I'm helping coach my son's 5th grade school basketball team this year. Currently 13 kids are signed up to play. I'd say about half the kids will also be playing some sort of traveling basketball simultaneously while this will be the only team for the other half of the kids. The other person I'm coaching with wants to focus on winning, playing time second. So essentially wants to create lineups where the better kids play more and the other kids play less, unless the game gets out of hand one way or the other. My thinking is spread playing time evenly since the traveling kids will get plenty of playing time on their other teams and this will be the only team for the remaining kids.
What's been your experience?
What's been your experience?