Synopsis
This book is a comprehensive and systematic guide to coaching. It supplies a detailed explanation of every aspect of the game. Why this book is unique: This book presents a coherent, comprehensive and systematic scheme of lessons that work. These lessons not only work, but also yield the maximum improvement for each player. This book addresses and answers the most basic questions about teaching and learning basketball. This is a do book. Lessons comprise most of the book. Each one deals with action, not theory. This book is about the basics and only the basics. Player and coach start from the beginning. Emphasis is on the individual fundamentals, which are then woven into the team skills. Anyone can easily alter and combine these basic lessons to meet his or her needs. This book exposes many inappropriate sports mottos and ideas. This book redefines the fundamentals, then breaks them down into teachable skills. Each lesson teaches part of a skill, an entire skill, or several skills combined. Each lesson gives vital information: skills needed, skill analysis of each lesson, directions and setup for players, time needed, use of managers and assistants, troubleshooting teaching and learning, weekly practice, number of players, physical effort needed and more. This book supplies the know-how to successfully teach all players of all abilities. Learning takes place conspicuously during each practice session. Because of the simplicity and effectiveness of the lessons, players often use them to help each other.
Review
These two... guides [with The Basketball Player s Bible] offer a remarkably detailed, painstaking organized approach to teaching and mastering basketball skills....Goldstein breaks down basketball s many teachable skills (shooting, passing, dribbling, cutting, rebounding, etc.) into their component parts and supplies incrementally more difficult lessons for each task. The lessons themselves...are practical, well presented, and part of a unified whole. Directions are clear, and diagrams accompanying each lesson... are always decipherable.... The need for fundamentals is a rallying cry at every level of competition: these books deliver the goods. --Booklist
If you are looking for a guide to help you coach better, this is the one you re looking for. --The Healdton (OK) Herald
I don t often endorse books or products but a book came across my desk that I feel is of interest to any man or women interested in coaching basketball....The book is sensational!...I highly recommend the book to coaches at any level, from fourth and fifth grade through high school and college. --Oskaloosa (IA) Herald
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