Effective Man To Man Offenses for the High School Coach: Winning Ways Basketball, #2

By Steve Biddison

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sword and Shield Publishing
• Release date: Jul 31, 2013
• ISBN: 9781489524164

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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 [e-mail]

Website:  www.basketballcoaches.wordpress.com

Twitter: @stevebiddison

Winning Ways Basketball

Man-to-Man Offenses

Basic Concepts

One of the hardest things for defenses to defend is a good screening offense.  Therefore, man-to-man offenses should primarily be a screening offense designed to get shots at or near the basket.

A team that become a good screening and moving team will begin to see defenses start to switch the screens instead of trying to fight through or over the screens.  This is when well coached offenses begin to exploit defenses by looking to screen a guard for a big or a big for a guard.  If they switch those screens, it will cause a mismatch, enabling the offense to get to the basket easier.

One of the most important concepts of any man-to-man offense is timing and execution.  If your timing on one