Tribe Spotlight: St Catherine Basketball
This week’s Tribe Spotlight features Steve Manne, the CYM Basketball Coordinator and Head Coach at St Catherine Parish (grades 9 through 12). From its inception the program has prioritized leadership development and community building both on and off the court. Manne’s teams have run the Read & React since 2011. Our CYM basketball program is for […]
Tribe Spotlight: Indiana Primetime Sports
This week’s Tribe Spotlight features Indiana Primatime Sports. Follow them on Twitter: @INPrimetime Indiana Primetime Sports was started by Brandon Lafferman in 2010, with the goal of creating a great youth sports program that teaches kids values on and off the court. Lafferman and Chris Van Den Berg started the basketball program that year with two […]
Defense Determines Offense
Every athletic contest boils down to “who is going to force who to play who’s game?” But I think using the word FORCE is misleading. Here’s what I mean: When your opponent is bigger and more physical than you, meaning, if you play that type of game, you’re going to lose, then you need to […]
Communicating the Read & React
Here’s the situation. A coaching friend of yours likes what he or she sees in the Read & React. They ask you about it and as you begin to explain, their eyes glass over and you can tell that you’re not connecting. Or, you make an explanation and as soon as they begin to comment […]
Tribe Spotlight: Fort Meade High School
This week’s Spotlight features Tim Grant. Coach Grant is the Varsity Girl’s Basketball coach at Fort Meade Middle/Senior High School (Fort Meade, FL). I am currently coaching varsity girls basketball in Florida. When we started in November with a preseason classic, our offense was very stagnate. We lost our first game to a large school […]
Rehearsal: A Different Kind of Practice
I challenge you to try a different mode of practice. I’m assuming that you want your team to play a certain way – let’s assume it’s the Read & React. Then you must PRACTICE playing that way. I know that sounds obvious, but the word “Practice” has taken on a different meaning. It means Player […]
Tribe Spotlight: Bureau Valley Storm
Today’s Tribe Spotlight features Tiffany Gonigam. Tiffany is the head coach of the Bureau Valley Storm girls basketball team. Just 2 years after back-to-back 1 win seasons, the Bureau Valley girls basketball team won a regional championship. Read and React made this possible. As an assistant coach in 2011-2012, I watched our girls basketball program […]
Tribe Spotlight: La Monte Vikings
This week’s Tribe Spotlight features Donnie Mayes, Head Basketball coach of the La Monte Lady Vikings. Check out his website http://donniemayes.com. I started coaching basketball at the youth level in 1998. I pretty much coached the way that I was coached in High School. Most of the plays were the same with a few minor tweaks. I worked […]
Tribe Spotlight: Lovell High School
This weeks Tribe Spotlight features Craig Lundberg. Craig is the varsity boy’s basketball coach at Lovell High School. This was my first year of implementing the Read & React system at the varsity level. I first heard about the offense while doing research on the game quite a few years ago. At that I was […]
Tribe Spotlight: Tappan Zee Girls Basketball
This week’s Tribe Spotlight features Tom Cromer, Tappan Zee Girls Varsity Basketball Coach. I have been coaching basketball at the high school level for 17 years. The first 12 were spent coaching at the JV boys level and the last give years I have been coaching the Varsity Girls at Tappan Zee High School. I remember […]
