3 Righty Side Transition Set up

In the spring of 2018 I was watching Stony Brook vs Penn NCAA tourney game when Kylie Ohlmiller was a senior.  Penn was a good team that year, but SBU hammered them!  One of the things I noticed in that game was their Fast Break set up.  Where as most teams balance with ideally two lefties and two righty's that form a box or trapezoid formation for transition, SBU was playing with a 3 Righty side and Kylie as the lone lefty.  

This made so much sense to me!  Similar to the "L" break in men's lacrosse, having only one lefty allows for the midfielder to have a ton of space to drive to her strong hand (most players are righty!).  This causes the defense to have to help over from the Righty side and leave a 3v2 on the righty side!

Here's a perfect example of the 3 Righty Side in Transition:

Here are the reads:

  • Midfielder runs it in and if no one picks her up, she either scores, draws the lefty's defender and dumps down, or draws a shooting space foul with a late slide.
  • Midfielder runs it in and draws a defender.  She will look for both a skip pass and the obvious pass to the point attacker who's man is rotating.  Skip passes re there when the 2nd or 3rd rotation is anticipating the pass to the point.  The middle and low attacker on the 3 side should be ready to Cut the Middle.
  • Ball goes to the point attacker and she looks to give it right back on a Give and GO with the midfielder, "One more" it to the middle attacker who's defender would be the rotation while she looks to skip it to the lefty, who's defender will be rotating across.
  • In the end, the defense will have to be in a box while the offense will be overloading the backside of the play. 

 In our 3 Righty Side Transition Look we run Up Pick Nations regularly.  We still look for all the One More looks and Skip Pass looks, but when we feel there's nothing there, we can go right into a Nations Look . Often times we will run this in 5v4 and 6v5 Situations.

 Since most of don't have the luxury of two lefties on attack, this 3 Righty Side is money!