In this short but powerful course, you’ll learn how to reduce your players’ anxiety and provide organization, guidelines, principles to run the floor on offense. Coach Rick will provide answers to your players’ questions about where to go and what to do during the time between playing defense and running your half-court offense.
Perfect for athletes and coaches looking for the essential mental toughness edge. This informative and entertaining 4 DVD box set outlines all of the essential mental toughness skills, cutting-edge drills and traits of the most successful players and coaches in the game, presented in an easy-to-follow format.
When the skills have been mastered, is the game won? No! Strong offenses and clever opponents will still throw you for a loop. Dr. Spencer Wood returns to teach both players and coaches the mental toughness needed to achieve excellence.
“Mental toughness alone will never guarantee anyone a championship; but a lack of mental toughness is guaranteed to cost you a championship.” – Dr. Spencer Wood
In this video, Coach Henderson takes you through her progression of drills from 1-on-1 to 2-on-2. The moves and finishes are the same as the 1-on-1, but the 2-on-2 adds more pressure and brings in the passing game for a more well-rounded, fresh practice session.
Work on your zone shooting in a shootaround with Coach Randi Henderson. These fast-paced drills are designed to give the players practice shooting against a zone defense – they encourage players to find the open shot, pass the ball, and finally take shots against the zone. Remember, practice makes perfect!
Read and React coaches are always looking for new and unique ways to train the Read and React Offense in practice.
Coach Randi Henderson has adopted a concept she calls “Emmert Reads” from a coaching clinic she attended. In this 29 minute course, she introduces drills you can use to train post entries, the read-line, relocation, and x-cuts.
These actions are designed to imitate live game situations and stimulate your imagination for training any Read and React action initiated by post entry or dribble penetration.
There are two halves of the Read & React that make it the unique system that it is. The first half of the Read & React takes all decision-making away from players without the ball and makes them pure reactors to the ball-handler – one predetermined reaction to every action that the ball can take. That makes the ball-handler the sole decision-maker: one leader with 4 followers. And that’s what this workout is all about.
Making decisions with the ball AND knowing exactly how to react to the ball, essentially means you know exactly when to lead and exactly when to follow. And that knowledge is not only essential to the Read & React, it’s also an essential ingredient to playing Better Basketball.
European coach Bart Wouters returns to share more content from his European basketball camp curriculum. This video is packed with drills to help players of all levels to finish at the rim more efficiently!
Here’s the situation: you’re on the move, with the ball, headed to the rim, but you’re not wide open. You need a finishing move and you have to use the right one for THIS situation. Rick Torbett has the moves you need!
This video identifies 9 finishing moves for 9 situations. We then add a bonus game at the end for 10 outstanding drills that will benefit any player or coach.
Randi Henderson likes to mix it up!
She has learned that practice gets repetitive when the same drills are rehearsed every single day until they become so repetitive that the teams she coaches have less fun with it. The trick is to do different kinds of drills that still work on the same fundamentals – that way the same work gets done, but the practice stays fun.
This course was filmed with Randi and her team practicing with one-on-one drills that keep it interesting and encourage the players to work their hardest.
Don’t settle for jump shots when the opponent switches to a zone defense! These four strategies can be put into use quickly and give your players confidence in playing against a zone defense by increasing the number of threats the defense has to face.
To win a basketball game, you need to score. In order to score, your players need to be able to quickly read the defense, react immediately, and use the most effective move possible for that situation. The Read and React system ties these two man reads into a seamless offense that can be adjusted to any set, formation, type of player, or style of play.
Once you’ve mastered the framework, you can customize Read and React to fit your personnel and the style of play your team needs to be successful. The Read and React offense is the best way to do this because it is a principled framework that gives your players the tools they need to anticipate the actions of the defense and respond with the best possible move. It is a system that can be drilled to the point of habit.
It’s like jazz; the same rules are used throughout, but the songs always come out a bit differently (and keep the defense guessing).
In this course you get 3 hours, 27 minutes of video. You’ll see 28 variations that will add some additional dimensions to your Read & React, and your offense will continue to improve.
Read & React is a different way to run an offense. The first half of the Read & React trains the team to control their spacing. The second half contains the ball screen and other advanced offensive tactics like the pick & roll. This is an advanced Read & React course designed to help coaches understand the ball screen and make a decision about whether it is necessary for each team, decide whether the team is skilled enough to use it, and finally help implement the skills needed to integrate ball screens in Read & React.
This course contains 35 base R&R Entries, plus lots of options from those starting points.
When all is said and done, with the options, you’ll have 110 Quick Hitter Entries. Of the 110, there are at least 30 Entries for every formation – 5 OUT, 4 OUT, or 3 OUT. No matter what your formation preference, you’ll have plenty of options. Plus, there are 17 Baseline In Bounds Quick Hitters. Remember, the Read & React can help you communicate complicated five-player actions with very few words – and these 128 quick hitters will help train your players to string the layers together in increasing complexity.
Coach Rick Torbett is known worldwide for the development of the Read and React Offense, a system for implementing 5-player coordination without the use of set plays. In this video, part 5 of a 5-part series, Coach Torbett and a demonstration team simulate a practice with content for the very end of your season. This Practice Plan for implementing the Read and React in an example of of focusing on the FLOW – how to move seamlessly from transition to man-to-man and zone attacks without “setting up”. Color Codes are introduced to practice changing our tempo and emphasis of attack depending on the strengths and weaknesses of our opponents. We work on changing these codes during transition (our Full-Court Trips). Your practice emphasis could be 90% on your defense.
Coach Rick Torbett is known worldwide for the development of the Read and React Offense, a system for implementing 5-player coordination without the use of set plays. In this video, part 4 of a 5-part series, Coach Torbett and a demonstration team simulate a practice with content for the later part of your season. This Practice Plan for implementing the Read and React remains in the Screening Actions of Pin & Skip, Cutter Screens, Post Screens, and Ball Screens, but goes further with more Combo Drills and applications of the screens. X-Screens and other additions are introduced. Full Court Trips blends it all together into a single offense. You are only a couple of weeks away from the Post Season. Everything you do should have the majority of your attention on your defense. How does your team defend everything in the Read & React? Your emphasis should be switching to defense.
Coach Rick Torbett is known worldwide for the development of the Read and React Offense, a system for implementing 5-player coordination without the use of set plays.
In this course, part 3 of a 5-part series, Coach Torbett uses three demonstration teams from different Read and React clinics to simulate a practice that occurs during the middle of the season. The opponent is making adjustments. Once your team can manage and score with spacing, its time to add screening as a COUNTER to defensive adjustments: Pin & Skip, Cutter Screens, Post Screens, and Ball Screens. Combination drills are introduced as a means to teaching and training the screening actions. And like all courses in this series application is demonstrated for Attacking Zones, Breaking Presses and Transition.
Coach Rick Torbett is known worldwide for the development of the Read and React Offense, a system for implementing 5-player coordination without the use of set plays.
In this course, part 2 of a 5-part series, Coach Torbett uses three demonstration teams from different Read and React clinics to simulate a practice with content after the season has started. The course continues the needed review of the first 3 Layers but now covers the reactions of all players during North-South Dribble Penetration. We apply it to Attacking Zones, Breaking Presses and Transition because teams are competing in the early part of your season.
About this Course
Coach Rick Torbett is known worldwide for the development of the Read and React Offense, a system for implementing 5-player coordination without the use of set plays.
In this course, part 1 of a 5-part series, Coach Torbett uses three demonstration teams from different Read and React clinics to simulate a practice with content from the first two to three weeks of the season. The course covers drills for teaching Pass & Cut, Feed the Post & Cut, and Dribble East-West. In addition, it covers Out of Bounds Plays, Attacking Zones, Breaking Presses and Transition. Breakdown drills: from 2 players to 5 players to 5 on 5. At the end of this course, the team should have a working offense and be able to play and compete.
During the summer of 2010, we held a few clinics for those coaches already running the Read & React. One of the two major themes was Practice Planning – how to implement the Read & React. So, we decided that Coach TJ Rosene of Emmanuel College (2009 NCCAA National Champions) should simply run a practice.
Coach Rosene never strays far from the Reaction Drills and Reaction Habits that run the Read & React. He incorporates them in everything that he does. If he’s focusing on defense, the offensive component is the Read & React. If he’s working on transition, the transition is going to end in the Read & React. If he’s warming up or just getting in shots, he’s always doing it out of the R&R Reaction Drills.
In doing so, Coach Rosene sends a clear message to his team:
This is how we play. This is what we do. This is who we are.
With this being Coach Rosene’s third season with the Read & React, you’re going to see players who have two years of the R&R under their belt, some with one, and some who are learning it for the first time.
This is a real practice in real time – nothing is staged.
The Read & React is the ultimate 2-for-1 offense. Any time one of your players is working on a direct scoring opportunity, your offense will create indirect scoring opportunities. The trick is to make sure your players are looking for it.
This video course explores driving opportunities that are inherent in the offense thanks to its spacing, player movement and ball movement. These are situations you can set up in practice and turn into drills so that your players learn what to look for when it’s game time and you need to put points on the board.
The post player is an important part of the offense. Two things that usually come up with respect to the post are simply how to get open in the post and how to score in the post when you’ve got the ball. Read & React uses the post player in a different way – it turns the post player into a play maker, the quarterback of your offense. The post is in the Read & React decision box, and the purpose of this online course is to help the post learn how to make the best decision for the team.
Being able to choose the Next Best Action without the ball has mostly been left to chance. Most of us coaches can recognize a player with a high basketball I.Q. and we’re glad to get them. But how much time do we actually spend, with an organized plan, training everyone on the team to choose a Next Best Action? How much time do we really spend trying to increase our players’ basketball I.Q.? In Read & React Offense, the lane is the decision box. This video course will help you teach your players to make the best decisions without input from the coach.
