lawdog1
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if lack of skill development is a problem, and kids play large chunk of their time playing aau basketball then its pretty logical to think that aau basketball could do better in skill development. of course kobe's going to make it more extreme than it actually is though "i think aau basketball can be improved" isnt making any news headlines or getting people to talk about aau basketball. he says something extreme and now everyone is talking about the problems with aau basketball, which is how change happens
But whether lack of skills really is a problem is a big "if." It's not clear that it is, really. There are some fine international players in the NBA, but the league is still dominated by Americans.
There never have been perfect players and there have always been specialists. That continues to be true. The idea that things are much worse than they used to be doesn't hold much water.