec league last year. Tall and good at defense, but not a great shooter. I think this could improve with more practice, but DC hasn't spent a ton of time on basketball because of other sports.

Does DC have a shot at making a team? Or will the spots only go to kids who have been playing AAU basketball? There were some very good players in the rec league that I assume will be trying out. A second or third team would be fine and maybe even preferred. I think DC will be fine with playing the house league if it doesn't work out, but hoping to set expectations.