Basketball (Steps to Success) [Paperback]

"...innovative instruction and drills you need to master the fundamentals that will improve your total game."

"Hal Wissel shares the personalized techniques he has mastered teaching players from the NBA to youth level."

"This book will help players improve and enable coaches to teach the game better."

This book provides an easy-to-use program for expanding and refining skills and drills. It can be used as a self-improvement manual and instructional resource for players of all levels and as a reference for teachers and coaches. Using this step-by-step approach, players follow ten steps covering basic skills and concepts. The book outlines the mechanics for the following basic shots, and how to correct common errors: one-hand set shot, free throw, jump shot, three-point shot, hook shot, lay-up, runner shot. Also included are details of six basic passes, nine different dribble moves and the emotional, mental and physical qualities necessary to be an all-round player. Over 100 drills are outlined for improving offensive and defensive skills, with illustrations.

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 I 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.

Wissel has also worked as an assistant coach and head scout for the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks and served as head coach, general manager, and vice president of operations for the Westchester Golden Apples of the United States Basketball League. 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.