This is by far the most important drill in teaching our 1-3-1. This drill incorporates the pushers and keeper working together in a piston fashion. They must communicate who is "big on" and who is "wide off" the ball. In this frame a coach will start with a ball and a pusher is big on the ball. The keeper than can back off and play passing lane back to the other coach. The weakside pusher splits the difference from the block player and other coach.

On a pass from coach to coach, the weakside pusher X3 makes a defensive V cut and plays the passing lane 1st and tries to deflect the pass from the coach to the corner. The coach can also look to throw the diagonal pass while X2 sprints to deflect and steal block pass.

Drill continues in similar fashion as coaches throw guard to guard pass and pusher v-cuts and approaches the ball hands high while weakside pusher sprints to deflect the pass to the block.