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After the first day of practice, will be surprised by your new team's grasp of the big picture of basketball. They'll be able to run an offense that can counter pressure and includes screens, the only shell defensive drill you’ll ever need, a play to bring the ball in from out of bounds, no matter which part of the court it goes out on. Your team will be able to run a full court transition, play early offense without setting up, break presses and stay tough in the end game to keep the lead and counter pressure. Read & React provides you a means to train your weakest team against your strongest team the ability to test it all with “Live” Scrimmage! This system will get your team up and running so fast your head will spin.
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Better Basketball first gained its notoriety with Rick Torbett's player development series which cultivates the fundamental skills of basketball.
This course covers everything you need to learn or coach the progression of the Free Throw. Over the first 40 minutes, Coach Torbett covers every part of developing a dependable Free Throw. He covers mental preparation, mechanics, a ritual to stay calm and confident, and all the drills needed to implement this vital skill.
As a Bonus, the course provides NBA Hall of Famer Rick Barry teaching his underhanded Free Throw technique on the court with a young player. The course concludes with a wide-ranging 40-minute interview where Barry talks at length about the importance of the Free Throw and how he arrived at using the underhanded Free Throw technique.
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Better Basketball first gained its notoriety with Rick Torbett's player development series which cultivates the fundamental skills of basketball.
This course deconstructs the shot and rebuilds it from the footwork to the finishing stroke, all the while addressing common shooting faults. Over 3 hours (27 segments), Coach Torbett demonstrates a training regimen geared to take the guesswork out of shot development. In addition, he provides a chart for tracking growth and improvement.
During the conclusion of the course, Coach Torbett has the unique opportunity to interview NBA star JJ Redick and understand JJ's mindset behind his shot mechanics. As Redick is interviewed, he explains the rationale involved in his shot process and then gives some of his favorite practice drills.
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Better Post Play starts with the fundamentals of playing in the post, then builds to advanced techniques. In these instructional training videos, you will learn from the best about scoring in the post and how to get open. You'll hear the details about the mentality you need to excel on the block. These online training videos total 2 hours, 41 minutes in length.
That's not all, though! You also get two Bonus sections, one with Jermaine O’Neal and one with Tamika Catchings! When you watch these sections, you will learn the valuable insights these players have used to stay at the top of the game and become valuable resources to their teams.
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Better Basketball first gained its notoriety with Rick Torbett's player development series which cultivates the fundamental skills of basketball.
This course is designed to provide you with everything will need to learn or coach the skill of becoming an effective passer. Over 60 minutes, Coach Torbett is joined by NBA player Mike Bibby to cover how to read your teammate, the defense, and choose the right pass to make. As Mike Bibby demonstrates techniques throughout the course, you will learn 13 game hints and passing principles, 22 types of passes, and work through 16 fun and effective passing drills!
To conclude the course, Mike will lay out NBA-inspired techniques and insights to help you take your passing game to the next level!
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Better Basketball first gained its notoriety with Rick Torbett's player development series which cultivates the fundamental skills of basketball.
This course, featuring ball handling phenom Andy Garcia, incorporates 30 application-specific workouts with over 200 individual drills!
Need to improve your cross-over, there’s a workout for that! Working to improve your off hand, there’s a workout for that, as well! What about improving hand strength? There’s a workout for that too. With over 3 hours of unique course content, you're sure to find tools to hone or polish your handle.
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To win a real game, you need to quickly read the defense, react immediately, and use the most effective move possible for that situation. If you don’t attack immediately, you’re giving the defenders the chance they need to set up and stop your penetration. This course will teach you the kind of 1-on-1 offense that will give you the best chance of scoring.
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Better Basketball first gained its notoriety with Rick Torbett's player development series which cultivates the fundamental skills of basketball.
In this course, Rick Torbett gives you five Team Shooting Drills are designed to maximize your benefit from practice time and improve shooting in real game situations. The drills can be adjusted for the number of baskets, the number of players, and the time you have available in practice.
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Better Basketball first gained its notoriety with Rick Torbett's player development series which cultivates the fundamental skills of basketball.
To transform as a shooter, a player needs three things: repetition that isn’t boring, a variety of different exercises, and a challenge – something to master. This course includes all three elements as it relates to shooting.
Over nearly 2 hours of content, Coach Torbett defines 15 specialized shooting workouts to train your way to higher shooting percentages demonstrating these principles with a student athlete.
Every workout is designed to focus on a specific training purpose, including the type of shot, the footwork that builds the foundation, and the shot preparation you need to be successful.
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This instructional online course will teach players and coaches what to do and how to do it. All players will be able to benefit from this expert presentation of the most important fundamentals in basketball. There are two important parts of scoring: recognizing a scoring opportunity and then using skills to convert it. Over forty different skills will be presented in this series, in addition to the knowledge that will help players succeed in any situation that can come up! Read & React players will improve after applying these concepts to their game, but so will others, so even if Read & React isn't the way you play the game, be sure to have a look at this important course.
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Coach Rick Torbett has developed his Read & React offense to teach players to recognize scoring opportunities and capitalize upon them. Most drills are broken down to teach only one aspect of a given real-game situation. In one step, Read & React teaches an offense by drilling players and teaching movement in response to the the ball, even as it reinforces the skills players need to succeed. Torbett will present the sixteen layers of the Read & React offense as taught by fundamental drills from the Read & React System with added explanations and demonstrations in this online video course. Why teach an offense separately from the skills your players need to win games? Teaching adapative play principles to the players at the same time that they learn the skills they need is a better way to get results.
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Players spend hours at the gym working on the shot, working on dribbling, and doing drills - but few of them work on defense! Half the game is being forgotten! Our friends at Point Guard College are here to help. In this quick course, they will take you through 3 lessons full of tips and drills so that you can become a defensive stopper. Learn how to take a charge, five habits of good defenders, and how to stop penetration and make sure your defense gets some time in the gym too!
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Coach Rick Torbett is known worldwide for the development of the Read and React Offense. A system for implementing 5-player coordination without the use of set plays.
In this course, Rick Torbett explains techniques to increase your basketball IQ. You spend 80% of your time on offense without the ball, so the last thing you want is to make it easy on the defense by standing around! Rick explains how to become a dangerous player without the ball in three and a half hours of quality coaching. This course also contains two bonus sections! All-Star Jason Kidd and Hall-of-Famer Nancy Lieberman make an appearance to help explain the concepts of this instructional video.
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Here’s the situation: you’re on the move, with the ball, headed to the rim, but you’re not wide open. You need a finishing move and you have to use the right one for THIS situation. Rick Torbett has the moves you need!
This video identifies 9 finishing moves for 9 situations. We then add a bonus game at the end for 10 outstanding drills that will benefit any player or coach.