Basketball Beyond the X's and O's: Lessons from the Legends

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Basketball Beyond the X's and O's: Lessons from the Legends

Basketball Beyond the X's and O's: Lessons from the Legends

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A fascinating retrospective of the thoughts and ideas of 40 Hall of Fame coaches. Tips for success, the value of basketball, attitude, philosophy, communication, and other topics follow insightful biographies on each contributing coach. The list of contributors includes John Wooden, Red Auerbach, Bob Knight, Mike Krzyzewski, Pat Summitt, Charles C.M. Newton, Chuck Daly, and many, many more. Produced in cooperation with the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Biography

Jerry Krause is the director of men's basketball operations at Gonzaga University. Highly regarded as an exceptional teacher of the fundamentals of basketball, Krause has authored 13 instructional coaching books on basketball. For more than two decades, he has been extensively involved professionally in the activities of the coaching/rules organizations of both the NCAA and the NAIA. In his renowned career, he has been honored numerous times for his efforts as a coach, educator, and administrator.
Ralph Pim is an assistant professor in the Department of Physical Education at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He serves as the director of instructional administration and is a basketball sport educator. Pim has coached and taught basketball at the secondary and collegiate levels for thirty years. As a collegiate head coach, Pim built Alma (MI) College and Limestone (SC) College into highly successful programs. His Alma teams were ranked nationally for points scored and three-point field goals, and the 1989 squad recorded the school's best overall record in forty-seven years. He also coached at Central Michigan, William and Mary, Northwestern Louisiana, and Barberton (OH) High School. Barberton won the 1976 Ohio State Championship and was selected the seventh best team in the country. Pim spent ten years as the technical advisor for the Basketball Association of Wales. He implemented training programs to facilitate the development of basketball in the country of Wales and assisted with the training of their national teams. Pim is the author of Winning Basketball and co-editor of Coaching Basketball. He has written numerous coaching articles and is a frequent contributor to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Yearbook and Enshrinement Program. Pim is a graduate of Springfield (MA) College. He earned his master's degree from The Ohio State University and his doctorate from Northwestern Louisiana State University.