How important is it for a player to make a USA Basketball team over the summer?
USA Basketball is a great way to improve and hopefully we will have some players make the teams this summer. (Five Stanford players are finalists for USA Basketball teams. Jayne Appel, Kayla Pedersen, and Jeanette Pohlen are finalists for the World University Games Team, which plays in Serbia July 1-12. Sarah Boothe and Nneka Ogwumike are finalists for the U19 National Team, which plays the U19 World Championships in Thailand July 23-Aug 2. For both of those teams, 14 finalists are vying for 12 spots.) Campusdog asks for thoughts on the summer Bay Area Pro-Am league. How useful is it for players? (The Bay Area Pro-Am Summer Basketball League consists of seven teams of area collegians and some high school players. Games, which are free to the public, are played at Kezar Pavilion in San Francisco on Saturday or occasionally Sunday afternoons starting in late June.) The Pro-Am is an opportunity to play and that is important. Our very successful teams have always had players who are commit
