Coaching High School Basketball A Complete Guide to Building a Championship Team

"Having coached in New Jersey on the scholastic level, I have the utmost respect for a coach that has had big-time success in that area. Certainly, Bill represents that premise. Anybody who has touched so many lives and been as effective as Bill is certainly a winner in my eyes." -- Dick Vitale, ESPN "As a young coach in the early 1970s, my goal was to compete with Bill, and he was the standard I set for myself and my teams at Saint Anthony's. He set a very high standard for his coaching peers to strive for, and I am obliged to say he has been a personal friend as well as a mentor to me for the last thirty years." --Bob Hurley, Sr., Head Coach, St. Anthony's High School (Jersey City, NJ), from the foreword "This book will be an immeasurable asset to the basketball world and could serve as a strong foundation to build your own personal coaching philosophy on." --George Blaney, Assistant Coach, University of Connecticut, 2004 Men's NCAA National Champions With forty years of coaching experience and eight state titles to his credit, Hall of Famer Bill Kuchar is the coach you wish you had back in high school--and today he's the coach you aspire to be. Now, you can coach like Kuchar with Coaching High School Basketball --the only book available specifically devoted to winning at the high school level. Using easy-to-follow concepts, Kuchar breaks the game of basketball into down to a science, including his original offensive scheme, dynamic new zone plays, and man-to-man pressure defenses--the key strategies that will help your team score against the toughest of opponents. With a lively combination of classic tactics and cutting-edge moves, this one-of-a-kind handbook is filled with step-by-step diagrams and instructions, dozens of practice drills on fundamentals and innovative styles of play, as well as a treasure trove of photographs documenting the amazing successes enjoyed by Kuchar's championship teams. Learn how to: bull; bull;Master Kuchar's "double motion offense" bull;Locate, protect, and infiltrate zones bull;Defend against the fast break bull;Use last-second tactics when the game is on the line bull;Make the most of out-of-bounds plays bull;And more Armed with these and many more of Coach Kuchar's battle-tested tactics, plus the philosophical principles that made his teams unbeatable, you'll be primed and ready to start building a winning basketball dynasty on your own home court.Kuchar, Bill is the author of 'Coaching High School Basketball A Complete Guide to Building a Championship Team', published 2004 under ISBN 9780071438766 and ISBN 0071438769.