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Great Teams in College Basketball History (Great Teams)
What are greatest teams in college basketball and what made them stand out? Learn statistics about players and the records of unstoppable teams. Discover how players came together to beat their opponents. Read about changes that were constantly being made to keep up with the growing sport. From talented players to dynamic coaches, this book spans 40 years to find the best in college basketball history.
Coaching Girls’ Basketball Successfully
Most basketball coaching books present skills and drills. In Coaching Girls' Basketball Successfully, you not only learn the skills, you also learn how to teach the skills successfully to your players.
This unique text contains:
• The building blocks of a successful basketball program
• Over 50 drills and activities
• Eight-week seasonal plans and sample practice plans for three different age levels
• Coaching points and teaching progressions that make learning easier for your players
• Six chapters devoted solely to defensive play and strategy
• 180 illustrations showing various drills and proper technique
Coaching Girls' Basketball Successfully is designed to be used by coaches of players from upper elementary school through high school. It is the best text to help you teach basketball basics more successfully.
Customer Review: Jed Davis,Girls' High School Basketball Coach
While this book offers a lot of information, it is destined to the same fate of many basketball books: 1) too much information without enough detail on any one system 2) complicated diagrams that have to be studied for hours in order to understand. This book is more of an encyclopedia of basketball. It covers everything. And the history of girls/womens basketball is particularly good. However, the author does not convey a personal philosophy or a personal system that she has used in basketball. It's more like " you can do it this way but you can also do it that way. " I therefore did not find the book useful in further developing my own coaching. There are a lot of details to basketball and the best books and teachings are those in which there is a detailed explanation of what, why and how. But for an overview of the different aspects of the game, the book does an admirable job. If there is one thing that is missing from this book, it is the relationship between coach and player. How does a coach motivate her players? Why is it important not to yell at them? What do you do to bond with your players and therefore enhance the spirit and motivation of the team.
A Higher Court: The Lost College Basketball Legacy of Fred Taylor
Customer Review: Coach Fred Taylor
I "second" Robert L. Leonhard's review. As an OSU student back in the early-mid 70s, I thought Coach Taylor was a class act, but often wondered why he didn't win more games.
I guess he just didn't seem to fit in with the modern "what's in it for me" player. This book puts some of that in perspective.
Jimmy Cleammons noted that Taylor was the ONLY coach not to offer him stuff under the table when he was being recruited.
As noted in the book, the Athletic Department (i.e., the Director) was never known for supporting the basketball team, even after getting literally mugged by U of Minnesota thugs (the "great" Dave Winfield, Brewer, Behagen, Taylor, the Gopher mascot that sucker punched Mark Minor, the cowardly Coach Musselman, the equally cowardly Big Ten Commissioner Wayne Duke, etc.).
Because of the lack of league and school support, Coach Taylor probably should have left after that fiasco.
By the way, I still have a hard time pulling for the U of Minnesota in any non-conference games in any sport.
Customer Review: Long overdue credit for a great coach and man
I am an Ohio State graduate and love OSU football but we also have wonderful legacy in basketball due to Fred Taylor. This is a long overdue recognition of Coach Taylor's success as a basketball coach and more importantly as a mentor to his players. He was always a gentleman and deserved better treatment by the OSU athletic office especially after his team was mugged by the Minnesota team (including Dave Winfield, a reason I always hoped Winfield would fail in baseball since he was a thug along side his team and jerk of a coach, Bill Mussleman). Bobby Knight always loved beating OSU due the way it treated Coach Taylor and it is ironic that Knight admired Fred Taylor but behaved exactly opposite of the manner in which Coach Taylor behaved. It is a testimony to Coach Taylor's class that he never bad mouthed OSU after he was fired. All OSU basketball fans should read this book so they will know that two coaching giants put OSU sports on the highest levels. I give the book 4 stars because I wish the author could have included more actual convesations with Coach Taylor although Coach Taylor's health may have prevented it.
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Playing Basketball
"Irreverent in approach, these guides include tips and advice from leading authoritimes, aiming to help with life's big decisions and challenges, as well as hobbies. This book should help readers how to watch and understand basketball. "
Customer Review: Probably the complete introduction to basketball
The author intends and succeeds to introduce basketball fans of all ages to the beauty of basketball. No matter you are 12 or 70, this book helps you understand fully what the game is, teaches you about the history of the american basketball, gives you precious info about positions, different leagues, how to watch a game, famous players, network, newspapers and web sites. It may be not an interesting book if you bought it for scrimmages and other technical info, but I don't think that was the purpose of the book. It's just a brilliant introduction to the basketball game. Don't buy any other basketball book before reading this one "court to court". It pays you off. I highly recommend it to basketball lover.
Customer Review: Don't Buy this Book
Buy Basketball for Dummies instead. In search of a book which would get me up to speed about a sport which I had never played but which my sons have become increasingly passionate about, I bought and read both. You would be and idiot to buy The Complete Idiot's Guide to Basketball. The author appears to be more preoccupied with telling you how wonderful he and the players of his (long bygone) era were. The references to today's players are painfully few. His snipping asides against the work ethic of today's players should have no space in a book of this sort; it serves only to make him sound whinny. His writing is practically devoid of humour and his descriptions of plays and strategies are fairly tedious. The game just does not come alive under his pen. Had I been an absolute newcommer to the sport when I read this book, I would have encouraged my boys to take up more exciting sports like synchronised swimming. FOrtunately, I had watched several live and taped games and had my children's interest to help me realise that there was much more to basketball than I could find in the pages of this book. Try again Mr. Frazier
University of North Carolina Men’s Basketball Games: A Complete Record, Fall 1953 through Spring 2006
The ACC, since December 1, 1953, has played over 12,000 basketball games. This reference work contains every game ever played by University of North Carolina. In addition to box scores and tournament statistics, in each season, the notable events, achievements and top players are given.
For information on all schools in the Atlantic Coast Conference through 2006, please see this book's parent 3-volume set, Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Games (ISBN 978-0-7864-2937-0).
In addition, individual volumes are available for each school: Clemson (978-0-7864-3265-3), Georgia Tech (978-0-7864-3272-1), North Carolina State (978-0-7864-3267-7), Wake Forest (978-0-7864-3268-4), Duke (978-0-7864-3269-1), Maryland (978-0-7864-3270-7), and Virginia (978-0-7864-3271-4).