Guide for Incoming Freshmen Basketball Tryouts:
• First and foremost grades are always the most important thing,
without good grades sports don't mean much. (There is a reason that the
word STUDENT comes first in student/athletes)
• Show up to the try-outs early, already warmed up and stretched and ready to go.
• Introduce yourself to the coaches, don't be shy.
• Each high school runs a basketball camp either right before or right
after tryouts be part of it. It's another way for the coaches to get to
know you and see you play.
• Wear your club/travel team
shorts (if applicable) to your tryouts, coaches like players who have
played club ball because it means that they have been taught plays,
defensive schemes, team principles to name a few.
• Since these
are tryouts it is important that players show their strengths, go all
out and show the coaches your abilities and don't hold back. Show them
your individual play and your team play. Since these are tryouts you
want to show them what you can do first and foremost. When you scrimmage
also show them how you play in a team enviorment. You have spent
countless hours doing many different types of basketball drills, you are
ready!
• Most schools will have summer tryouts and then also
additional tryouts in the fall. New kids may have moved into the area or
transferred in after summer ball. The good thing is coaches will know
you and your abilities if you played summer ball, your chances of making
the fall team are much higher then someone who didn't. I have never
seen a child who made the summer program not make the fall team.
• Respect the game as much as you want to be respected.
• Practice hard because you play the way you practice.
• Help your team win whether you play or not, that's what a teammate does.
• Maintain eye contact with all adults when they talk to you. Practice on your friends.
• It is your coach's opinion of you that counts. He makes out the
lineup. Fail to understand this point and you will soon be out of the
game
• Don't be a know it all and follow their instructions to
the letter. Coaches love players who listen and follow instruction.
• Character means doing the right thing when nobodies watching.
• Understand that defense wins more games than offense.
• Don't talk or dribble a ball when a coach is speaking.
• Don't be afraid, show confidence, show them you are willing to put
in the time to improve, and most importantly, show them you love playing
basketball.
• You get back what you put in -- Coach P
• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. -- John Wooden
• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do -- John Wooden
• Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because
your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely
what others think you are. -- John Wooden
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