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The rules in NBA have made it so you do not need to know how to play any defense, you get called for a penalty when you do so Coaches found the most efficient way to score by having players practice jump fadeaways and work on getting the jump higher picking skinny tall players who are not too tall yet can jump and having a few who can dunk if needed for the safe 2 point pass to player. The issue stems from NBA/D-League not having defense allowed on the court to the point some players even in Europe the teams are finding more and more success in having the fadeaway jump shot player on the team who is often also able to dunk, the single guy from a team who makes it to the NBA/D-league.
I don't think it's aau by itself more of aau+social media, every kid is going for highlights and trying to go viral instead of actually playing basketball. But also because of social media only the bad parts of aau is going to be pushed out so it's a combination of a bunch of things.
I feel that's some what untrue because when you watch high level AAU and high school, these kids are hooping and the highlights are a by product. If kids don't know the fundamentals it's honesty cause they were never taught it.
@@egp2497you will be surprise of how many people know fundamental and morals but put it all the side for money & clout church boys out here going out sad cause of bad role models and social media
@@egp2497idk the OP might have a point. Currently AAU culture is a lot about branding these days. I feel like it started to ramp up after the Lebron era because he really was one of the more media famous athletes, but even then, a lot of players were still putting in work without modern social media branding.
The European youth development model is much better than America's. #1 You play for 1 team yearround. In Europe, there is no school or AAU ball. You play yearround for a club. *If you're really good, you train and possibly play on your country's junior national team during breaks from your respective club. #2 Games are typically only played once a week. Much more time is spent practicing. #3 If your skills are ahead of your peers, you play up in age. Luka Doncic was playing with 16 and 17 year olds when he was 12. #4 Regardless of size or position, you learn all skills. #5 From the beginning, you are taught the emphasis of team ball, not induvidualism.
AAU has ruined American Basketball culture for the lower 90% of American Basketball players. AAU used to be only fornyhe elite players, which made sense. Now it's a money grab, where kids who should be playing at the Y are paying thousands to travel with D 1 dreams, when they should have already gotten the reality check that it's time to focus on something else.
Thats just dumb offense is at an all-time high in terms of skills and complexity. How basketball was played back in the day was throw the ball to the kid that went true puberty early and stand around.
I agree. My heart hurts for my cousin who’s currently a senior because he pretty much wasted his money on AAU basketball a bit too late in his basketball life as a sophomore going into his junior year. He’s gifted genetically, but was greatly outclassed.
Which is what the NBA does. So they are just following the general direction of NBA basketball. If the NBA was structured the way it used to be AAU would have to follow suit.
@@jonz23m aau is supposed to be for youth development it's young players who don't get paid and want to become better so business structure wouldn't help the players. But NBA half the player and quite literally there for money if they got worst they couldn't care less aslong as they're still getting their paycheck.
AAU by itself hasn’t ruined American basketball, but they’re certain aspects that are a byproduct of AAU that has shown itself to be a key contributor in the deteriorating of the game. To keep it short, AAU coaching (some not all) is just not good. There’s a huge emphasis placed on offense and individuality, which is why there’s a surplus of kids that can get a shot off the bounce but can’t corner sprint on the break, or tag a roller, etc. To your point, there’s no actual teaching taking place. Perhaps this may be a good idea for a vid. Breakdown 5 players over the course of an AAU season and see if they’ve improved at its conclusion. Great vid though.
Is it really AAU tho? Or is AAU only following the NBA direction which is becoming more of an entertainment show based on individual stats rather than a competitive team sport.
@@jonz23mI believe it’s a combination of both. “Kids” mimic what they see. The coaches are coaching the way they played. (Current coaching) Most if not all the old regime of coaches are long gone. Maybe a few tree branches remain in the NBA, even fewer in college. There’s a middle ground between school ball and Professional basketball that’s extremely “fluid”. There’s not enough control in AAU, and too much control in college, and the NBA attempt to develop players with the Elite and Ignite~ has been subpar. The focus has become making the money instead of focusing on their career development which is basketball. It’s also the mentality of the players
@@mobrown1198 I think they are following the lead of the NBA. What they are producing is exactly what the NBA is looking for. Why should they coach them in a way that would reduce the likelihood of them making it to the pros? Especially when most who get drafted are one and done players anyways. Most NBA teams are lead by their star players not by coaches.
Coach you hit it on the nail. Here in Washington state the highschool coaches frown upon AAU basketball but in the same vein they aren't teaching basketball. Its about a bunch of plays instead of teaching players how to play. Excellent video
Most high school coaches mimic college coaches. Most division I college coaches have low IQs, are socially inept and egotistical. Hence why high school ball is the way it is.
@@DorianGroup82 wow! Well said! That video lit a fire under me and I learned a new word! Pedagogy. Man it seems like teaching is the long hard way and most coaches and trainers don't want to go that route. I'm a trainer that coaches and let me tell you I meet a bunch of coaches who say they don't have time to teach or have someone help skill development. So these AAU coaches and highschool coaches take the top kids with talent to stack their teams. So coaches like myself get stuck with teaching and training. But I get it. It's a business. Somebody got to make the money. Appreciate the videos, I'm going back to school
AAU is not the main factor, but mixed with social media culture - where "get rich quick" and "this is the way to be successful" and individualism has taken over in this day and age, and America is where the social media really started, so there's a cultural aspect of exposure to social media. While we love to get rich, the emphasis on fundamentals is an lost art, in addition to developing the skills to be taught and grilled by teachers and mentors alike. The best path to success is not a shortcut or a quick way, but doing what we'd hate to do and that might take long - the great Ichiro Suzuki, a sure MLB Hall of Famer, believes in. I'm old enough to remember great coaches like Bob Knight or Dean Smith coaching college ball. In this day and age, I wouldn't think none would be able to survive Bob Knight's coaching style, not of his volatile nature, but what he valued out from his players - and I'd imagine still a good handful of college coaches are like that, coaching kids on fundamentals on both offense and defense. If players don't want to go to college, that's fine, but NBA is also at fault for making a league more easier to enter if the kids are "talented" and have so much followers at young age, and also make money at 19 - but they may not be a contributing player right away. NBA may need to strengthen the G-League by making it a true stash and develop program like MLB or NHL do with their players with some call-ups from time to time, but also learn to play by getting paid minimum - with option to go to college should they change their mind.
That lack of education is the same issue across most everything in America. We don't really care about the education that's required behind any niche to be successful, we only care about the final product. I was just talking to my wife last week about figuring how to teach out kids HOW to learn because schools aren't doing that any more.
(1) The "velcro" sounding video wipe was cool the first 4 times... After the 37th time it became super annoying. (2) Very well thought out and interesting content.
Coach, your passion for the game is truly inspiring! Your dedication to each player's growth, both on and off the court, fosters a positive team environment where everyone feels valued and motivated to give their best. Thank you for being a leader of leadership and instilling the values of teamwork, perseverance, and sportsmanship in players. Your guidance leads players toward success, and I'm extremely grateful that I can learn from your videos. Thanks! Also is it possible you make a future video breaking down shai, i think it would be extremley educational for those trying to get better with his slow mythodical playstyle.
High school basketball coaches aren't federally funded. You're making no sense. High school coaches have 2 jobs because hardly any school can pay extra for just coaches. AAU coaches got day jobs, too. If AAU coaches are so great, how come AAU kids lack fundamentals?
It's not just in basketball. I see it happening in music just the same. Musicians, singers and even choirs don't like to practice. Sing every Sunday, practice once every couple of months.
Yep 100% agree. What coach said is true, I went to Europe on a elite track team exchange thing years ago, I got better coaching from the European coaches in that one Summer than I did my entire career in the US, they take it very seriously, they are perfectionists, do it over and over and over until your technique is perfect. The coaches over there seem devoted to their craft, here its what is my next big paycheck and where.
Yeah man, I learned all the fundamental I know in city league and church league as a kid. That's all I can say. Those old guys they had coaching knew their stuff and I don't think they got paid a dime. They just did it out of love of the game. Maybe its much different now, but there used to be opportunities to learn all that even BEFORE you got to high school. And also I got to believe there are still alot of good high school coaches. If you are a player that is looking to play college ball seriouslly you and you know your coach is bad, you going to move, if you can and if you parents care, to a school where they take basketball seriously. So I don't think it's how many practices kids go to that is the issue. It's that the way fundamentals use to be taught is more of a lost art in the United States but it still exists in other parts of the world. I don' t think AAU is to blame, as much as it is the NBA. In the pros zone defense is illegal so you don't need to know that, they don't call charges so there is no need to learn to take one. The refs are easy when it comes to traveling and carrying the basketball. Kids are learning from watching basketball on TV and they aren't watching international ball for the most part they watching the NBA.
Yes. AAU ruined Americans basketball, one level at a time. It took talent away from highschool. That talent went to college less disciplined than the generations before them. And now those players are in the NBA where the game is now starting to suffer as well.
It's NOT AAU. AAU was never meant to be the training system for our athletics. It was just a sort of loose Olympics organization. THE PROBLEM is the fact that our SCHOOL SYSTEM is in charge of primary athletic development and our School Systems are all over the map, largely incompetent or indifferent to serious athletic training, from state to state, city to city. OTOH, EASTERN European athletics were centralized and remain much more centralized than American basketball has ever been because of the USSR state controlled athletics. Because they didn't have an actual American style economy the Soviets poured massive amounts of money into athletics, and it was all run in a dictatorial, top-down style with a lot of emphasis on the basics. Fast forward 20 years after the collapse of the USSR and you see the continuity of that system with athletic training, basketball in particular where the Western European soccer academy system has been sort of adopted for basketball. The result is better training in fundamentals, especially shooting for bigs. So combined with the increased exposure to the American game, and the 3-PT Revolution of Steph Curry, you're seeing a few more Euro players have real success in the league. Although the guy most people point to as some sort of example of the "advantages" of European academy/semi-pro basketball, Luka Doncic, hasn't won anything and hasn't come close to winning anything. Maybe he'll win a scoring title this year but his team is still taking Ls. Luka plays more like Harden and Lebron tbh, so I'm not seeing what "advantage" he has. The best example of the difference between European and American basketball is with 7 footers. Because in America if you're big at an early age you ALWAYS stay near the basket and you NEVER LEARN HOW TO DRIBBLE OR SHOOT. This has been the case as far back as Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain. Shaq is the poster child for this but so was Blake Griffin and Deandre Ayton. It's changed a little with Durant's success but because there is no actual Training System the long term impact will be all over the place.
You're 100%. My son just wants to play basketball, we live in a small town so AAU is our only option to play outside of school ball. It's done so much for his development it's crazy. The big thing is find an AAU program that wants to develop basketball players. We love our AAU group, they do league play with over AAU teams in the area, it's not just weekends full of Tournament play. Obviously that comes later for the Highschool aged kids on the prep circuits, but for the younger players development should be priority.
That’s phenomenal and that’s what AAU is supposed to do. If your son keeps working out on his own as well, he will get the most out of his basketball talent. You’re doing a great job.
I remember you only get a mixtape when people pulled up to make one for you...now we got every single "#1 player in their class" has 30 mixtapes by 6th grade smh. most of the tape just be b-roles too lmaooooooo
I would agree with Coach Geno because I do not even coach in the US. I'm abroad and "academies" are popping up all over the place pulling kids away from their schools to go play. They would not commit to their HS team because we had less games and more practice. When they are with their other coaches (and one team may flip flop coaches so they have no consistency), they get very little focus on the fundamentals including discipline, respect, comradery , leadership, etc.
As a former Ohio State (and IU) and NBA player, this video is right on point! I’ve been an assistant basketball coach on a top 10 state high school team in Ohio the past two seasons. I was a nationally ranked top 5 high school player back in 1989 and can attest that today’s players are more skilled but they’re not better than their counterparts in previous decades. Showmanship is one thing, and fundamentals are something entirely different. The former can be a fad, while the latter never goes out of style. What’s also missing is the art and science of coaching players to excel athletically, academically, and aesthetically. - Lawrence Funderburke, MBA and CFP
My family is from Dayton, Ohio. In the summer 1995, they surprised me with a summer camp. It was Mark Baker’s Basketball Camp. After lunch, we used to have trivia. One day Mark asked us to name his starting 5 at Ohio State. I yelled “Jim Jackson!” Another kid yelled “Thunderbird!” I was 10 and asked myself “who the hell is thunderbird?” Mark laughed and corrected him. I followed your career from that point on. Thanks for always doing things the right way.
I dont understand this debate. In order to be a showman, or play with stylye, ,you have to have really good fundamentals. You cant be unskilled and scoring 30 pts in an AAU game. I don't understand this argument.
@@carlosmachado3360 with reps, you need coaching. Good coaching. Coach the kids about the complexities of the game. No one cares if you drop 60. You'll still lose most of the time.
1. Everything u stated is your perspective and its valid, everything Geno stated is his perspective and its valid, I tend to agree with Geno's perspective. I'm currently coaching AAU for my sons 12u team and i hesitated with the idea because I'm not totally onboard with AAU, because at least where I'm at in Cali I don't trust the coaches here to actually TEACH and have seen 1st hand the outlandish negatives, so my only compromise was to coach myself. 2. When I was coaching HS ball around 2012 is when I noticed the negative impact of AAU. The culture Geno is also speaking of is loyalty, mindset, and priorities. The school I was at was coming off 3 straight valley rings and competed for state all 3x, yet 3 of our up and coming young guys decided to go to a different school simply because they all played on the same AAU team and didn't want to be held accountable to a higher standard. From then we started to see that exact trend grow rapid with the Jr high kids already plotting what HS to team up at instead of compete. I believe the team up culture of the NBA also plays a huge part of this. 3. Status! when I was coming up, playing in Jr High or HS school games if we heard of a kid that played AAU or we're the kid that played AAU, they were simply on a different level than others. That's not the case anymore! kids would rather just ride the bench on a AAU team for status, when they play for their school and they look regular we know why(I've been coaching Jr High for the past 5yrs). Has very little to do with coaching at the school, these kids simply have not put the work in and are usually uncoachable/entitled. 4. Lastly.... Janitor, professor, dad or pro. For the most part these school coaches have creditable knowledge of the game to contribute to the teaching of those kids and more importantly is based more on passion than finances. Let's all be honest here, usually AAU coaches are there for the money and other invalid reasons.
Love the content. God bless. I don't think AAU is ruining basketball. It helped one of my four brothers get a scholarship to play in college. And might help my other younger brother do the same.
Umm that isn’t relating to the point of the video, that’s good it helped your brother get a scholarship but that doesn’t mean it’s helping basketball culture.
Auu is ruined by people who only cared about winning and pimping these young kid to get the next Jordan . One game is good enough 5 games in 2 days is madness
I attended a college prep school that had a great varsity coach, my talent was never really high and I stopped at junior year. But the workouts and practices I got to attend with him and his varsity team were electric, we focused on all aspects of the game and the nuance of defense, ball movement and pace of the game. We worked on athletics, strength, speed and plays for in game situations. I later went on to play for the junior varsity, where the coach would have needed an explosion to happen in the gym to actually care about his players other than his 3 stars, it was terrible. (that varsity team later went on to win the state championship in 2017.) I am forever grateful for those varsity practices, it’s a shame that most will never experience that now.
I didn’t realize until I got older how many players never get to experience what it’s like to be on a great team. That synergy is unmatched in other facet of society.
I don't know if I know enough to say whether or not it is ruining it. But I do feel there are a lot of unqualified coaches handling kids and their development, and not just their basketball skill development. I would love to see the US implement something similar to Canada's Jr Hockey system. Organized, intentional, and prepares them for what they'll do next. There are a significant # of programs I see that use kids, when I feel it would be better if the kids were able to use the programs. With that said, I know a lot of programs have developed young ball players into great young adults, boys and girls. My biggest complaint would be that there is always another program or team they can run to if any little thing makes the player or their parent upset. I can understand leaving a toxic situation, but a lot of times I feel its for soft reasons and they lack grit and determination.
Mannnn when u was in my sophomore year of Highschool I went into tryouts and dropped 16pts,3ast,3reb,2 steal,and a block and on 4/6 from the field and clearly outplayed everyone on both ends of the floor and got cut by the JV and then that summer I worked out with the varsity coach and he told me I was the most talented kid he had ever seen and asked if I tried out last year I said yeah but I got cut and he told me that’s why I don’t like the JV coach he isn’t good then I go into tryouts my junior year and I don’t get the ball at all it’s like they was purposely not passing me the ball and it was so bad to the point people on the sideline who already made the team was telling people to give me the ball and I end up getting cut and over the summer he ended up getting fired then I transferred because I moved and as of right now I’m in my senior year of Highschool and my old school with a new coach just made it to district finals and I also tried out this year for the basketball team and the same thing basically happened I ain’t get the ball and when I did have the ball I was feeding the hot hand because “the teams best player” was hot he had like 20 and I got cut like it’s just unlucky man I work my ass off over the summer I’m talking 3pm-10pm bro but it’s gonna be okay I’m going to college and going to walk on and continue to put in work
I tried playing basketball in high school but witching months I noticed how I won’t have the money and recourses to compete with the kids who’s parents are making more than enough money to live well
I still belive that there should be more practice with aau. Maby teams practice in the morning and play games in the evening and have some rest in-between for there bodies to recover maby they watch film that day.
I 💯 agree with you! So many players are suffering because of the issues you mentioned. To add on to your point, they don't pay teachers and coaches well. Therefore, the people who would have been great ambassadors to the game aren't interested in getting into the education world.
do you ever plan on doing some videos on European prospects? Zaccharie Risacher, Alex Sarr. I think these might be especially interesting because of their frames. And will Risacher be an elite shooter? Or did he just have a hot start to the season..
Hey Coach, I love watching your videos and I have questions about how to improve basketball IQ. I’ve been watching CBB and Nba ball, but i’m not sure what I should be looking for. Any advice? Thanks,
Hell Ya, did you listen to the difference between USA and Europe? Use to be practice was important. Got a chance to witness one of the practices at UCLA right before Coach Wooden retired and the emphasis was practice back then, the game was secondary and only a result of your performance in practice. You are probably one of those AAU coaches, huh.
Idc about the culture, they’re blowing these kids knees out by then time they even get to college. That’s why the ball brothers are all injury prone cause they’ve been putting obscene amounts of damage on their joints without proper recovery for YEARS. AAU creates incredible hoopers, but they can’t last.
Here in Canada, it mostly depends on the team, but most have 4 or 3 practices a week and than most weekends no game an when we do it's 2 to 4. I had no idea AAU worked like this and it is interesting, but not the way it should be.
Maybe his coach was ass but he didn’t have to clown him for being a custodian. Coaches in public schools don’t make a lot. Coaching (whether it’s sports or academia) is usually secondary to the main job a coach has.
I coached for about two season and honestly yes it’s ruining it. You don’t know how many parent told me their kid doesn’t wanna practice so I say they aren’t playing and I get told I’ll be fired so I said forget it and quit and they been calling me to come back for a year and
He said lot of things in this video but never addressed main point.Practicing vs just playing games.Level of fundamental knowledge of basketball by 15-18 year old kids from Europe vs US…. Being athletic is not enough anymore. I still think playing AAU can benefit kids in off season and they should play AAU.This shouldn’t be AAU vs high school basketball. I know lot of AAU coaches who has no business coaching and to his point there is lot of people around HS basketball that don’t belong there.
Coaching and scouting is the problem because those fields are under the 'Development' umbrella. Kids are coming into the Association with serious IQ issues. That's a problem that you need to consult their former coaches about. Weight should be one of the only issues for a budding professional athlete. Fixing someone's broken shot shouldn't really be a thing anymore given the resources available, but here we are.
I hear you. You just re-affirmed a lot of things I was thinking. I have been giving the game so much grace the past 10 years that I try not to acknowledge how much the current basketball minds have failed them. I feel like basketball is a sport that throughout my life, the players got smarter. LeBron is smarter than Kobe who is smarter than MJ who is smarter than Dr. J. This generation of basketball players has the lowest IQ I've ever seen.
From a training perspective I agree that in general many coaches don’t teach the athletes the game or concepts. On the flip side in bigger cities maybe AAU is above school but at the same time scouts still have to go through the school coach. In rural communities that ls different l. Kids want the highlights and not the substance. AAU used to be for the elite now not so much, many kids need to spend more time practicing. The amount of kids that get big NIL money is still the 10-20% and the 80-90% still fight for a roster spot (which in basketball is very small compared to football). I believe it comes down to long term and what makes sense for the athlete (more exposure v polish etc.).
Another issue is that the term AAU is so watered down. You have these fly by night programs claiming to be AAU. AAU programs that only hit tournaments in a certain area so they see the same competition. AAU is for sure a money gram. There are some kids in AAU that have no business being in AAU. Let's not talk about the whole "re-classing" mess. I can't say it is the big corps fault or its the colleges fault. It is a mixture. Parents are to blame as well.
Coach Auriemma has a point about a fundamental factor. DG, you have a point about an overall factor. And the money is driving the evolution - according to its factors.
There is no structure in 🏀 in US like there is in European sports: soccer, basketball, Handball, etc. no coaching standards, no curriculum or youth development plans. Its all dyi and just hope it works out for a few You can't be in some youth academy and not be able to pass, go left or know which hand you shoot because they will work on that continuously. In the US, if you have one exceptional skill that can make your coach win, they will overlook everyhing else. If you have a 6:1 ratio of games/practice or a 1:6 ratio, where will you see better technical skills, understanding of game theory, etc? Where will a 16-17yr phenom get better? Playing with u21 as well as training & play a few games with senior squads vs men? Or playing against pimply high schoolers like that little white boy who covered Zion? Thay said, i have no idea hiw you fix this because its not just one thing you have to change and many have invested in this system so you will have pushback.
To me social media is what really killed aau, kids are playing for highlights than just the beauty of the game and practice would help but if they played the right way we would possibly get good rest out of that
Basketball as a whole is terrible. And I feel like ppl are using AAU as an scapegoat. The point of AAU is for a player to get as much game experience as possible. It’s not made for 6 practices a week 🤣👎🏽 never has never will be. Now playing 6x a week? That’s excessive. But AAU is for exposure because higher level coaches can’t really see players in the winter because of their seasons. I think college coaches are against it because now with NIL they have no leverage or control
The culture is usually shaped by the professionals, and figures that the youth look up to. In my opinion, the NBA and other professional leagues have a part to play in the downward trajectory of basketball culture. Basketball used to be about hooping, 2 competitors/teams going at it to win. It seems that all people care about now are highlights, dunks, talking shit, And arguing about rules like traveling and carrying. I noticed a lot of kids and teens get on the court now to show off and get that crazy highlight on camera so they can go viral. The fundamentals and team basketball aspect of the game has been lost on a lot of youth and a lot of coaches are so focused on winning that they don’t think t stop and teach these things because they never learned it themselves.
playing basketball in europe at pro clubs or amateur basketball schools is completly different from AAU, from what i've noticed is that in europe there is only 1 game an week more time for scheming and purposefull training where AAU is 6 games win or lose everything goes. The entire system in europe where players at 12 already play for pro clubs and are mentored by coaches that only have winning as mindset, 1 missed back cut and the opponent scores? oh you're getting benched and the coach will yell in your face. Havent seen to much off this in AAU cause there is another game in an hour no reason to kill an kids confidence where in europe you will stay on the bench, have to prove in the week after that the mistake is corrected in practice wait another day then play the next game.
I was on the circuit from 2003-12 lol as we got older practices got fewer to 0 days a month. Players on the team from all over the state and neighboring states. It’s been a thing 😂
The problem with AAU (just like hs ball) is the coaches and parents. It’s a great concept if the kids are taught the right way but the reality is in America rn lots of people, even some of the most talented, aren’t being taught to play correctly
Yes, between AAU, parents and social media to many kids focus on highlight reels and showing off. They have no true understanding of the commitment it takes to learn the game.
I understand that it can be bad but for me when I was in 7th grade I was like the 6th-7th man on the roster and played a little but I couldn’t shoot consistently and I was 5’4 then I played my first year of AAU and it went on for 6 months and as my school ball came around I grew 6 inches .I started and was second in scoring. We went to the Championship game and hit a 3 to tie the game and hit a 3 to win the game and I got MVP from the announcer and now I am 5’10 1/2. From 7th grade 5’4 and bench to 8th grade and 5’10 1/2
My son just finished his senior season and his high school program was terrible for him. AAU was the only place for him to get the reps to actually learn how to play.
Is ruining? Lol it has ruined American basketball. I watched a game the other day of AAU basketball & stopped watching halfway through. It's everything I hate about the NBA & the product is garbage, but they're kids so I can't speak down on them, but I can speak down on these professional players in the NBA.
I believe it's all relative. In my area, some of the AAU programs are better than the high school teams. I believe it comes down to the coaching staff. Are they actually developing players on and off the court?
I coached middle school ball for 9 years, high school ball for 12 years. Early on, I encouraged kids to play AAU to get more experience and keep playing. However, in my later years before I had enough and got out, I hated coaching AAU players. Most of the AAU coaches were tools that just were trying to advance their own kids or make money by feeding kids and parents bullshit. I was very big on drills and skill building at practices- footwork, ball-handling, basketball IQ, fundamentals- every single day. In the last few years, I met tons of resistance. They never wanted to do it or work at it. All they wanted to do was scrimmage, play 1-on-1, do shooting contests, run plays, which I typically kept to about 1/4 of practice time. Most of the drills for working off the ball, ball handling, or footwork folded in elements of the plays and systems we ran. Nope, eye rolls, heavy breaths, and complaining if it wasn't running up and down, 5-on-5, playing iso ball. It certainly developed selfishness and delusion, I can tell you that.
I found this to be the same sentiment with really serious high school coaches like yourself. A serious high school coach that runs a good program and is a teacher of the game is the best asset for a youth basketball player. Most serious AAU coaches who run good programs, develop players on and off the floor are an elite asset for a youth player too. The problem is that there are way more bad high/AAU school coaches than there are good. So the good ones rarely find each other.
Growing up in the 80s & 90s I remember there was the Dapper Dan & the Roundball Classic for the best HS players there was no AAU you was taught defense, dribbling, passing the fundamental of the game today it social media kids today all doing the same thing everybody has a brand it too much money involved it really not watchable at times.
In an AAU or any game you may get 16-30 shots up as the best player. 17 and under shots for everyone else in 2 hours. In a 2 hour practice session you can make 200-500 shots depending on skill level. It should be 90-10 percent split practice game split in the off season
I find it very interesting that coach Don Haskins saw this coming and knew that AAU was going to go this way. Haskins took the approach of mentioning not building good teamwork, lacking proper sportsmanship and poor fundamentals.
Everyone is getting this wrong actually. It's not about AAU nor is it about high school coaches. This is about the NBA. Unlike the major professional teams overseas, NBA teams do not get involved directly with developing young talent. Basically, the NBA doesn't get involved until the player is 19-20, meanwhile guys like Giannis and Luka were already signed with professional teams by the age of 15-16. Meaning there is a period of about 4 years where our best young players are playing for these AAU coaches against kids that are 5'11" while players overseas are working with professional coaches and playing against high-level competition. This is really unacceptable when you consider that the NBA has WAY more resources than any of these overseas leagues and yet they invest WAY less in developing their most important assets. As long as that's the case there is literally nothing that will prevent the US from losing ground to these other countries. We need to remove the last vestiges of the obsolete "high school to college to pro" system. We were able to get away with that when 95% of NBA players came from the US but in today's landscape it's like trying to compete against Apple with a flip phone company. This is on Adam Silver for being asleep at the wheel IMO.
The fundamentals on most AAU basketball games are terrible. They don't pass well and they play an undisciplined street ball with little emphasis on defense. The emphasis is more on flashy offensive plays than playing well coached basketball. I always like when AAU types start to criticize some of the finest coaches who may actually know a lot more about winning. I would take the 2002 UConn woman's team as a case study of what happens when basketball is viewed as a team sport. The players on that team could move the ball around the court with ease and could anticipate what their teammates were about to do. The one positive about NCAA WBB and Division III basketball is that you get to see players develop their skills as opposed to the "one and done" of Division I
I think back then it was more organic of people making it to the league now the aau circuit is manufacturing pro players just because they fit a certain build they are being trained to be nba players from an early age rather than just liking it
AAU has contributed to ruining basketball and it’s apparent in the players in the nba currently, look how they play, look how they act. AAU wasn’t always bad, it was operated by people who cared now it turned into a business about making money. NBA legends used to host camps for free now camps are hundreds of dollars. This is why international ball is dominating now, they desperate athletics and education.
not to take away from your points, but the peeling sound effect was very distracting, also its not necessary toward making your point and content the best it could be. In fact it took away from it due to the distraction and lack of meaning behind the sound effect, keep grinding :D
I think the biggest thing is that most other countries thanks to the way they have mimicked soccer just have a better foundation in place. It's not like Serbia or France aren't also having their PE coaches coach basketball. The difference is that if a kid shows promise he can just go to their minor league and learn an actual system playing against grown men and often times riding the bench for a few years while he gets the fundamentals. This is what AAU was supposed to be. A system to get the best kids in front of the best coaches to learn the game. However, when money got injected it became a showcase of young talent and not about high level play preparation. Luka was playing against adults at 15 in practice. At 16 he was part of a squad playing 2 minutes per game in Spain.
Depends on the lens you look at it from. If American basketball culture is playing to win and improve for the love of the game itself, then it def plays an aspect in bridging the divide. But if American basketball is now centered around the fact the NBA is now focused on entertainment and pushed to getting highlights to be relevant on social media. Then it’s feeding perfectly into nowadays American basketball culture. Today (most) kids aren’t watching full games and studying game, they go on TikTok, instagram, and TH-cam to see the highlights their favorite player did and want to do just that.
You literally proved Geno's point, you talked about the money. What Geno was saying though talented most lack the fundamentals of basketball and it's not a College Coach to teach a Guy how to feed the post as an example which I watch dudes not comfortable doing it so they swing the ball. Than guys leave college and get drafted on potential even though they aren't mentally or Physically ready which helped destroy NBA basketball in my opinion. As far as High School ball I'm from Chicago and for decades some of our H.S. programs have been beastly and still are today so I don't believe there is no value in it. AAU are all star games with minimal defense, it's mainly for exposure so that's the business side your speaking of. More guys than not really need at least 3 years of College basketball.
I looked the 2024 players by location and Canada is the only one country that has more NBA players than the state of California. There are only 25% 125 of 510. If there’s such a crisis in basketball culture in the US, why aren’t there more foreign players?
I can’t believe bro was from nap and a Westlane alum 🤣🤣🤣. I’m pretty glad to get to witness guys like Kris Wilkes, Eron Gordon, Smith Riveria in hs at NC. Even Darius Latham was hooping at one point.
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The rules in NBA have made it so you do not need to know how to play any defense, you get called for a penalty when you do so Coaches found the most efficient way to score by having players practice jump fadeaways and work on getting the jump higher picking skinny tall players who are not too tall yet can jump and having a few who can dunk if needed for the safe 2 point pass to player. The issue stems from NBA/D-League not having defense allowed on the court to the point some players even in Europe the teams are finding more and more success in having the fadeaway jump shot player on the team who is often also able to dunk, the single guy from a team who makes it to the NBA/D-league.
My highschool coach, never had a winning season for 15 seasons and never got fired, come to find out his wife was on the district board.
😂😂
Most highschools are a joke anyway.
@@T1Oracleespecially public schools
If you think he was in it for the money, he wasn't.
@@dudeliberty connections.
I don't think it's aau by itself more of aau+social media, every kid is going for highlights and trying to go viral instead of actually playing basketball. But also because of social media only the bad parts of aau is going to be pushed out so it's a combination of a bunch of things.
I feel that's some what untrue because when you watch high level AAU and high school, these kids are hooping and the highlights are a by product. If kids don't know the fundamentals it's honesty cause they were never taught it.
@@egp2497you will be surprise of how many people know fundamental and morals but put it all the side for money & clout church boys out here going out sad cause of bad role models and social media
@egp2497 nothing worse than kids with hope. How dare they go out there hoping.
@@6tiple6ix6afiac’mon bruh. You knew what he meant.
@@egp2497idk the OP might have a point. Currently AAU culture is a lot about branding these days. I feel like it started to ramp up after the Lebron era because he really was one of the more media famous athletes, but even then, a lot of players were still putting in work without modern social media branding.
The European youth development model is much better than America's.
#1 You play for 1 team yearround. In Europe, there is no school or AAU ball. You play yearround for a club.
*If you're really good, you train and possibly play on your country's junior national team during breaks from your respective club.
#2 Games are typically only played once a week. Much more time is spent practicing.
#3 If your skills are ahead of your peers, you play up in age. Luka Doncic was playing with 16 and 17 year olds when he was 12.
#4 Regardless of size or position, you learn all skills.
#5 From the beginning, you are taught the emphasis of team ball, not induvidualism.
AAU has ruined American Basketball culture for the lower 90% of American Basketball players. AAU used to be only fornyhe elite players, which made sense. Now it's a money grab, where kids who should be playing at the Y are paying thousands to travel with D 1 dreams, when they should have already gotten the reality check that it's time to focus on something else.
ditto
All these prep schools, for pay academies, private trainers live off "that dream".
Thats just dumb offense is at an all-time high in terms of skills and complexity. How basketball was played back in the day was throw the ball to the kid that went true puberty early and stand around.
Or advance the skills at the lower level and practicing. They shouldn’t be playing that many games they should be practicing.
I agree. My heart hurts for my cousin who’s currently a senior because he pretty much wasted his money on AAU basketball a bit too late in his basketball life as a sophomore going into his junior year. He’s gifted genetically, but was greatly outclassed.
I played aau in indy for years, I don’t think it attempts to develop players and it turns youth basketball into too much of a business
Facts...
Which is what the NBA does. So they are just following the general direction of NBA basketball.
If the NBA was structured the way it used to be AAU would have to follow suit.
@@jonz23myea but nba is a job
@@JLENDSS hmm what does that have to do with what I said? 🤔
@@jonz23m aau is supposed to be for youth development it's young players who don't get paid and want to become better so business structure wouldn't help the players. But NBA half the player and quite literally there for money if they got worst they couldn't care less aslong as they're still getting their paycheck.
its really sad to see - they practice iso ball and step back threes and its horrible to watch
AAU by itself hasn’t ruined American basketball, but they’re certain aspects that are a byproduct of AAU that has shown itself to be a key contributor in the deteriorating of the game. To keep it short, AAU coaching (some not all) is just not good. There’s a huge emphasis placed on offense and individuality, which is why there’s a surplus of kids that can get a shot off the bounce but can’t corner sprint on the break, or tag a roller, etc. To your point, there’s no actual teaching taking place.
Perhaps this may be a good idea for a vid. Breakdown 5 players over the course of an AAU season and see if they’ve improved at its conclusion.
Great vid though.
This
Is it really AAU tho? Or is AAU only following the NBA direction which is becoming more of an entertainment show based on individual stats rather than a competitive team sport.
@@jonz23mI believe it’s a combination of both. “Kids” mimic what they see.
The coaches are coaching the way they played. (Current coaching)
Most if not all the old regime of coaches are long gone. Maybe a few tree branches remain in the NBA, even fewer in college.
There’s a middle ground between school ball and Professional basketball that’s extremely “fluid”.
There’s not enough control in AAU, and too much control in college, and the NBA attempt to develop players with the Elite and Ignite~ has been subpar.
The focus has become making the money instead of focusing on their career development which is basketball.
It’s also the mentality of the players
@@mobrown1198 I think they are following the lead of the NBA. What they are producing is exactly what the NBA is looking for.
Why should they coach them in a way that would reduce the likelihood of them making it to the pros? Especially when most who get drafted are one and done players anyways.
Most NBA teams are lead by their star players not by coaches.
@@jonz23m That’s a great point.
Also social media has fucked the game up
Everyone want everything now. No more time to develop anyone.
It allows kids to develop their brand at an age when most can’t handle the attention properly.
Okay boomer
@@MC-un1nx I’m a Millennial, he’s not entirely wrong.
@@MC-un1nx not that old
Coach you hit it on the nail. Here in Washington state the highschool coaches frown upon AAU basketball but in the same vein they aren't teaching basketball. Its about a bunch of plays instead of teaching players how to play. Excellent video
Most high school coaches mimic college coaches. Most division I college coaches have low IQs, are socially inept and egotistical. Hence why high school ball is the way it is.
@@DorianGroup82 wow! Well said! That video lit a fire under me and I learned a new word! Pedagogy. Man it seems like teaching is the long hard way and most coaches and trainers don't want to go that route. I'm a trainer that coaches and let me tell you I meet a bunch of coaches who say they don't have time to teach or have someone help skill development. So these AAU coaches and highschool coaches take the top kids with talent to stack their teams. So coaches like myself get stuck with teaching and training. But I get it. It's a business. Somebody got to make the money. Appreciate the videos, I'm going back to school
AAU is not the main factor, but mixed with social media culture - where "get rich quick" and "this is the way to be successful" and individualism has taken over in this day and age, and America is where the social media really started, so there's a cultural aspect of exposure to social media. While we love to get rich, the emphasis on fundamentals is an lost art, in addition to developing the skills to be taught and grilled by teachers and mentors alike. The best path to success is not a shortcut or a quick way, but doing what we'd hate to do and that might take long - the great Ichiro Suzuki, a sure MLB Hall of Famer, believes in.
I'm old enough to remember great coaches like Bob Knight or Dean Smith coaching college ball. In this day and age, I wouldn't think none would be able to survive Bob Knight's coaching style, not of his volatile nature, but what he valued out from his players - and I'd imagine still a good handful of college coaches are like that, coaching kids on fundamentals on both offense and defense.
If players don't want to go to college, that's fine, but NBA is also at fault for making a league more easier to enter if the kids are "talented" and have so much followers at young age, and also make money at 19 - but they may not be a contributing player right away. NBA may need to strengthen the G-League by making it a true stash and develop program like MLB or NHL do with their players with some call-ups from time to time, but also learn to play by getting paid minimum - with option to go to college should they change their mind.
Great points.
Why did you take shots at individualism?
Okay boomer
That lack of education is the same issue across most everything in America. We don't really care about the education that's required behind any niche to be successful, we only care about the final product. I was just talking to my wife last week about figuring how to teach out kids HOW to learn because schools aren't doing that any more.
(1) The "velcro" sounding video wipe was cool the first 4 times... After the 37th time it became super annoying.
(2) Very well thought out and interesting content.
Was gonna say this. The content is good but the velcro sound effect is really annoying
damn, i read this comment and now all i hear is the velcro. great content and i would love to finish this video but i cant.
Coach, your passion for the game is truly inspiring! Your dedication to each player's growth, both on and off the court, fosters a positive team environment where everyone feels valued and motivated to give their best. Thank you for being a leader of leadership and instilling the values of teamwork, perseverance, and sportsmanship in players. Your guidance leads players toward success, and I'm extremely grateful that I can learn from your videos. Thanks! Also is it possible you make a future video breaking down shai, i think it would be extremley educational for those trying to get better with his slow mythodical playstyle.
I appreciate you supporting and locking in.
Geno is right. And it’s microcosmic example of what’s wrong with Americans: all flash, no substance/fundamentals.
High school basketball coaches aren't federally funded. You're making no sense. High school coaches have 2 jobs because hardly any school can pay extra for just coaches. AAU coaches got day jobs, too. If AAU coaches are so great, how come AAU kids lack fundamentals?
Bro the ripping noise for every transition had me tripping out 😂😂😂
I thought I was sitting on a piece of paper or something… 😂
It's not just in basketball. I see it happening in music just the same. Musicians, singers and even choirs don't like to practice. Sing every Sunday, practice once every couple of months.
Interesting observation. As leaders, we have to be better across the board.
Yep 100% agree. What coach said is true, I went to Europe on a elite track team exchange thing years ago, I got better coaching from the European coaches in that one Summer than I did my entire career in the US, they take it very seriously, they are perfectionists, do it over and over and over until your technique is perfect. The coaches over there seem devoted to their craft, here its what is my next big paycheck and where.
Yeah man, I learned all the fundamental I know in city league and church league as a kid. That's all I can say. Those old guys they had coaching knew their stuff and I don't think they got paid a dime. They just did it out of love of the game. Maybe its much different now, but there used to be opportunities to learn all that even BEFORE you got to high school. And also I got to believe there are still alot of good high school coaches. If you are a player that is looking to play college ball seriouslly you and you know your coach is bad, you going to move, if you can and if you parents care, to a school where they take basketball seriously. So I don't think it's how many practices kids go to that is the issue. It's that the way fundamentals use to be taught is more of a lost art in the United States but it still exists in other parts of the world. I don' t think AAU is to blame, as much as it is the NBA. In the pros zone defense is illegal so you don't need to know that, they don't call charges so there is no need to learn to take one. The refs are easy when it comes to traveling and carrying the basketball. Kids are learning from watching basketball on TV and they aren't watching international ball for the most part they watching the NBA.
Yes. AAU ruined Americans basketball, one level at a time. It took talent away from highschool. That talent went to college less disciplined than the generations before them. And now those players are in the NBA where the game is now starting to suffer as well.
International players are the future
It's NOT AAU. AAU was never meant to be the training system for our athletics. It was just a sort of loose Olympics organization.
THE PROBLEM is the fact that our SCHOOL SYSTEM is in charge of primary athletic development and our School Systems are all over the map, largely incompetent or indifferent to serious athletic training, from state to state, city to city. OTOH, EASTERN European athletics were centralized and remain much more centralized than American basketball has ever been because of the USSR state controlled athletics. Because they didn't have an actual American style economy the Soviets poured massive amounts of money into athletics, and it was all run in a dictatorial, top-down style with a lot of emphasis on the basics. Fast forward 20 years after the collapse of the USSR and you see the continuity of that system with athletic training, basketball in particular where the Western European soccer academy system has been sort of adopted for basketball. The result is better training in fundamentals, especially shooting for bigs.
So combined with the increased exposure to the American game, and the 3-PT Revolution of Steph Curry, you're seeing a few more Euro players have real success in the league. Although the guy most people point to as some sort of example of the "advantages" of European academy/semi-pro basketball, Luka Doncic, hasn't won anything and hasn't come close to winning anything. Maybe he'll win a scoring title this year but his team is still taking Ls. Luka plays more like Harden and Lebron tbh, so I'm not seeing what "advantage" he has.
The best example of the difference between European and American basketball is with 7 footers. Because in America if you're big at an early age you ALWAYS stay near the basket and you NEVER LEARN HOW TO DRIBBLE OR SHOOT. This has been the case as far back as Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain. Shaq is the poster child for this but so was Blake Griffin and Deandre Ayton. It's changed a little with Durant's success but because there is no actual Training System the long term impact will be all over the place.
You're 100%. My son just wants to play basketball, we live in a small town so AAU is our only option to play outside of school ball. It's done so much for his development it's crazy. The big thing is find an AAU program that wants to develop basketball players. We love our AAU group, they do league play with over AAU teams in the area, it's not just weekends full of Tournament play. Obviously that comes later for the Highschool aged kids on the prep circuits, but for the younger players development should be priority.
That’s phenomenal and that’s what AAU is supposed to do. If your son keeps working out on his own as well, he will get the most out of his basketball talent. You’re doing a great job.
I remember you only get a mixtape when people pulled up to make one for you...now we got every single "#1 player in their class" has 30 mixtapes by 6th grade smh. most of the tape just be b-roles too lmaooooooo
TH-cam revenue changed the mixtape game.
Coach DUCK!! Love the content my brother, Plan to see you making big moves for the sport in the foreseeable future 🙏🏼
I’m happy with whatever is in Jesus Christ’s will for me.
Sounds like there's a market for coach training?
Astute observation.
I would agree with Coach Geno because I do not even coach in the US. I'm abroad and "academies" are popping up all over the place pulling kids away from their schools to go play. They would not commit to their HS team because we had less games and more practice. When they are with their other coaches (and one team may flip flop coaches so they have no consistency), they get very little focus on the fundamentals including discipline, respect, comradery , leadership, etc.
Depends on the measuring stick. No, if getting into college. Yes, if developing well rounded team players.
Great vid. The page turning sound is off puttting, mainly because of how frequent it is. Perhaps only keep it in the intro.
Probably chopping it next video as well as the page turn transition. That will save me time too
@@DorianGroup82 sounds like a good idea, keep the content coming!
As a former Ohio State (and IU) and NBA player, this video is right on point! I’ve been an assistant basketball coach on a top 10 state high school team in Ohio the past two seasons. I was a nationally ranked top 5 high school player back in 1989 and can attest that today’s players are more skilled but they’re not better than their counterparts in previous decades. Showmanship is one thing, and fundamentals are something entirely different. The former can be a fad, while the latter never goes out of style. What’s also missing is the art and science of coaching players to excel athletically, academically, and aesthetically. - Lawrence Funderburke, MBA and CFP
My family is from Dayton, Ohio. In the summer 1995, they surprised me with a summer camp. It was Mark Baker’s Basketball Camp.
After lunch, we used to have trivia. One day Mark asked us to name his starting 5 at Ohio State. I yelled “Jim Jackson!” Another kid yelled “Thunderbird!” I was 10 and asked myself “who the hell is thunderbird?” Mark laughed and corrected him. I followed your career from that point on.
Thanks for always doing things the right way.
I dont understand this debate. In order to be a showman, or play with stylye, ,you have to have really good fundamentals. You cant be unskilled and scoring 30 pts in an AAU game.
I don't understand this argument.
Players in AAU turn out better in school games than other players
In high school games against kids who don't play AAU?
@@Billabongbabalogwell, yea. More games = more experience.
@@carlosmachado3360extra reps doesn't equate to greatness...
@@rozilla66 it doesn’t, but the more reps you put into something, typically, you’ll be better off then those who don’t, which is what op is saying.
@@carlosmachado3360 with reps, you need coaching. Good coaching. Coach the kids about the complexities of the game. No one cares if you drop 60. You'll still lose most of the time.
1. Everything u stated is your perspective and its valid, everything Geno stated is his perspective and its valid, I tend to agree with Geno's perspective. I'm currently coaching AAU for my sons 12u team and i hesitated with the idea because I'm not totally onboard with AAU, because at least where I'm at in Cali I don't trust the coaches here to actually TEACH and have seen 1st hand the outlandish negatives, so my only compromise was to coach myself.
2. When I was coaching HS ball around 2012 is when I noticed the negative impact of AAU. The culture Geno is also speaking of is loyalty, mindset, and priorities. The school I was at was coming off 3 straight valley rings and competed for state all 3x, yet 3 of our up and coming young guys decided to go to a different school simply because they all played on the same AAU team and didn't want to be held accountable to a higher standard. From then we started to see that exact trend grow rapid with the Jr high kids already plotting what HS to team up at instead of compete. I believe the team up culture of the NBA also plays a huge part of this.
3. Status! when I was coming up, playing in Jr High or HS school games if we heard of a kid that played AAU or we're the kid that played AAU, they were simply on a different level than others. That's not the case anymore! kids would rather just ride the bench on a AAU team for status, when they play for their school and they look regular we know why(I've been coaching Jr High for the past 5yrs). Has very little to do with coaching at the school, these kids simply have not put the work in and are usually uncoachable/entitled.
4. Lastly.... Janitor, professor, dad or pro. For the most part these school coaches have creditable knowledge of the game to contribute to the teaching of those kids and more importantly is based more on passion than finances. Let's all be honest here, usually AAU coaches are there for the money and other invalid reasons.
social media ruined it more than anything else
Love the content. God bless. I don't think AAU is ruining basketball. It helped one of my four brothers get a scholarship to play in college. And might help my other younger brother do the same.
That doesn’t mean it’s not ruining basketball culture.
All these American NBA players are still going through AAU.
Umm that isn’t relating to the point of the video, that’s good it helped your brother get a scholarship but that doesn’t mean it’s helping basketball culture.
Auu is ruined by people who only cared about winning and pimping these young kid to get the next Jordan . One game is good enough 5 games in 2 days is madness
I attended a college prep school that had a great varsity coach, my talent was never really high and I stopped at junior year.
But the workouts and practices I got to attend with him and his varsity team were electric, we focused on all aspects of the game and the nuance of defense, ball movement and pace of the game. We worked on athletics, strength, speed and plays for in game situations.
I later went on to play for the junior varsity, where the coach would have needed an explosion to happen in the gym to actually care about his players other than his 3 stars, it was terrible.
(that varsity team later went on to win the state championship in 2017.)
I am forever grateful for those varsity practices, it’s a shame that most will never experience that now.
I didn’t realize until I got older how many players never get to experience what it’s like to be on a great team. That synergy is unmatched in other facet of society.
Bball players need a channel like this- you keep it A1 and tell them what they need to hear not sugar coating it.
Series on coach defense pleaseee
I don't know if I know enough to say whether or not it is ruining it. But I do feel there are a lot of unqualified coaches handling kids and their development, and not just their basketball skill development. I would love to see the US implement something similar to Canada's Jr Hockey system. Organized, intentional, and prepares them for what they'll do next.
There are a significant # of programs I see that use kids, when I feel it would be better if the kids were able to use the programs.
With that said, I know a lot of programs have developed young ball players into great young adults, boys and girls.
My biggest complaint would be that there is always another program or team they can run to if any little thing makes the player or their parent upset. I can understand leaving a toxic situation, but a lot of times I feel its for soft reasons and they lack grit and determination.
Mannnn when u was in my sophomore year of Highschool I went into tryouts and dropped 16pts,3ast,3reb,2 steal,and a block and on 4/6 from the field and clearly outplayed everyone on both ends of the floor and got cut by the JV and then that summer I worked out with the varsity coach and he told me I was the most talented kid he had ever seen and asked if I tried out last year I said yeah but I got cut and he told me that’s why I don’t like the JV coach he isn’t good then I go into tryouts my junior year and I don’t get the ball at all it’s like they was purposely not passing me the ball and it was so bad to the point people on the sideline who already made the team was telling people to give me the ball and I end up getting cut and over the summer he ended up getting fired then I transferred because I moved and as of right now I’m in my senior year of Highschool and my old school with a new coach just made it to district finals and I also tried out this year for the basketball team and the same thing basically happened I ain’t get the ball and when I did have the ball I was feeding the hot hand because “the teams best player” was hot he had like 20 and I got cut like it’s just unlucky man I work my ass off over the summer I’m talking 3pm-10pm bro but it’s gonna be okay I’m going to college and going to walk on and continue to put in work
I tried playing basketball in high school but witching months I noticed how I won’t have the money and recourses to compete with the kids who’s parents are making more than enough money to live well
He basically said capitalism and money is ruining youth basketball
💯 this is the real answer
I still belive that there should be more practice with aau. Maby teams practice in the morning and play games in the evening and have some rest in-between for there bodies to recover maby they watch film that day.
yes, no doubt. So many games, no practice equals a low level of fundamentals. Kobe stated it most accurately
School ball still means something here, much more than AAU.
I 💯 agree with you! So many players are suffering because of the issues you mentioned. To add on to your point, they don't pay teachers and coaches well. Therefore, the people who would have been great ambassadors to the game aren't interested in getting into the education world.
Agreed on that. I would’ve been a teacher/high school coach out of college if it paid at least $75k at the time.
do you ever plan on doing some videos on European prospects? Zaccharie Risacher, Alex Sarr. I think these might be especially interesting because of their frames. And will Risacher be an elite shooter? Or did he just have a hot start to the season..
Hey Coach, I love watching your videos and I have questions about how to improve basketball IQ. I’ve been watching CBB and Nba ball, but i’m not sure what I should be looking for. Any advice?
Thanks,
Hell Ya, did you listen to the difference between USA and Europe? Use to be practice was important. Got a chance to witness one of the practices at UCLA right before Coach Wooden retired and the emphasis was practice back then, the game was secondary and only a result of your performance in practice. You are probably one of those AAU coaches, huh.
Idc about the culture, they’re blowing these kids knees out by then time they even get to college. That’s why the ball brothers are all injury prone cause they’ve been putting obscene amounts of damage on their joints without proper recovery for YEARS. AAU creates incredible hoopers, but they can’t last.
Here in Canada, it mostly depends on the team, but most have 4 or 3 practices a week and than most weekends no game an when we do it's 2 to 4.
I had no idea AAU worked like this and it is interesting, but not the way it should be.
it's creating a whole generation of undisciplined, fundamentally unsound, defensive deficient players.
Maybe his coach was ass but he didn’t have to clown him for being a custodian. Coaches in public schools don’t make a lot. Coaching (whether it’s sports or academia) is usually secondary to the main job a coach has.
I coached for about two season and honestly yes it’s ruining it. You don’t know how many parent told me their kid doesn’t wanna practice so I say they aren’t playing and I get told I’ll be fired so I said forget it and quit and they been calling me to come back for a year and
i lowkey thought this would have more views, nice video man, keep making more
He said lot of things in this video but never addressed main point.Practicing vs just playing games.Level of fundamental knowledge of basketball by 15-18 year old kids from Europe vs US….
Being athletic is not enough anymore.
I still think playing AAU can benefit kids in off season and they should play AAU.This shouldn’t be AAU vs high school basketball.
I know lot of AAU coaches who has no business coaching and to his point there is lot of people around HS basketball that don’t belong there.
Great video, brother 🔥👊🏻🙏
Coaching and scouting is the problem because those fields are under the 'Development' umbrella. Kids are coming into the Association with serious IQ issues. That's a problem that you need to consult their former coaches about. Weight should be one of the only issues for a budding professional athlete. Fixing someone's broken shot shouldn't really be a thing anymore given the resources available, but here we are.
I hear you. You just re-affirmed a lot of things I was thinking. I have been giving the game so much grace the past 10 years that I try not to acknowledge how much the current basketball minds have failed them. I feel like basketball is a sport that throughout my life, the players got smarter. LeBron is smarter than Kobe who is smarter than MJ who is smarter than Dr. J. This generation of basketball players has the lowest IQ I've ever seen.
From a training perspective I agree that in general many coaches don’t teach the athletes the game or concepts. On the flip side in bigger cities maybe AAU is above school but at the same time scouts still have to go through the school coach. In rural communities that ls different l. Kids want the highlights and not the substance. AAU used to be for the elite now not so much, many kids need to spend more time practicing. The amount of kids that get big NIL money is still the 10-20% and the 80-90% still fight for a roster spot (which in basketball is very small compared to football). I believe it comes down to long term and what makes sense for the athlete (more exposure v polish etc.).
I dont understand the thing about AAU teams not practicing they cant really practice 3 times a week because the players are so scattered
It's shouldn't be that way.
Damn your videos haven’t been popping up on my feed in a long time! I miss this content, you always got something really good to say. Ok
Another issue is that the term AAU is so watered down. You have these fly by night programs claiming to be AAU. AAU programs that only hit tournaments in a certain area so they see the same competition. AAU is for sure a money gram. There are some kids in AAU that have no business being in AAU. Let's not talk about the whole "re-classing" mess. I can't say it is the big corps fault or its the colleges fault. It is a mixture. Parents are to blame as well.
Coach Auriemma has a point about a fundamental factor.
DG, you have a point about an overall factor.
And the money is driving the evolution - according to its factors.
There is no structure in 🏀 in US like there is in European sports: soccer, basketball, Handball, etc. no coaching standards, no curriculum or youth development plans. Its all dyi and just hope it works out for a few
You can't be in some youth academy and not be able to pass, go left or know which hand you shoot because they will work on that continuously. In the US, if you have one exceptional skill that can make your coach win, they will overlook everyhing else.
If you have a 6:1 ratio of games/practice or a 1:6 ratio, where will you see better technical skills, understanding of game theory, etc? Where will a 16-17yr phenom get better? Playing with u21 as well as training & play a few games with senior squads vs men? Or playing against pimply high schoolers like that little white boy who covered Zion?
Thay said, i have no idea hiw you fix this because its not just one thing you have to change and many have invested in this system so you will have pushback.
It's no aau its social media that is killing it kids play basketball for the fame instead of the love of the game
To me social media is what really killed aau, kids are playing for highlights than just the beauty of the game and practice would help but if they played the right way we would possibly get good rest out of that
Iu fan here supporting you bro. Only most of us are toxic
My high school basketball coach was the school bus driver and drivers Ed teacher, 😂 only in AAU did I have a coach who actually cared about basketball
That’s usually the case.
Great content. Appreciate your perspective.
Basketball as a whole is terrible. And I feel like ppl are using AAU as an scapegoat. The point of AAU is for a player to get as much game experience as possible. It’s not made for 6 practices a week 🤣👎🏽 never has never will be. Now playing 6x a week? That’s excessive. But AAU is for exposure because higher level coaches can’t really see players in the winter because of their seasons. I think college coaches are against it because now with NIL they have no leverage or control
The culture is usually shaped by the professionals, and figures that the youth look up to. In my opinion, the NBA and other professional leagues have a part to play in the downward trajectory of basketball culture. Basketball used to be about hooping, 2 competitors/teams going at it to win. It seems that all people care about now are highlights, dunks, talking shit, And arguing about rules like traveling and carrying. I noticed a lot of kids and teens get on the court now to show off and get that crazy highlight on camera so they can go viral. The fundamentals and team basketball aspect of the game has been lost on a lot of youth and a lot of coaches are so focused on winning that they don’t think t stop and teach these things because they never learned it themselves.
playing basketball in europe at pro clubs or amateur basketball schools is completly different from AAU, from what i've noticed is that in europe there is only 1 game an week more time for scheming and purposefull training where AAU is 6 games win or lose everything goes. The entire system in europe where players at 12 already play for pro clubs and are mentored by coaches that only have winning as mindset, 1 missed back cut and the opponent scores? oh you're getting benched and the coach will yell in your face. Havent seen to much off this in AAU cause there is another game in an hour no reason to kill an kids confidence where in europe you will stay on the bench, have to prove in the week after that the mistake is corrected in practice wait another day then play the next game.
Nah it’s just so expensive just to play in a tournament
I was on the circuit from 2003-12 lol as we got older practices got fewer to 0 days a month. Players on the team from all over the state and neighboring states. It’s been a thing 😂
We practiced everyday in high school but everyone was still shit because the coach is more concerned about running his plays than player development
And let’s not ignore the fact the AAU grind is leaving these kids with 40 year old joints by the time they get to the pros.
The problem with AAU (just like hs ball) is the coaches and parents. It’s a great concept if the kids are taught the right way but the reality is in America rn lots of people, even some of the most talented, aren’t being taught to play correctly
Yes, between AAU, parents and social media to many kids focus on highlight reels and showing off. They have no true understanding of the commitment it takes to learn the game.
I understand that it can be bad but for me when I was in 7th grade I was like the 6th-7th man on the roster and played a little but I couldn’t shoot consistently and I was 5’4 then I played my first year of AAU and it went on for 6 months and as my school ball came around I grew 6 inches .I started and was second in scoring. We went to the Championship game and hit a 3 to tie the game and hit a 3 to win the game and I got MVP from the announcer and now I am 5’10 1/2. From 7th grade 5’4 and bench to 8th grade and 5’10 1/2
My son just finished his senior season and his high school program was terrible for him. AAU was the only place for him to get the reps to actually learn how to play.
School ball sucks
@DorianGroup82 well that's a little extreme.
Good content and enjoy your videos but the transition with the tear paper was killing my ears in the headphones.
Is ruining? Lol it has ruined American basketball. I watched a game the other day of AAU basketball & stopped watching halfway through. It's everything I hate about the NBA & the product is garbage, but they're kids so I can't speak down on them, but I can speak down on these professional players in the NBA.
i think youtube/social media has alot to do with problem
I believe it's all relative. In my area, some of the AAU programs are better than the high school teams. I believe it comes down to the coaching staff. Are they actually developing players on and off the court?
I coached middle school ball for 9 years, high school ball for 12 years. Early on, I encouraged kids to play AAU to get more experience and keep playing. However, in my later years before I had enough and got out, I hated coaching AAU players. Most of the AAU coaches were tools that just were trying to advance their own kids or make money by feeding kids and parents bullshit. I was very big on drills and skill building at practices- footwork, ball-handling, basketball IQ, fundamentals- every single day. In the last few years, I met tons of resistance. They never wanted to do it or work at it. All they wanted to do was scrimmage, play 1-on-1, do shooting contests, run plays, which I typically kept to about 1/4 of practice time. Most of the drills for working off the ball, ball handling, or footwork folded in elements of the plays and systems we ran. Nope, eye rolls, heavy breaths, and complaining if it wasn't running up and down, 5-on-5, playing iso ball. It certainly developed selfishness and delusion, I can tell you that.
I found this to be the same sentiment with really serious high school coaches like yourself. A serious high school coach that runs a good program and is a teacher of the game is the best asset for a youth basketball player.
Most serious AAU coaches who run good programs, develop players on and off the floor are an elite asset for a youth player too.
The problem is that there are way more bad high/AAU school coaches than there are good. So the good ones rarely find each other.
Growing up in the 80s & 90s I remember there was the Dapper Dan & the Roundball Classic for the best HS players there was no AAU you was taught defense, dribbling, passing the fundamental of the game today it social media kids today all doing the same thing everybody has a brand it too much money involved it really not watchable at times.
In an AAU or any game you may get 16-30 shots up as the best player. 17 and under shots for everyone else in 2 hours. In a 2 hour practice session you can make 200-500 shots depending on skill level. It should be 90-10 percent split practice game split in the off season
I find it very interesting that coach Don Haskins saw this coming and knew that AAU was going to go this way. Haskins took the approach of mentioning not building good teamwork, lacking proper sportsmanship and poor fundamentals.
I’ve been saying this for years along with my 74 yr old step dad. Fundamentals are everything and AAU doesn’t teach it.
Everyone is getting this wrong actually. It's not about AAU nor is it about high school coaches. This is about the NBA. Unlike the major professional teams overseas, NBA teams do not get involved directly with developing young talent. Basically, the NBA doesn't get involved until the player is 19-20, meanwhile guys like Giannis and Luka were already signed with professional teams by the age of 15-16. Meaning there is a period of about 4 years where our best young players are playing for these AAU coaches against kids that are 5'11" while players overseas are working with professional coaches and playing against high-level competition. This is really unacceptable when you consider that the NBA has WAY more resources than any of these overseas leagues and yet they invest WAY less in developing their most important assets. As long as that's the case there is literally nothing that will prevent the US from losing ground to these other countries. We need to remove the last vestiges of the obsolete "high school to college to pro" system. We were able to get away with that when 95% of NBA players came from the US but in today's landscape it's like trying to compete against Apple with a flip phone company. This is on Adam Silver for being asleep at the wheel IMO.
The fundamentals on most AAU basketball games are terrible. They don't pass well and they play an undisciplined street ball with little emphasis on defense. The emphasis is more on flashy offensive plays than playing well coached basketball. I always like when AAU types start to criticize some of the finest coaches who may actually know a lot more about winning.
I would take the 2002 UConn woman's team as a case study of what happens when basketball is viewed as a team sport. The players on that team could move the ball around the court with ease and could anticipate what their teammates were about to do.
The one positive about NCAA WBB and Division III basketball is that you get to see players develop their skills as opposed to the "one and done" of Division I
I think back then it was more organic of people making it to the league now the aau circuit is manufacturing pro players just because they fit a certain build they are being trained to be nba players from an early age rather than just liking it
I think it is , it’s basically a showcase for a player to be what exactly?
AAU has contributed to ruining basketball and it’s apparent in the players in the nba currently, look how they play, look how they act.
AAU wasn’t always bad, it was operated by people who cared now it turned into a business about making money. NBA legends used to host camps for free now camps are hundreds of dollars.
This is why international ball is dominating now, they desperate athletics and education.
not to take away from your points, but the peeling sound effect was very distracting, also its not necessary toward making your point and content the best it could be. In fact it took away from it due to the distraction and lack of meaning behind the sound effect, keep grinding :D
I think the biggest thing is that most other countries thanks to the way they have mimicked soccer just have a better foundation in place. It's not like Serbia or France aren't also having their PE coaches coach basketball. The difference is that if a kid shows promise he can just go to their minor league and learn an actual system playing against grown men and often times riding the bench for a few years while he gets the fundamentals.
This is what AAU was supposed to be. A system to get the best kids in front of the best coaches to learn the game. However, when money got injected it became a showcase of young talent and not about high level play preparation. Luka was playing against adults at 15 in practice. At 16 he was part of a squad playing 2 minutes per game in Spain.
Depends on the lens you look at it from. If American basketball culture is playing to win and improve for the love of the game itself, then it def plays an aspect in bridging the divide. But if American basketball is now centered around the fact the NBA is now focused on entertainment and pushed to getting highlights to be relevant on social media. Then it’s feeding perfectly into nowadays American basketball culture. Today (most) kids aren’t watching full games and studying game, they go on TikTok, instagram, and TH-cam to see the highlights their favorite player did and want to do just that.
You literally proved Geno's point, you talked about the money. What Geno was saying though talented most lack the fundamentals of basketball and it's not a College Coach to teach a Guy how to feed the post as an example which I watch dudes not comfortable doing it so they swing the ball. Than guys leave college and get drafted on potential even though they aren't mentally or Physically ready which helped destroy NBA basketball in my opinion. As far as High School ball I'm from Chicago and for decades some of our H.S. programs have been beastly and still are today so I don't believe there is no value in it. AAU are all star games with minimal defense, it's mainly for exposure so that's the business side your speaking of. More guys than not really need at least 3 years of College basketball.
I looked the 2024 players by location and Canada is the only one country that has more NBA players than the state of California.
There are only 25% 125 of 510.
If there’s such a crisis in basketball culture in the US, why aren’t there more foreign players?
I can’t believe bro was from nap and a Westlane alum 🤣🤣🤣. I’m pretty glad to get to witness guys like Kris Wilkes, Eron Gordon, Smith Riveria in hs at NC. Even Darius Latham was hooping at one point.
All legends. Latham could’ve played high major bball too. Made the right decision going to NFL