Basketball's Box Offense (Spalding Sports Library) [Paperback]

Herb Brown (Author)

Book Description

Series: Spalding Sports Library | Publication Date: April 1995

A 35-year coaching veteran of college, international, and NBA teams breaks down the box offense, explaining where it's used, its advantages and how it can be used against different defensive sets. Also explained are drills to be used with the offense and plays that can be used in out-of-bounds, fast breaks and other special situations. Diagrams & photos.

Product Details

• Paperback: 175 pages
• Publisher: Masters Press (April 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1570280312
• ISBN-13: 978-1570280313
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,290,451 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars If you can read it, you don't need it, December 13, 2000

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This review is from: Basketball's Box Offense (Spalding Sports Library) (Paperback)

Herb may be a great coach, but he's not a great writer. Rather than explaining the box offense, this book cheers for it, talks about how great it is against various defenses, lists all the moves you should be able to make to make it work, and never once describes what it is. Or why it's called the box offense, or how it compares to other offenses. Or what any of the moves you have to be able to explain are. There are indeed hundreds of diagrams, with descriptions that barely match.

I was able to get some information out of this, but only with a lot of digging and cursing. But I'm a beginner at coaching - I'm not a pro or big ten college player. If you understand all of the terms he tosses out without definition, you probably are one of these, and probably know all the stuff in the book already.

Particularly frustrating are sections which make you think a description is coming, but you get more lists, such as in the section titled "Explanations of each move":

"Handback or Pass and Return to the Ball - A very good tactic to use when you want to set up a lob play, screen-and-roll, clearout or simply relieve pressure on the man with the ball. Another of Magic's moves to run his opponent ragged." Now, there is a diagram later which helps describe this, but it's *later*. When you first read this section, it's maddeningly empty of information.

I have never before been so frustrated as to want to return a book, until I read this one. I didn't dig into it until it was far too late. You, however, have been warned.