What happens immediately after a loose ball pick-up? Here we focus on ground balls, ball movement, rides and clears all in one drill. Drills that directly emulate game scenarios, are fast-paced, and focus on a number of fundamentals simultaneously in every activity are great and this one certainly does that. For most of us, when we focus on competitive ground balls, we end in a look-up pass to a player or the coach, and that repetition of the drill is over, when in fact we should focus as coaches on what happens next. On any ground ball pick-up, what we really have is either an opportunity to score in transition to the cage or the opportunity to get in a defense-initiated transition and break across the midfield line and down to our attack.
You can run this on half the field. Keeping players from standing around is paramount, and there are only five players in this drill at a time. Therefore plan accordingly.