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 - 224 pages
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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

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Contents

Foreword by Dwyane Wade
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Key to Diagrams
xix
Teamwork Trumps Individual Talent 11
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Copyright

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About the author (2006)

Tom Crean is the head coach of men's basketball at Marquette University and is widely recognized as one of the best young coaches in college basketball. In 2003 he led his Golden Eagles all the way to the Final Four. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Ralph Pim is the division chief for competitive sports in the department of physical education at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He lives in West Point, New York.

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TitleCoaching Team Basketball: A Coach’s Guide to Developing Players With a Team-First Attitude
AuthorsTom Crean, Ralph Pim
Editionillustrated
PublisherMcGraw-Hill Education, 2006
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedJan 12, 2010
ISBN0071465650, 9780071465656
Length224 pages
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