It's a big day for lacrosse! It's the NCAA Quarterfinals and Syracuse is playing later today!
This box we got here if from Cuse royalty... it's the POWELL BROTHERS!!
Thank you Mikey, Casey and Ryan and everyone at @powelllacrosse for this unbelievable stick! I LOVE IT!
Trey Murphy III appreciation post:
Crazy athleticism while shooting 50% from the field, nearly 40% from three, and close to 90% from the free-throw line.
He deserves serious All-Star consideration
"That did not look like, from a crowd perspective, that's a 6 win team. That looked like a team playing for something based on how the crowd was reacting... There are a lot of teams with less than 10 wins you're not going to see that"
-- @LegsESPN on the fan energy last night
@ProPelsTalk They make it so hard to want to go. Everything is too expensive, food is bad, stadium is outdated, parking is terrible. Would rather watch the games from home
The old adage “You must be equal left and right” is a myth. We need to teach two-handedness in the context of the principles of the game. First, shooting angle, we need to get our sticks to the middle because it increases shooting %… this has to be a priority. Next, you have to be able to dodge left and right, but this doesn’t mean we want our righties taking a lot of LH alley shots on the run! A righty can split to his left and still get his stick back to his right with a great angle! Last is stick protection and the concept of having your stick to the outside … this is the principle that coaches have overemphasized for years making kids always throw and catch with their sticks to the outside and it’s at the expense of offensive efficiency.
We want to develop two-handed players and if a player was truly equal, it would be incredible. Here’s how you can develop your players to be 2 handed
Train your kids on their natural side, developing them to be experts at getting their strong hands to the middle with the ability to attack equally to the topside and underneath. Let the stick protection happen naturally in the context of getting great angles!
Next, train them to use their weak hand on their natural side with the ability to throw a 15-yard pass to X on the run and shoot on the run from the hashes and around 8 yards.
Finally, train them to play with their weak hand on their “wrong” side… meaning righties play on the lefty side as if they were lefties with an emphasis on angle. If you can get your players doing the same slick stuff they do with their strong hand, the same moves, deception, release points, etc … all with their weak hands on their wrong side, they will become very two-handed
Reality Check: you need a two-handed X guy and you might need some righties to play on the lefty side, but otherwise, let your players play to their strengths! Be thoughtful and intentional about the way you develop two-handed players!