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15 Dec Send Your Players Through the Gauntlet

This is a drill that we picked up on our last visit with Point Guard College. It can certainly be used as a stand alone drill to add toughness to your finishers, but as I'm sure you've already guessed, I prefer it attached to the...

08 Dec 2 Line Read Line Drill: Expanded

A couple of days ago I posted a two line drill for training the Read Line. As I was diagramming it, I couldn't help but think of all the possibilities that drill had to offer - you could change its formation from 4 OUT to 5 OUT, you could use all of the spots instead of just 3, you could... well, I stopped with just those two, but you could tweak it even more if you want. So, here's an expanded version of that original 2 Line Read Line Drill. Let me know your thoughts in the Comments.
Start with all spots filled except the point. Put the ball on a wing, and a defender on the opposite wing. 5 must fill the empty spot.

06 Dec 2 Line Read Line Drill

This drill was posted by bshutter in the forum and it was so good that it needed to see the light of day on the Tribe. So, I pulled it out of the forum, shined it up a bit, added some diagrams and now here it is. Thanks bshutter and if you want to see the original forum thread, check it out here. This is a great drill to train the Read Line. Even though the Read Line can be simple to teach and simple to learn, players could begin to cheat by cutting to the basket whether or not the defender is over the Read Line. Emphasizing a drill like this will help clean up that slippage. You can use this drill as it sits or you can use it as an idea generator and tweak it to your own needs. For example, in this version, a player is the defender and the rotation acknowledges that, but you could easily make the defender a coach and have players only focus on offense. Just a thought. And, by the way, the blue shading simply represents the 4 OUT spots. If you like this drill, check out the Expanded version here.
Start with two lines - one on the right guard spot, the other on the left wing spot. Put the ball(s) in the right guard line. 5 must fill the empty spot.

02 Dec Pace of Practice

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...

01 Nov Read & React Transition Drill: Seamless

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...

17 Oct 3 Part Drill Progression with Read & React: Making Team Drills Competitive

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...

11 Oct 3 Part Drill Progression with Read & React: Team Drill

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...

08 Oct 3 Part Drill Progression with Read & React

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...