[Coach Rick]

Absolutely! And don’t feel alone. Most teams must go through a “Coach-guided” stage while learning the Read & React. The good thing for you is that you can keep the following in your “back pocket” for times where you want the team to hunt a certain action.

The course called QUICKHITTERS is dedicated to this idea. You can also use the 32 STEPS in the FUSION PRACTICE SYSTEM to do the following:

Name or number any Read & React action that you want the players to perform and call them like set plays. However, instead of a “play”, they will be more like Quickhitters – just a way to get your action started. Most quickhitters don’t work, so they should wind up flowing into Read & React. Look at them as ways to INITIATE your offense. (That’s how I would sell it to the players. You’re just helping them get started. When they learn this stuff, you can slowly drop the number of times you have to help them with a call.)

1. Pass & Cut and look for Read Line Rear Cuts.
2. Pass, Cut, post up, feed the post and Laker Cut.
3. Dribble At a wing (look for a lay-up or Draft Drive behind the cut)
4. Dribble At a wing, Wing cuts and posts up, feed the post and laker cut.
5. Double Dribble At (change of direction)
6. Pass & Cut and look only for chances to Draft Drive or Real Estate Drive
7. Pass, Cut, and every cutter must try to backscreen their way out instead of just filling out.

ETC.
I could go on and on. But hopefully you see what I’m trying to do. These are actions that I want the team to do on their own (eventually) and making them into Set Play/Quickhitters that you can call is simply a developmental crutch. Once they “get it”, you can drop that quickhitter and create another one. This way, you lead them through all of the possible actions of the Read & React.