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 enlarge | Author: Ann Parr
Publisher: NDX Press
Category: Book
List Price: $26.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 591193
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 8 x 0.7
ISBN: 193380310X
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.3232
EAN: 9781933803104
ASIN: 193380310X
Publication Date: July 1, 2006
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Hooked from the Middle July 19, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I read magazines and newspapers, not books. I had some free time recently and picked up this Tex Winter book. Although I like to watch basketball, I don't know much about the specific plays and strategies, and I didn't know who Tex Winter was. I flopped the book open -- to a middle page -- and started reading. I kept turning back toward the front of the book to find out what happened before, and then what happened before that, and pretty soon, I couldn't put the thing down. All the interesting quotes and stories by and about famous players and coaches got me hooked. And all the quotes and personal notes by Tex made me read more. It's great, and I'd recommend it for anyone who has any interest in basketball, or sports in general, or just likes inspirational personal stories. It's a "can't put down" book.
Great story - not aboutr basketball July 9, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I need to admit first that I know very little about basketball (5 on a team, right?!) and was nervous that this lack of bball knowledge would deter from the story. This is a fabulous story about a man that doesn't give up and shows how teams and team work can achieve more than the sum of the parts. A great story that I couldn't put down. Thanks Ann Parr for putting this together and documenting for posterity the history of one American hero.
Coach Tex Winter: Triangle Basketball July 7, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Ann Parr has written a most in-depth, factual and inspiring closeup and personal story of one of the nation's great basketball minds, Tex Winter. Her years of personal friendship with Coach Winter, nurtured through her husband Jack Parr, who was an All-American for Winter at Kansas State, has provided the author with a unique, inside opportunity to share with the rest of us, the values and attributes behind the genius sitting on the bench during nine NBA world championship seasons.
This is not a book of "x"'s and "O"'s, or "triple-post/triangle offense intracacies. Rather, it is a story of how one man's belief in the team concept over individual talent became a foundation for those nine NBA world championship teams - each of which abounded in individual superstar talent but never won until grasping Winter's team philosophy in the triangle offense which Phil Jackson so masterfully orchestrated on the court.
Having had the privilege of knowing Tex Winter for years, I was nonetheless mesmerized by the stories he told through Ann Parr. I learned so much about Tex and his teams and his dreams and even got a great glimpse at what it was like to coach the likes of Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal, Scottie Pippen and the most intriguing Dennis Rodman.
"Triangle Basketball" is a must read for basketball fans and for those striving to find out why some teams are so successful where others fail. Tex Winter, already a giant in basketball lore in this country, was given, in my opinion, a magnificent boost through Ann Parr's book, to a permanent place of honor in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. With beautiful graphics, photos and quotes from numerous men who played for Tex Winter, my appreciation and affection for Tex Winter and for the author were magnified a thousand times. I simply could not put this book down.
Ted Hayes, Executive Director
State of Kansas Sports Hall of Fame
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