Spaced Out: How the NBA's Three-Point Revolution Changed Everything You Thought You Knew About Basketball
A hands-on, illuminating deconstruction of NBA basketball, tracing the tactical evolution of the modern game.

As the NBA celebrates and surpasses 75 years of existence, today's game looks nothing like it did in generations past when Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar took turns ruling the league. But it's also entirely different from a decade—even half decade—ago. 

Today's stars enter the league with more versatility and fluidity than ever before, and they need it to handle the strategies, philosophies, schemes, skill sets, movement patterns, and measures of basketball intelligence that simply didn't exist in the past.

Spaced Out tells the story of what professional basketball looks like right now and how it got here. Taking a court-level view, Mike Prada breaks down high-level play to elucidate the athleticism, strategy, and skill demonstrated on a nighty basis, while shining a light on the historical forces that have dramatically altered the shape of the game and the role of its superstars.

Topics covered include the explosion of three point shooting, the rise and fall and rise again of zone defense, the impact of tighter enforcement of perimeter contact rules, and other pivotal factors impacting the pro game. 

From Xs and Os to keen historic analysis, this definitive volume will reveal the intricacies of a beautiful game for savvy fans, players, and coaches alike. 
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Spaced Out: How the NBA's Three-Point Revolution Changed Everything You Thought You Knew About Basketball
A hands-on, illuminating deconstruction of NBA basketball, tracing the tactical evolution of the modern game.

As the NBA celebrates and surpasses 75 years of existence, today's game looks nothing like it did in generations past when Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar took turns ruling the league. But it's also entirely different from a decade—even half decade—ago. 

Today's stars enter the league with more versatility and fluidity than ever before, and they need it to handle the strategies, philosophies, schemes, skill sets, movement patterns, and measures of basketball intelligence that simply didn't exist in the past.

Spaced Out tells the story of what professional basketball looks like right now and how it got here. Taking a court-level view, Mike Prada breaks down high-level play to elucidate the athleticism, strategy, and skill demonstrated on a nighty basis, while shining a light on the historical forces that have dramatically altered the shape of the game and the role of its superstars.

Topics covered include the explosion of three point shooting, the rise and fall and rise again of zone defense, the impact of tighter enforcement of perimeter contact rules, and other pivotal factors impacting the pro game. 

From Xs and Os to keen historic analysis, this definitive volume will reveal the intricacies of a beautiful game for savvy fans, players, and coaches alike. 
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Spaced Out: How the NBA's Three-Point Revolution Changed Everything You Thought You Knew About Basketball

Spaced Out: How the NBA's Three-Point Revolution Changed Everything You Thought You Knew About Basketball

by Mike Prada
Spaced Out: How the NBA's Three-Point Revolution Changed Everything You Thought You Knew About Basketball

Spaced Out: How the NBA's Three-Point Revolution Changed Everything You Thought You Knew About Basketball

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Overview

A hands-on, illuminating deconstruction of NBA basketball, tracing the tactical evolution of the modern game.

As the NBA celebrates and surpasses 75 years of existence, today's game looks nothing like it did in generations past when Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar took turns ruling the league. But it's also entirely different from a decade—even half decade—ago. 

Today's stars enter the league with more versatility and fluidity than ever before, and they need it to handle the strategies, philosophies, schemes, skill sets, movement patterns, and measures of basketball intelligence that simply didn't exist in the past.

Spaced Out tells the story of what professional basketball looks like right now and how it got here. Taking a court-level view, Mike Prada breaks down high-level play to elucidate the athleticism, strategy, and skill demonstrated on a nighty basis, while shining a light on the historical forces that have dramatically altered the shape of the game and the role of its superstars.

Topics covered include the explosion of three point shooting, the rise and fall and rise again of zone defense, the impact of tighter enforcement of perimeter contact rules, and other pivotal factors impacting the pro game. 

From Xs and Os to keen historic analysis, this definitive volume will reveal the intricacies of a beautiful game for savvy fans, players, and coaches alike. 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781629378862
Publisher: Triumph Books
Publication date: 11/01/2022
Pages: 384
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Mike Prada is a writer and editor who has covered the NBA and WNBA for over a decade. This is his first book.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Game Done Changed vii

Chapter 1 Carnival Basketball 1

Chapter 2 The Holy War 19

Chapter 3 Schrodinger's Superstar 35

Chapter 4 The Positional Revolution 55

Chapter 5 Our Best Play Is "Random" 85

Chapter 6 The Legal Pyramid Scheme 105

Chapter 7 No Wrong Answers 129

Chapter 8 Subatomic Shifts 163

Chapter 9 Scan Less, See More 193

Chapter 10 Fake It by Taking It (A Lot) 225

Chapter 11 Dribbling Is Footwork 255

Chapter 12 Beyond Man-to-Man 301

Epilogue: Means to the Same End 327

Acknowledgments 341

References 343

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