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Message: [QUOTE="RockyMTblue2, post: 3169023, member: 250"] I'm sure most of you know that Kobe Bryant grew up in European basketball (Italy I think?) and he is a big critic of AAU about skills developement and a big fan of the European model for youth development. "Horrible, terrible AAU basketball. It’s stupid. It doesn’t teach our kids how to play the game at all so you wind up having players that are big and they bring it up and they do all this fancy crap and they don’t know how to post. They don’t know the fundamentals of the game. It’s stupid. " In contrast every kid in European Club ball is trained in all the skills to play all positions as the grow up. They are assigned to a club within a combined amateur and pro team system and get rigorous fundamentals training. "Here’s the situation: European youth club teams practice about four times for every game they play. The ratio is just the opposite in the United States. “I just think European players are just way more skillful,” said Bryant. “They are just taught the game the right way at an early age... It’s something we really have to fix. We really have to address that.” [URL="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kobe-right-about-ego-and_b_6446490"]Kobe Right About Ego-and-Greed-Driven AAU Basketball[/URL] [/QUOTE]