Q: I’ve been learning a great deal with the Read and React and hope to implement it this year. I had a few questions and thoughts that I hope you can help clarify for me.
1. When a player passes and basket cuts, on which side should they fill a spot (or does it not [...]

Q: I just started coaching your Read & React Offense in a 4-1 set and encountered something of a problem. I wonder how you “react” to this:
Say the post is on the left side of the floor. When either one of the guards or the wing on the right side of the floor turns the [...]

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 [...]

Q: I purchased and watched the R&R set, but I have a question about the skip pass. Can you explain to me exactly what happens following the skip pass for the passer as well as the rest of the team?
A: There are many good basketball actions that I don’t address with the Read & React. [...]

The question still comes up time and again: If a guard from up top, say on the right side, drives right handed toward the goal, will a player in the right corner cutting to the opposite corner foul up the guard’s ability to finish at the basket? Is this bad timing? Does this mess up [...]

From David Jooss
Hey Coach,
I’m a huge fan of the Read and React and I am preparing for my second season with the offense. Last year I had all guards so we ran it 5 OUT most of the time. This coming year, I will have multiple big guys that can play and so I will [...]

Q: I am a big fan of the Better Basketball Video collection, and I use a lot of the ideas and concepts when I teach my youth basketball team. I am very interested in learning more about the Read and React Offense and I plan to purchase the set soon. I have a [...]

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. [...]

Let’s pretend your team has learned all of the reactions to the ball necessary to run the Read & React from any formation. But your players don’t yet understand all of the types of basketball actions that can occur depending on their own formation and defensive schemes that they’ll encounter. In other words, they don’t [...]

Q: I have just purchased the Read & React DVDs and I love the offense. I’ve been working with a couple of my girls to get their take on this new offense and they are excited as well. The one thing that concerns me is its unpredictability. As you mentioned, players today are used to [...]