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Post by notestoriousb1g on Dec 17, 2019 13:17:14 GMT -5
NICE! New home attendance record with an average of 3,873 fans per match. 3,780 was the preview which was set in 2013 following the Longhorns’ 2012 National Championship. The 3,873 is a big jump from the 2018 season which was just 3,313.
Good work fans
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Post by mln59 on Dec 18, 2019 10:48:51 GMT -5
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Post by txnut on Dec 18, 2019 10:51:51 GMT -5
Was somewhat worried since we didn't get as far in the tournament but so happy for Micaya. Definitely deserved.
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Post by longhorn9214 on Dec 18, 2019 10:56:38 GMT -5
Was somewhat worried since we didn't get as far in the tournament but so happy for Micaya. Definitely deserved. It was exactly what I was thinking. This is great for her to close out her career at Texas after her soph (new setter) and her junior (two setter transition) years. HOOK EM.
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Post by mln59 on Dec 18, 2019 12:30:59 GMT -5
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Post by kokyu on Dec 19, 2019 14:04:25 GMT -5
And a 5th year senior who still can’t figure out how to be a solid passer and get her serves in, to name a few. but, with Parral coming in, she’s already a proven passer, so unless she’s undeveloped at Texas, they will finally have a great passing OH They have an OH that passes very well. Egglestone passed a 2.16 on the season. I don't know why no one is aware of that. The rare times I watched Texas I was surprised how well she passed relatively. This was well before you've been posting about her. Only five hours away from the match, think you can get us the stats we need to know. Hunt's and Bramschreiber's sr stats.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2019 17:58:49 GMT -5
They have an OH that passes very well. Egglestone passed a 2.16 on the season. I don't know why no one is aware of that. The rare times I watched Texas I was surprised how well she passed relatively. This was well before you've been posting about her. Only five hours away from the match, think you can get us the stats we need to know. Hunt's and Bramschreiber's sr stats. I got you. Decided I'd throw in Wulf's - partly cos she handles a lot of balls and also because I don't see her name enough around here and I like giving credit where it's due. I'll give you the season SR stats and separately last weekend's SR stats for all three. Below are passing grades (out of 3, higher is better) and good pass percentage (those are passes that are within 3 steps of the setter, higher is better): Wulf: season - 2.29 & 61.6% - regionals - 2.57 & 74% Bramschreiber: season - 2.25 & 58.6% - regionals - 2.09 & 51.5% Hunt: season - 2.21 & 54.3% - regionals - 2.24 & 50% As you can see, they've passed well all year. I'm always interested in how players navigate the mental challenges of the biggest matches. From the second set of numbers you can see that Tara Wulf has absolutely balled out in the biggest moments; you gotta love players who play their best when the lights are brightest. Braya Hunt has remained consistent which suggest she's also mentally tough. Shanel is the youngest which perhaps explains why her passing has dipped somewhat - or it might just be the improved competition - but either way she's probably the one you'd want to target when Pressley it's available. For reference, Pressley passed 1.9 during the season and passed 1.8 in the regionals.
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Post by carsonvega on Dec 19, 2019 18:55:17 GMT -5
The rare times I watched Texas I was surprised how well she passed relatively. This was well before you've been posting about her. Only five hours away from the match, think you can get us the stats we need to know. Hunt's and Bramschreiber's sr stats. I got you. Decided I'd throw in Wulf's - partly cos she handles a lot of balls and also because I don't see her name enough around here and I like giving credit where it's due. I'll give you the season SR stats and separately last weekend's SR stats for all three. Below are passing grades (out of 3, higher is better) and good pass percentage (those are passes that are within 3 steps of the setter, higher is better): Wulf: season - 2.29 & 61.6% - regionals - 2.57 & 74% Bramschreiber: season - 2.25 & 58.6% - regionals - 2.09 & 51.5% Hunt: season - 2.21 & 54.3% - regionals - 2.24 & 50% As you can see, they've passed well all year. I'm always interested in how players navigate the mental challenges of the biggest matches. From the second set of numbers you can see that Tara Wulf has absolutely balled out in the biggest moments; you gotta love players who play their best when the lights are brightest. Braya Hunt has remained consistent which suggest she's also mentally tough. Shanel is the youngest which perhaps explains why her passing has dipped somewhat - or it might just be the improved competition - but either way she's probably the one you'd want to target when Pressley it's available. For reference, Pressley passed 1.9 during the season and passed 1.8 in the regionals.
Having watched part of 3 of Baylor's postseason matches, plus a handful of their matches during the regular season, I think Bramschreiber's numbers may be lower in part because she's only in the match in the back row when Pressley is in the front row (since Bramschreiber is Milana's counterpart in the rotation for Baylor). In the USC-Baylor match in particular, I remember USC trying to hit Pressley with their serves several times when Pressley was in the front row, only for Bramschreiber to end up passing the ball instead because Pressley moved into position to start her attack approach and Bramschrieber moved into the space where Pressley used to be. With a good enough serve, Bramschrieber's late movement would make getting off a good pass more difficult.
Also just wanted to say that I appreciate seeing these numbers and I hope you're not discouraged by people who claim they don't mean anything or whatever. I get the point that numbers don't always tell the whole story, but since I don't intend to get into any arguments about who's the best player or whatever, I'd much rather at least be able to see the numbers than not see them.
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Dec 19, 2019 23:28:47 GMT -5
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Post by eotexas5 on Dec 19, 2019 23:28:47 GMT -5
Confused how this Texas 2019 thread got on the topic of Baylor and their passing...
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Post by carsonvega on Dec 20, 2019 0:11:45 GMT -5
Confused how this Texas 2019 thread got on the topic of Baylor and their passing... Blame Kokyu, he asked the question about Baylor's passing in this thread instead of the Baylor thread.
But also, look at the last page, with all the discussion of Logan Eggleston's passing. Eggleston at 2.15 for the season is not far below Baylor's 3 Ls/DSs - considering she didn't pass much her freshman year, her development as a passer this year is pretty impressive.
Watching some of the Texas matches this year, I was at first surprised when it seemed like other teams were targeting Micaya White in serve receive instead of Eggleston. But I can see now why that made sense - even though Eggleston was charged with 6 more reception errors on the season, she passed better than White overall.
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Dec 20, 2019 14:36:34 GMT -5
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Post by flatcityfan on Dec 20, 2019 14:36:34 GMT -5
OK, so I just did a slightly deeper dive into Logan as a passer. So firstly, she finished the season passing 2.15 (it was 2.16 before the UL game). To put that in context, that's above Plummer, Lanier, Thompson, Loberg, Bajema. A long way above Pressley, Sun, Micaya White and on par with Ruddins, Hall, May. 2.15 is therefore elite for a 6-RO OH. Now the question was, does she struggle against tough servers. Well firstly, there's two things, in my experience that cause passing to break down. Either physical or mental. The physical occurs when passers meet a serve that challenges their technique, the mental occurs when passers are overwrought by the situation. To get the latter out of the way quickly, I narrowed Logan's passing stats to the end of sets (from 20+ points onwards) since these are the highest pressure situations: she actually passed better in crunch time. So she can handle the pressure - I suspected as much, given the way she fearlessly hits at the end of sets - but I wanted to check. The other issue is more interesting. To test her ability against higher quality opposition, I cherry picked the opponents. I used her non conference schedule (Hawaii, Northern Iowa, USC, Stanford, Minnesota, BYU) added the two Baylor matches and then the three tournament ones - I know Albany were a speedbump but it was still a tournament game. Her numbers did drop, though only to 2.07 which would still put her firmly in the second group of passers listed above. Then just to emphasise the point I took only the Louisville and UCSB games. I have seen every UCSB game this year and they serve consistently tough, Louisville served well in their game too. In those games Logan's passing grade fell below 2 to just 1.94. Now obviously I'm deliberately looking for weaknesses here and it's fair enough to say "well of course it's harder to pass good serves than bad ones". But I think Bucky is fair to note that technique wise Logan can continue to improve. On that subject, I broke down all of her serves over the year and she actually has a real problem with topspin serves. She only has a 32% good pass percentage against TS serves, whereas she's around 50% for all other kinds of serve. In the tournament you're likely to see more of those than in conference, so that's something she could strengthen... My biggest takeaway however, was that through all of the criteria, Logan was actually ahead of Sydney Petersen. I'm on record here as saying Petersen's strength has always been her SR (because her court coverage is poor) but it seems that she was actually outperformed by the team's biggest offensive weapon this season. It's too much to expect Iosia to come in and take her place but for a player that has trained with the collegiate national team, you'd really expect more from Petersen and she needs to improve (especially in the post season next year - everyone knows she was a disaster against UCSB passing a 1.4 but she only passed 2.03 against Louisville making her a net detriment to the team, rather than a benefit). Anyway, those are my thoughts - make of them what you will. I'm really enjoying the detailed analysis you've been providing about our players. I am, too. I am learning with every post. (And I also appreciate you wearing Bucky the eff out with hard stats instead of opinions stated as facts. Lol.)
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Dec 20, 2019 15:24:31 GMT -5
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Post by flatcityfan on Dec 20, 2019 15:24:31 GMT -5
Is Sullivan the defensive coach? Maybe that is the change needed? From the Texas website: On the Forty Acres, Sullivan works with the Horns’ liberos and middle blockers, while developing Texas’ team defensive systems and scouting reports. Johnson handjes outside hitters and recruiting, apparently. Hmmmm.
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Post by hornfanaustin on Dec 21, 2019 14:52:26 GMT -5
Is Sullivan the defensive coach? Maybe that is the change needed? From the Texas website: On the Forty Acres, Sullivan works with the Horns’ liberos and middle blockers, while developing Texas’ team defensive systems and scouting reports. Johnson handjes outside hitters and recruiting, apparently. Hmmmm. Often Elliott refers to Sullivan as "my defense coordinator".
When Texas is doing bad and calls a timeout, Jerritt is in the huddle talking to them (that is when Khat's overseas playing ball)
When Texas is doing great and the other team calls timeout, Sullivan is in the huddle with his hands up in a blocking formation. It's just a habit of his, a method of talking during these huddles.
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