Your team's general offense...

[fossil8412]

As my coach has been introducing more plays to us, I have kind of been curious as to what other offenses high-school's run. Typically, we are a run-and-gun team. We run about 3 plays, all of which are very basic and seldomly used. Are you guys the same or what?

[Bobsch]

I mostly use system offenses. Sometimes motion, sometimes pick away from the ball. My last team was the "chaos offense," though. We looked different every time we played....most of the time, we didn't even know until the game progressed what we would do. We had great players who could improvise (including three former DI attacks and a DI middie, plus a lot of other great athletes). My main job as a coach and defensive player was to let them do what they did in order to win.

In high school, we had about 35 plays...way too many...but after a year learning them, we did well. We were 0-14 as freshmen, then 10-4, 11-3, then...um 7-6. I like improvisation and systems, most.

[fossil8412]

^^^^35 that is nuts!!! What do you mean by "system" though?

[Bobsch]

Yeah, we even had to learn 35 plays as freshmen...I was glad I plyed defense, but I learned most of them anyway, after seeing them 100s of times.

One example is the 2-2-2 "bowtie" system used by NYIT and some other teams (see the 2-2-2 thread). Another would be a system using set picks or cuts, but without play names (yes, I guess you could say they are plays, but no one calls them). For example, you could run a 2-3-1 and allow the creaseman to pick away from the ball. First could be a pick, then a repick, then a fake pick, for example. The motion offense is another system. The players rotate and look for space in a set way, but still allowing for some variation.

[MaKiMaKi13]

3-3 mostly set up for right handed and left handed sweeps, the theres when we call split which we use

2-2-2 which there are a lot of plays

don't incorporate a 1-4-1 cuz our team doesn't work well in it

we use an invert offense also and sometimes a 2-3-1 for EMO

[Big-Red]

we have 2 plays on my team that everyone knows, ofcourse every middie line has one or two of their own plays. The point being is that we are more of a run and gun. Our plays include one where a wing middie has the ball, calls for a pick and just cuts through and passes or shoots. The other is one were both middies use the crease middie as a pick running in on the crease and get fed from the X attack.

Basically in my opinion I prefer to improvise because with a play things need to be just so for it to work well, while if everyone just works together and knows when to cut, and when someone needs or wants a pick, things work better.

We have 2 games left in the season before play offs (4 teams out of about 30 in our Nor Cal league make it, and we are tied for forth with a record of 7-2(with 3 scrimage wins and no scrimage losses). So it has worked pretty well. Both games we lost came down to defense, since we have a bunch of lazy defenders :/

Wish us luck! would be really cool to make it to play offs

[Bobsch]

Good luck, Big-Red!

I don't lke set plays that much (unless you have a LOT of practice time, set plays are hard to work, but some coaches think they are better, especially for beginners, because players just do what the coach or captain says, even if they don't know why they are doing them....at least that was one of my old coach's opinions....I have almost all new players this year, but we don't run set all-even plays), either, except for man-up. I like to have a couple EMO plays with variations, but don't use them every time.

[Dadabhoy_Muzzi]

Our offense cannot run any plays. They either miss the net or shoot right into the goalies stick.

[CavsDefense]

I came up with a goalie Iso play I call Green Light. When I hear the coach scream green light, a Middie stays back, and a Defenseman steps in goal, and I take off up the right side of the field.

It's been called twice in games, I got a shot off once, but was just wide. I will score this season. I will.

[mglaxin8]

we have a few formations, like 3-3, 1-4-1, 2-3-1, 1-3-2. However we dont actually have any set plays from those formations. but we do best when its just fast breaks and other unsettled situations anyway

[marflax33]

Run and gun, get in close to the goal, pass around until someone gets a good look. We have a few plays, but nothing that is really effective. We also will set up mismatches, and hope for the best. we will draw the defenders in, say, when a defender slides to me and is not skilled enough to guard me effectively, than everyone will kind of clear out, get their defenders away, and let me go one on one with him. We have the most sucess with this, and usually do it in Summer League. With HS lacrosse, we will just revert to almost all run and gun, with and odd play here and there.

[tiplax]

one kid has a sniper from outside the box. other than that we kind of pass and look for the middie on the crease or cutters. it's a set play but te offense only jogs it. itr's worked so far (3-1)

[fossil8412]

Has anyone had any luck with the 3-1-2? My coach has been trying to run some plays out of it lately, however I don't think it really works for us. When we're not running a play, our crease man (1) is simply isolated from everything so it basically feels like we're man down whenever the defender guarding our creaseman leaves him. And, its really hard to get the ball into him through all of the traffic. He doesn't do a very good job, but I don't really know what advice to give him besides move around more. Any suggestions?

[Bobsch]

A lot of 3-2-1 offenses call for the creaseman to set picks diagonally away from the ball. That and move a lot. He should usually move around like in a little box, usually opposite the ball. That creates more space for either a dodger or for him to cut and also puts him in place to set picks.

[That guy]

we run the 2-2-2 my team isnt really good so the rpoblem is that the 2 crease men dont move and it gets crowded on the creases so when some one higher does have a shot there are to many bodies in the way for a good shot

luckily i play defense

[motolax415]

my team uses the 1-3-2 over and over again. The only problem with it that when the middies up top are suposed to rotate to the ball they usually forget to rotate, so you have to yell at them a couple times.

[i live 4 lax]

we run a wheel offense. and also a 2-3-1 on all even, and man up we play 3-3. then we just work a slow offense and wait for the shot to open up.

[SVPole22]

We run a lot of motion. Pretty much all goals come from defensive mistakes, so we just wait till they make a mistake. if they play a short stick on our wings we tend to beat em to crease and get a shot off. if we're man up we like to overload crease with cutters

[MDlaxin69]

our offense is:

give the ball to star attackman. score.

[MidiLine1]

We run the Iso and 4-1-1. The 4-1-1 is where we have one attack men on the crease, other at X, and the rest of the midis and 1 attack at the top of the box. The 2 attack just work it around and hit guys cutting.

We also run play like 41 and 32 and stuff. Where everyone has a number form 1 - 6. The first number is the guy that gets the ball, the other is the guy that throws. We have a great offence that is very succesful. Now if only we had a good defence :crying:

[fossil8412]

We run the Iso and 4-1-1. The 4-1-1 is where we have one attack men on the crease, other at X, and the rest of the midis and 1 attack at the top of the box. The 2 attack just work it around and hit guys cutting.

We also run play like 41 and 32 and stuff. Where everyone has a number form 1 - 6. The first number is the guy that gets the ball, the other is the guy that throws. We have a great offence that is very succesful. Now if only we had a good defence :crying:

Wow that number thing is actually a really good idea. I may suggest it to my coach, if you don't mind that is?

[truste1]

We're generally run-and-gun. We have this thing with our guy at x, he just sits there and passes the ball for awhile and then all of a sudden he's right on the crease and receives a feed and scores before anybody notices.

We sometimes move into more of a circle offense but it's generally less effective.

[the next 'one']

we run a 1-4-1 alot. i like it cause i am the center middie, so i am the one who runs the iso from the top. we just got a new coach though, and he wants us to start running lots of plays. he thinks we have good enough stick skills to start doing some pretty complicated plays passing wise and such. i was so lost today at practice.

[ShockerAutc]

Has anyone had any luck with the 3-1-2? My coach has been trying to run some plays out of it lately, however I don't think it really works for us. When we're not running a play, our crease man (1) is simply isolated from everything so it basically feels like we're man down whenever the defender guarding our creaseman leaves him. And, its really hard to get the ball into him through all of the traffic. He doesn't do a very good job, but I don't really know what advice to give him besides move around more. Any suggestions?


I would love to have an isolation play for me lol. I think were getting one next year.

[Lax1228]

Run and gun, which is good because I am the leading scorer (I'm the fastest player on the team)