Yale Defensive Terminology

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Across
  1. 3. Call by help defenders to direct recovery out to perimeter
  2. 7. Call made to get all help defenders to landmarks immediately  Prepare for slide & recover!
  3. 8. Coma slide to dodge from X
  4. 9. Call by slider to keep on ball defender engaged and create aggressive double
  5. 10. Call to initiate adjacent rotation. Lock the HUB and rotate adjacent
  6. 12. Call by help defenders to direct recovery inside to the crease
  7. 14. Slider
  8. 15. Pick defender steps out to get a piece of dodger. On ball defender must get UNDER
  9. 19. Tells on ball defender to close gap with his man to avoid pick
  10. 21. Line that splits the goal in half and extends from endline to top of box.
  11. 24. Defensive numbers advantage
  12. 25. Call to switch HOT responsibility to clear thru defender. Original HOT becomes CHAIN
  13. 27. When ball is below GLE, all defenders have a foot inside 10 yards
  14. 28. Call by slider to take responsibility for ball and send on ball defender into recovery
  15. 29. 20 seconds remain in shot clock/quarter
Down
  1. 1. Tells on ball defender to switch men and open up to see slip. Contact = Switch
  2. 2. We are not sliding to specific match up
  3. 4. Area the width of crease & 12 yards high. Backside defenders look over inside shoulder and get a foot in the wall
  4. 5. Call by pipe defender to rotate up to backside wing on JAM. Man getting bumped from crease fills base
  5. 6. Tells on ball defender to stay on ball to create double. MUST have WHITE/BLACK slide ready to cover slip
  6. 8. Defender playing the backside 2v1 in recovery. Cover the most dangerous in your split (Closest to goal)
  7. 10. Call by recovering defender to shorten slides & push teammate out to next closest player
  8. 11. SS Shut off behind. Make it difficult to get invert. Get on ball defender thru
  9. 13. Second Slide
  10. 16. Early slide. Bad match up & need to get the ball out of dodgers stick
  11. 17. Call to initiate slide
  12. 18. Call used by HOT man. Tells other defenders to hold spots until we “FIRE” and rotate.
  13. 20. Slider executes the double and then recovers to maintain on ball matchup
  14. 21. Top down adjacent slide to dodge from X
  15. 22. We are matched up
  16. 23. Call to drop in immediately and prepare to defend in broken situation/transition
  17. 26. Tells on ball defender to step off his man and go underneath picker to avoid pick