As a new youth basketball coach this year, I have done a lot of reading to get up to speed. I checked this book out of the library, and after bookmarking it in about 20 places, I am going to have to return it. So, even though the season is winding down, I bought myself a copy from Amazon.
It does contain quite a few outdated articles, but it also contains many new, and many timeless ones. It often seems like it is presented as though you are attending a conference, and all these great coaches are speaking one after another, presenting their views on coaching methods and tactics, an insight into what they have found to be successful in their programs.
It contains quite a few articles that frankly were over my head as a new coach, and presents some information that is far too sophisticated for beginning coaches and players, but it also presented a great deal of information that has been useful to me as a beginning coach, and which I plan to build on in the future. That being said, this is a book that is clearly targeted at serious coaches, and it takes careful reading to get the most out of it.
Though it covers many aspects of the game, it is not a step-by-step manual or a single coherent system as are several of the other books I read recently, but I would venture that any basketball coach at any level will be able to find some useful information, and even if they don't use anything themselves, will gain a better appreciation of some of the systems and strategies used by some of their opponents.