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PROACTIVE GOALKEEPING


How to navigate screens


and bait shooters BY JOE BANNO // TRILOGY LACROSSE


While fundamental goalkeeping should always be about a balanced stance and sound positioning, certain game situations require more advanced skills. Be proactive.


SCREENS


If the opponent deploys a screen in front of the goal, and you’re unable to see the shooter or


the ball...


Ignore the screener. Don’t come off your line to get him out of your way. That puts you out of position.


Alter your stance. Move your head slightly (about two inches), just enough to see the shooter’s stick with the ball in it. Don’t lean too much. Stay balanced on your feet and keep your stick in ready position.


Get big to the area. If you do lose the ball at any point in the shooting


motion, go off what you saw initially and throw as much of your body in that area as you can.


Get big down low. If you really lose it, go low. Shooters often are taught to shoot at screeners’ feet.


Beware the rebound. The screener is still an offensive player. If you make the save but give up a rebound, be ready for him to pick it up immediately for a putback.


To practice seeing around and reacting to a screen, have a shooter use tennis balls and station a teammate in front of you as the screener.


BAITING


To dictate where the shooter shoots...


Bait high. Sit lower by increasing your knee bend and bring your hands down to expose net above your shoulders. When the shot comes, explode up.


Bait low.


Stand taller in the goal, coming up on your toes, straightening your knees and bringing up your shoulders, hands and elbows. Maintain an athletic position until the shot. Then go low.


Bait left. Take one or a half step right of center to expose the left side of the goal.


Bait right. Take one or a half step left of center to expose the right side of the goal.


Go early.


When we play straight up, we react to the ball. When we bait, we go early. Time your step to start your movement just before the release.


Practice pipe saves. Stand on one pipe and take pipe-to-pipe steps as the shooter winds up, getting to the opposite pipe as the ball is released. Starting at a pipe will force you to start your step early to cover the net and to keep your hands out and away from your body to


make the save.


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Joe Banno, the former two-time All-American goalie at Haverford College and current national director for Trilogy Lacrosse, helps budding netminders work around screens and manipulate shooters at youtube.com/uslacrosse.


USlaxmagazine.com www.trilogylacrosse.com/aces September/October 2016 US LACROSSE MAGAZINE 49


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