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[QUOTE="ForCuseSake, post: 3968980, member: 266"]
Great idea for a thread.

Without knowing the age range I would recommend a simple motion in a regular 2-3-1 set up. Middie “triangle” rotating opposite direction of the attack “triangle.”

The sideway 2-3-1 sounds good in theory but will likely leave you wide open for fast break clears out of that vacant left side. Especially if your opponent starts off sitting on your righties’ shot side.

A few years back I helped coach a team of sophomore/juniors and we had a weak lefty attacker (more distributor, not a shooter) and a step down righty attackman with a cannon.  Not a dodger at all but was nearly automatic from just up GLE.

We ran the simple motion I described above and it was very effective against other travel teams.

It was surprising how the rotations of each triangle almost always created a great step down opportunity near the right wing or a midfield alley (either side).

You may also want to try your best dodger at X to get the D moving. Some coaches like their best feeder back there and that usually works if there’s reasonable balance among left/right and midfield/attack.

Just $.02 from a Ham n Egger.

Edit - passes to/from each position unit triggered the rotation - Middies rotated after one passed to attack and vice versa. You can always force your attack to rotate the same direction so a righty attacker is cutting across the crease with his stick upfield (as a threat to catch a feed and shoot).
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