Adjacent Slide
The slide comes from the man next to the ball, the crease never moves, and everyone rotates one spot around the perimeter.
- Slidedefender leaves his man
- Rotatethe fill behind the slide
Install notes
The counter to a team that is picking your crease apart. The defender adjacent to the ball on the perimeter is hot; the crease defender stays home and never leaves his man. Everyone else rotates one spot away from the ball. Strength: the crease is never open, and the slide arrives sooner because it is a shorter run. Weakness: the perimeter rotation is longer, so a fast skip away from the slide gets an open outside shot — you are trading an inside shot for an outside one on purpose. READING THE DIAGRAM: same 2-3-1 offense as the Crease Slide, same ball on the right wing (labelled 1) — so the only thing that changed is the defence. HOT comes from the TOP, next to the ball, and the rotation runs around the perimeter behind it: top-left takes the vacated adjacent spot, the left wing takes the top, X takes the wing. THE CREASE DEFENDER HAS NO ARROW, and that absence is the play. If your crease man moves on this call, you are running America's with a longer slide.
Drop your players into the spots and push each one his line — his job only. Free for teams.
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