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    Coaching From the Heart: Winning Ways Basketball, #1
    Coaching From the Heart: Winning Ways Basketball, #1
    Coaching From the Heart: Winning Ways Basketball, #1
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    Coaching From the Heart: Winning Ways Basketball, #1

    By Steve Biddison

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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSword and Shield Publishing
    Release dateJul 31, 2013
    ISBN9781470050900
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      Coaching From the Heart - Steve Biddison

      Coaching From the Heart

      Winning Ways Basketball, Volume 1

      by Steve Biddison

      Published by Sword and Shield Publishing, 2013.

      While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.

      COACHING FROM THE HEART

      First edition. July 31, 2013.

      Copyright © 2013 Steve Biddison.

      ISBN: 978-1470050900

      Written by Steve Biddison.

      Table of Contents

      Copyright Page

      About Coach Biddison

      Introduction

      It’s All About the Heart

      H - Hard Work

      E – Enthusiasm

      A - Attitudes of Confidence

      R - Relationships

      T - Talent

      About Coach Biddison

      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.

      Along the way in his coaching journey, Coach Biddison has achieved:

      ·  A 426-161 Coaching Record

      ·  Named South Texas Basketball Coach of the Year in 2005

      ·  5 Times District Coach of the Year – 1991,1995,1996,2004.2005

      ·  State Ranked 5 years (ranked 4th in the final State polls in 2004)

      ·  Regional Finals twice  - 1996, 2004

      ·  Regional Semifinals twice – 1995, 1997

      ·  Regional Quarter finals (Area Champions) twice – 1998, 2005

      ·  Area Finals once - 2010

      ·  #1 Defensive team twice (based on points allowed) – 1996, 2005

      ·  # 1 scoring team in the state (96 points per game) once - 1992

      ·  65% Playoff winning percentage 

      You can contact Coach Biddison at coachstevebiddison@aol.com

      Website:  www.basketballcoaches.wordpress.com

      Twitter: @stevebiddison

      Introduction

      Every year coaches across the state began their basketball season coaching programs that have not had success in years. Those teams have not tasted a winning season or smelled the sweet fragrance of the playoffs in years. Those teams have been losing for so long it has become a way of life.  Those who coach in these programs face challenges that no other coach faces - the challenge of trying to win without a tradition of winning. Quite often, when losing has become the norm, it is hard to break out of that mindset.  Early losses will trigger the here we go again thoughts that plague teams who are not used to winning. Before long, the  coach at the school is frustrated into believing that this team has a losing mentality and his only hope is to build from the ground floor up in hopes to having a winning team down the line sometime. But it doesn't have to be that way.

      Four times in my 20 years of coaching basketball I have taken over programs that had not won in years.  Each time, in my first year with that team, we not only made the playoffs, but went several rounds in the tourna­ment.  One time, I took over a program that had not had a winning record in a decade and had won only 4 games in the previous three years combined.  For all practical purposes, it was a program that had been dead and buried. By the time we were making our playoff run at the end of that season, our team's slo­gan became Back From the Dead. When one of the players was asked in an interview after the season about what turned the team around after a decade of losing, he responded, Coach Biddison was the first coach that ever taught us about HEART.

      Coaching With the Heart has become my coaching mantra.  I believe this phi­losophy, more than any X's and O's can turn a team around.  I preach the HEART from our first pre-season team meeting to our final post season team banquet.  Before every game, I speak individually to each of my players with the words, Give me your heart tonight. My coaching and my team are all about the HEART.

      It’s All About the Heart

      The crowd roars as the name of each player is introduced over the public address system just minutes before tip off.  I look into the eyes of the player whose name has just been announced.  The eyes are either dancing with excitement or they are holding the still strong gaze of pure focus. Either way, I know he is ready to play.  My fist makes contact with his fist and I say his name as I move my closed fist to tap it on his heart.  Give me your heart tonight, I say loud enough that only he can hear me.  He nods his head and bolts down the sideline to shake the hand of the opposing coach before joining his teammates on the court.  I turn to the next person who is being introduced and go through the same process.

      I go through this ritual before every basketball game.  It is just one more reminder to my team that basketball is played as much with the heart as it is with the body.  In fact, I believe it is the heart that makes the body perform at its highest level.  Of course I am not talking about the literal organ inside the body.  I am talking about the emotional center of a person – that inner motivation that causes every ounce of their being to want to

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