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Official Beckett Price Guide to Basketball Cards 2006 
Lists over 50,000 prices for cards issued from 1948 to the present. Includes cards from
all the major manufacturers, including Fleer, Topps, Upper Deck, and Hoops. Every card is
identified by year, manufacturer, size, format, team, and player.
Includes tips on buying, selling, caring for, and storing your cards.
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28/03/2006 - "I can't really remember the names of the
clubs that we went to (in answer to a question whether he visited the Parthenon while in
Greece).... I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to
play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok...." Shaquille O'Neal
" I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I
believe parents should be role models...."
"If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a Basketball, most people on the
street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming...."
"People say I enjoy being famous. I don't. But what choice do I have?..."
"These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they
won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll
only make you have shoes like me. That's it! ...." (In a commercial for Basketball
shoes) Charles Barkley
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26/03/06 - "The "MVP IBM - IBM Watson Research Center
(2003)" is one of the newest proposals in the area of the formulas to evaluate the
efficiency and productivity at Basketball. It was presented by the IBM Watson Research
Center together with the Technologies Commission of the NBA. This coefficient - MVPIBM -
is calculated through the following equation:
MVP IBM = [ Points Made + Rebounds + Assists + Steals + Blocks -
( Field shots Made + Personal Fouls + Turnovers ) + ( Team Wins x 10 ) ] x 250 /
[ ( Points Made + Rebounds + Assists + Turnovers + Blocks -
( Field Shots made + Personal Fouls + Turnovers ) ]
Other proposals and formulas in reference to your question your can find at the excellent Basketball Statistics
Formulas Revision by Deborah Telmes, in the section Formulas of our site.
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20/03/06 - About Scoring: "A lot of people can
score, but a lot of them can't score when it's on the line. Their nuts get tight and they
can't shoot it. Sometimes that lump gets in your throat, that arm feels like it's about
two hundreds pounds, your legs can't jump. The pressures are awesome. There are a lot
of starters in the game, everybody starts; but there are not too many finishers...."
About Rebounders: "Hell, I hate to rebound; I want to
shoot, but somebody's got do the job. But there are guys who, when they tighten up their
shoes before the game, are saying: 'Give me thirty boards tonight.' I look at them like,
'Fool, you're crazy.' These guys are talking about some glass. We call it 'eating glass.'
That's all they like to do. They will run over the coaching staff and the referee and half
the team there to get that rebound - at all costs...." Karl Malone
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Lenny Wilkens & Jerry West,
All Star Game - 1973
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 By: Phil Jackson, With Michael
Arkush
If you were one of the many who believed that when the Lakers put 4
future Hall of Fame players on the court they would certainly win a championship, then
this book goes a long to describing why a team of Basketball players with less talent beat
them decisively.
Phil opens up on the behind the scenes squabbles, pettiness and egos so large they simply
defy explanation. In one example, Kobe Bryant is offered the use of a plane by the Lakers
to make his trips back to a Colorado courtroom for his alleged rape trial, and instead of
being grateful for the support his team is giving him financially, is mad because he
thought he deserved a bigger plane.
The book is full of the insights into the battles between Kobe and Shaq. Imagine two first
graders with 100 million dollars each and you start to get close to the level of
professionalism and emotional maturity. It is often funny, often sad, and usually just
shocking.
The book is written very well, a breeze to read through, and a fascinating tale of
psychological narcissism gone wild. I recommend highly for fans of the NBA, or just anyone
who is interested in team dynamics. It will also explain why the Lakers got beat so easily
by a team with far less talent. A lesson to leaders in organizations everywhere.
Reviewer: Michael Erisman (Seattle, WA) .....
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12/03/06 Subject: Youth Basketball
"How much do you emphasize strength, agility, and quickness with ages 7-11?".
"At this age I don't care at all how strong they are. I've got a 10yo player who's
thin as a twig but can protect the ball by making aggressive, balanced pivots in both
directions off both feet, gripping the ball as tight as he can, and moving the ball around
with speed and decisiveness to keep it away from the defender's hands. In a competition
where jump balls happen all the time, when this player has the ball he never gets it
stolen or allows the defender to force a jump ball. When the other team have it, however,
he often rips the ball clean away from them, so instead of a 50-50 jump ball situation we
have clear possession.
I think 'being strong' and 'playing strong' are different things.
Playing strong comes from having an intent to always give 100% effort and use 100% of your
strength in any physical contest (e.g. fighting for a loose ball, or boxing out). It also
comes from toughness, and a determination not to be physically intimidated by anyone, or
distracted by any of the minor bumps or pokes that happen in Basketball. The third
component of 'playing strong' is always being balanced, and using a good technique in
physical contests.
With young players, I think you'll get more 'bang for your buck' if you use the time you
have with them now to teach and encourage them to 'play strong', and leave the weights
till they're older, when they'll probably bulk up much quicker.
from Coachberno at the eBA Recommended Site Basketball Coaching @ Yahoo Groups Basketball Coaching e-mail
discussion group moderated by Basketball coach, Michael Wells.
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9/03/06 - From " PLUS MINUS RATING: Definition & Applicability: ".... The eBA
Basketball Statistics Creative Analysis System tries to compare team success to
individual performance, applying reasonably simple methods.
If we want to apply the Plus / Minus Ratings
to suggest how a certain sequence of players would perform on the floor against an average
opponent, we must determine the sum of each of the five players. We must perform the total
sum of all of them and no average them. So the team's average plus / minus needs an
adjustment be added, which is explained at the eBA System.
We must take into account, using the Plus / Minus Ratings that the overall debate about
this rate has dismissed the effect of opponent strength because + / - rate doesn't measure
player combinations for the opponents. On the other hand, there is no way to recognize
between players who have good individual but bad team numbers, opposed to players with bad
individual statistics but good + / - ratings.
The suggestion about giving on-court and off-court numbers different weights doesn't
resolve this rates problems, because it would give us a rate too contingent on the
overall grade of excellence worth of the player's team and in most cases this will have a
very minor effect.
Photograph: Basketball Notes by Alex
So, the real method for efficient results is to refrain from applying
the Plus / Minus Ratings exclusively, without any other method being involved, as a
possession based method, for example.
As said, resuming, the Plus / Minus rating determines the
dimension of the statistical norm difference in team accomplishment when a player is
on the court opposed to when he is not. We must concede the validity of the difference in quality of the players that a given
player plays with and against, when he is on and off the court. Only when they are the
same, or almost the same, the Plus / Minus Ratings will determine the dimension of that
given player effect on team's winning percentage compared to that team's
average. ....
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06/03/06 "...We really think that the stats sheet
at real time, provides the evidences that the coach needs to see at half time: who's being
outplayed, who's got the hot hand from three-point range, and so on.
Stats sheet quantify the game but they never tell the whole story. The
Basketball post-game Analysis
does it!
Basketball is a game of momentum. Somebody once said...
When the going gets tough the tough get going! To avoid a breakdown of skill like missing
and easy shot, throwing a bad pass or losing your opposing player whilst on
defense, under
the pressure of a competition game situation, requires intensive training and experience
in realistic and game conditions.
We think that, in the same way, as at the Scouting Area, at the Game Analysis, only
experienced coaches may do the work.
After years of trying to find out how certain Basketball statistics
(Field Goals; Free Throws; Personal Fouls; Turnovers; 3 Pointers; Blocks and Steals)
affect winning percentage for a Basketball team, our conclusion is that while a rise in
each stat had some affect in the rise or fall of winning percentage, we could not
determine a single stat that had a direct affect on the dependent variable: the Winning
Percentage. So our results are more effective when we run the system on how the
combination of all stats affected winning percentage, however this would be obvious given
the nature of our study: the eBA
Basketball
Statistics Analysis System...."
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Minnesota Timberwolves Cheerleaders,
the Basketball beautiful faces.
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TENDEX’s relative
success begat a number of different rating systems,
with different values, or weights, on each major
statistical category, but all of the same general form:
a*PTS + b*REB
+ c*AST + d*STL + e*BLK - f*TO - g*(FGA-FGM) - h*(FTA-FTM) - i*PF
Maybe an offensive
rebound is worth more than a defensive rebound, because defensive rebounds are
relatively so much easier to get. Maybe a blocked shot is
worth 1/3 as much as a point scored, maybe a half, maybe 2/3. Far too much ink - and,
in this modern era, too many electrons - have been wasted arguing about these
linear weights, when in the end the value that is used makes little if any
difference."
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Leading with the Heart 
By Mike Krzyzewski - Coach K
The book has four sections--"Preseason," "Regular Season,"
"Postseason," and "All-Season"--and each of those has four chapters.
Each chapter begins with three quotes ("Too many rules get in the way of
leadership" leads off chapter 1), and ends with bulleted tips summing up the
chapter's message. Between the quotes and the bullet points are anecdotes about Duke
Basketball games and (occasionally) Krzyzewski's life outside Basketball.
What you come away with is an understanding of why Krzyzewski is a great Basketball coach,
why former Duke assistants such as Tommy Amaker and Quin Snyder are probably going to
become great Basketball coaches, and how anyone who's currently a coach can become a
better coach....
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