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MJ vs. KB? Here it is from the man who would know best.
"... Michael was more charismatic and gregarious than Kobe. He loved hanging out with his teammates and security guards, playing cards,
smoking cigars, and joking around,
Kobe is different. He was reserved as a teenager, in part because he was younger than the other
players and hadn't developed strong social
skills in college.
When Kobe first joined the Lakers, he avoided fraternizing with his teammates. But his inclination to keep to himself
shifted as he grew older. Increasingly, Kobe put more energy into getting to know the other players, especially when the team was on the road.
Michael was a tougher, more intimidating defender. He could break through virtually any screen and shut down almost any player with his
intense, laser-focused style of defense," said Jackson, who coached Jordan to six championships and Bryant to five.
Kobe has learned a lot from studying Michael's tricks, and we often used him as our secret weapon on defense when we needed to turn the
direction of a game. In general, Kobe tends to rely more heavily on his flexibility and craftiness, but he takes a lot of gambles on defense
and sometimes pays the price. ......
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Fine Tuning Your Team's Position Play by Kevin Sivils
Monday, 22 April 2013
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Fine Tuning Your Team's Position Play:
Make Your Team Better
by Making Your Players Better
101 Concepts to Improve Your Point Guards,
Perimeter and Post Players
by Kevin Sivils
The Fine Tuning series of books are designed to focus on improving a system of play. These are not books designed to describe a given system, but rather are concepts, tactics
and strategies that can improve any existing system or be the basis for a
system you, the coach, create. These practical ideas can be taken and installed and produce results right away. They are the "little things" the great teams do that make the difference.
Topics to be covered include fast break offense, man-to-man defense, zone attack offense and integrating the three-point shot effectively. Kevin Sivils
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There is only one writer on the planet who possesses enough basketball knowledge and passion to write the definitive book on the NBA... more to the point, he's the only
one crazy enough to try to pull it off...
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, once and for all-every major pro basketball debate.
Bill Simmons, the from-the-womb hoops addict known to millions as ESPN.com's Sports Guy, is that writer. And The Book of Basketball is that book.
Nowhere in the roundball universe will you find another single volume that covers as much in such depth as this wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining look at the past, present, and future of pro basketball.
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 heart of it all, as he uses a conversation with one NBA great to uncover that coveted thing: The Secret of Basketball.
Comprehensive, authoritative, controversial, hilarious, and impossible to put down (even for Celtic-haters), The Book of Basketball offers every hardwood fan a courtside seat beside the game's finest, funniest, and fiercest chronicler.
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Wisdom From The Hardwood By Jerry Walls
With a foreword written by Bob Knight, one of college basketball’s most successful coaches, a new book takes an in-depth look at the psychology of the game as it involves
competition, winning, and excellence. Wisdom from the Hardwood, by Jerry L. Walls, explains why for some fans, basketball is far more than a game–it is virtually a religious
experience. “For many people the game easily resonates with some of the deepest and most meaningful experiences of life,” says Walls.
Walls’ focus in the book is not the game itself but what can be taken from it and applied to life. “He uses the thoughts and actions of players and coaches to show how one can
develop a winning attitude toward life,” says Knight. The book also demonstrates how people can deal with obstacles and overcome disappointments. Walls “does a terrific job” in
showing that basketball can teach us a great deal “relative to success in our own lives,” Knight adds.
“Many great basketball players and coaches are what I would call natural philosophers,” Walls writes. “Their accomplishments on the hardwood have instilled in them an instinctive
understanding of the nature of excellence and what it takes to achieve it.”
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Wade wrote his book after being awarded custody of his two boys in March 2011.
He ultimately wanted it to showcase the regular life of the eight-time NBA all-star.
Part of the amazing reaction he received for the book was from other fathers who congratulated him for putting his children first during his high-profile divorce.
"Obviously anyone who's a father, it's one of the most special things in life, and one of the most purest relationships and purest things that you have in life.
You know, I enjoy being one of the guys with my boys, but I also enjoy being a leader and being able to lead them and help mold the way that they think, and hopefully some of
the things that they're going to do." Dwyane Wade
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Coaching Basketball: Basketball Intensity Drills by Kevin Sivils
Monday, 04 March 2013
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Coaching Basketball:
50 Two Minute Intensity Drills
for Daily Basketball Practice
to Build Sound Basketball Habits
by Kevin Sivils
A native of Louisiana, Kevin Sivils has been a coach and teacher for 25 years.
In the course of his coaching career, he has been a head coach for 22 seasons while winning
464 career wins and garnering 8 Coach of the Year awards.
A current resident of the state of Texas, Coach Sivils has also worked extensively in athletic administration
and athletic event promotion.
A 25 year veteran of the coaching profession, with twenty-two of those years spent as a varsity head coach, Coach Kevin Sivils amassed 464 wins while averaging just over
20 wins a season.
His teams earned berths in the state play-offs 19 out of 22 seasons with three of Coach Sivils teams advancing to the state semi-finals. 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.
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Why is it so hard to get teams to perform up to their potential?
How can people work more effectively together on teams?
Why does conflict happen even when intentions are
aligned--and is that conflict harmful, or can it actually help the group dynamic?
Key business dilemmas such as these, according to Cambridge University professor Mark de Rond,
mimic many of the issues faced on sports teams. Yet the sports metaphors commonly used in business are often trite and superficial comparisons that actually mask the substantial
lessons that managers can learn from the world of high performance athletics.
At once readable and teachable,
'There Is an I in Team' will give managers an understanding of the issues that permeate high performance teams and help them apply those insights
to their own work--giving both manager and team the competitive edge.
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"... I decided to write this book as a way to give something back. What I did not want to do in writing it, however, is make it about me.
Instead, I wanted to make it about what I have learned but couched in lessons from others who are far more recognizable.
To be sure, as we go through life, we will all be faced with challenges in our personal and
professional lives.
Unfortunately, for many of us, the only way we will learn to deal with the situation is to progress through it. If the desire to lead pulses through your veins
at all, then I encourage you to become a student of the great leaders that surround you. Do not wait and attempt to muddle your way through a career fraught with difficult situations. ..." Nick Corso
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This new edition shows coaches how to prepare for games, teach skills, correct mistakes, encourage players and provide a safe playing environment.
Incorporating a player-centric model which places greater emphasis on the development of players than on coaches: preparing for and conducting efficient, age-specific practices
and providing a safe playing environment
This book also offers key communication and teaching concepts and hands-on advice to assist coaches in all phases of player development including individual skills, team tactics
and understanding and enjoyment of the game.
It features more skills and and includes many new photographs and diagrams to facilitate coaches’ understanding of the game-like drills. It also offers dynamic and effective learning
tools for players to hone their skills and deepen their understanding of the game.
Coaching Youth Basketball equips coaches to provide a rewarding season for players as they continue to develop their skills and most importantly experience fun through this development.
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Mike Krzyzewski and Rick Pitino attest to the benefits college basketball coaches glean from the pro level.
Now college and high school coaches can get advice from top NBA coaches in the NBA Coaches Association’s upcoming NBA
Coaches Playbook.
The first of its kind, the playbook offers a collection of proven methods and strategies from the NBA’s elite coaches on maximizing player and team performance.
“Winning basketball was and still is a matter of fundamentals and details, but you also need a tough attitude in order to reach the top,” says Basketball Hall of Fame coach Phil Jackson.
In NBA Coaches Playbook, 28 successful coaches offer more than 450 Xs-and-Os diagrams and expertise, including tips from Phil Jackson on the fast break, Tex Winter on the triangle offense, and Pete Carril and Eddie Jordan on the Princeton offense.
Each chapter offers technical teaching points, practice drills, tactical nuances, or game-management tools that provide a coaching edge. The book’s “special plays” section
should be especially popular among coaches seeking the out-of-bounds and last-second plays that work when the game is on the line.
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You volunteered to coach the basketball team, but are you really ready ?
How will you teach the fundamental skills, run effective practices, and harness the energy of your young team ?
Fear not: Survival
Guide for Coaching Youth Basketball has the answers.
In Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Basketball, longtime coaches Keith Miniscalco and Greg Kot share their experience and provide
advice you can rely on from first practice to final shot.
From evaluating players' skills and establishing realistic goals to
in-game coaching tips, it's all here--the drills, the plays, the fun. ...
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The Dribble Drive Motion Offense - or Princeton on steroids as University of Kentucky coach John Calapari called it - was invented by coach Vance Walberg only a few years ago.
There isn't a lot of information about it out there, but this book is an instruction manual in the Dribble Drive Offense, there to fill the void.
This manual deals with the strengths and weaknesses of the Dribble Drive, the fundamentals needed to run the offense, the basics needed to
run it, how to enter into it,
off the break or from a half court set, the reads and X's and O's and how to teach it.
The book contains drills, including the best of Vance Walberg's and John Calipari's drills.
Also it contains special plays and quick hitters, playing against a sagging defence, two oone offences, and a complimentary screening type offence.
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The Pro Basketball Prospectus series returns for a fourth season to preview the 2012-13 NBA campaign.
Basketball Prospectus has been at the cutting edge of the league's statistical revolution, exploring how teams win and why as well as integrating plenty of old-fashioned tape
and first-hand observation to analyze players and teams.
Now in its third year, Pro Basketball Prospectus has been called "insistently readable" and "consistently eye-opening" by FreeDarko.
"... For our Pro Basketball Prospectus team, this year's timetable is a little more manageable than last winter's post-lockout sprint to incorporate a summer's worth of roster changes
and complete the book. Expect the usual features that make the Pro Basketball Prospectus series a must for readers ! ..." Bradford Doolittle and Kevin Pelton
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Shulman and Bowen celebrate the benefits of collegiate sports, while identifying the subtle ways in which athletic intensification can pull even prestigious institutions from
their missions.
By examining how athletes and other graduates view the game of life - and how colleges play a role
in shaping society's view of what its rules should be - Shulman and Bowen go far beyond sports. They tell us about higher education today: the ways in which colleges set policies, reinforce or neglect their core mission, and send signals about what matters.
“... This is an excellent addition to the sports-education literature and will have a broad appeal. The set of issues Shulman and Bowen lay out are important and timely. That they base their conclusions on solid empirical work from an excellent database and provide both contemporary and longitudinal perspectives are added bonuses. ..."
Allen Sanderson, University of Chicago
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Hot Hand: The Statistics Behind Sports' Greatest Streaks
Tuesday, 26 June 2012
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Hot Hand: The Statistics Behind Sports' Greatest Streaks by Alan Reifman
Why streaks happen and why they matter ?
Alan Reifman divulges the psychological and physical science behind streaks, analyzes the odds of streaks and why they happen
and studies famous streaks, the players behind them, and their long-term effects
'Hot Hand' also analyzes famous (and some not so famous) athletes and teams who have done things
in streaks -- win games, lose games, make baskets, get hits in baseball, etc.
"... Should coaches stay with the player who's 'in a zone'? Should teammates feed the ball to the one who's 'on fire'? Should athletes play with more confidence after making shots or
getting hits, and with depleted confidence if not? Alan Reifman’s compelling answers are both persuasive and surprising, and will enable any coach, player, or fan to think smarter. ..." David G. Myers, professor of psychology, Hope College, and author of
Intuition: Its Powers and Perils
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“... This is a rare book, because Jim is able to weave together invaluable skills instruction with a very personal and informative story about his relationships with teammates,
coaches, and most importantly his family.
Jim’s father, as both a veteran and a person with disabilities, clearly served as an exemplar for Jim
with regard to how he approached basketball – and how he approached life.
This is clearly illustrated by the fact that Jim has committed to leverage the proceeds from sales of this book to improve the lives
of this generation of veterans with disabilities. On so many levels, Jim’s book is powerfully positioned to impart lessons about basketball and life that are meaningful and
timeless. ...” Mike Haynie, PhD – Executive Director, Institute for Veterans and Military Families, Syracuse University
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Fatherhood: Rising to the Ultimate Challenge. Chiles & Thomas
Tuesday, 15 May 2012
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Fatherhood: Rising to the Ultimate Challenge By Nick Chiles and Etan Thomas
NBA player, poet, children's advocate, and devoted dad Thomas speaks about the importance of children.
He brings together revered professional athletes and coaches, actors and
artists, politicians and faith leaders to weigh in on the importance of being a father in our nation.
This new book by NBA veteran Etan Thomas and Nick Chiles, isn't just about the beauty of being a dad. The writers also attack head-on fatherless in our community. Check out this
heartbreaking story from Derrick Coleman, who, in his 40, still longs to meet his father and vows never to be the deadbeat, invisible father his dad was in his life.
"... It’s just like that old saying, the man with no shoes didn’t know how good he had it until he saw the man with no feet. I want readers to come away from this book believing
that you can be whatever you want to be even if you come from a situation that isn’t favorable. If you don’t have a father in your home or things are tough, you can still choose to
make the right decisions that are beneficial to your entire life. Break the cycle. These are men who have done just that. President Obama came from a single-parent household.
He didn’t know his father. And now he is the President of the United States. If he can do that, anything is possible. You don’t have to be a statistic. ..." Etan Thomas
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Straightening the Bell Curve: Research on Race & Stereotypes
Tuesday, 08 May 2012
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Straightening the Bell Curve: How Stereotypes about Black Masculinity Drive Research on Race and Intelligence
By Constance Hilliard
Aims to change forever the way American society sees research purporting to identify racial differences in cognition and will alter irrevocably the way we view individuals who
insist on believing such pseudo-scientific conclusions.
This book reveals the hidden agenda behind scientific research on racial differences in intelligence.
Constance Hilliard’s compelling argument aims to change forever the way American society sees research purporting to identify racial differences in cognition and will alter
irrevocably the way we view individuals who insist on believing such pseudo-scientific conclusions. This book detonates a debate that will weaken the last barriers standing
between America’s fractured racial past and its future promise.
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You Let Some Girl Beat You?: The Story of Ann Meyers Drysdale
Tuesday, 01 May 2012
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You Let Some Girl Beat You?: The Story of Ann Meyers Drysdale by Ann Meyers Drysdale, With Foreword by Julius Erving and Joni Ravenna (Contributor)
Ann Meyers Drysdale tells how she blasted through basketball barriers and stereotypes to become one of Time magazine's Top 10 Female Sports Pioneers.
“... The book is about hopes and dreams. I’ve been blessed to be part of so many incredible experiences and I thought it was time to tell my story. ...”
“... I hope that the book serves as a reminder to people that anything can be accomplished if you set your mind to it. Plus, releasing the book in conjunction with the celebration
of the 40th anniversary of Title IX is a perfect reminder of how far female athletics has come and to honor that I’ll be donating a portion of the book proceeds to Phoenix
Mercury Charities. ...” Ann Meyers Drysdale
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Black Men Can't Shoot By Scott N. Brooks
Black Men Can’t Shoot provides an ethnographic account of the lives of
two young black men—Ray and Jermaine—as they work to become “known” as great
ball players, and the implications of their doing so for their life chances.
The book is based on field research Professor Brooks conducted in Philadelphia, as a coach, mentor
and friend, over a four-year period.
It is a clearly written, accessible and compelling
sociological story about social networks, opportunity structures, and the setbacks and
successes that characterize adolescence, perhaps especially urban adolescence.
BMCS is
a very good book.
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The Butler Way: The Best of Butler Basketball by David Woods
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
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The Butler Way: The Best of Butler Basketball by David Woods with Foreword by Clark Kellogg
The Butler Way is a term used since the 2006-07 men's NCAA college basketball season by broadcasters and sportswriters nationwide to describe the governing philosophy of the
Butler Bulldogs, one of the most successful mid-major programs. The Butler Way demands commitment, denies selfishness and accepts reality, yet seeks constant improvement while promoting the good of the team above self.
The Butler Way was originally forged by Butler University's legendary coach and administrator, Tony Hinkle.
Butler Bulldogs' Athletic Director Barry Collier is often credited with resurrecting the term and its underlying attitude during his time as the Butler University Men's Basketball
coach from 1989 through 2000.
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The Best-Laid Plans of a High School Basketball CEO
Tuesday, 10 April 2012
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The Best-Laid Plans of a High School Basketball CEO: A Coach's Guide to Seeking & Securing, Building & Maintaining a Successful Program By Matt Kramer and Randy Montgomery
Randy and Matt have put together a great book for building a high school basketball program.
...This book would be an excellent read not only for high school basketball coaches,
but also for coaches of all sports and all leaders of young people.
This book is a great source of information for any coach
or interested reader about how to properly run a basketball program and lead young people. I personally have observed
many of the ideas in this book, especially during Randy's career. In my years of high school and professional sports, I have not found a better blueprint for success than that which
is presented in The Best-Laid Plans of a High School Basketball CEO.
Randy and Matt Kramer have put together a great tool for design and example in how to lead a high school basketball program from top to bottom.
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After Artest: The NBA and the Assault on Blackness. D J Leonard
Tuesday, 03 April 2012
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After Artest: The NBA and the Assault on Blackness by David J. Leonard
After Artest deals with the changing NBA policies after the Pacers-Pistons Brawl (also known as the “Malice at the Palace”), the infamous brawl that broke out at The Palace of
Auburn Hills in 2004.
The fight started when an intoxicated fan threw a drink from the stands at Pacers’ forward Ron Artest while there was a fight on the court.
Artest entered the stands to go after the fan, and the ensuing altercation involving both players and fans led to suspensions, fines and assault charges, and ultimately to
significant changes in NBA policy.
Leonard and Zirin discuss how this event changed the view of the NBA towards their players, and changed how they addressed racial and cultural differences within the sport.
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Breaking Through: Beating the Odds Shot after Shot
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
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Breaking Through: Beating the Odds Shot after Shot By Chamique Holdsclaw
Six-time WNBA All-star Chamique Holdsclaw has plenty to be thankful for in her life today as the former University of Tennessee Lady Vols star releases her powerful new
book titled "Breaking Through: Beating The Odds Shot After Shot".
The book chronicles her inspiring story of overcoming a litany of life challenges and personal tragedies in
order to become successful in life, including her battle with depression. When asked about her willingness to speak publicly about her struggles with depression the Queens
native states, "I want to empower others to have the strength and courage to seek the professional medical help they may need for whatever mental health issues they may have.
I really want to erase the ugly stigma attached to seeking professional mental health treatment."
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