Paul Westhead

Speed Game (eBook, PDF)

My Fast Times in Basketball

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

As a coach at Loyola Marymount in California, Paul Westhead designed his highly unusual signature run-and-gun offense that came to be known as "The System." The Speed Game offers a vibrant account of how he helped develop a style of basketball that not only won at the highest levels but went on to influence basketball as it's played today. Known for implementing an up-tempo, quick-possession, high-octane offense, Westhead is the only coach to have won championships in both the NBA and WNBA. But his long career can be defined by one simple question he's heard from journalists, fellow coaches, his wife, and, well, himself: Why? Why did he insist on playing such a controversial style of basketball that could vary from brilliant to busted? Westhead speaks candidly here about the feathers he ruffled and about his own shortcomings as he takes readers from Philadelphia's West Catholic High, where he couldn't make varsity, to the birth of the Showtime Lakers and to the powerhouse he built nearly ten years later at Loyola, where his team set records likely never to be approached. Westhead says he always found himself telling prospective bosses, "My speed game is gonna knock your socks off!" So will his story and what it could do to bring back a popular style of play.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496224071
• Artikelnr.: 72426180

Autorenporträt

Paul Westhead has been a basketball coach and offensive innovator with forty-plus years of experience at all levels. 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!
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