Ep 218 Summer Season- Picking Teams the Coaches Perspective

Coaching Youth Hoops (Youth Basketball Coach) · Feb 6, 2025 · 19m

🎙️ Coaching Youth Hoops Podcast: Naming Teams & Running Effective Tryouts

In this episode, we tackle two big topics for youth basketball programs—team naming conventions and tryout evaluations. Should you label teams as "Elite" or "Gold"? How do you fairly evaluate players and build the right teams? We break it all down!

🔹 Topics Covered:

✅ Why team names matter and how to avoid parent conflicts

✅ Should you have an A & B team? Pros and cons

✅ How to structure tryouts for fair evaluations

✅ Best drills and matchups to assess players

✅ Using independent evaluators for unbiased decisions

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