Read and React
Submitted by coachmac on Mon, 09/15/2008 - 09:10
I've seen a lot of information about the Read and React Offense from Coach Rick Torbett's Better Basketball website. Although there are a lot of testimonials, etc, there's nothing explaining the offense at all, other than it works for every situation and any type of team. Before I plunk down $150 or so for the tapes, which I'll gladly do, I'd like to know something about it, other than it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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More on Read and React
After listening a bit more to Coach Torbett's thinking on Read and React, it is more about teaching kids to make decisions on the court based upon situations rather than becoming robots to a specific offensive set or pattern. Again as I mentioned above coaches have been teaching read and react for years but Coach Torbett frames the concept in an understandable way that can be applied to most any offense. Over the years, there aren't many new ideas in coaching. What I find however is that coaches are continuing to improve upon the way to teach complex ideas in simplified ways so that they can be applied by the "basketball player" and which allows less predictability in given situations. I hope to get a chance to do a full review in the future.
Read and React No New Concept
Coach Torbett is an excellence coach and teacher. We haven't seen anything from him yet that wasn't essentially fundamentally correct. That said, often coaches take a key word or catch phrase and translate it into a new best seller. There is nothing new about "read and react". Coaches have been teaching read and react situations for years. Bob Knight's Passing Game of the 70's was a "read and react" offense. I hear the word "Motion Offense" use so much now it has lost it's moniker describing any specific offense. The theory of read and react is simply that you make the defense make a decision in terms of how to defend you and you react opposite. Whether or not you are running Bob Spear's Shuffle Offense from the 50's, Pete Newell's Reverse Action from the early 60's, or today's 4 out and 1 in used by John Calipari or Jay Wright, every effective offense has read and react situations.
It's difficult to guage Coach Torbett's new DVD without having seen it, but what he has been successful doing is taking a concept and adding structure to it in a teachable manner. We hope to get some feedback on this new DVD soon. Any coaches who have viewed it are encouraged to contribute here.