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The present day game of basketball is filled up with works and formations with titles like the Counter-top Trey, the Wildcat, the Area Blitz, and the Cover Two. They have grown to be part of the sport's vernacular, and yet for many admirers they remain just titles, often challenging ones. To rectify that, Tim Layden has drilled deep in to the core of the overall game to show you how these chalkboard X's and O's really work on the field, as well as where they originated from and who imagined them up. These playbook plans, most of them illuminated by diagrams, carry the insignia of some of the game's great innovators, men like Vince Lombardi, Don Coryell, Tom Osborne, Charge Walsh, Tony Dungy, and Buddy Ryan. But basketball has also been radically changed by the ingenious work of men with more obscure titles, like Tiger Ellison, Emory Bellard, and Mouse Davis. In Blood, Sweat and Chalk, Layden needs readers in to the getting together with rooms - and sometimes the living rooms - where the game's most significant ideas were hatched. He would go to the coaches and also to the players who motivated them, so they can tell their tales. In candid conversations with some of football's most intriguing characters, Layden offers a fascinating guide to the overall game, helping fans to better start to see the subtleties of America's favorite sport.
