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Post by jsn112 on Sept 23, 2014 16:56:00 GMT -5
When she's 100% she could make an interesting matchup with Haleigh Nelson. But I wouldn't be surprised if she doesn't play much. They're easing her in. Can't wait to see Washington play this Wednesday. Washington is going to give Wisconsin all they could handle. No, no. I was trying not to confuse Mike.
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Post by MTC on Sept 23, 2014 17:00:03 GMT -5
It is hard to ease in a player hitting .537 when you are playing such a competitive match. It may take two coaches to keep her off the court.
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Post by gnu2vball on Sept 23, 2014 17:09:14 GMT -5
I was curious as to how PSU's OOC hitting percentage this year compares to the past three years (during Hancock's tenure). Regrettably, my statisticians are even more shiftless than Nyline's. All I could get from them is data from the 2013 season. During last year's (2013) preseason, PSU hitting was .342--compared to .395 this year. As a bonus, they determined that PSU averaged 2.12 blocks per set.
Draw your own conclusions. I think the level of opponents for both years is comparable.
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Post by badgerbreath on Sept 23, 2014 17:19:14 GMT -5
I don't get this "sneaking up on people" argument about the badgers. There is literally no evidence to back it up, only hand-waving. UW lost eight games in the B1G last year. Based on that alone we didn't sneak up on anyone. We just played better as the season went on, learning from the hard losses. Teams did no better against us when they realized we weren't joke. We did better against Purdue and Penn State in the NCAAs at the end of the year, after having played each twice, than we did during the year on average. Both teams knew exactly what was coming. We had just improved...and all evidence suggests we have improved even further this year. Which other ranked team in the B1G can say that so far ? As for people figuring out Carlini, why would anyone keep a setter past the freshman year if that argument made sense? She is only going to improve...if only because she is not playing hurt this year.
What having a high ranking does is provide some measure of intensity to the opposing team if they see the possibility of success. That effect I believe is real, and the badgers may not have encountered it very often before this year. They will have to get used to playing against that. But what they have done so far is done to them, not being underestimated by Illinois, or Minnesota, or Purdue.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2014 17:35:16 GMT -5
Y'all Penn State fans need to stop confusing me when you write things like "Saw Washington play quite a bit last weekend." You'uns must be from Southern Washington.
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Post by gnu2vball on Sept 23, 2014 17:37:28 GMT -5
Yunz are from Pittsburgh.
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Post by mikegarrison on Sept 23, 2014 17:38:08 GMT -5
Y'all Penn State fans need to stop confusing me when you write things like "Saw Washington play quite a bit last weekend." You'uns must be from Southern Washington. I've been spending time with Georgia Tech folks. But I realize I misused the word. It should have been, "All y'all PSU fans...."
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2014 17:43:02 GMT -5
You'uns must be from Southern Washington. I've been spending time with Georgia Tech folks. But I realize I misused the word. It should have been, "All y'all PSU fans...." I've been spending time with writers who write about rural Central Pennslyvania (and no, that isn't redundant ).
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Post by psufan24 on Sept 23, 2014 17:43:51 GMT -5
PSU poster. Started this month [at least this iteration] and fifty plus posts. Arrogant and dismissive. Sound like some one from the past who was multiple times thrown off the forum? Just block him. It's a great feature. No worries. Have to be proud of something after JoPa. Nice, you seem like a real classy individual...
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Post by psufan24 on Sept 23, 2014 17:44:41 GMT -5
Yunz are from Pittsburgh. "Yinz"
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Post by gnu2vball on Sept 23, 2014 17:57:25 GMT -5
Must be Fox Chapel.
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Post by gnu2vball on Sept 23, 2014 18:04:33 GMT -5
I've been spending time with Georgia Tech folks. But I realize I misused the word. It should have been, "All y'all PSU fans...." I've been spending time with writers who write about rural Central Pennslyvania (and no, that isn't redundant ). Had a friend trying to hitchhike from State College to Allentown and got a ride to Jersey Shore. He got quite an appreciation of rural Central PA.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2014 18:34:24 GMT -5
I was curious as to how PSU's OOC hitting percentage this year compares to the past three years (during Hancock's tenure). Regrettably, my statisticians are even more shiftless than Nyline's. All I could get from them is data from the 2013 season. During last year's (2013) preseason, PSU hitting was .342--compared to .395 this year. As a bonus, they determined that PSU averaged 2.12 blocks per set. Draw your own conclusions. I think the level of opponents for both years is comparable. My conclusion is that your shift of shiftless researchers is also my shift of shiftless researchers -- moonlighting (or daybreaking) between our two shops. That does explain a bit of the dazed and confused attitude they favor. Actually, on second thought, there are many other explanations for their dazed and confused attitudes. None good from a project management standpoint.
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Post by Phillytom on Sept 23, 2014 18:54:14 GMT -5
I also expect the Badgers will be very good this year. I expect they'll beat PSU tomorrow night because PSU has some soft spots defensively, having lost two great front-line defenders. PSU is the team that will be a lot better in 2 months than they are now. (And no, I don't put a lot of stock into those glittering hit percentages). However, I do think there is something to the whole "sophomore slump" phenomenon. It's not that Wisky was sneaking up on people, but it is true that coaches didn't analyze this team because last year at this time they were A) a work in progress and B) not the team everybody was worrying about. That is not true this year. They and how they play are very much a known quantity even by casual fans. Imagine how much more the coaches know.... Volleyball is often driven by weaknesses -- relatively subtle weaknesses. It could be a lack of offensive diversity, it could be weakness at one part of the net, it could be problems in serve receive in particular rotations. One coach finds something, all the other coaches see it too. Whatever was working for the Huskies, they are going to see a lot of it for the next few weeks until they can prove it doesn't work any more. Eventually people find weaknesses that you can't completely paper over, that are going to cause you to bleed points, and you have to find ways to offset those points by getting better at other things. This is partly what people mean when they say staying at the top is harder than getting to the top. I don't get this "sneaking up on people" argument about the badgers. There is literally no evidence to back it up, only hand-waving. UW lost eight games in the B1G last year. Based on that alone we didn't sneak up on anyone. We just played better as the season went on, learning from the hard losses. Teams did no better against us when they realized we weren't joke. We did better against Purdue and Penn State in the NCAAs at the end of the year, after having played each twice, than we did during the year on average. Both teams knew exactly what was coming. We had just improved...and all evidence suggests we have improved even further this year. Which other ranked team in the B1G can say that so far ? As for people figuring out Carlini, why would anyone keep a setter past the freshman year if that argument made sense? She is only going to improve...if only because she is not playing hurt this year. What having a high ranking does is provide some measure of intensity to the opposing team if they see the possibility of success. That effect I believe is real, and the badgers may not have encountered it very often before this year. They will have to get used to playing against that. But what they have done so far is done to them, not being underestimated by Illinois, or Minnesota, or Purdue.
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Post by Wiswell on Sept 23, 2014 21:12:37 GMT -5
I've been spending time with Georgia Tech folks. But I realize I misused the word. It should have been, "All y'all PSU fans...." I've been spending time with writers who write about rural Central Pennslyvania (and no, that isn't redundant :) ). Have you heard the song from Deliverance being played? I can say that. Born there. The accent I believe is defined as Appalacian. Take a listen to John Wehner in the Pirates tonight (oh, and yippee Buccos). Ok, back to regular programming.
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