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Latest coaching articles and tactical notes.
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The objective of this zone is to shift our attack and middie lines across the field laterally to allow over passes from one defender to another, forcing harder passes and removing the easy opportunity for the clearing team to manipulate an attackman who is near the midfield line.
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This man up play follows the basic concept of overloading a side of the zone and forcing a defender in a zone to cover multiple players and/or communicate with his teammates at a high level.
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This play is a simple 3 man wheel off ball that makes our best left handed feeder the QB of a play that offers him many options to choose from. This play provides many different looks and nicely resets the formation to run the play again. You can also flip the wheel and run it on the other side if you want to get it to the lefties.
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This works great if you have strong dodgers up top that you want to clear space for and two smart attackmen who you want to keep behind to help run the offense.
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How many of you use the rotating box to pressure the ball when you are man down on defense? Or maybe just to throw a different look at the offense?
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How can you utilize your superstar to clear the ball without burning him out during the game?
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Let's go over some basic aspects of a zone and different ways to run it.
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The 4 Man Low Clear is particularly useful at the youth level as it gives an easy outlet to the ball carrier and eliminates the need for a long pass.
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If you are a new to Lacrosse this may help you understand clears a little better.
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These are a list of tips you want all your best d-men to follow in the course of a lacrosse game.
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The Coach needs to decide the parameters of the substitution strategies. This is little more complex than you might initially expect. The Game is going to be hectic enough without compounding the confusion with disagreements or differences of opinion of who goes in when while the game is going on.
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Depending on the level of play scouting an opposing team can be as little as seeing warm ups and talking to peers or as much as watching hours of game film. Either way it is good to know some basic things about your opponent before stepping on the field.
