I know it has been said before, but..,

[KB21]

If you watch college basketball outside of Mississippi State at all, you would see that almost every team has the same issues that Mississippi State is having with decision making and performance in the clutch. There are very few programs like Gonzaga where it seems that everyone is well coached, and a lot of that is because Gonzaga is a developmental program. Those players have been coached and have grown with the team. They don’t get a lot of one and done guys.

AAU basketball doesn’t prepare these kids to play team ball or defense at any level, and it takes time to coach the bad AAU habits out of these guys.

[gtowndawg]

If you watch college basketball outside of Mississippi State at all, you would see that almost every team has the same issues that Mississippi State is having with decision making and performance in the clutch. There are very few programs like Gonzaga where it seems that everyone is well coached, and a lot of that is because Gonzaga is a developmental program. Those players have been coached and have grown with the team. They don’t get a lot of one and done guys.

AAU basketball doesn’t prepare these kids to play team ball or defense at any level, and it takes time to coach the bad AAU habits out of these guys.

My middle son plays AAU in Memphis and his younger brother starts this year. I've watched a lot of it from ages 10 up to 17. All it is now is a game of full court press. Who can press the most and get layups off the pressure. Most teams spend a lot of practice time on just pressing - not much skill development at all (if you want that you get a skills coach and work on that individually). And most games are not called (officiating wise) correctly. If they did most players would foul out. It just muggings up and down the court.