Forget vertical, let's go horizontal!

I'm using this blog to organize my thoughts about tomorrow. We're teaching the Ho-stack at practice and I want to make sure I touch on all the important aspects of this offense.

-Revolves around solid handler play. Downfield cutters will have to learn to defer to the handlers more often. Handlers must learn to trust each other and feed off of each others' strengths.
-Cutters have free reign within their lanes. It is necessary for each pair of cutters to use teamwork to split poachy defenders, but it's also important to remember that the full field should be put to use.
-Spacing is extremely important. Handlers must keep this separation as well as the cutters. We can't squeeze together, we're trying to spread out the defenders.
-Remember to drop to the vertical stack when we get close to the endzone.
-Mix in a few different defensive looks to try to throw off the 'o.'
-Quick disc movement is imperative.
-The offensive power position is in the middle of the field. The sidelines are more susceptible to a trap, so let's move the disc!
-More stuff I'll hopefully remember later...

I think our offense has a decent grasp of what we need to do with the vertical stack, but there is still some serious timing issues. I foresee this being a problem with the Ho as well, but since the offense is so wide open there is more room for handler cuts to keep the 'o' from stagnating.

This looks to be a good offense to isolate our cutters and give some of our handlers some room to run.

Stills, Arin, Kyle, Jake, Dan, John, this one's for you.