10/22/2017 - Practice Plan

Time	Drill
5 Min	Active Stretching
2:00 PM to 2:30 PM	Scrimmage with 2025
2:30 PM to 3:00 PM	Scrimmage with 2023
5 Min	Water
5 Min	Talk About Ground Balls Its important to teach your players about how controlling ground balls can win games. The following points are good pieces of information to tell your kids. The team that wins more "GB's" is going to get extra possessions and extra chances to score. It is that simple. These extra possessions are also likely to be followed by "unsettled situations,"- a 4-on-3 Fast Break or 5-on-4 Slow Break of some kind. Transition goals are easier to score because there is almost always an unbalance of players Always scoop and and move the ball Let's work on calling Ball/Man and not Man/Ball Its important to make quick passes down field after winning a ground ball. The concept of "ground ball - pass - pass" gives us a high chance of scoring After a ground ball, two guys should look to be adjacent for a quick pass, and someone should be backside pipe Ground Ball Statistics The team with the most possessions has a greater chance of winning the game At the College Division 1 level each team gathers approx 30 ground balls per game If you win exactly 50% of the ground balls you have a 50% chance of winning the game The more ground balls you win the higher percentage your chance of winning the game are Most ground balls are won after faceoffs Let's say there are 60 ground balls per game. If our team wins 35 and they win 25 we now have a 60% chance of winning the game Teams with a -5 ground ball differential win only about 1/4 of their games If we win 10 more ground balls per game then our competition we have a 70% chance of winning the game http://www.laxpower.com/content/mauboussin/stats_analysis.php?page=2
10 Min	Ground Ball Drill
5 Min	Water
10 Min	Face-Off to Fastbreak Put a goalie in the net and 3 attack and 3 defense Have your middies at the midline in two lines on opposite sides of the field 4 middies are in the drill at once. Two middies face off, the middie line on their butt end side is on their team We do the face off, the face off guys, look to pop the ball out to a wing guy, the wing guy that wins it goes down for a fast break, the other players are out of the game play Keep score on each side of the midfield Alternatives: Have a chaser middie after 2-3 seconds and have the face-off middie go mono vs mono
10 Min	Fast Breaks
5 Min	Water
15 Min	Station - defense set clear, offense cutting and returning, stick up at all times
10 Min
5 Min	Water
10 Min