Basketball's Match-up Defense
By: [by] Charles R. Ward.
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Published: 1964
Place of publication: Englewood Cliffs, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Basketball -- Defense.
First sentence: What is the Match-Up?  
For many years, coaches searched for defense capable of combating, or at least holding in check, the progress of offensive basketball.
Description: A complete guide to Basketball's Match-up Defense - the defensive system that automatically adjusts to the offense your opponent is using.  Easily learned by inexperienced players, the match-up defense combines the best features of the zone, man-for-man, and pressing styles of defense.  This book shows in step-by-step detail the rules and positions of the match-up defense and explains drills and practice techniques that produce top-notch defensive play.  Scores of action-packed diagrams make each point crystal-clear.
Notes: Charles R Ward had a successful coaching career at Newberry College in South Carolina and Nova High School in Ft Lauderdale, Florida.  His inventions the "Position Master" and "Adapto-Board" were widely used training aids.
Table of contents: label: I.
title: The Match-up