High School – The RUN

Parent An Athlete

High School, W High School Basketball12/01/202223Views 0Likes 0Comments

College basketball coaches sit and watch basketball tournaments discussing players. Height, weight, body build, hand size are some of the physical attributes coaches evaluate. His or her Academics. The final question is always about his or her parents. Several college coaches have said they prefer not to recruit players from a single parent home…

Be Coachable

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This summer I've spent a lot of time in work out facilities watching the next generation of athletes prepare for the upcoming season. Before the summer started, I would have bet that the players are different in that they don't work hard. What I've found is that the parents are different, especially as it comes…

Turn Pro

Featured, High School, M College Basketball07/31/202229Views 0Likes 0Comments

OVERTIME – Overtime is a digital sports media company that started in 2016. It has since launched the professional basketball league, Overtime Elite League (OTE). OTE was developed for top high school players, offering them the opportunity to play professional basketball, while also earning an annual salary of up to $10 0K. OTE’s transformative model…

Mama, Duke Is Stealing All Of The Players Again!

High School01/19/202216Views 0Likes 0Comments

Here we go again. The Duke Blue Devils are hogging all the nation’s best high school basketball players. They are about to kick everybody's butt. Again. Is any other university going to get in the way? What happened to all that fight you teach your players in practice every day? Where is the work from…

Ja From Nowhere

High School11/26/20217Views 0Likes 0Comments

A good basketball player usually comes from a combination of good training, coaching and promotion on a basketball platform in which the player can perform and the world takes notice. Temetrius Jamel "Ja" Morant from Dalzell South Carolina was initially trained and coached by his dad Tee Morant who played high level high school and…

Trae Young Proves Small Guards Are More Than Shooting

High School02/21/202017Views 0Likes 0Comments

Positionless play has become more commonplace in basketball over the last 10 years. In that, the small guard has found a place as more than scorers and defenders. Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors came along and turned that style of play into championship basketball. Since then NBA teams have been unafraid to invest…

Gonzaga Recruits What It Needs

High School01/18/202016Views 0Likes 0Comments

In the summer of 2013, I watched the NBA summer. Milwaukee was playing. They has just drafted a skinny 6'9" African kid from Greece. He didn't look Greek to me but whatever I thought as I kept watching. They were playing him as a lead guard and he was making a ton of mistakes, missing…

Emoni Bates: Talent vs. Accomplishments

Basketball, High School12/10/201925Views 0Likes 0Comments

With a national ranking service, we at the RUN Sports often find ourselves locked in heated battles over who's better than who in the basketball world. It’s an equation of Talent + Individual Accomplishments + Team Accomplishments. Michael Jordan is considered by many to be the best of all time due to his accomplishments of…

Play With Toughness

BB Reads, High School11/25/201915Views 0Likes 0Comments

The toughness of an athlete is what matters most in sport. Most coaches and recruiters will tell you that. That level of toughness is what helps teams win in basketball. So, what is toughness in basketball exactly? The first commonality is the most obvious and that is the physical toughness. Both played a brand of basketball…

Basketball Play Off Of The Bounce

Featured, High School07/17/201938Views 0Likes 0Comments

We’ve talked about having a GO-move series (triple threat) and its importance. I want to go further in depth about the dribble portion 1/3 of the triple threat. There are only two ways to score in offensive basketball; catch and off the bounce (starting with dribbling the ball to attack). Dribbling the ball comes easy for some, especially smaller…

AAU Culture Impacts Players Decision Making

High School, Uncategorized07/07/201915Views 0Likes 0Comments

AAU basketball has changed the way that players make decisions on high school, travel, college and professional teams. There are very few of the killer personalities. Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant types that don't feel the need to team up with others are few and far between. Today's young players have created the idea of…

Becoming A Great Passer

Featured, High School02/20/201923Views 0Likes 0Comments

In the game of basketball, there is one ball to be shared amongst five players. In The Origins Basketball Dr James Naismith developed a basketball with laces that wasn't conducive for dribbling. The original rules stated that you could not move from your spot on the court forcing everyone to share or pass the ball. As…