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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly this question doesn’t make a ton of sense, unless you’re talking about really little kids.   You need good players at multiple positions to do things like bring the ball down, drive to the basket, catch and shoot threes when the defense collapses, and rebound.

I’ve seen a lot of youth coaches focus too much on a small aggressive point guard with the idea that that kid can single handedly bring the ball down against an aggressive press.  My kid played on an AAU team that did this, and that point guard had like 11 straight turnovers in one game against a good defensive team.  DS switched teams not long after.

A better idea is to play team ball — have kids know 2-3 press breaks really well and do things like off ball screens to get open for inbound passes.  When the team can do that, they can slice up a press and get easy layups.  Also, it’s great for a team to have multiple kids that can bring the ball down —  when a team is double teaming the point guard and suddenly a big with guard skills is bringing the ball down, it can really mess with the defense.  My kid’s HS team had a big like this who also shot 3s, and I can’t count the number of times that the defense was focused on the point guard (who was great at annoying the other team and drawing their attention), so the big would bring the ball down almost unguarded and pull up for an open 3.  It was a great momentum shifter because it made the other team look silly and they’d lose confidence.

The other similar thing is defense — aggressive defense is super demoralizing, and anybody can play defense.   [/quote]

Great post PP![/quote]

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