AAU / Travel Tryout Tips
CAL Sports Travel / AAU Basketball Team Tryouts Tips For Players
What CAL Sports AAU Basketball team coaches are looking for when selecting players for a team:
Make a Good First Impression
• You Never Get a 2nd Chance to Make a Good 1st Impression.
• Come to try-outs looking like a basketball player.
• Show us, don't tell me what you can do.
Hustle/Effort
• ALWAYS try your hardest and give your best effort! There is no substitute for hard work.
• People have different levels of talent, but EVERYONE can try. It takes no talent to hustle!
• Effort/hustle will ALWAYS be acknowledged and rewarded.
Concentration/Mental Awareness
• Basketball is a thinking game.
• Concentration is essential to good performance.
• How focused is a player during drills, instructing, and to observe and adapt.
• Be a good listener -- be quiet and listen.
Enthusiasm and Team Skills – Attitude!!!
• Enthusiasm is contagious.
• Enthusiasm builds unity and togetherness.
• Make sure it's controlled enthusiasm.
Sportsmanship and Competitiveness
• Great competitors respect their opponents.
• Competing means being able to accept winning and losing a ball game.
Discipline
• Good players and teams are highly disciplined.
• Discipline is personal commitment.
Athletic Ability
• You all have different levels of ability and skill.
• The coach must combine and refine the collective talents to build a "team."
T.E.A.M – TOGETHER.EVERYONE.ACHIEVE.MORE.
• Consider factors such as conditioning, speed, strength, and agility also as elements that can and should be evaluated.
Skills That Will Be Evaluated By The Coaches:
| DRIBBLING: • Stationary • With Pivoting • Quick Star/Stop • Cross-over Dribble • Changes of Speed • Speed Dribble |
PASSING: • Chest Pass • Bounce Pass • Overhead Pass • Baseball Pass |
SHOOTING: • Right Handed Layup • Left Handed lay-up • Jump shooting • Jump Shot off Pass and Dribble • Free-Throws
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| DEFENSIVE SKILLS: • Footwork and positioning • Lateral movement |
OTHER SKILLS: • Rebounding • Boxing Out • Jumping • Screening • Team Offensive Skills • Team Defensive Skills |
OTHER POINTS TO REMEMBER: • Don't underestimate your chances of making the team - you have no idea what the coach wants for the team. • Some pretty good players have been cut and used it as motivation for future success. • Attend all tryouts sessions and finish the try-outs. |
MOST IMPORTANTLY - HAVE FUN!
