Coaching Team Basketball: A Coach’s Guide to Developing Players With a Team-First Attitude

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McGraw-Hill Education, Sep 26, 2006 - Sports & Recreation - 202 pages

To be #1, your team has to play as one

How many times have you heard, "There is no I in team"? Still, U.S. basketball continues to be dominated by individual play, which has led to a number of embarrassing upsets on the world and Olympic courts. From middle-school to the NBA, there are no championships without teamwork--and there's no teamwork without good coaching.

Get away from the flash and start building your successful team today with this one-of-a-kind, step-by-step guide that helps you to:

  • Communicate the core values of integrity and respect
  • Create a vision statement
  • Recruit team players
  • Develop trust and unity with a buddy system
  • Inspire your players to embrace teamwork
  • Get your five defenders working as one
  • Master winning offensive plays that utilize the whole team
  • And more

From inside the book

Contents

Teamwork Trumps Individual Talent
11
The Meaning of Team Play
33
Blueprint for Team Play
41
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