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53Change the Defense With a Purpose
Change coverage to address the source of the opponent’s advantage. Teach the transition, connect all five assignments, and judge the next possessions.
52Substitutions: Change the Game, Not Just the Lineup
Read the source of a run, give the entering player a specific job, and use the bench to change momentum while preserving your closing options.
51Coach the Game Toward the Final Two Minutes
Control pace, attack the right matchups, and preserve the players and options you need to challenge a stronger opponent on the road.
Pass Fakes: Move the Defense Before You Move the Ball
Coach Agmon explains pass fakes before the dribble, during a live dribble, and after the gather, with game examples and clear coaching priorities.
Give Every Rep a Purpose: Coaching Cues and Error Correction
Choose a teaching point before the first rep. Coach it consistently, correct the breakdown, and check the next possession.
47Talent Is Potential. Development Makes the Player.
Look beyond early physical advantages. Recognize potential through decisions, communication, persistence, and the way a player learns.
43Play Without Screens: Cut From the Weak Side
Teach weak side cuts, passing angles, and perimeter fills before adding screens.
44High and Low Cuts: Arrive Ready to Score
Connect baseline and high post cuts to sharp foot preparation, a visible passing angle, and a quick shot.
45Move, Catch, Shoot: Timing Starts With the Eyes
Use eye contact to time the cut, prepare the catch, and connect movement to a game speed shot.
46Read the Screen: Find Your Shot
Read how the defender plays the screen, choose the receiving route, and arrive ready to shoot.
41Screen Away: Create Two Threats
Connect the receiver and screener to two scoring threats while opening a third opportunity for the player with the ball.
42Drive and Kick: Move With the Advantage
Teach four teammates to read a drive, open passing angles, and keep the advantage alive after the ball comes out.
39Pick and Roll: Read Before You Run
Teach the screen, read the coverage, and connect all five players to the advantage.
40Two Balls, More Decisions
A competitive three on three shooting game that challenges court vision, movement, and decisions under pressure.
37Motion Offense: Principles Before Patterns
Give five players a shared framework for passing, cutting, screening, and reading the defense without crowding one another.
38Build Motion Offense Step by Step
A ten stage teaching progression that connects movement, spacing, passing, and defensive reads at the players’ pace.
36Build Your Shot: Touch, Rhythm, and the Set Shot
Teach a repeatable shooting foundation through clear direction, coordinated movement, and precise force.
48Backspin and Shooting Arc: Teach a Release You Can Repeat
How backspin and arc work together, what the research actually supports, and three drills that connect release mechanics to a live shooting decision.
35Finish With Control: Teaching the Layup
Connect the gather, foot rhythm, takeoff, and touch through Coach Agmon’s component method.
34Own the Ball: Grip, Protect, and Make the Next Play
Eight games for teaching a secure catch, ball protection, pivots, and accurate passes.
33Ready to Move: Games That Build a Balanced Basketball Stance
Teach balance, controlled stops, and a quick next action through ten stance games and a mirror application.
30Two Demands, One Player: Managing Cognitive and Movement Load
Score the cue response and ball control separately. Adjust the drill when either one breaks down.
31From Cue to Court: Test Whether Reaction Training Reaches the Game
Compare performance on a cue drill with decisions against a live defender, then check again after a delay.
32Cognitive Reaction Training: What the Research Supports
Six scientific publications on cognitive and movement training, basketball performance, and transfer from practice to the game.
26Own the Dribble: Build Control With Your Eyes Up
Teach stationary, attacking, and protective dribbling with a progression that keeps the ball under control and the court in view.
27Change Direction With a Purpose: Four Moves, One Advantage
Build the crossover, behind the back, between the legs, and spin from body position to a live read and an explosive exit.
28Handle Pressure: Retreat, Read, and Attack Again
Use the retreat dribble, protection, changing hands, and a quick low exit to keep control when the defender closes the space.
29Control the Ball in Chaos: From Rehearsed Moves to Live Decisions
Move beyond a memorized routine and train ball control while defenders, teammates, and available space keep changing.
23Transition Defense: Get There First
Protect the rim, stop the ball, cover the weak side. Build a defense that arrives with a purpose.
24The Fast Break: Create the Advantage, Control the Pace
Start with the stop. Lift your head. Move the ball into space and know when the break is over.
25Timeouts: Know When to Stop, Know When to Play
Use the break to give your team a clear next action. Compare FIBA, NBA, and NCAA rules before building your plan.
19Small Games, Big Decisions: Teaching Team Basketball Through Play
Twelve practice games using dribble limits, scoring rules, and changing numbers to teach team decisions.
20Head Up, Game On: Twelve Dribbling Games That Teach Awareness
Use tag, pursuit, and partner games to teach ball control while players track opponents and open space.
21Own the Moment: Free Throw Games With Real Consequences
Seven scoring games for practicing the free throw routine under pressure.
22Plant, Pivot, Play: Games That Turn Footwork Into an Advantage
Eight practical pivot games for protecting the ball, finding a passing angle, and controlling the body after a stop.
16Reaction Starts Before the Move: The Five Parts of an Effective Response
Awareness, interpretation, emotional control, physical readiness, and precise action belong in the same coaching picture.
17Beyond a Quick Reaction: How to Build a Cognitive Reaction Practice
Give each visual cue a meaning, connect it to a basketball action, and progress from a clear rule to a changing decision.
18Scan, Remember, React: Advanced CRT for Dribbling, Passing, and Shooting
Progress from arrows to letters and numbers while connecting scanning, spatial memory, and flexible decisions to basketball movement.
11Beyond the Chest Pass: Teaching the Art of Passing
Teach players to choose the right pass through timing, touch, defensive reads, and shared responsibility.
12Short, Sharp, and Fast: Rethinking Basketball Passing
Shorten the passing motion. Keep the ball moving. Give players room to read, adapt, and create.
13The Catch Comes First: Reading the Defense Before Receiving
Move toward the ball, prepare your hands, protect the catch, and turn with a read of the defense.
14Assist or Turnover? Why Passing Is About Decisions, Not Just Technique
Train the point guard to control the team, recognize the opening, and deliver under pressure without losing pace.
15Passing on the Move: Train the Eyes, the Mind, and the Body
A seven drill progression connecting passing, cutting, screening, shooting, and decisions across the court.
01The Two Rules That Change How You Play Basketball
Before another drill, teach your players where to look. Two simple rules change every possession.
02Court Vision Is More Than Keeping Your Head Up
Physical skill, basketball intelligence and emotional control have to work together.
03Basketball Is a Martial Art
The ball is a tool. Control of space, timing and the defender is the real contest.
04Stop Faster. Change Direction Better.
A good first step starts with a great stop. Build the ability to brake and redirect momentum.
05Before the Scheme, Build the Defender
A defensive system cannot save players who never learned to control their own space.
06Defensive Talk Should Change the Possession
Get past empty noise. Build a shared language that actually coordinates five defenders.
07Stop Yelling “Space Out.” Teach Space.
Spacing is a picture the whole team can recognize, not an instruction shouted from the sideline.
08Passing Is a Language. Teach the Grammar.
Read the receiver and deliver the ball where it leaves the next action available.
09Your Shooting Drill Should Look Like Basketball
Stop confusing a high practice percentage with a good game shot.
10Train the Read. Train the Reaction.
Why REACT CRT puts attention, choice and movement in the same basketball rep.
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