Yup, some tournaments that are good are only good if you’re on top court/pool getting good match ups, then if you’re below a certain level it’s all on your AAU coach to get coaches to come out to your games, and a lot of them aren’t able to
fr wish i had that chance i didnt get to play for my highschool cuz i wasnt popular even tho i cooked all the starters and scored 3 30 ft 3pointers in a rown in there best players face
@Peter S. I’m not sure what his reasoning is but I will tell you I think it’s a major reason we see a lot of players get hurt today. Hoopers that play AAU have 5x more miles on their body by the time they hit hit the league because of the amount of games played in AAU.
No it’s not. Ask any kid it’s fun af and those aau memories are something you’ll never forget. Would you rather the kids be eating Cheetos and playing videos games on the weekends? Which one is better for their health?
My friend guarded Aquille Carr in an AAU tournament and he had no idea who he was at first. He thought it would be easy work since he was so short, needless to say Aquille cooked his ass lol
aau despite having ruined american basketball and most of the nba is still wildly important. ik plenty of kids who got cut from their varsity teams (bull shit politics) who still got d2 and d1 offers from aau
JUCO, D2, D3, and NAIA all looking at AAU for players, it’s a great opportunity with the transfer portal now to start at one of those for a year or two then make the jump
I’m unfamiliar with AUU now a days, but 10yrs ago the Adidas circuit plus Adidas Nations was the way to go. Adidas Nation provided the best exposure and experience overall with Future performing and free haircuts to anyone. Unlike LeBron and KD camps during that time, they provided a healthy balance of workouts and scrimmages that had a break in between the two daily sessions vs 6+ straight hours.
Not true I played during that time nike circuit rose to prominence then. I played on uaa still great opportunities to play against in front of comp but eybl became the place where hm d1 players went to play
@@mizzybuns I played for EYBL and Adidas Circuit so I’m speaking from personal experience and not word of mouth. Maybe it was my Class but both had high level exposure and even TV reach on special occasions. But Adidas Nations provided the best camps above all during that time. I can’t speak for these recent years.
A guy on my rec league team got noticed this way after we joined in an AAU tournament once. We played the SC Hornets with Zion, Ja, and Devontae Shuler and he got noticed because we put up a decent fight.
depends on the aau circuit. there are different levels of aau and unless you are playing in some eybl or nationwide league you typically won’t be going against these caliber players
I'm sure others did as well lol but when I was in highschool the Boston circuit was really good, a lot of players in the NBA now are from that circuit, George's niang, nerlens noel, a couple more
I don’t think coaches really care too much about aau. The exposer is great for social media and branding but coaches know aau most of the time is not very competitive. It’s more like pickup
I mean yes and no - and depends the level of aau you’re playing at. If you’re on a national circuit playing against D1 competition - sure. A good showing against an established d1 product can go a long ways. If you’re just playing tournaments in your state against all local kids - no probably not. Also depends on the program/team you’re playing for. A lot of AAU ball is total garbage from a basketball purity perspective. Just a bunch of iso ball and pick n rolls. No off ball movement cuts. A team full of guys with a lot of talent. But maybe not a team well built based on positions/style played. Ive seen plenty of guys who kill on the outdoor courts in pickup games but can’t translate to an organized 5 on 5 game cuz they don’t understand how to fit and flow within in an offense. Don’t understand how to play help side D and rotations.
AAU is great but you got to get into the right tournaments either by invite or pay sometimes. If your team is trash your probably not playing in any kind of elite tourneys. It's a fun experience but your team still have to be able to play basketball at a high level or your going to be the 1 team everybody is laughing at wondering how tf did they get here.
All of these summer camps and teams are great for all sports and help push the game forward. However, it isn't organized ball so lack of fundamentals can become a habit especially if the coaching/refs are bad. The main issue I see with all these leagues is that some kids don't have the means to play in them or live in the middle of nowhere so the competition is very poor and then they just get lost or complacent. I also don't know if they're getting any advice on recruiting and creating their own way by initiating contact with coaches at the next level. This was my case, won a lot of junior golf events (got complacent) no one cared about cause it was out in the boonies, so even though I consistently beat people during the school year at jamborees that were recruited it didn't matter. Pretty sure my HS coach never did any recruiting for me either so it seemed inevitable I wouldn't play in college. Never got any offers or anything so walked on a D3 team for fun after meeting a few of the guys. Two coaches quit, didn't have a good practice facility, got injured and then focused mostly on engineering school. Now when I look back I think the only thing that could've helped me reach my potential was a mentor from junior high on through highschool.
This is the truth I was a sophomore on varsity when I started against st Anthony’s In states with my match up against the best team in the country at the time with Beasley an tryvon I personally took over in the fourth dropping 23 in one quarter winning the game my first triple double in states I never forget college scouts coming up too my coach an he’s face like yo I got too talk too you he told me not to let it get too my head but hey keep playing like this and seton hall wants you an long story short two years later I’m starting guard for seton hall literally got ranked that summer league during aau for gauchos especially if you go too a camp like I did helped a lot
Played Indy elite in 2/3 rd grade😂😂 good times Coulda shoulda woulda . Gave it up was like curry in 2/3/4th grade probably made 5 3s a game best game making 15.then quit due to parents divorce and family issues until 8th grade …didn’t have the same edge . Still better than average tho.
The only problem with AAU basketball is it gives you the wrong publicity though, too yeah you get to score as many points you want put as much highlights up there as you want but the only problem is the coaches from colleges and possibly NBA scouts. Do not get to see you play in the organized Atmosphere they don’t see you playing as a team and that is the biggest problem with young ones these days they think AU is so cool but failed to realize if you can’t play team basketball you won’t make it far if you think about scoring 20 points a game you definitely won’t make it far
If you aren’t a 5 star high school player, the only way you’re getting noticed by colleges is through AAU. They aren’t at your high school games, they are at AAU tournaments.
hello my son is 11 years old he currently plays Point Forward at the YMCA in tampa florida. i would like to get him in a league where he can travel and compete in tournaments in different states . do you know of a league that competes in tournaments all ? ???
Only if you in the right tournaments. Not all aau is good.
yeah agreed but if you’re good enough you’ll always get scouted (unless you’re international)
Obviously
Yup, some tournaments that are good are only good if you’re on top court/pool getting good match ups, then if you’re below a certain level it’s all on your AAU coach to get coaches to come out to your games, and a lot of them aren’t able to
fr wish i had that chance i didnt get to play for my highschool cuz i wasnt popular even tho i cooked all the starters and scored 3 30 ft 3pointers in a rown in there best players face
@@CrispiestMilonot necessarily true!
AAU is the worst thing to happen to pre-college hoopers
@Peter S. I’m not sure what his reasoning is but I will tell you I think it’s a major reason we see a lot of players get hurt today. Hoopers that play AAU have 5x more miles on their body by the time they hit hit the league because of the amount of games played in AAU.
@@aherbo18 that is one of the biggest reasons I feel the way I do about aau
Bro just watched Jimmy, and is convinced.
@@rannie0906I watched solz and sage, I’m convinced
It’s tough but it’s just that people don’t like that younger players are playing so much
real AAU is an amazing opportunity. But kids playing 24 regulation games in a weekend is ridiculously damaging to their longevity
Yea fr like I had one day the other week where I had to get up at 5:00 am and play three games that same day
@@Dezo-YTthats not bad lol
Nobody plays that many games in a weekend that’s stupid and damn near impossible.
Fax
No it’s not. Ask any kid it’s fun af and those aau memories are something you’ll never forget. Would you rather the kids be eating Cheetos and playing videos games on the weekends? Which one is better for their health?
My friend guarded Aquille Carr in an AAU tournament and he had no idea who he was at first. He thought it would be easy work since he was so short, needless to say Aquille cooked his ass lol
lmfaooo
Lol i guarded him at a tourney in Bmore and was honestly surprised that he wasn’t that good. The highlights make people looks a lot better.
BMORE LEGEND! That dude was single handedly packing out gyms. Man he was a lightening rod.
As a former player of 30 years. The hardest part about basketball is surviving the favoritism and politics
Feeling that right now 😔
@@Treypurtell07 sorry you’re In that position bro. Hope it turns around for you
yeaaahhh...
some coaches get hooked on certain players and will go out of their way to ensure that players success
Thank you bro
Every sport*
I feel like it takes this guy five minutes to explain 30 seconds of dialogue
Tbf he didnt say like, um, and literally every other word so it was articulate.
This is how coaches convince parents to pay $1,000's to travel and sit the bench. "It could happen for you!!!!"
aau despite having ruined american basketball and most of the nba is still wildly important. ik plenty of kids who got cut from their varsity teams (bull shit politics) who still got d2 and d1 offers from aau
This is how ALL sports are when being scouted 😂😂
Coaches don’t care about aau anymore, all the transfer portal
I agree, but colleges need new players too.
but aau is very helpful tho
10 months later and this comment is still dumb as hell
They still need freshmen to come in
JUCO, D2, D3, and NAIA all looking at AAU for players, it’s a great opportunity with the transfer portal now to start at one of those for a year or two then make the jump
I’m unfamiliar with AUU now a days, but 10yrs ago the Adidas circuit plus Adidas Nations was the way to go. Adidas Nation provided the best exposure and experience overall with Future performing and free haircuts to anyone. Unlike LeBron and KD camps during that time, they provided a healthy balance of workouts and scrimmages that had a break in between the two daily sessions vs 6+ straight hours.
Not true I played during that time nike circuit rose to prominence then. I played on uaa still great opportunities to play against in front of comp but eybl became the place where hm d1 players went to play
Jesus Christ Loves You All Repent Before Its To Late And Draw Near To Him ✝️😊🙏
@@mizzybuns I played for EYBL and Adidas Circuit so I’m speaking from personal experience and not word of mouth. Maybe it was my Class but both had high level exposure and even TV reach on special occasions. But Adidas Nations provided the best camps above all during that time. I can’t speak for these recent years.
A guy on my rec league team got noticed this way after we joined in an AAU tournament once. We played the SC Hornets with Zion, Ja, and Devontae Shuler and he got noticed because we put up a decent fight.
He says this and never made it anywhere, I’m sorry T Jas, I wasn’t that good but neither were you 😢
depends on the aau circuit. there are different levels of aau and unless you are playing in some eybl or nationwide league you typically won’t be going against these caliber players
Those dudes from Boston used to light up the eybl
I'm sure others did as well lol but when I was in highschool the Boston circuit was really good, a lot of players in the NBA now are from that circuit, George's niang, nerlens noel, a couple more
I don’t think coaches really care too much about aau. The exposer is great for social media and branding but coaches know aau most of the time is not very competitive. It’s more like pickup
my team qualified for local AAU tournament once when i was 12 or 13. We got cooked lmao
Damn kid looks like he’s still in high school
I mean yes and no - and depends the level of aau you’re playing at. If you’re on a national circuit playing against D1 competition - sure. A good showing against an established d1 product can go a long ways. If you’re just playing tournaments in your state against all local kids - no probably not.
Also depends on the program/team you’re playing for. A lot of AAU ball is total garbage from a basketball purity perspective. Just a bunch of iso ball and pick n rolls. No off ball movement cuts. A team full of guys with a lot of talent. But maybe not a team well built based on positions/style played. Ive seen plenty of guys who kill on the outdoor courts in pickup games but can’t translate to an organized 5 on 5 game cuz they don’t understand how to fit and flow within in an offense. Don’t understand how to play help side D and rotations.
AAU is great but you got to get into the right tournaments either by invite or pay sometimes. If your team is trash your probably not playing in any kind of elite tourneys. It's a fun experience but your team still have to be able to play basketball at a high level or your going to be the 1 team everybody is laughing at wondering how tf did they get here.
TJass sounding like that old head at the rec league talking about how he could’ve made it
Crazy scrolling through UA-cam shorts and seeing Connor in one because I graduated high school in the same class as him
Then how come you aren’t in the nba or overseas Tristan
He got better after high school. He basically plays bball for a living now
@@BMB1105 yea I guess on UA-cam but I just don’t like him bc he thinks he’s the shi so I was prolly hatin when I commented if I’m being honest 😂😂
Aau is very fun
Yeah but you gotta politic your way onto a team that’s playing on a major circuit to get looks
High school rankings mean nothing just higher expectations
yo man this pod is gonna slap ! tristan is such a solid dude an just a hooper
This dude takes a paragraph to say a sentence.
Sup with this dudes hair...lmfao
“Pass the ball bro”
I wish they a say for boxing n if they do someone point me there direction
#facts💯
Les go Conor Go Badgers!
That's every travel team for sports... It's not about who they're there to watch it's about who they see.
A guy who shoots layups off the wall on You Tube? yep hes a trusted source
Wow. You are so smart
You could if you pay 5k
Connor goes to my church I know him
W Rod Wave shirt 🫶🔥
Shoulda been doing that instead of getting that perm 😂
i remember thinking we were good in AAU in 7th grade and then we got beat by 60 by this team that could practically all dunk lmao.
All of these summer camps and teams are great for all sports and help push the game forward. However, it isn't organized ball so lack of fundamentals can become a habit especially if the coaching/refs are bad.
The main issue I see with all these leagues is that some kids don't have the means to play in them or live in the middle of nowhere so the competition is very poor and then they just get lost or complacent. I also don't know if they're getting any advice on recruiting and creating their own way by initiating contact with coaches at the next level.
This was my case, won a lot of junior golf events (got complacent) no one cared about cause it was out in the boonies, so even though I consistently beat people during the school year at jamborees that were recruited it didn't matter. Pretty sure my HS coach never did any recruiting for me either so it seemed inevitable I wouldn't play in college. Never got any offers or anything so walked on a D3 team for fun after meeting a few of the guys. Two coaches quit, didn't have a good practice facility, got injured and then focused mostly on engineering school. Now when I look back I think the only thing that could've helped me reach my potential was a mentor from junior high on through highschool.
I play aau and I never know that
But he still didn't make it to college...only playing on UA-cam still
ROD WAVE SHIRTTTTT
most kids are good but never play to their full potential because of fear
Kobe was strongly against AAU. He said it didn't teach kids to play the right wa, & it's a showcase.
How this guy look younger than an old picture of him
Isn't it ironic the younger me is the older me.
Imagine watching this podcast 😴
This is the truth I was a sophomore on varsity when I started against st Anthony’s In states with my match up against the best team in the country at the time with Beasley an tryvon I personally took over in the fourth dropping 23 in one quarter winning the game my first triple double in states I never forget college scouts coming up too my coach an he’s face like yo I got too talk too you he told me not to let it get too my head but hey keep playing like this and seton hall wants you an long story short two years later I’m starting guard for seton hall literally got ranked that summer league during aau for gauchos especially if you go too a camp like I did helped a lot
Isnt this blonde dude the guy who everyone thought was gonna go to the nba but didnt even come close?
No one thought he was making the league
My friend went against Mike Williams and goes crazy
I watched Indiana elite play yesterday
So the coaches only look at individual performance and not how you perform within the confines of the team?
AAU is for individual players to try and show off. It’s not real team basketball. This leads to players like Jalen Green getting drafted 2
Red for Indiana! I'm from South Bend
Played Indy elite in 2/3 rd grade😂😂 good times
Coulda shoulda woulda .
Gave it up was like curry in 2/3/4th grade probably made 5 3s a game best game making 15.then quit due to parents divorce and family issues until 8th grade …didn’t have the same edge . Still better than average tho.
Ummm same thing in high school
I played for Indiana elite lol
Yelp I dropped 24 on boo Williams little Ole me on a west texas team no senior year of basketball offer from ECU south plains college
Cap I’ve cooked most of yall favorite hoopers 2018-2021
Jesus is the way the truth and the life Amen❤❤❤✝️✝️🙏🙏🙏🙏
You still got no offers 😂😂
This the guy that travels hella right ?
My teams doing this to getting on the circuit for 8th
I hope I can but w video
The only problem with AAU basketball is it gives you the wrong publicity though, too yeah you get to score as many points you want put as much highlights up there as you want but the only problem is the coaches from colleges and possibly NBA scouts. Do not get to see you play in the organized Atmosphere they don’t see you playing as a team and that is the biggest problem with young ones these days they think AU is so cool but failed to realize if you can’t play team basketball you won’t make it far if you think about scoring 20 points a game you definitely won’t make it far
If you aren’t a 5 star high school player, the only way you’re getting noticed by colleges is through AAU. They aren’t at your high school games, they are at AAU tournaments.
Bro got some weird bead eyes
The cool thing about AAU is that you can be damn near 18 and dunking on 14 year olds
😂
REALL AAU is the word
Wrestled aau. Got fked up by kids younger than me from ohio😂
Who is this guy with t Jass I played against him in aau
Connor Essegian and he plays for Wisconsin now.
@@agnosym no his name his Christian braun I've seen him on 2k23
@@jayus2033 wrong.
@@agnosym It’s CE3 BABY
Harvey Elliot from the states???
Lets go badgers Connor Essigen my man
That’s how my brother got recruited to wrestle in college. Beat the dude the ppl went to go look at. Took that man’s opportunity.
That's why I love wrestling, it's straight forward.
The negative about AAU is these guys have 27 year old bodies as 20 year olds from playing and traveling so damn much 😅
And players like jokic who comes from europe will cook all this aau "talents"
This is from someone who has played either 8 min in aau in 4 years or someone who has never played aau. Period
With AAU your body bouta be done by 23.
Bro needs to pass the ball more
Not often a nobody gets on a court vs a kid with 40 offers during a live period. T Jass just yappin
Lay off the Addies bro
This is the least likely scenario to happen out of all the pro’s of AAU,
Tristan Jass has no idea about AAU. This guy got famous for making layups. He’s a clout chaser
These zoomer llama haircuts need to trend down asap 🦙
Pass the ball bro
Connor Essegian=🐐
Indiana Elite is the best AAU team you could be on for the whole state
Took the all star game as his chance
I was in Boston AAU vs Shabazz Napier
Put up 31 points and beat his Lawrence , Charlestown teams
Is it me or every time Tristen talks he states the obvious. Never really adds any sort of substance to a podcast.
Colin Sexton went from not ranked to 5 star
AAU is good but way too many games in one day
What about AYO
Unfortunately basketball is a sport favoured by money and genetics you can be poor but if your 6,10 people are going to be looking at you more
So how come you don’t have offers?
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EYBL killing AAU, player development
hello
my son is 11 years old he currently plays Point Forward at the YMCA in tampa florida. i would like to get him in a league where he can travel and compete in tournaments in different states . do you know of a league that competes in tournaments all ? ???
Eybl , AAU a scam. If the kid not Elite just put him in bowling
You’re describing the recruiting process for every sport what are we talking abiut