3 beats
- Beats
- Dodge
- Recover
- Pass
- Double
- Cut
- Shot: heavy dash into the goal
- Empty spot
- 5 yd stripes · not a marking
Settled offense · 3-2-2 · also called 2-2-3
Opposite-Ball Cut
Coach’s variation from Harvard’s Jenn VanderMeulen
The play, beat by beat
- 1Top Right dodges, right handTheir Top Right defender recovers
- 2Top Right feeds Top LeftTop Left cuts
- 3Top Left shootsTheir Top Left defender recovers
Coaching points
- Maintain lanes: off the ball, stay a real threat, not so far out of the 8 that you can't get the ball and not so far in that you clog the drive. High players stay high.
- When a believable drive draws a double, the defense bumps over, and the girl two away or opposite the ball is open. Cut into active space in front of the defense, never into dead space behind a defender.
- Get through: going through the 8 is like walking through lava. Get in and get out, at full speed, stick up.
- Anyone who goes behind the ball on a drive gives the defense an easy double. From Harvard's Jenn VanderMeulen, narrating Syracuse film.
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 Harvard’s Jenn VanderMeulen.
