word i am not joking, the same thing happend to me. from grade 7-8, the pg never passed down low. and this year in grade 9, no one passed. i felt kinda useless on the team. go and talk to ur coach. when i told him i never got the ball down low, he would tell the pg to pass. but make sure you dont mess up, because they'll most likely pass even less.

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Height: 6'2
Running vert 1 legged: 29"
Running vert 2 legged:18"
Standing Vert:24"

Stats per game
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APG:
(offseason)

yea communicate with the coach, and if ure the pg dont pass the ball to the hog

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Running Vert: 24 inches.

so now we know who's hogging the ball...

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..:: J-Will : The Point GOD ::..

1. dont give the ball to the ballhog
2. tell the coach
3. scream at him and get in his face

If you're the PG talk to him directly about the problem, if he's a cool person he'll respect that and try to better the situation. If you're a wing or big man run to the ball hog and demand the ball and let it be known to everyone watching that u want the ball. If he doesn't pass the coach himself will make note of this and step to the player himself. I know this because I was a ball hogging PG in 6th-7th grade and I changed due to good coaching. In high school I witnessed a ball hoggin wing player and I let it be known that I was running the team everytime he tried to get the ball on the inbound. Once I even stole the ball from him during practice lol. It was cool though he eventually gave in to the team concept, it takes time though.

tell coach if dat dun work...than just str8 up tell him.

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I've played with players like that so I know how you feel. It's such a pain to play with people like them because even when they are being double-teamed or whatever and you're open they still don't pass. Anyways best advice I can give you is to put up with them cause if you continue to play basketball for years to come chances are you'll meet more ball hogs. Anyways in games perhaps pass to them less and work on your entire game (eg. shooting, passing, defence etc) and maybe they'll give the ball to you more if they're impressed by you.

Be the best baller. If you are the best then everyone wants to pass to you.

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“The guy said NBA players are one in a million, ... I said, 'Man, look, I'm going to be that one in a million.'”
Kobe Bryant

"I don't need too much. Glamour and all that stuff don't excite me. I am just glad I have the game of basketball in my life."
LeBron James

"People have always doubted whether I was good enough to play this game at this level. I thought I was, and I thought I could be. What other people thought was really always irrelevant to me."
Steve Nash

This is a very easy problem to solve.

Ball hogs like to do everything on their own. So, if that's the case then let them do so. It may be hard but try to get the whole team to just do nothing when he is hogging the ball. Send him a message, let him know that he doesn't have your support.

Don't pass to him, but instead pass to others even if they are in a worse position.

If he makes a mistake boooo him or something like that. If he gets blocked, humiliate him.

A guy on my team whos favourite playe is Kobe (I wonder why he hogs it sooo much ) hogged it alot and the whole team did what I just described because they knew and I knew what he was doing was wrong and it annoyed us all. Eventually he got the message and started to pass more. he hogs it still and if he doesn't pass we just do the above and he gets the message.

Basketball is a team sport and if he doesn't understand that then he shouldn't be on the team.

Hope this helps.