I was looking at IMDB ratings by region, and I noticed a certain percentage of humans in the world rate the Melania documentary a full 10/10. You can sort by region and I was surprised to to see that 6.6% of rating Australians users gave this a 10 as well! As a non-Aussie, I thought this might be an opportunity to work on some of my Australian colloquialisms. Does this image make sense, in terms of proper Aussie slang?
Bit of a rant, apologies.
My 12yo son started playing on a club team less than a year ago (in SoCal) and I have found some curious and slightly frustrating coaching traits that I wanted to run by this sub to see if this a bug/feature of club hoop vs school programs.
First off, fwiw most of these coaches played college level, one at the D1 level. But, generally, the hands on staff are young men.
For this age level, during scrimmage time do club coaches just let any kid handle the ball up the court? And shouldn't the best ball handlers be the, uh, primary ball handlers? I know this seems like an obvious answer but I often see kids who shouldn't be handling the ball, handling the ball up the court because they want to be the point guard. Yay! This leads to inevitable early turn overs and breaks down whatever they were working on , in terms of running any semblance of an organized offence.
Nobody is policing the 3-point line. Every 12yo kid has the green light from 3 regardless of form, range, shot IQ. The Curry effect is way too real but isn't it literally the coach's job to pump the brakes, mentor, and say "work on your form first, then we'll talk about moving back" Instead it's just nodding, watching.
My overall point and question I'm getting to is -these kids and their parents are paying customers, I understand. Clubs don't want anyone feeling bad and quitting, so they let everything fly and say "nice $hot."
Is that what this is? ($ retention) or should I be looking at other clubs. My kid is starting to show some decent talent for the game so I want to expose him to the best environment.
I guess I know the answer so...
...when these same kids get to tryouts for Middle/High school - does that reality check finally arrive? Does the coach on a middle school teams say "You don't handle the ball, You don't shoot 3's" to the kids who aren't skilled enough?
Rant complete.
