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[quote=Anonymous]OP, my kid was in a somewhat similar situation in 7th grade.  He was a skilled shooter who started for a good travel team, but his middle school team was very awful.  He wasn't a point guard, so his catch and shoot skills didn't help his team when they couldn't even get the ball over half court.

The advice my kid got from his trainer was to stop paying attention to the score and instead to focus 100% on things he could do by himself to impact the game.  He worked on getting a hand in passing lanes, picking off lazy perimeter passes for transition layups, blocking shots, poking the ball away from guys he was guarding, boxing out and going for rebounds, and crashing the boards and putting back his team's misses.  He also learned to dribble better so that he could get a rebound and bring the ball down the court for a pull up three or a drive.

Rather than points (all that he previously focused on) we'd track his steals, deflections, rebounds, blocks, foul shots taken, and fouls (my kid wasn't naturally super aggressive, so he made it a goal to have at least a couple of fouls every game).

In addition to having more fun, focusing on his success in these specific things helped him develop into a much more well-rounded, confident  player.

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