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Message: [QUOTE="Watchdog, post: 3451111, member: 10325"] Great article. His father sounds really stressed about how to guide his son and may be especially conflicted by all the advice pulling them in different directions. Let's hope he and his son can step away from it all, at least figuratively, and make the right call. As to Bristol Central vs. prep schools, there are local examples of elite players who played for their high schools and for AAU teams and developed and went on to great professional careers. Marcus Camby only played one year of high school ball in his last three years, if I recall correctly, because of his transfer out of Hartford as a sophomore and back as a junior. Corny Thompson and Scott Burrell are two others that didn't go to prep school, with Burrell not putting much time into basketball because of also playing football and baseball. Are these outliers? Or was it simply a different time? [B]Here's a couple question for those in the know[/B]: DC seems to have developed quite a bit from his freshman to his sophomore year and plays on a high level AAU team. 1. [U]How much is he being held back by staying in his local high school part of the year and playing high level AAU part of the year[/U]? 2. [U]Is that really a bad alternative versus possibly getting burned out by playing year round at a high level prep school along with a high level of AAU team[/U]? [/QUOTE]