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The Loop Pass - coaching points
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This has the effect of putting pressure on the running and passing skills of the ball carrier. Notice how the player in the second child delays his looping run behind the ball carrier until after he has passed the ball. Coaches should encourage the looping player to straighten up on regaining the ball in order to preserve space outside. Let's take another look at our example to illustrate the key factors of work Brent Russell who will become the looking player passes the ball in feel to Wendell sailor who's running line draws and fixes two Defenders. This has the effect of creating space outside the looping player runs at paste on an arc attacking the available space and communicates with his teammate. In this case, the look pass is given one handed out of contact under pressure from two Defenders rather than the textbook sympathetic two-handed pass before contact, but nonetheless the pass is accurate and effective and as the outcome shows on taking the past the looping player is able to straighten up and accelerate away attacking the available space at great speed.