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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Obviously, height is important in basketball.  But on my son's private school team there are a surprising number of very skilled shorter kids on the team.  My son is a legit 6-2 (meaning he is about as tall as many basketball recruits in the DMV who claim they are 6-4), and he was taller than all but a few kids on the team last year.  Granted, he is not at PVI, but this is a real team.  All of these super-skilled little guys are serious AAU players, and most of them them do not play much on varsity, but they are on the varsity.  The local publics are loaded with shorter players (say 6-1 and under).  Many teams have no size at all, probably because almost all the bigs have been recruited to the private schools.    [/quote]

Isn't it much easier to make most private school basketball teams vs. public school teams? A 3000 student public high school has a lot more kids trying out than a 400 student private school. [/quote]

My own experience is with a WCAC team, but, in theory, yes, it would seem that statistically speaking it is easier to make a private school team, BUT, at our WCAC school varsity and most of the jv team are recruited players. Freshman team is generally not recruited athletes, but, there may be a couple of super tall kids that do not have the skills to be on JV but coaches think they have some potential. My son's freshman year, one of these kids was entirely new to BB (but 6'5" and still growing) and was placed on freshman team. He made JV sophomore year then didn't even come back to tryout junior year. Just didn't love basketball enough to devote the time to it. This is a long-winded way to say there are very few spots at some of these schools. I'd say there are 10ish open spots for Freshman, maybe 2 for JV. None for varsity. [/quote]

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