Written by Rick Torbett on October 23, 2009 – 3:13 PM (No Comments)
Q: When the ball is passed from the wing to the corner, the wing cuts, but who fills the now vacated spot. In your DVDs, you mention that you should fill from the baseline up. Given that, should the corner player dribble up to the spot left open?
A: You’ve exposed a poor choice of wording [...]
Written by Rick Torbett on October 16, 2009 – 2:59 PM (No Comments)
Q: In Coach Huggins’s Open Post Offense the player filling the point cuts to the free throw line dot and then either pops up to the point or basket cuts depending how the defense is playing him. Would that work in the Read and React Offense? Or would you just want that player to cut [...]
Written by Rick Torbett on September 4, 2009 – 11:11 AM (No Comments)
Q: I have a question about the 5 OUT system and Layer 3 Pass and Cut. If the player in the corner has the ball and passes from the corner to the wing, then cuts to the basket, where does she go after that?
A: When you first begin to teach Layer 3, the only [...]
Written by Rick Torbett on July 17, 2009 – 1:09 AM (No Comments)
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. [...]
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 5, 2009 – 12:38 PM (2 Comments)
Q: In a 3 OUT set, if player up top passes to the player on the right wing and basket cuts, won’t there be a spacing problem with the ball-side post?
A: Spacing will be compromised only for the time that the cutter is passing between the post players. Good spacing will return as the cutter [...]
Written by Rick Torbett on May 8, 2009 – 8:04 PM (1 Comment)
Q: Let’s say that in a 5 OUT set the top player passes to the wing and begins his basket cut. Upon cutting, the wing player drives to the basket making the first cutter technically a post player. In layer 4’s rules, this would mean that he should step to the short corner [...]
Written by Rick Torbett on April 24, 2009 – 7:56 PM (No Comments)
Q: I really emphasize ball movement, changing sides of the floor, and making the defense work. One of the R&R habits is pass and cut, but if you make two extra passes to the open guy (swinging the ball), do you have two guys cutting at the same time? To me, it seems like that [...]
Written by Rick Torbett on March 13, 2009 – 12:09 PM (No Comments)
Q: In a 4 OUT set when the wing makes a pass, where would he fill out after a basket cut? There is no open spot to fill except for the spot he just came from. Of course after you teach the layer on back picks after basket cuts you can just have players [...]
Written by Rick Torbett on February 27, 2009 – 7:10 PM (No Comments)
Q: I was able to work with players 2 at a time in our pre-season workouts and got many of them familiar with Layers 1-8. As we have started practice, our 5 on 5 play has been interesting. We are preaching patience, but the lane tends to get crowded. Any suggestions?
A: 1. Preach [...]