The Difficulty of Cut Day

Basketball season has started and it’s one of the most exciting times of the year for coaches. For coaches, this is like Christmas. It’s exciting and you can’t wait for it to get here. However, despite all of the excitement, there’s always the one thing we as coaches hate: making cuts. This week we’ll discuss this process and how best to handle it.

Making cuts is a necessary evil that is both bad and good. Making cuts is the worst part of coaching. There is not one coach who likes to cut players. We tend tot think the ideal situation would be having ten players without having to cut anyone. On the other hand I think having to make cuts can be seen as a positive. Why? It shows a good program. When there’s enough interest in a program to have more kids try out than for spots available, it shows something is going right. Kids want to be a part of it. However, that brings the bad. Having to make cuts is something we as coaches dread. It’s part of the job at times but we never look forward to that day. I think there is common misconception with coaches and making cuts from the public. Trust me when I say it’s something we dread, and lose sleep over.

With that being said, let’s discuss the process and what goes into this decision. When shaping team rosters, a decision needs to made based upon what’s best for all. Honesty is the best policy. 

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