How The Basketball Player's Bible will help you: it supplies field-tested, successful teaching lessons ready to use; it teaches the fundamentals to players and coaches; and it provides principles of learning each skill as well as counter-productive methods and ideas that prevent improvement. The Appendices supply keys to learning, tables of lessons, and a warm down. The book does more than save you time, it gives you methods and ideas that work.
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The need for fundamentals is a rallying cry at every level: these books deliver the goods. -- ALA Booklist
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From a dad who has worked with sons and their friends for many years and coached at the junior high level, and having a library of books on teaching fundamental basketball skills to youngsters, I can truthfully exclaim that this is absolutely the best coverage of the subject I have ever read and used. If you are a father with no background in basketball whatsoever and want to help your boys develop proper skills in every phase of the game, you will not find an easier, yet more comprehensive method of not only teaching, but learning the "nitty gritty" basics of individual player skills. The principles are broken down to the simplest forms, accurately defined and illustrated such that anyone can understand and easily learn all phases of offensive and defensive moves and techniques, developed so beautifully from basic to advanced levels for each skill. I took my teenager to Philadelphia for a clinic by the author and was surprised to find as many coaches as youth attending! A friend and I brought him to our hometown for a local clinic, which was outstanding. The author manages to easily impress otherwise inattentive youngsters with such interest, that one can actually see them begin to combine the techniques and rapidly progress. However, one can simply read this most excellent coverage of the entire subject and derive the same benefits, it is so well written and illustrated.
Another reviewer indicated disappointment in finding that it was recommended that one should practice the principles outlined in the book in pairs or with a coach or dad. However, he or she would have certainly found a great advantage in doing so, since this form of teaching/monitoring/learning is a basic fundamental of education, in sports as well as school. It was a joy to actually understand all the principles so easily from this special manual, see my sons and their friends improve so impressively, and move from the end of the bench to starting positions. After devouring this terrific book, one can watch professional or college ball on TV and really appreciate the expertise with which Sidney Goldstein has made such a fast-moving, complicated sport become a reality for your boys and girls. (and, frankly for dads, moms and coaches at all levels) Thankyou, Sidney Goldstein!
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This review is from: The Basketball Player's Bible: A Comprehensive and Systematic Guide to Playing (The Nitty Gritty Basketball Series) (Paperback)
This book gives you many drills to improve your basic skills but most of the drills take more than one person and they didn't really work for me.
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My uncle Inky's (Inky Lautman) photograph appears a half dozen times in the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
more expert lessons, half down position, one foot shot, step fake, defensive lessons, step layup, fake shoot, pivot foot, step hook, dribbling hand, counterproductive beliefs, pivot backward, jump hook, baseball pass, good dribblers, guts area, ball overhead, offense moves, ball handling skills, ball fake, low post, offensive player, shooting lesson, bounce pass, defense close Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Key Points, The Basketball Player's Bible, Lessons Coach, Coach's Manual, Step Fake Shoot, Baseball Pass Cut, Dribble Pass, Overhead Side Pass, Practice Practice, Three Yard Lesson New!
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My uncle Inky's (Inky Lautman) photograph appears a half dozen times in the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
more expert lessons, half down position, one foot shot, step fake, defensive lessons, step layup, fake shoot, pivot foot, step hook, dribbling hand, counterproductive beliefs, pivot backward, jump hook, baseball pass, good dribblers, guts area, ball overhead, offense moves, ball handling skills, ball fake, low post, offensive player, shooting lesson, bounce pass, defense close Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Key Points, The Basketball Player's Bible, Lessons Coach, Coach's Manual, Step Fake Shoot, Baseball Pass Cut, Dribble Pass, Overhead Side Pass, Practice Practice, Three Yard Lesson New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Basketball Scoring Guide (Nitty-Gritty Basketball Series) by Sidney Goldstein in Front Matter
- The Basketball Dribbling Guide (Nitty Gritty Basketball Guide Series) by Sidney Goldstein in Front Matter
- The Basketball Defense Guide (Nitty-Gritty Basketball Series) by Sidney Goldstein in Front Matter
- Basketball Fundamentals (Nitty-Gritty Basketball Series) by Sidney Goldstein in Front Matter
- Planning Basketball Practice (Nitty-Gritty Basketball Series) by Sidney Goldstein in Front Matter
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- Planning Basketball Practice (Nitty-Gritty Basketball Series) by Sidney Goldstein in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Basketball Shooting Guide 2nd Edition (Nitty-Gritty Basketball Series) by Sidney Goldstein in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Basketball Pass Cut Catch Guide (Nitty Gritty Basketball Series) by Sidney Goldstein in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Basketball Fundamentals (Nitty-Gritty Basketball Series) by Sidney Goldstein in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Basketball Defense Guide (Nitty-Gritty Basketball Series) by Sidney Goldstein in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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