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[quote=Anonymous]Sliding scale based on size/athleticism/target school.

Generally speaking, 6-2 and under want to start as early as possible and want to be very devoted to both individual and team skills. At their respective cores, football is a team sport and baseball is an individual sport. Basketball blends the two with equal focus need on individual skills and team concepts.

If your kid is bound to be bigger, there is more forgiveness when it comes to individual skill set, but the kid still needs to be athletic.

Basketball is a game of very brief momentary advantages that must be recognized and addressed extremely quickly on the fly moving at full speed. Ultimately, it is a game of pattern recognition and the more reps your child gets the better they will be at spotting the patterns.  To the uninitiated it may appear like random movement on the court, but it is actually very technical.

To get a feel for the intricacies of basketball, in 2018, England’s surprising run in the Men’s SOCCER World Cup was materially helped by … NBA Basketball.  The things that basketball teams had been doing for 50+ years were foreign concepts and extremely useful in soccer.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/englands-soccer-team-needed-help-so-they-stole-from-the-nba-1530523802?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=2

B+ to the “technical sport” troll. [/quote]

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