Coaching Team Basketball: Develop Winning Players with a Team-First Attitude

I was excited when I got this book. I have truly come to believe that the single most important key to success in basketball is not individual talent, but being a TEAM! It is also the thing that will make the game more enjoyable for players, coaches and fans. Coach Crean would certainly agree with the above statement. There is no doubt that his players play as a team when you watch them play on TV. I just wish he had gone into a little more detail, well a lot more detail, about how he creates the environment that fosters this essential key to success in basketball. Still, I did not feel like I had spent money unwisely. It is a good overview of the topic and certainly there are many coaches WHO NEED to understand that being a team, and not a collection of prima donas is how you succeed in basketball. Coach Crean is certainly an ambassador for this cause and the book does provoke some big picture thinking about what is important. Kevin Sivils - author of Game Strategy and Tactics for Basketball Game Strategies and Tactics for Basketball: Bench Coaching for Success

If you are a coach, you will learn a thing or two with Tom Crean's book: Coaching team basketball, but there are far better books for coaches such as Wooden on Leadership, Wooten's Coaching Basketball Successfully, and Bo's Life Lessons by Bo Schembechler. Those books are better at helping a coach develop or rethink their philosophy and how to start a new basketball program. Coach Crean was very broad and talked about what makes a team, but not how to make a team as a coach.

Coaches Crean and Pim offer very objective and practical lessons in coaching and leadership. Their approach is both extremely detailed and well organized.