Walking on in D3 Basketball

CTDad-classof2022
Mon, 02 Aug 2021 00:16:54 +0000

sushiritto:

Working on one’s basketball game with playground pickup games isn’t a great way to improve your skills. And much of your development depends on the players around you, which often isn’t that great, to put it mildly. You can actually pickup bad habits. And ignore fundamentals.

Many college players will disagree with you on this. College players will often test their mettle in city pickup games during the summer, and the college players that don’t play over the summer will come back rusty.

sushiritto:

If you’re playing at the highest levels of youth soccer, often the coaches will not allow you to play high school soccer at all. The level of play in HS is inferior than the Development Academy League.

This is one of the worst developments of youth sports in the last 20 years. These private clubs are often exploiting their players, and they squeeze thousands of dollars out of their parents, many of whom can’t afford it, with the dream of a D1 scholarship. Like any cult, they try to isolate their talent in order to make the families dependent on the club, which keeps them paying.

This happens across sports, although the dynamic is similar. The stars are overplayed and susceptible to injuries, and the bench players are getting milked dry for fees until they realize they were scammed and finally go back to the high schools or to a lesser club. Unfortunately, the high schools have not exactly bathed themselves in glory, which opened the door for the private clubs.

The private clubs are not all bad, but I advise parents to be very careful about the club, and be fearless about changing clubs if they do not like the direction their program is going.