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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Private training is ok imo.  best thing for kids to do is play.  Unfortunately, there  isnt a ton of consistent pickup basketball for kids and hence the AAU world takes the place.

if you can find a consistent pick up run and do training, that can be better than all these tournaments.

I wouldnt spend a ton of money on training.   you can find some pretty good coaches and drills on youtube and just have your kid practice them at a park.  a trainer really isnt needed.[/quote]

There are a ton of good online resources, especially for shooting and ball handling.  A couple of areas where a trainer helped my kid were:

- playing against DS.  His trainer was an ex pro who was a genius at playing just hard enough to bring out the best in my kid, both on offense and defense.

- contact drills.  The trainer both gave and absorbed a lot of contact on things like spin move drills or finishing layups while being fouled.  Having a 6’6” 220 pound guy foul him hard made DS not so worried about getting fouled in 14U games.

- pushing DS really hard.  By HS, the trainer would do drills at the end of hard workouts like having DS run sprints to being on the verge of barfing, then have him make 5 foul shots in a row, knowing that if he missed he had to do more sprints.  I was not a fan, but DS insisted on doing it.  
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