BETTER BASKETBALL, INCORPORATING TECHNIQUE, TACTICS AND TALES
By Forrest C, Allen

This owmivets new teat on basketball
pedagogy is not a rewrite of "My Basketball Bible", published
in 1924, but is an entirely new book graphically explaining —
in minute detail all of the latest developments in the
evolution of the game.

A new presentation method has been attempted,
that of showing the diagram, the photograph and the exposition
or explanation of the play, all in sequence,

In this manner it should be an easy matter
to follow the minutest step in every play situation. Many
things left to the imagination of the reader are now cleared up.

"Better Basketball" is profusely illustrated
with 163 action photographs and 86 diegrams of plays. Photo
graphs follow diagrams to give clarity.

Individual offense, individual deyense, team
offense and team defense are exhaustively treated because upon
tHe fundamentals of the individual are dependent the success of
team fundamentals and consequent winning success,

Technique is individual offense and defense.
Tacties are team offense and team defense, while Tales are in-
spirational stories of great games played. The psychological
ingredient - sometimes a laugh = sometimes a tear - make these
stories not only intensely attractive but open up a new field
to new coaches by using this highly interesting phase of basket-
ball pedagogy in actually winning games that otherwise might be
lost. By turning adverse situations into favorable game winning
surprises is the purpose of the author in presenting the chapter
on Tales,

A most complete chapter on Treatment of Ath-
letic Injuries has been presented to enable the coach to better
the condition of his men under his charge and further to aid him
in treating such injuries that a coach and trainer should know
more ebout. Often by simple and early treatment of a strain or
sprain, a player is saved from a more serious complication and
a possible loss of an important game.

Two entirely new braces are introduced to
the coaches and trainers in this text. A sacro-iliac belt made
inexpensively from a Ford inner tube and a brace for a dis-
located shoulder is also photographed and the making of it
described for the reader. Photographs of the injured player are
shown and manipulations for corrections of injuries are described
which enable the coach to become more expert in treating such
injuries,