R&R Offense or Why Set Plays are so Infrequent for the Rockets

Read and react. I like it and think the Rockets should keep it.

But there is still room for set plays in Read and React. If you watch the Spurs, when they come out of a time out in the closing minutes of a close game, they often run a set play -- usually getting the ball to the hot hand.

Remember that Parker buzzer beater near the beginning of last season against OKC. The Spurs clearly wanted Parker to take the last shot, he had been hot the whole 4Q, but Parker is off the ball for most of the play, and then catches and shoots a pass from Jeff Green.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG0gkXFsk6c

That is a well designed and beautifully executed play to close out a game.

 

I agree with most of what you say. I just want to see a little more effort given to drawing up plays, especially in late game situations. As the season progresses, hopefully we will see more of that.

As frustrating as coaching decisions have sometimes been recently, I am far from giving up on McHale.

 

1. The Rockets do not run the "read and react" offense. They run their own offense that their coaches designed which can be described as an offense that is "free-flowing" or an offense where you "read and react". It isn't literally the "read and react offense" that Better Basketball is trying to sell.

2. The Rockets do have sets that they run. You said they did not in another thread. But they do. And not just for ATO's.

3. And I don't know how you can say Adleman and McHale run the same offense when McHale's offense was different with Lowry, Scola, Martin, etc. than it is with Harden, Howard, Asik, etc.

 

Everything bmd said is 100% correct, actually.

There is no such thing as the read and react offense. The Rockets have a read and react system, yes.
But the Rockets offense is totally different from the Spurs. The Spurs offense is totally different from the T-Wolves. And not a single NBA team uses the read and react offense you linked to.

"The read and react offense" is just a name Rick Torbett of BetterBasketball uses as a trade mark trying to sell folks his system.

But yes, while what the Rockets do on offense may look random to a lot of people, most of the time it's just players attacking within the Rockets system.

 

1. How does that article prove that the Rockets run the "Read and React Offense" from that Youtube video you posted? It's not the same offense.

2. McHale's offense this year and last year does not even look the same as his offense did when Lowry and Scola were here. They ran many more off-ball screens then. You said McHale just kept Adelman's offense in place. But that isn't the case considering McHale's offense isn't even the same as his own offense was a couple years ago.

 

This is also not true.

Teams score out of timeouts at a higher percentage than during the course of a game. Why? Because they run a set play.

Set plays work... you just cannot run them constantly during the course of a game or the other team will catch on.

Plus, no team runs set plays constantly, even at the high school level. They'll run a motion offense or something most of the time, and call certain plays at different times.

 

Once again, you are wrong. His system is very specific. It requires a basket cut, every time.

His idea is that the lane serves as the "decision box" when he basket cuts.

Not even on the same planet as what the Rockets are doing.

 

Read and react basketball has been around for far longer than Rick Robett's system/guidelines/whatever. He just put a "The" before it and markets it as some revolutionary thing.

Correct.

 

That article is specifically talking about at the end of games during crunch time.

That isn't what I was talking about.

 

Did I just read that you put McHale on the same level as Pop?

 

So what part of a read and react system is the shooting guard dribbling the ball for 20 seconds before passing it to someone else?