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The Read & React 2.0
In this 2.0 version, I’ve rebuilt the Read & React teaching so you can run it more effectively and implement it faster. You’ll get the latest ideas and examples from successful coaches who have built successful programs using the Read & React offense. Every layer and every scoring opportunity has been illustrated with game clip examples so you can see exactly how to win with it. I share new ideas and new teaching progressions within the familiar grid of 10 Layers. I’ve learned much better ways to teach the offense over the past 6 years and it’s all included in this course.
Press Break
Learn how to break presses of all kinds in every situation. You will learn how to get your players into consistent, simple, press-breaking positions from: Made shots Free throws, Dead balls where you can run the baseline Dead balls where you can’t One chapter is devoted to creating powerful and poised players that can execute […]
Ball Screens Master Course
The Reads of the Ballhandler and the Reactions of the Screener in light of all 10 players on the floor, through the lens of 3 unique learning grids.
Fusion Practice System
Zone Attack Package
A comprehensive resource for attacking zones. We’ve got you covered with teachings, film examples, and diagrams throughout the entire course.
Zone Attack
In this course, Rick Torbett will teach you adjustments to your teaching strategies when using the Read and React Offense when attacking Zone Defenses. As a Read and React coach, Coach Torbett does not want you to have to change from the Read and React actions that your team already knows. This course details how to take what your team already knows about the Read and React Offense and apply it to attacking zones. This course will cover strategies for how Rick Torbett would attack each type of Zone Defense. In addition, the course contains a comprehensive team drill library and detailed instructions on how to guide your team to implementing these actions from the Read and React Offense when facing Zone Defense.
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The Read & React 2.0
In this 2.0 version, I’ve rebuilt the Read & React teaching so you can run it more effectively and implement it faster. You’ll get the latest ideas and examples from successful coaches who have built successful programs using the Read & React offense. Every layer and every scoring opportunity has been illustrated with game clip examples so you can see exactly how to win with it. I share new ideas and new teaching progressions within the familiar grid of 10 Layers. I’ve learned much better ways to teach the offense over the past 6 years and it’s all included in this course.
Press Break
Learn how to break presses of all kinds in every situation. You will learn how to get your players into consistent, simple, press-breaking positions from: Made shots Free throws, Dead balls where you can run the baseline Dead balls where you can’t One chapter is devoted to creating powerful and poised players that can execute […]
Ball Screens Master Course
The Reads of the Ballhandler and the Reactions of the Screener in light of all 10 players on the floor, through the lens of 3 unique learning grids.
Fusion Practice System
Zone Attack Package
A comprehensive resource for attacking zones. We’ve got you covered with teachings, film examples, and diagrams throughout the entire course.
Zone Attack
In this course, Rick Torbett will teach you adjustments to your teaching strategies when using the Read and React Offense when attacking Zone Defenses. As a Read and React coach, Coach Torbett does not want you to have to change from the Read and React actions that your team already knows. This course details how to take what your team already knows about the Read and React Offense and apply it to attacking zones. This course will cover strategies for how Rick Torbett would attack each type of Zone Defense. In addition, the course contains a comprehensive team drill library and detailed instructions on how to guide your team to implementing these actions from the Read and React Offense when facing Zone Defense.
The Read & React Offense
The Read & React Offense is a great way to play basketball. Each time a new coach adopts it, the paradigm will shift with the program he or she applies it to. Whenever new methods become available, Read & React will be updated to bring you the absolute latest and greatest the offense has to offer. Rick has re-engineered the system to help coaches better teach and understand the concepts. This course contains a quick run-down of the first ten layers with updates.
Dynamic Defense
These videos teach the drills you and your team need to take your defensive play to the next level. Hall of Fame coach Dick Helm brings his four level approach to building an excellent defensive player and a superb defensive team to this series, Dynamic Defense by Coach Rick Torbett. Dynamic Defense Levels 1 & 2 will teach players the skills they need to guard their opponents with or without the ball.
Youth Read & React
This version of the full Read & React course is speifially tailored to youth teams and developing players. Read & React’s positionless system provides you with an opportunity to kindle an enjoyment of the game in your young atheletes as they learn to make intelligent decisions, play their best game, and develop the skills that will make them excellent players for years to come.
The Shooting Course
In this course, Coach Rick Torbett works with two different teams of high school players to develop “Rapid Skill Acquisition”. Coach Torbett teaches techniques needed for a great shot. In almost 5 hours of intense guidance the players train completely through the shooting process, beginning before the shot is taken and continuing through the actions following the shot.
Read & React Boot Camp
In this 5-part series, the women’s team from Emmanuel College was filmed experiencing the Read and React Offense for the first time. The series covers five consecutive days of two or more hours of practice. The course teaches from a whole-part-whole perspective and focuses on the cognitive aspect of the system – preparing the team to learn the offense. The team learns the Foundation of the Offense: the first four “Layers” of Passing East-West, Passing North-South, Dribbling East-West, and Dribbling North-South. The practice finishes with a 5-player rehearsal in Full-Court mode.
Read & React : 3-Player Drills
In this course, consisting of 64 drills, Rick Torbett will teach you 3-player drills that help build your player’s decision making. Even if you’re not a Read and React coach, these drills will help in developing passing, cutting, hitting cutters on the move, changing speeds and angles on finishing, being catch ready, feeding the post, ball-handling, and that’s just in the first 20 drills! This course was designed by utilizing drills that coaches have told us have worked with their teams in creating great player habits and decision making.
First Day of Practice
After the first day of practice, will be surprised by your new team’s grasp of the big picture of basketball. They’ll be able to run an offense that can counter pressure and includes screens, the only shell defensive drill you’ll ever need, a play to bring the ball in from out of bounds, no matter which part of the court it goes out on. Your team will be able to run a full court transition, play early offense without setting up, break presses and stay tough in the end game to keep the lead and counter pressure. Read & React provides you a means to train your weakest team against your strongest team the ability to test it all with “Live” Scrimmage! This system will get your team up and running so fast your head will spin.
Read & React Workouts 101
Rick has been hard at work designing online coursework for our coaches! The first of these is Read & React Workouts 101. This course will give Read & React coaches the opportunity to learn directly from Rick as he takes them through 12 Read & React Specific workouts in 6 weeks.
Read & React Workouts 102
The second course in the Read & React workout series is Read & React Workouts 201. This course will give Read & React coaches the opportunity to learn directly from Rick as he takes them through 15 advanced Read & React Specific workouts in 6 weeks. Many layers from RRW 101 are reviewed, but in 201 Rick takes you through more advanced Layers and shows you how to collapse time frames by combining layers in drill work.
Essentials
TJ on Master Teaching
Begin your journey of becoming a master teacher!
Lead Yourself Well
Leadership starts with you. In this course you’ll dive into a self-assessment based on your current habits and influences and form a plan on how you can improve in leading yourself well.
How to Build a Thriving Culture
This course will equip you with tools, insights and practical examples so you can build a thriving culture.
Teaching Shot Selection
Why teaching shot selection will win you more games next season.
Building a More Competitive Team
Welcome to our Key5 Summer Intensive, Building a More Competitive Team with Sam Allen. Thank you for joining us. Prior to your first session watch the intro video here to understand more about the topic and expectations. Then click on Session 1 in the blue box for instructions on pre-class activities. Session Days/Time: June 22, […]
Leadership 101
Lisa O’Meara is joined by PGC Director, Dustin Aubert to discuss leadership principles, ideas, and best practices for you and your team this season.
Practices
Fusion Practice System
Randi Henderson: Post Play Development & Drills
Coach Randi Henderson works with her team through some excellent post drills. Her progressive teaching style is sure to help your players grow their inside presence, and her focus on drilling in groups is good for teambuilding in general. This online course will help you bring the same winning strategy to your team’s practices.
Team Shooting Drills
Better Basketball first gained its notoriety with Rick Torbett’s player development series which cultivates the fundamental skills of basketball. In this course, Rick Torbett gives you five Team Shooting Drills are designed to maximize your benefit from practice time and improve shooting in real game situations. The drills can be adjusted for the number of baskets, the number of players, and the time you have available in practice.
Read & React Youth Practices & Drills: Practice 1
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. This course is the first in a series of eight practices that Coach Rick Torbett directed for a youth team. Even though youth players are demonstrating, you can tweak certain amounts of almost every drill to fit the level you are coaching. You can link these into a series of complete practice plans or mix-and-match to create your own practice plans! The drills you’ll learn in this online course focus on team coordination and tempo control in the Read & React offense. The drills that the team is running become the offense. There are ino drills in this course that do not directly relate to what your players learn while operating the Read and React Offense.
Read & React Youth Practices & Drills: Practice 2
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. This course is the second in a series of eight practices that Coach Rick Torbett directed for a youth team. Even though youth players are demonstrating, you can tweak certain amounts of almost every drill to fit the level you are coaching. You can link these into a series of complete practice plans or mix-and-match to create your own practice plans! The drills you’ll learn in this online course focus on team coordination and tempo control in the Read & React offense. The drills that the team is running become the offense. There are no drills in this course that do not directly relate to what your players learn while operating the Read and React Offense. This course covers back screens and introduces circle movement and dribble-at drills.
Read & React Youth Practices & Drills: Practice 3
This course is the third in a series of eight practices that Coach Rick Torbett directed for a youth team. Even though youth players are demonstrating, you can tweak certain amounts of almost every drill to fit the level you are coaching. You can link these into a series of complete practice plans or mix-and-match to create your own practice plans! The drills you’ll learn in this online course focus on team coordination and tempo control in the Read & React offense. The drills that the team is running become the offense. There are no drills in this course that do not directly relate to what your players learn while operating the Read and React Offense. This course introduces one of the great features of the Read and React Offense. By working the drills in these practices your team weaknesses will be exposed and lead you to the skill development your players need.
Player Development
The Shooting Course
In this course, Coach Rick Torbett works with two different teams of high school players to develop “Rapid Skill Acquisition”. Coach Torbett teaches techniques needed for a great shot. In almost 5 hours of intense guidance the players train completely through the shooting process, beginning before the shot is taken and continuing through the actions following the shot.
Read & React : 3-Player Drills
In this course, consisting of 64 drills, Rick Torbett will teach you 3-player drills that help build your player’s decision making. Even if you’re not a Read and React coach, these drills will help in developing passing, cutting, hitting cutters on the move, changing speeds and angles on finishing, being catch ready, feeding the post, ball-handling, and that’s just in the first 20 drills! This course was designed by utilizing drills that coaches have told us have worked with their teams in creating great player habits and decision making.
Read & React Workouts 101
Rick has been hard at work designing online coursework for our coaches! The first of these is Read & React Workouts 101. This course will give Read & React coaches the opportunity to learn directly from Rick as he takes them through 12 Read & React Specific workouts in 6 weeks.
Read & React Workouts 102
The second course in the Read & React workout series is Read & React Workouts 201. This course will give Read & React coaches the opportunity to learn directly from Rick as he takes them through 15 advanced Read & React Specific workouts in 6 weeks. Many layers from RRW 101 are reviewed, but in 201 Rick takes you through more advanced Layers and shows you how to collapse time frames by combining layers in drill work.
Better Ball Handling
Better Basketball first gained its notoriety with Rick Torbett’s player development series which cultivates the fundamental skills of basketball. This course, featuring ball handling phenom Andy Garcia, incorporates 30 application-specific workouts with over 200 individual drills! Need to improve your cross-over, there’s a workout for that! Working to improve your off hand, there’s a workout for that, as well! What about improving hand strength? There’s a workout for that too. With over 3 hours of unique course content, you’re sure to find tools to hone or polish your handle.
Elite Handles
Basketball has evolved to attract spectacular athletes. If you are not the most athletic player on your team, it is a necessity that you acquire superior ball handling/dribbling & shooting skills to play at the next level. Are you ready to take your handle to be unguardable? In this course, featuring ball handling phenom Andy Garcia, you will learn how to significantly improve your ball control to make these improvements a reality! With these drills in this course, your weak hand will become your strong hand, your hand-eye coordination will get better, you will learn counter moves to break your defender and you will find your confidence elevated. Andy Garcia says: “Remember to enjoy the process as you improve your handle, don’t forget that the best process leads to the highest skill! When working on a specific drill always keep in mind that amateurs practice until they get it right, but professionals practice until they can’t get it wrong. This course provides the drills you need to master the game. Never be afraid to have the ball in your hands again!”
Games
Reaction Drills
Coach Rick Torbett has developed his Read & React offense to teach players to recognize scoring opportunities and capitalize upon them. Most drills are broken down to teach only one aspect of a given real-game situation. In one step, Read & React teaches an offense by drilling players and teaching movement in response to the the ball, even as it reinforces the skills players need to succeed. Torbett will present the sixteen layers of the Read & React offense as taught by fundamental drills from the Read & React System with added explanations and demonstrations in this online video course. Why teach an offense separately from the skills your players need to win games? Teaching adaptive play principles to the players at the same time that they learn the skills they need is a better way to get results.
Read & React Youth Practices & Drills: Practice 5
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. This course is the fifth in a series of eight practices that Coach Rick Torbett directed for a youth team. Even though youth players are demonstrating, you can tweak certain amounts of almost every drill to fit the level you are coaching. You can link these into a series of complete practice plans or mix-and-match to create your own practice plans The drills you’ll learn in this online course focus on team coordination and tempo control in the Read & React offense. The drills that the team is running become the offense. There are no drills in this course that do not directly relate to what your players learn while operating the Read and React Offense. This course begins with drills for strengthening player confidence with the ball. After those drills, the focus of the course becomes diagnosing the progress of the team using short-sided live games.
How to Win Close Games – Part 1
Welcome to our Key5 Intensive, How to Win Close Games – Part 1 Thank you for joining us. Watch the intro video here to understand more about the topic and expectations. Then click the blue Session 1 box and get started on pre-class activities. Session Days/Time: August 4, 5, 6 at 1:00 PM – 2:00 […]
How to Win Close Games – Part 2
Welcome to our Key5 Intensive, How to Win Close Games – Part 2 Thank you for joining us. Watch the intro video here to understand more about the topic and expectations. Then click the blue Session 1 box and get started on pre-class activities. Session Days/Time: August 9, 10, 11 at 7:00 PM – 8:00 […]
BLOBs & SOBs
Coaches, how many points per game do you steal off of your out of bounds plays? If you’re not gaining an advantage each time you’re in a dead ball situation, you’re missing out on great opportunities to get your team great looks at the basket. In this six-part course, Sam Allen will take you through baseline and sideline out of bounds progressions to make sure your team is making the most of every out of bounds opportunity. Let’s get started!
Maximizing Pre-Game Warm-Ups
There are many strategies to effectively making use of your pre-game warm-up time. Sam Allen hosts a discussion on ideas and best practices for your teams warm-ups..
Systems
The Read & React 2.0
In this 2.0 version, I’ve rebuilt the Read & React teaching so you can run it more effectively and implement it faster. You’ll get the latest ideas and examples from successful coaches who have built successful programs using the Read & React offense. Every layer and every scoring opportunity has been illustrated with game clip examples so you can see exactly how to win with it. I share new ideas and new teaching progressions within the familiar grid of 10 Layers. I’ve learned much better ways to teach the offense over the past 6 years and it’s all included in this course.
Press Break
Learn how to break presses of all kinds in every situation. You will learn how to get your players into consistent, simple, press-breaking positions from: Made shots Free throws, Dead balls where you can run the baseline Dead balls where you can’t One chapter is devoted to creating powerful and poised players that can execute […]
Ball Screens Master Course
The Reads of the Ballhandler and the Reactions of the Screener in light of all 10 players on the floor, through the lens of 3 unique learning grids.
Fusion Practice System
Zone Attack Package
A comprehensive resource for attacking zones. We’ve got you covered with teachings, film examples, and diagrams throughout the entire course.
Zone Attack
In this course, Rick Torbett will teach you adjustments to your teaching strategies when using the Read and React Offense when attacking Zone Defenses. As a Read and React coach, Coach Torbett does not want you to have to change from the Read and React actions that your team already knows. This course details how to take what your team already knows about the Read and React Offense and apply it to attacking zones. This course will cover strategies for how Rick Torbett would attack each type of Zone Defense. In addition, the course contains a comprehensive team drill library and detailed instructions on how to guide your team to implementing these actions from the Read and React Offense when facing Zone Defense.
Pain Points
Developing a Great Staff
TJ Rosene and Sam Allen will take you through a course that outlines the role of head coaches and assistant coaches in taking ownership of developing a great staff for your programs.
Being Proactive with Parents
It pays to be proactive and prepared with parents. In this course Mano outlines how to build great relationships with parents in your program.
Teaching Shot Selection
Why teaching shot selection will win you more games next season.
Culture: Turning Adversity Into Championships
Learn the five strategies to turn problems into opportunities. Gain the tools necessary to minimize frustration and maximize success.
How to Win Close Games – Part 1
Welcome to our Key5 Intensive, How to Win Close Games – Part 1 Thank you for joining us. Watch the intro video here to understand more about the topic and expectations. Then click the blue Session 1 box and get started on pre-class activities. Session Days/Time: August 4, 5, 6 at 1:00 PM – 2:00 […]
How to Win Close Games – Part 2
Welcome to our Key5 Intensive, How to Win Close Games – Part 2 Thank you for joining us. Watch the intro video here to understand more about the topic and expectations. Then click the blue Session 1 box and get started on pre-class activities. Session Days/Time: August 9, 10, 11 at 7:00 PM – 8:00 […]
Interactive
Preseason Preparation Q&A
Everyone’s preparing for a preseason like never before. TJ guides a discussion on preseason systems and intangibles.
End of Game Situations
Sam will host a discussion about how we can prepare our teams and be at our best in end of game situations this season.
Utilizing Your Staff & Productive Staff Meetings
TJ will share and discuss with members how to have an aligned and productive staff and what that looks like in staff meetings.
Handling Pressure Defense
Sam leads a call on handling defensive pressure in both the full court and half court situations. Instilling an attack mindset and winning habits is also a must.
LockLeft Defense
Tyler hosts our first Monthly Master Class sharing on his latest LockLeft Defense learnings with members.
Open Discussion on Player Development
Sam facilitates a discussion on player development and hearing questions from the group including obstacles coaches are experiencing during this time.
