A System of Game Execution
Subtitle: Observations of Ralph Miller's Pressure Basketball
By: Steve Seidler
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Pressure Basketball
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Phoenix, AZ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780966566604
Subjects: Miller, Ralph, 1919-2001; Oregon State University -- Basketball -- History.; Basketball -- Coaching.; Basketball -- Training.
Genres: Historical/Fact
Description: Coaches, Fans and Enthusiasts: Here's a chance to own and learn the system made famous by Hall of Fame Coach and twice National Coach of the Year, Ralph Miller. Steve Seidler, an assistant to Coach Miller at Oregon State University for seven years, has written a book detailing the in's and out's of Coach Miller's pressure basketball system. A System of Game Execution, Obervations of Ralph Miller's Pressure Basketball, is great for all ages. It teaches all the fundamentals needed to be a winner in only seven drills! It outlines Coach Miller's entire system, the one that enabled Oregon State to go 143-60, 3 PAC 10 Championships, and a #1 and #4 national ranking from 1981-87. Starting with the 80' team, OSU went 77-11 over the next three years, second in the nation only to DePaul's 79-6 record.
If keeping it simple is what you're after, followed by great success and teaching the game as one of the Master's did, you HAVE TO HAVE this book. Recommended by basketball greats John Wooden, Dean Smith, Lute Olson and Dick Vitale. In conjunction with this book, Ralph Miller's Pressure Basketball Video is available. It is a full color, one hour and fifty minute instructional aide that visually matches the information in the book and can be found on the Pressure Basketball website. 

About the Author:
Steve Seidler is a 1972 graduate of Point Loma High School in San Diego. He earned his BA and MA from Cal State Los Angeles. He has coached at the high school, junior college, N.A.I.A., NCAA Div.1 and professional levels of competition. He was an assistant to Ralph Miller at Oregon State University from 1981-87. During this time the Beavers were ranked #1 ('81) and #4 ('82) in the nation.
Table of contents: label: CHAPTER ONE
pagenum: 9
title: HISTORY; label: CHAPTER TWO
pagenum: 15
title: THE GOLDEN ERA; label: CHAPTER THREE
pagenum: 25
title: COACHES; label: CHAPTER FOUR
pagenum: 33
title: PRESSURE BASKETBALL; label: CHAPTER FIVE
pagenum: 41
title: DRILLS; label: CHAPTER SIX
pagenum: 61
title: OFFENSE; label: CHAPTER SEVEN
pagenum: 91
title: SPEED GAME; label: CHAPTER EIGHT
pagenum: 141
title: PRESS ATTACK; label: CHAPTER NINE
pagenum: 147
title: DEFENSE; label: CHAPTER TEN
pagenum: 173
title: TEAM CONCEPT; label: CHAPTER ELEVEN
pagenum: 177
title: PRE-SEASON CONDITIONING; label: CHAPTER TWELVE
pagenum: 189
title: RALPH HOWARD MILLER, A HALL OF FAME CAREER; label: CHAPTER THIRTEEN
pagenum: 207
title: YEAR BY YEAR...THE SCORES; label: CHAPTER FOURTEEN
pagenum: 245
title: MEMORIES