2024 D Terminology

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Across
  1. 1. Fake slide. Show and get back to your man.
  2. 2. TOP DOWN ADJACENT sliding to X dodges
  3. 4. Early slide. Bad match up & need to get the ball out of dodgers stick
  4. 7. Call by slider to take responsibility for ball and send on ball defender into recovery
  5. 8. Pick defender steps out to get a piece of dodger and help on ball defender get thru
  6. 9. ADJACENT sliding defense
  7. 12. Slider
  8. 13. Call for you to return to your zone in GOLD or MDD
  9. 15. Call by help defenders to direct recovery inside to the crease
  10. 16. Call used by HOT man. Tells other defenders to hold spots until we “FIRE” and rotate.
  11. 20. Defensive numbers advantage
  12. 21. Landmark we refer to in keeping defensive shape and to get connected on the perimeter. Filling this landmark is crucial in connecting our BLITZ rotations
  13. 24. Tangent line width of crease and 12 yards high. Backside defenders look over inside shoulder and get a foot in the wall
  14. 26. CREASE sliding defense
  15. 28. Call to drop in immediately and prepare to defend in broken situation/transition
  16. 29. Pressure defense looking to clamp dodgers and aggressively switch/buzz picks
  17. 30. Call by help defenders to direct recovery out to perimeter
  18. 31. Call to initiate adjacent rotation. Most often used when ball is thrown back or skipped
  19. 33. Tells on ball defender to step off his man and go underneath picker to avoid pick
Down
  1. 1. Call to initiate slide
  2. 3. Call by recovering defender to shorten slides & push teammate out to next closest player
  3. 4. Tells on ball defender to switch men and open up to see slip. Contact = Switch
  4. 5. Tells on ball defender to close gap with his man to avoid pick
  5. 6. SS Shut off behind. Make it difficult to get invert. Get on ball defender thru
  6. 9. Call by pipe defender to rotate up to backside wing on JAM. Man getting bumped from crease fills base
  7. 10. Zone defense
  8. 11. COMA sliding to X dodges
  9. 14. Dead Ball Double
  10. 17. Double pole the midfield
  11. 18. Defender playing the backside 2v1 in recovery. Cover the most dangerous
  12. 19. Live Ball Double
  13. 22. When ball is below GLE, all defenders have a foot inside 10 yards above the goal
  14. 23. Call by slider to keep on ball defender engaged and create aggressive double
  15. 25. Second Slide
  16. 26. Tells on ball defender to stay on ball to create double. MUST have RED slide ready to cover slip
  17. 27. Call to switch HOT responsibility to clear thru defender. Original HOT becomes CHAIN
  18. 32. We are not sliding to specific match up