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[quote=Anonymous]What lots of the smug posters in this thread don’t realize is the people who don’t do this for a living have no idea what a kid’s potential is.

In elementary, my kid was one of the terrible rec players that PPs are so scornful of.  By HS, other parents constantly told me how lucky I was to have a genetically gifted kid who is tall, fast, super bouncy, and a great shooter. I had to laugh.  He didn’t start out genetically gifted, but many, many hours of lifting, plyometrics and skill training sure helped improve his genetic makeup.

As for speed, sure - the capacity for true speed is genetically limited.  But so many kids run slow because they never learned or tried to run fast and relaxed.  My kid got a LOT faster in about a month when his coach benched him and said “you get playing time when you show me some speed.”   He ran very slow in drills because AAU and JV coaches let him.  When the varsity coach benched him, suddenly he was one of the fastest kids on the team within a couple of weeks. It always made me wonder how many other kids were fast and skilled but coaches just never saw it. [/quote]

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