u/rezelscheft

Trying to level up my parent-coaching -- I have a decent amount of confidence in my ability to coach individual basic skills to the boys' 10U and 12U set (in a non-hotbed area).

But, other than just being able to identify a basic offensive formation, what I can't do well is look at the opposition, understand what kind of scheme they are running, and know how to adjust to it. So I'd love to educate myself more on basic team strategy.

I also think just getting more literate at reading the field will make watching NCAA and PLL a lot more fun.

My favorite way to learn is watching coaches marking up game film, and running the same play over and over again to break down what everyone is doing.

I've definitely seen some stuff online -- a fair amount of PowLax and a smattering of GLE, First Class, USA Lacrosse, Lax Goalie Rat, and a few others -- but haven't done much of a deep dive on anything.

From online videos, to books, to paid services, to in-person coaching clinics -- anyone have some preferred resources?

Atlas play Chaos in Salt Lake Friday at 7:30 PM.

But Pressler also coaches Highland Park, a public high school in Dallas, which Inside Lacrosse currently ranks as the #3 public high school program in the country. Their state semi-finals are in in Dallas on Saturday at 2, with the winner going to the finals the next day.

It seems totally absurd to me that a pro coach would miss a week or practice or a game to coach high school, but I also know that HP is a very wealthy community, and one can reasonably guess that they have paid him quite a lot to raise the profile of that program. No idea how that compares to his Atlas salary.

Point being: does anyone know who he's working with this week? With so many players absent due to NLL and NCAA obligations, it's fairly expected for personnel to miss the first week or two of PLL action. But it just seems so odd to me for the defending champs at the pro level to be missing their head coach because of high school ball.