Better Basketball

Read and React Offense Stages Not Ages

• The Read & React is an Offense that is adaptable to both man to man and zone defense. It can be ran at any level of play
• 3 Implementing a Flexible System
• Flexible System - 3rd Layer
• Flexible System - 2nd Layer
• By running drills that teach the actions of the offense.

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, consisting of 64 drills, Rick Torbett will teach you 3-player drills that help build your player's decision making. Even if you're not a Read and React coach, these drills will help in developing passing, cutting, hitting cutters on the move, changing speeds and angles on finishing, being catch ready, feeding the post, ball-handling, and that's just in the first 20 drills!

This course was designed by utilizing drills that coaches have told us have worked with their teams in creating great player habits and decision making.   

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 will teach you adjustments to your teaching strategies when using the Read and React Offense when attacking Zone Defenses. As a Read and React coach, Coach Torbett does not want you to have to change from the Read and React actions that your team already knows. This course details how to take what your team already knows about the Read and React Offense and apply it to attacking zones. This course will cover strategies for how Rick Torbett would attack each type of Zone Defense. In addition, the course contains a comprehensive team drill library and detailed instructions on how to guide your team to implementing these actions from the Read and React Offense when facing Zone Defense.

Read & React is a completely unique offensive system that goes beyond teaching your team basic offensive plays. An underlying framework teaches your players the strategy behind the offense, Read & React gives the freedom to play by principle instead of just by play.

Enjoy this free sampler pack to introduce you to a few of our most popular courses in the Better Basketball Vault!

COURSES FEATURED:

1. Better Passing
2. Better Ballhandling
3. Shooting Workouts
4. Emmanual College Practice
5. The New Read & React Offense

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.

Rick has been hard at work designing online coursework for our coaches! The first of these is Read & React Workouts 101. This course will give Read & React coaches the opportunity to learn directly from Rick as he takes them through 12 Read & React Specific workouts in 6 weeks.

Coaches will receive:

12 New Teaching Videos

A complete Workout Curriculum for offseason Player Development

A PDF of each Workout Plan

Previously recorded Live Chats providing an additonal 15+ hours of insight

Optional Online Testing to check your comprehension

We call each training session a “workout” but they’re much more than that. Rick’s goal in each session is to accomplish about six things at one time with your players:

1. Teach the Read & React – both the big picture AND the details.

2. Teach all of the drills that I will be using during the season and why we do them.

3. Expose your players to the skill sets that they need for the Read & React.

4. If those skill sets are not up to par, then we need to teach those skills. My philosophy is: If we’re on the floor, we need a Player Development component to whatever it is we’re doing.

5. Situational training – what I mean by this is: During these sessions, I’m going to show the players the situations where they APPLY those fundamental skills of player development.

6. Conditioning – lots of reps – confidence comes from high amounts of successful reps.

There’s no way around it! In each workout, Rick explains the big picture – and – how each new drill links to that big picture. Also, he explains how the new drills link to the previous workout! We’ll then show you enough of each drill for you to get the setup, the rotation, the teaching points, and any player development skills that are relevant. 

Rick has been hard at work designing online coursework for our coaches!

The second course in the Read & React workout series is Read & React Workouts 201.

This course will give Read & React coaches the opportunity to learn directly from Rick as he takes them through 15 advanced Read & React Specific workouts in 6 weeks. Many layers from RRW 101 are reviewed, but in 201 Rick takes you through more advanced Layers and shows you how to collapse time frames by combining layers in drill work.

Coaches will receive:

15 New Teaching VideosA complete Workout Curriculum for offseason Player DevelopmentA PDF of each Workout PlanPreviously recorded Live Chats providing an additonal 15+ hours of insightOptional Online Testing to check your comprehensionWe call each training session a “workout” but they’re much more than that. Rick’s goal in each session is to accomplish about six things at one time with your players:

1. Teach the Read & React – both the big picture AND the details.

2. Teach all of the drills that I will be using during the season and why we do them.

3. Expose your players to the skill sets that they need for the Read & React.

4. If those skill sets are not up to par, then we need to teach those skills. My philosophy is: If we’re on the floor, we need a Player Development component to whatever it is we’re doing.

5. Situational training – what I mean by this is: During these sessions, I’m going to show the players the situations where they APPLY those fundamental skills of player development.

6. Conditioning – lots of reps – confidence comes from high amounts of successful reps. There’s no way around it!

In each workout, Rick explains the big picture – and – how each new drill links to that big picture. Also, he explains how the new drills link to the previous workout! We’ll then show you enough of each drill for you to get the setup, the rotation, the teaching points, and any player development skills that are relevant. 

This version of the full Read & React course is speifially tailored to youth teams and developing players. Read & React's positionless system provides you with an opportunity to kindle an enjoyment of the game in your young atheletes as they learn to make intelligent decisions, play their best game, and develop the skills that will make them excellent players for years to come.

The Read & React Offense is a great way to play basketball. Each time a new coach adopts it, the paradigm will shift with the program he or she applies it to. Whenever new methods become available, Read & React will be updated to bring you the absolute latest and greatest the offense has to offer. Rick has re-engineered the system to help coaches better teach and understand the concepts. This course contains a quick run-down of the first ten layers with updates.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

Better Basketball first gained its notoriety with Rick Torbett's player development series which cultivates the fundamental skills of basketball.

This course is for you if you are a: 

* a player looking to develop a consistent, repeatable jump shot, or

* a coach seeking an extremely detailed, easy-to-follow shooting curriculum for training players (beginners through more experienced).  

In this course, Coach Rick Torbett works with two different teams of high school players to develop "Rapid Skill Acquisition". Coach Torbett teaches techniques needed for a great shot. In almost 5 hours of intense guidance the players train completely through the shooting process, beginning before the shot is taken and continuing through the actions following the shot. 

Coach Torbett provides clear-cut analysis, instruction, and demonstration of the principles of a great shot. Additionally, he supplies all the resources needed to track player success and development. Using these resources, coaches will be able to target weaknesses and develop strengths, with the goal of building confident players.

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.

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.

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.

The Read & React evolves every time a new coach adopts it and makes the paradigm shift with their program. To bring you the absolute latest and greatest the offense has to offer, Rick has re-engineered the system to help coaches better teach and understand the concepts!

The Read & React evolves every time a new coach adopts it and makes the paradigm shift with their program. To bring you the absolute latest and greatest the offense has to offer, Rick has re-engineered the system to help coaches better teach and understand the concepts!

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, part 1 of a 5-part series, Coach Torbett uses three demonstration teams from different Read and React clinics to simulate a practice with content from the first two to three weeks of the season. The course covers drills for teaching Pass & Cut, Feed the Post & Cut, and Dribble East-West. In addition, it covers Out of Bounds Plays, Attacking Zones, Breaking Presses and Transition. Breakdown drills: from 2 players to 5 players to 5 on 5. At the end of this course, the team should have a working offense and be able to play and compete.

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, part 2 of a 5-part series, Coach Torbett uses three demonstration teams from different Read and React clinics to simulate a practice with content after the season has started. The course continues the needed review of the first 3 Layers but now covers the reactions of all players during North-South Dribble Penetration.  We apply it to Attacking Zones, Breaking Presses and Transition because teams are competing in the early part of your season.

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, part 3 of a 5-part series, Coach Torbett uses three demonstration teams from different Read and React clinics to simulate a practice that occurs during the middle of the season. The opponent is making adjustments. Once your team can manage and score with spacing, its time to add screening as a COUNTER to defensive adjustments: Pin & Skip, Cutter Screens, Post Screens, and Ball Screens. Combination drills are introduced as a means to teaching and training the screening actions. And like all courses in this series application is demonstrated for Attacking Zones, Breaking Presses and Transition.

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 video, part 4 of a 5-part series, Coach Torbett and a demonstration team simulate a practice with content for the later part of your season. This Practice Plan for implementing the Read and React remains in the Screening Actions of Pin & Skip, Cutter Screens, Post Screens, and Ball Screens, but goes further with more Combo Drills and applications of the screens. X-Screens and other additions are introduced. Full Court Trips blends it all together into a single offense. You are only a couple of weeks away from the Post Season. Everything you do should have the majority of your attention on your defense. How does your team defend everything in the Read & React? Your emphasis should be switching to defense.

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 video, part 5 of a 5-part series, Coach Torbett and a demonstration team simulate a practice with content for the very end of your season. This Practice Plan for implementing the Read and React in an example of of focusing on the FLOW – how to move seamlessly from transition to man-to-man and zone attacks without “setting up”. Color Codes are introduced to practice changing our tempo and emphasis of attack depending on the strengths and weaknesses of our opponents. We work on changing these codes during transition (our Full-Court Trips). Your practice emphasis could be 90% on your defense.

These workouts accomplish three goals. First, they cover a wide variety of shots over 3 ranges: outside the arc, the mid-range, and finishes on the goal. Second, the workouts help each player to associate certain shots with certain actions of the defender. For example, if the defender closes out short, then the player should shoot and not drive. These workouts also prepare the shooter to be more comfortable when he has to ignore the presence of the defender and focus on making the shot.

The Workout consists of two parts: Teaching and Training. During the Teaching portion of the workout, I need you to slow down and work on the technique. Most young players don’t’ want to do this and that’s why they have a limited game. So, during this learning curve, make sure your footwork and balance is correct. If you have someone like a coach or a trainer with you, this would be a good time for them to give you high amounts of feedback. If you have to repeat the same move several times in order to get it right, then do so! I only show 2 reps per move in the teaching section, but most are going to need more than that while learning the moves. Learning how to do it right will keep the officials from blowing the whistle. Learning how to do it right; getting comfortable with your fakes, your change of speeds, and your body language is how you create deception in your game. It’s not always about being FAST! And you can’t always be the quickest, but you can build an element of cleverness into your game.

This course contains 35 base R&R Entries, plus lots of options from those starting points. 

When all is said and done, with the options, you’ll have 110 Quick Hitter Entries. Of the 110, there are at least 30 Entries for every formation – 5 OUT, 4 OUT, or 3 OUT. No matter what your formation preference, you’ll have plenty of options. Plus, there are 17 Baseline In Bounds Quick Hitters. Remember, the Read & React can help you communicate complicated five-player actions with very few words - and these 128 quick hitters will help train your players to string the layers together in increasing complexity. 

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, part 1 of a 5-part series, the women's team from Emmanuel College was filmed experiencing the Read and React Offense for the first time. The series covers five consecutive days of two or more hours of practice.

The course teaches from a whole-part-whole perspective and focuses on the cognitive aspect of the system – preparing the team to learn the offense. The team learns the Foundation of the Offense: the first four “Layers” of Passing East-West, Passing North-South, Dribbling East-West, and Dribbling North-South. The practice finishes with a 5-player rehearsal in Full-Court mode.

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, part 2 of a 5-part series, the women's team from Emmanuel College was filmed experiencing the Read and React Offense for the first time. The series covers five consecutive days of two or more hours of practice.

The course teaches from a whole-part-whole perspective and focuses on 2-player and three-player drills of the first four Layers, because without at least a basic working knowledge of the foundation of the Read and React Offense, we cannot explore the screens and decisions that must be made while players are in motion. However, we begin to add the basics of Attacking Zones and introduce the team to Hybrid Drills.

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, part 3 of a 5-part series, the women's team from Emmanuel College was filmed experiencing the Read and React Offense for the first time. The series covers five consecutive days of two or more hours of practice. 

The course teaches from a whole-part-whole perspective and introduces the team to the Screening action of cutters, players in the post, and the “counter” to sagging defense: Pin & Skip screens. But first, the team reviews and rehearses. There is no need for a “perfect practice”. Players are going to make mistakes, therefore we encourage the players to coach each other. This allows for less stoppage and more repetition, which speeds up their learning curve.

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, part 4 of a 5-part series, the women's team from Emmanuel College was filmed experiencing the Read and React Offense for the first time. The series covers five consecutive days of two or more hours of practice.

The course teaches from a whole-part-whole perspective and shows the team introduced to the final parts of the Read and React Offense as their attention is turned to putting it all together as best we can at this point in the practice journey. The team will not master the Read & React, but they can function with the parts they’ve been able to pick up. The system will absorb their mistakes which will allow us to play 5 on 5 and learn even faster while we’re playing! The team begins to understand that they are not learning AN offense – they are learning how to play!

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, part 5 of a 5-part series, the women's team from Emmanuel College was filmed experiencing the Read and React Offense for the first time. The series covers five consecutive days of two or more hours of practice.

The course teaches from a whole-part-whole perspective and shows the team going through diagnostic testing of playing live. All players are included in a full-court cut-throat format that will help determine which actions are "sticking" and which ones are not. This will determine what actions need to be worked on next. This testing will also help to determine which drills, how long to run the drills, and which areas of player development and defense to focus on.

There are two halves of the Read & React that make it the unique system that it is. The first half of the Read & React takes all decision-making away from players without the ball and makes them pure reactors to the ball-handler – one predetermined reaction to every action that the ball can take. That makes the ball-handler the sole decision-maker: one leader with 4 followers. And that’s what this workout is all about. 

Making decisions with the ball AND knowing exactly how to react to the ball, essentially means you know exactly when to lead and exactly when to follow. And that knowledge is not only essential to the Read & React, it’s also an essential ingredient to playing Better Basketball.

In this course Coach Rick Torbett gives you a 90-minute practice plan designed to strengthen the habits of Layer 4 – Dribble Penetration Circle Movement. This layer is built around one action: draw & kick. If you see your team beginning to slip during the season and you need a 90-minute tune-up while saving their legs, this video is for you!

An introduction to the dynamic defense series in which Coach Rick Torbett takes you through several stages of improving your defense with Dr. Spencer Wood, a leading sports psychologist and movement expert. This series will help you earn your white belt - it's the bare bones, basic fundamentals you need to begin taking your game to the max!

These videos teach the drills you and your team need to take your defensive play to the next level. Hall of Fame coach Dick Helm brings his four level approach to building an excellent defensive player and a superb defensive team to this series, Dynamic Defense by Coach Rick Torbett. 

Dynamic Defense Levels 1 & 2 will teach players the skills they need to guard their opponents with or without the ball.

These videos teach the drills you and your team need to take your defensive play to the next level. Hall of Fame coach Dick Helm brings his four level approach to building an excellent defensive player and a superb defensive team to this series, Dynamic Defense by Coach Rick Torbett. 

Dynamic Defense Levels 3 & 4 will teach players the skills they need to defend situations that go above and beyond guarding the ball and guarding away from the ball. When there are more offensive players than defensive players, for example, a Level 3 or 4 defender will see a need to stop the ball and will fill that need.

 When the skills have been mastered, is the game won? No! Strong offenses and clever opponents will still throw you for a loop. Dr. Spencer Wood returns to teach both players and coaches the mental toughness needed to achieve excellence.

"Mental toughness alone will never guarantee anyone a championship; but a lack of mental toughness is guaranteed to cost you a championship." - Dr. Spencer Wood

 

To cut off the drive into the lane, players need practice. The drives start in a predictable way and then finish up with random moves, so that players learn the ability to counter any action taken by the offense. This video is for building and testing your level 1 Defense.

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!

Better Basketball first gained its notoriety with Rick Torbett's player development series which cultivates the fundamental skills of basketball.

Basketball has evolved to attract spectacular athletes. If you are not the most athletic player on your team, it is a necessity that you acquire superior ball handling/dribbling & shooting skills to play at the next level. Are you ready to take your handle to be unguardable? In this course, featuring ball handling phenom Andy Garcia, you will learn how to significantly improve your ball control to make these improvements a reality! With these drills in this course, your weak hand will become your strong hand, your hand-eye coordination will get better, you will learn counter moves to break your defender and you will find your confidence elevated.

Andy Garcia says: 

"Remember to enjoy the process as you improve your handle, don't forget that the best process leads to the highest skill! When working on a specific drill always keep in mind that amateurs practice until they get it right, but professionals practice until they can’t get it wrong. 

This course provides the drills you need to master the game. Never be afraid to have the ball in your hands again!"

We know that our Youth Read & React coaches are pressed for practice time. Many of you are lucky to get two 90-minute practice sessions a week with your team, and are trying to figure out how to put in all the Read & React has to offer during that short amount of time. 

This video shows how Rick would install Layers 1-6 & 17 with a youth team in one 90-minute practice. He uses demonstrators who are between the ages of 9-12, and establishes the framework for the offense that can easily be built upon in subsequent practices.

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.

This course is the first in a series of eight practices that Coach Rick Torbett directed for a youth team. Even though youth players are demonstrating, you can tweak certain amounts of almost every drill to fit the level you are coaching. You can link these into a series of complete practice plans or mix-and-match to create your own practice plans!

The drills you'll learn in this online course focus on team coordination and tempo control in the Read & React offense. The drills that the team is running become the offense.  There are ino drills in this course that do not directly relate to what your players learn while operating the Read and React Offense.

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.

This course is the second in a series of eight practices that Coach Rick Torbett directed for a youth team. Even though youth players are demonstrating, you can tweak certain amounts of almost every drill to fit the level you are coaching. You can link these into a series of complete practice plans or mix-and-match to create your own practice plans!

The drills you'll learn in this online course focus on team coordination and tempo control in the Read & React offense. The drills that the team is running become the offense.  There are no drills in this course that do not directly relate to what your players learn while operating the Read and React Offense.  This course covers back screens and introduces circle movement and dribble-at drills.  

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. 

This course is the third in a series of eight practices that Coach Rick Torbett directed for a youth team. Even though youth players are demonstrating, you can tweak certain amounts of almost every drill to fit the level you are coaching. You can link these into a series of complete practice plans or mix-and-match to create your own practice plans! 

The drills you'll learn in this online course focus on team coordination and tempo control in the Read & React Offense. The drills that the team is running become the offense.  There are no drills in this course that do not directly relate to what your players learn while operating the Read and React Offense.

This course introduces one of the great features of the Read and React Offense. By working the drills in these practices your team weaknesses will be exposed and lead you to the skill development your players need.

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.

This course is the fourth in a series of eight practices that Coach Rick Torbett directed for a youth team. Even though youth players are demonstrating, you can tweak certain amounts of almost every drill to fit the level you are coaching. You can link these into a series of complete practice plans or mix-and-match to create your own practice plans!

The drills you'll learn in this online course focus on team coordination and tempo control in the Read & React Offense. The drills that the team is running become the offense. There are no drills in this course that do not directly relate to what your players learn while operating the Read and React Offense.

This course links circle movement together with the other layers of the Read and React Offense. Teaching your players the best times to drive and rehearsing combination drills is a primary focus of this course.

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.

This course is the fifth in a series of eight practices that Coach Rick Torbett directed for a youth team. Even though youth players are demonstrating, you can tweak certain amounts of almost every drill to fit the level you are coaching. You can link these into a series of complete practice plans or mix-and-match to create your own practice plans

The drills you'll learn in this online course focus on team coordination and tempo control in the Read & React Offense. The drills that the team is running become the offense. There are no drills in this course that do not directly relate to what your players learn while operating the Read and React Offense.

This course begins with drills for strengthening player confidence with the ball. After those drills, the focus of the course becomes diagnosing the progress of the team using short-sided live games.

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.

This course is the sixth in a series of eight practices that Coach Rick Torbett directed for a youth team. Even though youth players are demonstrating, you can tweak certain amounts of almost every drill to fit the level you are coaching. You can link these into a series of complete practice plans or mix-and-match to create your own practice plans!

The drills you'll learn in this online course focus on team coordination and tempo control in the Read & React offense. The drills that the team is running become the offense. There are no drills in this course that do not directly relate to what your players learn while operating the Read and React Offense.

In this course, Coach Torbett deals with a real-world example of a shortened practice. Coach Torbett gives an example of how you can continue to progress in the Read and React through a rehearsal of actions and then a diagnostic scrimmage.

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.

This course is the seventh in a series of eight practices that Coach Rick Torbett directed for a youth team. Even though youth players are demonstrating, you can tweak certain amounts of almost every drill to fit the level you are coaching. You can link these into a series of complete practice plans or mix-and-match to create your own practice plans!

The drills you'll learn in this online course focus on team coordination and tempo control in the Read & React Offense. The drills that the team is running become the offense. There are no drills in this course that do not directly relate to what your players learn while operating the Read and React Offense.

In this course, Coach Torbett uses the diagnosis from the previous scrimmage and decides to sharpen skills before adding more layers of the Read and React Offense. The demonstration team is introduced to additional drills that will increase their reaction and recognition of scoring opportunities.

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.

This course is the eighth in a series of eight practices that Coach Rick Torbett directed for a youth team. Even though youth players are demonstrating, you can tweak certain amounts of almost every drill to fit the level you are coaching. You can link these into a series of complete practice plans or mix-and-match to create your own practice plans!

The drills you'll learn in this online course focus on team coordination and tempo control in the Read & React Offense. The drills that the team is running become the offense. There are no drills in this course that do not directly relate to what your players learn while operating the Read and React Offense.

In this course, Coach Torbett introduces the team to the operation of the Read and React Offense vs Zone defense.  The drills demonstrated a focus on the scoring opportunities the Read and React Offense creates versus a zone defense. The adjustments that the offense makes flow seamlessly from Read and React actions already learned in previous parts of this series.

Coach Bart Wouters organizes and runs Specialization Practices for different clubs in Belgium. He is the Director and Organizer for FROS and STARS Camps. He is the Head Coach of the Off-Season Practices in Limburg and the Coordinator and Head Coach of the Boy’s Academy U14 of Limburg United – feeding the 1st Division Team.

This course is suitable for players of all ages and skill levels.

Coach Wouters begins with one player stationary passing and then moves to two player passing. As the drills progress using multiple players in a half or full court set-up, communication and footwork become vital to success. 

Coach Bart Wouters organizes and runs Specialization Practices for different clubs in Belgium. He is the Director and Organizer for FROS and STARS Camps. He is the Head Coach of the Off-Season Practices in Limburg and the Coordinator and Head Coach of the Boy’s Academy U14 of Limburg United – feeding the 1st Division Team.

This course is suitable for players of all ages and skill levels.

Coach Wouters begins the course with individual steps to build up a crossover, fake crossover, between the legs and spin move dribble. 

To conclude the course, he incorporates unique, multiple-player set-ups to hone the dribbles learned in the first half while on the move. 

European coach Bart Wouters returns to share more content from his European basketball camp cirriculum. This video is packed with drills to help players of all levels to finish at the rim more efficiently!

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.

Being able to choose the Next Best Action without the ball has mostly been left to chance. Most of us coaches can recognize a player with a high basketball I.Q. and we’re glad to get them. But how much time do we actually spend, with an organized plan, training everyone on the team to choose a Next Best Action? How much time do we really spend trying to increase our players’ basketball I.Q.? In Read & React Offense, the lane is the decision box. This video course will help you teach your players to make the best decisions without input from the coach. 

Read & React is a different way to run an offense. The first half of the Read & React trains the team to control their spacing. The second half contains the ball screen and other advanced offensive tactics like the pick & roll. This is an advanced Read & React course designed to help coaches understand the ball screen and make a decision about whether it is necessary for each team, decide whether the team is skilled enough to use it, and finally help implement the skills needed to integrate ball screens in Read & React.

The post player is an important part of the offense. Two things that usually come up with respect to the post are simply how to get open in the post and how to score in the post when you've got the ball. Read & React uses the post player in a different way - it turns the post player into a play maker, the quarterback of your offense. The post is in the Read & React decision box, and the purpose of this online course is to help the post learn how to make the best decision for the team.

The Read & React is the ultimate 2-for-1 offense. Any time one of your players is working on a direct scoring opportunity, your offense will create indirect scoring opportunities. The trick is to make sure your players are looking for it. 

This video course explores driving opportunities that are inherent in the offense thanks to its spacing, player movement and ball movement. These are situations you can set up in practice and turn into drills so that your players learn what to look for when it's game time and you need to put points on the board.

Read and React coaches are always looking for new and unique ways to train the Read and React Offense in practice. 

Coach Randi Henderson has adopted a concept she calls “Emmert Reads” from a coaching clinic she attended. In this 29 minute course, she introduces drills you can use to train post entries, the read-line, relocation, and x-cuts.

These actions are designed to imitate live game situations and stimulate your imagination for training any Read and React action initiated by post entry or dribble penetration.

Coach Randi Henderson works with her team through some excellent post drills. Her progressive teaching style is sure to help your players grow their inside presence, and her focus on drilling in groups is good for teambuilding in general. This online course will help you bring the same winning strategy to your team's practices.

Work on your zone shooting in a shootaround with Coach Randi Peterson. These fast-paced drills are designed to give the players practice shooting against a zone defense - they encourage players to find the open shot, pass the ball, and finally take shots against the zone. Remember, practice makes perfect!

Randi Peterson likes to mix it up! She has learned that practice gets repetitive when the same drills are rehearsed every single day until they become so repetitive that the teams she coaches have less fun with it. The trick is to do different kinds of drills that still work on the same fundamentals - that way the same work gets done, but the practice stays fun. These videos are filmed with Randi and her team practicing with one-on-one drills that keep it interesting and encourage the players to work their hardest.

What does it take to master the rebound? As with most things, practice is the key. In this video course, Coach Peterson shares her four favorite rebounding drills. They range from warm­up to full competition, and they include technique, footwork, and preparation as well as enough variation to keep the players on their toes.  

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.

To win a basketball game, you need to score. In order to score, your players need to be able to quickly read the defense, react immediately, and use the most effective move possible for that situation. The Read and React system ties these two man reads into a seamless offense that can be adjusted to any set, formation, type of player, or style of play.

Once you’ve mastered the framework, you can customize Read and React to fit your personnel and the style of play your team needs to be successful. The Read and React offense is the best way to do this because it is a principled framework that gives your players the tools they need to anticipate the actions of the defense and respond with the best possible move. It is a system that can be drilled to the point of habit.

It’s like jazz; the same rules are used throughout, but the songs always come out a bit differently (and keep the defense guessing).

In this course you get 3 hours, 27 minutes of video. You’ll see 28 variations that will add some additional dimensions to your Read & React, and your offense will continue to improve.

Don't settle for jump shots when the opponent switches to a zone defense! These four strategies can be put into use quickly and give your players confidence in playing against a zone defense by increasing the number of threats the defense has to face.

During the summer of 2010, we held a few clinics for those coaches already running the Read & React. One of the two major themes was Practice Planning – how to implement the Read & React. So, we decided that Coach TJ Rosene of Emmanuel College (2009 NCCAA National Champions) should simply run a practice.

Coach Rosene never strays far from the Reaction Drills and Reaction Habits that run the Read & React. He incorporates them in everything that he does. If he’s focusing on defense, the offensive component is the Read & React. If he’s working on transition, the transition is going to end in the Read & React. If he’s warming up or just getting in shots, he’s always doing it out of the R&R Reaction Drills. 

In doing so, Coach Rosene sends a clear message to his team:

This is how we play. This is what we do. This is who we are.

With this being Coach Rosene’s third season with the Read & React, you’re going to see players who have two years of the R&R under their belt, some with one, and some who are learning it for the first time.

This is a real practice in real time – nothing is staged.