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How to watch basketball like a genius : what game designers, economists, ballet choreographers, and theoretical astrophysicists reveal about the greatest game on Earth
- Title
- How to watch basketball like a genius : what game designers, economists, ballet choreographers, and theoretical astrophysicists reveal about the greatest game on Earth / Nick Greene.
- Author
- Greene, Nicholas
- Publication
- New York : Abrams Press, 2021.
- ©2021
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- Description
- xii, 258 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Basketball is the second-most popular sport in the world--an insanely complicated game built on a combination of athleticism, craftiness, rules, intangibles, and superstardom. However, while it's enjoyable to watch, the real reason it works is because it's a game of culture, art, and all the things that make us human. How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius deconstructs the sport from top to bottom and then puts it back together again, detailing its intricacies through reporting and dozens of interviews with experts. These experts, however, are a diverse group: wine critics weighing in on LeBron's ability to delegate on the fly, magicians analyzing Chris Paul's mystifying dribbling techniques, cartographers breaking down Steph Curry's deadeye three-point shooting. Every chapter treats basketball to a multi-disciplined study that adventures far beyond the lines of the court, examining key elements of the sport from some surprising and revealing angles."--Amazon.com.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Popular works.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-248) and index.
- Contents
- Prologue: it comes in peace -- Section One: The shape of the game. An introductory class: Naismith's original thirteen rules of basketball -- Making a bad rule disappear: Dribbling's outlaw illusionist -- Counting down the seconds: Saving a sport in the nick of time -- You've got to draw the line somewhere: The delayed insurgency of the three-pointer -- Section Two: Putting the ball in the basket. The cost of free throws: Loneliness at the line -- Jumping past conclusions: Breaking the surly bonds of bad coaching -- Dawn of flight: Dreaming about dunking -- Section Three: Making that dream work. Stout, resolute, and somewhat invisible: Defense flies under the radar -- A passing interest in assists: The selfessness and selfishness of sharing -- The phenomenal shape of chemistry: When things work -- Epilogue: Bouncing back.
- ISBN
- 9781419744808
- 1419744801
- 9781683359203 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2020944848
- OCLC
- on1201684192
- SCSB-14073552
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library