Post by elliotberton on Oct 1, 2018 16:47:05 GMT -5
I formed the same impression. What we saw against Michigan was more in system play, so sets were better and swings were timed right, so only 10 balls hit out (6 of the hitting errors were blocks). Again, with national announcers, we got better info. Apparently Michigan's coach demands that his servers keep the ball in (apparently, he makes an exception for his one jump server).
As a general matter, we have had issues getting the ball down on out of system plays. Sunderland and Fortner kept talking about the percentage of digs which lead to kills. A very interesting way to think about things.
Our hitters will continue to improve the out of system swings which will often be opposed by well formed blocks. So high hands, hard wrist aways, tooling for block hit errors, or the ever complicated intentional soft block/save for a free ball.
But maybe coach just meant he would start one middle instead of the other. We will very likely never know.
As a general matter, we have had issues getting the ball down on out of system plays. Sunderland and Fortner kept talking about the percentage of digs which lead to kills. A very interesting way to think about things.
Our hitters will continue to improve the out of system swings which will often be opposed by well formed blocks. So high hands, hard wrist aways, tooling for block hit errors, or the ever complicated intentional soft block/save for a free ball.
But maybe coach just meant he would start one middle instead of the other. We will very likely never know.
