Hi. I'm Travis Corpering and I'm going to
try to teach you just how to get recruited
into a basketball program. What you want to
do first of all is, you want to try your best.
Number one thing is to get your grades up.
That's the number one thing. Get your grades
up enough to where you can actually play basketball.
If you make the team, what you want to do
is, you want to, well, first of all, try our
for your high school team. Once you try out
for your high school team, if you get your
skills up enough to where you can make it,
and that's a lot of hard work. That's putting
in practice over the summer. That's working
out every day after you do your homework.
That's putting a lot of work into it. But
once you get to the point where you actually
make the team, you make your high school team
and you want to excel at the high school level.
Yes. First of all, start. If you can get to
where you can actually start, then by your
senior year of high school, you're in a position
to where you can kind of command a little
more time on the floor. Then, three things
you want to do. You want to excel in at least
one area. Do really well in at least one area,
whether it be shooting, scoring or rebounding.
Maybe you're a big man and your thing is just
you're a big body under the rim and when they
pass it down low, you can dunk. Whatever you
do, do it really well and make sure scouts
see that when you know scouts are coming to
the game. The larger games, when you're playing
against large area rivals or games where there's
going to be a large number of people or a
huge crowd or at a huge venue, you want to
really do your best just to show whoever is
there that you're worth their time and effort.
So, whatever you do, do it well. Possibly,
if you possibly can, try to average double
digits. Don't let anyone see that you're a
selfish player. Don't be a selfish player.
Make sure you get your assists up. You want
to be a good rebounder and play excellent
defense. You do those things and you got a
good shot of getting into a college program.
After that, then you can try to get yourself
set up to where you can get some NBA scouts
looking at you, possibly go to the pros. There
you have it. Getting into a basketball program.