
The player with the ball will make a call for the receiving player to run across the zone and the player that started with the ball will overlap once the pass is made and will receive the ball to create a scoring chance
The player with ball must make a call The receiver must know when and where to run to receive the ball The 'overlapping' player must be quick and overlap efficiently The 'overlapping' player must run into place and receive ball.
This practice has no coaching points
This practice has no progressions
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