You Can Run with Anyone


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Ever wish you had a fast breaking, high scoring basketball team that could excite your players and fans alike? One that strikes fear into the hearts of your opponents and leads to more victories each season? Now you can develop one with Coach Battenberg's: YOU CAN RUN WITH ANYONE. After studying under several of America's best fast break coaches, and perfecting his Fast Breaking System over 35 years of college and high school coaching, Battenberg shows you don't need tall, quick, or great athletes to have a successful fast break attack. It's what you emphasize and how you teach it that makes all the difference. Offering more than 60 DIAGRAMS and including 25 DRILLS to use on a rotating basis, this book shows you how to organize your practices, train your players, and plan for games so your team can truly RUN WITH ANYONE. Learn about the SECRET WEAPON that most fast break teams fail to use. The one that will give your team many more QUICK-STRIKE OPPORTUNITIES. Discover how to get your Bigs to run the court with relentless energy and find instant scoring opportunities around the basket. Develop new ways to get your players to PLAY HARD with Short Segment Practice Planning. And if you hate running your players in wind-sprints as much as they hate doing them, Coach Battenberg tells you how to condition your team without those boring running drills. HAVING PROBLEMS WITH FULL COURT PRESSURE? Opponents will think twice about pressing your team after you run through their defense with your new found "Quick Counter-Attack." You will discover Early Offense; Advanced Fast Break Techniques; and Specific Fundamental Training that will make your team play QUICKER and more EFFICIENT. It's everything you need for the SPEED GAME you always wanted or to improve the one you already have. Whether you coach youth, high school, or college level basketball players, this book has what you need to make your team FASTER, more EXCITING, and a WINNER.







Fast Break Basketball


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THE SECONDARY BREAK BASKETBALL PLAYBOOK


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THE SECONDARY BREAK PLAYBOOK In this book, you will learn everything that you need to run the secondary break with high efficiency and teach your team how to transition from their primary break to their secondary break seamlessly. Don’t give your opponents a chance to catch their breath. Teach your team to push the ball at every opportunity and wear the defense down. Teach your team how to take advantage of those early defensive mismatches from bad defensive rotations. When the fast break doesn’t produce an easy basket, teams have to have the ability to capitalize and flow directly into their secondary break seamlessly. This playbook has everything that you need, whether you run a numbered break, a 2 side fast break, or the drag series, and more. After reading this 495-page playbook, you will be able to choose from 6 different secondary break offenses to keep the pressure on the defense. Your team will learn to push the ball in transition and take advantage of teams that don’t get back on defense. For those times when the primary break doesn’t produce a basket, your team can easily flow right into the Carolina Break, the Rocket 2-Sided Break, 5 Wide Break, etcetera. Each offense comes with several quick hitters that you can choose from that can counter anything a defense might throw at you. If you are a coach who likes to push the pace and play with tempo, this book is a must-have within your coaching library! Features: 6 Diffеrеnt Sесоndаrу Brеаk Offenses еасh with numеrоuѕ counters Dоn't givе уоur орроnеnt a chance tо саtсh thеir brеаth. Tеасh your tеаm to рuѕh the ball at every орроrtunitу to wear thе defense dоwn Carolina Brеаk (135 рlауѕ) Rосkеt Brеаk 5 Widе Brеаk Point Brеаk Pistol Break Drag Series Sideline break plays to use off opponents free throws




The Secret Game


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Winner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing The true story of the game that never should have happened--and of a nation on the brink of monumental change In the fall of 1943, at the little-known North Carolina College for Negroes, Coach John McLendon was on the verge of changing basketball forever. A protégé of James Naismith, the game's inventor, McLendon taught his team to play the full-court press and run a fast break that no one could catch. His Eagles would become the highest-scoring college team in America--a basketball juggernaut that shattered its opponents by as many as sixty points per game. Yet his players faced danger whenever they traveled backcountry roads. Across town, at Duke University, the best basketball squad on campus wasn't the Blue Devils, but an all-white military team from the Duke medical school. Composed of former college stars from across the country, the team dismantled everyone they faced, including the Duke varsity. They were prepared to take on anyone--until an audacious invitation arrived, one that was years ahead of anything the South had ever seen before. What happened next wasn't on anyone's schedule. Based on years of research, The Secret Game is a story of courage and determination, and of an incredible, long-buried moment in the nation's sporting past. The riveting, true account of a remarkable season, it is the story of how a group of forgotten college basketball players, aided by a pair of refugees from Nazi Germany and a group of daring student activists, not only blazed a trail for a new kind of America, but helped create one of the most meaningful moments in basketball history.







Fine Tuning Your Fast Break


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Whether you run the famed Loyola Marymount fast break made famous by Paul Westhead, the Grinnell "system," the "Tiger Ball" break of Olivet Nazarene or just leave your fast break to chance, the concepts in Fine Tuning Your Fast Break: 75 Concepts To Improve Your Team's Fast Break Offense will improve your team's running game! The book is organized so each concept can be found easily. The concepts are grouped by areas of specificity such as concepts specifically for point guards, the entire team, etc. Detailed diagrams are included for concepts that benefit from a visual depiction to help clarify the concept. Just some of the topics covered include concepts on how to train your point guard to be more efficient, resulting in reduced turnovers, ways to convert turnovers into points, making certain every fast break opportunity is as efficient as possible and 7 Bonus Concepts on how to slow down the opponent's fast break attack. Coach Kevin Sivils shares his years of experience coaching the fast break and developing up tempo offensive attacks utilizing the concepts and principles described in this book. Winner of 8 Coach of the Year awards, as well as awards for excellence in teaching and Teacher of the Year, Coach Sivils has nearly 30 years of experience as a highly successful varsity basketball coach, college assistant and varsity assistant coach.




Coaching Fast Break Basketball


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Section headings: Shaping the fast break; Coaching fast break situations; Fast breaking after a missed field goal; Fast breaking following a made field goal; Fast breaking from the free throw line; Fast breaking against the various zone defences; Fast breaking from the various pressing defences; Drills to perfect the fast break.




Basketball Fast Break Drills


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This is the 6:th Basketball Drill book covering Fast Break Drills.