I watched AAU basketball all weekend. I left with bad news for most players: Too many are building highlight reels before they’re building winning habits. The game ends. They lose. And before they’ve watched film or owned what needs to change… The post is already up. The highlight clip. The posed photo. Everyone wants exposure. But exposure doesn’t fix bad shot selection. It doesn’t make you defend. It doesn’t teach you how to impact winning. The camera should document the work. It shouldn’t become the reason for the work.

Kids do not watch basketball to learn the game anymore and it shows!!

Recruits take advantage of the time you are subbed out today and look like a genius to college coaches. Many players, when the leave the game, either look to their parents in the stands or inattentively watch the game until they're called again. Instead, look closely at what the other team is doing. -Are they going under every screen? = chance to shoot over -Are they switching every screen? = chance to force a mismatch -Are they loading the paint? = chance to drive and dish -When you blow by your guy where is the help coming from = tells you who will be open -Are they running the same play? = where can you have a chance to blow it up with a jumped lane -Does one kid shoot almost every time he touches it? = get read to hit, get and run Whatever you do don't go back into the game just as blind as you were going in.