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Summary: This is a great book.
Review: This book is a great book for players, parents, coaches, etc. It has tips, drills, and anything else you can think of. This is my favorite book.
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Summary: Fun to read, funny and educational.
Review: This book isn't too bad. It's written by a coach, so it's packed with information. They have lots of things, like high school, college, and NBA rules, what assists, steals, blocks, and turnovers are, how to score, and even the popular pickup basketball. Nobody really knows that basketball with that name, but it's full court ... off etc... It also shows the managing of a team and 2000's most money- earning players (Shaq). It also has top players and games in history! Not bad overall, but could make the offensive plays, defensive plays, and moves a bit easier to understand.
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: This book turned out to be a superb introduction to a wonderful sport about which I have become increasingly fanatical.
Digger Phelps is witty, relevant, irreverent and above all, supremely informative.Enthusiastically recommended!
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Summary: Great Basketball Book for Basketball Dummies like Myself!
Review: This book was so increadibly awesome I can't even begin. For the first fourteen years of my life, I had little to no interest in basketball whatsoever, but then in eighth grade a friend of mine made it his personal goal to convert me to basketballism. He succeded. I still didn't know much about the game though, (I had to ask what a field goal was) and so I, being a basketball "dummy", bought this book. It had more in it than I think I wanted to know. It was awesome. The book explained everything so that someone like me who didn't know a thing about it could understand. They explain how to play the game, as well as how to watch it. They covered everything in offense, defense, etc. I learned about basic basketball plays such as the give-and-go, pick-and-roll, etc. In addition to teaching you about the game, it also explains how to do different shots and what the propper defensive stance is. I was looking for information like what a foul is, and it's all in there. Towards the back it gives some neat chapters such as "Ten NBA Greats" and "Top Ten Places to Watch a Basketball Game" and I was proud to see that the Delta Center was listed in there. I learned just about everything I was wanting to know here. I would recommend it to ANYONE wanting to know ANYTHING about basketball!
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Summary: Digging around for something nice to say
Review: This is a flawed book in many ways. It claims to be written for people who know little about basketball, but there are too many diagrams of plays and tips for coaching. There also is too much information about statistics. Nowhere in this book do you find anything that conveys the sheer joy of watching two excellent teams battle it out for the conference championship. It also is a big mistake to put in so many Notre Dame references; couldn't Digger have asked some of his many coaching friends for anecdotes? (And what's with all the plugs for Bookstore Basketball?) The only Dummies here are the people who buy this book!
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