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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not much juice discussing or gossiping about youth basketball. [b]Either your kid is good enough or not[/b], rosters are small and teams are so plentiful that rosters are always turning over and in flux, and teams come and go every season.  What’s true today may be wrong or irrelevant tomorrow.  The levels of basketball are also so steeply different that players of different levels never overlap or come in contact with each other.  So basketball comments are often niche specific and often not generally applicable.

Lacrosse, in contrast, is a sport where most players all know each other or know of each other (top players and non top players), families often know each other, and there are a small number of clubs and teams in the area that are relatively stable from year to year.  That makes it great for gossip, and most topics discussed are widely relevant or relatable. 
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But is this a chicken or the egg issue?  In 7th grade, my kid came off the bench for a B team at a terrible club. They folded and he got shuffled to an 8th grade B team with a coach he clicked with. He started and was a leading scorer.  By 8th, he was starting for a much, much better club where he also clicked with the coach.  By high school, he was on a circuit/shoe company team.

Maybe it’s just my kid’s experience, but he was a timid player who had the skills and physical tools, but it took coaches willing push him to do more in games to bring that out. I think there are many kids in the same boat. If there were better development programs, a lot more kids would be good.  [/quote]

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