BETTER BASKETBALL

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.

 

 

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.

 

 

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

 

 

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.

 

 

In this DVD, you’ll get inside the head of coaches who are already running the Read and React System. These men and women coach at various levels, males or females, and each have their own unique twists and thoughts on the system.
   Most of these coaches are instituting the R&R not only with their own team, but also throughout their entire program, so you’ll hear how the Read and React is being used as a system of developing players from the youth level to the varsity level. By the time their players get to varsity, they have been running the Read and React’s fundamental layers since they were kids. By that point, it’s not AN offense to the players, it’s just offense!

 

 

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).