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Post by Boof1224 on Aug 30, 2015 22:34:31 GMT -5
I know Carlini and Bugg will start the season for being the best setter, but after watching Illinois this past weekend I really think Poulter is just as a great setter as these two. She's made an Illinois team good to great. My understanding is that Poulter (who I've never heard of) has now replaced Carlini to be the favorite to lead our USA Volleyball team in Brazil. Now that's greatness! I was just about to say same thing. Poulter is the new baby Jesus , so people seem to be claiming. Everyone on the bus needs to take it from overdrive to neutral. The level of competion isn't what I'd call elite. Let's see how they handle Stanford next weekend. Let's see if penn state softens Stanford up enough for them. Lol
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Post by Disc808 on Aug 30, 2015 22:45:06 GMT -5
My understanding is that Poulter (who I've never heard of) has now replaced Carlini to be the favorite to lead our USA Volleyball team in Brazil. Now that's greatness! I was just about to say same thing. Poulter is the new baby Jesus , so people seem to be claiming. Everyone on the bus needs to take it from overdrive to neutral. The level of competion isn't what I'd call elite. Let's see how they handle Stanford next weekend. Let's see if penn state softens Stanford up enough for them. Lol Actually Stanford plays the Illini before they play PSU
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Post by Boof1224 on Aug 30, 2015 22:47:45 GMT -5
I was just about to say same thing. Poulter is the new baby Jesus , so people seem to be claiming. Everyone on the bus needs to take it from overdrive to neutral. The level of competion isn't what I'd call elite. Let's see how they handle Stanford next weekend. Let's see if penn state softens Stanford up enough for them. Lol Actually Stanford plays the Illini before they play PSU I'll be, missed that one. So guess it's other way around. Lol As psu fan I'd prefer to have them first. They are the one your thinking about more anyway I'd imagine
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Post by Illinifan4life on Aug 31, 2015 0:43:54 GMT -5
I watched Poulter play in all 3 matches (from the front row so I think I saw most stuff well), but she was very off in Illinois' first match vs. Louisville. She was setting the slide better than any Illinois setter I've seen before, but her connection with Stark and especially Birks were askew. However, the second two matches she was lights out. Great connection with the pin hitters and won 4 out of Illinois' first 7 points in Set 3 vs. Creighton singlehandedly on pure talent alone. She's still a better option than Viliunas, but she wasn't the best that she could be this weekend. However, I expect that to rapidly change going into the B1G/Pac 12 challenge vs. Stanford and Colorado. I watched Bugg this weekend and disagree. She played well, gave her hitters good opportunities, was calm and confident. No ones perfect the first weekend and, although Stanford won easisly, they did have some competition. Well considering I was talking about Poulter, I'm sure you would disagree with my sentiments since you're speaking of a completely different setter.
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Post by Boof1224 on Aug 31, 2015 0:47:04 GMT -5
Were gonna see where psu Stanford and Illinois all are next weekend
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Post by Illinifan4life on Aug 31, 2015 0:51:19 GMT -5
My understanding is that Poulter (who I've never heard of) has now replaced Carlini to be the favorite to lead our USA Volleyball team in Brazil. Now that's greatness! I was just about to say same thing. Poulter is the new baby Jesus , so people seem to be claiming. Everyone on the bus needs to take it from overdrive to neutral. The level of competion isn't what I'd call elite. Let's see how they handle Stanford next weekend. Let's see if penn state softens Stanford up enough for them. Lol Even though I'm an Illini fan through and through, I have to agree with these ideas on here. Look, she's played in 3 matches so far, one in which she looked like very rough on the court. We have incredibly high hopes and aspirations for Ms. Poulter as she pretty much is our program's savior since the last few setters have been only "enough" to get us in good positions in the postseason (Hilary Haen was our last very good one imho). But seriously, it's been 3 matches against two decent teams and one not as decent. Chillax people. However, I will say that she has flashed incredible potential; talent that I honestly have not seen before from a player/setter in a while. In set 3 vs. Creighton when Illinois was down 0-6, she singlehandedly score 4 of the next 7 points with a backwards no-look dump, fake-set dump, won a joust, and had a solo block. She still needs to get her connections established with her hitters (much like Carlini needs to), but there is incredible talent there to be something special. Go Illini!
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Post by Boof1224 on Aug 31, 2015 0:59:49 GMT -5
I was just about to say same thing. Poulter is the new baby Jesus , so people seem to be claiming. Everyone on the bus needs to take it from overdrive to neutral. The level of competion isn't what I'd call elite. Let's see how they handle Stanford next weekend. Let's see if penn state softens Stanford up enough for them. Lol Even though I'm an Illini fan through and through, I have to agree with these ideas on here. Look, she's played in 3 matches so far, one in which she looked like very rough on the court. We have incredibly high hopes and aspirations for Ms. Poulter as she pretty much is our program's savior since the last few setters have been only "enough" to get us in good positions in the postseason (Hilary Haen was our last very good one imho). But seriously, it's been 3 matches against two decent teams and one not as decent. Chillax people. However, I will say that she has flashed incredible potential; talent that I honestly have not seen before from a player/setter in a while. In set 3 vs. Creighton when Illinois was down 0-6, she singlehandedly score 4 of the next 7 points with a backwards no-look dump, fake-set dump, won a joust, and had a solo block. She still needs to get her connections established with her hitters (much like Carlini needs to), but there is incredible talent there to be something special. Go Illini! May not get those dumps with teams that have big block. So like I said, let's see how they fair against Stanford then reassess. Don't have to wait too long.
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Post by Boof1224 on Aug 31, 2015 1:05:54 GMT -5
The two most consistant teams in BIG seem to always be psu and Nebraska. Minnesota and Illinois with some of players they have had it's always suprised me why they haven't made it further a lot of years
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Post by Illinifan4life on Aug 31, 2015 1:20:44 GMT -5
Even though I'm an Illini fan through and through, I have to agree with these ideas on here. Look, she's played in 3 matches so far, one in which she looked like very rough on the court. We have incredibly high hopes and aspirations for Ms. Poulter as she pretty much is our program's savior since the last few setters have been only "enough" to get us in good positions in the postseason (Hilary Haen was our last very good one imho). But seriously, it's been 3 matches against two decent teams and one not as decent. Chillax people. However, I will say that she has flashed incredible potential; talent that I honestly have not seen before from a player/setter in a while. In set 3 vs. Creighton when Illinois was down 0-6, she singlehandedly score 4 of the next 7 points with a backwards no-look dump, fake-set dump, won a joust, and had a solo block. She still needs to get her connections established with her hitters (much like Carlini needs to), but there is incredible talent there to be something special. Go Illini! May not get those dumps with teams that have big block. So like I said, let's see how they fair against Stanford then reassess. Don't have to wait too long. It's more the fact that I've rarely seen our setters do it against anybody, no matter the competition, in the past few years lol
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Post by Boof1224 on Aug 31, 2015 1:31:28 GMT -5
May not get those dumps with teams that have big block. So like I said, let's see how they fair against Stanford then reassess. Don't have to wait too long. It's more the fact that I've rarely seen our setters do it against anybody, no matter the competition, in the past few years lol Fair enough
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Post by notpriddy (COIF) on Aug 31, 2015 5:40:29 GMT -5
I know Carlini and Bugg will start the season for being the best setter, but after watching Illinois this past weekend I really think Poulter is just as a great setter as these two. She's made an Illinois team good to great. My understanding is that Poulter (who I've never heard of) has now replaced Carlini to be the favorite to lead our USA Volleyball team in Brazil. Now that's greatness! I heard U.S. Women's Olympic coach, Karch Kiraly, say that he had Jordyn Poulter on the squad for a match, and actually had her serve in one of the team's matches. My take-away from that is that "he likes her, he really likes her"!
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