The goal here is to integrate 15's set-piece to a 7's scenario. The 9 swings around the weak side drawing in the 9 and makes an offload to the sweeping player (on the chalk board the 9 becomes the swinger but in practice would be distributing the ball to the 2 man pod before looping) required substantial endurance on behalf of the 9 and high IQ offloads.
in more ways than one
in more ways than one
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