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Post by dragan11 on Feb 25, 2019 5:27:40 GMT -5
Piccinini should be on the bench and Plak should be on the floor. Plain and simple. It's not college vball. Serving is a big part of the game. Even in SeriaA1, with the molten ball, Plak-Bartch duo doesn't work during the all game. It's only a temporarily option when Egonu is not on her day. ( With mikasa ball in Champions League, Novara needs Piccinini/Nizetich more than Plak for sure)
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Post by Reach on Feb 25, 2019 10:09:22 GMT -5
Also, a few things: let's start holding Egonu responsible for her rollercoaster play (15 total errors, 13 unforced in this match) over the last two months and recognize that Novara's revolving door at OH is doing them absolutely no favors in terms of developing any kind of rhythm. Barbolini hasn't yet figured out which two athletes should be in which spots, and that unfamiliarity and discontinuity continually manifests on the floor. Whatever he's doing with Carlini... let's hope it's part of his development plan for her and she's responding appropriately (I guess). Oh, and Egonu and Piccinini appear to be some of the most outwardly awful teammates to play with in the league. Hi, How are ya? Only watched the last set but Egonu was bad. She needs to limit her hitting errors when things aren’t going well for her. She had plenty of good looks but was either being dug or just hit the ball out. Plak has a nice match. Wolosz and the kids are just a smooth running engine when all is well. Just a joy to watch. Everyone fits that team perfectly. Egonu with a lot of errors. Novara looks dispirited. Egonu makes or breaks this team. She was great in set one but a mess since. She's had good setting for the most part but just sprays balls out in rapid succession. It's been happing all year. Novara is in full mess mode. Egonu goes from unstoppable to the error princess. Carlini hasn't been good recently. She overachieved with Scandicci last season, but so far, she's not meeting expectations with Novara. I'm not sure how much of that actually has to do with her, but watching them play, there are some clear on-court problems and the offense hasn't looked good. Beyond that, she's just looked so limited. She looks like she's second-guessing every single decision. Nothing feels (or looks) free. She's lost so much of her original playing style and on-court personality... all that charisma, moxie, fearlessness, risk-taking, comfortability. I rewatched Wisconsin's tourney matches from 2013 recently -- she's just not the same. Sheffield and Karch really appear to have messed with her head. I hope she can find a way to work through whatever funk she and her team are in, and hopefully surround herself with better advisors with regard to her career. And I'll say it again: keeping Plak on the bench in favor of Bartsch is also a really bad decision. She's gotta be pissed after the season she had for Novara last year and the huge impact she's made for the Netherlands. It's a revolving door of players on the court. Carlini is adjusting sets to 4 different outsides routinely.... It might help if Barbo would stick with a lineup for awhile to build some consistency.
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Post by Reach on Feb 25, 2019 14:41:38 GMT -5
Preach. Hell even Chirichella looks miserable out there. I’ve even seen her crying but I don’t know why. Seems like the team atmosphere is quite hostile. This could be a byproduct of having a stacked starting roster. Piccinini should be on the bench and Plak should be on the floor. Plain and simple. Kween Picci is now in her 40s. While amazing to play at that age, she's doing nobody favors offensivly and thus maybe she should try and play libero if she wants a roll in the ball control field.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2019 15:57:32 GMT -5
Also, a few things: let's start holding Egonu responsible for her rollercoaster play (15 total errors, 13 unforced in this match) over the last two months and recognize that Novara's revolving door at OH is doing them absolutely no favors in terms of developing any kind of rhythm. Barbolini hasn't yet figured out which two athletes should be in which spots, and that unfamiliarity and discontinuity continually manifests on the floor. Whatever he's doing with Carlini... let's hope it's part of his development plan for her and she's responding appropriately (I guess). Oh, and Egonu and Piccinini appear to be some of the most outwardly awful teammates to play with in the league. Hi, How are ya? Only watched the last set but Egonu was bad. She needs to limit her hitting errors when things aren’t going well for her. She had plenty of good looks but was either being dug or just hit the ball out. Plak has a nice match. Wolosz and the kids are just a smooth running engine when all is well. Just a joy to watch. Everyone fits that team perfectly. Egonu makes or breaks this team. She was great in set one but a mess since. She's had good setting for the most part but just sprays balls out in rapid succession. It's been happing all year. Novara is in full mess mode. Egonu goes from unstoppable to the error princess. It's a revolving door of players on the court. Carlini is adjusting sets to 4 different outsides routinely.... It might help if Barbo would stick with a lineup for awhile to build some consistency. Do you feel better
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Post by Reach on Feb 25, 2019 16:11:41 GMT -5
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Post by yupyupyup on Feb 25, 2019 23:29:21 GMT -5
Piccinini should be on the bench and Plak should be on the floor. Plain and simple. It's not college vball. Serving is a big part of the game. Even in SeriaA1, with the molten ball, Plak-Bartch duo doesn't work during the all game. It's only a temporarily option when Egonu is not on her day. ( With mikasa ball in Champions League, Novara needs Piccinini/Nizetich more than Plak for sure) What does the ball have to do with anything?
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Post by Reach on Feb 25, 2019 23:43:50 GMT -5
It's not college vball. Serving is a big part of the game. Even in SeriaA1, with the molten ball, Plak-Bartch duo doesn't work during the all game. It's only a temporarily option when Egonu is not on her day. ( With mikasa ball in Champions League, Novara needs Piccinini/Nizetich more than Plak for sure) What does the ball have to do with anything? The molten is much easier to pass, imo. Regardless Picci should only be used as a ds and should never be in the front row.
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Post by ToddyJ on Feb 25, 2019 23:47:44 GMT -5
What does the ball have to do with anything? The molten is much easier to pass, imo. Regardless Picci should only be used as a ds and should never be in the front row. That makes so much more sense concerning Bartsch and how she tends to pass better during her domestic league and struggles more with the mikasa over the summer. Is the ball the same kind for Champions League? Like as in the same as the Serie A1 ball?
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Post by jay on Feb 26, 2019 0:50:23 GMT -5
Due to the differences in construction in terms of the stitching and patterns, the Mikasa ball tends to knuckle more in a spinless serve, much like a baseball. The Mikasa ball is used in the European CEV playoffs at all levels; Champions League Cup, CEV Cup and Challenge Cup. Think Major League, Triple AAA, and Two AA. Partitipation in the different cups is both earned and invited with placement according to competitveness.
The National Team season also uses the Mikasa ball as does the Turkish Club League. One of the metric driven strategies of the USNT as implemented by Karch and critized by many is that the jump float serve can be more accurately targeted to a particular receiver and that with the knuckle effect you can break down your opponents passing more effectively than with a jump spin serve.
In Italy which uses the less knuckly Molten ball the jump serve is very popular. Coaching strategies that allow both styles together seems to be currently in vogue among the most successful Club coaches.
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Post by jay on Mar 3, 2019 11:33:52 GMT -5
Lowe starting again for Imoco today in their big match against Scandicci. This is an important tune-up for the upcoming CL quarters. Imoco destroyed Lodz in their play-in match to the quarters. ECZ's recent ugly loss to Vakif shows that they are vulnerable and Imoco when playing at their peak certainly has the players to sweep them out of the tournament. A good start today with Woloz having a very strong connection with her hitters.
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Post by jay on Mar 3, 2019 12:01:00 GMT -5
Hill showing once again that her multi-pronged game; serve, spike, receive, floor defense, put her right behind Zhu as the most important OH in the European leagues. It's easy to forget that during her stint with Vakif that she consistently outplayed both Larson and KYK10 in the big important matches. The fact that she can't bring this same consistency to the USNT remains a mystery. How far Imoco goes in this years CL will have a lot to do with how tight Hill's game is.
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Post by ericleo on Mar 3, 2019 13:20:02 GMT -5
Chieri just won their match against Bergamo (H. Tapp, Courtney). This is their first win over a team that is not Club Italia. I think Poulter is promising. I will not be surprised if she joins Lloyd, Hancock, and Carlini competing for a position for Tokyo.
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Post by jay on Mar 3, 2019 13:29:49 GMT -5
Jordan Poulter, just out of college, and in a half season in Italy has quickly shown that she will be must have setter in the next few years. Her big push now is the get the serious attention of Karch so she can have an opportunity to fight for the starting setter postion in Tokyo 20. The US has a plethora of talented setters. The question is "can Karch create a system that maximises the skill of just one of them to revive his teams potential for a medal in Tokyo". It's clear that Club general managers still value the best US players as key components for success regardless as to how Karch uses them. Kelsey Robinson a case in point.
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Post by Reach on Mar 3, 2019 13:44:39 GMT -5
He wants a 5-1 and a dub sub setter. This is such a terrible plan.
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Post by donut on Mar 3, 2019 14:31:39 GMT -5
Lowe starting again for Imoco today in their big match against Scandicci. This is an important tune-up for the upcoming CL quarters. Imoco destroyed Lodz in their play-in match to the quarters. ECZ's recent ugly loss to Vakif shows that they are vulnerable and Imoco when playing at their peak certainly has the players to sweep them out of the tournament. A good start today with Woloz having a very strong connection with her hitters. You're cherry-picking information here a bit. Why not mention the fact Imoco got swept by Scherwin 3-0 in the group stage, lost 2-3 to Scandicci the week before "destroying Lodz" (who were in last place in the group), and needed Budowlani Łódź (different Lodz) to drop a set to even qualify for the Quarters? That Eczacibasi loss was ugly but the line-up was confusing (didn't start Larson, subbed out Boskovic in the 3rd instead of Gibby who was hitting negative) and they've beat Vakif two previous times this season. Not saying that Ecz. will win but I think both teams have the "players" to sweep the other out of the tournament out at their peak, but if one team has shown more "vulnerability" this season, it's Imoco. Hill showing once again that her multi-pronged game; serve, spike, receive, floor defense, put her right behind Zhu as the most important OH in the European leagues. It's easy to forget that during her stint with Vakif that she consistently outplayed both Larson and KYK10 in the big important matches. The fact that she can't bring this same consistency to the USNT remains a mystery. How far Imoco goes in this years CL will have a lot to do with how tight Hill's game is. I think the mystery is Woloz. Hill does really well with a quick shoot set, and Woloz excels in that kind of offense (see: system built around athletes, not athletes built around a system). I don't think that kind of speed comes naturally to our NT setters, hence Hill's struggles. And Hill had some really great stints at Vakif (Turkish Cup finals, CEV finals rounds), but to say she "consistently outplayed both Larson and KYK" feels a bit off, considering she didn't start in the majority of regular season matches, even against the top teams. Guidetti went with Zhu, Lonneke and Rasic, using Hill as a backrow/serving sub for Zhu or Lonneke.
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