Paul Westhead

The Speed Game

My Fast Times in Basketball

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Produktbeschreibung

Paul Westhead’s The Speed Game offers a treasure trove of information and stories about how he developed a style of basketball that not only won at the highest levels but went on to influence the game as it is played today.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 158mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9781496222602
• ISBN-10: 1496222601
• Artikelnr.: 59179749

Autorenporträt

Paul Westhead has been a basketball coach and offensive innovator with forty-plus years of experience at all levels. He taught English and coached basketball at Cheltenham High School and was an assistant basketball coach at his alma mater, St. Joseph’s University, before coaching at La Salle University. Westhead guided the Los Angeles Lakers to an NBA championship in 1980 and brought his high-scoring offense to the Chicago Bulls, Denver Nuggets, Golden State Warriors, Orlando Magic, and Seattle Supersonics/Oklahoma City Thunder. He took his fast-break style to the college game at Loyola Marymount and also to the WNBA, where his Phoenix Mercury team won the championship in 2007.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. West Philly
2. Stretching
3. Jersey Girl
4. Simplicity, Simplicity, Simplicity!—Or No Mas!
5. Enjoy the Ride
6. Go West, Young Man
7. Substitute Teacher
8. He Knows That We Know
9. No Thanks
10. Looney Tunes
11. The Glitter Is Gone
12. The Wrong Star
13. Twenty-Five Million Reasons
14. Lakers Doth Protest Too Much
15. No One’s Getting Fired
16. The Long Run
17. I Told You So
18. No Plan B
19. No Sound
20. I Know
21. The Tipping Point
22. A Crazy Genius