Coaching Give, Go, Rotate

Another update on the Give, Go, Rotate offense.  I'm seeing glimmers of the method in 5 v 5 scrimmages.  I'm certainly seeing a significant increase in activity from the girls that often held back.  This in and of itself is a big success.  

This week I'm planning on a back to basics approach and let them race to reform the formation after making a pass.  I'll take the team and divide them in 2.  I'll tell each group to make their Vs.  I'll then tell them to make a forward pass and reform the Vs around the player with the ball.  It'll be a race to see who can complete their Vs first (with no direction from me).  After a few rounds here, then we'll go to me calling out a 2nd forward pass after the 1st.  Then to throw them out of sorts, I'll call a forward pass followed by a back pass.  The trick with the back pass is the receiving back becomes a forward and one of the forwards must rotate into a back position.  Then we'll go to 3 consecutive passes.  We'll see how it goes.  I'm thinking it might be very revealing to them why we do the give, go, rotate without me having to tell them anything.  I may just end of getting a good chuckle as they run into each other trying to reform the Vs.  We'll see.

-Bill