Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Human Kinetics
• VHS Release Date: September 28, 1999
• Run Time: 40 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 0736001905
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #299,951 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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About the Actor

One of the standout coaches in NCAA basketball history, Mike Krzyzewski has guided the Blue Devils of Duke University to the highest reaches of the basketball world. Head coach at Duke since 1980, Coach K's teams have won two national championships and reached the Final Four seven times in one nine-year stretch.

Playing in the nation's toughest conference, the Atlantic Coast Conference, he has produced six regular season championships and three ACC tournament championships. The Blue Devils have earned 13 NCAA Tournament bids under Coach K, who leads all active coaches in NCAA Tournament wins (43) and winning percentage (.782). He has been named ACC Coach of the Year four times and the National Coach of the Year in five different seasons. In 1998, Krzyzewski became president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC).

Coach K has developed 23 players who were picked in the NBA draft, including 10 All-Americas, three National Players of the Year, and four National Defensive Players of the Year. His players have been equally successful in the classroom, achieving a 93% graduation rate. He has also coached several national teams in events including the Olympics and the Pan American Games.

Product Description

Duke University's men's basketball program has been the model for success in Coach Mike Krzyzewski's years at the helm. Under his direction the Blue Devils have won over 400 games, two NCAA Championships, and earned a berth in seven Final Fours. Now you can harness Coach K's strategies for team defense, the transition game, and successful practicing to make your team better than ever.

The Duke Basketball Video Series offers special insight into the key components that made all of those Duke wins, championships, and awards possible. You will be transported right to Cameron Indoor Stadium, to see and hear what takes place during Duke practice sessions. Each action-filled tape includes Coach K and the Duke team explaining, demonstrating, and correcting through:

- coaching points,
- individual skill instruction,
- tactical team preparations, and
- practice drills.

Action footage shows how lessons learned on the practice floor are transferred successfully to games. You will find the content captivating and directly applicable to your own improvement or to that of your players.

Duke is known for its tough team defense, and four Blue Devils have been chosen Defensive Player of the Year during Coach K's tenure. Team Defense shows how you can transform five individual players into a single, basket-denying unit. From the trademark floor slap to the half-court trap, this tape is a complete clinic on the techniques required to fulfill individual position responsibilities and the tactical adjustments required to stop offensive attacks of all kinds.

Also available in DVD format.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Duke Basketball Series: Team Defense DVD, November 27, 2010

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This review is from: Duke Basketball Series: Team Defense DVD (DVD)

The DVD, though in a packaged case, does not play on my DVD player. This isn't a problem with other DVD's that I have purchased through Amazon, so I am definitely disappointed with the product. Thumbs down.