Ultimate Frisbee Analysis of Strategy and Tactics: Sockeye v Machine, US Open 2021 by Brummie
The US Open men's division final between Seattle Sockeye and Chicago Machine -- a rematch of the 2019 National Championship game -- was a mostly clean and strategically fascinating contest. Whenever two elite teams meet, there are always dozens of things to review in their play, but here are some elements that really stood out.
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Triple H Firstly, it was impossible not to notice how both teams used an isolated handler directly in front of the disc to generate movement to the break side. In the UK, we call this Triple H, or “3H” for short, because that player is acting as a third handler in a vertical stack. Most of the time, this featured one of the offense’s top iso cutters or handlers starting on the open side running laterally across the field towards […]
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