4 beats
- Beats
- Carry
- Their slide
- Pass
- Cut
- Recover
- Shot: heavy dash into the goal
- 5 yd stripes · not a marking
Fast breaks and transition · 4 on 3
4v3 Skip to the Backside
Verified in part · checked against Lacrosse Unlimited, Zimmerman and England, and Lax Goalie Rat
The play, beat by beat
- 1Ball Carrier carries, right handTheir Top of the Triangle marks
- 2Ball Carrier carriesTheir Top of the Triangle slides (Rotate)
- 3Ball Carrier skips it to Far PipeFar Pipe cuts
- 4Far Pipe shoots from the right islandTheir Left Pipe slides
Coaching points
- Watch the back-right defender. If he sprints straight at the point, the back-door skip to the backside man is open: throw it before the back-left man gets across.
- If he steps to the middle first, the skip is shut. Hit the point, and the point looks for the diagonal to the dump man if the top man has not dropped into that lane (Zimmerman and England).
- This is the pass the triangle is built to stop, which is why defenders step to the middle first and keep their sticks in the lanes (Lax Goalie Rat). Lacrosse Unlimited runs the carrier skip; Zimmerman and England the point skip.
How it was checked
A standard play the sources back, but a step or detail of it rests on a single source or on our own reading of them. Verified in part · checked against Lacrosse Unlimited, Zimmerman and England, and Lax Goalie Rat.
