Man-Down Rotation (Timberlane)

Coach’s variation from the Timberlane and East Roanoke playbook

The play, beat by beat

1. 1Their Top Left passes to their Left WingD1 slides to the ball
2. 2Their Left Wing passes to their XD5 rotates to their Right Wing

Coaching points

• Every pass moves everyone. The man nearest the catch goes to the ball, and the rest rotate a spot toward it as he catches.
• The point to teach (Timberlane): the two offensive players farthest from the ball are split by one defender. With the ball at X, that is D4 between the two up top.
• D2 never moves in the diagram: he stays topside of the crease man.
• Timberlane calls the set a 1-3-2, counted from behind: one at X, two wings and a crease man, two up top (2-3-1 counted from the top).
• A worked example of the 5-Man Rotation, from the Timberlane and East Roanoke playbook.

How it was checked

Only one source describes it: one coach’s or one program’s own take. We found no second source to check it against. Coach’s variation from the Timberlane and East Roanoke playbook.

More man-down

• 4-Man Rotation
• 5-Man Rotation
• Box-and-String