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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The main potential of a negative I can think of is from people on this board mentioning if your player gets stuck in a position playing under the basket, like center and maybe power forward, they don't really develop other skills.  Don't get me wrong, playing under the basket and the skills associated with it is important.  A lot of times it takes some time to teach young players to be comfortable and how to play/get under the basket.  But depending on the age group, you don't want your player to be stuck in one position and give them an opportunity to play in different positions.  [b]And the issue is that usually bigger kids get put in those positions and the concern is them not having an opportunity ty play anywhere else.[/b]

Not sure if I've seen the same thing that everyone wants to be PG.  With point guard you need good court vision for good passes and possibly communicate and give directions to teammates.

I personally prefer the forward positions, with preference to power forward, and think my beginner kids are good at that position.  But a lot of my favorite NBA players are power forwards, which may be why I like their game better and try to emulate and is what I teach my kids.  btw honestly at my kid's age/skill level they're still at positionless basketball but if I were to assign/designate a position I'd put them in the 4 position.

If anything I'd think that most young players want to be a shooting guard.  Where their primary position is to score and they get set up in places where a play can be directed towards them to score.[/quote]

This.  My tallish kid was content to shoot 3s, get putbacks, get rebounds, and guard bigs when he was in middle school.  But by high school, the 1s and 2s were 6’4” or 6’5” so at 6’4” if he wanted to play, he had to be comfortable playing 1 or 2.  It was a hard transition (many hours of ball handling drills), but he did it and it increased his ceiling a ton. - he was always a good shooter, but when he was a credible threat to get by a defender who was overplaying him, he suddenly had lots of options and playing was a lot more fun because he got a bit more space to work. [/quote]

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