1st Year using R&R
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1st Year using R&R
Good morning – I wanted to throw a shout out to Rick and R&R…and for those coaches on the fence, where I was a year ago, just push your chips into the middle of the table and dive in! I started using R&R last spring with my 18U girls AAU team that has 3 of my high school players on it. That was my “lab”, and used it to learn on the fly before bringing it to my high school team June 1st for summer practices. We spent most of our summer/fall offseason using the R&R to refine fundamentals while they were learning the offense. We drilled the 3-man drills daily until it has become (almost) habit. We hosted a PGC/R&R clinic on our Hilton Head Island High campus in October with Rick and TJ Rosene, and I would highly recommend finding one near you if possible.
Last season, we were a 4-win team – this season, we won 13 games, won our region, and won a playoff game before losing to one of the best in our state last night. My senior PG (who was part of the AAU group too) won Region Player of the Year, and I would give a lot of her great season to the offense because it give her the freedom to post up smaller guards while flowing through the offense. I could go down the list of players on their improvements that I would credit R&R empowering them to play to their strengths, and hide their weaknesses. We rarely, if ever, are the biggest or most athletic team on the court – but we have intelligent players (4.5 average team GPA) that understood how to run the base layers of the offense. If you are questioning R&R, we just went 27 varsity games without having ever called a “play”. I certainly made points of emphasizing certain actions, but my girls learned how to adapt on their own to what the defense threw at them. They’ve learned HOW to play, not plays – and it only will get better as we move forward with a year of experience under most of their belts.
Thank you Rick and look forward to continuing to grow with R&R as our offense. If coaches have any questions, my e-mail is sean.rochester@beaufort.k12.sc.us or @CoachRochester on Twitter.
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