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If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.Every great endeavor begins with a vision of something greater than yourself, but until it's shared and internalized by the team, it will get no traction. So, as a coach, you are responsible to create (or at least mold) your team's vision. You are the captain of that ship after all.
You can develop a successful vision for your basketball team by making three commitments:
But, just because a team can handle one situation doesn't mean they can handle two or three in a row, or even two or three simultaneously.
Set this as a goal for your Read & React team (especially when you come up against better defensive teams): every possession, force the defense to handle more than one situation back to back or at the same time.
Below are a couple of examples of how you can do that.
Seth Godin recently wrote the following on his blog: Fledgling sushi chefs spend months (sometimes years) doing nothing but making the rice for the head chef. If the rice isn't right, it really doesn't matter what else you do, you're not going to be able to serve...
The above sentiment is nothing revolutionary, but let's examine why it works.
But, I recently got to thinking. Are we as compatible as I think we are? Do I love you because my previous coaches told me to? Are you just a Sacred Zombie Cow? Or, do we really fit?
I needed to know (for both our sakes) so I decided to test it out on the biggest stage I could find: the NCAA National Championship game - theoretically the two best non-professional basketball teams in the world. It would be perfect. I would chart all the amazing impact you made in that game and fall in love with you all over again. You know, just like when we were younger.
Well, that's what I thought would happen.
The best offensive attacks are free-flowing, more closely resembling a great jazz performance than a scripted symphony. But, what if your players tend to fall into predictable patterns? What if your players don't have enough experience (yet) to know how to adjust effectively to the...
For those of you checking out the Read & React for the first time, the video below is an excerpt of Layer 1: Pass & Cut from the Read & React Offensive System DVD Set. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xAzANFC74c Here’s why I think most coaches look past Layer 1 Pass...
Are you tired of practicing different offenses for different defenses? This could be as simple as having one offense for man defense and one offense for zone defense, but I've seen coaches with arsenals full of offenses with a different one to be deployed for every...