Basketball: Steps to Success

Book Description
Master all the important skills of basketball and take your game to the next level. Basketball: Steps to Success provides in-depth, progressive instruction in techniques and tactics, including detailed tutoring on shooting and 111 drills featuring a scoring system to gauge your progress. As you build your skill base, you’ll learn how to make all the right moves in game situations, whether it’s executing the correct footwork when defending screens or making the right pass for a winning basket. Highly regarded coach, teacher, and clinician Hal Wissel will help you execute each technique proficiently and consistently on the court. Improve your game. Basketball: Steps to Success will help you develop the total package of tools to achieve your goals on the court.


From the Publisher
"Hal Wissel demonstrates to the world why he is recognized as one of America’s top-rated basketball clinicians. A must-read for players and coaches at all levels of play." Hubie Brown NBA head coach, Memphis Grizzlies "Hal Wissel is an astute basketball architect. This book will help players improve and will enable coaches to teach the game better." Jack Ramsay, PhD Basketball Hall of Fame member and ESPN basketball analyst "Basketball: Steps to Success has the innovative instruction and drills you need to master the fundamentals that will improve your total game." Dean Smith Former head basketball coach, University of North Carolina "Hal Wissel shares the personalized techniques he has mastered through teaching players from youth leagues to the NBA level. Coaches and players will gain from his steps to success." Chuck Daly Former head coach, U.S. Olympic men’s basketball "Dream Team" and two-time NBA champion Detroit Pistons


About the Author
Hal Wissel is an assistant coach for the NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies. In addition to serving as an assistant coach, scout, and director of player personnel in the NBA, he held five head coaching positions at colleges over a 24-year span. During that time one of his teams, Florida Southern, won the Division II national championship title. In addition to coaching, Wissel is the founder and president of Basketball World, Inc., a venture that organizes and runs basketball camps and clinics and produces instructional basketball books and videos. Recognized as one of the world’s best basketball clinicians, Wissel conducts his popular Shoot It Better Mini Camps worldwide for players at all levels. Wissel received his doctorate in physical education from Springfield [Massachusetts] College in 1970. His honors include being named Coach & Athlete magazine’s Eastern Coach of the Year in 1972; Sunshine State Conference Coach of the Year in 1979, 1980, 1981, and 1982; and Division II National Coach of the Year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches in 1980.


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Master all the important skills of basketball and take your game to the next level. Basketball: Steps to Success provides in-depth, progressive instruction in techniques and tactics, including detailed tutoring on shooting and 111 drills featuring a scoring system to gauge your progress. As you build your skill base, you'll learn how to make all the right moves in game situations, whether it's executing the correct footwork when defending screens or making the right pass for a winning basket. Highly regarded coach, teacher, and clinician Hal Wissel will help you execute each technique proficiently and consistently on the court. Improve your game. Basketball: Steps to Success will help you develop the total package of tools to achieve your goals on the court.


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