Basketball was originally designed to be a team game, but today's players are growing up in a culture that focuses on the individual. In Teamwork, Mike Huff calls coaches and athletes to return to basketball's essence, by focusing on The 7 Essentials of Teamwork: communication, leadership, humility, roles, team spirit, a winning attitude, and collective responsibility. The lessons in this book will enable coaches to teach life lessons that help players become winners on and off the court.

More than a Game covers the years that follow the one featured in the ESPN documentary series "The Last Dance."After leaving the Bulls at the end of the 1997-1998 season—the year featured in the new ESPN documentary series "The Last Dance"—Phil Jackson had one year off and started to write this book—together with his old friend, fellow player and coach, the basketball novelist Charley Rosen. Then Phil took the LA Lakers coaching job, Rosen followe...

The most outspoken and combative coach in NBA history—and one of the most successful, amassing more than 1,175 victories, the sixth best winning record ever—reflects on his life, his career, and his battles on and off the basketball court in this no-holds-barred memoir.A man of deep passion and intensity, George Karl earned his bad boy reputation while playing at the University of North Carolina, a rap that continued through the five years he spent with the San Antonio Spurs—and lo...

The Wisdom of Wooden is John Wooden’s final book, completed just weeks before his passing in June 2010. In it he shares his most treasured memories and never-before-seen photographs as he looks back on an extraordinary life on and off the court.Hailed by many as the greatest coach in the history of American sports, John Wooden is as famous for his personal philosophy as he is for his career achievements. He inspired, guided, and motivated generations of fa...

Give Your Basketball Practices a Shot in the Arm!Use one of the 50 drills in Coaching Basketball to:- Increase practice intensity!- Build great basketball habits in your players!- Emphasize the little details of the game!- Never have a stale, boring practice!- Teach your players to have focused, controlled intensity when they play!Eight time Coach of the Year Kevin Sivils shares 50 drills designed to inject intensity to any practice.

Coaching Youth Basketball is challenging in many ways for the adults who undertake the task. While many club and youth league coaches have a good understanding of how to play the game of basketball, these same coaches often struggle to find ways to teach the skills, tactics and strategies need to have success in the sport of basketball.201 Drills for Youth Basketball provides the solution to this challenge. Included in this 400+ page manual are drills for:--Man-to-Man Defen...

Why the 1-4 High?Why run all of your set plays, quick hitters or entry plays from a 1-4 high set? Good question.Here are the reasons this alignment is great for all set plays:Less is more. This one set keeps things simple for your players.It creates excellent spacing. Offense is all about good spacing.This alignment creates good scoring opportunities for every position.It is easy to create plays for any type of shot necessary from this alignm...

An unputdownable, must-have sports book for every LeBron James, Cleveland Cavaliers, and NBA fan.June 19, 2016: the greatest moment in Cleveland sports history, when the Cleveland Cavaliers won the NBA Finals and broke the Cleveland Curse. It was the triumph fans had been waiting fifty-two years for, and it wasn’t easy to get there—but thanks to LeBron James, an audacious plan to build a winning team, a couple of maverick GMs, and an incredible community of fans, i...

Game Strategy and Tactics for Basketball: Preparing to Win the Sideline Battles is both a how-to book and a guide for how to plan strategy and tactics for basketball for an entire season or an individual game.Coaches often focus on X's and O's and overlook how and when a particular offense or defense should be applied and used during a game. Game Strategy and Tactics for Basketball: Preparing to Win the Sideline Battles serves as a planning guide and a master checklist for all the ...

Derrick Rose is a collection of articles, interviews, and features that originally appeared in the Chicago Tribune, as written by the award-winning journalists who followed the Chicago Bulls superstar's yearlong saga of injury and recovery, and his short-lived return for the 2013–2014 season.Chicago's vibrant and discursive sports culture has perhaps never been more fully on display than during Derrick Rose's lost season. Following his gut-wrenching knee injury in...

Are you embarrassed by your basketball skills? Tired of missing those crucial shots? Wish you could steal the ball more often?Whether you want to (1) shoot more accurately, (2) play better defense, or (3) discover how to be a more powerful player, this book will get you there.Are you afraid you’re too short to ever succeed at basketball?You can play a great game, ev...

Every basketball team needs to capitalize on fast break opportunities, even teams that play at a slow and deliberate pace. As simple as a well executed fast break may appear, for teams and players to consistently execute the fast break and score on each "fast break chance" there are many items that need to be executed correctly.Coaching Basketball's Fast Break Attack includes concepts that will improve every team's primary fast break conversion rate, generate a consistent up tempo ...