What does it take?- high school basketball
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Anonymous
| What does it take to make the high school basketball team? How young do you start? Is it already too late if your child is in middle school? |
Anonymous
| A middle schooler who has only played rec league? |
Anonymous
| IF he's going to be 6'5, you can start in middle school. Otherwise, too late. |
Anonymous
| Depends on the school and your kid's athleticism and physical attributes (like height). MS is not too late, but, depending on the HS and your kid's abilities/height you need to be realistic. |
Anonymous
| Depends on the high school too. |
Anonymous
My son is 6’4” and played rec through elementary school. Two years without playing due to COVID, then made his high school varsity because of his height and potential. He ended up sitting on the bench for two years before quitting. He simply wasn’t as good as other kids who just loved basketball more and who played travel in middle school. So, even with the height, you still need to put serious effort and time in before 9th grade. |
Anonymous
Why not move him to JV or C team? Sounds like terrible coaching. |
Anonymous
| When do you start training? If your dc did travel basketball in ES and MS then is that a guarantee he will make HS team? |
Anonymous
| Whitman high school |
Anonymous
| What highschool? If you name it, people can give you better advice. |
Anonymous
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If your kid is going to PVI, it will take NBA potential. If your kid is going to BCC, then there is a good chance.
5 DMV teams are ranked top 20 in the country. Avoid Sidwell, Paul VI, Jackson-Reed, Gonzaga, Bullis…and add Dematha, O’Connell and SJC as well for just a kid that wants to make the team and play some. |
Anonymous
Whitman is not a basketball powerhouse. If your son is a talented athlete and willing to devote himself to basketball training, I don't think MS is too late. Basketball is tough because the team is just not that big. |
Anonymous
guarantee? no, of course not. Lots of kids do travel sports all the way thu ES and MS and don't make their high school teams for many different sports, and basketball is the toughest team to make of all b/c the roster sizes are so small. |
Anonymous
They did finish 2nd in the state of MD this year, so I assume they are decent…though probably would not beat the teams listed above. |
Anonymous
Person with zero knowledge of basketball has entered the chat. It’s always funny how people who know nothing whatsoever about the game say this — presumably because you also have to be very athletic to play it at a high level or maybe because lots of black kids play the game well. If PP knew anything about the game, they’d know that the spin move that they saw in an NCAA tournament game is one of 10 spin moves that the player has been working on since 4th grade, that each one has a move, a counter, and a counter counter, and that there are dozens of other offensive moves like that that the player knows euro step, pull up, floater, step back, etc.) not to mention all the team plays (press break, transition plays, half court sets, inbound plays in half court, etc.) or the basic skills (dribbling full speed with both hands looking up, crossover, through the legs, behind the back, wrap, taking a charge, guarding a drive, getting downhill while being guarded without fouling, etc.). But PP doesn’t know any of that, so they say stupid sh!t like “it’s not like it’s a technical game.” |