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 [...]

In order to be an effective coach/teacher, I must be able to tell every player whether his movement at any time is correct or incorrect. Set plays make that possible. It is more difficult or even impossible to do with a principled offense. R&R is a principled offense that enables the coach to tell each [...]