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Post by NebraskaVBfan93 on Jul 21, 2014 21:33:13 GMT -5
If she is high error offensively, moving her left isn't necessarily the best option. At this point her best skill by far is blocking, her playing on the right makes a lot of sense. I don't disagree with you if I thought Fien was truly a better outside choice than Amber. We need two power terminators at the OH position. Do you think Fien is a better outside choice than Amber? Amber is an awesome blocker but blocking is a position than can be taught with lots of coaching. Look at Elmer.I would not trade John for any other coach in the NCAA's but just like the Anderson/Cook 6-2 nightmare, when John has something in his head, he keeps trying to make it work even when it isn't. Amber is an incredible all around player with skill in every position. Fien is not yet there. You guys have preached on the USA thread, the importance of your OH's having all those skills? Why don't you think that pertains in your own team? If blocking can be so easily taught, why didn't Morgan ever develop into a better blocker?
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Post by holidayhusker on Jul 21, 2014 21:38:09 GMT -5
I don't disagree with you if I thought Fien was truly a better outside choice than Amber. We need two power terminators at the OH position. Do you think Fien is a better outside choice than Amber? Amber is an awesome blocker but blocking is a position than can be taught with lots of coaching. Look at Elmer.I would not trade John for any other coach in the NCAA's but just like the Anderson/Cook 6-2 nightmare, when John has something in his head, he keeps trying to make it work even when it isn't. Amber is an incredible all around player with skill in every position. Fien is not yet there. You guys have preached on the USA thread, the importance of your OH's having all those skills? Why don't you think that pertains in your own team? If blocking can be so easily taught, why didn't Morgan ever develop into a better blocker? Why didn't Morgan develop into a better hitter? Morgan, as we all know, struggled. Not a fair comparison considering.
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Post by holidayhusker on Jul 21, 2014 21:46:05 GMT -5
I don't disagree with you if I thought Fien was truly a better outside choice than Amber. We need two power terminators at the OH position. Do you think Fien is a better outside choice than Amber? Amber is an awesome blocker but blocking is a position than can be taught with lots of coaching. Look at Elmer.I would not trade John for any other coach in the NCAA's but just like the Anderson/Cook 6-2 nightmare, when John has something in his head, he keeps trying to make it work even when it isn't. Amber is an incredible all around player with skill in every position. Fien is not yet there. You guys have preached on the USA thread, the importance of your OH's having all those skills? Why don't you think that pertains in your own team? If blocking can be so easily taught, why didn't Morgan ever develop into a better blocker? now that you posed a question, why isn't Nebraska the blocking team they used to be? Skinner?
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Post by vballer7 on Jul 21, 2014 22:12:20 GMT -5
Really really enjoyed this post. The three sets showed a lot about the young Husker moving up in the ranks. More and more it seems that the Huskers will have good dept at most positions,,,wish Amber would clean up her hitting errors but she still has time to work on that.I am very confident that Cook will run with Mary P. at setter, but there is no doubt in my mind that if someone else would play better at Setter, he would not hesitate at all to make a change. I would expect to see a lot of Kelly H. on the floor in getting her prepared for next season if for no other reason. I thought she did very well in the sets that were shown from this recent trip. Most of all, I love watching Melanie Keil play. She is a force on the floor. GBR This young team has much potential (after watching the video). I just hope that if the younger kids are the truly better athletes/players that Cook would not shy away from playing them. Could be beneficial in the long run. IMO, it's similar to John Dunning at Stanford starting a young group for the last two years (I guess we'll see how it pays off with this year with most of the junior stars playing together for 3 year). For the Huskers, particularly noticed a more diversified offense and better connection with the middles.
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Post by NebraskaVBfan93 on Jul 21, 2014 22:59:14 GMT -5
If blocking can be so easily taught, why didn't Morgan ever develop into a better blocker? Why didn't Morgan develop into a better hitter? Morgan, as we all know, struggled. Not a fair comparison considering. Why isn't it a fair comparison? Kelsey Fien isn't any better of a hitter than Morgan was.
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Post by holidayhusker on Jul 21, 2014 23:13:46 GMT -5
Why didn't Morgan develop into a better hitter? Morgan, as we all know, struggled. Not a fair comparison considering. Why isn't it a fair comparison? Kelsey Fien isn't any better of a hitter than Morgan was. Aren't you debating now against yourself and supporting my theory? You admit the Fien is less effective than Morgan but yet you think she deserves the OH position more than Amber because it makes more sense?
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Post by holidayhusker on Jul 21, 2014 23:15:27 GMT -5
I need to add that I hope Fien puts my opinion to shame and has a blistering season. Nothing would make me happier. She is a great girl.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2014 3:31:26 GMT -5
If blocking can be so easily taught, why didn't Morgan ever develop into a better blocker? Why didn't Morgan develop into a better hitter? Morgan, as we all know, struggled. Not a fair comparison considering. Because it doesn't support your uneducated opinion?
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Post by dorothymantooth on Jul 22, 2014 6:18:57 GMT -5
If blocking can be so easily taught, why didn't Morgan ever develop into a better blocker? now that you posed a question, why isn't Nebraska the blocking team they used to be? Skinner? Is Kentucky blocking teams off the court. A better question would be Holmquist?
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Post by vbgirls2 on Jul 22, 2014 7:02:29 GMT -5
Dan Connors was a great blocking coach at Nebraska, Meske is doing a nice job too. My observation has been that if they lead in blocking they win, if they don't they almost always get beat.
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Post by jasonr on Jul 22, 2014 9:09:25 GMT -5
Dan Connors was a great blocking coach at Nebraska, Meske is doing a nice job too. My observation has been that if they lead in blocking they win, if they don't they almost always get beat. What does "lead in blocking" mean though? Reading the opposing offense and just touching a lot of attacks improves dig and pass percentage considerably. I think just looking at block stats might not be the key indicator but a mere correlate for aggregate touches.
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Post by holidayhusker on Jul 22, 2014 9:19:17 GMT -5
now that you posed a question, why isn't Nebraska the blocking team they used to be? Skinner? Is Kentucky blocking teams off the court. A better question would be Holmquist? I attended a Nebraska coaches camp and Cook talked about the different drills they did for blocking. He was very complimentary to Skinner who at the time was working with the blockers. Our blocking at that time was at its pinnacle. I agree though that Holmquist was amazing. Better than Elmer? Great feature coaches for that year. Gwen, the gentlemen from Southwest, Columbus Scotus, etc. Lots of great coaching tips and my favorite thing was the Husker Volleyball Organizer/notebook. Made this groupie very happy.
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Post by cvbc14 on Jul 22, 2014 12:40:29 GMT -5
Wow! What a thread... It seems like there is something for everyone. Some great insight, lots of sarcasm, and even some good jabs.
We have gotten completely off-course with what this thread started at, but okay I'll bite and throw my hat in the ring again.
Could there be a little bit of everything going on here with the blocking? Holmquist and Elmer trained with Coach Skinner and had amazing careers, I think we can all agree to that. Someone mentioned some kids just "get it" when blocking. It could be training, it could be instinct, it could be game plan, but most likely I'm thinking its a combination of all of those. Well, the head coach obviously hasn't changed, so I doubt that those drills Skinner ran aren't being run any longer, so what changed? Obviously the athletes in the gym, and the assistant coaches around them, but the thing that no one has hit on when it comes to blocking is that Nebraska completely changed how they block. They went from static blocking to swing blocking to try to stop the highest flying teams in the country. It has taken them this long to get better at training swing blocking and training the defense behind it. We will see them continue to improve IF it is a priority for Coach Cook.
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Post by NebraskaVBfan93 on Jul 22, 2014 14:38:26 GMT -5
Why isn't it a fair comparison? Kelsey Fien isn't any better of a hitter than Morgan was. Aren't you debating now against yourself and supporting my theory? You admit the Fien is less effective than Morgan but yet you think she deserves the OH position more than Amber because it makes more sense? From Wikipedia. "A straw man, also known in the UK as an Aunt Sally, is a common type of argument and is an informal fallacy based on the misrepresentation of an opponent's argument. To be successful, a straw man argument requires that the audience be ignorant or uninformed of the original argument." I am neither ignorant or uninformed of the original argument (that being your contention that it's so easy to develop blocking skills), and will now invoke the quote at the bottom of my post.
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Post by holidayhusker on Jul 22, 2014 15:10:56 GMT -5
Aren't you debating now against yourself and supporting my theory? You admit the Fien is less effective than Morgan but yet you think she deserves the OH position more than Amber because it makes more sense? From Wikipedia. "A straw man, also known in the UK as an Aunt Sally, is a common type of argument and is an informal fallacy based on the misrepresentation of an opponent's argument. To be successful, a straw man argument requires that the audience be ignorant or uninformed of the original argument." I am neither ignorant or uninformed of the original argument (that being your contention that it's so easy to develop blocking skills), and will now invoke the quote at the bottom of my post. Nebraska....if I had the least bit of respect for you this debate would matter. Of course you are not ignorant and uninformed. How could you possibly with your ego.
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