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Post by traveler on Sept 26, 2017 16:58:05 GMT -5
Little help here...
I did not watch the NE match, but listened on radio.
One thing I noticed was that the play-by-play guy seldom seemed to say the name "White". I had imagined instead of hearing about all the Holman and Albrecht Ks, i'd hear many saves by White and other DSs like we used to w/Dom and Lacey. I saw one highlight that made it look like we didn't have our DS staff placed to cover the parts of the floor that became the main targets ... but did we adjust? Chicken and egg situation? Or did we lose it at the net?
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Post by rainpoolps on Sept 26, 2017 17:17:53 GMT -5
One thing I noticed this season is how much setter dump points we are giving away, from the TAMU match to last week v.s. Nebraska. I was wondering if any of that is the result of the 6-2 system. I assume even in practice, our setter is playing from backrow that she rarely has opportunity to dump the ball over, which resulted in our lack of readiness when our opponents do that.
Also, because of the 6-2, when we have an overpass on receiving the ball, our setter cannot jump to joust against other team's middles. I feel like there're at least a couple of times during each set that I wish our setter could jump to challenge the overpass.
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Post by traveler on Sept 26, 2017 17:32:54 GMT -5
with setter in back, should we have even more blockers focusing on this? Fool us once, shame on you; fool us 6 times....
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Post by rainpoolps on Sept 26, 2017 17:44:12 GMT -5
with setter in back, should we have even more blockers focusing on this? Fool us once, shame on you; fool us 6 times.... You would think so. But I lost track of how many setter kills happened without our middles even leaving the ground. I can only attribute that to our lack of awareness. |
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Post by psumaui on Sept 26, 2017 17:58:11 GMT -5
with setter in back, should we have even more blockers focusing on this? Fool us once, shame on you; fool us 6 times.... You would think so. But I lost track of how many setter kills happened without our middles even leaving the ground. I can only attribute that to our lack of awareness. This is one of the reasons MSU took down MN on Sunday. They exploited MN's weak middle. That and some tough serving that got MN out of system. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2017 18:04:29 GMT -5
I think there's a lot in play with the Nebraska loss... 3. Cook sandbagging and pretending like Holman was iffy HAD to make a difference. There's no way the team *honestly* prepped like she would be on fire as much as she was. If PSU based it's strategy on what Cook said, PSU deserved to lose. (You ever notice how many people don't talk about how Cook is a paragon of honesty?) |
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Post by psumaui on Sept 26, 2017 18:42:26 GMT -5
I think there's a lot in play with the Nebraska loss... 3. Cook sandbagging and pretending like Holman was iffy HAD to make a difference. There's no way the team *honestly* prepped like she would be on fire as much as she was. If PSU based it's strategy on what Cook said, PSU deserved to lose. (You ever notice how many people don't talk about how Cook is a paragon of honesty?) One thing I caught that he said in that press conference the prior Monday or Tuesday was when they ask him about Penn State using the 6-2 and he said if the players can pass good then they will be successful but if they don't then they (Penn State) would have issues. I think that is what he concentrated on for that match. Keeping Penn State out of system. |
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Post by traveler on Sept 26, 2017 18:45:05 GMT -5
back to my question...was our back row/DS staff weaker than we needed...no shades of Dom/Lacey?
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Post by nyline on Sept 26, 2017 19:19:45 GMT -5
back to my question...was our back row/DS staff weaker than we needed...no shades of Dom/Lacey? I don't think they had a strong match against Nebraska. |
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Post by treblejig on Sept 27, 2017 5:35:39 GMT -5
back to my question...was our back row/DS staff weaker than we needed...no shades of Dom/Lacey? I don't think they had a strong match against Nebraska. Was there as well, and I agree. |
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Post by bob2061 on Sept 27, 2017 10:36:00 GMT -5
We seem to struggle against every good serving team. I think it may be because we don't see that kind of serving in practices. Since we will see more and more of it in the conference we will get better handling it.
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Post by treblejig on Sept 27, 2017 13:29:15 GMT -5
The match reminded me of the 2013 Michigan State match where we just couldn't put anything together.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2017 14:34:25 GMT -5
The match reminded me of the 2013 Michigan State match where we just couldn't put anything together. Although we did win two sets, right? (I could check but I'm lazy at the moment) But let's go with your parallel and hope that we follow the 2013 team's path for the remainder of the season. |
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Post by seeyajohn on Sept 27, 2017 14:39:50 GMT -5
I think that serve receive is going to be the critical factor for all the big ten teams this year. Nebraska made mostly perfect first passes against Penn State's soft serving while PSU struggled more against Nebraska's serves. Michigan State destroyed Minnesota with a serving game that had Minny constantly out of system.
It's probably rudimentary to say, but that first pass is going to be a huge determiner between teems, most of whom have big hitters.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2017 14:58:32 GMT -5
Seems like PSU had a four-year run in which they challenged their opponents by serving aggressively. Did the rest of the B1G notice something?
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