Read & React Offense
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"Quick Hitters" or Starting R&R With Set Action(s)
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"Quick Hitters" or Starting R&R With Set Action(s)
Going into my 2nd year of R&R with my varsity girls team….in discussing the upcoming season with my staff, we discussed having calls for actions within the R&R offense. I want to avoid adding set plays, since I think it takes away from the natural movement R&R creates.
For example, if we started in a 4 out formation, we could look to begin the offense with a flex cut on a pass away from the post. This would flow after that initial action into our normal R&R actions/reactions.
Or if we had a call to dribble-at a wing player, to set up an isolated post up for that player. Nothing too far outside the R&R actions we already teach, but creating a call for when a coach recognizes a great action to be used.
Anyone else do anything similar?
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Hey Sean!
What you are doing is almost a necessary step of development with most teams and most players. Most have never played basketball by simply taking what the defense gives them. They come from a tradition of getting started with something the coach calls. I think it’s good coaching to assist your players in HOW they get their possessions started. Many times the coach has a better idea of where to start. After the players get going, the R&R will find a scoring a opportunity. As an example: look at the FUSION PRACTICE SYSTEM and you’ll find 32 OFFENSIVE REHEARSALS using the R&R. A coach could have a verbal call for almost all of them. Since most of them are the same going to the right or the left, it is still hard to scout. Look at the “play calling” as a temporary crutch. Tell your players that eventually you want them to do this on their own based on how the defense plays. Be careful, because if you go overboard with this, your players will still become robots and never develop.
On a funny side-note:
I have a friend with a veteran R&R program. Every time down the floor he stands up and calls out something. But his team is good enough to only play R&R without help. So his opponents are always trying to scout his actions based on his “play-calling”. His players get a big kick out of hearing him make up a different name every time down the floor. Drives his opponents crazy! They think he has like 75 quickhitters!
You could do something similar: Only names with a number are real. Example: “Boston” means nothing. “Princeton 5” is real because of the number 5. If you have 5 quickhitters, you could put any word in front of the number and disguise it. “Blue” is nothing. “Blue 3” is quickhitter #3. Fun stuff!-
Thanks, I just grabbed the thesaurus – we’ll start building our playbook 🙂
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As someone who is going to put in the Read and React for the first time this upcoming season, are there any quick hitters or starter actions that people have used that were successful for them at the beginning? I ultimately want my time to learn to play within the Read and React without my calls, except for in special situations. But initially I thought it might be nice to have some starter actions for possessions. Just wondering if anyone had any specific actions that they liked to use to begin a non transition possession? Thanks!
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