Coach, really enjoy your videos. You mentioned scoring for the offense by dropping the ball in the bucket...how does the defense score? Please keep the great content coming.
I guess, not letting them drop it in the bucket, or you could run it like a take back drill where the defense gets the ball, takes it outside the area and then comes back in and attacks.
I am actually coaching a 14U team right now with mixed ability and the crease slide package is working well. The trouble is that we could get smoked against an open set. (Hope none of my competitors see this hahaha). For the most part, our players can see and slide adjacent automatically, the two is there on occasion and the three is rare, but it usually doesn't matter at the level we are at. I guess it just depends on what the other team is running and our guys can adjust. We did have to teach the crease slide and recover though.
@Peterborough Youth Lacrosse - what did you end up doing? I think an additional factor, on top of what Patrick wrote, is your ability to teach a package. Are you more familiar/comfortable teaching adjacent vs COMA? To me, and my plan for my mixed ability HS teams (Varsity and JV this upcoming spring) is to go with adjacent first and then crease/COMA depending on how well they master that. I think I'll go all adjacent with JV, since it'll have a lot of first timers. I think this approach is equivalent to making sure basketball players understand man to man defense before you move to zone.
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Coach,
really enjoy your videos. You mentioned scoring for the offense by dropping the ball in the bucket...how does the defense score? Please keep the great content coming.
I guess, not letting them drop it in the bucket, or you could run it like a take back drill where the defense gets the ball, takes it outside the area and then comes back in and attacks.
would you have a 14U team (mixed ability squad) do adjacent or crease slide package?
I am actually coaching a 14U team right now with mixed ability and the crease slide package is working well. The trouble is that we could get smoked against an open set. (Hope none of my competitors see this hahaha). For the most part, our players can see and slide adjacent automatically, the two is there on occasion and the three is rare, but it usually doesn't matter at the level we are at. I guess it just depends on what the other team is running and our guys can adjust. We did have to teach the crease slide and recover though.
@Peterborough Youth Lacrosse - what did you end up doing?
I think an additional factor, on top of what Patrick wrote, is your ability to teach a package. Are you more familiar/comfortable teaching adjacent vs COMA?
To me, and my plan for my mixed ability HS teams (Varsity and JV this upcoming spring) is to go with adjacent first and then crease/COMA depending on how well they master that. I think I'll go all adjacent with JV, since it'll have a lot of first timers.
I think this approach is equivalent to making sure basketball players understand man to man defense before you move to zone.