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While I agree that it is important to play with your high school team I feel like this comment is very skewed. If you look at the top players in every region, every state, and even nationaly, the majority of the best play AAU. I am not saying that you cannot be successfull at basketball if you do not play AAU, but playing AAU in the summer will definately improve a players game and increase their potential to be a college level athlete. No where in any of the school programs will you ever find the talent level of some of the AAU teams that you will see in the summer. Sure, some of the age determining rules are a little shady and tend to cause doubt of it's credibility at the younger ages, but once you reach high school age it is all for one at that point. There are summer tournaments that may have as many as 300 college coaches watching particular games. You can never match that playing with your school team.

Oh I agree with you. Anyone who thinks AAU is a joke really doesn't know a lot about AAU. The experience you can get from playing at a high level is unbelieveable. I believe the people that say "It's a joke" probably had a bad experience with a coach or an organization. AAU offers kids the an oppourtunity that playing for your school team in the summer can never give you. You will not see many school teams with 4 and 5 D1 players on them. You will playing AAU.

Yes HS comes first but a lot go back to playing AAU in July.

O.K lets take out the HS level and only talk about 6th, 7th and 8th grade. What are these kids doing? Other than the Elite and Tarheels no other 7th grade team is going to nationals. I know we can say the enconomy all we want to. But I believe it was the same the last few years when the enconomy wasn't in the tank. You just dont see many teams for KY compete at the higher level at the early age. If they are waiting to compete at the AAU level when they are older. Is it hurting them? Just look at the KY/Indy all star game the last 10 years or so. Indy kills us year after year. Look how many teams (young teams) they send to nationals. They are sending seven teams to the 7th grade nationals, KY two. Could getting this kind of exposure at the younger age be helping them?

Why is summer basketball in KY dead? AAU nationals begin next week. The 7th grade divsion kicks things off in Memphis. I only see two teams, Tarheels and KY Elite playing in D1 or D2 from KY. Is KY becoming or has it already became a football state? Are we playing less basketball or just less AAU? I know I am fan AAU and the competition it brings to the table. I know a lot of people get caught up on the age excemption thing. But if you play varsity at a young age. You are going to play against older people anyway. So that should not be a reason not to play. Why are we not sending more teams for KY to the big national tournaments?

Very curious to me. Why does a 72 year old man kill himself? He was still working, seemed in good health. Just curious.:confused:

Nobody on Holmes is on the roster?

Riley should be there, period.

We have stayed in Kitty Hawk and Duck. I thought Duck was just to far away to get to anything. But we love the area and will go back. Great seafood.

Guess this post by Slemac was incorrect on Hatton's age then. Accept my apology.

 

I'd have to agree with Q. If Hatton's shot looks bad it's because of defense. Hatton is one of the best shooters at the U13 and u14 level in the area and around the state. If he gets to be 6' or 6'1", he will be a stud guard at the high school level over the next couple of years. I'm surprised by his lack of defensive effort, he usually is a bully on the court, but then again he is a 14 year old playing varsity.

Dont be surprised by his lack of defensive effort. At the Cincy Knights Tourney his man beat him down court all day long. He is to busy looking cool then hustling back to check someone.

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Middelton from Mason won MVP with one of the Faulkner boys. Middelton played very well going to the bucket getting at least four three point plays. Ky squad won. The Boone County kid looked lost out there. He played hard, I will give him that but looked lost on offense.

For the younger team the NKY Tarheels look loaded. After speaking with one of the parents they combined the Wildcats and Wolfpack. Good gaurds and bigs. Should be a good summer for them.

I think any team with Stanley on it has a good shot at beating the Knights. I've seen the Knights and the Ville and while the Knights are a better team, If you add Stanley to the Ville, the Knights are beatable!

Not on there best day, would they beat the Knights. I seen the Ville get beat by the Wolfpack at the BCI. They would need four Stanley's and a point gaurd.

He won't be playing for the Knights from my understanding. He currently is playing with the 7th grade Wolfpack. If he plays for anyone at nationals(big if), he would play for the Ville. The Knights have no shot!

Wow, what a shame. I don't believe the Ville could beat the Knights and their best day. The kid could would have a very good shot at winning the nationals. Not putting the Ville down in any way but they are not the same caliber team as the Knights.

What a great tournament. I stopped in tonight and the talent was off the hook. KY Players had about 20 players on their bench but was beating teams bad enough where everyone was getting to play. One of the U15 teams had a kid from Lville that was at least 6-10, not a bad player. The Truth teams where winning. I believe the 7th grade Truth, aka Derek Smith All-Stars, where playing both 7 and 8 grade division and winning. The 6th grade Knights are the best 6th grade team in the country. They have size, speed and shooters. I was told tonight they are going after the Wolfpacks best player. I believe his name is Stanley? With him on their team they would be unstopable. On the younger kids side, I stoped in to see defending champs DC Assault U10 team. The got beat by 10 by the Tarheels. The Tarheels team looked to be the NK Wildcat team that won state. Coach Hawkins was keeping book for them. What is up with the name change and who is coaching them? I heard they beat NBA2B to win their pool in their nightcap. Detriot Showtime and Bloomington Red both look teams that could beat the Tarheels.

I thought the officating was very solid. They where controlling the game and the fans. Very good tournament. Should be a very good Sunday in Cincinnati.

Brackets are out and the tournament is loaded at every age bracket.

http://www.cincyknights.com/

90 plus teams over all. Should be a great weekend of basketball in Cincinnati.

You should go today (Thurs). William (Billy) Trillio will be running his last race today at 4:30. Billy has been a jockey is this area for a long time. He is a great guy and a great jockey. I am happy and sad that he is retiring.

The Knights AAU tournament is this weekend. Looks like teams from all over will be there. Any teams from KY playing?

Doesn't Pike play for this team?

I heard the Indy Elite was wanting Pike to play with them this summer.

I know there were no 4th grade teams at all.

U12 Prediction

 

D1 Ville over the CKY Tigers BIG!!!

 

D2 Wolfpack over field by atleast 10!!

 

GO PACK!

Your prediction was correct both The Ville and Wolfpack win their divisions. Congrats to both teams.

what the score?

O.T.

Shelby Valley. I picked them in November and I am sticking with them. I am from NKY and I didn't drink the Holmes cool aid. They have experienced gaurds and a good big man. They don't depend on one thing to win. I think they can win ugly like Holmes or run with EC.

My second pick is Holmes, I might have drank a little bit of it :lol:

I agree with the bold statements. I will never understand why teams that have the best 1 or 2 kids from each school in the whole region do not play up to D1. I know many local teams with 6-10 kids all from the same school who just want to play, but can't compete with the All-star teams in AAU tourneys. That is what D2 is supposed to be about - community teams or school teams. Until they figure out a better way to monitor who plays at what level then I'm afraid the number of teams may continue to dwindle down.

I agree as well. I think this is why you see the SOAS Sunday AAU league numbers down and his week day school league numbers up. More people are going to school type teams. But if you do this you are not AAU anyway so why play AAU? If your playing AAU becuase you want the better competition, why complain about losing to them?:idunno:

You have to qualify or be a host team. Since there were 12 10U teams, I belive the top 4 qualified for Nationals.

I know the Wildcat coach said they are going to D2 nationals. They looked good on Sunday but started off really slow on Saturday.

Why was there a forfeit??? :confused:

The Lexington Col didn't show up for any of their games:confused: Teams looking good the Wolfpack and the Albany team. Albany picked up kids from N. Larual Elite and some other team. Should be an interesting Sunday.