Basketball A Guide to Skills, Techniques and Tactics

Providing a thorough description of each skill and technique, this volume then presents helpful coaching points that emphasize common mistakes. It provides several learning drills for each of the skills, which progress from beginner level through to the intermediate and more advanced levels, thus catering for the needs of players of all abilities. Catching and passing the ball, dribbling, shooting, rebounding, individual moves—such as defensive stance and fakes—as well as combination play between two or three players, and team-attacking and team-defense are all addressed in considerable detail. The book also covers organizing basketball events, developing a coaching philosophy, coaching evaluation, the most important rules of the game, and the concept of "total training," which embraces the technical, physical, tactical, psychological, theoretical, biological, and artistic building blocks of the modern coaching process.