4 beats
- Beats
- Pass
- Cut
- Recover
- 5 yd stripes · not a marking
Man-down · 4 on 6
Two-Down Box
Verified in part · checked against Kaley and Donovan, and Lax Goalie Rat
The play, beat by beat
- 1Their Top Right passes to their Top LeftBox Top Right drops
- 2Their Top Left passes to their Left WingBox Top Right sags
- 3Their Left Wing passes to their Top LeftBox Top Right recovers
- 4Their Top Left passes to their Top RightBox Low Right rotates
Coaching points
- Two down: your four poles and the goalie. Stay tight: pressure the ball, the two men beside it take their man and cut the lane, and the man farthest away sinks into the crease. That puts you in a diamond whenever the ball is above GLE.
- Ball on the wing: the wing man pressures, the low man (Kaley: the defender playing X) helps on the low crease, the far man sinks in, and the top man cuts the lane to the second man from the ball.
- You are giving up a low-percentage shot from up top on purpose. Make them pass it around the outside: every pass burns penalty time.
- Against this 1-3-2, one of your four plays X and drops to help on the low crease when the ball is on the wing. Kaley and Donovan's exception is a 2-2-2 with two men behind: there, do not pressure behind the cage. Pick the ball up at GLE and you cut 6v4 to at most 5v4.
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 Kaley and Donovan, and Lax Goalie Rat.
