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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I’d recommend spending six months or a year doing individual training with a good coach.  My kid went from being the worst player on a rec team that always lost in 6th grade to being a starter on a very good AAU team and bench player and reliable scorer on a high school team whose starters all played D1 mid major or higher ball.  AAU games did little to help that progression.  What helped was (hard, uncomfortable) skills and conditioning training and playing 3 on 3 with college players.  [/quote]

This.  It amazes me how many parents fall into the travel racket.  People it’s pay to play.   You get to spend a lot of money to have your family calendar tied up by driving a long ways to practices and games that are often scheduled last minute.    Join a rec team for fun play and do skills training if kid really wants to improve.   Spending lots of time in the car driving to tournaments does not make you a better player.  Playing constant pickup during the time you could have spent driving, combined with skills training will make a better player.  [/quote]

The "travel racket" is a ton of fun for the kids if they have the right team.  I will never regret my years of "travel racket" basketball even though our families social life came to a screeching halt and my kid will never play in college, let alone Varsity in HS.  Plus rec is only a few short months.[/quote]

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