--- title: Basketball description: Basketball requires a mix of individual ball-handling skills and team-based tactics. This topic covers shooting mechanics, passing, dribbling, defensive positioning, and offensive plays, helping you improve your performance on the court. category: sports-recreation subcategory: team-sports difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/basketball --- # Basketball Basketball requires a mix of individual ball-handling skills and team-based tactics. This topic covers shooting mechanics, passing, dribbling, defensive positioning, and offensive plays, helping you improve your performance on the court. ## Available Resources 4 Books • 1 Courses • 4 Websites ## Websites ### 1. Basketball for Coaches Coaching site with a large library of drills, set plays, and practice plans, plus free ebooks on defense and offense. Useful for building a season's practice structure and teaching fundamentals to youth and school teams. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.basketballforcoaches.com/ **Tags:** basketball, coaching, drills, practice-planning, youth-sports ### 2. Breakthrough Basketball Coaching archive of drills, plays, offensive systems, and defensive schemes with diagrams and video, alongside articles on player development. Coaches can pull ready-made practice material and understand why each system works before installing it. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/ **Tags:** basketball, coaching, drills, offense, defense, plays ### 3. nba.com NBA.com is the official site of the National Basketball Association, offering up-to-date scores, schedules, standings, and news. It also features in-depth player and team stats, profiles, and video highlights to learn about and follow basketball. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://nba.com **Tags:** websites, sports-recreation, team-sports ### 4. basketball-reference.com Basketball-Reference is a comprehensive basketball statistics site with NBA/ABA/NCAA box scores, season-by-season and career stats, historical game logs, and advanced metrics for players and teams. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://basketball-reference.com **Tags:** websites, sports-recreation, team-sports ## Courses ### 1. Steph Curry MasterClass: Dribbling, Shooting & Competition Learn basketball skills from Steph Curry himself! Master dribbling, shooting, and competition techniques in this exclusive MasterClass course. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.masterclass.com/classes/steph-curry-teaches-dribbling-and-shooting **Tags:** basketball, shooting, ball-handling, skills-training, masterclass ## Books ### 1. The Book of Basketball **Author:** Bill Simmons Bill Simmons ranks the greatest NBA players in a Hall of Fame Pyramid and argues through league history, rivalries, and pivotal trades. Readers come away knowing NBA eras and the arguments fans use to compare players across them. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/034551176X?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, sports-recreation, team-sports ### 2. Basketball Fundamentals **Author:** Jay Mikes Jay Mikes treats basketball as a psychological skill, covering concentration, composure, imagery, and stress under pressure. Drills and discussion questions help players work through shooting slumps and clutch free throws, and give coaches a mental-training curriculum for a season. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0880114428?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, sports-recreation, team-sports ### 3. Complete Conditioning for Basketball **Author:** National Basketball Conditioning Coaches Association Training manual from the National Basketball Conditioning Coaches Association, with a companion DVD, presenting over 200 exercises, drills, performance tests and workouts. Shows how to assess players and build strength, speed, agility and endurance programs across the basketball season. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0736057846?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** basketball, sports-conditioning, strength-and-conditioning, agility-training, athletic-performance ### 4. Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior **Author:** Phil Jackson, Hugh Delehanty Memoir by NBA coach Phil Jackson on how he led the Chicago Bulls, blending Zen Buddhism, Lakota teachings and the triangle offense. It shows how mindfulness, selfless teamwork and managing star players shaped championship teams, offering principles for coaching and leading groups. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1401308813?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** basketball, coaching, team-leadership, mindfulness, sports-psychology --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/basketball