Training with Read & React Trigger Actions
Sometimes, your team needs a little help getting the action of the Read & React Offense started. Sometimes, you see a weakness in the defense that your players just won’t exploit. And, sometimes, you need to drag a player out of her shell and show her what she’s capable of. You’re the coach. Those things […]
Alternating Current Drill to Improve Screening Action in the Read & React Offense
The following clip is another excerpt from our 5 DVD set, Read & React Clinics: Planning the R&R Practice. If you’ve ever had questions about implementing the Read & React in a practice setting, it’s a great resource. In the video below, Rick Torbett sets up a simple Alternating Current Drill with two finishing options. […]
Post Options Inside the Read & React Offense
[This video clip is taken from DVD #3 of our 5 DVD set, Read & React Clinics: Planning the R&R Practice.] The Read & React Offense never asks a player to be unselfish just to be a good teammate. The reason to be unselfish in the Read & React is to get a scoring opportunity […]
Read & React Diagnostics: Testing Layers 1-4
We’ve recently posted a lot about Read & React diagnostics (Testing Layers 1-3 and Testing Layers 1 & 4). There’s a good reason for that. Most coaches don’t know when to add more layers, stick with the ones they have, go deeper with their current layers, or even which layers specifically are holding their team […]
Fast Break Basketball and the Pareto Principle
[The video clip below is an excerpt from Practice Template #2 in our DVD set, Read & React Clinics: Planning the R&R Practice. This is a 5 DVD compilation set taken from our 2011 clinic season and is now available.] Ok, we admit it. Not everything in your practice (or basketball in general) can be […]
Develop Your Players while Building Your Basketball Offense
[The video clip below is an excerpt from Practice Template 1 in our DVD set, Read & React Clinics: Planning the R&R Practice.] No basketball coach has enough practice time. So, to get the most out of the court time that you do have, you must learn to collapse time frames. And, of course, we […]
Read & React Practice Planning: 90/10 Principle
The Read & React Offense requires a shift in the way that you coach. Instead of controlling small moment by moment actions, you control the big picture. Instead of calling plays, you can use color codes or basketball formations to dictate certain styles of play or emphasize specific actions. And in reality, that shift ends […]
Bounce Off Drill Series, Part 3: 5 Man Drills
Here is the final installment of Rich Czeslawski’s Bounce Off Drill Series. Check out Part 1 and Part 2 – together these three create a progression. You know how much we at Better Basketball love progressions! Rich doesn’t just write for the Tribe either, he has his own blog, which is worth spending some time […]
Bounce Off Drill Series, Part 2: 3-on-3
This is the second installment of a drill series by Rich Czeslawski designed to accelerate Circle Movement training by using the Bounce Off Dribble. You can find the first part of the series here. Wing Bounce – Safety Valve Back Cut The next 3-player drill we use in the series (which was very aptly foreshadowed […]
Bounce Off Drill Series, Part 1: 3 Man Drills
The Tribe is all about collaboration – that’s why we have this site, to share ideas. As active coaches, you are constantly in the lab with the Read & React and because of that, you have the unique ability to come up with great options, drills, and thoughts. Today, we start a three part Bounce […]