R&R Offensive System DVDs

Read & React is a completely unique offensive system that goes beyond teaching your team basic offensive plays. An underlying framework teaches your players the strategy behind an offense, Read & React gives them the freedom to play by principle instead of just by play.

The R&R System works even in the earliest levels of youth basketball, building an advanced offensive system that’s effective even as players move toward the most advanced levels of professional ball. It’s effective against both man-on-man and zone defenses, so you’ll never have to switch between two offensive structures again. It also helps build on team strengths as a whole, letting your best players work seamlessly with weaker players, encouraging team play.

With the Read & React Offensive System DVDs, you’ll get more than a playbook. You’ll get the only offensive system you’ll ever need, and a team with a deeper understanding of how to play a brilliant game of basketball.

This system includes:

• 6 DVDs detailing the 17 layers of the R&R. Implement the techniques of R&R as slowly or quickly as your team’s skill level can manage. The instructions and techniques don’t require an extensive knowledge of basketball philosophy or a high IQ, and they’re not limited by age level. Any team can put these techniques to use. By the time they reach the 17^th layer, they’ll have achieved an offensive strategy that would even baffle an NBA team.
• Extensive drills to build the R&R habits. Many coaches consider this portion of the DVDs to be the backbone of the entire system, and for good reason: this is where the players actually learn to “read and react” offensively. They’ll internalize the techniques of the R&R system so completely that they won’t even have to think about how to execute them; it becomes a matter of instinct, automatic and simple. As a bonus, these drills also improve basic playing fundamentals.
• Interviews with active R&R coaches. We’ve asked some of the most respected coaches and valued players to assist with our basketball instruction, and you’ll be able to get coaching instruction from Buster Brown, Liz Kennedy, Dough Lipscomb, Carter Wilson, Daniel Bowles, Milt Travis, Randy Evans, Bill Self, and even 4-time National Coach of the Year Andy Landers. They coach both genders and all levels, and their expertise is invaluable to this coaching experience.

Disc 1 – Introduction & Big Picture

The first DVD of the set contains the theory behind the Read and React system. Why is this important? Because once you understand the big picture of the entire offense, including the rationale for how it solves common problems in basketball coaching, then you will be able to fully understand the Read and React System, and be able to customize its Xs and Os to your team’s strengths and to your own philosophy.

Disc 2 – Layers: The Read & React

This DVD contains the detailed 5-player coordinated movement of the actual 17 layers of the Read and React Offense, in the order they should be taught. The layers are divided into four sections: (1) Laying the Foundation, (2) Completing the Foundation, (3) Post Play, and (4) Icing on the Cake.

Each layer consists of a very simple 2-man read in which the player without the ball reads the player with the ball. These 2-man reads are the underlying principle of the Read and React Offense, and they result in a 5-man coordinated offensive attack to create staggered screens, give and gos, dribble handoffs, assignments for dribble penetration, actions to attack zone defense, and almost every other aspect of effective offense.

Disc 3 – Drills: To Build The Offense

The third DVD contains unique yet simple drills that build the offense’s habits into your players. Many coaches who run the R&R consider these drills the magic of the system! The reason? By using the drills, players learn the R&R to the point of instinct. So they don’t have to stop and think, they just read and react. Plus, the drills will simultaneously improve a player’s fundamentals.

The DVD is divided into two halves. One half shows every drill by the layer of the offense. The other half shows the drills by the number of players, and is divided into six sections:

• 2 Players + 1 Coach
• 3 Players: 15 Fundamental Drills
• 3 Players: 30 Drills with Complete Player Rotation
• 4 Players
• 5 Players: Building the Offense from Transition
• Advanced and Combination Ideas

Disc 4: Strategies, Ideas, Applications

From the first three DVDs, you’ll develop a solid grasp of the Read and React System. The set’s fourth disc takes you to the next level, stimulating your imagination and how you can customize the Read and React for your philosophy or the strengths of your team’s personnel. In fact, other coaches have made very minor adjustments to the Read and React Offense that have resulted in the R&R taking on a completely different form. It can function like the UCLA High Post, The Triangle, A Dribble Penetration Offense, a 5-Out offense geared to dribble penetration and perimeter shooting, a 4-Out offense geared to pounding the ball inside, or a 3-out set to use big men exclusively as screeners, among others.

Disc 5: The Read & React Road to the NCCAA National Championship

Game-by-Game footage narrated by Coach TJ Rosene of Emmanuel College: “How our first year with the Read & React Offense took us from clinic demonstrators to National Champions.”

• Q&A’s by Coach Rosene about the Read & React
• Game Clips with Analysis by Coach Rosene
• Game clips only

This DVD allows you to watch a few minutes from most of Emmanuel College’s games placed in chronological order. Watch the team grow through the mechanical learning pains in the early season to become the 90+ points per game scoring machine that culminates in a National Championship.

Disc 6: Read & React Observations

We’ve had the privilege to be asked to show the Read and React System to a few of basketball’s finest minds, and their feedback has not only been very positive, but incredibly beneficial to fully comprehending the Read and React System. Therefore, on the set’s sixth and final DVD, you’ll hear what these great coaches like about the system. You’ll even pick up some great basketball coaching tips along the way that aren’t specific to the Read and React, but were too good to cut out. The list: Bill Self, Kansas University (men); Andy Landers, University of Georgia (women); Hall of Fame Players Nancy Lieberman and Rick Barry; Rick Duckett, the new coach at Grambling (men); and Jim Davis, retired coach from Clemson University (women).

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I purchased all Better Basketball DVDs, R&R Offense, and R&R Clinic. I have implemented the R&R offense in high school and youth levels and found them very useful in teaching kids/youngsters to become complete basketball players.

Zone defenses are dominant in Hong Kong and we previously have had to work on many rotations with countless options against different zone defenses. After teaching the R&R offense, I only need to work on a few simple rotations WITHOUT the need to go through the options. Players now would run the simple rotations but react to the actual game situations naturally with the R&R habits. Still, the skills from your Better Basketball DVDs, especially on shooting, are important against zones.

For example, with the pass and cut read (layer 3), the cutter usually gets so much attention that it would open up the rotating players for a good shot (Better Shooting). If the defender tries to recover and challenge the shot, the player would fake and slash (Better One-on-One Offense) to the hoop for a direct layup, or pitch out (layers 1 & 2) or dish (layer 4). These Better Basketball skills and R&R habits fit seamlessly. My youth team, after learning the first 5 layers, together with their already familiar rotations, can play against any zone defense and are consistently winning against more experienced teams!!

Thanks so much for producing these DVDs.

John Li
Hong Kong

I recently purchased the Read & React video set and studied it over the holiday break. I love the concept and am currently in the process of teaching layer 1 to my team. I coach Varsity Boys at a small high school in a Native American village called Hoonah, Alaska. We scrimmaged in practice using layer 1 yesterday and I noticed it has immediately made my players more aggressive. I wish I had this system back in my playing days. What a fun way to play basketball. Here are some other benefits to the offense that weren’t mentioned in the videos.

1. It allows a coach more flexibility in substitution because players don’t have to learn positions; everybody is just a player.
2. It fosters a more aggressive mental mindset because players with the ball aren’t thinking about cutters & plays, but focusing on what they should; “How can I attack my defender?”
3. It allows for more scrimmaging in practice (my kids’ favorite part of practice) because you don’t need 10 kids who know the plays to run a productive scrimmage.

I have a lot of basketball tapes and DVDs; yours are the best produced and explained of any I have ever seen, regardless of the content.

Coach Arne Eriksson
Head Varsity Boys Coach
Hoonah, Alaska

First off, let me say, “Thank you very much” for your Read and React offensive system. I purchased the DVD set and have been “blown away” by how simple and obvious these “correct basketball principles” are explained. It’s so obvious, in fact, that we (the coaching staff) were left scratching our heads thinking, “Why didn’t any of us think of this ourselves???”

Truth be told, we were already implementing a few of the principles as strict “rules” (e.g. fill opposite corner on baseline drives and players must cut/fill on passes into post). We were implementing these because we knew them to be “correct basketball principles”; however, we certainly came nowhere near to designing a system as comprehensive or as seamlessly integrated as you have managed to achieve.

My apologies for the “gushing”, we are just so excited about the system. We have been dissatisfied with our “set plays” where 1 player missing his assignment / getting confused will mess up the whole set up. We’ve also been dissatisfied with our motion offense which takes so long for players to master (and some never do!). Your system is the answer to all these! We have of course begun implementing it.

Coach Khor Loke Yew
Head Boys Varsity Coach
Universiti Malaya, Malaysia

We started teaching our boys the Read & React Offense this year. I just wanted you to know that we feel this is the perfect system for our boys. We have implemented the first 6 or 7 layers with excellent results. We played in our first tournament this past weekend, went 4-0, finished first and averaged almost 20 points a game more than last year. The kids found that with a little patience, we got a lay-up very frequently.

Best of all, the kids LOVE IT, and are really having fun. One of my parents said to me “What did you do to these kids? I’ve never seen them play this way before.” Thank you, and we’ll keep reading and reacting.

Jon Williamson
Coach 7th Grade Boys
Sparta, WI

I just have to tell you, I love the system. One layer was enough to raise the offensive performance of my 7th graders to a new level. Immediately, more kids are scoring, getting the ball into easy places to score, and are seemingly indefensible. I had one opposing coach say, “Gee, we usually stay within 8-10 points of your team, but we lost by 31 today, what was going on?” I gave him the web site. All this was after literally two practices.

Here is why the system is so important in today’s world; kids (at least in the suburbs) don’t play pick-up to any degree like we did (remember spending literally 6-8 hours in a gym playing endless games of 11, winners stay on the floor?). And, when the committed kids play, it is done in organized settings all the time, like AAU. So two things are (or aren’t) happening. One, they do not learn to read defenses and their teammates’ movements, an ability that becomes subconscious when you play the game (unstructured) for long hours, and two, the pure fun is gone, because you play only under the watchful and all too often critical eye of a coach, who is constantly barking out what to do from the sidelines, as if the players are puppets on a string.

Read and React restores the pure joy of the game because it is fun, it gets everybody moving, plays aren’t called out, and players get the ball in better positions to score than ever before.

And, it takes the guess work out of moving without the ball and reading the defense, by simplifying those and setting down a couple of simple rules.

I assume once the players get used to it, they will rapidly learn the instincts that come with those hours of play on the playground.

I also love the instructional tapes. I played in High School and College, and thought I knew a lot, but I had never seen the game broken down before so completely and so simply.

Thank you,
Christopher S. Ciaccio

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Benefits to Running the R&R

1. The offense is a BASE from which players can play by principle. If a set play doesn’t work, then players can continue to play without resetting for another play.
2. The offense encourages players to work on their fundamentals of shooting, ball handling, one-on-one, etc. Even their off-season pick-up game skills would “sharpen the saw” for regular season.
3. The offense allows great players to play with not-so-great players. This allows the not-so-great players to learn from better teammates while not hindering or holding back the best players.
4. The offense can be worked on LEGALLY in the off-season. Two players at a time is all that’s needed. This opens up more practice time during season.
5. The system builds on itself year after year. A team might only use the first eight layers in the first year. Each consecutive year, they don’t start over. Instead, they pick up where they left off. In the second year they might understand all of the layers, but only master the first twelve. The third year, they master it all. The fourth year is basketball on a level that we haven’t seen!
6. The layered system is perfect for basketball organizations that have different age levels. New layers are added year by year as the player progresses through the organization.
7. The offense is ADAPTABLE to:
   • The type of players,
   • The style of play,
   • The age or skill level of the players,
   • Any kind of defense.
8. You don’t need 5 players to work on your offense. Example: The R&R can be used 4-on-4, 3-on-3, and even 2-on-2. Not only is this an advantage during season, but especially in the off-season.
9. There’s no need to teach a separate zone offense. The Read & React not only adapts to zones, but to ALL types of zones.
10. Set plays and quickhitters can be used “in front of” the Read & React. If the set play doesn’t work, no big deal – a coordinated 5-player offensive attack continues – called the Read & React.
11. Once the offense is “in”, a greater percentage of practice time can be spent on Player Development. And of course, the better the players, the better the Read & React becomes.
12. Defensive Development is a natural by-product of using the Read & React:
    • Those who defend the R&R cannot “play the play” because there is no “play” to defend. Defenders must defend HONESTLY, every day. The fact that anything can happen at anytime not only raises defensive intensity, but also trains defenders to focus for longer periods of time.
    • The R&R is developmental in nature. Each layer of the offense raises the offenses ability to counter the defense. If the defense is going to keep up, it must develop as well. As an example, being in good defensive position might work with the first level of R&R, but soon the defense must learn to change positions, close out, etc. As the R&R introduces higher levels of action, the defense must learn help, rotate, switch, etc. When R&R raises the offensive bar, the defense must rise to that level also.
    • Once the R&R becomes a working offense, the need for “offensive time” in practice decreases. This allows a coach to spend even more time on defense and usually during the latter part of the season – tournament time.
13. Without the need to micro-manage every offensive possession during a game, the R&R coach has more time to manage the game, i.e., manage momentum, match-ups, substitutions, defense, rebounding, etc.
14. Players typically develop their Basketball I.Q. through experience. Experience is a good teacher but how many of us can wait on players to build their B.I.Q? By the time their B.I.Q. is built, they’re no longer in our programs. The R&R builds the basketball I. Q. of the individual player in a step-by-step progression that can be controlled and quantified by the coach. Something as important as a player’s B.I.Q. is NOT left to chance with the Read & React.
15. If the Read & React is the “curriculum” for a program consisting of age or grade levels, then all of the coaches in the program will benefit from each other’s work. The Read & React allows coaches to be on the same page and most importantly to build on each other’s efforts. I often refer to this as “standing on each other’s shoulders.” An example would be: If a 7th grade school team runs the first 3 layers of the Read & React, then the following year, as 8th graders, they do not need to start over. Instead the 8th grade coach can begin with the 4th layer and continue to add the grade-appropriate layers. In this manner, the 8th grade coach is “standing on the shoulders” of the 7th grade coach and in doing so, can take the team to a higher level of development compared to the traditional method of coaching.

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