Off Season Player Development with Read & React
The time to focus on player development is in the off season. That statement is nothing surprising. But, you can work on player skills while developing Read & React habits, even if you aren’t allowed in the gym. Here’s how one of our earliest adopters did just that. He grouped his girls in threes and […]
Cow Killers: Simple Layer 1 Read & React Warm Up
A few months ago, I wrote a post on killing Sacred Zombie Cows – getting rid of those drills that may be dear to your heart, but have long since lost their usefulness. I’m looking at you three-man weave! Anything that can be used to replace those Zombie Cows, I call Cow Killers. A few […]
The “We Don’t Play Backwards” Drill
Inspired by TJ’s emphasis on not playing backwards, Blue Devil came up with a creative drill and posted it in the forums. Thanks to both of you (and to MJL23 for adding to it). And, of course, I’ve added some additions as well (I couldn’t resist). Yesterday we came up with some solutions against a […]
Rebounding Responsibility Drill
Since the Read & React promotes spacing, player movement, and ball movement, some suggest that a team can’t rebound well amidst the constant shuffling. Of course, we disagree. But, due to all that movement, sometimes rebounding responsibilities can get lost in the continual mix of players. Here’s a drill that can clarify those rebounding responsibilities […]
5 Steps to Introduce Post Screening Action (even if you don’t have post players)
We often hear (from coaches that don’t know the offense very well) that the Read & React doesn’t promote screening. And, that couldn’t be further from the truth – you just have to emphasize it. Here are 4 steps that will train your players to spot some of the screening opportunities within the flow of […]
Read & React: Post & Perimeter Drill
Here’s a drill that Randi Peterson developed and shared at last year’s Beyond the Basics Clinic in Cedar Rapids (her team is currently 18-2 and ranked #23 nationally, by the way). If you’re interested, you can watch full Coe College Women’s games here. Coach Peterson has a knack of integrating the Read & React Offense […]
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 end of a Read & React Drill – a drill […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 vary with your team: how far along into the […]