4 beats
- Beats
- Dodge
- Cut
- Slide
- Double
- Pass
- Recover
- 5 yd stripes · not a marking
Settled defense
Princeton Crease Slide
Verified in part · checked against the Premier Lacrosse League (Bill Tierney), Bill Cherry (Manhasset) and Lax Goalie Rat
The play, beat by beat
- 1Their Right Wing dodgesCrease Defender slides to the ball (Hot)
- 2Their Right Wing dodgesRight Wing Defender doubles the ball
- 3Their Right Wing throws it back to their Top RightCrease Defender recovers
- 4Crease Defender recovers (Bump)Left Wing Defender recovers
Coaching points
- Slide to where he is going, not where he is. Arrive under control and stay in front, so the on-ball man can squeeze before you recover.
- On ball (A): overplay the middle. Hot (B) goes the moment A's stick is behind the dodger's lead hip and he can't roll back.
- Off-ball men watch their man, not the ball. Tierney ran it with no ball: on the whistle the man is beaten and the chain starts.
- Bill Cherry's "Princeton" (Manhasset clinic): the backside defenseman slides to the crease, and the backside middie or pole drops to the pipe.
- Princeton attackman Jesse Hubbard: "If the slide isn't there in time, it's the crease guy's fault, not the guy playing the ball."
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 the Premier Lacrosse League (Bill Tierney), Bill Cherry (Manhasset) and Lax Goalie Rat.
