Juliet famously declares in Shakespeare’s
Romeo & Juliet, “that which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet.” Of course, she is talking about Romeo’s name and all the trouble it creates for the couple, but the same could be said about the Read & React.
That’s right! Literature and the Read & React; where else could you get this stuff?
There is a recent forum thread titled,
Changes to R&R Terminology where coaches are discussing what terms they like in the R&R, which they’ve switched out, and which they’ve found most successful.
Every coach is different. Every team is different. And players will respond to different terms -
the trick as a coach is to figure out which terms your team relates to the best and use those.
For example, some coaches have struggled using
North/South Dribble Penetration as a term. Instead, they use
Penetration Dribble. They’ve changed
East/West Dribble to
Perimeter Dribble. Any of those are fine and changing the terms doesn’t hurt our feelings. Well... maybe a little, but we get over things quickly.
