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is that an effective plan to counter attack

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Blessing JaniCoach, United Kingdom

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Nolan PacovskyPlayer, United States

This is a great way to drive the ball up the field! Although some of the passing lanes can become tight so you could try and make the players run into the open spaces and have the 2 closest players that are to the ball handler to always be open to create basically a rondo in-case of pressure or just to loosen the pressure and cleanly pass it up and create some good through ball situtaitons.

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