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You literally gave one of the best examples of somebody who basically willed themselves into the NBA and did not win the genetic lottery.

Steph Curry is 6'2".  Only 27 NBA players out of 450 total players are 6'2" or smaller.  Go watch a local DMV HS game with PVI, Gonzaga, Sidwell...90% of the starting five for those teams is over 6'2".

A little note on his practice routine:

Stephen Curry, a Golden State Warriors player, practices shooting hundreds of shots every day. In the season, he typically takes around 300 shots after each practice. During the offseason, he increases his practice to over 500 shots per day. [/quote]
You can't be this delusional.

Steph Curry has a gift everyone else doesn't have. Otherwise, the 6'4 HS basketball player would just shoot a couple hundred extra shots per day and make 100s of millions of dollars.

You're also missing the fact the Steph has elite level conditioning and can outrun almost all NBA players. He also can see the floor and knows how to get open which is what makes him so good.

And BTW, 6'2 is in the 95 percentile for height. So while he's a short NBA player, he's way taller than the average male. [/quote]

Using Steph Curry as an example of someone who didn’t win the genetic lottery is pretty funny.   I imagine Dell and Seth would be surprised by that idea.    [/quote]

The reality is 99.9% of kids no matter how much they may claim to love basketball won’t shoot 300 shots every day after practice nor 500 shots every day in the offseason.

Not sure why this is hard to understand.[/quote]

You could take a 1000 kids and have all of them train just like Curry. None of them would ever come close to shooting like him. [/quote]

Curry himself wasn’t even regarded as a great high school basketball player.  So, explain how you come to your conclusion…other than he worked his ass off to get where he is…in other words he trained like Steph Curry to become Steph Curry.[/quote]

A lot of the best players in many sports were not the best in high school and many didn't have many if ANY college offers. We see that a lot with NFL and NBA players that really blossom later.

My sons are late growers/developers.  With that comes very fast, late growth spurts with a lot of growth-related injuries and imbalances along the way.  My oldest was not on a top club team until senior year of HS and was kind of bullied by the HS coach--and overlooked.  Today he is playing D1.  He went through a lot. He has serious grit and perseverance and drive--almost everyone else in similar situation stopped playing. He didn't listen to anyone else and trained and trained and kept putting himself out there in front of coaches.

I really hate the American youth and HS system too. I had to continually move my kids around in order for them to find coaches that understood player development because in the US --even in sports like soccer--the bigger beasts keep getting the attention no matter the poor touch.  They pretty much freeze kids out of teams by the time they reach HS.

All it takes is one coach to give your kid a chance and for him to prove himself.  Finding that one coach is the hard part.  Kids that didn't have things handed to them or parents that bulldozed/politicked for them become really dedicated and great leaders in general. [/quote]

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