Good team defense tactics

[Fentruck]

What are some of your guys' favorite defense moves to pull on people? My coach told me one he used in college called "Hook 'em and Fry em". First, he would hold the guy for a second, just hold him there with a V hold, while another defenseman would come through and knock him on his a**. Sounds good.

What are some of your favs, and also, could you help me out with where I should go on defense? I'm just starting, and I dont exactly know which guy to take, when to approach, all that jazz.

[Dpolelax]

well this is my first year to and i pretty much stick to the basics (poke, body, V hold) but..........

if im playing and we are just dominating i'll go a little fancy and do a ding-dong or something.

and could you explain the second part of your question a little more. i dont really understand but may be able to help you out.

[Fentruck]

Never mind the second part

[StutterFly40]

its my first year also and i just like to knock a guy flat on his a**:dummy

[bigDman]

same

[dougm]

as a spectator i hate watching zone defenses but it can be very effective.

[Snake~eyes]

Zone gets really difficult when they have a lot of cutters and what not. Good against 1v1.


I think one of the most important team aspects on defense is the slide game. Where the slide comes from, whos the slide, whos the second slide, whos going to cover the sliders man. All of that is important because everyone is going to get beat 1v1.

[Blazer]

I personally like the diamond form, or zone defense. I believe that you protect your golie better using zone.

[Longest]

A zone is great if you don't really have any oustanding athletes. It's all about the system. Man on man is about "Well Gags can dominate so and so and McCabe can take so and so" Just an example cuz I was rewatching the LI/Baltimore 2K3 champs. last nite. Princeton the last few years has employed a realy aggressive slide, they almost slide before the man gets beat.

Dan

[hockey1385]

As an experienced defenseman my personal favorite team tactic is the coma slide, where when the attackman is coming out from behind the cage. the crease defensemen calls slide and then the defensman from the opposite side of the net cuts across the crease, knocks the guy into next week. Or next month. But my favorite check has to be either the kayak which is when you use the buttend of the stick on the opponent or the butt dig which is where you poke check your man hard on the hip/butt and then dig is bottom hand out, and take the ball.

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[Ccodyman]

This was our main idea for the J/v team. We used one from across the crease and it usually worked but if not a lot of the time he would miss anyways due to the cludder

[GeorgiaMiddie2]

to answer the second part of the question, it depends on the situation. you would have to set up some 6 v 6 to learn how/when to slide, when to switch men on a pick, how to handle a pick. you just need some experience in a 6 v 6 half field situation.

[smitt5168]

zone is a money play

[hankooklax]

we play man on a string and zone with a free middie on man down... I'm always the free middie or the man on the string. Its fun.

Man to man, just like yall said, only works with good players, but i've noticed that it works also with players that are used to playing a certain area, such as a guy who likes the crease, or a dude who prefers the outside.


All in all ZONE WINS GAMES

[bigOHlax]

my favroite check is the ice pick, but it is mainly used by middies on D
for those that don't kow what it is it is when a man on d is running side by side with an O man and takes his stick and swings it over the other guys head and chops down on his arm
desticking the guy a lot of times cause you just took out his arms

[DrDetroit]

a solid d is a matchup zone, but you gotta know your sh*t to run that. it gives the d a chance to take the ball away if you get a good matchup.

i personally dont throw too many fancy checks. i usually just poke and use body. occasionally ill use a wrap if i have him set up, or ill try an over the head when i push him out and he loses his balance.

[Blazer]

Actually, the ice pick check is when you take the butt ob your stick and jam it into the back of someone. Saw it once. Guy got 5 min. in box then got kicked off team. BAD IDEA!

[DrDetroit]

no, ice pick is when you take a short stick and go over a guys head from behind and just jam it into the space between his stick and his body when he has 2 hands on the stick

[lacrosse64]

isnt the ice pick when you put the stick in his head and rip down?

[blckout20]

The icepick is a check with the butt end but u just stab thru the space in him arm and pull back. it is illegal i think for a pole to do it and you do it when you are behind a man that beats u as u catch him u use ur butt end to stab down and it does usually take out his stick but it also takes away the chance of u blocking a pass or nething.

[DrDetroit]

yeah, i think its illegal for everyone. i know a dude that can do it to perfection, but he only uses it indorrs.

[Bouncing_Soul]

i love the sound the player makes when he gets stabbed. A friend of mine used to do it all the time, and when he'd get someone good, they'd just crumble and fall to the ground, letting out a tremendous groan

[defensemanrule]

I hate to admit it, but those tricks don`t really intrest me...:cry in a game. I just poke check hard and stay in front of a guy...it works just the same but you don`t have to sacrifice something, like getting burnt. But hard poke checking can be really irratating to an attacker, it works well:agree .

[defensemanrule]

Also, when someone is on a fast break, all defensemen form up in a triangle, guarding the golie, and each give one swift poke check to the guy shooting, with one hit like that he usually drops the ball...we did it a couple times and no one got past us.

[nVlax]

anything more complex than the basics?

[HdGLaxWarrior]

Our team has a triangle D, I'm sure most people on this forum know what that is, but let me explain it a bit more. You have a point, and two wings. The point stands a little bit ahead of the goal, when a fastbreak occurs, the point takes the guy with the ball. When that guy passes, we all slide to the right. The point guy goes to the left wing, the left wing goes to the right wing, and the right wing goes to the point position.