Basketball is changing. It’s a game of space and advantage. Breakthrough Habits will give you the tools to help you excel in today’s game. Every once in a while you’ll find a truly exceptional offensive team. These teams make their opponents look unprepared. They find open cutters for layups — and open shooters for uncontested 3-pointers […]
To give your team an edge, this preseason needs to be stronger than ever and your practices must be better than ever!
Our partnership with PGC Coaching, home of Key5 Coaching, allows us to bring you The Ultimate Preseason Package. It has everything you need to have your best preseason ever...
The Ultimate Preseason Package has a total of 14 in-depth resources covering every critical element of the preseason. Including these dedicated resources to help you run GREAT practices: Effective Practice Planning - Video guide and template
Creating Competitive Practices - Course videos and PDFs
11 Great Practice Tips - Special 30-minute seminar
BONUS: First Day of Practice Course
Every year you face critical end-of-game situations and if you wait until you're playing games to develop your end-of-game strategies... you're too late! The best time to master the end of games? The preseason!
Which is why our NEW Ultimate Preseason Package also includes next-level resources to elevate your execution in crunch time! 22-page WNBA and NBA End of Game Playbook
Detailed Diagrams and Explanations for Every Play
6 In-Depth Video Breakdowns on NCAA End-of-Game Plays
Critical Questions to Shape Your Late Game Strategies
28 End of Game Video Cutups
The Ultimate Preseason Package has a total of 14 in-depth resources covering every critical element of the preseason. Including these dedicated resources to help you run GREAT practices:
Every year you face critical end-of-game situations and if you wait until you're playing games to develop your end-of-game strategies... you're too late! The best time to master the end of games? The preseason!
Which is why our NEW Ultimate Preseason Package also includes next-level resources to elevate your execution in crunch time!
Expert skills trainer Andy Garcia walks through his techniques to teach novice ball handlers how to quickly improve their handles. You’ll learn form specifics to look for, technique secrets and much more. To access this content, you must purchase All-Access - 1 Coach, All-Access Staff 2 Coach, All-Access Staff 5+, All-Access Staff 4 Coach, All-Access […]
To access this content, you must purchase All-Access - 1 Coach, All-Access Staff 2 Coach, All-Access Staff 5+, All-Access Staff 4 Coach, All-Access Season Pass - 1 Coach Monthly, All-Access - 4 Coach Monthly, All-Access - 5+ Coach Monthly, All-Access - 1 Coach Monthly Recurring, $50 installments - All-Access or Shooting 101.
In this video, Coach Henderson takes you through her progression of drills from 1-on-1 to 2-on-2. The moves and finishes are the same as the 1-on-1, but the 2-on-2 adds more pressure and brings in the passing game for a more well-rounded, fresh practice session.
Work on your zone shooting in a shootaround with Coach Randi Henderson. These fast-paced drills are designed to give the players practice shooting against a zone defense - they encourage players to find the open shot, pass the ball, and finally take shots against the zone. Remember, practice makes perfect!
Read and React coaches are always looking for new and unique ways to train the Read and React Offense in practice.
Coach Randi Henderson has adopted a concept she calls “Emmert Reads” from a coaching clinic she attended. In this 29 minute course, she introduces drills you can use to train post entries, the read-line, relocation, and x-cuts.
These actions are designed to imitate live game situations and stimulate your imagination for training any Read and React action initiated by post entry or dribble penetration.
There are two halves of the Read & React that make it the unique system that it is. The first half of the Read & React takes all decision-making away from players without the ball and makes them pure reactors to the ball-handler – one predetermined reaction to every action that the ball can take. That makes the ball-handler the sole decision-maker: one leader with 4 followers. And that’s what this workout is all about.
Making decisions with the ball AND knowing exactly how to react to the ball, essentially means you know exactly when to lead and exactly when to follow. And that knowledge is not only essential to the Read & React, it’s also an essential ingredient to playing Better Basketball.
European coach Bart Wouters returns to share more content from his European basketball camp curriculum. This video is packed with drills to help players of all levels to finish at the rim more efficiently!
Here’s the situation: you’re on the move, with the ball, headed to the rim, but you’re not wide open. You need a finishing move and you have to use the right one for THIS situation. Rick Torbett has the moves you need!
This video identifies 9 finishing moves for 9 situations. We then add a bonus game at the end for 10 outstanding drills that will benefit any player or coach.
Randi Henderson likes to mix it up!
She has learned that practice gets repetitive when the same drills are rehearsed every single day until they become so repetitive that the teams she coaches have less fun with it. The trick is to do different kinds of drills that still work on the same fundamentals - that way the same work gets done, but the practice stays fun.
This course was filmed with Randi and her team practicing with one-on-one drills that keep it interesting and encourage the players to work their hardest.
Don't settle for jump shots when the opponent switches to a zone defense! These four strategies can be put into use quickly and give your players confidence in playing against a zone defense by increasing the number of threats the defense has to face.
Read & React is a different way to run an offense. The first half of the Read & React trains the team to control their spacing. The second half contains the ball screen and other advanced offensive tactics like the pick & roll. This is an advanced Read & React course designed to help coaches understand the ball screen and make a decision about whether it is necessary for each team, decide whether the team is skilled enough to use it, and finally help implement the skills needed to integrate ball screens in Read & React.
The Read & React is the ultimate 2-for-1 offense. Any time one of your players is working on a direct scoring opportunity, your offense will create indirect scoring opportunities. The trick is to make sure your players are looking for it.
This video course explores driving opportunities that are inherent in the offense thanks to its spacing, player movement and ball movement. These are situations you can set up in practice and turn into drills so that your players learn what to look for when it's game time and you need to put points on the board.
The post player is an important part of the offense. Two things that usually come up with respect to the post are simply how to get open in the post and how to score in the post when you've got the ball. Read & React uses the post player in a different way - it turns the post player into a play maker, the quarterback of your offense. The post is in the Read & React decision box, and the purpose of this online course is to help the post learn how to make the best decision for the team.
Being able to choose the Next Best Action without the ball has mostly been left to chance. Most of us coaches can recognize a player with a high basketball I.Q. and we’re glad to get them. But how much time do we actually spend, with an organized plan, training everyone on the team to choose a Next Best Action? How much time do we really spend trying to increase our players’ basketball I.Q.? In Read & React Offense, the lane is the decision box. This video course will help you teach your players to make the best decisions without input from the coach.
This instructional online course will teach players and coaches what to do and how to do it. All players will be able to benefit from this expert presentation of the most important fundamentals in basketball. There are two important parts of scoring: recognizing a scoring opportunity and then using skills to convert it. Over forty different skills will be presented in this series, in addition to the knowledge that will help players succeed in any situation that can come up! Read & React players will improve after applying these concepts to their game, but so will others, so even if Read & React isn't the way you play the game, be sure to have a look at this important course.
These workouts accomplish three goals. First, they cover a wide variety of shots over 3 ranges: outside the arc, the mid-range, and finishes on the goal. Second, the workouts help each player to associate certain shots with certain actions of the defender. For example, if the defender closes out short, then the player should shoot and not drive. These workouts also prepare the shooter to be more comfortable when he has to ignore the presence of the defender and focus on making the shot.
Better Basketball first gained its notoriety with Rick Torbett's player development series which cultivates the fundamental skills of basketball.
To transform as a shooter, a player needs three things: repetition that isn’t boring, a variety of different exercises, and a challenge – something to master. This course includes all three elements as it relates to shooting.
Over nearly 2 hours of content, Coach Torbett defines 15 specialized shooting workouts to train your way to higher shooting percentages demonstrating these principles with a student athlete.
Every workout is designed to focus on a specific training purpose, including the type of shot, the footwork that builds the foundation, and the shot preparation you need to be successful.
Better Basketball first gained its notoriety with Rick Torbett's player development series which cultivates the fundamental skills of basketball.
In this course, Rick Torbett gives you five Team Shooting Drills are designed to maximize your benefit from practice time and improve shooting in real game situations. The drills can be adjusted for the number of baskets, the number of players, and the time you have available in practice.
Better Basketball first gained its notoriety with Rick Torbett's player development series which cultivates the fundamental skills of basketball.
This course deconstructs the shot and rebuilds it from the footwork to the finishing stroke, all the while addressing common shooting faults. Over 3 hours (27 segments), Coach Torbett demonstrates a training regimen geared to take the guesswork out of shot development. In addition, he provides a chart for tracking growth and improvement.
During the conclusion of the course, Coach Torbett has the unique opportunity to interview NBA star JJ Redick and understand JJ's mindset behind his shot mechanics. As Redick is interviewed, he explains the rationale involved in his shot process and then gives some of his favorite practice drills.
Better Basketball first gained its notoriety with Rick Torbett's player development series which cultivates the fundamental skills of basketball.
This course covers everything you need to learn or coach the progression of the Free Throw. Over the first 40 minutes, Coach Torbett covers every part of developing a dependable Free Throw. He covers mental preparation, mechanics, a ritual to stay calm and confident, and all the drills needed to implement this vital skill.
As a Bonus, the course provides NBA Hall of Famer Rick Barry teaching his underhanded Free Throw technique on the court with a young player. The course concludes with a wide-ranging 40-minute interview where Barry talks at length about the importance of the Free Throw and how he arrived at using the underhanded Free Throw technique.
Coach Randi Henderson works with her team through some excellent post drills. Her progressive teaching style is sure to help your players grow their inside presence, and her focus on drilling in groups is good for teambuilding in general. This online course will help you bring the same winning strategy to your team's practices.
To win a real game, you need to quickly read the defense, react immediately, and use the most effective move possible for that situation. If you don’t attack immediately, you’re giving the defenders the chance they need to set up and stop your penetration. This course will teach you the kind of 1-on-1 offense that will give you the best chance of scoring.
What does it take to master the rebound? As with most things, practice is the key. In this video course, Coach Henderson shares her four favorite rebounding drills. They range from warmup to full competition, and they include technique, footwork, and preparation as well as enough variation to keep the players on their toes.
Coach Bart Wouters organizes and runs Specialization Practices for different clubs in Belgium. He is the Director and Organizer for FROS and STARS Camps. He is the Head Coach of the Off-Season Practices in Limburg and the Coordinator and Head Coach of the Boy’s Academy U14 of Limburg United – feeding the 1st Division Team.
This course is suitable for players of all ages and skill levels.
Coach Wouters begins with one player stationary passing and then moves to two player passing. As the drills progress using multiple players in a half or full court set-up, communication and footwork become vital to success.
Better Basketball first gained its notoriety with Rick Torbett's player development series which cultivates the fundamental skills of basketball.
This course is designed to provide you with everything will need to learn or coach the skill of becoming an effective passer. Over 60 minutes, Coach Torbett is joined by NBA player Mike Bibby to cover how to read your teammate, the defense, and choose the right pass to make. As Mike Bibby demonstrates techniques throughout the course, you will learn 13 game hints and passing principles, 22 types of passes, and work through 16 fun and effective passing drills!
To conclude the course, Mike will lay out NBA-inspired techniques and insights to help you take your passing game to the next level!
Better Post Play starts with the fundamentals of playing in the post, then builds to advanced techniques. In these instructional training videos, you will learn from the best about scoring in the post and how to get open. You'll hear the details about the mentality you need to excel on the block. These online training videos total 2 hours, 41 minutes in length.
That's not all, though! You also get two Bonus sections, one with Jermaine O’Neal and one with Tamika Catchings! When you watch these sections, you will learn the valuable insights these players have used to stay at the top of the game and become valuable resources to their teams.
Players spend hours at the gym working on the shot, working on dribbling, and doing drills - but few of them work on defense! Half the game is being forgotten! Our friends at Point Guard College are here to help. In this quick course, they will take you through 3 lessons full of tips and drills so that you can become a defensive stopper. Learn how to take a charge, five habits of good defenders, and how to stop penetration and make sure your defense gets some time in the gym too!
Coach Rick Torbett has developed his Read & React offense to teach players to recognize scoring opportunities and capitalize upon them. Most drills are broken down to teach only one aspect of a given real-game situation. In one step, Read & React teaches an offense by drilling players and teaching movement in response to the the ball, even as it reinforces the skills players need to succeed. Torbett will present the sixteen layers of the Read & React offense as taught by fundamental drills from the Read & React System with added explanations and demonstrations in this online video course. Why teach an offense separately from the skills your players need to win games? Teaching adaptive play principles to the players at the same time that they learn the skills they need is a better way to get results.
To cut off the drive into the lane, players need practice. The drives start in a predictable way and then finish up with random moves, so that players learn the ability to counter any action taken by the offense. This video is for building and testing your level 1 Defense.
Whenever a player tries to dribble penetrate and gets stopped or simply doesn’t like what he or she sees, then award-winning coach Rick Torbett trains them to Bounce Off, that is, keep their dribble and simply back-out to the perimeter. This came out of Read & React Layer 4 Dribble Penetration Circle Movement. Many non-Read & React players and coaches use it and call it by the same name.
In this instructional video, there are two elements: Teaching and Training. In the teaching section, we slow down and work on technique. In training, we use repetition to drill down and make it reflexive. It’s not always about being FAST! And even though you can’t always be the quickest, you can build an element of cleverness into your game.
Coach Rick Torbett is known worldwide for the development of the Read and React Offense. A system for implementing 5-player coordination without the use of set plays.
In this course, Rick Torbett explains techniques to increase your basketball IQ. You spend 80% of your time on offense without the ball, so the last thing you want is to make it easy on the defense by standing around! Rick explains how to become a dangerous player without the ball in three and a half hours of quality coaching. This course also contains two bonus sections! All-Star Jason Kidd and Hall-of-Famer Nancy Lieberman make an appearance to help explain the concepts of this instructional video.
Coach Bart Wouters organizes and runs Specialization Practices for different clubs in Belgium. He is the Director and Organizer for FROS and STARS Camps. He is the Head Coach of the Off-Season Practices in Limburg and the Coordinator and Head Coach of the Boy’s Academy U14 of Limburg United – feeding the 1st Division Team.
This course is suitable for players of all ages and skill levels.
Coach Wouters begins the course with individual steps to build up a crossover, fake crossover, between the legs and spin move dribble.
To conclude the course, he incorporates unique, multiple-player set-ups to hone the dribbles learned in the first half while on the move.
Basketball has evolved to attract spectacular athletes. If you are not the most athletic player on your team, it is a necessity that you acquire superior ball handling/dribbling & shooting skills to play at the next level. Are you ready to take your handle to be unguardable? In this course, featuring ball handling phenom Andy Garcia, you will learn how to significantly improve your ball control to make these improvements a reality! With these drills in this course, your weak hand will become your strong hand, your hand-eye coordination will get better, you will learn counter moves to break your defender and you will find your confidence elevated.
Andy Garcia says:
"Remember to enjoy the process as you improve your handle, don't forget that the best process leads to the highest skill! When working on a specific drill always keep in mind that amateurs practice until they get it right, but professionals practice until they can’t get it wrong.
This course provides the drills you need to master the game. Never be afraid to have the ball in your hands again!"
Better Basketball first gained its notoriety with Rick Torbett's player development series which cultivates the fundamental skills of basketball.
This course, featuring ball handling phenom Andy Garcia, incorporates 30 application-specific workouts with over 200 individual drills!
Need to improve your cross-over, there’s a workout for that! Working to improve your off hand, there’s a workout for that, as well! What about improving hand strength? There’s a workout for that too. With over 3 hours of unique course content, you're sure to find tools to hone or polish your handle.
This 2-part workout series gives coaches the opportunity to learn directly from Rick as he takes them through two 6-week training progressions, for a total of 27 Read & React specific workouts.
In each workout, Rick explains the big picture – and – how each new drill links to that big picture. Also, he explains how the new drills link to the previous workout! We’ll then show you enough of each drill for you to get the setup, the rotation, the teaching points, and any player development skills that are relevant. Coaches will receive:
—27 New Teaching Videos
—A complete Workout Curriculum for offseason Player Development
—A PDF of each Workout Plan
—Previously recorded Live Chats providing an additional 15+ hours of insight
Although each training session is called a “workout” they’re much more than that. Rick’s goal in each session is to accomplish about six things at one time with your players:
1. Teach the Read & React – both the big picture AND the details
2. Teach all of the drills that you will be using during the season and why you do them.
3. Expose your players to the skill sets that they need for the Read & React.
4. If those skill sets are not up to par, then we need to teach those skills. Rick's philosophy is: If you’re on the floor, you need a Player Development component to whatever it is you’re doing.
5. Situational training – during these sessions, Rick will show the players the situations where they APPLY those fundamental skills of player development.
6. Conditioning – lots of reps – confidence comes from high amounts of successful reps. There's no way around it!
In each workout, Rick explains the big picture – and – how each new drill links to that big picture. Also, he explains how the new drills link to the previous workout! We’ll then show you enough of each drill for you to get the setup, the rotation, the teaching points, and any player development skills that are relevant.
In each workout, Rick explains the big picture – and – how each new drill links to that big picture. Also, he explains how the new drills link to the previous workout! We’ll then show you enough of each drill for you to get the setup, the rotation, the teaching points, and any player development skills that are relevant. Coaches will receive:
—27 New Teaching Videos
—A complete Workout Curriculum for offseason Player Development
—A PDF of each Workout Plan
—Previously recorded Live Chats providing an additional 15+ hours of insight
Although each training session is called a “workout” they’re much more than that. Rick’s goal in each session is to accomplish about six things at one time with your players:
1. Teach the Read & React – both the big picture AND the details
2. Teach all of the drills that you will be using during the season and why you do them.
3. Expose your players to the skill sets that they need for the Read & React.
4. If those skill sets are not up to par, then we need to teach those skills. Rick's philosophy is: If you’re on the floor, you need a Player Development component to whatever it is you’re doing.
5. Situational training – during these sessions, Rick will show the players the situations where they APPLY those fundamental skills of player development.
6. Conditioning – lots of reps – confidence comes from high amounts of successful reps. There's no way around it!
In each workout, Rick explains the big picture – and – how each new drill links to that big picture. Also, he explains how the new drills link to the previous workout! We’ll then show you enough of each drill for you to get the setup, the rotation, the teaching points, and any player development skills that are relevant.
In this course, consisting of 64 drills, Rick Torbett will teach you 3-player drills that help build your player's decision making. Even if you're not a Read and React coach, these drills will help in developing passing, cutting, hitting cutters on the move, changing speeds and angles on finishing, being catch ready, feeding the post, ball-handling, and that's just in the first 20 drills!
This course was designed by utilizing drills that coaches have told us have worked with their teams in creating great player habits and decision making.
In this course, Coach Rick Torbett works with two different teams of high school players to develop "Rapid Skill Acquisition". Coach Torbett teaches techniques needed for a great shot. In almost 5 hours of intense guidance the players train completely through the shooting process, beginning before the shot is taken and continuing through the actions following the shot.
