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February 19, 2009 at 8:30 am · Filed under Uncategorized
"A great intergenerational team." --Kirkus Reviews
Gus loves basketball -- that is, basketball practice with Pete, the coach, and shooting baskets at Grandpa's house with only Grandpa's dog, Skipper, in attendance. Basketball games are another story. What if Gus misses every basket, and everybody laughs? If only his parents wouldn't come. Gus is especially unnerved by his father's shouting. Then Grandpa comes to Gus's last game and teaches him the secret of success -- to tune out the other voices and listen to his own.
Claudia Mills and Catherine Stock present the seventh beginning reader starring Gus and Grandpa, of whom Kirkus Reviews says, "They're lucky to have each other -- and readers are lucky to have them."
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February 17, 2009 at 9:06 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
This practical, economical new edition provides play patterns, practice drills, and all the basics to help students increase their understanding and enjoyment of the game.
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I used this book to teach a P.E. class in basketball. It is a good 'text' type book for such a need.
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February 16, 2009 at 11:48 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
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February 15, 2009 at 4:20 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Legendary coach Mauro Panaggio has enjoyed tremendous success at every competitive level. Accolades from basketball names such as Phil Jackson, George Karl, and Maurice Cheeks adorn the back cover of Building a Winning Basketball Program and attest to Coach Panaggio's wide-ranging influence. With chapters dedicated to such critical topics as developing a philosophy of coaching, physical and mental conditioning, practice planning, the all-purpose offense, building the defense, and game preparation, this book provides remarkable insight and guidelines for coaches at all levels.
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February 15, 2009 at 6:09 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Prior to the 1972 passage of Title IX, women's basketball was a minor sport in the United States. It was played for companies such as Cook's Goldblume Beer and Sunoco and for obscure colleges such as Iowa Wesleyan and Wayland Baptist, as part of the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU). But during the two generations of the mid-twentieth century, women's basketball improved and became more popular throughout the country. AAU All-Star teams dominated women's international basketball until the emergence of subsidized national teams in the 1960s.
The women who played on these AAU teams helped to lay the foundation for women's athletics today. Most of the teams came from central and southern states, and most of the players had rural origins. "Country girls" from Arkansas, Iowa, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas enjoyed an elite basketball that was unknown to their city sisters. The AAU formed several successful international teams of gifted players that gained fame abroad but were anonymous at home. Until nearly the last quarter of the century, skilled women basketball players had only one option after high school: the AAU.
This is the history of these gifted women, their coaches, and their teams--their records, motivations, and personal stories. JUST FOR FUN is the first book to thoroughly explore the complex history of the Amateur Athletic Union's women's basketball program and to bring to light the four decades of women's basketball all but forgotten in the current success of women's athletics.
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February 13, 2009 at 2:36 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
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February 13, 2009 at 10:31 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Customer Review: Smart strategy for 94-feet of defensive intensity
"Zone Press Variations for Winning Basketball (second edition)" by veteran Division One basketball coach Cliff Ellis offers several smart strategies for implementing 94-feet of defensive intensity. The "slide & trap" and "dogging" press in this handy book are explained in an easy to understand fashion. Moreover, Coach Ellis includes good teaching drills to perfect the many presses in this text. Chapter one defines the shape of the zone press. Subsequent chapters detail procedures and ways to attack an offense with a "full-court" and "half-court" press. In addition, the final chapter is dedicated to the super important process of knowing when and how to regroup into a zone after the pressure press. I keep this book in my coaching bag and constantly take it out during those long breaks in AAU tournaments to review what we did right as a team and what we need to continue to work on. Recommended. Bert Ruiz
Customer Review: Book is awesome and a welcomed addition to my coaching style
This book is informative and easy to understand. I will be putting most of this book to use next season with my varsity boys' basketball team. It explained a couple of questions I had about some of my own presses. A must buy for any coach.
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February 12, 2009 at 11:29 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Coach and NAIA Champions of Character special presenter Bruce Brown offers 101 great drills to teach, motivate, and challenge youth basketball players. Covers rebounding, defense, aggressiveness, fast break, offense, shooting, passing and pre-game drills. Each drill is thoroughly explained and diagrammed. Special chapter on games and fun ways to end practice.
Customer Review: Great resource!
This provides a basketball coach with a wide variety of drills and are catagorized by type of drill. The only thing this resource is missing is an index at the back that could inform you where to find a specific drill.
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February 10, 2009 at 9:18 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
For almost forty years, Dean Smith coached the University of North Carolina men's basketball program with unsurpassed success, on the court and in shaping young men's lives. In his long-awaited memoir, he reflects back on the great games, teams, players, strategies and rivalries that defined his career, and explains the philosophy that guided his way. There's a lot more to life than basketball -- though some might beg to differ -- but there's a lot more to basketball than basketball, and this is a book about basketball filled with wisdom about life. Dean Smith insisted that the fundamentals of good basketball are the fundamentals of character -- passion, discipline, focus, selflessness, and responsibility -- and he strove to unite each of his teams in pursuit of those values.
To read this book is to understand why Dean Smith changed the lives of the players he coached, from Michael Jordan, who calls him his second father, and who never played a single NBA game without wearing a pair of UNC basketball shorts under his uniform, to the last man on the bench of his least talented team. Everyone wishes they had a coach like Dean Smith in their lives, and now they will have that chance.
Customer Review: Dean Smith wrote a very good book that shows his character.
26 Jun 2005
Dean Smith wrote a very good book. Humble, and self-effacing. Very worthwhile read. There is a reason why so many people respects him, including Michael Jordan who calls him "Coach" and Phil Jackson "Phil". Aren't that many people with this kind of integrity around any more.
Customer Review: Dean Smith could probably run for president
The book "A Coach's Life" written by Dean Smith, is a life story of one the best coaches to have ever stepped on the hardwood. This book starts off talking about Dean's childhood. He tells stories of himself as an athlete, playing football, baseball and basketball.
As a senior, Dean coached the incoming freshman football players the plays. Dean Smith was then offered a head coaching position at Air Force. After the years at Air Force, Dean Smith was offered an assistant coaching position under Frank McGuire. It wasn't long until Dean Smith became coach in 1960-1961.
From then on Dean went on to become one of the greatest coaches to ever coach in college basketball. Dean Smith won 879 wins, has gone to 11 Final Fours, and has won two national championships. Dean Smith went on to coach some of the best players who have played the game of basketball.
The book is structured very well. It starts off by talking about where he comes from, his schooling, his athletic background, then his coaching career and then his overall thoughts on the game and his life.
My overall evaluation is that this is a decent book. I loved the book, but keeping interest in the book would be difficult if you are not interested in basketball or coaching basketball. I have been involved with basketball for almost my entire life, so that it why I enjoyed the book so much. North Carolina has been my favorite college basketball team for as long as I remember.
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February 9, 2009 at 2:34 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
This is the true story of the making and marketing of an invention by two American brothers who grew up on a farm in Iowa, about two miles from where the author grew up. They are credited by many with helping to save the great game of basketball in the last decades of the 20th century, by making an invention for a break-away basketball goal and working to get it into widespread use. Francis B. Francois began his professional career in the U.S. Patent Office in 1956 as a Patent Examiner after graduating from Iowa State University with a degree in engineering. Shortly after moving to Washington, D.C., Frank began attending night law school at The George Washington University. He was the inventors' patent attorney, and in this book he reveals the fascinating story of how his friends the Estlunds helped save basketball.
Customer Review: Two Guys from Barnum Iowa that helped save Basketball
This is a excellent book on the history of the break away
basket and how it saved the excitement of the Slam-Dunk that
makes a basketball game so enjoyable.
It also shows the steps needed in getting a patent and how
it is so hard to do.
Customer Review: Fascinating True Story
It is very interesting to read about the invention that allowed the game of basketball to celebrate the slam dunk as it does. I would recommend this book to anyone who is a fan of the modern game.
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