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[quote=Anonymous][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.

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.

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]

The kids who end up playing competitive high school basketball are very frequently not kids that someone would have looked at when they were 10 and said “This kid is a monster athlete”.  By the time they are in high school, they are super athletic, but what gets them there is often work, not genetic gifts.  I can assure you that when my kid was the worst player on a 3rd grade rec team that never won a game, nobody would have guessed that he’d be dunking in games as a HS freshman.

And yes, many kids ARE in the gym for hours a day, and many of them claim to be training.  Usually, this means that they are playing lazy, sloppy pickup games with their friends or missing 9 out of 10 threes and then celebrating like Steph Curry when they happen to make one.  That’s not training. Training is a painful and boring mix of grueling endurance work and highly technical skill practice.  No kid — without help from a coach —  knows how to train, and most don’t have the discipline to do it. [/quote]

At what age did your kid transition from bad rec player to good, then great?  I have a kid that works really hard but it's still not quite clicking.  He's highly skilled but makes so many silly mistakes and drives his coaches crazy.  Age 12.[/quote]

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