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Boston Brute Squad vs Vancouver Traffic, USA Nationals 2021: Brute Squad – Resets by Kimberly Yu

Boston Brute Squad’s resets allowed them to easily make continuation passes in the quarterfinal game against Traffic at the 2021 National Championships.

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In the 2021 National Championships quarterfinal game against Vancouver Traffic, Boston Brute Squad put on a clinic for effective resets. Their continuation passes off of dumps resulted in 5 out of 10 of their breaks, and 7 out of their 15 points! What made Brute Squad’s resets so effective? Brute Squad paid attention to body movement, positioning and timing. These are tiny details that any team can implement, but they make a huge impact on whether the reset is simply […]

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  • Alexander Shim says:
    4th October 2022 at 04:49

    Great article, I like to show player Brute’s dump set.

    Particularly, for awhile they tend to use the offhand backhand as a counter throw back to the open side, which gives a nice shape away from the dump defender, I think UCSD players do this too now?

    I’ve debated with people whether this dump should be a short pass (Malinowski in particular has such long arms that it’s almost unstoppable as a handoff) or a longer throw with more space. I find one con of close is that if it’s gusty, it’s hard to adjust at short range. A con of the longer throw is that they run further to the breakside – in some cases a feature for changing the angle, in ho stack a con because it runs into the breakside handler defender’s help area unless they do the Fury clear.

    I like to practice Brute’s dump set as part of Mario O’Brien’s throwing progression practice.

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