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October 31, 2008 at 12:28 am · Filed under Basketball Books
As a parent, it is a proud day when your child joins his or her first sports team. It is important to you to be involved, which may be leading you to think about coaching. Nervous about the possibility? Don't be! With the Absolute Beginner's Guide to Coaching Youth Basketball, you will quickly and easily learn how to become a successful youth basketball coach. This comprehensive, user-friendly reference guide will help you create a fun and effective learning environment. You have limited practice time and resources, and you need to know how to make the best of them. With this book, you will cover several key concepts that often elude rookie coaches, including:
- Identifying your role and expectations as a coach.
- Tailoring instruction to meet the varying physical abilities of different age groups.
- Creating a safe playing environment.
- Knowing how to effectively coach during both practices and games.
- Learning how to communicate and form alliances with parents, league administrators, game officials and players.
On top of all this great material, we also provide you with access to a website where you can download practice plans, emergency information cards, injury reports, awards and certificates, and season evaluation forms. Ensure that you and your child's first basketball season are a success with Absolute Beginner's Guide to Coaching Youth Basketball.
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October 30, 2008 at 5:54 am · Filed under Basketball Books
Customer Review: Available new from the publisher
I'm not sure why amazon does not stock this great book. It is still available from the publisher at www.thebigo.com for only $12.95. They also have info for bookstores, chains, and special orders for coaches and bball camps.
Customer Review: Learn the keys to better Basketball
Want to learn how to play basketball or just improve on your skills now? Then pick-up a copy of Oscar Robertson's, "The Art of Basketball." Everything you need to begin playing basketball or being able to push your current skills to the next level of competition is in here. Oscar takes you from physical and mental conditioning to all of the skills necessary to play the game. Shooting, passing, rebounding, offensive and defensive tactics even a section on what to do when you are mismatched in a game. The book is excellent for coaches to use as a teaching manual and to recommend to their team as a guide for practicing on their own. Oscar mentions in the book that the best way to improve is to work on the fundamentals and he shows you how even if you have never touched a basketball. You can't go wrong learning from a true master of the game, and if you have any doubts just check out Oscar's stats in the back of the book.
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October 28, 2008 at 3:34 pm · Filed under Basketball Books
"From two senior Sports Illustrated writers comes an explosive, fast-paced satire that will do for today's NBA what North Dallas Forty did for the NFL a generation ago. Just months from his Yale graduation, street-smart whiz kid Jamal Kelly leaves school to take a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join the front office of the Los Angeles Lasers. Once on the West Coast, Jamal gets a quick introduction to a subculture awash in big egos and fast cars, as well as an introduction to the charms of the team's new hard-charging beat writer, Jilly Forrester. In the spirit of Primary Colors and The Devil Wears Prada, Foul Lines peels back the curtain on the trappings of big-time professional basketball. No other sport encapsulates so many cultural hot-button topics, and Foul Lines at once exposes and lampoons this parallel universe.
Customer Review: Geographically challenged and unfunny
Onw wonders how accurate the rest of the book is when a character apologizes for being late to a meeting because she took Wilshire Blvd. all the way from Studio City. Uh, Wilshire Blvd. is nowhere near Studio City. It does go Downtown, though, east from the beach, where it passes right by UCLA where Bill Walton used to play. One would think that Bill would have spotted this geographical faux pas before he gave the book such a glowing accolade. Leads me to wonder whether he actually read it, or was doing a favor for a couple of pals? The Amos and Andy dialogue, along with the hilarious making up of names such as Litanium, is, come on, frankly racist. Don't be suckered in by the 'insider' pitch. This alleged roman a clef reveals nothing even the casual fan doesn't know. The rambling plot, cliched characters, and flat writing doesn't help either. Question: How many writers does it take to write a novel anyway? Answer: not these two.
Customer Review: Great game plan; okay execution
Entertaining trip with an NBA team. Predictable with no twists or turns, but the authors kept it moving. A real fun read. If this is "dead-on" as Bill Walton says in the cover blurb, then the NBA life is just as good and bad (and as R-rated) as you imagine it to be. A couple minor irritations:
- As another reviewer says, the authors use unnecessarily obscure words. Sample: "... Kwaanzii would be ushered to center court, in mufti, and panegyrized by Padgett..." This is in the same paragraph where they use the word "redolent".
- The lingo and feel of the religious player is so thoroughly wrong that it makes you wonder what else is phony. Fortunately, this player's lines are few.
All in all, I enjoyed the book. I wish there were more like it.
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October 27, 2008 at 3:52 pm · Filed under Basketball Books
Learn the essentials of winning basketball from a coach who did it at the high school, college, and professional levels. The Basketball Handbook presents a proven player- and team-development game plan founded on the five principles of success.
Coach Lee Rose teaches the essential techniques and tactics, with drills and tips on executing them when the game's on the line. His performance rating system is a superb evaluation tool, effective in identifying players' strengths and shoring up weaknesses in all facets. Rose's 45 years of maximizing player and team potential shine through as he emphasizes key skills and shares the savvy for advancing through each competitive level of the game.
The Basketball Handbook will help you master each fundamental, then add new dimensions to individual and team performance on the offensive and defensive ends of the court as well as in special situations. Use it in-season and during the off-season for greater success on the court.
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October 27, 2008 at 1:42 am · Filed under Basketball Books
Customer Review: neat split-level story line
i got this book because i had another in the series. i was dissapointed becuse it wasn't available in board book, but when i got it i saw why. there is a short line for each letter of the alphabet for little kids, and then a longer paragraph for each letter as well, that goes into the game on a deeper level for older kids. very well illustrated - highly recommended as a book that will grow with your kid.
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October 26, 2008 at 4:05 am · Filed under Basketball Books
No college in America has dominated the basketball scene over the past 20 years like Duke has. The Blue Devils have been to 10 Final Fours under Coach Mike Krzyzewski, winning the national championship three times. They played in five consecutive Final Fours and for four consecutive years finished the season ranked number one in the country. Duke won five consecutive Atlantic Coast Conference championships through 2003, and since 1986, the Blue Devils have had six national players of the year. No other school has had more than one. As Duke enters its 100th season of basketball, it will be the 25th year for Hall of Fame coach Krzyzewski. He has been honored 12 times as national Coach of the Year and is acknowledged as the top man in his profession. Duke has had numerous other famous basketball names, including coaches such as Vic Bubas and Eddie Cameron and All-Americans Dick Groat, Art Heyman, and Jeff Mullins. The Blue Devils play in Cameron Indoor Stadium, which has become a basketball shrine. The vociferous student body, the Cameron Crazies, camp out before home games in a tent city they call Krzyzewski-ville. From the first game in 1906 through yet another Final Four appearance following the 2003-04 season, 100 Years of Duke Basketball provides fans with an insider's look at Duke basketball and the people who have made it a national legend.
Customer Review: Excellent Product!!
Excellent DVD! I was very happy with this purchase! It had everything I wanted. A must buy for any Duke Blue Devil basketball fan! Thanks Amazon.
Customer Review: Duke Book
It arrived right on time! A tad dissipointed because the brand new book has a small tear but nothing major.
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October 24, 2008 at 9:49 pm · Filed under Basketball Books
John Wooden is an American icon. Since he announced his retirement thirty years ago, Coach remains one of our country's most popular and heroic figures. What John Wooden accomplished as basketball coach at UCLA will never be repeatedeighty-eight victories in a row, ten national championshipsbut what makes his legacy even more amazing is how he did it: with honor, integrity and grace. In his research for How to Be Like Coach Wooden, Pat Williams recounts well over 800 interviews. The result is an inspiring motivational biography about a great hero of basketball and one of the most amazing leaders in history. How to Be Like Coach Wooden is the next dynamic book in the How to Be Like character biography series, which focuses on drawing out important lessons from the lives of great men and women. In this book, readers will learn from Coach Wooden, a beacon of honesty, goodness and faith. Wooden cared about winning in basketball, but he cared more about winning in life.
Customer Review: This Coach Wooden Primer is the Real McKoy
I was introduced to this amazing book when Pat Williams talked about Coach Wooden at the end of a day long product seminar for Merrill Lynch Financial Advisors. If you ever have a chance to see Pat, he is one of the most intelligent, to-the-point and engaging motivational speakers I've ever seen. My only criticism of his inspiring book is the title: it would have been much simpler to call it "The Coach Wooden Catechism."
For Pat Williams fans, this is one of seven books in his "How To Be Like" series, which profile the virtuous characteristics of winners. A scholar and a gentleman, Coach Wooden himself got it right when he humbly stated, "I'm just an English teacher. Shouldn't I be writing a book about Pat Williams?"
Each chapter expands on the virtues that made Wooden the greatest basketball coach of the 20th Century. So, `if you want to be like Coach Wooden,' be a person of character, love God, love your family and other people. If you want to build knowledge and wisdom like Coach did, strive to be a teacher, learn from the good example of others, and read good books, lots of them. If you want to build winner teams like Coach, work hard to be a team player, be a leader, be disciplined and patient. If you want to be happy in life, strive for humility, master the `little things', keep things simple, be honest with yourself, and remember that in life, we reap what we sow.
Interspersed under each of these chapters are the testimonials of hundreds of sports legends offering their personal observations of the greatness Coach Wooden exemplifies. Where Williams and his co-author David Wimbish deserve great credit is the skill they demonstrate in weaving together these accolades and facts. Williams spoke to over 800 people to prepare this book. In spite of mountain of source material he accumulated, this book is a quick and impressive read. There are dozens of books about Coach Wooden, and many of them are excellent. As the parent of four basketball crazy boys, I strongly recommend this inspiring book for young adults and athletes in any sport.
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October 23, 2008 at 1:43 pm · Filed under Basketball Books
Customer Review: Must Have
This special edition magazine offers a glimpse at what Kentucky Basketball is and has been in the past. It offers small stories of championship teams of the past. Also included is a list of all time leading statistics. This is a must have for any UK fan, though it is not as in depth as I would have liked.
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October 23, 2008 at 4:39 am · Filed under Basketball Books
The behind-the-scenes story of a remarkable group of women who, with a goal firmly in mind, set a shining and enduring example of how to achieve in college athletics.
Customer Review: Inspirational story comparable to "Hoosiers"
A friend gave me this book because I am originally from South Bend and like to cheer for ND, but I am not what you would call a sports fan. I know next to nothing about basketball. I found this book to be very inspiring and heartwarming. Anyone participating on or coaching a team of young people would love it. It profiles each player, but emphasizes that each player coming together as a team is what is important.
Customer Review: Great story lost in poor writing
The book is illogically split up, causing confusion, repetition, and destroying any suspense. The writing is often, at best, cheesy.
Most frustrating of all is the presence editing errors on almost every page, including obvious misspellings, such as the "Big Eat" Conference, "Stoors, Connecticut," and "Diana Taurisi."
This story is about the 2001 Final Four Champions; however, the writing would have been knocked out of the first round of the NIT.
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October 22, 2008 at 10:55 am · Filed under Basketball Books
Principles, concepts, and coaching pointers for executing a full-court, trapping match-up press. Covers why we press, the general alignment of the matchup press, the box theory, responsibilities by position, rotations and drops versus a variety of alignments, effective trapping, drills for individual pressing defense, how to vary the pressure points, and much, much more.
Customer Review: Very good book over his press
I enjoyed this book, there was alot of very helpful ideas in the book. He goes into great detail about his 2-1-2 press and how there are only three types of press breakers and how to combat each one of these out of his press. He also talks about his run and jump part of the press, but he does not go into as much detail as the 2-1-2. This book would have gotten a 5 rating if it would have had more information on the run and jump.
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