Tribe Spotlight: Capital Eages
This week we are spotlighting Read & React coach Orville Godby who coaches the Capital Eagles. What I like best about the Read and React Offense is the equality it brings between players. Within the offense, everyone passes, dribbles, cuts and gets opportunities to score. It makes all 5 players important rather than having an offense […]
March 26: Court Vision: The Trained Eyes of a Head Coach (Part 1)
Several years ago Yahoo Sports wrote an article about Jason Kidd’s move to the bench, I thought a point raised would be the perfect topic to write about: How different a coaches vision is from a players’. As a potential future Hall of Fame point guard who spent 18 years in the NBA and winning an […]
Tribe Spotlight: Robert E. Lee High School
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, I knew something needed to change. We were making […]
March 15: How to Break a Full-Court Press | Dead Ball Lob
This press offense play attacks full court defense that is denying the inbounds pass. It is essential that the point guard does a great job sealing his man, like a post-up, in order to receive the pass. Lear MORE about beating pressure defense
Tribe Spotlight: Bethel Christian Academy
This week’s Tribe Spotlight features Bert Potter, Varsity Boy’s Basketball coach at Bethel Christian Academy (Kinston, NC). I first heard about the Read & React from our former JV coach after he found the DVD’s online. I really enjoy teaching the Read & React because it simultaneously trains player and ball movement. As a result, our program’s offensive fundamentals are better […]
Tribe Spotlight: Covenant Academy
Covenant Academy (McMinnville, TN) head coach Ryan Smith shares his Read & React story in this weeks Tribe Spotlight. I was first introduced to the Read & React Offense when I was a high school coach at a public school. I was researching a more efficient offense that would fit my players and my program. I was […]
Basketball Positions vs Spots – Part 2
This 2 Part Full Timeout discusses the difference in basketball players designated by positions and spots. Positionless basketball allows you to absorb mistakes within that offense and keep going. Click here for Part 1! Positionless basketball is the future of basketball. In every play a player starts and ends in a spot, in the Read […]
Tribe Spotlight: TC Hoops Basketball Club
Terry Helm is the owner and head coach at TC Hoops Basketball Club in Cape Girardeau, Missouri . We currently have 12 teams aging from 4th grade girls and boys to varsity level boys and girls . When Coach Helm took over the club, the previous coach that owned it before ran the dribble-drive exclusively. I wasn’t […]
How to Create Isolation in the Post – Part 2
Here is a breakdown of how to easily isolate a post player within the Read & React Offense. Part 2 of this 3 part series discusses how to create a post isolation in a 4 Out – 1 In formation. Click here to watch Part 1.
One Punch Knockout
Often when I watch basketball on TV I feel like I need to take anxiety pills. Heck, my family won’t even watch games in the same room as me. One aspect of the game that drove me to create the Read & React Offense, is this notion that you must run false offense for a […]