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    Fine Tuning Your Three-Point Attack: Fine Tuning Series, #5
    Fine Tuning Your Three-Point Attack: Fine Tuning Series, #5
    Fine Tuning Your Three-Point Attack: Fine Tuning Series, #5
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    Fine Tuning Your Three-Point Attack: Fine Tuning Series, #5

    By Kevin Sivils

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    When the 3-point shot was introduced to the game of basketball it was a bit controversial. Today, the 3-point shot has not only become an accepted part of the game, it has changed the game. The 3-point shot has forced defenses to extend in order to cover the shot, creating better offensive spacing. The penetration game has improved as a result, creating even more offensive opportunities.

    Players love the more open game and so do the fans. Yet not every coach or every team has embraced the 3-point shot. Some coaches still struggle with how to integrate the shot into the team offense. It is no longer enough to simply space the offense behind the 3-point line as the defense has become more sophisticated in defending the shot and great 3-point shooters.

    Fine Tuning Your Three-Point Attack offers 150 concepts to improve your team's 3-point offense, drills to teach offensive building blocks essential to a balanced and effective 3-point offensive attack.

    Nearly 200 diagrams and photographs are used to illustrate the concepts included in the book. Also included are inbounds plays for the baseline and sideline, quick-hitters and secondary breaks for the fast break attack.

    Attacking a zone defense is covered as well as concepts for basic offensive building blocks that can be incorporated into any offense to generate 3-point shots. In addition to the offensive concepts included, Coach Sivils takes a look at the reasoning behind utilizing the 3-point shot, possible issues with the 3-point shot as well as the opportunities the tactics can create for a team.

    What are coaches saying about Fine Tuning Your Three-Point Attack: “Kevin Sivils’s books should be required reading for coaches! I’m always impressed by the shear number of solid, time-tested and thought-provoking ideas he presents, giving the reader a “one-stop shopping” resource. In Fine Tuning Your Three-point Attack he has great suggestions not only for coaching the shooter, but the concepts and drills you need to be aware of generate open looks from the arc. His section on quick-hitters, sideline and underneath OB plays alone are worth the price of the book, and will help you make the three-point shot an integral part of your offense!” Coach Doug Porter – Head Women’s Basketball Coach Olivet Nazarene University – National Collegiate Scoring Champions

    “His thought provoking approach makes for an easy read and will definitely stimulate thought and, most likely, change the way you go about coaching offense.” Rusty Rogers – Two-time NAIA Division II Women’s Basketball National Championship Coach and Two-time NAIA National Coach of the Year

    "Coach Sivils does an outstanding job of breaking down the individual components, skills, and base blocks of being an efficient and effective 3-point shooter, then putting the pieces back together to highlight the impact of the 3-point shot and how it continues to shape the game today." Daniel Koutsis - Asst. Men’s Basketball Coach Calumet College

    “Coach Sivils clearly brings his experience in the game of basketball to his writing. He is a great teacher who acquire great gifts over the years and it’s great he wants to share those gifts with other coaches.” Bill Reidy – Long time successful High School Coach

    “Prolific basketball author Kevin Sivils provides another soup to nuts scoring guide. While at its core, offensive basketball is a game of cutting and passing, Coach Sivils helps players and coaches achieve their full potential SHOOTING the basketball. The three-point rule revolutionized basketball over thirty years ago, and "Fine Tuning" presents an advanced treatise on the benefits, limitations, and mechanics of enhancing your perimeter game.” Ron Sen, MD, - Middle School Basketball Coach

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKevin Sivils
    Release dateDec 13, 2013
    ISBN9781497747654
    Fine Tuning Your Three-Point Attack: Fine Tuning Series, #5
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    Kevin Sivils

    A 25 year veteran of the coaching profession, with twenty-two of those years spent as a varsity head coach, Coach Kevin Sivils amassed 479 wins and his teams earned berths in the state play-offs 19 out of 22 seasons with his teams advancing to the state semi-finals three times.  An eight time Coach of the Year Award winner, Coach Sivils has traveled as far as the Central African Republic to conduct coaching clinics.  Coach Sivils first coaching stint was as an assistant coach for his college alma mater, Greenville College, located in Greenville, Illinois. Coach Sivils holds a BA with a major in physical education and a minor in social studies from Greenville College and a MS in Kinesiology with a specialization in Sport Psychology from Louisiana State University.  He also holds a Sport Management certification from the United States Sports Academy. In addition to being a basketball coach, Coach Sivils is a classroom instructor and has taught U.S. Government, U.S. History, the History of WW II, and Physical Education and has won awards for excellence in teaching and Teacher of the Year. He has served as an Athletic Director and Assistant Athletic Director and has also been involved in numerous professional athletic organizations. Sivils is married to the former Lisa Green of Jackson, Michigan, and the happy couple are the proud parents of three children, Danny, Katie, and Emily.  Rounding out the Sivils family are three dogs, Angel, Berkeley, and Al.  A native of Louisiana, Coach Sivils currently resides in the Great State of Texas.

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      Fine Tuning Your Three-Point Attack - Kevin Sivils

      Fine Tuning Your Three-Point Attack:

      150 Concepts to Improve Any Team’s Three-Point Offense

      - Kevin Sivils -

      Kevin Sivils’s books should be required reading for coaches! I’m always impressed by the shear number of solid, time-tested and thought-provoking ideas he presents, giving the reader a one-stop shopping" resource. In Fine Tuning Your Three-point Attack he has great suggestions not only for coaching the shooter, but the concepts and drills you need to be aware of generate open looks from the arc. His section on quick-hitters, sideline and underneath OB plays alone are worth the price of the book, and will help you make the three-point shot an integral part of your offense!"

      Coach Doug Porter - Head Women’s Basketball Coach Olivet Nazarene University - National Collegiate Scoring Champions

      His thought provoking approach makes for an easy read and will definitely stimulate thought and, most likely, change the way you go about coaching offense.

      Rusty Rogers - Two-time NAIA Division II Women’s Basketball National Championship Coach and Two-time NAIA National Coach of the Year

      Coach Sivils does an outstanding job of breaking down the individual components, skills, and base blocks of being an efficient and effective 3-point shooter, then putting the pieces back together to highlight the impact of the 3-point shot and how it continues to shape the game today.

      Daniel Koutsis - Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach Calumet College

      Coach Sivils clearly brings his experience in the game of basketball to his writing. He is a great teacher who acquire great gifts over the years and it’s great he wants to share those gifts with other coaches.

      Bill Reidy - Long time successful High School and AAU Basketball Coach

      Prolific basketball author Kevin Sivils provides another soup to nuts scoring guide. While at its core, offensive basketball is a game of cutting and passing, Coach Sivils helps players and coaches achieve their full potential SHOOTING the basketball. The three-point rule revolutionized basketball over thirty years ago, and Fine Tuning presents an advanced treatise on the benefits, limitations, and mechanics of enhancing your perimeter game.

      Ron Sen, MD, - Middle School Basketball Coach

      When it comes to player development, there is nothing more important than the coach’s knowledge of fundamentals and details. Coach Sivils provides expert advice for coaches desiring to develop that essential knowledge base.

      Jeremy Donalson - High School Basketball Coach

      For the coach who wants to take full advantage of the 3-point shot on offense, this book is a great resource for ideas about maximizing the offensive value of the 3-point shot.

      James Rodgers - High School Basketball Coach

      I was surprised at the broad coverage of information included in the book. If there is a kitchen sink in basketball, Coach Sivils has thrown it in this book.

      Matt Dodger - High School Basketball Coach

      The value of this book is not any earth shaking new offensive ideas for obtaining 3-point shots or how to shoot the three, though I did learn new ideas, it is having all of this information gathered in one place.

      Bill Janssen - High School Basketball Coach

      Coach Sivils provides meticulous shooting fundamentals for my middle schoolers to prepare them for the challenges of shooting at the high school level. The style of offense will make for a fun, uncommon style of play at the middle school level.

      Andrew Collazo - Middle School Basketball Coach

      Fine Tuning Your Three-Point Attack:

      150 Concepts to Improve Any

      Team’s Three-Point Offense

      Kevin Sivils

      A Southern Family Publishing

      KCS Basketball Enterprises, LLC

      Katy, Texas

      Fine Tuning Your Three-Point Attack:

      150 Concepts to Improve Any

      Team’s Three-Point Offense

      Copyright 2012 Kevin Sivils

      All Rights Reserved

      ISBN: 1469919168

      ISBN-13: 978-1469919164

      Photography by David Shutts of

      Shutts Photography

      Photography by Maddy Copello

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the author.

      Published by A Southern Family Publishing

      A Division of KCS Basketball Enterprises, LLC

      www.kcsbasketball.com

      Using This Book

      Like other books in the Fine Tuning Series, the information presented is not meant to be a comprehensive system of 3-point offense and shooting. It is meant to be a guide, a source of ideas and inspiration, to improving what you as a coach already do on offense in regards to utilizing the 3-point shot as an offensive weapon.

      I am a firm believer in a coach doing what feels comfortable and fits with his or her system of play. Simply adopting wholesale what another coach does will work sometimes but more often than not problems will result. This is due to the coach adopting the system not having the personnel to execute the system or ultimately the coach does not believe in several of the core principles of the system.

      Either way, problems will crop up. Coaching legend Don Meyer told coaches repeatedly at his summer Bison Basketball Camps you can get all the good ideas, you just can’t use them all. What great advice for any coach, veteran or rookie regardless of the level of play.

      If what you are doing works for you and your program, there is no need to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Fine Tune your system! Take the ideas presented in this book that fit your players, your system and your beliefs in how the game should be played and use these concepts to fine tune, to improve, what you are already doing. Save the rest of the ideas for when your program is faced with a big change in personnel or for whatever reason, you feel your system is in need of a complete makeover.

      Some of the information presented may not seem like it is directly related to 3-point shooting or offense. What does starting, stopping and turning have to do with 3-point offense? Everything if you ask John Wooden and the coaches who follow his philosophy of teaching fundamentals. Specialists in biomechanics will confirm everything starts with the feet and the base of balance and support established with the feet.

      Why is the fact every zone defense turns into a 2-3 zone when the ball is moved to the corner relevant to 3-point offense? Because a 2-3 zone is vulnerable to particular offensive building blocks, the screen-in tactic for example, that are particularly effective if setting up good, open 3-point shots.

      If you have a firm grasp on how to integrate the 3-point shot into your existing offensive system, this book may help you iron out any kinks in the system or provide you with small insights that will help you develop your players into better 3-point offensive weapons.

      I have used every concept presented in this book successfully during my 20+ seasons as a varsity head coach and have used these concepts regardless of the tempo or style of play a given team used that season. Fast breaking teams can benefit from using these concepts as much as deliberate, half court teams.

      Some of the concepts in this book are repeated in other books I have authored. This is because I believe these concepts are so important they need to be repeated as often as possible. They include the importance of the team concept, teaching fundamentals and for coaches to not tolerate sloppy execution of basic skills.

      If you are interested in building a complete system of play utilizing as the center focus of the offense the 3-point shot and have more questions, please contact me using the information on the Contact the Author page. Consider asking me questions and receiving an answer as part of the purchase agreement for this book.

      A Note About Systems of Shooting

      In a book about offense, particularly 3-point offense, a word needs to be said about shooting. Let’s face it, you can have the best ideas in the game about how to obtain good 3-point shots for your players, but if none of your players are able to shoot the ball from 3-point range with any degree of accuracy or consistency, then all the ideas are of little value.

      The focus on this book is to help coaches develop a systematic approach to developing an offense that makes full use of the benefits of the 3-point shot. As such, shooting is part of that approach but a bit beyond the scope of what this book is intended to accomplish. There are several key principles all systems have in common. Rather than advocate a specific system of shooting in this book, the general principles common to all successful shooting systems will be mentioned and explained.

      Programs that produce great shooting teams season after season do not do so by accident. The coaches who lead these programs utilize well developed and thought out systems of shooting and methods to teach and practice these systems.

      No one particular system of shooting will be advocated in this book, though I have studied and used several during my 20+ years of coaching. To name a few, I have studied the Don Eddy System, the Dick Baumgartner System as well as the teachings of Coach Don Meyer.

      All of these approaches to teaching shooting have merit and will produce players who are capable of consistently excellent shooting. Like everything else, these systems have their drawbacks.

      It is wise to keep the following in mind when looking for a system of shooting to adopt. There is more than one way to skin a cat. Which method will work best for you and your players?

      Contents

      Using This Book

      A Note About Systems of Shooting

      The Case for the 3-Point Shot

      What the 3-Point Game Can Do

      Problems With the 3-Point Shot

      Twelve Necessary Components of a 3-Point Attack

      Universal Basic Principles of Shooting

      Number 1      The Most Important Shooting Coach a Player Can Have is Him(Her)self

      Number 2      Hold a High One-Second Follow Through

      Number 3      Get the Ball Up – 60 Degree Arc

      Number 4      Always be Moving Toward the Basket

      Number 5      Shoot on the Way Up

      Number 6      Sight a Specific Target When Shooting

      Number 7      Backspin is What Allows Misses to Go In

      Number 8      A Shooter Should Land Just Slightly Forward of His/Her Own Footprints

      Number 9      Basketball Players Must Warm Up Their Shot

      Number 10    If You Miss a Shot, Miss Long or Short, Not Left or Right

      Number 11    Use a Shot Line

      General Concepts for 3-Point Shooting

      Number 12    The Poorest Shot in the Game of Basketball

      Number 13    Know Where the 3-Point Line is Without Looking

      Number 14    Know Your Best Shooting Area/Spot and Work to Get Shots in That Area

      Number 15    Know the Time and Score

      Number 16    Missed 3-Point Shots Take Longer Rebounds

      Number 17    Think in Terms of a Set Shot

      Number 18    If Necessary, Lower the Shooting Pocket

      Number 19    Shoot as High as the Top of the Backboard

      Principles of Shooting off the Dribble

      Number 20    Move Towards the Goal

      Number 21    Should Not Be Closely Guarded

      Number 22    Step Plant for Shooting Off the Dribble

      Number 23    Last Dribble Must be a Hard One

      Principles of Shooting off the Pass

      Number 24    Set the Shot Up Before Catching the Pass

      Number 25    Bring the Ball to the Shooting Pocket First

      Number 26    Step Directly Into an Inside/Out Pass

      Number 27    Use Hand Targets to Communicate

      Number 28    Concept of Face-up/Square up

      Essential Basic Skills

      Number 29    Fundamentals Are Key!

      Number 30    Free Throws and Lay-ups Win Games

      Number 31    Free Throws Matter

      Number 32    Lay-ups, Lay-ups, Lay-ups

      Number 33    Place a Heavy Emphasis on Fundamentals

      Number 34    Starts, Stops and Turns

      Number 35    Stopping Matters Too

      Number 36    Use the Pass to Key the Shot

      Number 37    Throw Frozen Ropes

      Number 38    Pass Away From the Defense

      Number 39    Shorten the Pass

      Shot Selection Rules for the 3-Point Shot

      For Players:

      Number 40    Always Obey Rules for Time and Score

      Number 41    Only Shoot 3’s If You Have Been Green-lighted

      Number 42    Be Squared Up

      Number 43    Be on Balance

      Number 44    Be Open

      Number 45    Does a Teammate Have a Better Shot?

      Number 46    It Bears Saying

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