Only if you in the right tournaments. Not all aau is good.

AAU is the worst thing to happen to pre-college hoopers

real AAU is an amazing opportunity. But kids playing 24 regulation games in a weekend is ridiculously damaging to their longevity

My friend guarded Aquille Carr in an AAU tournament and he had no idea who he was at first. He thought it would be easy work since he was so short, needless to say Aquille cooked his ass lol

As a former player of 30 years. The hardest part about basketball is surviving the favoritism and politics

I feel like it takes this guy five minutes to explain 30 seconds of dialogue

This is how coaches convince parents to pay $1,000's to travel and sit the bench. "It could happen for you!!!!"

aau despite having ruined american basketball and most of the nba is still wildly important. ik plenty of kids who got cut from their varsity teams (bull shit politics) who still got d2 and d1 offers from aau

This is how ALL sports are when being scouted 😂😂

Coaches don’t care about aau anymore, all the transfer portal

I’m unfamiliar with AUU now a days, but 10yrs ago the Adidas circuit plus Adidas Nations was the way to go. Adidas Nation provided the best exposure and experience overall with Future performing and free haircuts to anyone. Unlike LeBron and KD camps during that time, they provided a healthy balance of workouts and scrimmages that had a break in between the two daily sessions vs 6+ straight hours.

A guy on my rec league team got noticed this way after we joined in an AAU tournament once. We played the SC Hornets with Zion, Ja, and Devontae Shuler and he got noticed because we put up a decent fight.

depends on the aau circuit. there are different levels of aau and unless you are playing in some eybl or nationwide league you typically won’t be going against these caliber players

He says this and never made it anywhere, I’m sorry T Jas, I wasn’t that good but neither were you 😢

I don’t think coaches really care too much about aau. The exposer is great for social media and branding but coaches know aau most of the time is not very competitive. It’s more like pickup

Damn kid looks like he’s still in high school

my team qualified for local AAU tournament once when i was 12 or 13. We got cooked lmao

TJass sounding like that old head at the rec league talking about how he could’ve made it

I mean yes and no - and depends the level of aau you’re playing at. If you’re on a national circuit playing against D1 competition - sure. A good showing against an established d1 product can go a long ways. If you’re just playing tournaments in your state against all local kids - no probably not. Also depends on the program/team you’re playing for. A lot of AAU ball is total garbage from a basketball purity perspective. Just a bunch of iso ball and pick n rolls. No off ball movement cuts. A team full of guys with a lot of talent. But maybe not a team well built based on positions/style played. Ive seen plenty of guys who kill on the outdoor courts in pickup games but can’t translate to an organized 5 on 5 game cuz they don’t understand how to fit and flow within in an offense. Don’t understand how to play help side D and rotations.

AAU is great but you got to get into the right tournaments either by invite or pay sometimes. If your team is trash your probably not playing in any kind of elite tourneys. It's a fun experience but your team still have to be able to play basketball at a high level or your going to be the 1 team everybody is laughing at wondering how tf did they get here.

Crazy scrolling through KZfaq shorts and seeing Connor in one because I graduated high school in the same class as him

Aau is very fun

Then how come you aren’t in the nba or overseas Tristan

yo man this pod is gonna slap ! tristan is such a solid dude an just a hooper

High school rankings mean nothing just higher expectations

Sup with this dudes hair...lmfao

This dude takes a paragraph to say a sentence.

Yeah but you gotta politic your way onto a team that’s playing on a major circuit to get looks

“Pass the ball bro”

That's every travel team for sports... It's not about who they're there to watch it's about who they see.

#facts💯

A guy who shoots layups off the wall on You Tube? yep hes a trusted source

Kobe was strongly against AAU. He said it didn't teach kids to play the right wa, & it's a showcase.

W Rod Wave shirt 🫶🔥

Les go Conor Go Badgers!

i remember thinking we were good in AAU in 7th grade and then we got beat by 60 by this team that could practically all dunk lmao.

You could if you pay 5k

Shoulda been doing that instead of getting that perm 😂

How this guy look younger than an old picture of him

Wow. You are so smart

AAU is for individual players to try and show off. It’s not real team basketball. This leads to players like Jalen Green getting drafted 2

I watched Indiana elite play yesterday

All of these summer camps and teams are great for all sports and help push the game forward. However, it isn't organized ball so lack of fundamentals can become a habit especially if the coaching/refs are bad. The main issue I see with all these leagues is that some kids don't have the means to play in them or live in the middle of nowhere so the competition is very poor and then they just get lost or complacent. I also don't know if they're getting any advice on recruiting and creating their own way by initiating contact with coaches at the next level. This was my case, won a lot of junior golf events (got complacent) no one cared about cause it was out in the boonies, so even though I consistently beat people during the school year at jamborees that were recruited it didn't matter. Pretty sure my HS coach never did any recruiting for me either so it seemed inevitable I wouldn't play in college. Never got any offers or anything so walked on a D3 team for fun after meeting a few of the guys. Two coaches quit, didn't have a good practice facility, got injured and then focused mostly on engineering school. Now when I look back I think the only thing that could've helped me reach my potential was a mentor from junior high on through highschool.

The cool thing about AAU is that you can be damn near 18 and dunking on 14 year olds

My friend went against Mike Williams and goes crazy

Connor goes to my church I know him

ROD WAVE SHIRTTTTT

I play aau and I never know that

most kids are good but never play to their full potential because of fear

Isnt this blonde dude the guy who everyone thought was gonna go to the nba but didnt even come close?

I wish they a say for boxing n if they do someone point me there direction

Red for Indiana! I'm from South Bend

But he still didn't make it to college...only playing on KZfaq still

The only problem with AAU basketball is it gives you the wrong publicity though, too yeah you get to score as many points you want put as much highlights up there as you want but the only problem is the coaches from colleges and possibly NBA scouts. Do not get to see you play in the organized Atmosphere they don’t see you playing as a team and that is the biggest problem with young ones these days they think AU is so cool but failed to realize if you can’t play team basketball you won’t make it far if you think about scoring 20 points a game you definitely won’t make it far

This is the truth I was a sophomore on varsity when I started against st Anthony’s In states with my match up against the best team in the country at the time with Beasley an tryvon I personally took over in the fourth dropping 23 in one quarter winning the game my first triple double in states I never forget college scouts coming up too my coach an he’s face like yo I got too talk too you he told me not to let it get too my head but hey keep playing like this and seton hall wants you an long story short two years later I’m starting guard for seton hall literally got ranked that summer league during aau for gauchos especially if you go too a camp like I did helped a lot

Wrestled aau. Got fked up by kids younger than me from ohio😂

That’s how my brother got recruited to wrestle in college. Beat the dude the ppl went to go look at. Took that man’s opportunity.

Imagine watching this podcast 😴

This mentality is the issue with the game … put on a show ? Or win the game and uplift your teammates?

I played for Indiana elite lol

This is from someone who has played either 8 min in aau in 4 years or someone who has never played aau. Period

Cap I’ve cooked most of yall favorite hoopers 2018-2021

😂

The negative about AAU is these guys have 27 year old bodies as 20 year olds from playing and traveling so damn much 😅

You still got no offers 😂😂

Not often a nobody gets on a court vs a kid with 40 offers during a live period. T Jass just yappin

Bro got some weird bead eyes

I hope I can but w video

Ummm same thing in high school

Took the all star game as his chance

These zoomer llama haircuts need to trend down asap 🦙

Who is this guy with t Jass I played against him in aau

Bro needs to pass the ball more

And players like jokic who comes from europe will cook all this aau "talents"

This the guy that travels hella right ?

My teams doing this to getting on the circuit for 8th

Played Indy elite in 2/3 rd grade😂😂 good times Coulda shoulda woulda . Gave it up was like curry in 2/3/4th grade probably made 5 3s a game best game making 15.then quit due to parents divorce and family issues until 8th grade …didn’t have the same edge . Still better than average tho.

AAU has absolutely destroyed American basketball. The Europeans have caught up because of it.

With AAU your body bouta be done by 23.

Lay off the Addies bro

REALL AAU is the word

This is the least likely scenario to happen out of all the pro’s of AAU,

Is it me or every time Tristen talks he states the obvious. Never really adds any sort of substance to a podcast.

Lets go badgers Connor Essigen my man

Pass the ball bro

Tristan Jass has no idea about AAU. This guy got famous for making layups. He’s a clout chaser

Harvey Elliot from the states???

Indiana Elite is the best AAU team you could be on for the whole state

EYBL killing AAU, player development

AAU is good but way too many games in one day

Ja Morant

So how come you don’t have offers?

Yelp I dropped 24 on boo Williams little Ole me on a west texas team no senior year of basketball offer from ECU south plains college

This dude acting like he’s saying something profound, thanks captain obvious

Colin Sexton went from not ranked to 5 star

Unfortunately basketball is a sport favoured by money and genetics you can be poor but if your 6,10 people are going to be looking at you more

Connor Essegian=🐐

Aau is ruining basketball

What about AYO

Well it can also be used against you 😂😂😂