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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS is beyond frustrated with a kid on his teammate who goofs off and is lazy, but still manages to be successful offensively because he’s a big kid and is coordinated. He’s also a bit of a bully and if he doesn’t like another kid on the team, everyone knows it. Yet coaches continue to select him despite this behavior because he’s physically strong and can produce offensively. A lot of these negative behaviors are defense mechanisms (ie he goofs off during sprints because he’s slow, he doesn’t put much effort into playing D because he doesn’t want to get burned and look stupid, he makes fun of others to distract from his weaknesses, etc), but we’ve been playing with this kid across multiple teams/sports for years and the behaviors seem to be getting worse (now 13/14u). At what point/age do coaches decide that the behavior isn’t worth it? [/quote]

Having been a big player and parenting a big player.  I find the team sprints to be problematic.  This is partly a coaching problem.  Like the big kids are always going to be slow, but the smaller kids aren't getting pushed.  Running faster and improving at running is actually more important for short kids.  Furthermore, it's not an especially efficient use of time.  IMO Lateral slides would be more important from a basketball perspective for tall players (see below for helpside D), ironically many of the short faster players are very bad at lane slides.  I was reading a conditioning book.  The college pros evaluate progress individually and set specific conditioning targets with stop watches.  It makes sense because the big players only have to beat the other big players down the court they don't need to beat every player down the court.  Boy I wish my coaches would have done that.

Also, larger players will often sink off to compensate for foot work, they can't shoot over them, they also are useful in help side situations with long arms.  To me it's annoying at the youth levels where they basically only run pressure man, which is great for guards.  My DD coaches haven't so much as discussed help side man, so my big daughter is standing there right next to her shooter.  All she has to do is stick her arm out to block the girl next to her, but doesn't think to do it, because pressure man.  In Montgomery County at the younger levels it's even a rule no double teams no zones, guard your man.

So, acting out and what not, I can see it happening my DD has a teammate bigger (not the tallest kind of big) girl with the same kinds of issues.  IMO she really needs to be evaluated separately with timings.  To manage her improvement, she would improve much more quickly, instead she gives up and pitches fit after one sprint.  In this case the kid isn't especially talented just yet, but the attitude is tolerated.

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