Winning Ways Basketball

Coach Steve Biddison has a history of turning basketball programs around. Four times in his career he has taken over teams who had losing records and turned them into a playoff team. Coaching From the HEART is a detailed account how he works to change the mindset of players who are used to losing and turn them into winners. Using the acronym of HEART, Coach Biddison explains how Hard Work, Enthusiasm, Attitudes of Confidence, Relationships, and Talent gels a program together to form the Heart of a Champion. Each chapter is dedicated to one of those five core values that make up a successful basketball program. Along the way, Coach Biddison gives personal accounts of how he worked to instill these values into his team. If you are a basketball coach, or any other type of coach, this is a must book as it will get you thinking about how to really reach inside the hearts and minds of your players and give them the best opportunity to succeed.

This is the first book in this series of X's and O's basketball for the high school coaches. In this edition, you will find my favorite man-to-man offenses, including the highly effective FIST offense that has been my team's bread and butter man-to-man offense for over a decade. In this book you will get the step by step progressions of this offense that is designed to make an average post player shine by using five different screens across the court for each rotation through the offense. But the FIST offense is not all you will get in this book. You will get the basics of a numbered fast break that transitions into a secondary break that was the basis of our our offense the year we averaged 96 points per game. You will get three other offenses designed to get the ball inside to your post, one offense designed for a slashing wing, and another offense that uses the "elevator screen to free up a three point shooter. In addition, this book details one of the best delay games I have ever seen that not only can run the clock, but score in a variety of means when the defense starts to cheat on the offense. Finally, I know most coaches have a variety of baseline out of bounds plays to run. Most coaches seem to play zone against the baseline out of bounds. But when they choose to go man-to-man in this situation, I teach my team only one play. It is by far the most effective man-to-man baseline out of bounds play I have ever seen. This play is included in this book.

In this edition of Winning Ways Basketball Books, you will find my favorite zone offenses, including the highly effective Orange and Blue offenses that has been my team's bread and butter zone offenses. In this book you will get the step by step progressions of these (and seven other) offenses that is designed to get the ball inside against a zone defense. Whereas, many zone offenses rely on good perimeter shooting, this book will show you how to effectively screen a zone in a way that gets the ball inside. Finally, since most coaches like to use a zone defense to defend the baseline-out-of-bounds situations, this book includes my two favorite in bounds plays against a zone.

Coach Steve Biddison has coached basketball for over 20 years where he has not only become known as a very innovative defensive coach, but a coach whose teams execute the half court offensive game to perfection. Four times he has taken over programs that had not had a winning record in years and each time turned them into a playoff team in his first year with the program. Most notable was the year he took over a program that had only won two games the previous year and four games over the previous three combined years. By instilling a new philosophy centered around the HEART (Coach Biddison details this philosophy in his popular book Coaching From the HEART, which is also available in both ebook and paperback form) and a new style of offense and defense, Coach Biddison took that team three rounds in the playoffs in his very first year in the program.

Whether you are a new basketball coach or a seasoned veteran in the coaching ranks, Building a Better Basketball Program will help organize your thoughts, goals, and plans for each basketball season. From developing or tweaking your coaching philosophy to planning and scouting opponents, this book details a step by step plan that will enhance your total basketball program. In Building a Better Basketball Program, Coach Biddison takes you through each stage of basketball season that includes ideas for pre-season and off-season work, including key points concerning strength and conditioning. His belief that planning and execution is the backbone behind turning a weak program into a good program and a mediocre program into a great program is evident throughout the book. In Building a Better Basketball Program, you will see not only how to plan your season, but you will learn 20 key qualities of a leader that cannot help but make you a better coach.