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Outside Shot: Big Dreams, Hard Times, And One County's Quest For Basketball Greatness (2013)

by Keith O'Brien(Favorite Author)

3.85 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1250000335 (ISBN13: 9781250000330)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

St. Martin's Press

review 1: The reporter that wrote this book took in to affect everything surrounding the basketball team and gave it a thorough sweep of the things that not only allow our kids to be players but be the best they can in hard times. I dont generally like sports themed books but even i must say not a bad choice here. If you have ever wondered what goes into the team sport or school athletics this story will bring it to life for you. the Author allow you into the everyday life of kids that play these sports and their struggles on and off court. Won on goodreads.
review 2: Keith O'Brien in Outside Shot has written a book about a basketball team and an entire town that is typical of many cities in America right now where jobs are hard to come by and oppertunities few and far b... moreetween. Still this basketball team of scrappy kids from a struggling town have managed to over-achieve to the point of where appearences in the season ending tournament at fabled Rupp Arena are expected.O'Brien follows the team through the 2010-11 year and chronicles their successes and their failures. Even when the team wins or an individual player has success though, there seems to be this black cloud of either impending failure or the sense that "oh he just caught lightning in a bottle." Nothing is ever quite good enough for either the players themselves or the town itself, in some cases.What I really liked about this book is that O'Brien doesn't cloak himself in basketball or become obsessive about the team, but rather goes intimatly into the community to illustrate why basketball is so important to the masses. less

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