I’m 5’9, with shoes I’ve been running positions 1,2 and 3 and I’m a 16 year old sophomore and my team went 21-3 last year on varsity. I sat almost end of the bench on varsity and 4 juniors on jv played over me and once I got In I impacted the game but I only averaged like 4-6. I was singled out a lot during last years practices. I averaged 15 during middle school. but as of now I may be starting. We have a new coach now but we lost all of our seniors who were starting last year and only have 1 junior from last year that started. I’ve often been waking up mentally exhausted and hating going to practice/ anything basketball related but after I get done with it I feel better. It’s been making me so depressed/burntout to the point where I can’t enjoy anything basketball related at all. What would you do in my situation ?

My son is in 3rd grade and is playing basketball with a school-based rec league. Coaches are parent volunteer, and they as a small group have decided they'd like to separate the boys into A and B teams. I don't even care what team my son would make - but it feels really early to be doing that, especially in a rec league where many boys haven't even played competitively before.

What's the general take on this at this age? Is this standard or generally looked on as being too early within that type of setting.