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 August 21, 2009 – 11:22 PM (1 Comment)
Q: I coach a 5th and 6th grade girl’s team and I’ve been running the system for a few weeks now. I’ve decided the 3 OUT 2 IN is probably the best formation for our team. However, one thing that we’re experiencing and something that I haven’t really seen on the DVD’s or on the [...]
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 June 12, 2009 – 3:34 PM (No Comments)
Q: Coach, we started teaching the offense to our 7 and 8 year old first graders in competitive league play. We’re playing 5-out on the high school three, but it seems too far out to make the players a threat and keep them in the action. We’ve since moved them in a bit to make [...]
Written by Rick Torbett on May 8, 2009 – 8:02 PM (No Comments)
Q: I am trying to implement the system with my 7th grade team. Since the range of experience varies from 0 to 4 years of AAU basketball, many of my kids panic when they get the ball with a live defender on them. I want to simplify this for them at the beginning 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 13, 2009 – 12:16 PM (1 Comment)
Q: On the Read & React DVD you talk about teams that only learn the first couple layers and are game ready. You mention a specific example where a team only used Layers 1, 3, and 5 and were successful. I was wondering if they completely ignored Layers 2 and 4 or incorporated them later? [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]