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[quote=Anonymous]There are a lot of threads on this site, so it’s worth doing a search.  I say that partly because youth basketball is very confusing and people use the same words to mean different things (e.g. by high school, most “AAU” teams have nothing to do with the AAU).

The other thing to understand is that it’s in the interest of people running youth basketball teams to give the impression that their teams are elite, no matter their actual level.  My kid’s first team marketed themselves as “elite”, but over time we learned that they were really the bottom of the barrel.  So, don’t believe what coaches tell you.  Look somewhere like the BallerTV site to see the team’s scores from previous tournaments.

Finally, people put way too much stock in the innate talent of kids, but in my experience it’s actually more about the coaching.  My kid started out coming off the bench on a terrible travel team, then switched to a better team with better coaching, and suddenly he was starting and often leading in scoring. So, I’d look for a well coached team that’s focused on development. [/quote]

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