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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Being tall might get him a spot on the C team just because he's tall.[/quote]

This. Tall doesn’t equate to being good at basketball. There are a lot of other skills required. He needs to be fast and nimble. [/quote]

He does not need to be fast and nimble in fifth grade. He needs to be able to get a rebound and make a layup.[/quote]

Basketball is weird — it’s like pre-high school and high school and after are different sports.  For youth basketball, small aggressive kids do well.  Around freshman year, lots of kids who grew like crazy in middle school suddenly start to get more coordinated, fast, and aggressive.  My now 6’5” kid went from being by far the slowest on every team he played on in elementary and MS to sprinting with the best 17U kids in drills as a 15U on a Nike team. Also went from playing big to playing guard b/c the team had some actual bigs (6’8”+).

There’s a complete re-shuffle of kids  around freshman year.  Good coaches know this and work to develop the big, slow kids too.  Bad coaches just stick those kids under the basket in youth basketball.   [/quote]

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