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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to my son’s trainer, who played in two NCAA tournaments and one final 4, played and coached internationally for a dozen years, and coached a VA state championship HS team, talent isn’t really required to succeed in basketball before college.

[b]I think when a lot of people see “talent”, what they’re not seeing is thousands of hours of gym time - a lot of which is really, really painful or mind numbingly boring or both. [/b]

When my kid was young, he had no talent.  After many years of year round basketball, individual workouts at least once a week and 2 hours in the gym every day that there was no practice, suddenly everyone was amazed at his natural talent. [/quote]

This x100. Especially these days[/quote]

This is nonsense. A child could be in the gym for hours a day and still not make a local HS basketball team if he wasn't born with natural athletic ability. [/quote]

It's not nonsense. "Talent" in basketball and other sports comes from hours and hours of consistent playing and proper training/coaching (especially these days). I know many people try to simplify sports to natural athleticism but it's so much more than that.

The original post spoke to "talent" and not athleticism and what's needed to exceed "before college".  Unless you count being 7 ft tall, nobody is born with basketball (or any other sport with the exception of maybe running events in track) "talent".  I've seen great athletes of all ages that can't make a free throw or dribble more than 3 times with their off hand. Talent is developed and anyone who has it didn't get it by happenstance.

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