Cross Over: The New Model of Youth Basketball Development

America is blessed with the best athletes in the world, yet as anyone who watched the 2004 Olympics can tell you, our basketball development system hardly creates the most successful team. Why? Because from ridiculously young ages like 10 and 11, they are overplayed and undertaught by a system that values short term success over long-term development. Coach McCormick has done his homework--and he has extremely specific, hands-on ideas from all over the world about exactly how American basketball development can work better. From learning good defensive positioning, to overhauling an offensive and corrupt system--it's all in here. --Henry Abbott of TrueHoop