3 beats
- Beats
- Dodge
- Cut
- Slide
- Recover
- 5 yd stripes · not a marking
Settled defense · Man vs the open set
Adjacent Slide
Verified in part · checked against Lax Goalie Rat, Belgium’s national team playbook and USA Lacrosse
The play, beat by beat
- 1Their Top Center dodgesRight High Defender sags
- 2Their Top Center dodgesLeft High Defender slides (Hot)
- 3Left Low Defender slides (I'm two)X Defender slides (Three)
Coaching points
- Call the package before the play. With no crease man on the set, the man next to the ball is Hot.
- On ball: take away top side and keep the dodger going one way. Off ball: when the ball goes away from you, sag into the hole with your stick in the lane.
- The next man down that side picks up the slider's man, and the next picks up his. The man left open should be the one away from the ball, behind the cage.
- Beaten man: get to the hole and let the goalie tell you who is free. USA Lacrosse teaches this slide first, at U11, before crease slides.
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 Lax Goalie Rat, Belgium’s national team playbook and USA Lacrosse.
