Tryout Tips

A little waltz music would be good LOL Just have confidence in yourself - do the best you can! I think that you will do a good job, so God Bless you and have some fun out there......

I will look for your post on how you did tomorrow. :-)

okay, thanks again... well time to sleep

Here are a few thoughts that I used to share with my players.

As for practices -

* While you want to work hard at every part of your game / every day....... Pick out 1 thing offensively and 1 thing defensively that you will make sure that you improve upon that .... kind of like your THOUGHT / GOAL for the day!

As for games -

The last thing you want to be saying to yourself after a game is " IF I would have only done this better or that better etc. - we would have won "

Play every game like it is for the CHAMPIONSHIP or its your LAST GAME of your playing career.

IF you do these things, you will never have to look back and question yourself.... regardless of the outcome.

tryouts today... about 13 boys, but thats excluding 5 football players who tryout nxt week... today was all hustle and defence and NO offence.

1st we ran suicides, i wasn't the quickest but about 4th for each one. Then layup lines, made them all. Then we gaot in group of 3 at each goal with 2 balls. 2 people shoot, then u follow ur shot, and then pass it to who ever dont have one. I shot mostly 3's, did pretty good. Then we did a break of 5 o5 for like 2 minutes. I shot once about 18 foot out and made it. I crossed over a varsity kid bc at the end we scrimmaged them for a few mins. to end things. Overal not hardly anyone shot, i say im in pretty good shape, tomorrow we run a set, 1 mile run (under 6:25 for me) then we should scrimmage a lot. Im pg and when we did 5 vs 5 for jv and varsity, the coach told me to play pg, out of all 13 ish people there he let me play first, which should be a good tart, imma go full out tomorrow and SPRINT the mile!!! and shoot some 3's if possible, well gtg

After today's workout you should have some idea as to what you need to work on..... write it down so you don't forget.

It sounds like you made an impression on the coach.... play hard and keep up the good work.

Just remember that there is more to the game than the 3 ball.... be a good all around player.

Yeah, im pretty much money from mid range, the JV coach STRESSED about good D- # and hustle. He aint really concerned with offence, but he wants you to be a good alround player, i played great D but the kid i was gaurding didnt know how to play basketball, but my steal was from a pass to him, so it was the passers turnover, i cant wait till tomorrow, wasnt even nervious today :) but yeah wish me luck i HAVE to be the best out there tomorrow to seal this thing up, ill tell u about it, starts at 5, ends about 7

Good luck

I made firsts cuts! we did mostly deffensive and offensive plays, but we didnt really "play" offence, just ran the plays, we continue on monday, 3 boys quit and another dont hustle good so that leaves about 10 boys left with about 4 or 5 football players, i think im in good shape to make this team, Now that the coaches has seen how i "play" i think im going to try and be a leader as a point gaurd, shoot a little more, make great passes, and cut hard!!! wish me luck

Congrats on making the first cut..... step #1!! I

f you want to impress your coach..... its all about hustle now. Don't take any plays off, on either end of the floor. Every loose ball is yours, rebound and help on D!

Showing some leadership skills is an excellent idea.

Good luck!

Coach Sar is right, don't let up on the gas peddle now. Kick that sucker into high gear. Just like coaches will tell you in the game, finish strong. You've worked hard for this and have the right attitude.

Yeah i frogot to menchion, we ran ALOT, we worked on help side defence A LOT, and we did reboud drills A LOT and like the deffencive sliding things a lot. Seems like hes looking for hustlers, people who can box out, and great deffenders, he said if u do those and hustle, he will but up a fight for you when picking the teams, because most of us are about 5'6-5'9 ish, with me being 5'5 1/2 but im a pg so it doesnt hurt me a lot, thats y weave worked on defence and boxing out because we only have one guy above 6 ft, so our main offence is 4 out at the key (all spread out to stretch the defence) an one guy down low, he wants us to do pass fakes and cut strong because we have to win with 3's, oh and he likes to set picks to get us open with 3's at times, but those three things i said at first are the BIGGIES to make this team.
I can box out strong for my side, and im a pretty good deffender on the perimeter, my pass seams a little weak, like in a full court pass it mostly a bounce pass, which aint good, i can do about 1/2 to 3/4 court passes without bounces, but not full court, so ive got to work on that, but ive got great arm strength, i just cant make that strong pass.
Try-outs continue moday all week, so imma work hard, play hard, an d dominate
p.s. imma take these next 2 days off (sat. and sunday) just to rest a little, a bit sore in upper legs, i think this rest will help though, dont you?

If you live by the 3 you will die by it.... don't be afraid to take the ball to the hole. You will have days where your shot wont fall... so you take it to the hole and get fouled.... end up on the free throw line which will help your form and shot. Take what they give you and DON'T forget about the mid range game.

There were days that we couldn't throw the ball into the ocean from the shore.... get to the line.... then we had some great days and couldn't do anything wrong. 9 for 10 from the arc and 21 for 25 from the line. IF we could have done that all the time I would be in the hall of fame LOL

Take a little break, it won't hurt you. give your body a chance to recover..... you could shoot some free throws with someone feeding you so YOU don't have to chase the ball around.

GOOD LUCK

okay thanks, and im about perfect from free throw. thanks again

Relax now... you know what needs to be done.

Have you discussed any of this with your dad?

Well kinda i guess, he tells me same as you, to play hard, hustle hard, have fun, and when you can show him what you can do.

I watched some of yall's videos on youtube (just thought id let you kniw)

My video?

Umm, i'm not so sure it was YOUR video, but it was from breakthrough basketball
Oh and by the way, i feel so energetic from this 2 day break, its exactly what i need to play at maximum potential tomorrow, i cant wait to shine and surprise everyone bc i'm going to be the best out there, ill try to steal a lot of passes, ill make amazing passes, ill fake everyone and cross people over, ill make shots that no one else out there can make, and ill be my teams leader (the coach says that a quite team, is a scared team, so he encourages us to get pumped up all the time and communication is key) I WILL BE ON THE TEAM BY TUESDAY< IF NOT TOMORROW!
(please dont think i'm being greedy or weird by saying that stuff, but my goal is to let everyone out there know im the best, including the coach. Once again thanks for everything

Its nice to have lofty goals..... remember, play hard, play SMART snd have fun.

Don't worry about showing people up - that could come back to bite you... just play to the best of your ability and every day you set foot on the floor TRY to make yourself better. Don't forget as the POINT guard...... you have to make your teammates better also.

Here is one of our games that a friend of mine put on his site. We really shot well which was the difference in the game..... we also played great D that night,

http://www.ihigh.com/osbornecardinals/video_886382.html

nice, i loved the hustleing, oh and yall seem to have some pretty tall guys lol, tryouts today in 30 min, i gotta get ready, c ya, and ill let u know how well i do.