Coach Tex Winter: Triangle Basketball

More biographical than anything which is cool if that’s what you wanted!

Need to say I found some mistakes in this book, like the year when Olajuwon was drafted, but it's a really good book, helps me learn much more about Tex whom I admired so much.

Possible because I did not do a review of the contents or subject of the book, I am not happy with my purchase. The book provided another story of Tex Winter's life and provided comments by people who he coached. My first thoughts suggest the title is misleading because I was searching for info/details of the triangle offence and they the book had no such details. Furthermore the spine separated and the book basically fell apart in my hands as I read it.

Very interesting and informative book that captures Coach Winter as a coach and as a person. Having had the opportunity to have Coach Winter as an instructor while at Kansas State, I feel the book describes him very accurately. He was a very caring instructor, even for those of us who weren't his athletes. I picked up many points that I have used in my 40 plus years of coaching. Excellent reading!

First off, DO NOT BUY from the seller cdoliver008. Who specifically stated "SOLID BINDING AND A CLEAN BOOK". While I can live with a few highlighted notes and an (incorrect) adjustment, I can't be satisfied with several pages falling out the first time I open the book!Secondly, to the author and publisher and all else involved in the production of this book, how about considering a name relevant to the book?! Yes, Tex Winter is the man who created the Triangle Offence, but this book is about the man and nothing about his basketball system.Any COACHES who want this book to learn a style of offence, LOOK ELSEWHERE. Anyone interested in reading about the man Tex Winter and his NBA experiences with Phil Jackson, Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman, Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal, etc. then this is for you.

Great book about Mr. Winter's childhood, military career, college basketball coaching, and of course NBA career. Not an Xs and Os book about the "triangle" or "triple-post," but full of nuggets such as how he helped Dennis Rodman, and how the wrong drink caused them to lose one game against the Jazz in the NBA Finals!

Not the book for x's and o's!

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 DirectorState of Kansas Sports Hall of Fame

Nao gostei. Esperava um conteudo mais tecnico. É muito historico do grande Tex, mas para estudo tecnico deixa a desejar.