Handball drill: attacking play: decreased tempo
Suitable for the following techniques: attack
Attacking Play: Decreased Tempo
This is a coordinated minus tempo attack to create a lot of space on the wings and shoot freely.
- The back players rotate the ball wing to wing to displace the defenders.
- When the play gets called "Minus tempo Left/Right" this means it will be the left or the right winger to shoot.
- If the call is Minus tempo right, then it will be the right winger to shoot, as in the example below.
- The first step is the pivot places themselves on the 3 defender, near the left back, displacing the central defenders slightly to their right already.
- The right winger then goes deep to near the corner flag to open up as much as possible.
- The left back passes to the left wing, who passes back to the left back, passing to the centre, to the right back, to the centre back again, back to left back, and back to left wing. All these passes will create space by themselves.
- Once the ball leaves the left wing again, the left back makes a run to goal with the ball attacking between 2 and 3, the centre back does the same attacking around the other 3, and the right back as well attacking between 2 and 1, closer to 2.
- These runs have to be coordinated to displace all defenders. This will make it so the defenders 1 and 2 on the right side will close on the right back, and the wing will be free.
- The left back then jumps and passes across the court to the free winger who has started running and has enough momentum and angle to score.
- If the defenders don't move then there's several other finishing options. If the second 3 defender doesn't close the pivot, the pivot will be free.
- If the second 3 closes the pivot, but the 2 defender doesn't close on the centre back run, then the centre can score. If the 2 defender closes but the 1 defender doesn't close, then the right back scores.
