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Post by texasnewbie on Sept 2, 2014 12:19:27 GMT -5
As a psu fan I watched her. She had great moments but not as often as the bad ones She did her job, put it that way, she was no where near or even close the OPP Bell is, but Paulina is better already than what she was at our scrimmage. Her health has been inconsistent which I believe hindered her training and play as well, she has 3 more years, I hope her greatness that we all know she is able to provide will surface this season. On another note, NM was a hot mess, just saying! OMG, rude players, and complained about everything. I have never watched a match where the players were so rude. Screaming through the net. I'm glad most of our girls have class, but Bell is the wrong person to yell at through the net, next play, stuffed straight down to end the match and Khat Bell just looked at this OH through the net and laughed at her.
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Post by southie on Sept 2, 2014 12:21:34 GMT -5
What was the actual rotation of the hitters? I think it was:
Eckerman Ogbogu Bell Victoria McCage Prieto
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Post by Boof1224 on Sept 2, 2014 12:26:24 GMT -5
As a psu fan I watched her. She had great moments but not as often as the bad ones She did her job, put it that way, she was no where near or even close the OPP Bell is, but Paulina is better already than what she was at our scrimmage. Her health has been inconsistent which I believe hindered her training and play as well, she has 3 more years, I hope her greatness that we all know she is able to provide will surface this season. On another note, NM was a hot mess, just saying! OMG, rude players, and complained about everything. I have never watched a match where the players were so rude. Screaming through the net. I'm glad most of our girls have class, but Bell is the wrong person to yell at through the net, next play, stuffed straight down to end the match and Khat Bell just looked at this OH through the net and laughed at her. I'll give u the health to a point but don't u think part of it can be she's not gonna be that superstar that was expected out of college. She transfered to Texas to get a better chance to start. Her goal is national team. In my opinion though she is no where close to good enough to make that team. Just my opinion. If she was should would have had confidence and no issue trying to beat out PSU' s. Freshman.
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Post by SportyBucky on Sept 2, 2014 12:38:03 GMT -5
Yep - switch Prieto to OH 2 and I'm happy I really like the defense and ball control that Pilar provides, plus she's had the highest hitting percentage for any of the OHs the past two games and a double-double. I'm still not fully on the Paulina bandwagon. She's still an inconsistent player for me. She showed glimpses of inconsistency that I saw during the scrimmage. So DH her with Pilar.
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Post by SportyBucky on Sept 2, 2014 12:39:51 GMT -5
And that's one thing I learned to appreciate with Allison. Yeah she set moonballs, but that's because her OH, we're successful with them. Eckerman is a high set player. Hope khat gets more sets because she has AA potential and I want to see her get it. Best of luck to Texas this year. Texas hawaii and Stanford are always the teams I cheer for Bell did get a lot of sets. All the OH's and Right Sides received plenty of sets. It was the middles who didn't receive a lot of sets.
So I guess we can now all agree the problem wasn't Hannah not setting the middles. Maybe it's the coaching philosophy? Ever think it was because they couldn't set middle that they didn't between the subpar passing and the subpar setting? You kill me.
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Post by elevationvb on Sept 2, 2014 13:18:08 GMT -5
Bell did get a lot of sets. All the OH's and Right Sides received plenty of sets. It was the middles who didn't receive a lot of sets.
So I guess we can now all agree the problem wasn't Hannah not setting the middles. Maybe it's the coaching philosophy? Ever think it was because they couldn't set middle that they didn't between the subpar passing and the subpar setting? You kill me. I have carefully considered what your opinion of Texas Volleyball means to me and,
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Post by SportyBucky on Sept 2, 2014 13:20:56 GMT -5
Ever think it was because they couldn't set middle that they didn't between the subpar passing and the subpar setting? You kill me. I have carefully considered what your opinion of Texas Volleyball means to me and,I don't expect you to reply with substance or anything pithy related to volleyball, but at least get a new gif.
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Post by SportyBucky on Sept 2, 2014 13:22:46 GMT -5
Ever think it was because they couldn't set middle that they didn't between the subpar passing and the subpar setting? You kill me. I have carefully considered what your opinion of Texas Volleyball means to me and,FYI, with capable middles, which Texas has, there is not a coach in the world who wouldn't choose to set them, but for a reason. You truly need to get a clue. Without MH offense, or the threat of it, your other hitters will always be at least double blocked. It was either the setter or the passers, because Bell and McCage are as good a MH tandem as exists in NCAA last year and right now.
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Post by texasnewbie on Sept 2, 2014 13:56:22 GMT -5
She did her job, put it that way, she was no where near or even close the OPP Bell is, but Paulina is better already than what she was at our scrimmage. Her health has been inconsistent which I believe hindered her training and play as well, she has 3 more years, I hope her greatness that we all know she is able to provide will surface this season. On another note, NM was a hot mess, just saying! OMG, rude players, and complained about everything. I have never watched a match where the players were so rude. Screaming through the net. I'm glad most of our girls have class, but Bell is the wrong person to yell at through the net, next play, stuffed straight down to end the match and Khat Bell just looked at this OH through the net and laughed at her. I'll give u the health to a point but don't u think part of it can be she's not gonna be that superstar that was expected out of college. She transfered to Texas to get a better chance to start. Her goal is national team. In my opinion though she is no where close to good enough to make that team. Just my opinion. If she was should would have had confidence and no issue trying to beat out PSU' s. Freshman. Yes I see where you're coming from on this, she isn't national team caliber nor close at this point in time. Maybe as a senior but Texas has a ton of talent coming in the next 3 years so she needs to capitalize on this season and make a point to the staff that she is capable of being a better athlete and team player, I do see your point too!
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Post by Boof1224 on Sept 2, 2014 14:03:01 GMT -5
Yes I see where you're coming from on this, she isn't national team caliber nor close at this point in time. Maybe as a senior but Texas has a ton of talent coming in the next 3 years so she needs to capitalize on this season and make a point to the staff that she is capable of being a better athlete and team player, I do see your point too! Yeah. Not trying to hate on her. She's a good players just not a top rated player. Maybe her senior year will be different. Like u said though, Texas has a lot of good recruits comming in and it seems to me she's gonna run into exact same problem as she did at psu with the incoming recruits. If she can't beat out in comming freshman for either team she won't ever qualify for national team. That's why a lot thought if she was gonna transfer so she would have shot at playing time for good team Florida would have been best option. Psu Stanford and Texas demand a lot and always have a lot of top rated talent.
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Post by texasnewbie on Sept 2, 2014 14:03:32 GMT -5
I have carefully considered what your opinion of Texas Volleyball means to me and, FYI, with capable middles, which Texas has, there is not a coach in the world who wouldn't choose to set them, but for a reason. You truly need to get a clue. Without MH offense, or the threat of it, your other hitters will always be at least double blocked. It was either the setter or the passers, because Bell and McCage are as good a MH tandem as exists in NCAA last year and right now. First I have to say, I literally laugh out loud when elevation post's this picture, it's hilarious! However, I do agree with Bucky, Texas has always struggled, at least the last few years to get their middles involved except a couple times when Adams would have a monster of a match and McNeal seen a ton of sets in '12 in the title match, other than that, we have such talented MB's yet never had the passing to have them be at least top 5 in hitting % in the NCAA. This year we have the passing and defense and ball control and the setting will improve so I'm praying this year is the year we have a well balanced attack, not just OPP's or OH's but D patterns and 1's A's double quicks etc. Texas would and could be so lethal when they pass nails. I watched NM and given their sub par talent they had some athletes that could kill the ball and we rallied like we would when Kisner played. It felt good to see our team touch almost everything. Texas will be a very successful team this season, we will see if they can get to what some posters say "scary good"?! Hook 'em.
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Post by texasnewbie on Sept 2, 2014 14:05:27 GMT -5
Yes I see where you're coming from on this, she isn't national team caliber nor close at this point in time. Maybe as a senior but Texas has a ton of talent coming in the next 3 years so she needs to capitalize on this season and make a point to the staff that she is capable of being a better athlete and team player, I do see your point too! Yeah. Not trying to hate on her. She's a good players just not a top rated player. Maybe her senior year will be different. Like u said though, Texas has a lot of good recruits comming in and it seems to me she's gonna run into exact same problem as she did at psu with the incoming recruits. If she can't beat out in comming freshman for either team she won't ever qualify for national team. That's why a lot thought if she was gonna transfer so she would have shot at playing time for good team Florida would have been best option. Psu Stanford and Texas demand a lot and always have a lot of top rated talent. Exactly, I know she was really wanting to come to Texas her freshman year but it was a "family" decision to head to PSU. She loves Texas and Austin, but you're exactly right, she will need to work hard and prove herself as a "go to" player for Texas.
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Post by sunsuphornsup on Sept 2, 2014 14:07:24 GMT -5
FYI, with capable middles, which Texas has, there is not a coach in the world who wouldn't choose to set them, but for a reason. You truly need to get a clue. Without MH offense, or the threat of it, your other hitters will always be at least double blocked. It was either the setter or the passers, because Bell and McCage are as good a MH tandem as exists in NCAA last year and right now. First I have to say, I literally laugh out loud when elevation post's this picture, it's hilarious! However, I do agree with Bucky, Texas has always struggled, at least the last few years to get their middles involved except a couple times when Adams would have a monster of a match and McNeal seen a ton of sets in '12 in the title match, other than that, we have such talented MB's yet never had the passing to have them be at least top 5 in hitting % in the NCAA. This year we have the passing and defense and ball control and the setting will improve so I'm praying this year is the year we have a well balanced attack, not just OPP's or OH's but D patterns and 1's A's double quicks etc. Texas would and could be so lethal when they pass nails. I watched NM and given their sub par talent they had some athletes that could kill the ball and we rallied like we would when Kisner played. It felt good to see our team touch almost everything. Texas will be a very successful team this season, we will see if they can get to what some posters say "scary good"?! Hook 'em. Maybe it's because I'm a homer or maybe it's because I've been avidly following Texas Volleyball since 2009, but I honestly am really excited to see how much better Texas looks on floor defense. Maybe it just looks that way and hasn't really translated statistically, but I agree with you that the team has had a lot more touches on the ball and have had come up on the better end of long defensive rallies than they've had in past years. I really think with the tandem of Ogbogu and McCage, there should be no reason we can't involve our Middles more!
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Post by texasnewbie on Sept 2, 2014 14:22:05 GMT -5
First I have to say, I literally laugh out loud when elevation post's this picture, it's hilarious! However, I do agree with Bucky, Texas has always struggled, at least the last few years to get their middles involved except a couple times when Adams would have a monster of a match and McNeal seen a ton of sets in '12 in the title match, other than that, we have such talented MB's yet never had the passing to have them be at least top 5 in hitting % in the NCAA. This year we have the passing and defense and ball control and the setting will improve so I'm praying this year is the year we have a well balanced attack, not just OPP's or OH's but D patterns and 1's A's double quicks etc. Texas would and could be so lethal when they pass nails. I watched NM and given their sub par talent they had some athletes that could kill the ball and we rallied like we would when Kisner played. It felt good to see our team touch almost everything. Texas will be a very successful team this season, we will see if they can get to what some posters say "scary good"?! Hook 'em. Maybe it's because I'm a homer or maybe it's because I've been avidly following Texas Volleyball since 2009, but I honestly am really excited to see how much better Texas looks on floor defense. Maybe it just looks that way and hasn't really translated statistically, but I agree with you that the team has had a lot more touches on the ball and have had come up on the better end of long defensive rallies than they've had in past years. I really think with the tandem of Ogbogu and McCage, there should be no reason we can't involve our Middles more! It's exciting to finally have our team playing back row defense, and playing it well. I too LOVE the horns and bleed orange since a little kiddo. I'm not far from you, I've followed the volleyball squad since 2005 before then it was just Texas anything but I grew up with volleyball in my life always so it was natural to play and coach and watch. Hook 'em! I'm also excited to see all these teams who have been coached well and strategically placed amongst their teams and then earn top rankings, teams we haven't seen in a while... BYU Kentucky San Diego Of course, PSU, Texas, USC, Stanford, Nebraska, Minnesota, Washington, UCLA, Florida even Texas A&M at times....all the usuals sometimes gets old to see them play each other year in and year out. It's exciting to see the last 2 final fours with a different team involved...Wisconsin and the year before Oregon and Michigan. I love it. I enjoy traveling to see Texas play, I attending the NB4's and will attend the Oregon, Texas, Florida, Nebraska tournaments , but to see teams when Texas hosts a regional or a round 1 and 2 is so cool to see others come play.
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Post by austex2010 on Sept 2, 2014 16:18:23 GMT -5
I have carefully considered what your opinion of Texas Volleyball means to me and, FYI, with capable middles, which Texas has, there is not a coach in the world who wouldn't choose to set them, but for a reason. You truly need to get a clue. Without MH offense, or the threat of it, your other hitters will always be at least double blocked. It was either the setter or the passers, because Bell and McCage are as good a MH tandem as exists in NCAA last year and right now. I'm curious, did you watch the game?
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