*This 104 page document is the definitive guide to using taller players
Coach Terry Battenberg is a celebrated basketball coach who has written two other books on post play in basketball - "The Complete Book of Basketball Post Play" and "Power Post Play."
Through the years, Coach Battenberg has been flown around the country and overseas to give basketball clinics on post play and fast break offense.
From Coach Battenberg:
In this guide I will share much of what I learned and used over my career as I developed and featured the bigger players on my teams. Even if you don’t have any real tall players in your program, you will discover some ways to use your biggest or best ones to your advantage. The use of a smart, athletic, average-sized player can be just as effective around the basket as using a big man in many situations. But this is often over-looked in coaching. I cover this in later sections.
If you do have some size in your program, you will find many suggestions and strategies for developing and using Bigs in your present offense, defense, rebounding, pressure defenses, press offenses, and in special situations. Eventually, you too may find out as I did that “In Basketball, Size Matters.”
“At the end of a game, when the speedy guys are tired and slowing down, the tall
guys are still tall.”
What Buyers Are Saying:
“IN BASKETBALL,SIZES MATTERS,” is the most comprehensive book ever written on utilizing size in your program. Coach Battenberg explains the importance of recruiting, developing, and retaining bigger players, while describing his plan to accentuate taller players regardless of position in all phases of the game. This is a very important read for all coaches simply because we may not always have the best players, but this book gives us the tools to develop bigger players into the best players by incorporating them into a system that is different and unique to this era.
-Brian Katz, retired Div. I Head Coach
