Wooden's first-ever instructional basketball book and DVD package provides anunprecedented inside look at the offensive system of this basketball coachinglegend.

THE CONTINUITY OFFENSES PLAYBOOK Have a team with no athletes? Need a way to get them all involved in the offense? It’s called continuity, baby! Use the skill sets of all of your players by teaching them the beauty and effectiveness of continuity offenses. Become that team on the schedule that opponents dread because of the power of their offense. Is your offense stagnant? Is the ball not moving enough within your offense? If the answer is yes, then this is the book for you. Thousands of hours of research went into developing the Continuity Offenses playbook, a collection of 14 different continuity offenses and actions, all full with counterplays and specials built right into them. Continuity offenses have a pattern of movement, cuts, screens, and passes, which eventually leads back to the starting formation. At this point, the movement is then repeated in an effort to cause defensive breakdowns and create the best available scoring opportunities. These offenses are a great way to make the defense work and to get good ball movement. Whether you currently run a continuity offense or you’re thinking about it, there is something in this playbook for any coach looking to expand his knowledge of the game. The book also goes to great length to help you understand the subtleties and intricacies of offenses and the adjustments that you can make as a coach. This book reveals many of the counters and adjustments a coach can make based on how the defense is playing you to assure you can make the right call at the perfect moment. We also give you a multitude of diffеrеnt entries that will hеlр to diѕguiѕе whаt уоu аrе trying tо dо that will ѕеаmlеѕѕlу flоw right into one of your continuity offenses. Each entry play givеs us 3-4 diffеrеnt ѕсоring орtiоnѕ. Your opponents will not know what hit them. The Continuity Offensive Playbook is the complete package. If you are struggling to get the ball moving and putting points on the board, this is the book for you! No matter what level of basketball you coach at these offenses work! Find out all the answers in this 638-page gem! Features: 638 Pages 14 Continuity Offenses Over 300 Quick hitters to counter the defense

THE 5-WIDE CONTINUITY OFFENSE PLAYBOOK The 5-Wide Offense is more prevalent in today’s game more so than ever before. The 5-Wide motion offense is an excellent offense for basketball teams at all levels, but it’s especially great for youth basketball teams as it teaches players how to play basketball. This offense can also be an excellent option for those teams that are either undersized or that might have less than ideal talent. You can also use this offense to wear down the defense or as a delayed set to run time off the clock. The 5-Wide Offense is a position less offense that relies on players spacing the floor to stretch the defense. The 5 Wide Offense utilizes the skills of all five players on the floor and emphasizes all of the fundamentals of passing, screening, and cutting to create various scoring opportunities. It is a concise, simple system that any coach can implement to improve their offense. This offense has basic rules that help players to make quick decisions based on reads that are predicated on how the defense is playing them. In this book, you will receive 62 various game-like breakdown drills that will help you and your players to grasp the basic concepts of the offense quickly. With the help of the 5-Wide Offensive playbook, your team can have this offense mastered in no time. You will learn the basic 5-Wide motion along with the basic rules of the continuity offense. In addition, there are also 20 different secondary break plays included to get your team to transition right into your offense from your secondary break seamlessly. This offense is positionless and easily adaptable to your personnel allowing a coach to decide where and how to attack against opponents. To counter any defensive adjustments, you’ll also find 65 different counter plays that you can use from 6 different entry points that show you the adjustments a coach can make during a game to make the right call at the perfect moment. Learn how to play the modern position-less basketball of today with the 5-Wide Offense. Features: 242 Pages 12 basic continuity motion actions 6 entry play options 20 secondary break plays 62 breakdown drills 65 counters from 6 different entry points and actions

Great basketball players like Tim Duncan and Dwyane Wade draw oohs and aahs with their spectacular moves. But before those players developed their superstar flair, they built a solid base of fundamental skills in all phases of the game. Basketball Skills & Drills provides a perfect blueprint for building the foundation that every well-rounded player needs. This special book and DVD package demonstrates each key skill: -Player positioning -Moving without the ball -Shooting -Passing, catching, and dribbling -Perimeter moves -Post moves -Defense -Rebounding The skills and 90 drills, coaching tips, and DVD reinforce the skill instruction, emphasize key points, and explain how to correct common errors. And since individual skills are effective only when used within the team concept, the book also covers key team principles for both ends of the court. Tactics for offense, including special situations such as out-of-bounds plays, will improve spacing, ball and player movement, shot selection, and scoring. Defensive tactics emphasize positioning, pressure, and various systems to apply in each area or level of the court. To be an all-star, you must be fundamentally sound. Basketball Skills & Drills is your guide to becoming a complete player--one who can change the game with great moves and smart play.

This excellent resource from John Kresse and Richard Jablonski provides a step-by-step outline of a multifaceted offensive basketball system that combines elements of inside and outside offense to attack and defeat zone defenses where they thrive-in the half-court setting. With chapters dedicated to several continuities and set plays, as well as special situations such as three-point shots and inbound plays, the updated third edition also features a new chapter of drills to develop fundamental individual and team decision-making skills related to the continuity offenses as well as shooting drills within the framework of the continuities and set plays discussed in the book.

Basketball coaching book with strategies and drills to defeat a zone defense.

This book is designed as a comprehensive educational resource not only for basketball medical caregivers and scientists but for all basketball personnel. Written by a multidisciplinary team of leading experts in their fields, it provides information and guidance on injury prevention, injury management, and rehabilitation for physicians, physical therapists, athletic trainers, rehabilitation specialists, conditioning trainers, and coaches. All commonly encountered injuries and a variety of situations and scenarios specific to basketball are covered with the aid of more than 200 color photos and illustrations. Basketball Sports Medicine and Science is published in collaboration with ESSKA and will represent a superb, comprehensive educational resource. It is further hoped that the book will serve as a link between the different disciplines and modalities involved in basketball care, creating a common language and improving communication within the team staff and environment.

According to Roger Caillois, play is an occasion of pure waste. In spite of this - or because of it - play constitutes an essential element of human social and spiritual development. In this study, the author defines play as a free and voluntary activity that occurs in a pure space, isolated and protected from the rest of life.