Backside Slide

Install notes

The third real slide origin, next to the crease and adjacent packages already in the library, and drawn against the SAME six-man offence so a coach can flip between all three and see only what changed: who moves. The slide travels from the far side of the field, which buys the dodger more time but costs the offence its easiest answer — because nobody leaves the crease and nobody leaves the adjacent, the inside stays covered and the only open man is the one furthest from the ball. That is a long skip, and a long skip is the pass most likely to be dropped or picked. Use it against a team whose offence lives on the crease feed. The cost is honest and belongs in the install: the on-ball defender has to survive roughly a second longer alone, so it only works if he can force topside and buy that second. Two-slide discipline matters more here than in any other package — once the backside man goes, the rotation behind him is a full circle. Personnel: the on-ball defender is a short-stick defensive middie (SSDM), as in the crease and adjacent packages. A team may have only four long poles on the field, and the goalie's stick does not count; here they are the three close defenders and the LSM who makes the backside slide.