Coach Rick
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I think its a good plan. Teach them how to play (R&R) and set plays are easy. But this way, you’re ahead of the game next year.
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Kenny – My answer is absolutely yes! Match your warm-up RR drills to your fusion practice plan and get straight to it – no wasted time. Keep a diagnostic notepad handy because as you watch your team go through fusion, you’ll know what needs a little more drilling or a little more breakdown. That can determine drills you finish with and/or begin tomorrow’s practice with. Good luck and great question!
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This was a fun thread to read! Thanks Ralph, for answering the questions. I could not have said it better! And thanks Coach Todd for digging in. I appreciate your attention to detail.
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Thanks for the kind words! Of course I’m interested in your map and you methods! I’m always looking for a better way or different path. If it’s not too much trouble, keep me up to date as you go through this season. I would love to follow along!
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Yes
However, there are situations where Real Estate is available without being created by a cutter and I want the player triggered to drive it (or at least consider it). Like 4 OUT with 2 guards and 2 wings. The corners are empty because of the formation. It’s Real Estate.Or, a Ball Screen occurs with a Triple formation (your 3 teammates are on one side of the screen and empty space (Real Estate) on the other side. I want the ballhandler to recognize the advantage.
So, the Uphill pass from the corner followed by a draft drive is just the first way I want to point out Real Estate before teaching the Draft Drive.
I don’t know if this is the best way to teach “drive open spaces”. I’m wide open if you have any better ideas. And I’m very serious about new ideas. Let me know!
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Yes, that makes sense. The breakdown of your third section in Layer 1, what you call “Driving Off the Spot” is a list of 4 situations that can be taught as “driving triggers”. If a player is inexperienced and/or often drives without an advantage, then I teach 4 triggers. i.e., 4 DRIVING OPPORTUNITIES that are based on the Spacing created in Layer 1.
These Driving Opportunities are the Subgroups you asked about. The Subgroups are the 4 below:
1. READING REAL ESTATE: This is commonly referred to as “wait until a Double Gap” occurs. I start with the uphill pass from the corner, because I want the cutters to seek action on the other side of the floor and off course it creates a good driving opp. If you are 4 OUT 1 IN (either intentionally or not) then corners are often empty. When the wing passes uphill, the guard should follow the cutter with a drive because of the empty space.
2. KILLING CLOSE-OUTS: This is a recognizable trigger and you don’t need Real Estate to beat the defender. This also is easy to set up in a daily drill. The decisions to train are (a) Should I shoot (b) drive left, or (c) drive right based on the nature of the close-out. A drill example is located at the 24:00 minute mark.
3. DRAFT DRIVES: When a teammate passes to you and cuts, before the spot is filled, there is a brief moment of double-gap-spacing-real-estate that you can take advantage of. Again, it’s the Trigger that I want to train. This is a good time to drive and I want that thought entering the mind of my players when the pass is on its way to them. This can be set up as a two player drill and then defense can be added, etc. You’ll find a progression of drills from 28:20 to 30:57.
4. OOPS DRIVE or OOPS SCREEN: When a teammate passes you the ball and cuts poorly, arcing in your direction, WITH BOTH HANDS UP, it’s a signal or trigger for you drive as close to your teammate as possible and try to brush your defender off this “moving screen”. For those that cannot recognize an OOPS DRAFT DRIVE, you must teach the cutter to throw up both hands. This is the signal that says “Drive off my tail immediately”. You can see examples and drills at the end of the video: 31:17+
Let me know if I missed you point again. That’s always possible! 🙂
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Todd,
I think it would help if you were to go into Read & React 2.0 and watch the entire first layer. The reason that I don’t think that you’ve watched it is because you said “There’s no “rule” that goes with the layer, such as “you must cut after you pass” or “you must fill spots near the ball”. Those are the rules of the first layer of R&R.
Perhaps you were talking about Layer 4 – the Circle Movement of those without the ball whenever someone drives. You won’t be teaching Layer 4 until your players have acquired the skills and RULES of Layers 1, 2, and 3. These actions create the opportunities to drive.
You’ll find Real Estate, Draft Drives, etc, in Layer 1.
Thanks!
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Hard-Smart-Together,
The READ LINE in the Read & React is both a RULE and a TOOL. Rules take the decision out of the player’s hand. This makes teaching and learning easier. However, you should view as a TOOL to teach players how to read their defender and take advantage. I will never deny a player the chance to cut when they feel like they have read the situation correctly and can take advantage of their defender. Of course, they should not be cutting into space that another teammate is cutting or driving, but that should go without saying. If your defender cannot see you AND if there is space AND if the ball can see you and be delivered to you, then absolutely cut! The Read Line is part of the process of getting players to a certain level of basketball IQ without the ball.
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Generally speaking, yes. This will insure your short corner is filled on the ballside.
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Coach Mayes – I’m interested in facilitating some Zoom meetings. Let’s see what response you get.
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Donnie,
There’s nothing super special to do against junk defenses. Continue to work on your Read & React for the entire team with the goal that you will win based on your team’s ability vs one player. If indeed you only have one player that does most of your scoring, there’s not much you can do if the defense shuts that player down.I would run the same Read & React that you would against a man-to-man and encourage your great player to play outside the NBA line. He’s going to be denied, so create more space to use the Read Line when he is one pass away. If he passes, he should cut and set a back screen or a pin screen for any player one spot away from the ball. This will guarantee that he is involved in the very next action. After he sets the screen, he must read the defense (which does not want to switch in junk defenses) and shape up to receive the ball – either on the perimeter or cutting to the goal or to the open spot where the ball can be delivered to him.
If you want to attack the junk defense like it’s a zone, put your great player in the short corner or high post (both weak-side) and have him set Pin Screens on those that are zoning. After the skip pass, he can shape up wherever he is open.
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Hey James!
You’ll find post play in Layer 2 and in the fifth section titled “Read & React Youth Screens”. Inside it, you’ll find a video titled “Youth Screens” (the third lesson) – around the 2:30 mark.
Just watch the whole course from beginning to end and you’ll pick up the pieces of Post Play. You might be wondering why I don’t have a section called YOUTH POST PLAY. It’s because I don’t believe in planting a young, developing kid in the post where he/she is prevented from learning how to play basketball. On the other hand, I teach ALL of the players how to play in the post (see Layer 2).If you are hiding players in the post to keep them from touching the ball and turning it over, then maybe these kids need to play a different sport. 🙂 If you plant 2 kids in the post to keep them from touching the ball, you’ll be playing with 3 players who cannot drive to the goal, or pass & cut to the goal, or take a Read Line cut to the goal, or use the Dribble At cut, or Draft Drive, or Real Estate Drive, or Kill the Close-Out drive, etc, because you have 4 players clogging the lane (your two posts and their defenders). Now you have to live with outside shots.
I’m not trying to be “mean” regarding these kids who cannot play, but I have to ask: “Why do you feel like you have to play them?” If they cannot Catch, pass, cut, shoot a lay-up, then I doubt if they can play back-to-the-basket and contribute anything to the team. Are they great rebounders? Are they great defenders? Are they such “energy givers” that you feel like you have to play them in order to win? If so, I would play them in the short corner and only pass to them when they are not guarded. Then your passer can make a straight basket cut and if your post cannot pass to them, he/she can pass the ball to someone on the perimeter (usually the one filling the empty spot on the wing.) Also, I would never play them both at the same time. You’ll be playing 3 vs 5 and that’s pretty tough.
I would teach them to start on the perimeter and when they have the ball, pass and cut HARD so that the receiver can DRAFT DRIVE them. (See Layer 1 on SPACING). After they cut, they can stop in one of the short corners and get ready to rebound any missed shots. As they gain more skills with the ball, you can slowly add more things that they can do.
Good luck! The best teachers of the game MUST be those coaching youth like yourself. Almost anybody can “coach” talent. Very few can actually develop it.
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Yes. Check out Read & React Quickhitters. Lots of “plays” and plenty of Inbound ideas.
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You will be fine using the Youth version for 12/13 year olds. Good luck!
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The short answer is “yes”. This creates a lot of space for the ballhandler to DRAFT DRIVE behind either cutter. The long answer is: As your players gain experience, they will realize that the ballhandler can usually only see one of the cutters at a time. That’s the one who should cut. In other words, cut when the ball can see you and be delivered to you. However, I only say that to very experienced teams.
