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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A ball, a hoop and 500 shots/day.[/quote]

This is TERRIBLE advice.  Without coaching, kids will cement terrible habits. Almost nobody learns good shooting mechanics.  Shooting is actually easy to learn if you learn the mechanics, but just throwing up shots won't teach kids anything.

Also, ball handling and dealing with contact are HUGE.  As is speed and footwork.[/quote]

How many guys in the NBA do you think had private basketball coaches?  As you know, Coach, you can't buy a good basketball game.  The secret is on the blacktop.[/quote]

NBA players are superhuman, and their experience can't really teach the parents of normal kids much of anything.  That said, I know two guys who played professionally.  Both had private coaching and both played high level AAU where they got a lot of 1 on 1 attention.  Both had parents who played in college.  More to the point, I know a youth coach at a very successful local program pretty well, and his take is that through the average high school varsity level (i.e. not Montverde), talent is largely irrelevant.  He says he can teach any decent sized kid who is willing to work very hard to play varsity at an average high school.

This is not really about money.  By high school, trainers see value in being involved with a kid who is a good prospect.  Several kids I know get worked out a lot for free by trainers who wanted to be able to say "I train Larlo, who is going to play at X ACC school in the fall."  At younger ages, many of those same kids are playing virtually for free at one of a small number of rec centers with a reputation for producing successful players, and they are getting sound one on one or small group training by amazing coaches who freely give of their time to make kids better.  Also, very, very many top players have moms, dads, aunts or uncles who played at a high level.

The point is that fundamentals are really, really important, and top players are usually kids who are plugged in to family or community resources where they can learn those fundamentals.  Kids who just spend time chucking up shots won't get better, and often they develop quirky, low, slow shot mechanics that don't translate to higher levels.

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