Category Archive for: ‘Playbook’

OKC, Dallas and Fair Weather Coaching

OKC Thunder coach Scott Brooks claims he is not a “fairweather coach,” then goes out and proves it in the 4th quarter of the Thunder’s victory over the Dallas Mavericks.

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Teaching the Read and React Offense: The Basketballogy Method (part 5 of 5)

Note: this is the 5th article in a 5-part series: Part 1: The RGB of the Read and React Offense …

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Passing and the Read and React Offense (RGB part 4 of 5)

No matter how strong each of your 5 fingers are, they will never be able to make as powerful an impact individually as a slap, as they will together as one fist.

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Dribbling and the Read and React Offense (RGB part 3 of 5)

Ninety percent of the time you play the game of basketball, you don’t even have the ball! And you want to know a secret? Championship basketball is in the 90%.

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Spacing in the Read and React Offense (part 2 of 5)

Whenever I notice our opponent has poor spacing, and their coach isn’t doing anything about it, I smile. My job as a coach, and the job of my players, just got a lot easier on the defensive side of the floor. In fact, I’m truly reluctant to reveal the importance of spacing here for that very reason.

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The RGB of the Read and React Offense (part 1 of 5)

Just as everything we see on a computer screen is a blend of RGB, red, green and blue, likewise, everything that happens in half court offense is a matter of how a team uses spacing, player movement and ball movement.

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Read and react passing before dribbling

A day ago I took the trouble to type out my unconventional approach to implementing read and react… but I …

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Playbook: Read and React in the Real World

The first 2 minutes or so of this clip is a talking head talking about how scrapped his offense and …

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Playbook: Out of bounds baseline set 1A

This set is designed to put real pressure on a defense on a baseline, out of bounds play, and should …

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