Point God: What it takes to be the Greatest Point Guard

by Kyle Finklea

- LEARN THE HISTORY OF THE POINT GUARD - LEARN THE ATTRIBUTES NEEDED TO BE A POINT GOD TODAY AND A DECADE FROM NOW - LEARN HOW TO DEVELOP THE PERFECT POINT GUARD OFF THE COURT - ALL POSITIONS, PARENTS, COACHES, AND TRAINERS CAN LEARN FROM THIS

78 pages, Paperback

Published July 31, 2017

Reviews

[jeweles · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was pretty good. Coming into this, I didn’t have any high expectations on learning something about the point guard that I hadn’t already, but the points Kyle Finklea really dove into, were definitely key to being a point guard, and I’m not saying they were unimportant. Don’t come in to this with an expectation of well written advice. The grammar was definitely hard to read at times and definitely had to get my pen out and make corrections for my own reading comprehension. He talked about the evolution of the point guards from Magic Johnson to Damian Lillard and how point guards in this younger generation have learned from the “old heads” but added their modern flare to their game. Talked about nutrition for training and for during, before, and after games and practices, strength and conditioning, how most parents praise their child wrongly about their successes and failures, mental toughness, knowing personnel, react instead of think on the court (don’t over think it, practice till you can JUST react and trust your gut), watching film (we have a tendency towards watching your highlights and your made shots, not the mistakes you’ve made, because, in the end, you have to watch mistakes in order to learn and re apply), train like a point guard (easier to train like a point guard and learn to be a post than be a post and learn how to be a point guard. He included examples including Giannis who can do both positions, training as a point guard and ended up being good at both.) etc. So this book was fine for me, but it wasn’t revolutionary. Even though there aren’t many pages, I had at times a hard time reading the text because of the bad grammar, but once you get in a groove, you can usually look past it. This is a great book for someone who is learning the ropes on how to be a PG (point guard).