Card Strategy

Teach the team your strategies for Cards and Draw Controls.

This Drill Highlights

• Uneven Situations

• Defensive Communication and Forcing

• Attackers Quick Ball Movement and Decision Making

Description: Start the drill with a draw (3v3) and set up with a player up or player down behind the restraining line (3v4 or 4v3).  This can be a pure transition drill (7v6), or it can be a card strategy and clock management drill by putting 90 seconds on the clock.  This is also useful if you are down a few players at practice.

Equipment: Full Field, 1 Ball, Clock, Whistle

Highlighted Skills: Draw - on ball and off ball, Time Management and Decision Making, Uneven Play.

Key Coaching Points: Give your team offensive and defensive sets to work on at each end as well as time management strategies before reach draw.  This is a drill that you can set up multiple ways to help your players understand scenarios they might encounter in a game situation.  For example, the clock could be set to a specific time and score in order to simulate a game situation and to work on clock management in relation to the score of the game.

Diagram of Drill:

In this scenario X’s are playing 7v6 on attack and 7v6 on defense and the A’s are playing 6v7 on attack and 6v7 on defense.