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Message: [QUOTE="j66kicker, post: 3274800, member: 4447"] Agree on the year-round basketball, burnout before they get to college. Seems like lots of recruits are already wearing flexible knee braces, already have chronic joint pain by the time they show up. Once they get to college they're done with AAU ball, though most of them do try to fill their summers with some sort of training. Not sure if college is a little bit of a break from the year-round stuff or not. Anyway, back to the year-round grind after college if they want to make a good living at it. Disagree on playing for the national team, though. The college kids that get to go to those NT training camps always come back raving about how much it helps their game to play with that highest level of players. Suspect playing in the summers for the age-level USA Basketball teams has similar benefits too - playing with the very best players in their age groups, plus learning to quickly adapt to different styles, different coaching, different teammates has to have tremendous benefits. [/QUOTE]