Have never really understood why people in the basketball world get so hung up on classification when it comes to recruiting.
I’ll agree there is a definite difference in speed to the game, but all classifications produce really athletic kids.
Some of the best, most athletic people I’ve known played at single A schools and were from small towns. Didn’t used to make that much difference. If you could play, you could play. In the basketball world today it seems like if you don’t go to some magnate sports academy and play 6A you can’t get a look. Like suddenly only large schools can produce athletic, competitive kids?
One of my best friends growing up was an excellent basketball and softball player. We grew up in a small town at a single A school. Her teams won two state championships in both sports. She scored 40+ pts on several occasions and was a great Pg at 5’7”. Set the all time records for points and asssits at a school that had won 9 womens championships in basketball.
She was recruited heavily by softball programs and they didn’t give a lick where she went to school. Ended up playing softball at a good D1 school. She would have preferred to play basketball in college but couldn’t get a sniff from recruiters because she did not play AAU heavily and was a multi-sport athlete who didn’t focus only on basketball.
Ended up playing some pickup with the basketball team and the coach was flabbergasted nobody recruited her to play basketball. He tried to sign her as a two sport athlete.
I’ll agree there is a definite difference in speed to the game, but all classifications produce really athletic kids.
Some of the best, most athletic people I’ve known played at single A schools and were from small towns. Didn’t used to make that much difference. If you could play, you could play. In the basketball world today it seems like if you don’t go to some magnate sports academy and play 6A you can’t get a look. Like suddenly only large schools can produce athletic, competitive kids?
One of my best friends growing up was an excellent basketball and softball player. We grew up in a small town at a single A school. Her teams won two state championships in both sports. She scored 40+ pts on several occasions and was a great Pg at 5’7”. Set the all time records for points and asssits at a school that had won 9 womens championships in basketball.
She was recruited heavily by softball programs and they didn’t give a lick where she went to school. Ended up playing softball at a good D1 school. She would have preferred to play basketball in college but couldn’t get a sniff from recruiters because she did not play AAU heavily and was a multi-sport athlete who didn’t focus only on basketball.
Ended up playing some pickup with the basketball team and the coach was flabbergasted nobody recruited her to play basketball. He tried to sign her as a two sport athlete.
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