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Post by wonderwarthog on Oct 10, 2013 2:23:17 GMT -5
Injuries can drastically change seasons Look for them to try a 5-1 at some point They need to!!! Pick a setter and have her feed Lowe D-Balls all night. Feed the Beast! She is by far the best attacker for UCLA. What's a "D-Ball"?
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Post by ballervolley on Oct 10, 2013 6:06:21 GMT -5
They need to!!! Pick a setter and have her feed Lowe D-Balls all night. Feed the Beast! She is by far the best attacker for UCLA. What's a "D-Ball"? set to the one position.
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Post by pepperbrooks on Oct 10, 2013 10:55:36 GMT -5
pepperbrooks You may be right. But blocking effects passing, passing effects setting and Setting effects hitting. Let them get healthy then you can make a real evaluation. BTW it's amazing how much the Cal players improved since last year, maybe it's their health??? Confused. What does this have to do with not having outsides that can terminate? Who's not healthy that could play outside?
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Post by crawdaddy on Oct 10, 2013 11:28:45 GMT -5
I hope we can stop over analyzing and criticizing one of our teams. Analyzing and criticizing comes with the territory. I'd be a lot more worried if UCLA started 0-4 in the Pac-12 and people weren't analyzing and criticizing - that would mean they don't really care. And I'm sure Sealy is a big boy and can handle it.
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Post by FOBRA on Oct 10, 2013 11:37:17 GMT -5
pepperbrooks You may be right. But blocking effects passing, passing effects setting and Setting effects hitting. Let them get healthy then you can make a real evaluation. BTW it's amazing how much the Cal players improved since last year, maybe it's their health??? Confused. What does this have to do with not having outsides that can terminate? Who's not healthy that could play outside? Lawless is still building back up from her shoulder surgery, Ngauamo is out, Norton is out for the season with an ACL injury. Lawless is the only one there that's a big classic left side, but the other two injuries mean they can't run their ball control 6-2 lineups when passing is struggling. Also Moenoa was playing injured last week out of need. The announcers mentioned she hadn't practiced during the week. Karsta Lowe also turned her ankle in the 3rd set of the Cal game. She ended up staying in, so hopefully it's minor. The team isn't quite Cal 2012, but they are a little banged up.
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Post by bigfan on Oct 10, 2013 21:26:34 GMT -5
HC three seasons and has won 1 National Championship. Name a HC with a better % of championships in total years as a HC. All of you busting on UCLA, when is the last time your team won the championship(hat tip to Texas and Penn State for multiple NC). Haley went to FF 3 years in a row and won 2 National Championships.
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Post by dd2000 on Oct 10, 2013 22:13:30 GMT -5
Bigfan allow me to try again Sealy has only been a head coach 3 years and has won a championship. So he has won a championship .333% of his years as a head coach. Of course this rate will not continue. My point is that 1. he is a relatively new HC 2. he has had success. Calling him a "bad coach" seems unfounded and ridiculous. Haley is a fine coach and SC had a nice run during those years Only reason I jumped into this thread is that it seemed that the criticism was at times personal, a bit premature and directed at players Haley went to FF 3 years in a row and won 2 National Championships. Everyone knows Bigfan is the Queen of Hyperbole and largesse of the mouth. Just smile and move on.
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Post by trojansc on Oct 10, 2013 23:13:37 GMT -5
They need to!!! Pick a setter and have her feed Lowe D-Balls all night. Feed the Beast! She is by far the best attacker for UCLA. What's a "D-Ball"? Set to Back Right, where the opposite (usually) plays in the backrow in a 5-1 offense. In a 6-2, there is no back right attack because there is always a setter in that position. But of course, there is a front-row right-side attack. I just think UCLA needs to run a 5-1 and get Karsta Lowe the ball as often as possible, and let the outsides handle ball control. But the libero issue is something I don't know what they can do about?
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Post by bigfan on Oct 11, 2013 13:12:45 GMT -5
Bigfan allow me to try again Sealy has only been a head coach 3 years and has won a championship. So he has won a championship .333% of his years as a head coach. Of course this rate will not continue. My point is that 1. he is a relatively new HC 2. he has had success. Calling him a "bad coach" seems unfounded and ridiculous. Haley is a fine coach and SC had a nice run during those years Only reason I jumped into this thread is that it seemed that the criticism was at times personal, a bit premature and directed at players Haley went to FF 3 years in a row and won 2 National Championships. Never said players are bad, saying coaching could be better. Jerritt caught hell on this board for years until he won the big one.
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Post by bigfan on Oct 11, 2013 13:14:42 GMT -5
Bigfan allow me to try again Sealy has only been a head coach 3 years and has won a championship. So he has won a championship .333% of his years as a head coach. Of course this rate will not continue. My point is that 1. he is a relatively new HC 2. he has had success. Calling him a "bad coach" seems unfounded and ridiculous. Haley is a fine coach and SC had a nice run during those years Only reason I jumped into this thread is that it seemed that the criticism was at times personal, a bit premature and directed at players Everyone knows Bigfan is the Queen of Hyperbole and largesse of the mouth. Just smile and move on. Ladeada and Beachman can make his comment, you have no cred.
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Post by dd2000 on Oct 11, 2013 15:33:17 GMT -5
Everyone knows Bigfan is the Queen of Hyperbole and largesse of the mouth. Just smile and move on. Ladeada and Beachman can make his comment, you have no cred. Hyperbole does not give you "cred", only a reputation of being a know it all, in ones own mind.
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Post by socalplayer on Oct 12, 2013 1:07:14 GMT -5
I would say that they (minus Karsta Lowe) they really lack the terminators they have had on the pins in the past few years. Kelly Reeves has been having a good year offensively, but beyond her and Lowe, the other pins have really been in a carousel of who's playing/replacing the other for not terminating. Just my two cents I like Karsta but there is no one else on that team. Kelly has fire but she's not that tall. They should immediately change the libero to start with...then bring in a new setter (which sounds ridicules considering how many setters they had last year), then recruit more opposite, outside and middle. In short, bring new players. The bench don't work at all. The starters don't work at all. Wish they could bring Dicey back...
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Post by kokyu on Oct 12, 2013 1:13:07 GMT -5
I would say that they (minus Karsta Lowe) they really lack the terminators they have had on the pins in the past few years. Kelly Reeves has been having a good year offensively, but beyond her and Lowe, the other pins have really been in a carousel of who's playing/replacing the other for not terminating. Just my two cents I like Karsta but there is no one else on that team. Kelly has fire but she's not that tall. They should immediately change the libero to start with...then bring in a new setter (which sounds ridicules considering how many setters they had last year), then recruit more opposite, outside and middle. In short, bring new players. The bench don't work at all. The starters don't work at all. Wish they could bring Dicey back... Reeves is 6', don't blame lack of termination skills on height!
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Post by bigfan on Oct 12, 2013 17:58:24 GMT -5
Ladeada and Beachman can make his comment, you have no cred. Hyperbole does not give you "cred", only a reputation of being a know it all, in ones own mind. Hide behind other people all you want.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2013 18:02:05 GMT -5
Sorry if this was already brought up, but I find it very odd that both Illinois and UCLA seem to have taken such major steps back after their final in 2011. Probably just further proof of how tough their conferences are, but still.
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