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...
Tradition tells us to attack an odd fronted zone with an even fronted offense. In that case, to attack a 1-3-1 zone defense, you should use a two-guard offense to split that top defender. But, what if you attacked odd with odd? What if you attacked...
The number 1-ranked men’s team in the nation (NAIA) is undefeated Shorter University coached by Chad Warner in Rome Georgia. The first paragraph of a recent article reads below: KANSAS CITY, Mo. – As the NAIA’s only undefeated team remaining, Shorter (Ga.) maintained its top ranking...
In a previous post, we talked about using Trigger Actions as a training mechanism in the Read & React Offense. The first couple of minutes of the video below is the perfect example of using a post feed as a trigger action. But, the meat of...
This video is an excerpt from our newest DVD series, Read & React Clinics: Planning the R&R Practice. We've mentioned before that in the Read & React Offense the ball handler is the orchestrator - any decision she makes with the ball moves the other four...
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