Now is a Great Time to Reload Your Practices
Take a breath. Go on, you deserve it. You’ve powered through the first part of your season. Now, you have some time to catch your breath, assess where your team is right now in its development, and focus on how to find success in the second half of your season. It is a perfect time […]
Stronger Team Huddle
The sole purpose of the Stronger Team Huddle is to provide youth & high school basketball coaches and trainers with proven performance training techniques & philosophies through instruction, demonstration and hands-on participation. This event is not a clinic, conference, seminar or certification. It is an unparalleled educational experience. The curriculum for the Huddle was […]
A Forum Eulogy
There are a lot of things that differentiate Better Basketball from the rest of the basketball instructional market: we spend more time in development of our products than anyone else we’ve built the Tribe to offer ongoing support for coaches who have bought into our system we have Rick Torbett who is really, one of […]
A Phoenix with the Sickness of a Heretic
Scott’s flattering introductory post, Welcome To a New Beginning, made me pause to reflect on how I got my start in coaching. A devastating knee injury put an end to my playing career in high school and, unbeknownst to me at the time, laid the groundwork for the most rewarding and fulfilling career I could […]
#rrtribe – Read & React Tribe Twitter Chat Monday at 8ET
Update: Last night was awesome. If you missed it, you can scroll through the live chat here or remember you can add to the conversation 24/7 by using the #rrtribe hashtag. Thanks to all that participated – I’ll be posting a brief recap of the chat on the Tribe later today (actually, I’ve been having […]
Understanding Sports Injury: Free Chapter
In conjunction with a couple of surgeons, Better Basketball has just released a new book cryptically titled Understanding Sports Injury. The idea was this: we know coaches wear a lot of hats – one of those being injury consultant. Add to that the fact that injury is a hungry monster when it meets athletes. In […]
Enjoy the Break? (Or, When Things Don’t Go As Planned)
A few months ago, we decided to make some adjustments to our websites (the main BB site as well as the Tribe). It was time to make them faster, more flexible, and easier for you to use. It was time to make them easy to read on mobile devices, specifically the iPhone and iPad. So, […]
2011 Read & React Clinic Launch
In just over a week, we’ll be packing up our bags and heading to the first Read & React clinic of 2011. It’s in Naples, FL so if you’re in the area or if you just want to escape the cold, please meet us there. We’re doing these clinics just a bit differently than we […]
Best of Tribe 2010
On March 1st of 2010, we started this Tribe project for all of those coaches running the Read & React. It was designed to provide you with ongoing tips, resources, and community to help you constantly improve as a Read & React coach. But, of course, you’re busy – you can’t read every post or […]
Notice Anything Different?
As you can hopefully see, we’ve completely upgraded the Tribe site (and the Better Basketball site as well). I hope you like it and I hope it makes you even more excited to be part of the Tribe. With these changes, we’ve changed the focus of the Newsletter and for those of you who aren’t […]