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September 30, 2008 at 12:18 pm · Filed under Basketball Books
Includes forms, handouts, fundamentals, schedules--everything you need to conduct a winning camp. The purpose of this manual is to provide you with a guide for conducting your own camp. If you are currently running a camp this guide can give you some ideas that may help you improve upon it. If you are considering starting a camp then this guide will take you step-by-step through the process. It is designed to show you how we started and how we conduct East Coast Basketball Camps. You will find everything you need to run a successful camp year after year." Coach Dan Spainhour
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September 29, 2008 at 5:20 am · Filed under Basketball Books
What can one of the most successful coaches in the history of professional basketball tell CEOs, executives, entrepreneurs, and managers about leadership? Everything! In this fascinating account of his nearly seven decades as a player, coach, general manager, goodwill ambassador, color commentator, and NBA analyst for ESPN, basketball legend Dr. Jack Ramsay reveals the guiding principles and best practices that make for outstanding leadership both on and off the court.
Customer Review: The greatest book ever written about the game of basketball
Wow! What a spectacular book. Dr.Jack, an excellant writer, tells stories and gives advice that any true basketball lover would die to read. A work of genious, it truely is just that.
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September 27, 2008 at 9:06 pm · Filed under Basketball Books
For three decades, Al McGuire was the heart and soul of college basketball, first as the street-smart head coach at Marquette University and later as the hoops-savvy television analyst whose unique mix of humor, candor, and uncanny insights brought a whole new dimension to sports broadcasting. McGuire was the consummate professional at whatever he did. Possessing an impeccable insider's knowledge of the game, he was able to communicate to viewers in ways that were as entertaining as they were informative. He made people laugh, he could laugh at himself, and his joy for the game and people in it made him one of sports' most enduring icons.
McGuire passed away at the age of seventy-two in early 2001 after a long illness, leaving behind a basketball-rich legacy that had its poetic qualities as well. Never was that more evidnet than in the 1976-77 season, when McGuire announced to his team in midseason that it would be his last year in coaching. The season ended with McGuire overcome by emotion, sitting down on the Marquette bench with tears streaming down his face as the Warriors gave their beloved coach the ultimate going-away present, a national championship. Thus ended a twenty-year coaching career in which McGuire completed a 405-143 record, including a 295-80 mark at Marquette.
In I Remember Al McGuire, the legendary basketball coach and announcer is remembered by dozens of associates, who offer their favorite anecdotes, insights, assessments, and other assorted memories of a basketball junkie as quick with a quip as he was with a word of encouragement. Among those contributing to this book are his former players and assistant coaches as well as other head coaches, media personalities, friends, and associates who knew him well at one time or another.
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September 27, 2008 at 3:35 am · Filed under Basketball Books
Put more power, strength, and quickness into your game! Now you can, with expert training information from 10 top NBA conditioning coaches—the same people who get Penny Hardaway, Mitch Richmond, Gary Payton, and many other all-stars into great shape.
The book's 122 exercises and drills are designed specifically to improve basketball performance. Coaches and players can use the special Basketball Conditioning Power Rating System to test conditioning levels for
• power,
• agility,
• conditioning,
• muscle strength and endurance,
• flexibility, and
• percentage of body fat.
Work out like the pros and play at the highest level possible. NBA Power Conditioning will help you reach your potential.
Customer Review: Outstanding
I was the skinny white kid from maryland i wanted to be good but i was a bum. So i bought this book. Before the 12 week program ihad a 10 inch vertical leap, iwas 5'2 and weighed 70 pounds after using the program i know way 97 pounds am 5'4 have a 28 inch vertical leap. ia m also a real dominant player on the court with my 8% body fat. i also worked on shooting during the program and went from barely being able to shoot form the free throw line to shooting threes whit an unblockable form. i recomend this book to anyone. All you need is a goo weight set or not it dosen't matter.
Customer Review: This one is good, really good!!!
Well, as a college basketball player, I can say this book is somethin' special. Every new bball player should read it, cause it will change your thinkin' about this game, well it changed for me. Stretching section is realy good, cause not many of the players or coaches attend their attention to stretching these days. Strenght training exercises are specialy designed for bball players, and you don't have to think anymore what to do in the gym, what to train in order to become better bball player, everythin' is in this book. Ok, one thing is clear for sure, if you wanna train and play pro, read this book!!!
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September 25, 2008 at 11:02 pm · Filed under Basketball Books
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September 25, 2008 at 10:59 am · Filed under Basketball Books
Featuring a wide variety of textures and images, this book encourages children to explore their world while introducing them to the exciting game of professional basketball.
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September 23, 2008 at 8:00 pm · Filed under Basketball Books
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September 22, 2008 at 7:00 pm · Filed under Basketball Books
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September 22, 2008 at 4:30 am · Filed under Basketball Books
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September 20, 2008 at 8:41 pm · Filed under Basketball Books
James Naismith was teaching physical education at the Young Men’s Christian Association Training College in Springfield, Massachusetts, and felt discouraged because calisthenics and gymnastics didn’t engage his students. What was needed was an indoor wintertime game that combined recreation and competition. One evening he worked out the fundamentals of a game that would quickly catch on. Two peach half-bushel baskets gave the name to the brand new sport in late 1891.
Basketball: Its Origin and Development was written by the inventor himself, who was inspired purely by the joy of play. Naismith, born in northern Ontario in 1861, gave up the ministry to preach clean living through sport. He describes Duck on the Rock, a game from his Canadian childhood, the creative reasoning behind his basket game, the eventual refinement of rules and development of equipment, the spread of amateur and professional teams throughout the world, and the growth of women’s basketball (at first banned to male spectators because the players wore bloomers). Naismith lived long enough to see basketball included in the Olympics in 1936. Three years later he died, after nearly forty years as head of the physical education department at the University of Kansas.
Customer Review: A book telling the story of basketball
It was in Bennie's Corners(a nickname for a place where Naismith played as a youngster)that Naismith first observed recreational games being played. Next, during his time as a physical educator, he observed more games except this time being played at a higher level. Naismith and others realized that there was an actual need for a new game. He knew he was going to encorporate a few things; the game was going to be mainly made from other previously existing games, the game was going to be a team sport, it was going to use a large circular ball, and finally, it was going to be an indoor game. These were the few things that Naismith and others created the game upon. However most of the main construction of the game such as rules and regulations was left up to Naismith.
After a short while, Naismith came up with rules. They were soon printed in a newspaper called the Triangle. This is where some of the foundations of spreading of the game took place. People looked at the rules found anything they could to use as hoops and used the rules and regulations.
As time progressed the game started to become more popular and issues were brought up and rules. Naismith did change/add rules over time. The game began to spread both foreign and domesticaly, in places like Japan, China, Mexico, Canada, etc. Naismith was amazed that his game was able to spread so far and become so successful.
Naismith observed a number of games through the years and wondered how the game could go from at first having such bad players, to having players that can dribble good, shoot good, and play defense good.
The book also stressed that Naismith and the others did not the game for Recreation. They said that the game of basketball was strictly a problem that had been pressing on the physical educators for some time. This is why Naismith was puzzled when his newfangled game was such a success to the public.
In my opinion this book was great. I have always wondered the real story of how the game of basketball came to be. Also how the rules of the game can change and change as time progresses. The book told me about how the game spread from one place to all the corners of the globe. Also the original rules and how they were printed in the triangle newspaper. People from every race played the game. Both men and woman started playing the game. And finally how the game just started as solution to a problem, and ended up as a changing phenomenon. Even today the game is still changing, however the game has not strayed very far from the original rules Naismith published in the Triangle.
Overall I enjoyed this book, I also think others should read it and learn the original history of the game of basketball.
Customer Review: The only first person account of basketball's start
A Canadian by birth, Naismith, a physician and minister with additional degrees in education and psychology, also invented the football helmet and taught sex education. Naismith never made any money from the game he invented. In fact, he refused fees when he spoke about basketball in public, and he once turned down a substantial sum to endorse cigarettes. Amos Alonzo Stagg, a YMCA facility member and a player in the first basketball games, recommended Naismith to start a basketball program at the University of Kansas. He took the job, which he held from 1898 until his death in 1939, though he coached basketball for only nine years. The inventor of the game is the only coach in University of Kansas history with a losing record: 53 wins and 55 losses. An amazing man and a wonderful look at his YMCA invention: basketball
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