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A high school basketball coach does not always have the ability to recruit to their needs. Quite often a high school may not have a legitimate post player and the coach may be forced to play what is commonly known as "small ball", Usually, this means going with a very uptempo game, However, every championship level coach knows that no matter how good their fast break might be, there are multiple times in a game that they must execute a half-court offense, In this book, Coach Biddison gives a detailed, step by step system of running a Five Out (no post) half-court offense complete with 10 plays designed to score. Although thr diagrams show these offenses against a 2-3 zone, these 10 plays have been proven to be effective against any zone or man-to-man defenses That is because they are all based on fundamental basketball techniques and use a variety of screens (both against man-to-man and zone defenses,

There is perhaps nothing more beautiful in a basketball coach's eyes than watching a perfectly executed offense. In this basketball playbook, you will find 20 executable offenses all dissected and diagramed from college teams. As a basketball coach, you will want to add all or some of these offenses to your arsenal. You will not regret learning and teaching these to your team,

Every character that is central to the traditional Christmas story is part of the greater story of God's greatest gift to humanity. Because of that gift, we can enjoy the decoration, the lights, the carols, and our family throughout each Christmas season.This 25 day family devotional examines the main characters in the Christmas story to see what we as individuals as well as family units can learn from how they responded a couple of thousand years ago.It not only brings the family together each day during the Christmas season, but gives a way to keep the true meaning of Christmas at the forefront of our personal and family life.

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.

Within the pages of this book, you will find a detailed approach to teaching a Match Up Zone Defense that has twice the state of Texas in scoring defense.Using man-to-man principles within the concept of a zone defense, Coach Biddison takes you through a step by step process of not only how to run the defense, but how to teach it. In a sense, the Flex Match-Up Zone takes the very best of the man-to-man techniques and combines them with the best zone principles to form a defense that often times confuses the offense. This defense rotates, or flexes, to take on a different shape every time the ball moves or players positions change.The fact that sometimes it appears as a 1-2-2, other times as a 1-3-1, and still other times as a man-to-man defense, literally takes the offense out of their comfort zone.

Have you ever found your spiritual life in the doldrums where your excitement, joy, and zeal for God has waned or you have found yourself in a spiritual depression? That is a very common experience for many Christians. Despite their best intentions and desires, the day to day grind of lifeIn this book, Steve Biddison examines how his personal study of the life and ministry of the prophet Elisha helped pull him out of a deep spiritual depression.Whether you are facing depression or you are you find yourself, figuratively speaking, on the bench spiritually and you are ready to get into the game, then this book might just be what you need to learn to experience double portion living in both your life and your ministry. From the Introduction: Jesus promised us that He came not only to save the world, but to provide a way for His followers to live a victorious, fulfilled, and abundant life. Out of our victorious and abundant life, He has called us to be a light and a witness to our world. No, let me rephrase that. I believe that He provides that fulfilled life WHEN we minister to our world. I know the times in my life that I have felt the most fulfilled spiritually and emotionally were those times that I was doing something for the kingdom of God. However, those times that I was on the bench while the spiritual game of life was being played around me correspond with the darkest, most unfulfilled times in my life. Might I also admit that those times were times of deep depression.I went through one of those deep, spiritual depressions when by all appearances others as well as God had completely forgotten about me. I honestly believed I was never going to get out of those spiritual doldrums because those normal things we are all taught to do (read our Bible, pray, go to church, etc), I was doing at a very consistent level. However, those feelings of waste, depression, uselessness, and unworthiness continued to bombard me from every side. It was not until I began to read again the stories of Elisha and his ministry that God began to show me some great truths or life lessons that I began to not only get out of my spiritual doldrums, but my heart began to experience a double portion of gratefulness to God and a double portion of my love for Him. As a result of my heart experiencing double portion blessing, I want to share with others what God showed me. If you find yourself in a rut spiritually, or suffering from spiritual depression, then this book is definitely for you. However, it is not just for those who are in a spiritual drought. This is also a great resource for everyone who is in some kind of ministry. Although the life lessons explained in this book is what God used to draw me back into the joy of the Lord, this book is not a story of how God took me out of depression into a more victorious life. It is, however, a book that follows the life and ministry of Elisha, while showing some specific life lessons that every Christian should follow on their path of living for our Lord Jesus.As you read the pages of this book, whether it is just you as an individual or you are reading it together as a small group, my prayer is that each time you read a chapter, God will surround you with His grace, fill you with His love, and capture your heart.

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. Table of ContentsWhy Do We CoachDeveloping Your Coaching PhilosophyThe 20 Most Important Qualities a Coach Can HaveBuilding Confidence Into Your PlayersStrength and ConditioningUsing Your Assistant CoachesA Plan for the Total Basketball ProgramChoosing Your RosterPractice Planning: Fundamentals are for ChampionsSchedulingMeet the ParentsScouting The Basketball Calendar

LEARN TO BECOME MORE LIKE CHRIST IN THIS DEVOTIONAL WORKBOOK10 MINUTES A DAY, 5 DAYS A WEEK, FOR 50 WEEKS10 Minutes To Better Living! That's not my promise to you. It is God's. This devotional book is loaded with practical applications and truths from the life and teaching of Jesus Christ. If you are a Christian, a follower of His, then you already know that if you follow Jesus, your life cannot help but be better. What separates this devotional from most others is that we look strictly at the four Gospels that tell the story of the life of Christ and derive practical applications from each segment of His life. This is not a deep doctrinal book, nor is it a narrative telling the step by step actions of Jesus. It is, however, a great opportunity to sit at Christ's feet and learn both from what He did and what He said.Each day finishes with a MAKE IT PERSONAL section. This is where you have a chance to look deeper into your own life as to how to apply the lessons that Christ teaches and lives.

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 gells 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.

In this book, you will find 110 "Confessions" or negative thoughts that most Christians have, but are often too afraid to admit. However, Steve Biddison breaks down those walls of fear to readily admit such things as he sometimes doubts God, sometimes feels totally afraid or feels intense loneliness, to name a few. As you read through this book, meant to be read one entry or "confession" a day, perhaps you will, more often than not be able to relate to the feelings Steve speaks about. But more importantly, be able to understand the amazing grace of God that is the solution to all negative thoughts.

Somewhere in the back of everyone's mind, they have a dream that God placed inside. It may be so far back there that they have forgotten about it. Where at one time it was so big in their mind that they wanted that dream above all other dreams, now that dream has faded into the background. Maybe their dream was squelched by others and they have given up ever achieving that dream. Or maybe at one point in their life they tried to fulfill that dream, but circumstances kept them from reaching it. In an easy to read conversational style, this book dives into the heart of the matter of fulfilling those dreams. Using Philippians 3:12-14 as the basis for the book, Steve Biddison shows the importance of forgetting your past, focusing on the future, and working in the present as you passionately pursue those God-given dreams

This devotional was born from a time in my life where I was going through a difficult time. Although I had been a Christian for most of my life and I knew theologically what my identity in Christ was, I found myself questioning whether I really was who Christ said I am. I knew in my head that I was, but in my heart I had trouble believing that God really saw me the way He says He does. Others had no qualms telling me that I was not what God said I was and I even convinced myself that even though God says He loves me and will never leave me, He really didn't truly love me like I needed Him to. I was convinced that His love was simply a biproduct of His character and that the only reason He loved me was because I was His child. He didn't love me for who I was.However, after my pastor, John Valenzuela, challenged the church to read and meditate on some key verses concerning who we are in Christ, my view of myself began to slowly change. I realized that God does not define me by those things I have done or didn't do, He defines me by who I am in Christ. And that person is completely different than the one that others (and myself) say that I am. As a result of the drastic change in my own perception of life, I decided to take those verses that my pastor challenged us to meditate on and discuss in the form of a 40 day devotional, my journey into the discovering who I am in Christ. This is not only my journey, but it can be yours too.

Coaches everywhere understand the great responsibility they have for developing good character in the lives of those athletes they coach. Coaches can no longer hope their athletes pick up on good character just by being part of an athletic program. It is not even enough to just model good character. Coaches must now be proactive in diligently working to build character into the lives of those under their influence. To adequately build this character, it takes a plan. But what coaches have the time to develop a character program that is primarily aimed at their athletes?Coach Steve Biddison, a veteran in the coaching ranks for over 20 years, has developed an interactive workbook for athletes to work through with their coaches and teammates. In this program, Building Character Through Athletics, 50 character qualities that directly link to being part of an athletic program are examined. Each quality covered has a section that asks the athlete to examine their own selves as it relates to that quality in athletics, academics, and life. Coaches, never before has it been easier for you to teach character to your athletes. You simply give them the reading assignment which takes them no more than 5 minutes to read through and answer the questions. Then at a time you designate (could be at the beginning or end of practice), take about 2-3 minutes to give your players an opportunity to share with their teammates some of their thoughts from the reading. Or you may choose to have them turn in their answers to you. It is your choice. The important thing is that the athletes are given a very simple means of developing good character into their lives without you, the coach, have to figure out how to teach it.

The Weapons of Warfare is Book 2 in The Center Circle Chronicles. It continues the quest of young Landru as he seeks to unite the Center Circle, find the young high priestess, and defeat the evil Rondel.The Weapons of Warfare can be seen as a spiritual allegory as the weapons they seek correspond to the Armor of God.From the back cover: Where The Center Circle ended, The Weapons of Warfare continues.There is a schism in the Center Circle. While the newly regained world of Columba thrives under Brenlee's leadership, Rondel has conquered many of the other worlds that were under the Circle's control. And the Circle itself is a house divided. Knowing that he holds the keys to restoring the lost worlds and saving his adopted home world of Earth from eventual destruction, Landru must rescue the beloved priestess before Rondel uses her knowledge and power to become invincible, find the remaining five weapons of warfare that are hidden in the secret tunnels of various kingdoms, and restore unity to the warring Circle. His search takes him to familiar locations, such as ancient Stonehenge and the Egyptian Pyramids, where he not only unravels some of the ancient mysteries, but also comes to face to face with his own fears

This is the first book in a 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.

WHEN DISCOVERING WHO YOU ARE IS JUST THE BEGINNINGA lowly freshman in college one day, crown prince of Orion and famed Center Circle member the next day. Having been orphaned at a young age, Landon's first memories were of living in a home with eleven other children who had lost their parents. But even those memories had long since faded from his thoughts as he spent the last eight years in the care of a loving foster family. Now, as a freshman in college, Landon had his future in front of him. But all that would change the morning he got a text saying, "It's time."From that moment on, Landon's world literally was turned inside out. Taken away from his college campus to another world, he begins to discover who he really is as his destiny starts to unfold before him. No longer was he Landon, a mere freshman in college, but he was Landru, the son of a Center Circle member and heir to the throne of Orion. But Landru's welcome to his true identity is not one of pomp and circumstance. Called back from all corners of the world are the twelve orphans who must unite to defeat the rising power of the evil Rondel - the former mighty general who has his sights set on ruling all the worlds. Equipped only with a ring and a sword, and the head strong guidance of the young priestess, Theophania, Landru fights his way to unite the Circle and rescue captives while trying to get a grasp on his inner powers he possess through the feelings of faith.