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Adjacent Offense

Adjacent Offense

Xcelerate Nike Lacrosse National Program Director, Brian Lalley, discusses Adjacent Offense:

While playing team offense, we are looking to create advantages through dodging, off-ball movement and with ball movement. Creating number advantages generally starts by beating a defender 1-on-1.

When you are standing next to a ball carrier, you’re considered adjacent. There are a number of things we can do to create offensive opportunities when we are standing adjacent to a ball carrier / dodger.

Create Space
If a dodger is running at an adjacent teammate, they will most likely be covered by an opponent’s defender. The first option we want to be ready for is to clear through towards the crease. If the off-ball defender goes with the adjacent clear-through, it will create space for the dodger and make him / her more of a threat. The crease is the most threatening area of the field to score, so getting there creates a potential offensive opportunity as well.

Set a Pick
Using a two-man game to create space for the dodger and confusion for the defense is another option for an adjacent offensive player. Click here to review the important points of playing the two-man game.

Drift
When a team is sliding to the ball carrier adjacently and not from the crease, we want to drift into shooting space. It is important to keep distance from the ball carrier so the defense cannot slide to the ball and recover to the adjacent drift player. Click on the video above to see some adjacent drift goals.

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