Basketball

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Basketball

50.96 dh ~~79.96 dh~~

Basketball’s best and most comprehensive drill book is now bigger and better than ever! Youth Basketball Drills, Second Edition, contains 160 drills for mastering every essential skill. Authors Burrall and Patrick Paye have outlined drills and variations that cover the entire scope of the game in both offense and defense. The book shows you how, when, and why to use each drill. The progression of drills will help you develop your team from beginners to advanced players, skill by skill. The essentials of basketball offense and defense are addressed: • Shooting • Dribbling • Ballhandling • Passing • Cutting • Screening • Rebounding • Team offense • Team defense • Balance and agility • Stance and footwork When you’re coaching your players, it’s important to start out right. Youth Basketball Drills gives you the know-how and practice tools so you can teach your players the fundamentals they need in order to excel.

Basketball’s best and most comprehensive drill book is now bigger and better than ever! Youth Basketball Drills, Second Edition, contains 160 drills...

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Basketball

Coaching Youth Basketball, Fifth Edition

55.96 dh ~~70.42 dh~~

Written by the American Sport Education Program, in conjunction with expert coach Don Showalter of USA Basketball, Coaching Youth Basketball equips coaches to fulfill their coaching duties, run effective practices, and learn all they need to know about the fundamentals of coaching and developing young players.

Written by the American Sport Education Program, in conjunction with expert coach Don Showalter of USA Basketball, Coaching Youth Basketball equips coaches...

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Basketball

Basketball Coaching: How to Coach the Dribble Drive Motion Offense: Includes Basic and Advanced Concepts, Basketball Drills, Quick Hitters, and Secondary Breaks

52.00 dh ~~67.00 dh~~

Basketball coaching using an aggressive dribble drive motion! You will learn the Dribble Drive Motion Offense based on Vance Walberg’s concepts. Also, this offense is “positionless” like the style of the Golden State Warriors and adaptable to your personnel allowing a coach to decide where and how to attack an opponents. Win games while improving all of your players during competitive practices.We also break down the basic and advanced concepts of this offense including how to teach it, step by step, using game like drills and breakdown teaching concepts. Here is a Preview of What You’ll Learn… •Why you should use this offense with your team•The mindset and philosophy to be successful in this system•How to teach the DDM offense step by step•Quick hitters to counter to what the defense may try to do•Specific plays you choose to adjust this offense to your team•What are the best practice drills to install...

Basketball coaching using an aggressive dribble drive motion! You will learn the Dribble Drive Motion Offense based on Vance Walberg’s concepts....

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Basketball

Basketball Coaching: A Multiple Option System Based on Bill Self and the Kansas Jayhawks: Includes high/low, ball screen, press break, breakdown drills and counters

51.00 dh ~~66.00 dh~~

Basketball coaching made easy! You will learn the Multiple Option Offense based on Bill Self and the Kansas Jayhawks. Also, this offense is adaptable to your personnel and can either focus on a high/low or ball screen attack. We also include counters to the basic motions that will help you take advantage of the strengths of your players and a “cheat sheet” with in-game coaching adjustments. Here is a Preview of What You’ll Learn… •high/low offense•ball screen offense•universal press break•breakdown drills•counters•in-game “cheat sheet”If you want a simple, yet effective offense to develop high quality shots, then this book is for you. It will reveal many of the counters and adjustments a coach can make during a game to take control at the right moment. This book will give you an offense that has proven itself time and time again as well as the teaching methods to help your players. Guaranteed.

Basketball coaching made easy! You will learn the Multiple Option Offense based on Bill Self and the Kansas Jayhawks. Also, this...

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Basketball

Thinking Basketball

55.00 dh ~~71.96 dh~~

Are top scorers really the most valuable players? Are games decided in the final few minutes? Does the team with the best player usually win?Thinking Basketball challenges a number of common beliefs about the game by taking a deep dive into the patterns and history of the NBA. Explore how certain myths arose while using our own cognition as a window into the game's popular narratives.New basketball concepts are introduced, such as power plays, portability and why the best player shouldn't always shoot. Discover how the box score can be misleading, why "closers" are overrated and how the outcome of a game fundamentally alters our memory.Behavioral economics, traffic paradoxes and other metaphors highlight this thought-provoking insight into the NBA and our own thinking. A must-read for any basketball fan -- you'll never view the sport, and maybe the world, the same again.

Are top scorers really the most valuable players? Are games decided in the final few minutes? Does the team with...

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Basketball

The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy

60.00 dh ~~82.96 dh~~

The NBA according to The Sports GuyForeword by Malcolm Gladwell Newly updated with fresh takes on LeBron, Kobe, the Celtics & more*Bill Simmons, the wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining basketball addict known to millions as ESPN.com’s The Sports Guy, has written the definitive book on the past, present, and future of the NBA. From the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to the one about which team was truly the best of all time, Simmons opens—and then closes, once and for all—every major pro basketball debate. Then he takes it further by completely reevaluating not only how NBA Hall of Fame inductees should be chosen but how the institution must be reshaped from the ground up, the result being the Pyramid: Simmons’s one-of-a-kind five-level shrine to the ninety-six greatest players in the history of pro basketball. And ultimately he takes fans to the...

The NBA according to The Sports GuyForeword by Malcolm Gladwell Newly updated with fresh takes on LeBron, Kobe, the Celtics &...

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Basketball

Basketball: A Love Story

50.00 dh ~~75.20 dh~~

Inspired by a major ESPN film series, this is an extraordinary oral history of basketball—its eye-opening untold history, its profound deeper meaning, its transformative influence on the world—as told through an unprecedented series of candid conversations with the game’s ultimate icons. This is the greatest love story never told. It has passion and heartbreak, triumph and betrayal. It is deeply intimate yet crosses oceans, upends lives and changes nations. This is the true story of basketball. It is the story of a Canadian invention that took over America, and the world. Of a supposed “white man’s sport” that became a way for people of color, women, and immigrants to claim a new place in society. Of a game that demands everything of those who love it, yet gives so much back in return. To tell this story, acclaimed journalists Jackie MacMullan, Rafe Bartholomew and Dan Klores embarked on a groundbreaking mission to interview...

Inspired by a major ESPN film series, this is an extraordinary oral history of basketball—its eye-opening untold history, its profound...

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Basketball

Elevated: The Global Rise of the N.B.A

56.96 dh ~~72.96 dh~~

Howard Beck. Marc Stein. Jonathan Abrams. Chris Broussard. Ira Berkow. George Vecsey. Mike Wise. Selena Roberts. Lee Jenkins. All have graced the pages of The New York Times, entertaining readers with their probing coverage of the N.B.A.: a stage on which spectacular athletes perform against a backdrop of continuous social change. Now, their work and more is collected in a new volume, edited and annotated by Hall of Fame honoree Harvey Araton, tracing basketball's sustained boom from Magic and Bird to the present.Elevated provides a courtside seat to four decades of professional basketball. Both the iconic moments and those quieter, but no less meaningful times in between are here, from Wise riding around Los Angeles with a young Kobe Bryant on the eve of his first All-Star Game, to Stein declaring Giannis Antetokounmpo's "unspeakable greatness" to the world in a riveting profile. Rather than simply preserving the past, Elevated reexamines and further illuminates hoops...

Howard Beck. Marc Stein. Jonathan Abrams. Chris Broussard. Ira Berkow. George Vecsey. Mike Wise. Selena Roberts. Lee Jenkins. All have...

SprawlBall: A Visual Tour of the New Era of the NBA

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Basketball

SprawlBall: A Visual Tour of the New Era of the NBA

43.96 dh ~~59.96 dh~~

“Beautifully illustrated and sharply written, SprawlBall is both a celebration and a critique of the 3-point shot. If you want to understand how the modern NBA came to be, you’ll need to read this book.”—Nate Silver, editor of fivethirtyeight.comFrom the leading expert in the exploding field of basketball analytics, a stunning infographic decoding of the modern NBA: who shoots where, and how.The field of basketball analytics has leaped to overdrive thanks to Kirk Goldsberry, whose visual maps of players, teams, and positions have helped teams understand who really is the most valuable player at any position. SprawlBall combines stunning visuals, in-depth analysis, fun, behind-the-scenes stories and gee-whiz facts to chart a modern revolution. From the introduction of the 3-point line to today, the game has changed drastically . . .Now, players like Steph Curry and Draymond Green are leading the charge. In chapters like “The Geography of the NBA,” “The Interior Minister (Lebron James),” “The Evolution...

“Beautifully illustrated and sharply written, SprawlBall is both a celebration and a critique of the 3-point shot. If you want to understand...

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Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding... Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis

52.96 dh ~~77.50 dh~~

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, THE ECONOMIST AND DEADSPINAward-winning journalist Sam Anderson’s long-awaited debut is a brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative of Oklahoma City—a great American story of civics, basketball, and destiny.Oklahoma City was born from chaos. It was founded in a bizarre but momentous “Land Run” in 1889, when thousands of people lined up along the borders of Oklahoma Territory and rushed in at noon to stake their claims. Since then, it has been a city torn between the wild energy that drives its outsized ambitions, and the forces of order that seek sustainable progress. Nowhere was this dynamic better realized than in the drama of the Oklahoma City Thunder basketball team’s 2012-13 season, when the Thunder’s brilliant general manager, Sam Presti, ignited a firestorm by trading future superstar James Harden just days before the first game. Presti’s all-in gamble on “the Process”—the patient, methodical...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, THE ECONOMIST AND DEADSPINAward-winning journalist Sam Anderson’s long-awaited debut...

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