Building Strong Team Defense: Principles, Skills & Drills
Explore the essential principles, skills, and drills for building a strong team defense in lacrosse. Dive into defensive goals, terminology, on-ball and off-ball defense strategies, and when to slide to enhance your team's performance on the field.
Download Presentation
Please find below an Image/Link to download the presentation.
The content on the website is provided AS IS for your information and personal use only. It may not be sold, licensed, or shared on other websites without obtaining consent from the author. Download presentation by click this link. If you encounter any issues during the download, it is possible that the publisher has removed the file from their server.
E N D
Presentation Transcript
Brendan Talbot Btalbot55@gmail.com QU player 99-02 QU asst 03-05 New Fairfield asst 06-07 HC New Milford 08-13 DC WCSU 14-15 HC SJ since 2016
Team defensive goals #1-We want to limit our opponent to 8 goals or less #2-We want to out ground-ball (GB) our opponent #3-We want our save percentage above 60% #4-We want to create 8 or more caused turnovers per game #5-We want to clear rate at 85% or above #6-We want our man-down kill-rate of 70% or better
Defensive principles -We do NOT allow strong- hand -We do NOT allow top-side -We do NOT allow shots inside of 12 yards 2019 D Phil Pasmeg / Hofstra 2023
Terminology *Use words that get action! X Cylinder: Area on the field inside the hashes (ex key in basketball) GLE GLE HUB: Area directly in-front of the crease ALLEY ALLEY 1 / Fire : Our alert to who is the slider, action word when we slide HUB 2 / To me : Our alert to who holds the crease while we slide. Always the far & opposite defender. Our term to where the on-ball defender should recover to. CYLINDER Clamp: Our alert to double the ball (sliding, on a GB, riding, etc)
On-ball defense -Stick on gloves of ball-carrier - Left foot / Right foot (defender s foot) -Be physical! Drills: 7-cone (approach), Zig-zag (drop step, stick placement), Diamond (Left / Right foot, physicality)
Off-ball defense A G D HUB A A D SKIP D 2 M P 1 S SKIP S BALL M M Drills; Diamond (skip lane to ball), 44-to-54 (4v4 press, 5v4 skip / 2), Hogan (off-ball responsibilities)
When do we slide? We slide if the ball-carrier; -Gets his strong-hand -Gets top-side -Gets inside the cylinder -Rolls back* *The slider is NEVER wrong! Drills: 3-man slide / recover (Ball, 1, 2, Fire, To Me, REPEAT), Clamp drill (on-ball, Clamp, communication)
Defending 2-man game -Off-ball Communicates direction ( Right, right, right ), On-ball drops that foot Outside of hashes = SOFT (UNDER) -Off-ball D stays 1 yard x 1 yard until on- ball gets back on gloves Inside of hashes = HARD (SWITCH) -Off-ball attacks outside shoulder of ball SWITCH On-ball FOLLOWS. Roll back = CLAMP
Krossover clips https://app.krossover.com/intelligence/reel/366740
Lacrosse Resources JM3 Sports.com; Jaime Munro podcasts, coaching professional development LaxCoachMike.com; articles, interviews w/ college coaches Coachesinsider.com; lacrosse drills, video clips Lax Sports Network (LSN); MLL coverage, coaching videos, HS games Stadium app (free); Many Patriot league games live NEC On-the-Run app (free); many NEC games live ESPN+ ($); Will have many college games live
