How Motion Offense in Lax is like Chicken Noodle Soup

A great motion offense in lacrosse is like a great bowl of chicken noodle soup. There’s only three (3) ingredients, but it only works when all three show up to the party.

Not two. Not two and a half. All three.

For chicken noodle soup, those ingredients are chicken, noodles, and broth. If you’ve got chicken and noodles but no broth, that’s not soup, that’s pasta with protein. If you’ve got noodles and broth but no chicken, congratulations, you’ve made ramen with confidence. Tasty? Maybe. Chicken noodle soup? Nope.

The recipe for a great motion offense in Lacrosse works the same way. The three ingredients are simple:

1.) Ball movement;

2.) Player movement; and

3.) Confident Dodging

• Ball movement keeps the defense chasing its own tail.

• Player movement keeps everyone rotating, cutting, floating, and filling space like they know what they’re doing, and

• Confident Dodging is the spark that makes the whole thing ignite.

Leave one ingredient out, and the whole plan falls apart. Pass it around without moving? That’s just having a catch. Run around without dodging? That’s recess with helmets. Dodge without moving the ball or the players? That’s a one-man show, and the defense loves to eat those players alive.

A real motion offense is like soup done right: everything is in motion, everybody has a job, and if one ingredient disappears, the whole thing stops making sense.

Dodge, Pass-Pass, Score
Or in soup language: stir, simmer, serve.

• Coach Mike