Coach Rick
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Hey Sean! This is a great question! Why don’t you join us on Tuesday and Thursdays at 6:00 pm ET on a Zoom meeting with other Read & React Coaches. You could ask everyone this question. Here’s the link:https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYlceGhqDgiH91-TOkIz1ACABQ7HlN8xJBc
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Sorry for the late reply. Shot Selection is a good topic and an tough question. I think you’ll be teaching shot selection all of the time regardless of what you are running. I can’t speak for the Tribe of coaches that run R&R. Why don’t you join us on Tuesdays and Thursdays in a Zoom meeting at 6:00 pm and ask everyone. Here’s the link:https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYlceGhqDgiH91-TOkIz1ACABQ7HlN8xJBc
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Kenny – thanks for reaching out to me! I’m excited that you are back into coaching. You are going to find new stuff in your All Access membership. I have been releasing weekly courses on the Read & React Offense using GAME CLIPS! I will continue until I have covered the entire Read & React Offense. I think these will also be great teaching tools for your players to watch.
Also, I’ve been looking for a good connection in China. I would like to bounce some ideas off you. My email is RickTorbett21@gmail.com. Let’s get our email connection going first.
Thanks!
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Go into the submenu of Layer 1 titled “SPACING”. You’ll find 4 scoring opportunities called Reading Real Estate, Killing close-outs, Draft Drives, and Oops Drives. Passing and Cutting create DRIVING opportunities that must be taught to your players. Some will pick it up naturally as you point it out. Others will learn it as you drill it. Layer 4 is concerned with the movement of the players without the ball when a teammate drives. It does not teach a player WHEN a good time to drive occurs. That is taught in Layer 1. Don’t look at Pass&Cut as something separate from Driving. They go hand in hand. The passing and cutting set up the driving.
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I have not. Where are you located, what kind of team(s) are you talking about, and do you have any dates in mind?
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The STAGES program would not only meet your players where they currently need it, but it would continue to train and challenge them to develop.
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You have the lead. Your opponent cannot play it safe on defense. Your opponent must pressure you in order to create turnovers or bad shots. The easiest way to counter pressure is to clear the lane and focus on Layer 1 and Layer 3: Everything in Layer 1 is designed to counter defensive pressure on the perimeter: Read Line, Pass & Cut, Filling Empty Spots. The Dribble-At originated as a way to relieve pressure on both the ballhandler and the teammate being dribbled at. The penalty for too much perimeter pressure should be a lay-up by the offense. So, practice playing higher and wider than ordinary and let your players get used to an imaginary Read Line that’s located farther from the goal than the 19′ arc. Don’t overlook that all of this space and cutting makes it easier for the ballhandler to drive to the goal for a lay-up or drive, change their mind, and bounce out to an open spot. In these situations, where you have the lead and a running clock is your friend, have a code word you can call from the bench that means: “5 WAY OUT and take nothing but a lay-up.”
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You’re at the stage where you must make these same drills into a competitive game. This can be as simple as: Run the same drill for 30 seconds and when I blow my whistle, switch to 3 on 3 live competition. Keep a score. Go for 2 or 3 minutes. Give extra points if they score using the action you’ve been drilling. Just be as creative as possible and make everything into a competitive game.
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I agree with Coach Wade. You have to judge this based on the skill levels of your players and how quickly they pick up things. Remember, you are getting ready for a game in 3 days, so you can’t overload them. Coach Wade said that he is mixing in Wild Scrimmages. You do that in order to test it and see if it’s “sticking”. If you think it is, then you can move on.
By the way, with only 3 days left before your first game, you might want to check out THE FIRST DAY OF PRACTICE.
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Thanks Coach Wade! Awesome!
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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! -
I agree with Adrian. When you pass from a Wing or Corner, don’t come back to the same side. Seek any kind of action on the other side: Fill out to an empty spot, Back-screen on the perimeter, Screen for a weakside post player, fill an empty weakside post spot, curl around and set a Pin Screen on any helping defender. I know that some of this does not apply to youth, but it eventually will. That’s why you have to stick to your guns.
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PRESS BREAK
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Check out the course called THE FIRST DAY OF PRACTICE.
Then check out THE FUSION PRACTICE SYSTEM. I would spend the second practice implementing the FUSION SYSTEM. Stick to the first one or two “REHEARSALS” until you’re happy that they can compete in a LIVE scrimmage. -
Check out the course called THE FIRST DAY OF PRACTICE.
Then check out THE FUSION PRACTICE SYSTEM. I would spend the second practice implementing the FUSION SYSTEM. Stick to the first one or two “REHEARSALS” until you’re happy that they can compete in a LIVE scrimmage.
