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👋 Welcome to The Coaches Box! We’re building this community to connect coaches who want to keep learning, share ideas, grow their lacrosse IQ, and help each other become better leaders and teachers of the game. Start by introducing yourself below! Tell us a little about: - Where you’re from - What program/team you coach with - What age group or level you coach - Your coaching and/or playing background - What side of the ball or area you specialize in - One thing you feel really confident coaching - One area you want to improve - What you’re hoping to learn or get out of The Coaches Box - Anything else the community should know about you Then, once you’ve introduced yourself, jump into the community: ✅ Check out the Classroom — Catch up on past Coaches Box calls, presentations, and coaching content. ✅ Explore the Drill Bank & Practice Planning resources — Find something you can use with your team, then post one of your favorite drills so other coaches can steal it too. ✅ Join the conversation — Comment on another coach’s introduction, ask a question, or share an idea that has worked for your program. ✅ Bring us your problems — Have a practice-planning question? Struggling with a scheme? Dealing with a culture or communication issue? Post it. Chances are another coach has been through something similar. ✅ Share what you know — This community gets better when coaches contribute. If you have a drill, concept, template, video, resource, or coaching idea you believe can help someone else, put it in the Box. Our goal is simple: connect good coaches, share great ideas, and help each other get better. Drop your introduction below and let’s get to know who’s in The Coaches Box! 🥍
Strategy at X
A good article below on why Philly Waterdogs, shoutout my former teammate Hayes on getting another ring, ends with an interesting note: They Didn't Press Sowers at X I'll leave this one to the guy who knows things: “Manley is a warrior and 10 years ago he would have put CJ in the third row. But not at this time. JT battles Sowers but the pick game is intense with the Waterdogs. It was foolish not pressing X.” So that leads me to ask this group on both sides of the ball, what are your thoughts at X? How would you have game planned against Sowers? Is X over rated/under rated? What do we have on this, I am intrigued. https://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/why-philly-won-why-denver-lost-the-2026-pll-championship-transition-defense-diverse-offense/90c80ab4-d0ce-4ab3-b8ab-a84781a8fa65
Job Openings
One of the goals of The Coaches Box is to help coaches connect — not just around X’s and O’s, but around opportunities within the game. Use this space to share: - Coaching job openings - Club, high school, college, or youth opportunities - Programs looking for assistants or volunteers - Coaches looking for their next opportunity If you’re hiring, post the role, location, level, expectations, and the best way to get in touch. If you’re looking for an opportunity, feel free to introduce yourself and share what type of role you’re interested in. Nothing may be posted here yet, but as this community grows, I’d love for this to become a place where good coaches connect with good programs. If you know of an opening, drop it below and help us start building the board.
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Correlation of Ball Reversals to Points Per Possession
I bookmarked this basketball stat because I really would love to figure this out for lacrosse. We have a thread going below about "strategy at X" and how "flipping the field" is one of the most important ways an offense can disrupt a defense. In basketball, they do not have the luxury of playing behind the goal, but, they use the term "ball reversals" (for flipping the court) and "paint touches" (getting to the middle) A site called Breakthrough Basketball published this article: https://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/coaching/math-better-offense Inside was this nugget I took to heart Analytics show 2 conclusive facts: 1. More ball reversals = higher points per possession (ppp) 2. Paint touches = higher points per possession (ppp) In fact a recent study shows: - No ball reversal or paint touch = .706 ppp - 1+ ball reversals = .935 ppp And look what happens if you get a ball reversal AND a paint touch on the possession... - 1+ ball reversal AND a paint touch = 1.189 ppp To me, these are just tactics that lead to our favorite phrase "shot selection" but when I listen to a lot of coaches all they say is "best shot, not first shot" but never really define what "best shot" means nor do they provide a framework for HOW to get the best shot.
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PL v FARM GAME BREAKDOWN
The Farmington v Prior Lake game breakdown that p-mac and I did is now available in our "Film Study" area of the classroom - https://www.skool.com/the-coaches-box-6618/classroom/91ab571f?md=6404f57f56e84dba8de70d68ee66b645 This was a fun one to do - not only because it was a great game, but both @Austin Polson-McCannon and I were able to reflect back on the though processes and real time adjustments we had to make in this game coaching against each other.
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