Basketball, Multiple Offense and Defense


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Explains how coaches can help their players develop the right mental attitude, and describes a variety of offensive and defensive plays.




Basketball


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Basketball


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Basketball


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The Basketball Coaches' Complete Guide to the Multiple Match-up Zone Defense


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Thoroughly explains and examines each aspect of the multiple match-up zone defense. Explores the advantages of the multiple match-up zone defense, and covers the specific defensive alignments and general placement of defensive personnel, terminology of the defense, terminology of the opponents offensive schemes, positioning/location and required stances used by each player, slides, player box-out responsibilities, stunts, variations of defensive alignments/sets, methods to defend specific offensive actions, breakdown drills, and more. Contains over 170 diagrams and illustrations.




Winning Defense


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The key to success for any basketball team is defense, and the heart of most successful defensive systems is half-court man-to-man defense. "Winning Defense" is the ultimate book on this crucial aspect of the game. Much more than a basic primer, this advanced guide explores the intricacies of transition and half-court defense that give winning teams their edge. It's all here: trapping, switching, cutters, screeners, post defense, and defending two- and three-man exercises. Out-of-bound and end-of-game situations. Drills to enhance individual and team technique. A section on rebounding, the finishing touch to any successful defensive effort, and a unique approach to transition defense. Since it's publication in 1993, "Winning Defense" has become the bible of half-court man-to-man defense for serious and successful coaches and players everywhere! Del Harris is one of basketball's most respected, honored, and experienced teachers. He began his career as an elementary coach in Johnson City, Tennessee, and progressed through the high school, college, international, and professional ranks--enjoying great success at each stop. Harris took the NBA's Houston Rockets, who had finished the regular season with a winning percentage below .500 to the finals of the NBA playoffs in 1981 in one of the great Cinderella stories in league history. He also led the Milwaukee Bucks to the playoffs in each of his four seasons as head coach. As the head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, he nearly duplicated his 1981 miracle season in 1995, leading a team expected to go nowhere to the playoffs, where they lost in a thrilling six-game Western Conference semifinal series to San Antonio. As a result, he was named1994-95 NBA Coach of the Year. A noted speaker and clinician, Harris has written two previous basketball books and a sports novel for young readers. His is a member of the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame.




THE 3-OUT 2-IN BASKETBALL OFFENSE (KANSAS) PLAYBOOK


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THE 3-OUT 2-IN OFFENSE (KANSAS) PLAYBOOK If you are a coach that has a dominant post player and needs to find some new ways to get them more touches in the post while also making it difficult for the defense to help and double team them, then this is your book! The 3 Out 2 In Kansas offense is a High/Low offense that provides great spacing, which makes it extremely difficult for the defense to defend against, but it’s not just for your post players. We also teach you the shot, dump, and reverse technique that will then also lead to some easy scoring opportunities for your perimeter players. Learn to run the 3-Out 2-In motion offense like a well-oiled machine with the help of this 452-page playbook. This offense was a staple of Bill Self’s early Illinois and Kansas teams. The whole idea of the 3 Out 2 In motion offense is to get the ball inside and take advantage of those dominant post players while creating some easy scoring opportunities for them. If your best players are post players, then the 3-Out 2-In Motion Offense may be the answer to your offensive needs. This offense is adaptable to your personnel and also includes counters that will help you take advantage of the strengths of your players and team. Begin with the basics of the 3-Out 2-In High/Low offense and then give defenses fits with choosing from 3 different continuity offenses that you can run out of it to confuse the defense. We then provide you with 19 different entry play options that have a variety of scoring opportunities before flowing back into one of our continuity offenses. In addition, there are 18 different counter plays and several quick hitters that can also help you defeat anything a defense might throw at you. Learn all the adjustments a coach can make during a game to make the right call at the perfect moment. Within this playbook, you’ll also receive over 400 pages of practice drills that will help you break the entire offense down with easy teaching concepts. You’ll also get a look at some basic drills and a few different ideas that can help you and your team defend against the High/Low offense. This is a must-have book in any coach's library! Learn how to take advantage of your dominant post players and dominate your opponents in the post today! Features: 452 Pages 3 continuity offenses 19 different entry plays with multiple options before getting back into your continuity offense 18 Quick hitters to counter what the defense may try to do Over 400 pages of practice & breakdown drills to help breakdown your offense Learn how to defend against the high/low offense




Game Strategies and Tactics for Basketball


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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 possible situations that a coach will face during a season. The book includes both traditional and some "out-of-the-box" strategies to the common situations that coaches face and provides both the pros and the cons of the approaches described. It is not the author's intention to tell each coach exactly what to do, but to serve as a guide in the decision making process. About the author: A 24 year veteran of the coaching profession, with twenty-two of those years spent as a varsity head coach, Coach Kevin Sivils amassed 464 wins and his teams earned berths in the state playoffs 19 out of 22 seasons with his teams advancing to the state semi-finals three times. An eight time Coach of the Year Award winner, Coach Sivils has traveled as far as the Central African Republic to conduct coaching clinics. Coach Sivils first coaching stint was as an assistant coach for his college alma mater, Greenville College, located in Greenville, Illinois. His teams were always known for their discipline, intense effort, execution of fundamentals, and team play. Coach Sivils is also the owner of KCS Basketball Enterprises, LLC, an enterprise focused on providing coaches with information to improve their knowledge of the game of basketball and their ability to coach. "If you have been looking for a rigorously thorough handbook on basketball tactics and strategy, you have found it " Coach Doug Porter - Head Women's Coach, Olivet Nazarene University National Scoring leaders: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference Champions: 2000, 2005, 2007 "His thought provoking approach makes for an easy read and will definitely stimulate thought and, most likely, change the way you go about coaching " Rusty Rogers - Two time NAIA Division II Women's National Championship Coach and Two time NAIA National Coach of the Year "Coach Sivils clearly brings his experience in the game of basketball to his writing. He is a great teacher who acquired great gifts over the years and it's great he wants to share those gifts with other coaches." Bill Reidy - Long time successful high school and AAU coach




Pick & Roll (PNR) BASKETBALL PLAYBOOK


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PNR PLAYBOOK The pick and roll is the most utilized play in basketball at all levels of the game. A great PNR can create great penetration opportunities and put the defense in tough to defend situations. The PNR can also help to create some mismatch opportunities. You will learn how to run PNR’s that have great spacing along with numerous plays with multiple options to counter the defense no matter how they decide to play you. Learn how to counter and neutralize the bottom low weak side tag defenders as well as take advantage of the 2 on 1 situations out of the PNR. In this playbook, we provide you with 2 different PNR continuity offenses that you can run full with adjustments. You will also receive 3 different PNR series that you can choose from that include drag screens, step up screens, side screens, Ram screens, Spain screens, and more. We give you a variety of PNR’s from multiple locations on the floor. In addition, we also provide you with 4 different specific actions that can help to get your wing players into some surprise PNR opportunities through various actions such as; loop actions, ram actions, ghost actions, etcetera. Also, we couldn’t just give you all of the offense and not teach you or show you how we like to defend against the PNR. We give you numerous different PNR coverages as well as over 50 different drills you can use to teach your players and team how you want to defend the PNR from various positions on the floor. Want to create advantages for your offense? Learn how to make one defender have to guard against two players, which just never works out well for the defense. It’s all in this beautiful playbook. Pick up the PNR playbook today and learn how to carve up opposing defenses! Features: 624 Pages 2 PNR Continuity Offenses with multiple counters 3 PNR Series Pressure Release PNR Plays Over 50 Drills teaching you how to defend against the PNR 30 “Tag Man” drills Learn how to create an advantage for the offense by making one defender have to guard against two players RAM PNR’s Double Drags Wing PNR’s & decoy PNR’s