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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My nephew was like this and it turned out he has exercise induced asthma. He’s a big soccer player and doesn’t get out of breath, but there’s something about the indoor gyms. If your son is fine in other sports, I’d get him checked out. If he doesn’t do other sports or is winded in them, I’d push some more exercise bc rec/9 year old bb has a lot of down time w/ fouls, time outs, short quarters, little court. He should be able to easily play a whole game [/quote]

People say soccer is a cardio sport but from what I've seen basketball is an order of magnitude more intense.  Every player is basically sprinting, jumping and leaping on every play.  There are breaks as opposed to soccer, but that is what makes soccer more like a cross-country event.  I wouldn't say basketball is a sprint more like fifty sprints with recovery.  It's the recovery part that is important in basketball, being able to recover and sprint again.  So, it sounds like it is probably the intensity of the exercise that induces the asthma.  I've tried a couple other sports myself and with my kids and nothing quite does it like basketball.  Cycling, swimming, soccer, distance running, they just don't have the intensity.  Cycling and swimming are aerobic and soccer is more endurance (but closer than the others.)[/quote]

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