Billy Beddow

🏀🔗Full video- youtu.be/0yfmC0MECFE Check out my off-season project from last season. A look into our 1v1 breakdown and finishing success and what we can reflect on from it. Hopefully useful in one way or another!

Starting the season with a view🤩

This is utter genius from Hannah Hampton. Other goalkeepers will surely be taking notes from this. 👏👏👏

Too many people with egos looking out for their own interests instead of what is in the best interests of the game, compounded by the “right” people not wanting to take on the roles where they would be most impactful, in part because they are seen as poison chalices (or because they’ve tried & got burnt) - so we end up with people with zero real knowledge of British basketball making decisions that negatively impact all of us that operate in it on a day to day basis. The governance structures don’t help, neither does the legacy of everything that has happened historically, alongside a total cultural disconnect from the mainstream which means everything happens in complete obscurity without oversight or accountability. Feel like what is going on right now is as good of an opportunity as we’ve ever had to blow it all up and start again.

The side nobody sees! Hours of planning and review: 🏀 Player development 🏀 Coach support 🏀 Player/coach toolkits 🏀 Tech/Tac trickle-down 🏀 …and more! #PlayerDevelopment #CoachDevelopment #Academy

Two online events this past month that have really peaked my interest and excitement! It has me wondering, why? Just me speaking about things I do… A little different? Not my normal crowd? Maybe because I had ‘skin in the game’. New audience, a chance to grow, or fail…

Incredible shift as HC. Won, won and won again, and an incredible person! Plenty more wins ahead @CoachBeddow !!

Billy Beddow-Patel will depart the club at the end of this month as he pursues a career change. The club would like to thank Billy for a remarkable four yours of service and wish him the best of luck for the future. Full story: mkbasketball.club/2025/05/26/bil…

RT if you are pulling up to #HASC25 tomorrow? 👀 🎟️: tickettailor.com/events/hoopsfi…

TPL becomes the third court (next to Clapham & Brighton Beach) that the @HoopsfixFdn has been able to make a financial contribution towards thanks to ticket sales from the Hoopsfix All-Star Classic. Buy a ticket to the Classic & you are actually re-investing back into the game.

Congrats to my boy @AdamDavies06 on an incredible shift leading Canterbury academy. Consistently driving the standards, pushing the programme and guiding players and coaches. Appreciate you dude. Hope you enjoy the new role. I know you’ll kill it.

Congrats to @rocketsreading but also to @mkbballclub . MK’s story is incredible, moving right up through the leagues year after year and so close to toppling them all. Not enough ppl talking about @CoachBeddow . Legendary!

@CoachMacleod @rocketsreading @mkbballclub Means a lot mate ❤️ thank you for your support. Beers on you x

@NBLengland Is there a livestats link please 🙏

Ready 👊 NBL3 Playoff Final: Birmingham City University vs Crawley Storm 👇 youtube.com/live/5bQfGBwYl…

@AdamDavies06 My dude ❤️ Canterbury teaching me the importance of gameplan and scout !

What a game plan @CoachBeddow and great discipline from his players. What are we (the governing body of @gbbasketball and @bballengland) doing to help the best coaches in the country keep developing and keep them in the sport? Our future pro and national team coaches need more.

This looks fun, but the defense here is so unrealistic it borders on misleading. Let’s talk about how this can actually hurt decision-making for real games. ⸻ 1.In this 2v2 clip, the big rolls wide and gets a clean catch + score twice. But let’s be honest— In a real 5v5 game? •That pass is stolen. •That roll is tagged. Any decent defensive team erases these reads. 2.When we remove the help defense, spacing pressure/constraint, and timing of 5v5, we aren’t training decision-making—we’re rehearsing fake ones. We reward reads that look right but aren’t available in an actual game. 3.Small-sided games can be valuable. But poorly designed SSGs with bad constraints just teach players how to score in drills—not how to play in games. It’s not just about playing live—it’s about playing representative. 4.This is the part that doesn’t get talked about enough: Bad SSGs give players the illusion of good decisions. But when the real game shows up—and those same decisions lead to turnovers, clogged lanes, or no-advantage passes—the player’s confused. 5.I get frustrated when these clips are held up as the gold standard, while more structured, coach-led reps are dismissed as robotic. A good block rep, rooted in actual 5v5 tactics, can teach the right reads faster than fake freedom ever will. 6.The real skill is designing your drills like you design your gameplan: •What decisions will be available? •What reads do we want? •How will spacing + timing change them? That’s where the constraint lives. Not just in a 7-second shot clock. 7.Let’s stop pretending every 2v2 drill is game-like just because it’s live. If your defense is fake, the development is too

Remember when the WEABL/EABL had top plays of the week? That was cool …

In a world (federation) of sagging zone defences, over-coaching and safeguarding disasters; good basketball is a ray of sunshine ☀️

- No call from sideline - initiated by players - all reads: If this, then that All players are internal, no recruitment Coach @anthreed98 got these guys playing good basketball

Easy now @mkbballclub , making it look like I’m signing. 🫠

'A peregrine falcon provides a dramatic flourish to a stone finial on the Pitt Building; and a skilled kayaker heads fearlessly into an imagined vortex' From June in my new book 'Cambridge - Time & Space'. Available with free UK shipping at cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-time… or any bookshop in Cambridge.