Duke 1-3-2 Shallow Cut Midfield Dodging Offense

Breaking down a bunch of different examples, options and defenses against one of the offensive sets that is a staple of Duke's settled offense,their 1-3-2 (from the top) shallow cut, midfield dodging offense.

[@UNCbound305]

really helpful video. love the in depth explanation, helps me understand offenses a lot more. more of these would be dope

[@saulnores3477]

Excellent video!! I rewinded 3 or 4 times.

[@gregoyjeans6733]

such a well made video i can tell u took time on it 👍

[@rburkoutdoors247]

Simple, but I like it. Sadly, my high school guys are too hard headed to run 2-3-1 triangle motion. We'll try this tonight.

[@HarrisonHollers]

Bench em!

[@frankpepe7882]

Great vid

[@frankwally2476]

This seems to be a soft-pairs set, where the shallow cuts are sometimes used as like a quasi 2-man game, without hard/razor picks and it’s just slipping every time

[@noahburger7804]

Thanks great vid just one question can u upload some defense because i play D with a d-pole and it would great if you upload some D

[@lacrossefilmroom]

Noah Burger How is this video not defense? This video is full of defense.

[@noahburger7804]

Yeah true your right

[@lacrossefilmroom]

Noah Burger If you want be good at defense, you should study offenses more than defenses when you watch film. You have to know what the offense is trying to do if you want to be effective at stopping it. You will play against far more different offensive schemes than you will ever run defensively.

[@noahburger7804]

Ok but I'm still young I'm trying out for middle school modified

[@lacrossefilmroom]

This is absolutely an offense that could be run by a middle school team. It doesn't get much simpler than this. That's one of the reasons I made this video. It's an offense that is simple enough to run with a youth team, but effective enough to work at the D1 level. Of course the execution will be no where near as good as when a D1 team runs it, but the basic principles remain the same. Studying slide package videos is great, but if it's not the slide package that your team runs, I'm not sure how much good that is going to do for you. Especially at lower levels, defense is all about everyone being on the same page and communicating more than it is about schemes.

[@JaAlex52]

I don't get why a defense wouldn't slide from the low crease defenseman. The offense has a low crease attackman who is there the whole time and so that defender can be hot and the defense can pull a two slide from the top opposite midfielder and the low opposite defender whose offensive players don't rotate or move. The defender who cut through can put a top on the crease and be in the passing lane for the skip to the top opposite midfielder and also be able to get out on hands of the man who shallow cut. Then the recovery would be to the low crease and then bump or rotate out to the top opposite midfielder. Also the defender on the low crease attackman has a better slide angle to the ball carrier. He is sliding up and directly at the ball carrier instead of sideways like the defender would be if the defense slides from the shallow cut.

[@lacrossefilmroom]

Defenses definitely could slide that way and I think that's how many high school defenses would slide to this offense. College defenses are more likely to want to take away the option to dodge down the alley and move the ball through X to the backside. They also generally want to force a midfield dodger to have to roll back in order to move the ball to open man by sliding off the player who is on the perimeter behind the dodge. Putting everything right in front of the dodger makes it too easy. Notre Dame in particular will almost always send the second slide from the top center because it ensures that their goalie always has a decent chance to make the save.

[@JaAlex52]

I would press out with my close defenseman at X enough to make the X attackman have to catch it deep at X. This causes the pass to be longer, him to have his hands tied up so he can't make a feed, and gives my defense more time to recover. When the ball gets moved back up top as the dodging middie rolls, the ball is always in a dangerous place to immediately redodge and immediately have a shot. Now the middie is dodging from 15 yards or closer, one little jab move, gets his hands free on the rotating short stick defensive midfielder and now the middie has his hands free from 12-10 yards. I think that as that ball moves to X, I'm buying more time for my defense to recover while the offense is in a non threating position to score. Even if my X defender gets beat by that X attackman, at least the attackman isn't instantly in a great spot to shoot the ball. It again gives more time for my defense to react and meet him with a slide at GLE and more time for my 2 slides to get to the crease.Sure then he would get to skip the ball to shooters but I guess I would hope my X defender wouldn't get beat so badly that we couldn't get a check on his hands as the attackman is making that skip pass.

[@lacrossefilmroom]

If you're going to slide while pressing out at X and keeping a defender up top behind the dodge, that's going to leave you 2 on 3 inside and on the backside. If either of those 2 defenders are short sticks, they are going to have a really tough time covering up inside while still being able to get sticks in the skip pass lanes to the backside. Even with a long pole, that's a tough task against a team with good inside finishers. That's a very high risk, high reward strategy. Any mistakes are going to result in great looks for the offense.

[@williamnguyen4471]

have to watch this really quick for homework no cappa on god

[@gesus4198]

This dude eating peanut butter or some shit

[@Onlyhiphopbrendan]

I'm no NCAA lacrosse player, but i played for 11 years as a defenseman, and watching these Div 1 defenseman dropping their bodies and flinching just hurts. That shit was taught to us when we were 12, that if you make your body smaller you will make it easier for the fucking opposing attackman to score. Specifically at 4:38, watch #20 flinch so much that his head is at the opposing player's crotch, his body is folded over. Him positioning his body in the way would have blocked the shot, it went right over his head. And yes, I've been hit by a ball going 90+ MPH and yes, it does hurt a fucking lot, but not as much as that one goal you could have prevented that was the reason your team lost. Thank you for making these Lacrosse Film Room, they're fucking awesome.