I say 'travel teams' because I firmly believe that a majority of these outlaw teams are not affiliated with the AAU. People use it as a catch phrase. There are a lot of outlaw programs out there, and there has to be a focus on them because they facilitate some of the bad behavior when it comes to recruiting.
Quotes about aau (16 Quotes)
I look at my office and I can count five, six people that coach high school sports. And then there are tons more that coach Little League, AAU basketball. I could roll off a bunch of names easily.
I played AAU basketball with Jeremy and Jay, so I know they're good players. I think it's going to be a good game because Jeremy and Jay are good players and they have good guards.
In watching her with her AAU team, she had the ability to score away from the basket as well as underneath. One of the biggest things is her nose for the ball. Rebounding is something that just comes natural for her. She has great timing. She's a quick jumper, and she plays hard.
Youth Interlock is the A.A.U. program that brought me up. Being as though I made it, I feel its very important to give back to the community. Im have no problem putting my name on such a great event.
Brian is definitely the leader. He's dedicated himself to being a better basketball player. He works hard all year and plays AAU in the summer to develop his game.
It's an everyday battle. Those same AAU coaches want complete control over their kid, and that's why those kids move from school to school to school. Coaches will do anything to keep them on their AAU team, so when you try to coach them at high school and say, 'Hey, you've got to get better at this,' they're like, 'Whoa, what are you doing coaching me' That's a challenge.
I would hope there would be at least three, maybe more. As coaches, we talk about team play, how important it is. This is an opportunity from a league standpoint to show to people - whether it's college kids or high school kids or AAU kids - how important team play really is. It's a very rare opportunity you'd have as a league to maybe put five guys from one team in.
I'm surprised at how efficient Kevin is playing as a sophomore. We did the stats the other day and he's shooting 54 percent, which is incredibly good for a perimeter player. His AAU experienced has definitely helped. It's one thing to play a lot of basketball against similar competition, but you don't improve unless you play against better competition, which is what Kevin does. He earns every bit of what he gets.
I think it's tremendous for him and his family, and for Brentwood basketball. These guys saw him play almost every AAU game this summer. They're committed to Josh being Josh. They don't want to change him. They think he can play the 3 (small forward) spot and contribute immediately.
I coached both of them at the AAU level and tried to teach the game of basketball. In some ways I think they've kind of appreciated that type of insight to it, versus maybe just organizing and going out and playing hard. It's nice that they're getting involved with it on a voluntary basis.
We're prepared for that. As a basketball player, you want to be on the court, and a tournament like this, for most of us, is just like back in AAU ball, where you might play three games in one day.
So why did Romar start pumping his fist upon hearing Hawes' words ... and then emit an audible sigh of relief Because there's another perspective on Spencer Hawes -- the one seen by the greater college basketball world, to whom Hawes' defining biographic data is not the three generations of Huskies in his bloodlines. They care that he is a 6-foot-11 12 center with an offensive skill set so polished his AAU coach, former Utah assistant Jim Marsh , compares him to former Utes recruits Tom Chambers and Kevin McHale , because Hawes has more ways to score than you can imagine. ... didn't really matter as much to me as everyone may have perceived.
I don't think that will bother him at all, ... He's played AAU ball. He hasn't missed a stroke. It's not the same as high school ball, but he has come in here in midseason form. He looks really good. He's a '3' in high school, but I think he could play the '2' in college.
He coached me in AAU basketball as a kid. He missed maybe one of my games that I can think of. He was amazing. He'd drive to watch my sister Kate in Syracuse and then to Massachusetts and then back to William Paterson to watch Bridget. He always loved being a part of it.
The biggest change is the kids get so much more respect, ... In 1983, kids who were not real athletic or big could get by. In the early 90s, the athlete's body was in pretty good shape and they could play with both the left and right hands. The kids took pride in their game. They started lifting weights, playing in the offseason and participating in AAU games. I had 6-foot-6 and 6-foot-5 centers.