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20 Mar Tribe Spotlight: Robert E. Lee High School

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This week we are featuring a Read & React State Champions Robert E. Lee High School, coached by Jeremy Hartman. In the summer of 2008, after my third year as the head coach of the girls' basketball program at Robert E. Lee High in Staunton, VA,...

27 Feb Tribe Spotlight: Joe Opperman

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This week's Tribe Spotlight feature Read & React coach Joe Opperman. I’ve been coaching Middle School boys and girls teams for the past five years, and have been actively involved in assisting my son’s team (now 5th grade) as they’ve been led by our Varsity Girls...

20 Feb Tribe Spotlight: Bay State Jaguars

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This week's Tribe Spotlight is on Bay State Jaguars Girls' AAU Basketball coach Dan Beauchemin. By way of introduction, I am a 20+ year high school assistant coach and also coach for one of New England’s best AAU Girls’ programs, the Bay State Jaguars. In my mind,...

10 Feb History of the Read and React Basketball Offense

Posted at 12:54h in Coaching the Read & React by Rick Torbett 0 Comments

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This video takes you through the timeline of how I created the Read & React Offense nearly 20 years ago. My assistant coach at the time sparked the idea of creating a system of positionless basketball to keep your 5 BEST players on the floor. Watch...

08 Feb How to Create Isolation in the Post – Part 1

Posted at 16:48h in Coaching the Read & React by Rick Torbett 0 Comments

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In this Full Timeout, I break down how to easily isolate a post player within the Read and React Offense. Part 1 of this 3 part series discusses the circle movement involved with basket cuts to isolate the post player. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFeHE4RgK7Q[/embed] Read More about the Read &...

06 Feb Tribe Spotlight: Read and Reach Coach Brad Cundiff

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This Tribe Spotlight is very unique and the first of it's kind, Rick Torbett was fortunate enough to film a 1-on-1 interview with a Read & React coach in his home state of Georgia. Brad Cundiff is the Boy's Junior-Varsity basketball coach at the Kings...

04 Feb Positionless Basketball Taking Hold in College

Posted at 12:27h in Coaching the Read & React by Rick Torbett 0 Comments

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Rick breaks down an article written recently regarding the transition of college basketball to a positionless system similar to the Read and React. NBA and college players are becoming more dynamic than ever, so it's important for coaches to follow suit and change the way...

02 Feb Basketball Positions vs Spots – Part 1

Posted at 19:18h in Archive, Full Time-Outs by Rick Torbett 0 Comments

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In this Full Timeout, Rick discusses the difference in basketball players designated by positions and spots. Positionless basketball is the future of basketball. In every play a player starts and ends in a spot, in the Read and React a player is constantly changing spots...

17 Oct Read & React Boot Camp

Posted at 11:00h in Coaching the Read & React by Rick Torbett 19 Comments

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Installing the Entire Read & React in 5 Days

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The Read & React Offense took over a year to produce and I’m pretty confident that I covered every detail of every layer of the offense. But regardless, I continue to hear the following question: “What is the best method for teaching the Read & React?” And regardless of THAT answer, the follow-up question is always, “How long will it take?” So, when Mike Bona, coach of the Emmanuel College Lady Lions, asked me the same question, I boldly answered: “One week! In one week, I can put in the entire Read & React – all 20 Layers!” And he took me up on it! Now, some of you are saying, there’s no way an entire team can master the Read & React in 5 practices (11 hours). And I agree! What CAN you MASTER in 11 hours?! I wasn’t shooting for mastery - I was shooting for the team to acquire the ability to run the entire offense in this short, condensed amount of time. And they did! To best understand what I did in these 5 practices and why I did it this way, let’s look at the 3 BASIC STAGES OF SKILL ACQUISITION*:

06 Jun 3 Tweaks for Posts in 3 OUT

Posted at 22:26h in Coaching the Read & React by Rick Torbett 4 Comments

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You can do anything you want with your post players as long as they react correctly to dribble penetration. We've said that before and it remains true. But, that leaves a lot of options. I thought it would be helpful to give you three that I would consider using if I had a 3 OUT team (or, if I had a team that occasionally flowed into a 3 OUT). 1. Place one post on the ball-side high post and the other on the weak-side low post. The High Post can be given rules in this situation: screen for cutters and shape up for the ball or set a ball screen every other pass (really, this can be whatever you want). The Low Post simply stays opposite the ball (allowing space for cutters to get to the basket) and whenever the High Post receives a shape up pass, ducks into the lane looking for the Hi-Lo.

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20 Mar Tribe Spotlight: Robert E. Lee High School

27 Feb Tribe Spotlight: Joe Opperman

20 Feb Tribe Spotlight: Bay State Jaguars

10 Feb History of the Read and React Basketball Offense

08 Feb How to Create Isolation in the Post – Part 1

06 Feb Tribe Spotlight: Read and Reach Coach Brad Cundiff

04 Feb Positionless Basketball Taking Hold in College

02 Feb Basketball Positions vs Spots – Part 1

17 Oct Read & React Boot Camp

06 Jun 3 Tweaks for Posts in 3 OUT

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