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Post by OverAndUnder on Aug 19, 2008 18:58:18 GMT -5
Unlike all the individual events like swimming, gymnastics, T&F, etc., there is so much strategy going on in every volleyball rally.
For coaches to put together a good game plan and know when and who to sub, they need to do an appreciable amount of scouting on their upcoming opponent. Obviously they have other people attending matches and bringing back reports, but I wonder how much time will be spent on analyzing Cuba's match video/stats, as well as analyzing our own team's video/stats in order to come up with the best two or three options. Increasingly there are software tools to help analyze performance, but you still need coaching staff to prepare with at all the available information and then make in-game decisions.
And of course for any of this to be useful it has to be done ASAP to be incorporated into your practices.
So. How much sleep do you think the coaches, both for the men and the women, are getting per night?
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Post by Keystonekid on Aug 19, 2008 19:28:10 GMT -5
very, very little.
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Post by mikegarrison on Aug 19, 2008 19:34:06 GMT -5
They have four years to sleep after the last game (sorry, "set") is finished.
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Post by OverAndUnder on Aug 19, 2008 20:25:59 GMT -5
It's probably not that difficult for the coaches to just treble their espressi and go on - most of us at one time or another have gotten by on 3-5 hours of sleep while working on a project, thesis, etc.
What about the players? They need to sleep as much as possible for the body to regain energy and perform minor healing of stressed tissue, as well as maintain adequate neurotransmitter/hormone levels necessary for intense competition. Do they have an enforced sleep schedule by the coaching staff, or perhaps just peer pressure, or are they left alone to make their own decisions as to how much they take advantage of the vacation aspects of the Olympics? I would think for Olympic competition most of the athletes don't even think of anything other than their events, but even in a highly specialized group you always have a few exceptions. And if you're young and single, you would be surrounded by other attractive, in shape, confident young folks of whatever race, size, gender, you desire.
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Post by Wolfgang on Aug 19, 2008 20:47:00 GMT -5
Sleep with each other? Not since 1996.
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Post by bunnywailer on Aug 19, 2008 20:58:50 GMT -5
I think the men's team College of Cardinals gets no sleep as they crunch about 60 terraflops worth of data into a concise 300 page game plan for their next match. The USA Men's players get no sleep because they have to read that crap. It's amazing they can even make it to the gym and play a match without using toothpicks to prop their eyelids open.
On the contrary, I think JLP and her staff and athletes get lots of sleep because they don't take match analysis and game planning to the extreme, unlike the men's program that overanalyzes everything.
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Post by cruncher on Aug 19, 2008 21:09:18 GMT -5
I think the men's team College of Cardinals gets no sleep as they crunch about 60 terraflops worth of data into a concise 300 page game plan for their next match. The USA Men's players get no sleep because they have to read that crap. It's amazing they can even make it to the gym and play a match without using toothpicks to prop their eyelids open. On the contrary, I think JLP and her staff and athletes get lots of sleep because they don't take match analysis and game planning to the extreme, unlike the men's program that overanalyzes everything. Yeah, based on their results so far, all that stupid analysis seems to be a big waste of time. |
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Post by Phaedrus on Aug 19, 2008 21:13:00 GMT -5
In Joan Powell's and Heather Bown's blog, they talk about the enforced naptimes that the JLP mandates for the players. I don't think she and the staff get much sleep because they are formulating their moves. I don't think all the sub patterns and personnel moves that JLP pulls is random gut instinct. I think she is pretty clear on the rotations and matchups that she needs.
The men are as Bob says, mega statistical and overwhelming in their analysis. I think Hugh is smart enough to keep the details to the staff and just tell the players to execute.
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Post by bunnywailer on Aug 19, 2008 21:43:17 GMT -5
I think the men's team College of Cardinals gets no sleep as they crunch about 60 terraflops worth of data into a concise 300 page game plan for their next match. The USA Men's players get no sleep because they have to read that crap. It's amazing they can even make it to the gym and play a match without using toothpicks to prop their eyelids open. On the contrary, I think JLP and her staff and athletes get lots of sleep because they don't take match analysis and game planning to the extreme, unlike the men's program that overanalyzes everything. Yeah, based on their results so far, all that stupid analysis seems to be a big waste of time. Oh, most definitely. The reason the College of Volleyball Cardinals (Beal, Dunphy, McGown, Arnie Ball, Speraw, Rob Browning, Lumpy, Sleepy, Sneezy, and Dopey) didn't do so well in previous Olympics is because technology hadn't caught up to them yet. They couldn't fit all their analysis on one storage device. Luckily, in 2008 massive memory storage is relatively cheap.  |
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