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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your kid is younger than high school, you should be pushing for them to be on a team with a positionless offense.  While that isn't always the best way to win the 6th grade championship, it is the best way to develop players.

The reason people push for kids to be the guard is because in position based offenses, the guard is the one who dribbles, makes the passes, and usually shoots the ball more. They learn to read the court better.  What happens is the taller kids are put down at the post and aren't taught to dribble or shoot or read the court, just to rebound and wait for passes.  Those taller kids don't always remain the taller kids....almost all the kids on the high school and college teams were the relatively tall kids in 2nd grade basketball, and by that time it is tough to learn those ball handling/passing/court reading skills. [/quote]

How does one find those teams? We have been doing travel for a few years and from all observed, each kid gets assigned a position.  Just curious on how to find this.[/quote]

Maybe it's because we have girls, but DD tried out for three county teams and two of the coaches were explicit that positions weren't based on height. One had a high school daughter who played 2 guard at 6'2 and said he was very against pigeon holing based on height. [/quote]

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