10 Aug Tribe Spotlight: Diamond Valley Eagles
We’re trying something new. This is the first Tribe Spotlight where we feature the successes, struggles, insights, and hopefully game footage of Read & React coaches. Our first spotlight comes from Stephen Ring in Melbourne, Australia. I know, the R&R is so international. Here’s what Coach Ring (Ringy in the forum) has to say. And, if you want your team spotlighted, send me an email at scott@betterbasketball.com and we’ll set it up. The following clips have been taken from our first pre-season games through the fifth game of the regular season. We are far from perfect, but what I’ve tried to highlight with these clips is the players making the reads and reactions. We don’t score on every occasion and sometimes we don’t make the correct reactions, but I think the footage shows that the coordinated movement (even with mistakes) is very difficult to defend, post passing can open up the outside for kick-outs, and cutters are generally in good rebounding position if a shot is taken. Pay particular attention to the progression from the pre-season (Videos 1 & 2) into the regular season (Videos 3 & 4)- we made a lot of progress!Pre-Season Clips: Learning the Basics
The above clips are from a couple of our pre-season games and we are pretty much sticking to our basic Layers highlighting:
- Pass & Cut with Circle Movement
- Good Front Cuts and Post Feeds
- Post Passing with Laker Cuts
- Baseline Drives filling windows
- Drive and Pitch
Pre-Season Clips: Becoming More Comfortable
Here’s another set of pre-season games highlighting:
- Corner Back Cuts
- Speed Dribble and an attempted Power Dribble
- Penetrate and Pitch
- Penetrate and Dish
- Back Screen, hit the cutter, dish to Post (pity it was a traveling call)
- Strong Basket Cuts
- Baseline Drives
- Post Passing and Laker Cuts
- Filling windows