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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP- look at some one on one training through the winter and some of the lower AAU team to start.
Good luck!! [/quote]

This.  My kid started one on one and small group training when he was the worst player on a bad rec team.  After a couple of months with a really good trainer, he was playing up a year and starting on a not bad mid-tier AAU team.  By high school, he was playing on a team with kids hoping to make the NBA.

It's important to recognize the levels in basketball and recognize that -- contrary to the conventional wisdom that basketball is all about athleticism and natural talent  -- most kids move through lots of levels.  Kids need a base level of athleticism, but beyond that, it's really about how good their coaches and trainers are and how willing the kid is to train hard and do what their trainers teach them (e.g. hundreds of hours of form shooting in the paint rather than going to the gym and missing threes, hours of exhausting ball handling drills rather than playing pickup with their buddies).  To me, that's actually the rarest thing -- seeing a kid who knows how to train and is willing to do the work.  It's really mentally hard, and most kids can't make themselves do the work, so they go to the gym and play around with their friends and call it training.  [/quote]

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