Outside Shooter

by Thomas J. Dygard

Book Overview

A believable story of a first-year coach and his challenge to shape up an uncontrollable yet talented player. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140346716
• ISBN13: 9780140346718
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.4" x 7.1"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

outside shooter

This book is a good book for people that like basketball. The coach team and players went through a lot. there was problems with players. one player in particular was Bobby Haggard. he was a troublemaker but he was the best shooter on the team. everyone had a problem with him because he was so cocky. read this book and find out how his coach dealt with Bobby and the team.

T.M Raniere period 2

Book Review of Outside Shooter By Thomas Dygard Bloomfield, Illinois. Home of the Bloomfield Bulldogs and Bobby Haggerfield. Who is Bobby Haggerfield? Well he's the Bulldogs best player. But Bobby's too good to be true. Along with a sweet outside shot comes a bad team effort. Sort of like Ron Artest he's got the game just the willingness to work with his teammates. Unfortunately for Deke Hill, the new coach, basketball is taken very seriously in Bloomfield. His work was cut out for him: He had to win games but more importantly fix Bobby's problem which will help them win games. Coach Hill always wanted to become a high school basketball coach. After his last game at Duke University he said "All my life I wanted to become a coach and now's my chance. He had a chance to be drafted first pick first round by the Los Angles Lakers. With a little bit of progress the Bulldogs won their first 3 games. Would all of Bobby's hard work go to waste or would it carry the Bloomfield Bulldogs to a state championship? Outside Shooter is a suspenseful book that's full of surprises. Read on to find out. I would read this book if you're interested or skilled in basketball like me.

"Go-Bobby-Go!!"

This book is about a new coach named Deke that comes to a new city to coach. From day one, he has been hearing about a wiry redhead with lightning fast hands who can place shots from anywhere on the court named Bobby Haggard. I liked this book because unlike other books I have read in the past, I spoke to me. It told me in it's own way that you can have all of the talent in the world, but if you don't make the right decisions, the talent is worth nothing. Right here is an example, "Bobby is a troubled boy. He is convinced that nobody likes him. As a result, of course, nobody doe. Oh, he's got friends, you know, but they're a bunch with the same problems he has. They're convinced that everybody is looking down on them." Another great quote that I feel relates both to basketball and life is, "Coach, I don't like that dude. I've got reasons. They're good reasons. he doesn't like me either. But I'll play the game with him. When we're on the court in a game, you'll think I love him like a brother. But I don't." This was said by another star on Bobby's team named Benjy. My favorite part of the book has to be the ending. At the ending, Bobby and the rest of the team win the championship by one point. when the team went back into the locker room, a player threw a towel in Bobby's face and everyone started laughing. Including Bobby.

River Danger

I thought this book was a fantastic novel. This fiction book told me alot about family problems and how they were fixed.

It was a great life-like, realistic book.

I enjoyed the book Outside Shooter by Thomas J. Dygard. It had an incredibly realistic setting and plot. The characters were amazingly life-like. They had great personalities. Outside Shooter is about a highschool basketball team, that has very talented individuals, but for some reason, they can't work as a team. In the previous year of the book's setting, the same basketball team had a horrible, horrible, record. The team had a star player, who always got in trouble at school, and who didn't pay attention to his basketball coach. His name was Bobby Haggard. Since Bobby kept getting in trouble at school, he got suspended, which meant he let down his teammates, and made them have less respect for him. Bobby kept on getting suspended, and soon, his teammates had no respect for him, and they ignored everything he did and said. Later, his coach couldn't handle Bobby, and she relieved herself as the head-coach. Bobby noticed what was going on, and he himself dropped out of basketball. The team fell apart. The next year, a new coach who just came from college, (he was a college basketball star, he was drafted to the NBA, but he turned the offer down, and went to be a highschool basketball coach) was about ready to change the highschool basketball team into a much better team-more teamwork, more cooperation, and to polish up the players' skills. His name was Deke Warden. Deke found out about Bobby Haggard , and he tried his best to get Bobby back on the team. He realized then why everyone on the team was mad at Bobby. Deke tried to change the teams' feelings about Bobby, and to change Bobby's feelings about the team. To find out if Deke can successfully put the team back together, and make the basketball team have a winning record, it would be neccessary to read the book. There are 2 main characters in the story, Bobby Haggard, and Deke Warden. Bobby Haggard is a slender redhead, who carried a cocky half grin with him throughout the days of the year, almost a sneer, (more like the days he had something to grin about.) He was quite thin, and stronger than his size indicated . Bobby was broad-shouldered and narrow-hipped. He was 5 feet, 7 inches. He always got in trouble at school, and he had trouble with his previous coaches (basketball,) and he had a problem with socializing with his teammates without getting them mad or irritated. Bobby was an average student, but he cut lots of classes. He's not really straight A material. Deke Warden was 6 feet, 7 inches. He was brawny, carrying 230 pounds on his body. He was a second-team All-American selection on a winning team at his Illinois State University. Deke was intelligent, nice and understanding, but he could be strict if need be. Outside Shooter was a great book, like I said at the beginning, it was a great life-like, realistic book. I hope you are now interested in reading it. If not , well, you're making a big mistake!