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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand the PG obsession.  A good team utilizes all players. Everyone matters.[/quote]
There are more short athletic kids than tall athletic kids. [/quote]

Right, and the kids who are tall and athletic want to develop their skills and not just be told to stand under the basket. [/quote]

But why is standing under the basket a bad thing---those kids score and are a valuable asset to a team. [/quote]
They aren’t developing to their full potential.  What happens is often times a kid may be the tallest, most athletic, best rebounding, best defensive player and he’s always been told to stay by the basket.  He may get an easy basket every now and then, but his job is usually to rebound and pass to the coaches and assistant coaches kid who are the two guards.  The two guards do all the ball handling offensive decision and playmaking.

The tallest kid may end up only being 6”1 and his skill set isn’t as effective once he gets to high school since he only knows how to stand by the basket and probably won’t even be able to play in college.  In high school there are kids standing by the basketball 6’8- 7’+ and they get even bigger in college and these days the 7 footers are learning to handle the ball, make plays, and shoot from the outside.

Making the tall kids stand by the basket is a complicated form of Daddyball.  A good coach should be helping even the big kids learn to play guard positions.  Yes, some kids haven’t learned those type of skills and aren’t ready yet, but it should be the goal.[/quote]

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