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Post by redbeard2008 on Oct 22, 2019 19:55:23 GMT -5
Setter assist stats are next to meaningless for comparison purposes. Her blocking and digging are testament to her athletic talents, but have nothing to do with her performance purely as a setter, where she still has a lot of room to improve. You also have to consider team's hitting %. Passing and hitting contribute as much as setting to team hitting%. You can't say that "setting = team hitting%". It doesn't.
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Post by blue-footedbooby on Oct 22, 2019 20:33:30 GMT -5
You also have to consider team's hitting %. Passing and hitting contribute as much as setting to team hitting%. You can't say that "setting = team hitting%". It doesn't. I don't recall saying setting = team hitting%. I said you have to consider it. And when it is considered with other variables then an argument for a setter doing a good job can be made.
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Post by redbeard2008 on Oct 22, 2019 20:34:46 GMT -5
Have you heard anything? I've never seen an announcement of any kind. Of course, she's a person as well as a volleyball player, and people have a right to privacy. I read somewhere where it is a strained stomach muscle. A Pac-12 announcer said it was a "lower abdomen injury". That's all we know. Whether it is minor, major, or somewhere in between, we don't know. Probably a pulled or strained muscle of some kind, but there are other possibilities. My wild guess (and that is all it is) would be that it could be a "groin pull" (aka an "adductor strain"), which can be very pesky to heal, with "lower abdomen injury" possibly being a euphemism devised for public consumption. "Rapid starts and stops while running and jumping are the chief causes of this injury." - See here.
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Post by redbeard2008 on Oct 22, 2019 21:03:43 GMT -5
Passing and hitting contribute as much as setting to team hitting%. You can't say that "setting = team hitting%". It doesn't. I don't recall saying setting = team hitting%. I said you have to consider it. And when it is considered with other variables then an argument for a setter doing a good job can be made. I just don't think that setting can be boiled down to a statistic or even set of statistics - it is a "team" sport. She can make the perfect set, but the hitter can be slow in transitioning or rush her approach. Everything can be right, but you can still get blocked, because the opponent just guessed right. Everything can be wrong, but you still get the kill. Most of what a setter does is in the eye of the beholder, not in a stat sheet (which is a relatively crude reflection of the action). Yes, when an offense is cooking, the setter is at least doing her job, but if things are going wrong, it might or might not be due to the setting. One thing Courtney Thompson would do was touch every teammate on the floor before every play.
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Post by blue-footedbooby on Oct 23, 2019 1:41:38 GMT -5
I don't recall saying setting = team hitting%. I said you have to consider it. And when it is considered with other variables then an argument for a setter doing a good job can be made. I just don't think that setting can be boiled down to a statistic or even set of statistics - it is a "team" sport. She can make the perfect set, but the hitter can be slow in transitioning or rush her approach. Everything can be right, but you can still get blocked, because the opponent just guessed right. Everything can be wrong, but you still get the kill. Most of what a setter does is in the eye of the beholder, not in a stat sheet (which is a relatively crude reflection of the action). Yes, when an offense is cooking, the setter is at least doing her job, but if things are going wrong, it might or might not be due to the setting. One thing Courtney Thompson would do was touch every teammate on the floor before every play. Then I say bench her she is so damn bad. She's stinking up the bloody arena and not touching every teammate. Hell, she was chosen over 99% of other setters for a national team spot, but Red sees something that Karch and the national coaches don't. Why are we even playing her, Red says she sucks. Her body of work doesn't matter, only Red's judgement does!
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Post by redbeard2008 on Oct 23, 2019 10:10:32 GMT -5
I just don't think that setting can be boiled down to a statistic or even set of statistics - it is a "team" sport. She can make the perfect set, but the hitter can be slow in transitioning or rush her approach. Everything can be right, but you can still get blocked, because the opponent just guessed right. Everything can be wrong, but you still get the kill. Most of what a setter does is in the eye of the beholder, not in a stat sheet (which is a relatively crude reflection of the action). Yes, when an offense is cooking, the setter is at least doing her job, but if things are going wrong, it might or might not be due to the setting. One thing Courtney Thompson would do was touch every teammate on the floor before every play. Then I say bench her she is so damn bad. She's stinking up the bloody arena and not touching every teammate. Hell, she was chosen over 99% of other setters for a national team spot, but Red sees something that Karch and the national coaches don't. Why are we even playing her, Red says she sucks. Her body of work doesn't matter, only Red's judgement does! I've said that it is the most important position on the floor. She's a sophomore. She's got room to improve. I don't need statistics to tell me that, when I can see it with my own eyes. How much she can improve will have a lot to do with how successful this team will be. Thompson touching every teammate before every play was just something I noticed. I'm not claiming it is something every setter should do, but it was something she did very intentionally. To me that had to do with connecting, communication, and leadership, which to my mind are essential aspects of being a setter.
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Post by tomclen on Oct 23, 2019 12:07:45 GMT -5
Utah had match point against Stanford this past weekend. It's a shame they didn't pull off the win. For one thing it would have made a little easier path for UW to possibly get a PAC title, but also, I suspect it's going to put Utah in an almost must-win frame of mind on Friday night when the Huskies arrive.
Utah lost back-to-back 5-setters to Cal and Stanford. Washington is going to have a tough time, especially if Hoffman is not playing.
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Post by huskyvolley on Oct 25, 2019 15:47:32 GMT -5
Per 2020 top recruit thread, Sophie Fischer (6'4 MB, top 20 senior ace) decommitt from North Carolina. I wonder if Keegan is already contacting her....
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Post by dunninla3 on Oct 25, 2019 17:13:44 GMT -5
I just don't think that setting can be boiled down to a statistic or even set of statistics Sure it can, but not with stats that are published. You could rate every set as a function of two measures: quality of pass, and quality of set. For example, a pass could be rated as 0, 1, 2, 3 and then the set could be rated as within a foot of perfect, within two feet of perfect, or within 3 feet of perfect, or more than 3 feet from perfect. That's just off the top of my head, but the key is really to get at "did the setter improve the ball she was given".
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Post by redbeard2008 on Oct 25, 2019 17:15:15 GMT -5
Per 2020 top recruit thread, Sophie Fischer (6'4 MB, top 20 senior ace) decommitt from North Carolina. I wonder if Keegan is already contacting her.... If Mikkelsen will be going on scholarship, that will leave one scholarship available for 2020, but what makes you think she'd be interested in UW? We'll have three pretty good middles in 2020: Sanders, Grote, and Summers. If Cook follows JMac's example, he'll hold onto a scholarship in case a quality transfer comes knocking.
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Post by huskyvolley on Oct 26, 2019 14:09:39 GMT -5
Per 2020 top recruit thread, Sophie Fischer (6'4 MB, top 20 senior ace) decommitt from North Carolina. I wonder if Keegan is already contacting her.... If Mikkelsen will be going on scholarship, that will leave one scholarship available for 2020, but what makes you think she'd be interested in UW? We'll have three pretty good middles in 2020: Sanders, Grote, and Summers. If Cook follows JMac's example, he'll hold onto a scholarship in case a quality transfer comes knocking. I am just thinking ahead. We have no middle in our 2021 recruiting class. Grote will graduate in 2021 and we will only have Summers as a middle in 2022. We will either need to play a freshman middle or get a transfer if we don't recruit a middle earlier than that.
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Post by mikegarrison on Oct 26, 2019 15:09:12 GMT -5
If Mikkelsen will be going on scholarship, that will leave one scholarship available for 2020, but what makes you think she'd be interested in UW? We'll have three pretty good middles in 2020: Sanders, Grote, and Summers. If Cook follows JMac's example, he'll hold onto a scholarship in case a quality transfer comes knocking. I am just thinking ahead. We have no middle in our 2021 recruiting class. Grote will graduate in 2021 and we will only have Summers as a middle in 2022. We will either need to play a freshman middle or get a transfer if we don't recruit a middle earlier than that. We'll just bring Bajema back to play middle again.
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Post by redbeard2008 on Oct 26, 2019 19:14:10 GMT -5
I am just thinking ahead. We have no middle in our 2021 recruiting class. Grote will graduate in 2021 and we will only have Summers as a middle in 2022. We will either need to play a freshman middle or get a transfer if we don't recruit a middle earlier than that. We'll just bring Bajema back to play middle again. Grote, Powell, Hoffman, and Crenshaw graduate in 2021 - we'll need more than just a middle. With the cone of silence having descended on early recruiting, we're going to be waiting some time before we can know who will be or not be in the 2022 class. No telling how many commits, from before all news was blacked out, will remain true. Could be healthy, with much less time wasted obsessing over what a 14-year old will choose to do.
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Post by mikegarrison on Oct 26, 2019 19:24:49 GMT -5
It is the nature of college sports that if you look a couple years into the future you should expect half your current team to be gone.
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Post by tomclen on Oct 26, 2019 19:39:14 GMT -5
Back to 2019....
This has been a season of amazing ups and some puzzling downs.
Beating Wisconsin twice. The coaching-clinic take-down at Maples.
Then the WSU loss and the USC loss (Not that either of those teams are not really good...they are).
Then Utah (Not only good, but a team with the potential to win the PAC title and who knows how deep of a tournament run). But that match was like a scale-model of Washington's season. Set 1 UW looked like a well-oiled Championship team. The rest, some sand in the gears. Okay, a lot of sand at spots. Certainly not the first time a Washington team has stumbled at Utah or Colorado.
I hope Hoffman returns quickly, but I think KCook is an ideal coach to make this team better every week.
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