Attack Any Defense with the Read & React Offense

by Scott Ginn

Are you tired of practicing different offenses for different defenses? This could be as simple as having one offense for man defense and one offense for zone defense, but I’ve seen coaches with arsenals full of offenses with a different one to be deployed for every possible contingency. Not only does that steal the fun [...]

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Attacking 1-3-1 Zones with Read & React

by Scott Ginn

Tradition tells us to attack an odd fronted zone with an even fronted offense. In that case, to attack a 1-3-1 zone defense, you should use a two-guard offense to split that top defender. But, what if you attacked odd with odd? What if you attacked that 1-3-1 with a 5 OUT formation? In the [...]

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Tribe Spotlight: Shorter University Ranked NAIA #1 in the Nation

by Scott Ginn

The number 1-ranked men’s team in the nation (NAIA) is undefeated Shorter University coached by Chad Warner in Rome Georgia. The first paragraph of a recent article reads below: KANSAS CITY, Mo. – As the NAIA’s only undefeated team remaining, Shorter (Ga.) maintained its top ranking in the fifth regular-season edition of the 2011 – [...]

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When One Cut Isn’t Enough: Forcing the Defense into Situations

by Scott Ginn

In a previous post, we talked about using Trigger Actions as a training mechanism in the Read & React Offense. The first couple of minutes of the video below is the perfect example of using a post feed as a trigger action. But, the meat of the video (and the point of this post) deals [...]

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Read & React Orchestrator Warm Up Drill: 1 Moves 10

by Scott Ginn

This video is an excerpt from our newest DVD series, Read & React Clinics: Planning the R&R Practice. We’ve mentioned before that in the Read & React Offense the ball handler is the orchestrator – any decision she makes with the ball moves the other four offensive players on the court (and in doing so, [...]

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Flow: Combining All Read & React Layers and Formations

by Scott Ginn

A major strength of the Read & React Offense is its ability to transition seamlessly between all its layers and every basketball formation (5 OUT, 4 OUT, 3 OUT). We’ve alluded to the jazz metaphor previously and it really does fit. Once you have the notes and chords down, you can improvise any song at [...]

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Read & React Offense Diagnostics: Testing Layers 3 & 4

by Scott Ginn

The video below was taken from our new 5 DVD set, Read & React Clinics: Planning the R&R Practice. This set develops five practice templates to help you implement the Read & React Offense as your season and your players progress. This question comes up from time to time: How do players distinguish between a [...]

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Training with Color Codes: Purple is for Post

by Scott Ginn

Color codes are a great way for coaches to control certain types of attacks in the Read & React Offense. Basically, each color represents a group of similar layers or actions particularly good at attacking a specific style of defense or exploiting a specific advantage. For example, “Blue” could cue your team to set as [...]

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