the question is, are you able to play with them?!

what i mean is this... when i was younger, i used to be the same.
i was in 14 in 9th grade, i used to play with people my age, and class, and i was easily the best. I always played my best, and did real good. but at the same time i had taken basketball class, and all the people on the varsity bball team were in that class too. They were all seniors and juniors. now granted they weren't "state" level, but its basically the same situation.
i used to think i had enough skill to play with, and when i actually played with them, i never tried, or played real D, or made my own plays and shit. because i was uncofident about doing soemthing bcause i thought i would fuck it up.
but i always thought, ok im definitely good enough to play with them tho.
truth was, i really wasnt. on ocassions when i did try to do something, i realized that i really couldnt do it against these much bigger, and better people. because compared to the people i was playing with in my own grade, these guys were much better. now the thing is, back then i was around 5'1, and they were all like 6'0 or over.

so maybe its a different situation for you.
but even if you don't really try, and you can really play with them, then there shouldn't be any reason to be un-confident.
because if you really believe that you are at their level, then you wouldn't feel unconfident about it because people really only feel unconfident when they really believe that they cant do something or that they aren't good enough.


so basically if your unconfident about playing at the higher level, you should really think about it, can you really play with them or you just think you can?!
up to you to decide

good luck bro

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height: 5'11"
weight: 156 lbs
standing vert: 28 in (before ITBS) (26 and working my way back up)
running vert: 36 in (before ITBS) (32 currently working my way back up)
goals:
running vert: 50+ in
standing vert: 40+ in