4man Side Three Pass

Rules:

• Boundaries: playing on one side of the field, the offense can use the whole 12 on their natural side and no farther than the backside "Tangent."  (The Tangent is the imaginary 90 line through the side of the crease)
• Each team plays offense and defense like half court hoops
• Must complete three passes before shooting
• Defense gets 2 points for a double team
• Offense gets one point for a goal

This game is a hybrid between keep away and a small sided game that I love for multiple reasons: 

1. The Keep Away environment creates ball pressure and off ball pressure through denying passes,  which forces the offense to move off ball, get open, and possess the ball under pressure. 
2. On ball and off ball 2man games begin to happen naturally the more the players cope with this environment.
3. The three pass rule with pressure also makes this game more challenging for the offense.  It is too easy to score in a 4v4 situation and often times one player will dodge and score with no ball movement.
4. Why the Natural Side: learning to operate on one side is a magical way of teaching the difficult spacing necessary in women's lacrosse.  If an offense can comfortably run 2man, 3man and 4man looks on one side with Nations and Spain type looks, it will be a major advantage in 7v7!
5. Once the offense has completed three passes, the defense does not pressure off ball players and looks to help, slide, and collapse with team defense.

I hope you love this drill!