This is a drill designed to assist with your offense with what they do when the ball goes on the ground.
Most importantly, do not give up a fast break going the other way. Where do you go, where do you run
to, where to you line up. Cover the field, make it a big field. Make the defensive team cover as much of
the field as possible.
Set Up:
- Have 6 players on the field
- 3 Attack
- 3 Middies
- Have players run skeletal offense
- Coach have a bunch of balls
Drill:
- Coach blows whistle, rolls ball on the ground
- First we go after the ball
- Second “Protect the 7”
- Provide Adjacents
- Once the ball is picked up, we make 2 passes before attacking the goal
- Once the rush is over, call your settle call, run skeletal offense; worse thing that should happen is you have the ball
- Repeat
- 2 on the ball
- 2 Adjacents
- 1 Protect the 7
- 1 Allowing for second pass, if ball goes to “X