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[quote=Anonymous]For a nine year old, one of the best ways to improve at basketball is to take the spring off from basketball and play flag football, soccer, or lacrosse instead. Sounds strange I know, but great basketball players have a solid base of athletic skills. If you are okay with tackle football (fall sport), skills like playing through contact and exploding into gaps will transfer to basketball. It's more fun for a kid to simply play a different sport with transferable skills than to work 1/1 with a basketball skills trainer. If your son really just wants to play basketball, Evolution Basketball in Merrifield has clinics for younger players, and those are fun also bc it's a group setting. In the end, the best training is intense 3 v. 3 with a coach who understands the game. I'm not saying Evolution necessarily provides that. Frankly, almost no one does. But just playing AAU games or just training 1/1 with a skills trainer won't be as effective as playing 3 v. 3 or 2 v. 2 with coaches pushing the players.[/quote]

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