Basketball Book List Volume 1

Those who know me, can attest I love going to Borders, Barnes and Noble, several websites ( Championship Productions, Amazon, and Human Kinetic) purchasing basketball related materials. I always believe that in order to "keep up with the Joneses" you have to study and keep up with all the current trends in coaching. I've gotten so much information from a lot of books that I decided to list some books from my extravagant basketball library, lol. I'm sure some titles are well known to many coaches, but in case you don't here are some of my favorite titles and I have used many plays, drills, administrative ideals from coaching middle school on up to my time at the JUCO level.
Feel free to add any books to the list. I would love to see what coaches have in their "extravagant libraries" as well :)

1. Coaching Basketball Technical and Tacticall Skills
2. Lessons From The Legends: Basketball Defense Sourcebook
3. Coaching Basketball Successfully
4. Coaching Girls' Basketball Successfully
5. Developing a Successful Girls' and Women's Basketball Program
6. Coaching High School Basketball
7. The Ultimate Basketball Book
8. Five Star Basketball Coaches' Playbook
9. Basketball Offenses & Plays
10. The Complete Guide to Girls' Basketball
11. The Carolina Way
12. Winning Defense: A Guide for Players and Coaches
13. Coaching Fast Break and Secondary Offense
14. Special Situations: Making the Most of Limited Possessions
15. Basketball's Half Court Offense
16. Spalding Basketball Inbound Attack
17. Complete Conditioning for Basketball
18. Encyclopedia of Defensive Basketball Drills
19. The Basketball Handbook
20. Basketball Drills, Plays, and Strategies

Who Am I?

Damon Moore just completed his third season and last season as Assistant Women's Basketball Coach at Lakeland Community College Lady Lakers Basketball Program. He will begin his 12th year in coaching at his alma mater, Cleveland State University, learning from one of the best coaches in the state, Kate Peterson-Abiad. He is a native of Detroit, Michigan, but has spent most of his life in Cleveland, Ohio where he is a 1990 graduate of Collinwood High School. Moore spent his first three years of high school living in Toronto Ontario, Canada where he was a three year starting center at Midland Avenue Collegiate Institute and garnered All-City Honors his junior year. Moore continued his academic career at Cleveland State University where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Education with an emphasis in Special Education in 1998. Coach Moore is currently working towards a master's degree in Education.

After completing his B.S. in 1998, he started his teaching and coaching career at Patrick Henry Middle School where he taught 6th-8th grade special education students. From the first day he stepped into the school, Moore began bugging then Athletic Director, the famed high school track coach, Louis Slapnik, about an opportunity to coach or help out at the school. “Coach Slap took me under his wing and I became a voluntary assistant coach with the boys program, where he mentored me on the basics of coaching and how to deal with kids at that age. He helped build the foundation of my coaching career,” says Moore. After the completion of the boys program that season, Moore became coach of the girl’s program in 1998. He still worked under Coach Slapnik for the next two years as a voluntary assistant. With the additional mentoring and intensive study, Coach Moore was able to build a dominate Girl’s program which resulted in several divisional titles and a City Championship with a team that went 15-0. Coach Moore ended his middle school coaching career in 2004, taking over the boy’s program and winning a divisional title and leading that team to the city championship where they became City Runners-Up.

Towards his climb up the coaching ladder, Coach Moore accepted the position of Girls Varsity Head Coach at his alma mater, Collinwood High School. Moore notes, “Although coaching high school was intimidating at first, I welcomed the challenges.” At this time he began noticing the politics that came with coaching urban high school basketball and the inequalities that prevented him from building a championship caliber team. “Reality set in and the honeymoon I experienced in middle school was over. I couldn’t understand why only 12-15 girls came out for the varsity and junior varsity team, fighting for gym time with the boy’s team and always getting the reduced practice time, lack of administration help and support, spending my own money on practice gear, basketballs, equipment, and other things needed for the team. After two seasons of dealing with that, I was on a mission to coach elsewhere and what awaited me was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up.”

Coach Moore came to Lakeland Community College in the summer of 2006. He fell in love with the campus immediately and was anxious to work at the “next level.” As he started his third season, he was finally able to implement several things into the program that has been successful to the overall play of the Lady Lakers, but knew more work was needed. “Our full court pressure defense, was recently put into play towards the end of the season and it worked pretty well, despite the limited time our team had to learn it. We also started a basic motion offense that has the chance to get better with time and hard work.”

Coach Moore is a young and dynamic individual. He brings a level of enthusiasm to the sideline and would like to develop and/or assist a successful program where the players can be proud of their accomplishments on the court and in the classroom. Along with laughter, hard work, and determination, Coach Moore’s energy and enthusiasm will aid in building any basketball program he is a part of into an eventual champion.

Full Court Pressure Dedications

Since this is my first blog, I would like to dedicate this initial entry to Coach Peterson-Abiad (shown cutting down the net as C.S.U. won the Horizon Conference Championship in 2008), Head Women's Basketball Coach at Cleveland State University. I knew getting into the Fraternity of coaching at the Division 1 level was difficult, but didn't know it was going to be THAT difficult. Coach "P' has decided to take a chance on me and mentor me on what it takes to succeed at this level. I'm currently at the bottom of the totem pole, but she has created a position (which I will state in another blog) where I can learn from her and the coaching staff and show them the qualities I will bring to the table. I'm grateful for the opportunity and will not disappoint, because this is a definite career move on my part and I'm learning you get one chance at this level and those who know me, knows that I always take "the bull by the horns." So again, thank you Coach P, Coach McAndrews, Coach Wright, Coach Del Rosario, Coach Korth, and the Lady Vikings for the opportunity.

I also have to thank Coach Bowe (Head Men's Coach at Lakeland Community College) and Coach Nate Barnes (former Lakeland Assistant Women's Basketball Coach) for mentoring and preparing me for coaching at the collegiate level, Coach Willis Brown (formerly #1 Assistant Coach at Ohio University) for the advice and mentoring that started at the 2009 W.B.C.A. Convention in St. Louis on up to now, Coach Shanice Stephens (Head Coach of University of North Texas) who I met at the Assistant Coaches Meeting at our convention and has been giving me sound advice as well and has been gracious and is a great motivational speaker, Coach Carmen Houston (Head Girl's Varsity Coach, Martin Luther King) who was my former assistant at Collinwood High School and who keeps an un-biased view of things and we can talk basketball for hours. I must thank Coach Louis Slapnik who is the foundation of my coaching skills and philosophy, I must also thank the legendary Pat Diulus (Head Girl's Varsity Coach at Regina High School) for the advice and opportunity to coach for you and your organization, Coach Timothy Southers (Head Women's Basketball Coach at Culver-Stockton) for providing the blueprint that I needed for the interview segment, although I didn't get the Head job at Lakeland, you've shown me what I needed to do and your advice and kind words will last a lifetime, Coach Booher (Head Women's Coach at Lake Erie College) for the advice and additional points in the art of recruiting and what it takes to succeed at the JUCO level, and last but not least all the players who I have befriended and coached these past 11 years, you all have shaped me in being a better coach and person and I'm proud of each and everyone of you.