attacking a zone....

[Sanchez]

Hmmm! Soo im in the midst of my senior lax season, and for some reason, everytime a team throws a zone defense at us, we just shut down. We just cant attack it. Usually they will come out playing man to man with us, and we put up goals with ease, but as SOON as a zone defense sets up, we just cant do anything! I mean i just dont get it, only like 2 players (me being one of them) cut to the ball, but i think thats because of the offenses we use. We use a 2 2 2( dodging scheme), a 2 3 1 (the traditional base dual-triangle offense), and at half time our coach brought back our 1 4 1 from last year, but he didnt give use specific cuts. We just dropped a super hard game to a team that i thought didnt match up to us, skill for skill, but we just got outplayed on so many levels.


This really frustrated me. To the point where im holding my own practice at my teams field sunday just to get it in my teamates heads that we have to wake up and start being lacrosse players. Monday we havea game vs our cross town rivals, hamburg, and if we play the way we played friday, we will get like up by like 20 goals, and i dont want that to happen. Soo.....

Do you guys have any suggestions on offenses or plays out of offenses that will help attack a zone? I know ill probablly get "you should learn how to be players before you learn plays" but ill accept that, i just would appreciate any help i can get from anyone here. Thanks for reading and any help you are willing to give.

[blckout20]

try a 3-2-1 and iso from top center this should draw the zone in and you can dish off a pass for a quick shot. If that doesn't work keep the ball at x and just keep feeding passes infront of the net from x. The only way to get through a zone is to pass and catch under pressure and to draw pressure to you. Set off the ball picks a lot too.

[nmlax22]

My team runs the 1-3-2 with success against the zone. Have the 3 in the middle making quick cuts through the middle and have them run picks for the middie up top while the 2 behind look for feeds or a mix up so they can move quickly around the crease to shoot. If that doesnt work the man up top tries to beat one of the defensive middies to force a slide from the d and looks for a quick feed to one of the outer two middle middies, or one of the two attack making quick cuts from behind.

Hope I helped

[TheKOB]

Throw a stack at it. Get in a 2-3-1 with the ball at X. Have a hard shooter at one of the top corners. Have the X guy come around. When he gets picked up, bang it up to the middle side. He'll get picked up by the top wing defense, then he should bang i up to the top corner, who has a shot. Since it'll probably be from pretty far out, have your crease put a screen on the goalie. The good thing about this is that you have several opportunities to score if they don't pick you up. Also, unless they're running an attack-style zone, you can pass the ball around on the outside (hopefully spreading them out) and wait for an opportunity. If it's not there, pull it out. Make sure to attack the cage every once in awhile, or else you'll get called for stalling....

[blam360]

draw a double team and then dump it high to the open man and let him rip it. thats what my coach told us. works pretty good. its kinda like the play navy always runs