Jay Bilas on How to Play Basketball
The article just below this one has a host of links to various sites of possible interest. Several of the high school team sites that are listed have some terrific material, and I'd like to call your attention to the Solanco team site. Solanco is in Quarryville, PA, and I've never seen the team play. But, they have a link on their website to the single most outstanding brief article on how to play basketball that I've ever read, "DefiningToughness", by Jay Bilas.
Go to the Solanco site and look for the heading "Reading Material". The fourth item is a link to Bilas' article. Bilas uses the term "toughness" pretty loosely in the article; he was actually writing about how to play the game properly. Every high school basketball player could benefit from reading the article. It belongs in every team's playbook. (Coaches and players--your team has a playbook, right?) I wish that I had seen something like "Defining Toughness" when I was a kid, because it would have made a big, positive impression on me.
Jay Bilas is well known as an ESPN basketball commentator. He was a four year starter on the Duke team, played professional basketball for a few years in Europe, and was later an assistant coach at Duke. He also practices law.
Go to the Solanco site and look for the heading "Reading Material". The fourth item is a link to Bilas' article. Bilas uses the term "toughness" pretty loosely in the article; he was actually writing about how to play the game properly. Every high school basketball player could benefit from reading the article. It belongs in every team's playbook. (Coaches and players--your team has a playbook, right?) I wish that I had seen something like "Defining Toughness" when I was a kid, because it would have made a big, positive impression on me.
Jay Bilas is well known as an ESPN basketball commentator. He was a four year starter on the Duke team, played professional basketball for a few years in Europe, and was later an assistant coach at Duke. He also practices law.
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