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High school basketball is so much more structured than AAU. It’s not even close. AAU teams can’t install offenses/defenses etc. My middle school high school team had a 2 hour practice every weekday, sometimes on Saturdays, unless we had a game. However, the college coaches prefer to scout...

Las Vegas is a huge hotspot for college scouting. Two or three weekends there every summer change many kids’ lives.

Wow, that’s super interesting. Definitely going to check for that documentary.

Well I still feel that non-middle class kids can get good opportunities with help from families in better positions around them. I greatly miscalculated how large the selection bias at a youth level harms children who aren’t advanced yet. In my experience hooping, I had a good amount of my...

USAB tried to implement this dumbass rule when I was working/coaching at the YMCA. Not sure if it’s still in effect. They wanted the youngest age group, i believe it was 6-7 or 7-8 years old, to literally not keep score of the game. They just play 4 quarters but no score is kept and there is no...

**** yeah that’s what’s up. I would have friends who would drive 1 to 3 hours to practice on one of the best aau teams in the country. Nowadays a lot of elite aau teams don’t even practice together anymore. They just show up at the tournaments, and are liable to switch to a new program every...

Sorry 4 all the long winded posts lol. I just have a lot to say on this topic.

Re: Siakam Doc Rivers coached in Africa as part of the league’s NBA in Africa summer camps before the NBA started their own league over there. This is all because of Masai Ujiri who said there are so many kids in African with arms that touch the floor, they are going to create a hoops culture...

It agitates me so much how all of our politicians never campaign on education issues anymore because it is seen as a third rail, losing topic. People spend so much time in the classroom, at schools and it is so vital to how they interact in society. We have left so much for the parents to do...

American hockey and baseball development are in A LOT more trouble than basketball/football. Because our country is so large, and immigration is not just a 1-way street i.e. Americans move to Europe too, there are more and more talented futbol players with dual nationalities (one being...

Great post

Joel Embiid is foreign born but he is American trained/learned. Steve Nash and Hakeem won MVPs too. Yao Ming was a top 3 center in the league for a few years. Peja Stojakovic and Dirk were killers. Tim Duncan was foreign born, as well as Tony Parker and Manu Ginobiilli. Kobe Bryant said Dražen...

Aau has a ton of problems but as I have been in and out of these gyms I know that talent trumps all. Coaches are actively looking for taller kids and talented youth to join their team and get an advantage. If a kid can’t afford it, these coaches are way too competitive to lose out on a special...

Reposting my reply to you about why there is international power in the NBA but not in the NFL I’d pushback heavily on this. First, soccer, futbol as they call it, is the biggest sport in the world. There is no point in history that it has been American dominated, except on the women’s side...