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The ability to generate offense from poor situations is the difference between an average hitter and an extraordinary offensive player. Everyone should be able to put a ball away on a perfect set against one or no block. The skill lies in creating something from nothing. Taking a poor set, or a bad situation and creating a kill; a point. Below are some tips that can be helpful to generating offense in poor situations.
Generating Offense
1. KNOW YOUR OPPONENTS DEFENSE: Every defense has a weakness that can be exploited, attack the weakness and you increase your opportunity for success.
2. ATTACK WEAK DEFENDERS: Not every player is a good defender, look for players that are slow, do not react well or are not the best ball control players and go after them when they are in the back row
3. ESTABLISH POWER: Start the game with power, showing the defense and block that you will take big hard swings can get them dug in. This will increase the effectiveness of off speed shots and tips.
4. SHOW ALL YOUR SHOTS: Force the defense to respect multiple shots. Eventually even the worst defenses will adjust to the same shots over and over again.
5. FORCE THE DEFENSE TO MAKE A PLAY: Not every attack will result in a kill, but put the defense in a situation where they will have to move a great distance or react quickly and force them to make a good or spectacular play on the ball in order to keep in play. The result will generally be a free or down ball.
6. THE BLOCK IS YOUR FRIEND: The block is trained to reach and do whatever it takes to touch the ball at the net. Use this to your advantage by tooling the block, or pushing the ball into the block and then out of bounds.
7. ATTACK AGAINST THE FLOW: The defense reacts to what you do. If you move in one direction they expect an attack to continue on that direction. Attack the ball at an angle against your approach.
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