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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This whole thread is extremely weird. What do DC and MD have that NOVA doesn't when it comes to basketball talent? This is super obvious.[/quote]

Racist  PP doesn’t know basketball and entirely misses the point.  This kind of thinking is a cop out.  It’s not about “talent” and it’s certainly not about race.  
 
In DC and PG county, super hard, physical, full contact training is the norm — getting hit hard on layups, diving on the floor, playing “no fouls” drills in the paint.

From what I’ve seen in NOVA and MoCo, not so much. My kid never heard kids called “soft” by another kid or a coach before starting to play in PG county.  In DC and PG county, you hear that a lot, and it’s the last thing kids want to be.

Again, it’s not race, it’s culture.  Expectations are different and much higher.  The knowledge base of parents is higher.

Athleticism is expected — coaches never yelled at my tall white kid in NOVA for being slow.  In PG county, it took him a week to go from being the slowest kid in drills to being one of the fastest because coaches refused to accept slowness from him and kicked him out of his first practice when he obviously dogged it in a sprint drill.  They demanded that he dunk as a freshman in layup drills.  The expectations are just different. [/quote]

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