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Getting to Us: How Great Coaches Make Great Teams Hardcover – March 6, 2018

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What makes a coach great? How do great coaches turn a collection of individuals into a coherent “us”? 
 
Seth Davis, one of the keenest minds in sports journalism, has been thinking about that question for twenty-five years. It’s one of the things that drove him to write the definitive biography of college basketball’s greatest coach, John Wooden, Wooden: A Coach’s Life. But John Wooden coached a long time ago. The world has changed, and coaching has too, tremendously. Seth Davis decided to embark on a proper investigation to get to the root of the matter. 

In Getting to Us, Davis probes and prods the best of the best from the landscape of active coaches of football and basketball, college and pro—from Urban Meyer, Dabo Swinney, and Jim Harbaugh to Mike Krzyzewski, Tom Izzo, Jim Boeheim, Brad Stevens, Geno Auriemma, and Doc Rivers—to get at the fundamental ingredients of greatness in the coaching sphere. There’s no single right way, of course—part of the great value of this book is Davis’s distillation of what he has learned about different types of greatness in coaching, and what sort of leadership thrives in one kind of environment but not in others. Some coaches have thrived at the college level but not in the pros. Why? What’s the difference? Some coaches are stern taskmasters, others are warm and cuddly; some are brilliant strategists but less emotionally involved with their players, and with others it’s vice versa. In Getting to Us, we come to feel a deep connection with the most successful and iconic coaches in all of sports—big winners and big characters, whose stories offer much of enduring interest and value.
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“This series of profiles is a brisk and colorful companion if you want to know how several of the best coaches in college hoops operate. . . . vivid.” –Tom Perotta, Wall Street Journal

"A spirited survey of some of the techniques of winning coaches in building winning teams . . . [Davis] provides plenty of useful information for aspiring coaches and committed fans." – Kirkus Reviews

"This refreshing look into the complex lives of coaches will appeal to an audience far wider than hardcore sports fans." – Publishers Weekly
 
Praise for When March Went Mad: The Game that Transformed Basketball
 
“A must-read book for anybody who considers themselves a basketball fan.” —The Washington Post
 
“A vivid portrait of a time when we knew a lot less about the sport and, because of that, loved it in a different way.” —The Wall Street Journal
 
“Excellent.” —Detroit Free Press
 
“The sports book of the year.” —Politico
 
Praise for Wooden: A Coach’s Life
 
“Superb . . . [Seth Davis] has written a virtual cutaway view of the history and evolution of basketball in the form of a biography. Davis takes us on bus rides over snow-covered roads to Friday-night high school games, puts us in the frantic and precarious whirl of semi-pro basketball barnstorming in the Midwest and, finally, gives us a courtside seat in the high-stakes pressure cooker of big-time college basketball.” ―Los Angeles Times
 
“A meticulously researched and evenhanded assessment.” ―The New York Times Book Review
 
“Mr. Davis beautifully captures the ties that bound a strong-willed coach and his players. His biography is superb--readable, well-reported and savvy in its understanding of basketball.” ―The Wall Street Journal

About the Author

Seth Davis is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Wooden: A Coach’s Life and When March Went Mad: The Game That Transformed Basketball. He is an on-air studio analyst for CBS Sports and CBS Sports Network during coverage of college basketball and the NCAA tournament, and he is also the Managing Editor of the national college basketball platform at The Athletic. Before joining The Athletic, Davis spent twenty-two years covering college basketball for Sports Illustrated. A graduate of Duke University, he lives with his family in Los Angeles.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Press (March 6, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 073522272X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0735222724
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 1 x 9.5 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Read
Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2023
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You learn a lot about each coach
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Bruce P. Moriarty
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it!
Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2020
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Really good look into bringing groups together, in fact I gave it to all of our administrators at our high school and they did a 'book study' on it. Fun to get insight into each of these guys and what they do to succeed.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good read, nothing revolutionary
Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2018
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A good book about what makes the coaches in the book special. In most instances it is a small biography with a little bit of what they believe. I don't think there is anything revolutionary in here if you have read any coaching books. It is an entertaining read with a nugget or two you can take away.
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R McBurnett
5.0 out of 5 stars Moving from an I to an Us Mentality
Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2021
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In a society that is increasingly more an I society, Davis illuminates how immensely successful coaches have achieved their success by creating an Us mentality. Unlike many of the books by coaches trying to impart their athletic coaching strategies into business strategies, Seth Davis succeeds. I would say this is in large part due to his focussing on what worked for others rather than to promote himself. Yet anotehr example of the Us mentality over the I mentality.
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Jay
3.0 out of 5 stars Good stories, not much coaching substance.
Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2018
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If you are interested in the lives of the coaches featured in this book, read it. If you want to learn something about coaching, I wouldn't bother. The author does a nice job of chronicling the lives of the coaches and the stories are interesting. I enjoyed learning what makes some the coaches "tick" and experiences in their lives that have led them to the position they currently hold. There is little research or data presented. It seams the author spent some time with the subjects and wrote a nice story about their experiences.
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Christina Hanson
5.0 out of 5 stars You won’t want the book to end.
Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2018
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The stories Seth told about these coaches went perfectly with his PEAK profile. Best book I’ve read. It really humanized many of these ‘big time’ coaches. They didn’t seem so untouchable. Awesome!
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Jerry D Baker Jr
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book by @SethDavisHoops
Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2018
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Great book by @SethDavisHoops! Really pulls back the curtain and let's you see how some of the games best coaches were formed and how they lead today. Good stuff!
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KRL Hope
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and simple
Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2018
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Encouraging synopsis of successful coaches. Not all of them are successful in a wholistic sense. They are human and make poor decisions and good choices we can all learn from. My favorites were Sweeney and Stevens.
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Linc
3.0 out of 5 stars Easy to read but no slam dunk
Reviewed in Australia on May 28, 2020
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Having read other books on some of these coaches the information contained did not shed any new light for me about their coaching techniques / philosophies . I was truly hoping to get a deeper insight into the 'Getting to Us' aspect of the book, and to this end I was disappointed. If you haven't read books on many of these coaches it would provide a decent overview of their history and a small insight into their coaching philosophies.
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