How to make varsity basketball as a freshman

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Getting on the varsity basketball team can lead to many opportunities for your young career as a player. You get to compete against other high school teams, work on your game, experience high-level team play, learn from a coach and play in front of a crowd. If you’re really good and stand out by your senior year, you can get recruited by top colleges and receive a scholarship.

But everyone has to start from somewhere. Making the team alone takes a good bit of dedication and tenacity, and that work ethic then carries over to the rest of your life.

Here are eight key tips for becoming good enough to make it to your varsity basketball team.

What are you good at? Are you a good ball-handler, an accurate shooter, a strong rebounder, a tenacious defender, or so on? Your strengths are what make you stand out, so make the most of them and find a good way to use them to help your team win.

What are you not good at? While it may be tempting to just do what you do and ignore what you don’t do, you should put time into working on your weaknesses. That’s what practice and off-season are for. The more well-rounded you are as a player, the more useful you are as a teammate.

Of course, you should maximize your strengths. If those strengths help shore up your weaknesses, that’s a good thing as well. Working on your game is all about making your strengths even stronger and turning weaknesses into strengths.

For instance, your jump shot may not be that good. Improving it will surely make you a better scorer and a more valuable player, so you’ll have to look into what you’re doing wrong that may make your shot wonky. A lot of times, it’s using your guide hand wrong. You can correct it by using the Shoot Natural glove during practice to keep it straight. Your shot will improve and become a strength.

But there’s only so much you can do by yourself. When in doubt, ask yourself what will make you a better teammate. At the end of the day, that’s what separates mediocre players from good players. What matters most is what helps the team win.

While athleticism, skill, and size are major factors for becoming a good basketball player, what sets apart good players from great players is focus. The one quality that the all-time greats share is the ability to be in the moment throughout each game.

Everyone gets nervous, even those who would go on to become hall-of-famers. But those great players are able to set their anxieties aside once the game starts. They’re able to be in the zone and focus entirely on the game, which lets them perform with the best of their abilities.

When you’re in a game, you may be distracted by many things, like the crowd, your personal problems, and so on. But when you’re there, nothing else matters other than helping your team win. Being present isn’t just about being physically there, but also being mentally focused on the game you’re playing in.

This is especially important during your tryouts. Once you’re in the game, focus entirely on the game itself. Don’t worry too much about messing up and just power through. Make the most of every opportunity, make opportunities for your teammates, and play your best. The coaches will notice whether you’re focused or not.

Hustle on both ends of the floor and play at a good pace. When you make a mistake, make a mental note of that mistake right there and do your best not to repeat it. If you ponder on that mistake, you will slow down and get anxious. That will make your performance suffer and result in even more mistakes.

Coaches do their best to instill discipline into their players in various ways. Showing up in practice is the most important thing you can do to show that you have discipline. Every practice is an opportunity to improve your game, so you should relish every chance you have to get better.

Your attendance plays a big part in creating a good impression on your teammates and coaches. You can get there on time every time, which is good. But if you really want to go above and beyond, show up early and get work done before everyone else does. You can also stick around after practice and get more work done while everyone else is gone.

If you’re able to do that while you’re still young, it becomes much easier to do so when you get older. Discipline is a skill, just like everything else in basketball. You can practice being disciplined, and it’s a skill that will take you far both in basketball and in life.

This may sound contradictory, being a good player isn’t just about making amazing plays and seemingly impossible shots. No one likes to play with a ball hog, and it can be detrimental to your prospects if you’re seen as someone who plays for oneself and not for the team.

When you play just to look amazing, coaches catch onto those habits as selfish and grandstanding. You may be a good player, but you may be labeled as a bad team-player, which can get you passed up for the team. When it comes down to it, coaches aren’t just looking for potential talents, but winners as well.

Playing to win means playing for the team, and that means getting everyone involved. Let your teammates have a reason to pass the ball to you, and pass the ball to your teammates if you have a reason to. It may be players that score baskets, but it’s teams that win games.

You’re still growing, so you want to make sure that you eat food that will make you grow. You’re still young, so you find it easy to eat junk and be fine for practice the next day. But if all you’re eating is junk, then the body doesn’t get anything that lets it grow and be strong.

Take your nutrition seriously early on. After all, you are what you eat. If you want to be the best, you’ll have to eat the best food possible. This may be difficult if you’re not doing well financially, so you’ll have to find ways to get good food from reliable sources.

But it’s also bad if you tend to gorge and put on too much weight. Many pro careers have been derailed due to weight issues, which then make injuries more likely to occur. If you have contact with a nutritionist, take advantage of it and listen to that expert advice.

If you eat right and live right, you will play right.

Communication is the one skill that elevates all other skills. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, an artist, an engineer, a doctor, or a basketball player, you can do a lot better if you can communicate with other people.

In basketball, you have to talk to your coach and your teammates. Being able to converse with them properly lets you say what you need to say and listen to what they have to say clearly. This lets you make a good impression and be a good team member.

Good communication as a basketball player means maintaining eye contact with whoever you’re talking to, listening to your coaches and teammates, and making yourself understood.

This isn’t just about keeping your grades up to make it and stay on the team. Cultivating a work ethic in your academics develops the discipline necessary for both college and the professional league. Also, doing well in high school can get you a better chance to enroll in a major university.

If you’re not doing well with your studies now, that gives coaches a reason to doubt your availability for the varsity team and your reliability down the line. Don’t give them any reason to doubt by having good grades and being ahead of the curve.

If you don’t love the game, it’s going to affect how you play it. Every game will be a slog and every practice will feel tedious. If you’re into basketball in the first place, then it’s most likely because you love the game.

But it will be hard to keep loving it once it becomes like work. There will be times you won’t find it fun for various reasons, like playing against a vastly superior team, your coach and teammates giving you a hard time, or so on.

It’s up to you to find ways to keep it fun. Understand why you love the game in the first place and what things about it make it fun for you. If you’re having fun, you’ll be more fun to play with, and you’ll be a better player. It’s a feedback loop that’ll make you want to keep playing.

A lot of the things that will get you picked up by the varsity basketball team are also things that will carry you through for the rest of your life. While it’s great to be good at basketball while you’re still young, the qualities that will make you better as you grow are what will truly define you. Now, go out there and show them what you’re made of!

How To Make Your Varsity Basketball Team - Guaranteed

You want to be a varsity basketball team member.

However, there is a problem.

There are only a limited number of spots on the team. How can you guarantee you’ll make it?

The key is demonstrating to the coach that you’re the kind of person he needs on his team. Then it doesn’t matter if your skills aren’t up to par yet.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a freshman, sophomore, or junior, if you follow the advice below, you’ll make the team.

Here’s the process that you should follow to ensure you become what the team needs:

1. Assess
2. Improve
3. Repeat

Make Your Varsity Basketball Team

Let’s take a look at each step in turn.

Assess

Many people understand that you have to assess yourself, but you also have to assess the current varsity basketball team and what the varsity coach wants and needs.

Self-Assessment

This is the part where you have to be brutally honest with yourself.

What are your strengths? What are your weaknesses?

Do you have a height, weight, or size advantage over other people on the team?

If you’re naturally tall, you have a better chance of making the team, and if you’re short, you’ll have to work harder.

If you played basketball this year, talk to your coach and ask him what you need to work on during the off-season.

Think back to the games you played and figure out why you were put into the game, or why the coach took you out.

Did the coach always put you in to play defense? To score? To lead the team?

Did the coach take you out because you committed too many turnovers? Didn’t pass the ball? Took a dumb shot?

You have to be completely honest with yourself because otherwise, this doesn’t work.

Write down all the things you’re good at, all the things you’re not as good at, and whether you have any advantages or disadvantages compared to the others on the team.

Also write down the comments that your coach made about what you need to improve on.

Don’t listen to your teammates at this point because they’re not the ones who get to decide if you play or don’t play.

At this point you should have something like this:

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Team-Assessment

Now that you know what your strengths and weaknesses are, you need to figure out what next year’s varsity team needs.

Look at the current seniors who will be leaving the team. Note their roles on the team. Were they there for defense? Scoring? Something else?

Talk to the varsity coach and tell him that you’re planning on trying out for the team next year and ask if there’s any pieces to the puzzle that the team is missing.

The coach might tell you that the team needs a great passer, defender, or something else.

Even if the coach ends up not saying anything “useful,” it’s still valuable because it shows the coach that you care.

Write down the roles of the people the team will have next year and try to figure out if there’s anything missing.

For example, you might notice that the team has 4 people who want to be high scorers, but no great defenders or passers.

That means that you have a very easy way of making the team: improve your defense and passing!

Putting It All Together

After you do the assessment you have to figure out what it is the team needs and whether you’re already good at it.

If the team badly needs a great defender (which most teams do), and you are a lock-down defender, then you’re in a great position.

If you improve your defense even more while getting better at a secondary skill that the team needs, the coach will love to have you on the team!

Improve

Once you figure out what it is that you have and what the team needs, you gotta start working hard.

You should train every day, and you should spend 75% of the time developing the key skill that will allow you to make the team, and 25% of the time on polishing your other skills and making sure that you don’t get worse.

The Key Skill That All Coaches Love

There is one skill that is nearly guaranteed to get you a varsity spot.

Defense.

Many people can play good defense. Some people can even play great defense. But most people can’t play great defense all the time.

That’s the key.

Coaches want players who are able to shut-down the best player on the opposing team, and who they know they can count on.

Most coaches love the peace of mind of knowing that they have someone who will go out there and play defense until he falls down from exhaustion.

If you want to make the team and you’re not amazing at anything else, you need to become a defensive beast.

Demonstrating Improvement

It’s important that the varsity coach sees you improve and work hard. If your high-school offers a summer basketball camp you should sign up, and be the first one to come and the last one to leave.

If there is no basketball camp, you can talk to one of the current varsity players about organizing “open gym” practices at the high school where people can come to play and practice.

You don’t need to be the one to organize it, and you can let the varsity player take all the credit for it. What’s important is that you come to all of the open gyms early, leave late, and work hard while you’re there.

Repeat

Every 3 months you should re-assess yourself and figure out where you stand compared to all of the other players you’re competing against.

You might now be able to guard everyone on the team, and now you realize that you need to also be able to score if you want playing time.

Maybe you realize that you can shoot from anywhere, but now you need handles to get you to different spots on the court.

Whatever it is, the most important thing is to constantly improve.

How It Was – News – HSE for Its Own – National Research University Higher School of Economics

On April 22–23, the HSE POKROVKA CUP, a 3x3 basketball tournament organized by the HSE 3x3 streetball league and VseVyshka media agency, took place in the building on Pokrovsky Boulevard and the Directorate for Student Potential Development. HSE 3x3 is the only university streetball league in Russia. The championship was held in accordance with the requirements of FIBA, 8 teams took part in it - two from each campus.

In addition to the championship, on April 22, an open tournament was held in which national teams competed. There were more than 60 participants in total. And on April 23, a closed tournament was held, in which the top 8 teams of the HSE 3x3 league took part.

Artem Savosin

Captain of the winning team "Moscow-2"

For me, the story of Pokrovka started a little earlier than for other intercampus participants. I have known one of the organizers (Pavel Ivanov) since childhood, so two years ago we sat and imagined what the tournament could look like. Then the crazy thought at that moment slipped through: “What if we organize this on Pokrovka?” At that time, it seemed like an idea on the verge of fantasy, since we had only seen such an event on TV. Even now, when the tournament has passed, it seems incredible to me that it all happened in reality. And all this is thanks to the gigantic efforts of a large number of people, to whom I am very grateful for the organization. Therefore, the motivation of my team was at a high level, we wanted to win.

When we got to the tournament, our expectations were not only justified - we were shocked by how everything was at the highest level. Our team played with all the cities, but the guys from Perm became the main opponent. In fact, almost all the games were spectacular: for two days we enjoyed high-quality and beautiful basketball. There was a very friendly atmosphere on the site, although many teams saw each other for the first time.

Pavel Ivanov

Head HSE 3x3

The idea to hold an intercampus tournament came to me in my first year, when I first came to Pokrovka, went into the atrium and thought that this is where the competition should be held. But back then I did not have enough experience in implementing such events, and in my second year I created the HSE 3x3 project, which is directly involved in organizing a 3x3 basketball league. And now, three years after the birth of the idea, we organized a tournament.

When planning such events, one must be mentally prepared for the fact that there is a risk of encountering many organizational problems. But saves energy and a positive attitude. The team is also very important, because it is almost impossible to implement any serious project without a reliable team.

Artem Voronin

member of the Fallen Angels team

I play in 5x5 and 3x3 leagues, I regularly participate in HSE matches, but this is the first such large-scale sporting event that takes place on Pokrovka. In fact, everything is done very cool, very similar to what can be seen in American films.

April 22 we played an open tournament. We were supported not only by our classmates, but also by the guests of the tournament. This is certainly an interesting experience, since such competitions are usually held in a closed format. Here everything was much more spectacular and interesting.

I liked playing in the atrium on Pokrovka. There's plenty of space here. You can fit a bunch of interesting areas. For example, the same "CyberVyshka", where the guys are cut in the NBA! I think that we have set a new trend - to hold such large events right at the university.

Alexander Galkin

Captain of the Peter-1 team

The tournament was remembered first of all by the high level of organization, for which thanks to Pasha Ivanov and his team. We were very pleased with the fact that there was a separate sponsored product for the players. It was very interesting to feel like the professionals playing in the FIBA ​​tournament. The court, stands and court lighting helped create that feeling. As far as the game was concerned, my team did not succeed: we did not advance from the group, but this did not spoil the overall impression of the tournament. There was an atmosphere of mutual respect among the players. It was cool to be part of the basketball community.

Daniil Morozov

Member of the Moscow-2 team

What happened at Pokrovka on April 22 and 23 will forever remain in the history of HSE basketball and HSE as a whole. And I'm glad to be a part of this great event.

It was a real basketball celebration! Lots of games, competitions, contests - and all this in the atrium on Pokrovka. Story! I managed to get acquainted with a large number of guys from other campuses, talk with them about the development of basketball in their cities. But most of all I remember the friendly atmosphere of the event: both on and off the site, everyone supports you and wishes you victory. It was a pleasure to play!

Kirill Emelyanov

Tournament organizer

We organized a real two-day basketball festival. From the point of view of organization, it was very difficult to arrange such a level of sports competitions on Pokrovka. This is a very important and valuable experience for me in event management. We used to run tournaments at our own expense, but this time HSE helped us a lot, especially the Directorate for Student Potential Development: they supported us at every stage, helped and explained. Now I understand that nothing is impossible and it is possible to organize a tournament of this level even in a short time. We received a lot of positive feedback: from the people who came to the atrium, from the viewers of the broadcasts, from the rector who visited our tournament. I still can't believe that we all did it.

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A team that can work miracles | New university life

There are many anniversaries in 2010. One of them is orange, the color of a basketball. April will mark the 30th anniversary of the university's men's basketball team. The "slums" of the city championship, reaching the level of leaders and winning the final of the Student League of Russia - this is the sports path of the university team.

Plus - experience, minus - captain

On April 14, 1980, the university basketball team that had not been fired upon, half a year ago, was standing, blown by all the winds, somewhere in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe current Vzletka Plaza shopping center. The Tu-154 liner was buzzing nearby, and ahead was the road to Tashkent - the team flew to its first major tournament in its life.

It was the University Friendship Week, which was held in the capital of Uzbekistan in connection with the 60th anniversary of Tashkent University. Those who were lucky enough to participate in these competitions still remember: “It was a fairy tale!”. Everything worked out perfectly - the weather, a lot of good teams, excellent accommodation conditions . ..

And just in front of the debutants of the tournament - the KSU team, led by a young coach Nikolai Antsiperov - the sun almost faded. The fact is that on the very first day the team simply ... did not show up for the game.

- Can you imagine, I "late" the team for the first match! - Antsiperov recalls. - The mind is incomprehensible. Usually the hosts play last, I did not notice that the Tashkent team was put on the schedule early in the morning. Missed this moment. I bring the guys to 11.10. And the judges had already tossed the ball, credited the victory to Novosibirsk University (the team for which I played a year ago while studying at NETI!) - it turns out that the game was supposed to start at 10. I was on the verge of despair. But the attitude towards us was very benevolent, they allowed us to replay in the evening. We lost the match, but the game turned out to be interesting. After all, by that time we had only managed to win the championship of our city in the second group. In Tashkent, they took the thirteenth, or something, place ... Out of fourteen. Well, at the same time we "lost" our captain Viktor Pruss. He comes from Zheleznogorsk, and there he met a girl, later got married and left. It was a very romantic story.

So, Tashkent, mid-April - this is the time and place of birth of the university basketball team, Antsiperov is sure. “Let her not be very skillful, but this is the spirit for my whole life! My best friends today are the players of that team: law school graduates Mikhail Palenga, Andrey Mamaev, Ivan Lysikov, Andrey Sudenko, physicist Gennady Litvinovich, mathematician Stas Vichulyus.”

We are the university of the nineties!

And the next year, our basketball players, as they say, "jumped out of their shorts." Universiade-1981 was held in Krasnoyarsk. Of the 16 teams, KSU lost only to the undisputed leaders - Tashkent and Alma-Ata, and sensationally took third place!

- We made a splash. We played on inspiration, I caught courage as a player (I was a playing coach), the guys caught it. By the way, at this Universiade I myself “got lost” - I met my future wife. She was engaged in rhythmic gymnastics and played for the national team of Kazakhstan. For a year and a half I followed her to competitions, made her an offer. So the Krasnoyarsk Universiade is fateful for me in every sense.

The reason for such a rapid qualitative leap lay in the fact that Gennady Matsiboruk, Andrei Mamaev, Igor Podberezkin, who had already added playing experience in a year and a half, were very successfully approached by graduates of the Youth Sports School born in 1963, pupils of the honored coach of Russia Vasily Repita: Alexander Sukhoveev and Vladimir Trishenkov, who was captain of the varsity team for seven years. Their friend Sergei Ivanov (now Honored Master of Sports) played for the Polytech, was at that time the strongest "center" in Russia, at 90's was twice recognized as the best player in Russia.

- In general, good players have picked up. And what kind of press we had then! It was such a pleasure to read about these games in Krasnoyarsk Rabochy! That Universiade added a lot of strength and confidence. Somehow, for my birthday, the players even composed this rhyme:
Oh, zone pressing - yes!
And
Antsiper and Repita always believed in him.

Sounds very modern - I still continue to play this way, changing different types of pressure!

A little later, a very gifted Igor Bukhanov joined the team. Ivan Vdovin, Jan Kusins... This was the composition with which KSU fought for five years against the Polytech with Ivanov at the head. Why, five years, all the 80s, passed under the sign of rivalry with the Polytechnic. These were the two strongest student teams in the region. But Antsiperov also had another hobby.

– In 1982 I wanted to work with children. I worked at a sports school, and the Komsomol donated a hall in Student City, where the Center for Emergency Situations is now. I took the kids to summer camps with the student team. The then rector of KSU, Veniamin Sokolov, supported this.

Well, then these boys, born in 1970, grew up and entered KSU.

By the way, ten of them entered the Faculty of Economics and all of them did not get points. The secretary of the admissions committee, Alexander Gavrilin, plucked up impudence and said on enrollment: “We had a whole basketball team at the university growing - and now, they didn’t pass!”. To which Sokolov replied: “I want everyone to know: we have Antsiperov at the university without a competition.” I am very grateful to Gavrilin that he raised this issue, and Sokolov's words shone for me for many years. I realized that I chose the right path.
This is the “We are the University of the 90s” team, which I raised myself, smashed everyone and everything for five years in a row. The centers were cool - Dima Masalov, Igor Bedakov, Sasha Zobkov. There was a chic line of attack - Alexander Sonko, Gennady Petukhov, Alexei Evdokimov. Defenders - Roman Bukhanov, Dmitry Volkov. In 1993 we took second place in the Student League of Russia.

No cup... Will you take it in money?

And in 1994, it was this team that reached the top of the student podium - in Kaluga, students of KSU, financially supported by the Golden Valley company, won the final of the Student League of Russia!

- It was a fantastic game. A miracle that I myself actually attended. Imagine - in the first half we lost 24 points. But we had a team with character and had its own rhythm, and I felt that it “caught up”: we began to put pressure and slowly win back. Two minutes before the end lost 10 points. Ten seconds left - minus four. Madness. They (and we played with the Moscow Region team) have a player throw the ball in, while the other bounces and pushes my captain Dmitry Gulko. Foul. Dima is accurate. The opponent throws in - a long pass across the court! Fight for the ball, a series of rebounds. Stepping in. They are panicking! There are seconds left, we are already throwing in. And Vitaly Mikhailovich Nechepurenko (then teachers could still play, now he is the coach of the SibFU team "Polytechnic"), a person who dribbles the ball well, but throws from a long distance it does not matter, transfers the ball to the center and ... throws from 10 meters.

There is deathly silence in the hall. He hit. Time is up. We won by one point. I've probably never shook so many hands in a row in my life. Absolutely everyone descended, walked across our bench and said: “Krasnoyarsk! .. Guys! We have never seen such a show,” they shook hands. You know what they say - the Lord God smiled. Here are the moments.

And then the Chief Judge Popov comes up to me (I can imagine very well what he was up to because the “wrong ones” won) and said: “But the cups are already engraved. Under Moscow region. What we are going to do?". And after a pause: "Will you take the money?" And I just didn’t have enough to fly home for one ticket. I'll take! I thought - I'll buy myself a cup! So I didn't buy it.

After this game, I became different: less pragmatic. And I believe in miracles.

Then other times came. Sponsors left, the salary was small ... Antsiperov wrote a letter of resignation. For about five years he was engaged in private business. Andrey Ivanovich Kudryavtsev worked with the team during these years. At the beginning of the 2000s, Antsiper returned. Now the team has been playing in the Student Basketball Association (ASB) for the third year, reaching the final three times. This season, the team again reached the playoffs.

But the 30-year history of college basketball isn't all about "points, goals, seconds." These are people and events that Nikolai Olegovich really wants to remember in the anniversary year.

- First of all, it is, of course, Sokolov - this is a scale, a grandiose personality. These buildings are just a monument to him. How good it is to breathe in these cases! I am always proud to show our university to guests. Next - Alexander Dmitrievich Kakuhin. He is an incredibly statesman and very courageous person. We had conflicts with him, but the more I worked with him, learned how other heads of departments work, the more I was proud that I was working with him. He has always stood up for his employees very powerfully. Created a faculty almost out of the blue. Boris Kirillovich Rzhepko. He was the dean of the Faculty of Law, the first vice-rector. His soul was rooting for the university, an absolute disinterested man who had a bunch of students. Viktor Bolotov, then Dean of the PPF. There was a story with the admission of basketball player Dmitry Masalov. He wanted to go to the PPF, but entered the physics department. For a year he proved himself to be an ideal student and he was left at the PPF. The next year, he was already a member of the academic council of the university (it included the best students of the faculties), brilliantly graduated from the university and for five years was one of the best centers. He was invited to Moscow, to CSKA - he did not go. A year ago, we met in Moscow - after all, he eventually moved there. He invited our whole team to a restaurant, he came, looked, was happy for the guys ... Valery Zubov played good basketball and, when he was the dean of the Faculty of Economics, supported the team.

First you need to feed

Of course, there are problems in student basketball - where without them?

- All the best players go to the Yenisei teams: to the CYBL, to the farm club. They have better conditions - they feed, carry, pay money. And we work with the "remaining". This year, by the way, we beat both of these teams.

We have a person who tries to get an idea. For example, Aleksey Kolyashin trains and studies at two faculties at once. There is Nikita Ivanov - very promising, two meters tall. We are returning from the departure and who goes where, and he is to study. We brought in a potentially strong player - but we can't accommodate him!

Second. People who train eight times a week need to be fed! Not money - just feed! We don't have such a system. If they asked me: “Scholarship or food?” – I would choose the second. Further: four players of the national team are “payers”. And these people defend the corporate colors of the university.

Therefore, I would not subscribe to the fact that the university has created all the conditions for athletes. This can be compared to lifting a kettlebell. Someone lifts her, 16 kg, many times. And we have lifted a kilogram and are already shouting: “Look, we are strong!”.

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