Jerry Krause - Basketball Skills & Drills - 3rd Edition

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Krause, Jerry, 1936-

Basketball skills & drills / Jerry V. Krause, Don Meyer, Jerry Meyer. -- 3rd ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN-13: 978-0-7360-6707-2 (soft cover)

ISBN-10: 0-7360-6707-8 (soft cover)

1. Basketball--Coaching. I. Meyer, Don. II. Meyer, Jerry. III. Title. IV. Title: Basketball skills and drills.

GV885.3.K68 2008

796.323077--dc22

2007012745

ISBN-10: 0-7360-6707-8

ISBN-13: 978-0-7360-6707-2

Copyright 2008, 1999, 1991 by Jerry V. Krause

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Contents

Better Basketball Basics (Leisure Press) was the original foundation book for Basketball Skills and Drills that focused only on fundamental skills of the game. This 1983 publication, which featured 550 sequential pictures, became extremely popular with coaches and sold out its two printings. In 1991, the concepts of this book were refined and developed into the first edition of Basketball Skills & Drills (Human Kinetics). The 1991 book quickly became a bestselling teaching and learning reference for basketball. Almost 100,000 players and coaches agree that this book is the simplest, most comprehensive treatment of basketball basics, the fundamental skills of the sport. The addition of Don Meyer and Jerry Meyer as coauthors on the second edition brought new contributions with expertise in successful playing and coaching from two more generations of linked experts who built their careers around successful execution of basketball fundamentals.

I seek to leave the world a little better place than I found it.

James Naismith, Inventor of Basketball

This edition brings to bear over 100 years of overlapping, related basketball experience (all age and skill levels and both genders) that is concentrated on the basics. Thus, Basketball Skills & Drills can function as the definitive source of fundamentals for coaches, players, and parents. It is designed to be the primary basketball reference focused on elementary, middle, or secondary school and youth basketball levels. It also can be used as a textbook for classes in basketball coaching theory where the focus is on fundamentals. Improvements include the following:

updated and expanded primary concepts for each skill,

additions to the teaching methods, alternate ways to teach and learn skills in order to teach all players better,

references to players and coaches who also emphasize fundamental skills,

addition and modification of court diagrams and clear, accurate illustrations,

a more comprehensive teaching and learning package; concepts, critical cues, and other new teaching tips,

expansion of the sequential, progressive drills for each chapter,

troubleshooting sections where common problems and remedies can be found, and

skills assessments, both observational (in the troubleshooting sections) and quantitative measures for status and improvement.