How should I teach the Read & React? That question finds its way to me a lot. And, my frustrated answer is this: You have to run the Read & React in order to improve at the Read & React. Period. You can’t get good at something that...
This our second of five Read & React Quick Hitter posts in tribute to our newest DVD in the R&R family: Quick Hitters! You can check it out here. Here's a nice Out of Bounds Quick Hitter to jump start your Read & React from the...
Over the next couple of weeks, we'll be posting 5 Read & React Quick Hitters in tribute to our newest DVD in the R&R family: Quick Hitters! It's so new in fact that it isn't even live on the website yet, but you can check...
TJ Rosene just sent me this drill that he’s been integrating into his practices. His team loves it because they get a little bit of everything (transition, zone, man, etc.). In it he trains his team to transition seamlessly between formations, emphasis of actions, and...
Read & React v. Zone
Read & React v. Press
Read & React 5 OUT Scrimmage This is what I learned from that first year: First, I needed to down size everything! I figured if I was going to commit a good majority of practice time to the R&R, then some things had to go. I kept one press offense, one offense (R&R) vs. man to man, two zone sets (more on that later), and I cut our inbounds sets to 4. I have to be honest, this was going to be a big change for me. I was venturing out of my 20-year coaching comfort zone. Why change now?
Throughout your team’s Read & React training, you’ll need to run diagnostic tests. You can do this in scrimmage situations, in game situations, or as a final progression to a drill. To use a drill as a diagnostic tool, you must make it competitive. This video...
If you're going to integrate the Read & React into as much of your practice as possible, you'll have to teach player development while teaching the Offense. This video gives you some ideas where those concepts can be inserted into basic drills. And, the only way...
The Read & React Offense was designed as a progression: it stacks layer upon layer starting simple and building complexity along the way. In the same way, complexity can be built into the basic R&R drills. In this 3 part series (yep, it’s a series within...
Below is TJ Rosene's Day 1 Practice Plan for his team. Obviously, your team is different than TJ's so your plan will look different based on your age and/or skill level, whether this is your first year with the Read & React, and what you want...
Why waste valuable practice time jogging around the court or doing two-line lay-ups? Integrate the Read & React reaction drills into as much as your practice as possible. And, be creative. TJ Rosene shows you two warm up drills that he uses every day before his team stretches, but these examples could easily be tweaked for your players, your gym, the layers you want to emphasize, or even the layers you are about to teach.
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