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[quote=Anonymous]I don't know about your area, but in DC I'd contact Hoop Ed and ask them to recommend a trainer.  You can google "AAU Basketball Fairfax" and then call the organizations that come up and see of they can recommend a trainer -- many people who coach AAU also do training.

Basketball is a weird sport in its social aspects.  If a player is clearly dominant and super confident, kids will pass to him, but it's possible for non-assertive players who are just OK to really be overlooked.

I'll share with you the advice my kid's trainer gave him when DS was experiencing this at a college prospect camp.  DS played his first of two games of the first day of camp with a group of kids who all thought they were great.  He didn't play assertively and barely touched the ball all game because he was getting open to shoot threes and waiting for a pass that never came.  The kids were playing "me first" ball and driving into traffic or heaving up contested threes and missing.   He called his trainer between games and the trainer advised him to hunt the ball rather than waiting for passes --- get rebounds, get steals and never count on the logical pass.  DS did this in his second game and was the game leader in scoring. He had several putbacks, but more importantly he got a bunch of steals and blocked shots on the defensive end, and when kids saw that they started passing to him more.  There were several plays where he got a block or steal, made an outlet pass to another kid then beat that kid down the floor and got the pass back for a layup or open midrange shot.  On one play he got a steal, passed to a kid for a fast break, the kid missed a dunk and DS got a putback tip in.   That play made the camp highlight reel, and it was all 100% hustle and hardly any skill.

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