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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son never played “travel” except at a very low level when he was in elementary school. He did play for his middle school team and rec teams in middle school. But he focused intensively on skill development throughout middle school - shoots a hour or more a day most every day and a dribbling work in the basement of our house. 5’11 and made JV as a freshman. 6’1 and varsity sophmore. Started playing AAU then and now plays D3 basketball for a good academic school. So you don’t need to play “travel” or AAU but if you don’t (and I think it is a good move to stay out of that world in the middle school age group), you need to find a way to have a skill level equal to those playing “travel.” If I had a kid that was going to be like a top 100-200 player I’d do it differently though. Everyone else AAU isn’t necessarily if you put a ton of work into skill development and have a good athlete[/quote] This is the exact profile of the dozens of kids who train very hard for a long time and don’t make even the freshman team at my kid’s school. I remember a kid we used to see every day in the gym working on his game on his own. Thought being 6’ was on the tall side for a freshman (it wasn’t). Played for MS team and played rec but didn’t realize that he needed to be doing HS open gyms and playing summer league. Also wasn’t fast, strong, athletic, or skilled enough to hang with the kids who made the freshman and JV teams. He certainly would have made the team at a different school. [/quote] I’m the previous poster and yeah if my kid had been at Gonzaga or DeMatha he never would have made the freshman team and at a bigger strong public school he probably wouldn’t have made JV team. Going to a school that gives you an extra year or two to develop because the JV team is makeable is very helpful for players like my son who topped out at 6’1 and this was on the smaller side for varsity basketball. I’ll put in a plug for really emphasizing defense and hitting corner 3s and easily repeatable counters in the training if you have a coach that will value those things at your school (can be hard to find). My son could never have got minutes as a lead guard, but as an off-guard who did the dirty work many lead guards don’t want to do and could move without the ball and hit 3s he got minutes in varsity and help with admissions to a D3 (though no money). Keep ballin everyone! Greatest game in the world![/quote]
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