Description
First edition of Quickness, Reaction, Practice, Planning, the private publication practice manual by legendary NCAA Basketball Coach, Bobby Knight.
Octavo, 23pp. Publisher’s yellow pictorial wrappers. Bound at spine with staples. Faint foxing along margins of front wrapper, internally clean. Includes 17 diagrams of basketball training exercises. This work is one of four private publication coaching pamphlets from Coach Knight, which include: Let’s Play Defense (1968), Let’s Get A Shot (1968), Quickness Reaction Practice Planning (1970), and Motion Offense (1975). Worldcat only identifies 4 holdings in American Libraries, a scarce work.
From Sports Illustrated, March 9, 2015: “And while Knight had issues-with his temper, with his language, with four-legged plastic projectiles-selfishness with his concepts was not one of them. He was the most sought-after clinic speaker of that era, and in conjunction with his lectures, he sold pamphlets entitled Let’s Play Defense, with an illustration of a devil (horns, tail, claws, steam spewing from nostrils) in a defensive stance on the cover. The 37-page booklet diagrammed Knight’s man-to-man D, as well as the drills necessary to implement it.” Bobby Knight (1940-2023) was an NCAA basketball coach, holding three national championships, eleven Big Ten Conference Championships, and an Olympic gold medal as the coach of the 1984 USA Men’s Basketball Team. He retired with the most wins of any coach in NCAA Division I basketball history but has since been surpassed by three coaches. He was the head coach of the Army Black Knights from 1965-1971, the Indiana Hoosiers from 1971-2000, and the Texas Tech Red Raiders from 2001-2008. He passed away at the age of 83 in 2023.
