Basketball's Half-Court Offense


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A must for any coach who wants to thoroughly understand the half-court offense, its potential, and the defensive weaknesses it exploits.




John Wooden's UCLA Offense


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Wooden's first-ever instructional basketball book and DVD package provides anunprecedented inside look at the offensive system of this basketball coachinglegend.




Teach'n Beginning Offensive Basketball Drills, Plays, and Games Free Flow Handbook


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This is a practical Handbook for youth Basketball coaches, and parents. It has over 110 individual pictures and illustration variations to look at. All the skill activities and drills are numbered for easy reference between coaches and parents. Complete with diagram, illustration, and explanation for each one. It covers all the fundamentals you will need to get started in offensive youth basketball. It also has training games to play, sample practice schedules, strategies to use. and many plays to run to get your team started.




THE BLOCKER/MOVER BASKETBALL OFFENSE PLAYBOOK


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THE BLOCKER/MOVER OFFENSE PLAYBOOK The Blocker Mover offense was developed by Dick Bennett while at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay and then Washington State University. The Blocker/Mover offense later became more popularized recently by his son, head coach Tony Bennett while at the University of Virginia as they won a national championship primarily using the Blocker/Mover offense. The Blocker/Mover offense is a motion offense that has extensive screening and cutting that has players reading and reacting to how the defense is playing them. Players have defined roles; some are "blockers," and some are "movers." The Movers are primarily scorers. They play all over the court, from side to side and top to bottom. A mover looks for a "blocker" to get a screen, then uses the screen correctly, reads the defense and makes the right cut. The Blockers are smart team players who embrace their primary responsibility of setting good screens for movers. After screening, a blocker may set another screen, or in reading the defense, may shape up to the ball or slip the screen for a pass inside and a lay-up. You will learn all of the screener and mover concepts and details within our Blocker/Mover Playbook. In this book, you get 361 pages full of in-depth break downs of the Blocker/Mover offense that has transformed the Virginia program into a national powerhouse. You’ll get 2 different continuity motion offenses that you can run complete with 11 different entry plays to help disguise your actions to the defense. We also provide you with over 40 quick hitters that you can run to counter against those common defensive adjustments. Now, you can learn all of the ins and outs, complete with everything that you could ever need to excel at the Blocker/Mover offense. Features: 361 Pages Over 40 Quick hitters to counter what the defense may try to do 11 different entry plays to disguise your actions 2 Continuity Motion Offenses We break everything down to screening rules, post player rules, ball rules, personnel, and alignments




THE 5-WIDE CONTINUITY OFFENSE BASKETBALL PLAYBOOK


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THE 5-WIDE CONTINUITY OFFENSE PLAYBOOK The 5-Wide Offense is more prevalent in today’s game more so than ever before. The 5-Wide motion offense is an excellent offense for basketball teams at all levels, but it’s especially great for youth basketball teams as it teaches players how to play basketball. This offense can also be an excellent option for those teams that are either undersized or that might have less than ideal talent. You can also use this offense to wear down the defense or as a delayed set to run time off the clock. The 5-Wide Offense is a position less offense that relies on players spacing the floor to stretch the defense. The 5 Wide Offense utilizes the skills of all five players on the floor and emphasizes all of the fundamentals of passing, screening, and cutting to create various scoring opportunities. It is a concise, simple system that any coach can implement to improve their offense. This offense has basic rules that help players to make quick decisions based on reads that are predicated on how the defense is playing them. In this book, you will receive 62 various game-like breakdown drills that will help you and your players to grasp the basic concepts of the offense quickly. With the help of the 5-Wide Offensive playbook, your team can have this offense mastered in no time. You will learn the basic 5-Wide motion along with the basic rules of the continuity offense. In addition, there are also 20 different secondary break plays included to get your team to transition right into your offense from your secondary break seamlessly. This offense is positionless and easily adaptable to your personnel allowing a coach to decide where and how to attack against opponents. To counter any defensive adjustments, you’ll also find 65 different counter plays that you can use from 6 different entry points that show you the adjustments a coach can make during a game to make the right call at the perfect moment. Learn how to play the modern position-less basketball of today with the 5-Wide Offense. Features: 242 Pages 12 basic continuity motion actions 6 entry play options 20 secondary break plays 62 breakdown drills 65 counters from 6 different entry points and actions




The Only Dance in Iowa


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Iowa six-player girls' basketball was the most successful sporting activity for girls in American history, at its zenith involving more than 70 percent of the girls in the state. The state tournament was so popular-regularly drawing fifteen thousand fans, more than the boys' tourney-that officials declined a lucrative broadcasting offer from ABC's Wide World of Sports rather than forfeit the Iowa Girls' High School Athletic Union's control of the game. The Only Dance in Iowa chronicles the one-hundred-year history of this Iowa tradition, long a symbol of the state's independence and the people's rural pride. Max McElwain shows how, well before the passage of Title IX in 1972, Iowa six-player girls' basketball was, as Sports Illustrated gushed, "a utopia for girls' athletics." He also demonstrates how, ironically enough, the fallout from Title IX in many ways led to six-girl basketball's demise. Through interviews, careful ethnography, and detailed historical analysis, McElwain exposes the intricate political, sociological, and historical dynamics of this cultural phenomenon. His book reveals how six-girl basketball, flourishing with the passionate support of Iowa's small towns, school districts, and media, came to represent the state's strong traditional beliefs and the public school system's determination to maintain its identity in the face of national educational trends. The Only Dance in Iowa is as much a study of this disappearing culture as of the game it claimed as its own. Max McElwain, an assistant professor of communication arts at Wayne State College, is a former sportswriter for several Midwestern newspapers.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing Basketball


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Whether watching from a courtside seat or from the luxury of a living room couch, sports fans want to know exactly what's going on in between those two hoops-from what the players are thinking, to why fouls are called, to anticipating what the players are going to do before they actually do it. And there is no better man to explain the ins and outs of America's hottest sport than the Knicks' former star guard, Walt Frazier. In his inimitable voice and style, "Clyde" turns it on as he describes the basics basketball in simple terms anyone can understand, and clues readers into what makes stars such as Michael Jordan so invincible. Includes exciting action photos and a wealth of "Clyde's Chalk Talk," "Clyde's Record Book," and "Clyde's Tips" sidebars.




101 Defensive Basketball Drills


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101 Defensive Basketball Drills presents 101 drills that are designed for coaches at any level who are interested in developing defensive-minded teams.




Basketballs and Babysteps


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Angie and Margaret are best friends and inseparable. Both love the game of basketball. They share a dream of someday winning the State Championship. But their dream turns into a nightmare when one of the girls is tragically struck by a car. This coming-of-age novel parallels two lives: one girl maturing into a young woman and talented basketball player; the other, simply trying to hang onto her very life.Basketballs and Babysteps explores the trials of growing into adulthood, the thrills of achievement and the pains of misfortune.




Berkley Basketball - A Complete Practice Program


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A complete season's worth of practices featuring drills and thirty practice plans as well as supplemental material including player homework assignments and scouting templates. A playbook includes offenses versus man to man and zone defenses, a press offense, BLOB and SLOB plays, and specials, well organized in an easy-to-implement plan for grades 6 through 9. Start with the first day of practice and follow along with a warm up, coach's notes, a schedule of activities, and a graduated program designed to get your team ready for games as well as developing their passing, catching, ball handling, full court, defense, rebounding and shooting fundamentals. Practices are set up in the proven formula of whole-part-whole instruction: start with 5 on 5, break down into individual skill instruction, and finish with improved 5 on 5 play.