This is a quick video taken from the Read & React Clinic in Atlanta this past year.
TJ talks about the pace of practice - what pace to practice at and how quickly to get there. The pace at which your team practices will of course...
TJ Rosene just sent me this drill that he’s been integrating into his practices. His team loves it because they get a little bit of everything (transition, zone, man, etc.). In it he trains his team to transition seamlessly between formations, emphasis of actions, and...
This is our second Tribe Spotlight where we feature the successes, struggles, insights, and hopefully game footage from Read & React coaches. This spotlight comes from Ed Hammersmith in Overland Park, Kansas. Here’s what Coach Hammersmith (coachEd in the forum) has to say. If you want your team spotlighted or you just want to show off some of your game footage, send me an email at scott@betterbasketball.com and we'll try to set it up.
I started teaching the R&R to my 6th grade AAU (11U) girls team November of 2009. I had concerns that there wouldn’t be enough practice time to drill the “Layers” to the degree they needed to be drilled in order for the girls to learn them, but I ultimately decided to give it a shot and keep it simple.
Read & React v. Zone
Read & React v. Press
Read & React 5 OUT ScrimmageThis is what I learned from that first year:
First, I needed to down size everything!
I figured if I was going to commit a good majority of practice time to the R&R, then some things had to go. I kept one press offense, one offense (R&R) vs. man to man, two zone sets (more on that later), and I cut our inbounds sets to 4.
I have to be honest, this was going to be a big change for me. I was venturing out of my 20-year coaching comfort zone.
Why change now?
Throughout your team’s Read & React training, you’ll need to run diagnostic tests. You can do this in scrimmage situations, in game situations, or as a final progression to a drill.
To use a drill as a diagnostic tool, you must make it competitive. This video...
If you're going to integrate the Read & React into as much of your practice as possible, you'll have to teach player development while teaching the Offense. This video gives you some ideas where those concepts can be inserted into basic drills.
And, the only way...
The Read & React Offense was designed as a progression: it stacks layer upon layer starting simple and building complexity along the way.
In the same way, complexity can be built into the basic R&R drills. In this 3 part series (yep, it’s a series within...
Below is TJ Rosene's Day 1 Practice Plan for his team.
Obviously, your team is different than TJ's so your plan will look different based on your age and/or skill level, whether this is your first year with the Read & React, and what you want...
Why waste valuable practice time jogging around the court or doing two-line lay-ups? Integrate the Read & React reaction drills into as much as your practice as possible. And, be creative. TJ Rosene shows you two warm up drills that he uses every day before his team stretches, but these examples could easily be tweaked for your players, your gym, the layers you want to emphasize, or even the layers you are about to teach.
Remember how you used to cook up a practice?
It was a neat little recipe. A touch of jogging around the court followed by a half-cup of weave lay-up drill. Add in defensive slides since defense wins championships. Then, shake on some cones or chairs. Now,...
Coach TJ Rosene has implemented the Read & React twice before - the first time ended with a National Championship. After learning from those previous experiences, he’s decided that this third year would be different.
In Emmanuel College’s first 12 practices of this season, they will...