Tryouts for the Freshman team are November 3rd. I’m a freshman, btw. I didn’t make the AAU team I recently tried out for but I hope I make this one.

A Basketball Breakdown — Part 1 No. Playing JV isn’t bad. In fact, depending on your age, experience, and the players ahead of you, it can be exactly where you need to be. As a freshman, playing on the 9th-grade team is completely normal. Playing JV as a freshman? Nothing wrong with that either. But if you’re serious about basketball, I believe you should have goals for where you want to be. Freshman: Learn. Develop. Compete. Sophomore: Be a major contributor on JV and start working your way into meaningful varsity minutes. Junior: The goal should be becoming a full-time varsity player. Senior: You should be competing to make a real impact. That doesn’t mean everyone develops on the exact same timeline. Sometimes there are great players in front of you. Sometimes you’re physically behind. Sometimes you simply need more time to develop. And that’s okay. JV isn’t a punishment. It’s an opportunity. You get more reps. You get more responsibility. You get more chances to make mistakes and learn from them. But you have to take advantage of it. Don’t look at JV and think, “I’m stuck here.” Look at it and think: “How can I make it impossible for my coaches to keep me here?” And remember — earning more playing time doesn’t start in games. It starts in practice. How hard do you compete? Do you defend? Do you communicate? Do you make your teammates better? Do you listen to coaching? Do you bring energy every single day? Are you getting better when nobody is watching? Your goal shouldn’t simply be to get off JV. Your goal should be to become good enough that the next level has to notice you. Wherever you are right now, play. Compete. Learn. Grow. Then prove you deserve more. Part 2 coming soon. 🏀 Trainer: @Logan Hinton, a former 5 year pro across three countries. Train Like a Pro!

One of the hardest things as a basketball player is sitting on the bench when you know you’re capable of more. But before you quit. Before you transfer. Before you blame your coach. Ask yourself one question: WHY? Why aren’t you playing? And be brutally honest with yourself. Are you missing something your coach is looking for? Are you making the same mistakes over and over? Are you following your coach’s advice? Are you doing the little things that earn trust? Are you defending? Are you making the right reads? Are you taking care of the ball? Are you bringing energy every possession? Are you actively trying to get better… or are you spending more time complaining about playing time than you are working to earn it? And don’t just ask yourself. Ask your coaches. Ask your teammates. “What’s one thing I can do better?” Then listen. Don’t get defensive. Don’t make excuses. Don’t explain why you think they’re wrong. Take the feedback and go to work. Because sometimes the reason you’re not playing isn’t that you’re being overlooked. Sometimes there’s something you’re not seeing. And sometimes you are doing everything right and you still aren’t getting the opportunity you want. That’s basketball. You can’t control every decision a coach makes. But you can control how you respond. Control your effort. Control your attitude. Control your preparation. Control your development. Control how you show up every day. Give yourself the chance to look back and know you did everything you could before you decide to make a major change. Because transferring might be the right decision someday. Quitting might be the right decision for some people. But don’t make a permanent decision based on a temporary frustration. Before you blame everyone else, look in the mirror. Find what you can improve. Fix it. Work. Earn trust. And make it impossible to question how badly you want to be on that floor. Don’t just ask for playing time. Become the player your team can’t afford to keep off the floor.

If you want more bounce, more pop, and more explosiveness on the court, it starts here. It’s built in the weight room. It’s built through specific movements, intentional training, and discipline. Not by simply moving the heaviest weight possible. Strength matters—but so does how you build it. Your legs need to be strong enough to produce force, your hamstrings need to be prepared to handle and transfer that force, and your body needs to learn how to turn that strength into athletic movement. That’s why the details matter. You don’t train just to lift more. You train to move better. Jump higher. Explode faster. Because if you want to be great out there, you have to be willing to be great in here first. The dunks are the result. The work comes first. 🏀💯 Trainer: @Logan Hinton, a former 5 year pro across three countries. Train Like a Pro!

basketball has done so much for me, it gained me memories, new friends, even gave me a meaning in life. well, that love is over, idk when i’ll love this again like how i used to. but thank u coach logan and all of yall reading this.