We know that our Youth Read & React coaches are pressed for practice time. Many of you are lucky to get two 90-minute practice sessions a week with your team, and are trying to figure out how to put in all the Read & React has to offer during that short amount of time. This video shows how Rick would install Layers 1-6 & 17 with a youth team in one 90-minute practice. He uses demonstrators who are between the ages of 9-12, and establishes the framework for the offense that can easily be built upon in subsequent practices.

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…

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.

Alan Stein has spent the last 15 years working as a professional basketball performance coach and is an internationally renowned expert at improving basketball-specific athleticism. This video series is a compilation of his favorite drills and exercises that can be done with players of all ages and levels with minimal equipment. Each category features Alan’s 6 favorite drills to maximize improvement in that area.

In this course Coach Rick Torbett gives you a 90-minute practice plan designed to strengthen the habits of Layer 4 – Dribble Penetration Circle Movement. This layer is built around one action: draw & kick. If you see your team beginning to slip during the season and you need a 90-minute tune-up while saving their legs, this video is for you!

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…

The Reads of the Ballhandler and the Reactions of the Screener in light of all 10 players on the floor, through the lens of 3…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

These exercises help you establish a higher standard by increasing the level of integrity and improve the character of all athletes, one player and one day at a time. An important part of being a coach is knowing what sorts of conversations to have with your team to help them become the right type of player to do well as a group. Winning on the court is only one part of the game!

Face it! You know your season is filled with unhealthy foods, lack of time for exercise and mounting stress. We can’t cook for you, though, and stress is part of the job. We partnered with Alan Stein of StrongerTeam.com to bring you four 15-minute workouts that you and your coaching staff can do right on a basketball court, before or after practice, 3 times a week! CoachFIT is our way of helping coaches stay fit during the long, stressful season. Each workout… - Can be done in 15 minutes. - Can be followed in real time on any smartphone, tablet or laptop. - Can be done right on the court before/after practice. - Can be done with minimal equipment. - Can be done with the entire staff. - You don’t have to gain 15 lbs again this season. Your staff can stick together and set the tone for the players you lead by working out 3 times a week. You expect your players to take care of themselves during the season, so you should hold yourself to the same standard.

Face it, your season is filled with unhealthy foods, lack of time for exercise and mounting stress. Since we can’t cook for you and stress is part of the job, we decided to partner with Alan Stein of StrongerTeam.com to bring you four 15-minute workouts that you and your coaching staff can do right on a basketball court, before or after practice, 3 times a week! CoachFIT is our way of helping coaches stay fit during the long, stressful season. Each workout… - Can be done in 15 minutes. - Can be followed in real time on any smartphone, tablet or laptop. - Can be done right on the court before/after practice. - Can be done with minimal equipment. - Can be done with the entire staff. You don’t have to gain 15 lbs again this season. Your staff can stick together and set the tone for the players you lead by working out 3 times a week. You expect your players to take care of themselves during the season, you should hold yourself to the same standard.

Face it, your season is filled with unhealthy foods, lack of time for exercise and mounting stress. Since we can’t cook for you and stress is part of the job, we decided to partner with Alan Stein of StrongerTeam.com to bring you four 15-minute workouts that you and your coaching staff can do right on a basketball court, before or after practice, 3 times a week! CoachFIT is our way of helping coaches stay fit during the long, stressful season. Each workout… - Can be done in 15 minutes. - Can be followed in real time on any smartphone, tablet or laptop. - Can be done right on the court before/after practice. - Can be done with minimal equipment. - Can be done with the entire staff. You don’t have to gain 15 lbs again this season. Your staff can stick together and set the tone for the players you lead by working out 3 times a week. You expect your players to take care of themselves during the season, you should hold yourself to the same standard.

Current Nike Executive and former long-time college basketball coach discusses a coach’s responsibilities and developing a more productive bench. Long-time NBA and USA Basketball Assistant to Chuck Daly, Brendan shares seven fundamental philosophies that must be considered at the collegiate and high school level. He also runs through 12 offensive actions that can be used to attack any type of zone defense. LA Clippers Executive Kevin Eastman details many of his personal philosophies and shares 17 “Hard to Guard” actions that puts any defensive system in a bind and shares many of his “Must Haves” to be successful in coaching and creating a winning culture. NBA coach Lawrence Frank goes in-depth with his offensive and defensive musts that his teams’ live by. This video also includes his “Play the Game Principles”, what you do after the play is over. Frank also illustrates the coverages and how to defend 8 common offensive actions from former NBA Assistant Brendan Suhr. Former NBA Head Coach Doug Collins shares an emotional journey through four decades in the game of basketball. This is one you won’t want to miss.