Winning Basketball
Winning Basketball

Author: Ralph L. Pim

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13:

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"Coach Pim is an outstanding teacher and coach. He truly understands the game and has the ability to break down the fundamentals for easy comprehension and fast learning. This book is perfect for players who want .to improve their game." -- Dan Majerle This illustrated guide is essential for any player seeking to take his or her game to a higher level. Covering all the fundamentals of the game -- dribbling, passing, shooting, and footwork -- "Winning Basketball" details more than 65 progressive drills designed to help players master the various skills necessary to build a strong offense. In addition, there are instructions for perfecting lay-ups, free throws, three-pointers, inside moves, and rebounds. More than just a player's guide, this book gives coaches valuable information on how to set up training programs, instill winning attitudes in their teams, and use practice time to its fullest. Complete with checklists for pinpointing players' weaknesses and loaded with scores of action photographs and diagrams, this guide is a must for players and coaches alike. Ralph L. Pim, EdD, is the head basketball coach at Limestone College, in Gaffney, South Carolina. He has coached basketball for 20 years and conducts annual clinics nationwide.

Winning Basketball Fundamentals
Winning Basketball Fundamentals

Author: Lee Rose

Publisher: Human Kinetics

Published: 2012-09-21

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 149258164X

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Lee Rose has been one of basketball’s most knowledgeable and respected coaches over the past 50 years at the high school, college, and professional levels. Winning Basketball Fundamentals presents his proven program for success, the same one he used in taking teams from two different colleges to the Final Four. From offense to defense to transition play and special situations, Rose covers every tactical facet of the game and adds his insights for improving execution in each. He presents popular offensive systems—the Triangle, LA, Flex, Dribble Drive, and Motion—as well as man-to-man and zone defensive schemes, with suggestions for when and how to deploy and adjust them. Rose also teaches all the essential individual skills required for performing those tactics proficiently and consistently, with special tips for executing when the game is on the line. Perimeter- and post-specific instruction and drills will help players build on their skills through practice. Coach Rose also shares his Performance Rating System—a tool he’s used time and again to develop some of the game’s top players. Rose explains not only how to identify strengths and weaknesses but also how to use that information to maximize the potential of individual players and the team. Flashy and fluke plays might be fun to watch, but you can’t build a successful season or career on them. Winning Basketball Fundamentals is the proven formula for developing the solid individual skills and team tactics you can count on game after game.

Basketball on Paper
Basketball on Paper

Author: Dean Oliver

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2020-02-15

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 164012389X

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Journey "inside the numbers" for an exceptional set of statistical tools and rules that can help explain the winning, or losing, ways of a basketball team. Basketball on Paper doesn't diagram plays or explain how players get in shape, but instead demonstrates how to interpret player and team performance. Dean Oliver highlights general strategies for teams when they're winning or losing and what aspects should be the focus in either situation. He describes and quantifies the jobs of team leaders and role players, then discusses the interactions between players and how to achieve the best fit. Oliver conceptualizes the meaning of teamwork and how to quantify the value of different types of players working together. He examines historically successful NBA teams and identifies what made them so successful: individual talent, a system of putting players together, or good coaching. Oliver then uses these statistical tools and case studies to evaluate the best players in history, such as Magic Johnson, Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, and Charles Barkley and how they contributed to their teams' success. He does the same for some of the NBA's "oddball" players-Manute Bol, Muggsy Bogues, and Dennis Rodman and for the WNBA's top players. Basketball on Paper is unique in its incorporation of business and analytical concepts within the context of basketball to measure the value of players in a cooperative setting. Whether you're looking for strategies or new ideas to throw out while watching the ballgame at a sports bar, Dean Oliver'sBasketball on Paper will give you amazing new insights into teamwork, coaching, and success.

Winning Basketball for Girls
Winning Basketball for Girls

Author: Faye Young Miller

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 0816077592

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Skills and strategies needed in basketball are presented with a focus for girls and women.

Chasing Perfect
Chasing Perfect

Author: Bob Hurley

Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 030798687X

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The famed basketball coach of St. Anthony's High School in Jersey City traces his decades-long career, citing his championship coaching strategies and memorable players from the team's seven undefeated seasons.

My Losing Season
My Losing Season

Author: Pat Conroy

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 2003-08-26

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 0553898183

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply affecting coming-of-age memoir about family, love, loss, basketball—and life itself—by the beloved author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini During one unforgettable season as a Citadel cadet, Pat Conroy becomes part of a basketball team that is ultimately destined to fail. And yet for a military kid who grew up on the move, the Bulldogs provide a sanctuary from the cold, abrasive father who dominates his life—and a crucible for becoming his own man. With all the drama and incandescence of his bestselling fiction, Conroy re-creates his pivotal senior year as captain of the Citadel Bulldogs. He chronicles the highs and lows of that fateful 1966–67 season, his tough disciplinarian coach, the joys of winning, and the hard-won lessons of losing. Most of all, he recounts how a group of boys came together as a team, playing a sport that would become a metaphor for a man whose spirit could never be defeated. Praise for My Losing Season “A superb accomplishment, maybe the finest book Pat Conroy has written.”—The Washington Post Book World “A wonderfully rich memoir that you don’t have to be a sports fan to love.”—Houston Chronicle “A memoir with all the Conroy trademarks . . . Here’s ample proof that losers always tell the best stories.”—Newsweek “In My Losing Season, Conroy opens his arms wide to embrace his difficult past and almost everyone in it.”—New York Daily News “Haunting, bittersweet and as compelling as his bestselling fiction.”—Boston Herald

Winning Basketball Drills
Winning Basketball Drills

Author: Ken Atkins

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13:

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More than 270 proven-successful drills culled from top coaches. Includes 16 drills to refine inside moves, 25 for pinpoint passing, & 28 to improve shooting accuracy.