DTX Basketball builds life lessons through the sport of basketball. Led by former Division I coach Dave Taylor, we develop every player to reach their full potential — on and off the court.
Season runs Nov 9 – Jan 29. Tryouts are for placement only — DTX does not cut anyone. Practices at INSPORTS, 29 Trefoil Drive, Trumbull, CT.
DTX is the only program in the state with its own facility — INSPORTS in Trumbull, CT — with four full courts, shooting machines, a weight room, film and academic rooms. Coach Taylor is at every practice for every team, provides game-film analysis for every player, and gives his personal cell number to every family.
From first tryout to college commitment, DTX has a path for your player.
Boys, girls, national and Trumbull travel teams at every age level — with schedules for each.
Individual skill development that many alumni credit with getting them to college.
A proven process: 50+ college players and a dedicated recruiting coordinator.
Every DTX set, out-of-bounds play, drill and defensive principle — on video.
I coach and play by the acronym D-I-C-E: Discipline, Intensity, Composure, Execution.
— Coach Dave Taylor
The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life — mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical!
— Coach Dave Taylor
The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get from it, but what they become by it.
— John Ruskin
Coach Taylor has coached Division I basketball, was a head varsity coach for fifteen years in California, and has run national camps — including the National Jr. Phenom Camp — for decades. He has taught the game in Tokyo, Australia, Beijing and Singapore, and has coached or had in his camps NBA players including James Harden, Paul George, Klay Thompson, John Wall and Jrue Holiday. A mentee of Coach John Wooden, he was featured in Play Their Hearts Out and Hoop Dreams 2.
In their book “The AAU Wasteland,” Coach Dave Taylor and Eli Gonzalez pull back the rug on the AAU and no one is safe, whether they are players, coaches, parents, the NCAA, the NBA, or major shoe companies. Far too many young, influential, and talented basketball players put their hopes into this broken system, only to become non-functioning members of society. However, there is hope! Coach Taylor and Mr. Gonzalez provide a solution that can make the sport of basketball a pure journey to enrich lives once again.
If anyone can speak on the current realities of the AAU, it’s Dave Taylor. He has played both high school and college basketball. He has coached Division I basketball for four years and was a head varsity basketball coach at the high school level for fifteen years in California. Taylor has been coaching high profile AAU teams and running camps for youngsters with exceptional talent for over twenty years. He currently runs the NATIONAL Jr. Phenom Camp since it started over ten years ago and has also been involved with national AAU programs such as Double Pump and the West Coast All-Star camp for decades. He oversees camps all across the country and has gone to Tokyo, Australia, Beijing, Singapore, and other countries to teach and coach the game of basketball. He will soon run the Plumlee Big Man Camps and other camps for NBA players. He was a character in and was a source of information for the New York Times Best Seller “Play Their Hearts Out” and is featured in the basketball documentary Hoop Dreams 2.
Dave Taylor either directly coached or had in his camps current NBA players such as James Hardin, Carlos Boozer, Paul George, Clay Thompson, Drue Holiday, John Wall, Trevor Ariza, Gilbert Arenas, Mike Dunleavey Jr, the Lopez twins, and many more.
Eli Gonzalez is a contracted ghostwriter for Xulon Press who previously coached a high school varsity boy’s basketball team.
Together they intricately weave a story of innocence lost, peppered with stories of NBA legends, and advice from Coach John Wooden. It also includes Coach Taylor’s advice to players, parents, and coaches on leveraging the sport to a better future.
DeMarcus Cousins and Coach Dave Taylor talk basketball in Sacramento, California — plus an inside look at camp.
Our recruiting coordinator works with college coaches at every level — Division I, II, III, NAIA, junior college and prep school — while players do the work. See the process, our alumni and our nominees.
Tryouts are for placement — every player is coached and developed. Questions? Coach Taylor is always available.
