It is conversational and easy to understand, yet filled with subtle insights into the game of basketball. STUFF is page after page of creative concepts, common sense, and special tips that can not be found anywhere else.

    This is a collection of short but extraordinarily powerful essays as to how Coach K of Duke inspires, motivates, and teaches his basketball players about the game of life, both on and off the court.

    Gaining access to personal letters, albums and scrapbooks, plus spending hours with family members among some 300 interviews, has allowed the authors to craft the definitive biography of Pistol Pete Maravich, who lived a life of triumph and tragedy.

    Leaders have to sell their dreams, get their team to owrk together, initiate action, inspire athletes, judge talent, urge perseverance and understand people, attitudes and motivation.Runnin the Show spells out what it takes to be a real leader on a basketball court. Insightful and unusual, this book covers many original ideas and creative concepts that lead to winning basketball. Not a typical basketball book, Runnin the Show is an indispensable guide for coaches and players trying to lift their basketball to a higher level.152 pages. 2006.

    A legendary coach and five New York City players move south and change the face of college basketball forever.

    In John Wooden's UCLA Offense, Coach Wooden reconfirms his instructional genius in an unprecedented inside look at the offensive system that made his teams impossible to defend, including many never-before-published play options and insights. This richly detailed book and DVD presentation features the famous high-post and high-low attacks, many special play options, sideline and under-the-basket in-bound plays, and press-breaking tactics. This package gives you much more than just the standard Xs and Os. You'll gain insights on each facet of offensive play, the fundamentals for success as an individual and team on the offensive end, and the strategic nuances and teaching points that result in consistent, precise execution.Featuring principles used in today's popular motion and triangle offenses, John Wooden's UCLA Offense is still as potent and unstoppable today as it was during the Bruins' dynasty years. Whether you wish to add only certain options and plays, or want to incorporate the entire package into your offensive arsenal, every facet and step in the process is provided. Score big with this special chance to learn the game from a legend, and see your team's offensive productivity rise to new heights. author: Wooden, John Pages: 240

    Perplexed by the small town Tralee's Frosties Tigers--a cast of misfits and underachievers more concerned with their day jobs, Gaelic Football, and Guinness--he turned to traditional Irish music for wisdom and solace. "Paddy on the Hardwood" is partly Rus Bradburd's story of his struggle to transform Tralee's Tigers. But it is also the tale of a man making peace with his own life and career."No reader will come away from this irresistible, honest, and deeply human account without a profound appreciation for Ireland and the beguiling power of its people and culture. "Paddy on the Hardwood" is a basketball book, to be sure, but also one about questing and, ultimately, finding. And it's all the richer for how it engages things that seem distant from sports, but in the end aren't so unrelated at all."--Alexander Wolff, "Sports Illustrated" senior writer and author of "Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure"""Paddy on the Hardwood" is hilarious, heartbreaking, and touching--I couldn't put it down. I'm an avid reader, and it's the best sports book I've read in a long while."--Jerry West

    This book relates insightful incidents from Coach Dick DeVenzio's career and puts his guiding principles into words that can benefit coaches, players, fans, businesspeople, and anyone with a will to succeed.

    She is fantastic in every phase of the game, and I love watching her teams play.--Roy Williams, head men's basketball coach, University of North Carolina, and Associated Press Coach of the Year, 2006What does it take to turn a good coach into a great one? You need to be a teacher, a motivator, a guru of X's and O's. Coach Sylvia Hatchell shows you how she manages all these roles and gives you her winning advice to creating a team of champions.Head coach of the University of North Carolina's women's team, Coach Hathcell combines the Tar Heels' longstanding tradition of basketball greatness with her personal dedication to guiding young women as she teaches you how to:Communicate effectively to get peak performances from 11- to 18-year-old girlsTeach all the fundamentals of the game and run a productive, high-energy practiceDevelop a formidable offense and tenacious defenseMaster 75 of her favorite drills, ranging in difficulty from beginner to advanced

    At the age of ten, Tex experienced the untimely death of his father. What resulted was an awakening belief in the coordinated efforts of family members to work together as a team. His family experiences and resulting skills laid the foundation for what became known as his Triangle Offense, a strategy that revolutionized college and professional basketball. Coach Tex Winter: Triangle Basketball is an inspiring story of overcoming hardship to develop the attitudes and relationships for success at home, school and career. It contains 160 full-color pages of news clips, personal notes, photographs, and Tex's chalkboard sayings. Quotes from family, friends and legends such as Kobe Bryant, Phil Jackson and others are also included throughout.

    This work includes 50 action photos from Marquette University, one of the top 50 all-time winningest teams in NCAA history. It features a foreword by NBA All-Star Dwyane Wade.

    Literary Nonfiction. Fourteen poems and an essay from Burt take on, take in, and take up the teams and the games of the Women's National Basketball Assocation, or WNBA. The poems some in rhyming forms, some in slippery new ones encompass word games, in-jokes, on-court moves and countermoves, and serious speculation on the enduring subjects of lyric poetry: love, fame, competition, solitude, obscure heroism, nostalgia, anger, longing, blocked shots, and the value of a well-thrown entry pass. The essay (first published in The Believer) looks at the mindset of one committed fan along with the past andfuture of the still-growing league."