Instant Review Basketball Notebook, Vol. 2: 1991

By Bob Murrey

Features lectures by Jim Calhousn, Lou Carnesecca, Don Casey, Eddie Fogler, Pete Gillen, Danny Nee, Rene Portland, Roy Williams and many others.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1585182176
• ISBN13: 9781585182176
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Coaches Choice
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 0.8" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

CORNUCOPIA

Over three hundred pages of USA coaches clinics transcripts with plenty of diagrams. 39 USA coaches give insights on various topics. Concludes with Legends interviews which include discussions with Bill Walton, Ray Meyer, Guy Lewis, Ed MacCauley, George Ireland, Pete Newell and Jack Hartman. You can tell that these clinic sessions cover a considerable period of time, from recently to several years ago. References to or discussions of teams and players indicate some of the sessions were fairly recent and some go back several years. There is still a lot of value in the older stuff, though. Over 30 pages by John Wooden include his pyramid of success, quite a bit of theory, philosophy, and instruction, and 2 detailed (minute by minute) practice schedules including one from January 14, 1975. Plenty of information by various coaches on A) various offenses (including Ron Felling on Indiana motion offense, Roy Williams on Kansas offense, Pete Gillen of Zavier on attacking the match up zone, Coach K on the Duke Offense & others on zone attack and man attack, etc.), B) defenses (including Matchup Zone, and zone, man, pressure, zone press, are among the defensive schemes discussed by various coaches), C) and transition (plenty on pressure, pressing, fast break and transition), D) and special situations (such as out of bounds plays) are covered. There are also articles (clinics) on such topics as sports psychology ( & bench coaching), motivating, organizing practices, shooting techniques and drills, rebounding, developing post players (including one on this topic by Rick Majerus).There is enough material here for a coach's manual (lots of play and drill diagrams) and also plenty to help the individual player. However, the book is primarily organized according to Coaches and then topics. Some coaches cover 3 or 4 topics (Wooden more than that). The schemes and philosophies are not always compatible with each other. You'll find different ideas about when to shoot the 3, try to penetrate, double team, pull a player out of the game, etc. Yes, there are a few womens' teams coaches, including Muffet McGraw on Fast Break.I expect this won't be the last book in this series that I will purchase.