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[quote=Anonymous]I started this thread with no specific club in mind. I know that court time is valuable and I agree that it must be earned in highly competitive teams. However, when we talk about less competitive teams, the focus should be development. If you keep the kids off court when they make mistakes (and they all do), they will try to play as safe as possible to avoid losing court time. The fear of making mistakes will affect those who get very little play time every time they get on the court. That's when they make more mistakes and - as a result - they get even less court time. This is counter-productive on every level you can imagine. Give the kids their court time no matter what because they need it to learn the ropes. For example, if you have two setters, alternate them as starters (the strongest one could start set 1, the other one could start set 2, then you have the first one available for set 3 in case the game goes there). If some players don't develop at the same rate as the rest of their team, replace them at tryouts. If you took them on a developmental team, you have no excuse to keep them on the bench. [/quote]

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