"...innovative instruction and drills you need to master the fundamentals that will improve your total game." -- Dean Smith - Head Basketball Coach, University of North Carolina

"Hal Wissel shares the personalized techniques he has mastered teaching players from the NBA to youth level." -- Chuck Daly - NBA TV Analyst, TNT Turner Sports, Head Coach, 1992 U.S. Olympic Men’s Basketball Team

"This book will help players improve and enable coaches to teach the game better." -- Jack Ramsay, PhD - Television Analyst for ESPN and Miami Heat

Book Description

Basketball: Steps to Success provides an easy-to-use, self-paced program for expanding and refining basketball skills and strategies. Players of all levels of ability will add new dimensions to their game using this unique step-by-step approach. The book not only provides 113 drills for improving offensive and defensive skills, it also gives tips on developing the often overlooked mental aspects of the game.

Written by master teacher and coach Hal Wissel, this book is part of the Steps to Success Activity Series--the most extensively researched and carefully developed set of sport skills instruction books ever published.

Each of the 10 steps in Basketball: Steps to Success is an easy transition from the one before. The first steps provide a solid foundation of basic skills and concepts. As players progress, they’ll gain confidence in their abilities and experience the satisfaction of becoming well-rounded basketball players.

Basketball Instructor Guide: Steps to Success features an 80-question test bank and sample course schedules for 24-, 36-, and 45-session classes. Also covers:

• Being an effective basketball instructor • Making the class setting safe • Rating students’ starting points • Setting up class sessions • Introducing students to the course • Teaching skills and strategies • Providing feedback • Conducting drills • Evaluating students

Each step (chapter)

• explains why the skill or concept is important, • identifies the keys to proper technique, • helps players correct common errors, • explains how to practice each skill in realistic ways, • lists specific performance goals for each drill, and • lets players proceed at their own pace.

Players will benefit from Hal Wissel’s years of high school, collegiate, and professional coaching experience as they make their way up the 10 steps to basketball success. They’ll learn

• the mechanics for seven basic shots--one-hand set shot, free throw, jump shot, three-point shot, hook shot, lay-up, and runner shot--and how to correct common errors when performing each; • six basic passes and when to make them; • nine different dribble moves; • the emotional, mental, and physical qualities of a good rebounder; • how to be a triple threat--a player who can effectively shoot, drive, and pass; • how to move on offense without the ball; • the basic principles that guide the passing game; and • how to play team defense and execute defensive rotations.

Basketball: Steps to Success will help developing players make steady progress, practice in game situations, and correct problems as they develop. The result--successful basketball players who will know how and when to use skills in a game.

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5.0 out of 5 stars This book teaches many fundamentals., Aug 17 1999

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This book tought me a lot of fundamentals. It has many illustrations

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5.0 out of 5 stars From NBA to Youth Level, Coaches and Players Will Gain, July 22 1999

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"Hal Wissel shares the personalized techniques he has mastered teaching players from NBA to youth level. Coaches and players will gain from his steps to success." Chuck Daly, Coach, 1992 Olympic Basketball Team

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5.0 out of 5 stars Innovative instruction and drills to improve your game, Jun 15 1999

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"Basketball: Steps to Success has the innovative instruction and drills you need to master the fundamentals that will improve your total game."

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