The purpose of this form is to gather feedback to help place your/our players in the best possible spot we can within the constraints we have to consider.

The core of the players in this group was originally placed through the evaluation draft with a Blue Chip staff coach. Once we had evaluation games we placed our 30 Blue Chip teams with our overall combined league and this team (Blue Coats) was moved from G league to Jr NBA West and was reassigned a name more consistent with the real-life league.

The staff coaches are also the ones who accept late registrant players when there are no other preformed teams looking for players. As more late registrants were assigned the roster grew to the point that we needed to split the team as evenly as possible. Which now consists of players who are a mix of size and age typically 13-15 yr old 8-9th grade.

Lakers and Suns are currently in a 4 team division consisting of teams with players who are looking to get more basketball experience. If we split them up to the next division they would be playing similar age players but the division is of 12 teams that are mostly tournament level teams or have played at least a few seasons or more together.

The way it is configured now there are also opportunities for some players on the Lakers/Suns, if they get a good basketball footing during the season and look like they can contribute in the next division, could move up. Based on the practice plan they might also have some joint practice opportunities with the team in the next division up as well so they might also stand out with their practice performance.

So before we finalize the rosters we would like to get some feedback from everyone and do our best to place players in as best a spot as we can. Not everyone will be 100% happy but we will do our best.

Since the teams are now split into the same division and we have a lopsided workload with 2 of our staff coaches we will assign Lakers to Coach Gatling and Suns to Coach Sobers.

Both coaches have coached in the league for 3 or more years and both get repeat coach requests from returning players. Both coaches are also being assigned college players as assistant coaches in training.

Coach Gatling’s target practice plan for Lakers is to practice the 8 players by themselves for 2 hours on Fridays at Veterans park.

Coach Sobers’ target practice plan is to practice the 8 players on the Suns on Tues/Thurs 6-8pm with his 9th grade Nets competitive team 10 players who play in the next division up. He asks players to make at least 1 of the 2 practices or their playing time may be impacted.

So again, apologies for the rough start for this group which has been impacted by a lot of factors between weather, late registration, evaluation, communication, team/division building etc etc So thanks for your patience!