How to Run Basketball Tryouts: Plan, Drills, & Evaluation

Basketball tryouts are the sessions a coach runs before the season to evaluate players and select the team. A good tryout is half skill drills and half competitive games, runs across two or more short sessions, and uses a simple evaluation form so every player gets a fair look. That sounds obvious. Most tryouts I hear about are nothing like it. In this guide, I'll show you how to plan basketball tryouts, which drills to use, what to look for in players, how to score them, and how to handle cuts when you have no other choice.