Written by Rick Torbett on September 25, 2009 – 11:50 AM (No Comments)
Q: Your videos have helped me greatly as a player. This year I am coaching. I only have 3 hours a week for practice and a group of players I have been with for just 4 weeks.
Although my players are at the University level, I am finding it difficult to install the Read and React, [...]
Written by Rick Torbett on August 7, 2009 – 9:50 PM (No Comments)
Q: My girls are loving the fact that we can work on the drills in the off season so we can hit the ground running once the season officially starts.
A question I had, though, is when we do the “Fundamental 15” drills in practice, how long would be an adequate time to do [...]
Written by Rick Torbett on July 31, 2009 – 9:48 PM (1 Comment)
Q: I love the R&R. I am curious as to what the CONE GAMES are. Could you give me a detailed description of the games?
A: The CONE GAMES are meant to introduce the spacing and basketball actions of the Read & React to youth players. They are also designed to be competitive games that teach [...]
Written by Rick Torbett on July 31, 2009 – 9:45 PM (No Comments)
Q: Rick, somewhere you had a post about integrating or collapsing practice time frames. Could you explain a little more? I have the foundation in and will introduce staggered screens and some more advanced post moves soon. To save on time when I am drilling the 2 or 3 player circle movement, could I add [...]
Written by Rick Torbett on July 10, 2009 – 8:18 PM (3 Comments)
Q: I recently attended the USA Coaches Clinic in St. Louis where you showed the R&R and I have both sets of DVDs. I only got through layer 8 last season, but my girls and I love this offense!
I have five incoming Freshmen this season and want to get a jump-start on the season so [...]
Written by Rick Torbett on July 3, 2009 – 12:04 AM (No Comments)
Q: When teaching the R&R, do I have my posts go through perimeter drills or should I separate them into 2 groups: bigs and smalls? I am going to play mostly the 3 OUT 2 IN because of our post play so when I am teaching the circle layer I was thinking of having them [...]
Written by Rick Torbett on April 10, 2009 – 10:17 PM (No Comments)
From: Rob Rangi
We have a 2-man fast break drill which I decided to modify to work more R&R principles into our trainings. It starts as two lines, one under each basket and one at the outlet position at each end of the court. A coach/manager puts the ball up and the first player in [...]
Written by Rick Torbett on April 3, 2009 – 10:39 PM (No Comments)
Q: I am coaching a Middle School Boys Team in a unique situation. We have 5 practices each week (7-8 hours total). We have 16 players and access to only 1 hoop. Do you have any advice on how to manage this coaching situation in terms of teaching the Read and React? Thanks for any [...]
Written by Rick Torbett on March 27, 2009 – 10:29 PM (No Comments)
From: Arne Eriksson
Here is another drill idea I came up with. I noticed watching game tape that my players did not shot fake or pass fake enough (collegiate players do it almost every time they touch the ball) so I invented this drill to practice the pass & cut layer as well as shot & [...]
Written by Rick Torbett on March 13, 2009 – 12:13 PM (3 Comments)
From: Dan Thompson
I learned a couple of things this week that you may have already noticed, but I thought I’d pass them along anyway.
Pass & Cut
With one of our younger teams I noticed that during the pass and cut layer, they were acting as if the ball were a hot potato and in many cases [...]