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A kid doesn’t necessarily have to play basketball year round to be, for lack of a better word, better at basketball than many of the kids who DO play all year.  Often playing basketball in season, combined with being a great athlete, combined with size is enough.  It’s sad   :cry:  for the kids who are super dedicated but sometimes that’s just how the cookie crumbles.[/quote]

Oh OK. Playing pickup and shooting 3s in their large N. Arlington driveway provides enough experience for the Storm "great athlete" to make ATB over the "super dedicated" year-round AAU kid. Add in a couple weeks of Wootten summer camp for the Storm kid to be "better at basketball" :D  to make an ATB A team! Got it.  :wink:

But, you should know basketball season is almost year-round in this very competitive area.[/quote]

I mean, yes that could very well be enough.  This area is indeed competitive, but there comes a point in athletics where putting in the work simply doesn’t matter when you’re starting to compete with the truly gifted athletes.  Many boys hit their personal ceiling around middle school/early high school, and many parents struggle to accept reality.[/quote]

Of course, that's not really how it works. If you don't have athletic ability, you are making travel teams (Storm, ATB, whatever) no matter how much you work. Correct. But, many of these kids are great athletes and as you age up, it becomes very evident who is putting in time playing basketball all year around (and I am not talking in the backyard or 3 on 3 with your friends). What happens as you age up is [b]the competition becomes tighter as kids become better, go through puberty, grow, etc. [/b]If you are not playing basketball year around at 8th grade, then you are falling behind. And that is okay because your kid might be focused on something else...and that is sort of how it should be. [b]I don't like specialization but that's the world we live in.[/b]

The athlete you are talking about is a rare commodity in this day and age given how much specialization goes on. Looking at the 8th grade ATB teams there is probably 1 kid that really fits that mold. He's on the B team and he isn't a baseball player - though I know he's played some AAU basketball but not a ton. Having watched a ton of youth basketball - rec, CYO, FFX league, and AAU, I can tell you there are a ton of Arlington kids that don't even bother going out for ATB and are better basketball players than what ATB rosters. It is why ATB boys 7th or 8th grade teams last FFX championship win was back before COVID and it was a Division 3 win.[/quote]

Look at your bolded statements and think about it.  All the basketball specialization, playing year-round, developing your skills, etc. goes out the window around late middle school/early high school if you didn’t win the puberty lottery. [/quote]

That doesn't explain why baseball players- i.e. the least athletic of any boys sport- dominate Arlington. Given how large a pool they have to draw on, Arlington should be near the top of D1 every year[/quote]

Hasn’t this already been answered, though?  For the dozens of kids who are essentially indistinguishable from each other, coaches are likely to go with known quantities.

I also don’t agree that baseball is the least athletic sport, and I could easily see how excellent hand-eye coordination  and the ability to throw a ball accurately could translate from baseball to basketball.[/quote]

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