This new updated and revised edition of Coaching Basketball--the National Association of Basketball Coaches official coaching handbook--features more than 130 articles by basketball’s leading coaches, covering every aspect of the game. Dozens of current and former coaches from high school through the collegiate and professional levels, such as John Wooden, Rick Majerus, and Rick Pitino, share their ideas and tips on fundamentals, strategy, and conditioning, as well as coaching foundations, including coaching philosophy, running a program, and recruiting.
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Hone your coaching skills with these coaching legends as your mentors
Imagine gathering a roomful of legendary basketball coaches from all levels and tapping their knowledge of the game. You would learn the strength of leadership from Coach K, understand the importance of practice from the legendary John Wooden, and drill man-to-man offense with Bob Knight. In Coaching Basketball, this is all possible.
This revised third edition includes new articles by distinguished coaches such as Dean Smith, Jim Valvano, and Tubby Smith and a new section addressing sportsmanship and character development to meet one of today's greatest coaching challenges. Also new is the completeness of the essays: an article from every coach who won an NCAA Division I championship--even from the first in 1939--is now in this volume.
Editors Jerry Krause--the research chairman for the National Association of Basketball Coaches--and Ralph Pim have assembled into one volume hundreds of articles written by champion basketball coaches for coaches at all levels. The bestselling Coaching Basketball covers the fundamental skills, offensive and defensive strategy, team offense and defense, conditioning, and motivational techniques. This unmatched collection of almost-encyclopedic knowledge and the unmatched experience of these basketball giants will not only teach beginning and veteran coaches the essence of the game, but also inspire them to take their teams and themselves to the next level.
Learn from the best ever, including:
- Phog Allen
- Pete Newell
- Adolph Rupp
- Mike Krzyzewski
- Al McGuire
- Tubby Smith
- Bob Knight
- John Wooden
- Jerry Tarkanian
- Rick Pitino
- Dean Smith
- Hubie Brown
- Nolan Richardson
- Fred "Tex" Winter
- Chuck Daly
- and more!
About the Author
Jerry Krause has coached and taught basketball for forty years. The author of twelve coaching books, he is the chairman of the NABC Research Committee and former chairman of the NCAA Basketball Rules Committee. In 1998, he received the prestigious NABC Cliff Wells Appreciation Award for his lifetime contributions to college basketball. He currently the director of Basketball Operations at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington.
Ralph Pim is the author of numerous coaching articles and an instructional book, Winning Basketball. Pim has spent twenty-five years as a teacher and coach and is currently an assistant professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point.
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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.
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.
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The book was OK, however their was a ton of old articles, that were not very helpful. Had a few good articles though so if you can get it cheap it might be worth the purchase.
Jerry Krause and Ralph Pim have done basketball coaches a great service by collecting and editing all of the articles assembled into this single edition. The list of authors reads like a who's who of basketball coaches.
The articles are arranged by topic and cover just about every area of coaching basketball imaginable. The diagrams used to depict the concepts are well done and easy, for me at least, to understand.
The only complaint I have with the book is that the coaches whose articles are included are never really able to show how that one aspect of their system completely fits into the bigger picture or to go into a really in depth, detailed explanation of the topic. Given the nature of the book, I am not sure how to get around this limitation.
Still, a valuable tool for any basketball coach and worth buying.
Kevin Sivils - author of Game Strategy and Tactics for Basketball
The articles are arranged by topic and cover just about every area of coaching basketball imaginable. The diagrams used to depict the concepts are well done and easy, for me at least, to understand.
The only complaint I have with the book is that the coaches whose articles are included are never really able to show how that one aspect of their system completely fits into the bigger picture or to go into a really in depth, detailed explanation of the topic. Given the nature of the book, I am not sure how to get around this limitation.
Still, a valuable tool for any basketball coach and worth buying.
Kevin Sivils - author of Game Strategy and Tactics for Basketball
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Some great articles that skim the Surface
This book has great articles from some of the best coaches ever such as Wooden, Dean Smith, Henry Iba, and Morgan Wooten, but never gets too in depth. Read more
Published on August 27, 2008 by Patrick McClure
Another masterpiece by Jerry Krause.
I love teaching and coaching basketball. I also love reading and learning more about the game. Most of my reviews are 5 star and thats because I do my homework when purchaseing a... Read more
Published on November 29, 2006 by COACH GEORGE
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