EMO for Youth Lacrosse

Coach B has a great lacrosse blog but doesn't get much time to write. His latest effort is a fairly simple EMO strategy for young laxers that he explains here. A snippet:

1. Put your best player at X with the ball. Notice I said player not attack.
2. Put a lefty shooter bottom left, a righty shooter bottom right.
3. Put your "cannon" top center.
4. If you are blessed with another lefty stick him top left and place another decent righty top right.
5. The crease guy should have great hands and a quick release.

You are now basically 5 on 5 topside with your ace at X.

Most middle school man down units are a 2-3 or a box and one. They don't rotate well at this age, slide late, communicate poorly, and rarely recover.

Drive your man from X and try to beat the slide. Accomplish that and you've got a marker.

If the slide comes adjacent, feed a wide open shooter in the slot. If the slide comes from the crease, feed a wide open quick stick on the doorstep. If the D recovers to the crease from the top Hit any one of the topside guys , especially the top center, and feed for a blast from him.