Over the zone: Taking advantage of movement by Lloyd Cheesman
Defenders in zone defences base their positioning on a static disc. When the disc moves, the defence has to adjust their positioning too; over heads can be used to take advantage of out-of-position defenders.
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As discussed in , keeping the disc moving forces the defence to keep adjusting, which makes their lives much more challenging. In the below example the defence have stayed in the zone all the way to their own brick mark, creating a squashed shape. As the disc moved into a central position near the end zone, an over head into the end zone became much lower risk; at the same time, the defender failed to adjust their positioning, so the […]
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