RARE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF BOBBY KNIGHT'S PRIVATELY PRINTED BOOKLETS OF BASKETBALL TECHNIQUES: MOTION OFFENSE, 1975

KNIGHT, Bobby. Motion Offense. No place: Bob Knight Basketball Aids, 1975. Slim quarto, staple-bound as issued, original pictorial stiff blue paper wrappers; pp. 29. $1750.

First edition of Bobby Knight's primer on motion offense, in pristine original pictorial wrappers.

This, the last of Knight's four invaluable instructional pamphlets, focusing on motion offense, a technique he perfected and popularized. "The motion offense came to fruition after Knight spent years watching Princeton run its offense while he was at West Point. Princeton's offense was generated based on where the guard made his first pass. If the guard passed the ball to a forward, a certain action took place. If the guard passed to the other guard, a different action took place, etc. After learning about the Princeton offense, Knight went to the Olympic Trials in 1972—following his first season at Indiana—to learn more about the passing game. After gathering as much information as he could, Knight and Newell sat in Newell's living room and developed the motion offense. 'That summer, I put up a 3-2 offense and I said, 'OK, what can be done with three out and two in,' Knight said. 'I made up 74 diagrams on different things that could be done and I remember, we had them spread out all over Pete Newell's living room.' With the diagrams complete, Knight developed a set of rules… Knight turned the rules into a booklet that involved passing, cutting and screening" (Jeff Walker, "Knight Developed Motion Offense Through Research, and He's Always Adapting," in the Avalanche-Journal).

Fine condition.