Team Analysis Boston Brute Squad, USA Nationals 2025 (1)
Brute Squad stays patient while getting closer to the endzone and utilizes handler movement to score.
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Brute Squad's handlers patiently swing the disc and make continuation cuts for each other to score.
Breaking it down
1. Give and Go
Elise Freedman (#3) has the disc on the break-side sideline, sees Laura Ospina Gomez (#7) open as a reset, and executes a handler return move to get the disc back. Immediately after passing the disc to Gomez, Freedman attempts a give and go upline, but Gomez's mark shifts to take away the lane. Seeing the mark leave the break side uncovered, Freedman stops her upline cut and uses a hard jab step to change directions and cut laterally to the break side instead. Gomez throws a break throw that leads the receiver and allows Freedman to easily run onto to the disc.
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2. Continuation Cut
Notice that as soon as Freedman (#3) centers the disc to Gomez (#7), Ximena Montaña (#57) makes a continuation under cut from the back of the endzone in hopes of gaining vertical yards. Although Montaña is not thrown to, the defenders leave the break side open. As Freedman cuts laterally to the break side, Liên Hoffmann (#4) anticipates the change in angle of attack and starts cutting laterally to the break side for the continuation. By the time Freedman catches the disc and turns downfield, Hoffmann is wide open for the break side pass.
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3. Sideline Reset
Brute Squad now has the disc with Hoffmann (#4) on the break side sideline close to the front of the endzone, and the handlers use a triangle reset to get the disc off the sideline. Freedman (#3) clears out of the reset space and joins the vertical stack in the endzone. Soon after, Gomez (#7) cuts toward her defender, gets her defender to turn her hips, and then makes a sideline attack move with a 45 degree cut toward the space behind the disc. Then Hoffmann executes a dump & go, passing the disc to Gomez and immediately cutting laterally to the open side to recenter the disc and keep the disc moving before the defenders set up a sideline trap.
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4. Dump & Swing
Levke Walczak (#42) makes a downfield lateral cut but is faked off by Hoffmann (#4), who turns toward Gomez (#7) to reset the disc. Gomez makes a dump cut from the break-side sideline toward the center of the field and gets the pass with momentum toward the open side while the defenders use a Buzz Switch to ensure smooth marking transition. After seeing Gomez's cut to the middle of the field, Walczak stops cutting laterally, uses a crossover cut to change direction and makes a continuation cut underneath to the open side to receive the disc. Freedman (#3) then makes several jab step cuts but does not get open. Walczak centers the disc to Gomez, and this time Freedman (#3) has shaken off her defender and is wide open for the continuation swing to the break side.
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5. Lateral Cuts
At this point, the center handler's defender is leaving a large buffer, and Freedman (#3) takes the easy centering pass to Walczak (#7). After throwing the disc, Freedman shifts to the middle of the field, and seeing no one cutting to the break side, uses a split step to change directions and cut laterally to the break side. Meanwhile, Walczak cuts laterally to the break side from the open side which sets up nicely for a continuation break throw for the score.