price499 Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 Kobe Bryant rips AAU basketball | CollegeBasketballTalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJAlltheWay24 Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 “AAU basketball,” Bryant said. “Horrible, terrible AAU basketball. It’s stupid. It doesn’t teach our kids how to play the game at all so you wind up having players that are big and they bring it up and they do all this fancy crap and they don’t know how to post. They don’t know the fundamentals of the game. It’s stupid.” But Bryant went even further. He knows that the American youth basketball model isn’t going to change overnight, so he lamented on how the players are often treated as “cash cows” and how everyone is trying to profit off of them. He has some ideas on how to change the model: “Teach players the game at an early age and stop treating them like cash cows for everyone to profit off of,” Bryant said. “That’s how you do that. You have to teach them the game. Give them instruction.” “That’s a deep well because then you start cutting into people’s pockets,” Bryant continued. “People get really upset when you start cutting into their pockets because all they do is try to profit off these poor kids. There’s no quick answer.” I think he's spot on and even more spot on about how hard it will be to change it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoog15 Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 (edited) http://m.espn.go.com/general/story?storyId=12114523&city=losangeles&src=desktop &rand=ref~%7B%22ref%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.goog le.com%2F%22%7D Edited January 3, 2015 by True blue (and gold) Rule 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosknows1 Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 1,000,000 % AGREE with KOBE and he backs it with knowledge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurplePride92 Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 A lot of it depends on the program but for the most part I agree with him. A majority of programs aren't doing things the right way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truth99 Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 I agree as well. AAU ball is horrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosknows1 Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 I will say this as props to them, the Shining Stars program in NKY and Ohio does a very good job starting at a young age and in both boys and girls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcpapa Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 If you're enamored with dunks and not so much with defense, AAU ball is your cup of tea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurplePride92 Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 I will say this as props to them, the Shining Stars program in NKY and Ohio does a very good job starting at a young age and in both boys and girls Hoop Dreams does a good job of that as well. I'll also add that their practices consists of lots of drills and development as opposed to just rolling the ball out and saying go play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyyank Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 Hoop Dreams does a good job of that as well. I'll also add that their practices consists of lots of drills and development as opposed to just rolling the ball out and saying go play. This is the key. Is the team doing on-on-one instructional or are they just running through plays and defenses for their assembled all star team? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurplePride92 Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 This is the key. Is the team doing on-on-one instructional or are they just running through plays and defenses for their assembled all star team? One on one instructional. They do drills at game speed for a majority of the practice. Any kid that goes 100% all of the time will get better and develop skills playing with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InItToWinIt Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 Agreed for the most part. AAU basketball is a very good thing for low college level or only high school players in the sense that it allows them to play against competitive and elite athletes. But yes, in terms of running offensive sets and playing solid defense, it doesn't do too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyyank Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 Sorry PP, I assumed that was the case. My point was that their way is doing it right vs just running thru plays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcjkbt Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 For all the grief he's taken on here lately, I think Coach Szabo at Trinity is trying to teach the fundamentals of basketball and not the star/AAU system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gametime Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 High school ball is every bit as bad for development as AAU. There I said it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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