Written by Rick Torbett on October 23, 2009 – 3:08 PM (No Comments)
Q: I purchased and recently started implementing the R&R for a 5th and a 6th grade girls team. Currently, I am only using the R&R against man-to-man defense. I really like it in this application since it keeps the entire team involved. I have been using a 1-4 High set against a zone, but would [...]
Written by Rick Torbett on September 25, 2009 – 11:53 AM (No Comments)
Q: I would like to hear if anyone has adapted the 4 OUT 1 IN against a 2-3 zone. Our personnel usually requires a 4 OUT set, but I don’t like the two guard set against a two guard zone.
Has anybody used the 5 OUT spots with the 4 OUT set to get a guard [...]
Written by Rick Torbett on August 14, 2009 – 10:13 PM (1 Comment)
Q: We’ve tried to drill it home with the girls that you can still run the R&R Offense against a zone with a few adjustments, but for some reason it just hasn’t clicked. Any suggestions there?
Right now, we’ve added the automatic speed dribble with a shallow cut to start the offense against the zone. For [...]
Written by Rick Torbett on July 31, 2009 – 9:40 PM (1 Comment)
Q: Situation: We are in a 5 OUT open post set versus a 2-3 zone corner trapping defense.
This defense has the wing defender slide 1-2 steps with our cutter and then trap the corner along with their ball-side baseline defender . The top help-side defender flies out to deny the point who rotates to the [...]
Written by Rick Torbett on July 17, 2009 – 1:11 AM (No Comments)
Q: I have a zone offense question. When attacking a 2-3 zone, if the point drives the gap right up the gut, splitting the defenders, it’s hard to initiate circle movement because they’re neither going right nor left around a defender. When this happens, it seems like my kids’ offense breaks down. How do you [...]
Written by Rick Torbett on June 26, 2009 – 8:43 PM (No Comments)
From: Ben Wertenberger
I love coaching with this offense. One thing that really helped our girls’ varsity team, and may help some others, concerned seam cuts against a zone. We worked very hard on setting up cuts against both man and zone and making those cuts “seam” cuts against zones, but we had trouble switching gears [...]
Written by Rick Torbett on June 12, 2009 – 3:31 PM (No Comments)
Q: After looking at the zone offense section, I was curious to see if other offenses used some of the R&R layers. While searching the web, I came across the ”Clock Offense”. Any thoughts on how this could be evaluated it in terms of R&R principles?
A: What are the advantages of the Clock Offense?
1. Spacing
2. [...]
Written by Rick Torbett on April 24, 2009 – 7:59 PM (No Comments)
Q: Has the Read and React Offense been successful against switching man to man and match up zones?
A: Switching M-M defenses are successful against teams that do a lot of screening; especially the “screen-away” type of action. The R&R does not have any “screen-away” reactions needed to run the offense (if a coach loves screen [...]
Written by Rick Torbett on April 10, 2009 – 10:15 PM (4 Comments)
Q: Thank you for the R&R offense; it has certainly helped some of our youth learn how to play basketball properly. My question for you is how I can implement the zone section in the beginning. I know the kids can’t do pin and skip, but I know that we will face a lot of [...]
Written by Rick Torbett on February 6, 2009 – 3:10 PM (2 Comments)
Q: Thank you for the R&R offense. It has helped some of our youth learn how to play basketball. My question is how to implement the zone layer in the beginning. I know the kids can’t do pin and skip, but in a short amount of time I have to make sure they understand how [...]