GAME MODEL - TRAINING THE MICRO MOMENTS (5 VIDEOS)

Even at local/amateur level, the focus on team defense in footy is clear to see with zones, clusters and the like.

The part I want to focus on is the "team" part which means that everyone is working on conjunction with everyone else on their team but as dictated by the opposition.

It's not what 1 person can do in a team defense, it's what the collective can do and how effective they can do it.

This is what the game model develops.

Within the team defense each player has their own responsibilities to carry out that create a sum of all parts situation when everyone does it at the right time.

If 1 person fails in their own responsibilities then this entire team defense can fall apart in that particular game moment.

Naturally some players will be better at some of these responsibilies then others such as pushing up on the mark quickly, reading what the ball player is wanting to do, knowing the structure behind them of their own teammates and so on.

With this in mind it stands to reason that every player will need to put in situations where each of these responsibilities need to be trained but most of them are so "simple" that coaches just assume that every player will apply them but you don't know what you don't know.

The micro moment we're going to focus on here is manning the mark during the opposition's defense to transition offense game moment - a time in the game where you are at your most vulnerable as you've just pushed forward to try and score and a good portion of your defense is disorganised.

If the opposition can regain possession and exit your forward 50 cleanly and quickly then they are already in an excellent position to score even though they are 100m from their own goal.

Let's say the ball is kicked out from your forward 50 wide to the * on your half forward flank:

This is exactly where the game model benefits your team the most - where an individual player has to assume the responsibility of the entire team on their shoulders during a specific micro moment - in this case it's the closest player to whoever receives the ball as indicated by the blue circle, who is most likely your fatside wing player:

                                                       

The opposition can receive the ball in 2 different play scenarios - closed play and open play...

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