Master coaching methods

for training, tactics, and the
physical and mental
factors of better basketball

—a complete, detailed manual for coaches,

players, trainers, and managers

BETTER

BASKETBALL

By FORREST C. ALLEN

Director of Physical Education and Head
Basketball Coach, University of Kansas

482 pages, 6x9, fully illustrated,
$4.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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163 photographs graphically illustrate the individual
offense, the individual defense, the team offense and
the team defense. 86 diagrams depict game forma-
tions and augment the author’s clarifying discus-

sions of many confusing and technical points.

 

Technique, Tactics and Tales —

ee guide for teaching and developing basketball technique, ;

together with a complete discussion of how the game should be =
played. The author explains graphically the most advanced develop- |
ments of the game, and through copious use of diagrams and photographs =
makes clear every detail of individual and-team play. 3

Technique

Individual technique and individual training are stressed, as the
fundamentals upon which the success of every team is based. Each move- s
ment that a skilled player must execute is presented in detail. The author @
also describes a series of “skill movements,” or drills, by means of which 4s

the fundamentals of play may be taught to groups without each player __

handling the ball. These will be of special value to high school and junior
high school coaches.

| Tactics

The full treatment of tactics involves discussion of such topics as how
to work successfully through a zone defense, including both “set” plays
from scrimmage formation and out-of-bounds plays. The author gives
thirty-four “set” plays against the man-for-man defense, and many out-
of-bounds plays. There is a full chapter on methods of “screening,”
explaining just how and when to execute these plays to the utmost
advantage.

Tales
Stories of actual games show how contests have been won by the use of
applied psychology. These stories are full of human details that illustrate
the kind of psychological strategy which causes men to outdo themselves
and upset unfavorable scores and adverse conditions.

Special Features 3
A comprehensive, well-illustrated chapter on the treatment of athletic &
injuries explains to the coach-trainer how to keep his players in the game. _
The book also goes into the subject of pre-game and between-game activity
and shows possibilities for drawing patrons to the games. In short, Better
Basketball is a complete treatment, incorporating everything that a
player, coach, official, trainer, or manager of a team needs to know about
his own phase of the game, and to win more games.