Basketball: Steps To Success
An easy-to-use, self-paced programme for expanding and refining basketball skills with tips on developing the often overlooked mental aspects of the game.
Players of all levels of ability will add new dimensions to their game using this unique step-by-step approach. 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 ten steps 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.
- Author: Hal Wissel
- Copyright Year: 1994
- Length: 224 pages
- Preface
- The Steps to Success Staircase
- The Game of Basketball
- Preparing Your Body for Success
- Step 1 Offensive and Defensive Footwork: Improve Balance and Quickness
- Step 2 Shooting: Enhance Confidence, Mechanics, Rhythm, and Range
- Step 3 Passing and Catching: Make Your Teammates Better
- Step 4 Dribbling: Master Your Weak Hand
- Step 5 Rebounding: Want the Ball
- Step 6 Offensive Moves: Be a Triple Threat
- Step 7 Two and Three Person Plays: Move Without the Ball
- Step 8 Fast Break: Pass Ahead and Penetrate for Point
- Production
- Step 9 Team Offense: Execute the Passing Game
- Step 10 Team Defense: Win the Championship
- Rating Your Total Progress
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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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-- Dean Smith - Head Basketball Coach, University of North Carolina
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"Hal Wissel shares the personalised techniques he has mastered teaching players from the NBA to youth level. Coaches and players will gain from his steps to success."
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-- Chuck Daly - NBA TV Analyst, TNT Turner Sports, Head Coach, 1992 U.S. Olympic Men's Basketball Team
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Hal Wissel is a scout and special assignment coach for the Milwaukee Bucks of the NBA. Before taking this position in 1990, he was a head basketball coach on the collegiate level for 24 years, including 12 years at NCAA Division 1 schools. His greatest coaching success came while he was at Florida Southern College, where he guided his team to three consecutive trips to the NCAA Division II Final Four and to one NCAA Division II National Championship title in 1981.
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