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Post by tamz on Mar 7, 2019 0:01:39 GMT -5
guest2Oh, I see. Asia the the closest to Australia. The flight time is already cut down by more than half. Not that many people in the stands right?
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Post by guest2 on Mar 7, 2019 5:01:47 GMT -5
guest2Oh, I see. Asia the the closest to Australia. The flight time is already cut down by more than half. Not that many people in the stands right? Maybe 200 or so on center court at the most crowded. I can't imagine this center court setup holding more than 1500 when completely full though, seems very small. Its free today and Friday and then paid Saturday and Sunday so Im curious to see how full it gets. A lot of todays crowd, maybe between 1/3 and 1/10 or so depending on time of day, seemed like players, coaches etc. Nice place to see some volleyball although I may need a sweater tomorrow. Second round of men's matches were fun. US won all their pools, except where Stafford/Billy lost to Theo/Reid. Theo played much better than the morning and he had a good match blocking. In both game 1 and 3, the difference was a bad run by Billy/Stafford, one in each game, otherwise it was a very even match. In Game 3, the score was 9-9 or so, then Theo blocked Billy, Billy hit out, then Theo blocked him again. That was basically the match (I think it was 11-9 or 12-9 after that) Reid was not as good in this game as he was this morning and Billy was better than earlier. The wind was also very heavy and they were on an outer court. I was impressed with Stafford in this match. I think overall he looks much more comfortable hitting Billy's sets than he did with Casey, which is odd because Casey is a good setter, maybe the pressure of playing with a more established partner? Could also be the weaker competition of a 3 star. Who knows. Jake/Taylor beat the Germans by being steady and not making mistakes. The Germans did, just like hundreds of teams that have lost to Jake in the past. He just kept making his shots, playing good volleyball and every now and then they made a mistake (often bracketing their mistakes with some spectacular swings). Especially in heavy wind, its hard to beat a guy who plays as consistently as Jake. Ryan and John were lucky to get by the Russians, who were not good. They looked a little out of sync, maybe first tournament, lack of practice, could be something like that. Ryan blocked well and sided out fairly well, John's offense was a little less than it usually is. Weird to see a Russian team that was much smaller than its opponents though. I was most impressed with Miles/Billy. They were outsized by the Australians but played well (I was watching this one at the same time as the Reid/Stafford match). Miles didnt seem to have much trouble with the Aussie block in the part I saw, and they scored pretty consistently. 405LAX I may be coming around to your valuation of Miles. Based only on today's play, they seemed like the US team that was most in form. Looking forward to watching them tomorrow. They went uno dos, but I enjoyed watching the Venezuelans. A fun undersized team. I didnt see this one but the Japanese, who are the smallest FIVB team I have ever seen, beat a decent Polish team.
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Post by guest2 on Mar 7, 2019 5:04:56 GMT -5
They really struggled with the Spanish blocker. If he didnt get >7 blocks on Jake in Game 1 Id be surprised and he also blocked well the other 2 games. Every now and then Jake would take a big jump and hammer a cross court ball, but he looked like an older player, playing at 8 am on a chilly day. They still won though, largely because the Spanish blocker couldnt side out. Without seeing the match, I would speculate that Jake getting blocked so often is a sign he’s not getting his max approach jump, possibly due to a lingering knee injury. Could have been, he was wearing knee sleeves in the first game and warming up for the second match. In the first match, often after he gave up a point he seemed to take a little bigger jump and hit a harder angle, although thats not exactly new for him
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Post by acrossthepond on Mar 7, 2019 5:08:34 GMT -5
I could see Brunner/Priddy winning their pool, they are in with 2 French teams, that are new. don't know why Aye and Krou split. I'd favor Brunner/Priddy staight up over Slick/Allen. Krou/Rowlandson already came pretty close to qualify for the 2016 Olympics. So yes, they are a new team but they already played together from 2014-16. And they had better results than Krou/Aye.
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Post by goldengirlsx3 on Mar 7, 2019 8:08:17 GMT -5
guest2Oh, I see. Asia the the closest to Australia. The flight time is already cut down by more than half. Not that many people in the stands right? Maybe 200 or so on center court at the most crowded. I can't imagine this center court setup holding more than 1500 when completely full though, seems very small. Its free today and Friday and then paid Saturday and Sunday so Im curious to see how full it gets. A lot of todays crowd, maybe between 1/3 and 1/10 or so depending on time of day, seemed like players, coaches etc. Nice place to see some volleyball although I may need a sweater tomorrow. Second round of men's matches were fun. US won all their pools, except where Stafford/Billy lost to Theo/Reid. Theo played much better than the morning and he had a good match blocking. In both game 1 and 3, the difference was a bad run by Billy/Stafford, one in each game, otherwise it was a very even match. In Game 3, the score was 9-9 or so, then Theo blocked Billy, Billy hit out, then Theo blocked him again. That was basically the match (I think it was 11-9 or 12-9 after that) Reid was not as good in this game as he was this morning and Billy was better than earlier. The wind was also very heavy and they were on an outer court. I was impressed with Stafford in this match. I think overall he looks much more comfortable hitting Billy's sets than he did with Casey, which is odd because Casey is a good setter, maybe the pressure of playing with a more established partner? Could also be the weaker competition of a 3 star. Who knows. Jake/Taylor beat the Germans by being steady and not making mistakes. The Germans did, just like hundreds of teams that have lost to Jake in the past. He just kept making his shots, playing good volleyball and every now and then they made a mistake (often bracketing their mistakes with some spectacular swings). Especially in heavy wind, its hard to beat a guy who plays as consistently as Jake. Ryan and John were lucky to get by the Russians, who were not good. They looked a little out of sync, maybe first tournament, lack of practice, could be something like that. Ryan blocked well and sided out fairly well, John's offense was a little less than it usually is. Weird to see a Russian team that was much smaller than its opponents though. I was most impressed with Miles/Billy. They were outsized by the Australians but played well (I was watching this one at the same time as the Reid/Stafford match). Miles didnt seem to have much trouble with the Aussie block in the part I saw, and they scored pretty consistently. 405LAX I may be coming around to your valuation of Miles. Based only on today's play, they seemed like the US team that was most in form. Looking forward to watching them tomorrow. They went uno dos, but I enjoyed watching the Venezuelans. A fun undersized team. I didnt see this one but the Japanese, who are the smallest FIVB team I have ever seen, beat a decent Polish team. I think Miles & Billy will do well on the AVP this year. They may challenge a few teams for a couple of wins!!
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Post by JB Southpaw on Mar 7, 2019 8:36:07 GMT -5
Surprise of the day??? Adrian and Rossi win their pool, another Italian team also gets out of PP, but it's not Ranghieri/Caminati!! guest2 I watched Ryan and John play their 1st match, and I thought Ryan was siding out really well. Maybe not feeling anymore pressure? Thought he did well at the net too. I really want to see Billy and Miles play AVP and match up to the other American teams, I'm intrigued on their position in the pecking order. They just keep getting decent results. They are 4-4 this year getting out of Pools on FIVB.
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Post by guest2 on Mar 7, 2019 9:23:42 GMT -5
Surprise of the day??? Adrian and Rossi win their pool, another Italian team also gets out of PP, but it's not Ranghieri/Caminati!! guest2 I watched Ryan and John play their 1st match, and I thought Ryan was siding out really well. Maybe not feeling anymore pressure? Thought he did well at the net too. I really want to see Billy and Miles play AVP and match up to the other American teams, I'm intrigued on their position in the pecking order. They just keep getting decent results. They are 4-4 this year getting out of Pools on FIVB. Their first match was against two guys smaller than Nick Lucena, who weren't really exceptional jumpers either. Im eager to see Billy and Miles as well. They played well frustrating the big Australians and I would say their side of the draw is slightly easier, although I havent seen a lot of the no. 4 Russians, just a few minutes of their Canada match, but they aren't out of Billy/Miles' league by any means. This field is very similar to an AVP. There is no Phil/Nick so the top is thinner, but a lot deeper with plenty of good teams. All US semi not out of the question by any means and I would be surprised if a US team doesnt win
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Post by 405LAX on Mar 7, 2019 11:20:32 GMT -5
As I've been touting for eons now, Miles is the class of that team, Billy extremely steady but Miles could be our best defender not named Taylor, especially with bigger more dominating block.
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Post by JB Southpaw on Mar 7, 2019 11:26:00 GMT -5
Surprise of the day??? Adrian and Rossi win their pool, another Italian team also gets out of PP, but it's not Ranghieri/Caminati!! guest2 I watched Ryan and John play their 1st match, and I thought Ryan was siding out really well. Maybe not feeling anymore pressure? Thought he did well at the net too. I really want to see Billy and Miles play AVP and match up to the other American teams, I'm intrigued on their position in the pecking order. They just keep getting decent results. They are 4-4 this year getting out of Pools on FIVB. Their first match was against two guys smaller than Nick Lucena, who weren't really exceptional jumpers either. Im eager to see Billy and Miles as well. They played well frustrating the big Australians and I would say their side of the draw is slightly easier, although I havent seen a lot of the no. 4 Russians, just a few minutes of their Canada match, but they aren't out of Billy/Miles' league by any means. This field is very similar to an AVP. There is no Phil/Nick so the top is thinner, but a lot deeper with plenty of good teams. All US semi not out of the question by any means and I would be surprised if a US team doesnt win Watching Ryan, I don't pay attention to the other team, it's what Ryan is doing in the passing and setting categories. That Japanese team was scrappy though.
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Post by guest2 on Mar 7, 2019 12:22:01 GMT -5
Watching Ryan, I don't pay attention to the other team, it's what Ryan is doing in the passing and setting categories. That Japanese team was scrappy though. As a player its easy to play matches you know you are going to win, also less good side/bad side on center court. I dont think its possible to take much from that match other than John being cranky. I didnt see all of Game 2, but I thought Ryan blocked much better versus Russia. He had a few of the almost hit the hitters foot before he landed variety. Sand here is really nice. Its just deep enough but not too deep. Id compare it to Virginia Beach (slightly deeper) or Point Pleasant NJ
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Post by goldengirlsx3 on Mar 7, 2019 15:07:29 GMT -5
As I've been touting for eons now, Miles is the class of that team, Billy extremely steady but Miles could be our best defender not named Taylor, especially with bigger more dominating block. It will be interesting to see if this team stays together thru 2020. With them playing AVP now, they will get many more matches under their belt.
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Post by ajm on Mar 7, 2019 15:20:17 GMT -5
As I've been touting for eons now, Miles is the class of that team, Billy extremely steady but Miles could be our best defender not named Taylor, especially with bigger more dominating block. It will be interesting to see if this team stays together thru 2020. With them playing AVP now, they will get many more matches under their belt. Guess I missed it. Did Miles and Billy sign the AVP player contract?
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Post by 405LAX on Mar 7, 2019 15:20:35 GMT -5
As I've been touting for eons now, Miles is the class of that team, Billy extremely steady but Miles could be our best defender not named Taylor, especially with bigger more dominating block. It will be interesting to see if this team stays together thru 2020. With them playing AVP now, they will get many more matches under their belt. They definitely aren't making Tokyo, higher level AVP team but not top 3 possibly top 7 thanks solely to Miles.
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Post by JB Southpaw on Mar 7, 2019 15:26:32 GMT -5
It will be interesting to see if this team stays together thru 2020. With them playing AVP now, they will get many more matches under their belt. They definitely aren't making Tokyo, higher level AVP team but not top 3 possibly top 7 thanks solely to Miles. You mean no thanks to Billy who currently has 3 top 3 AVP finishes? Dude, tout your boy, but let's keep it close to honest.
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Post by tamz on Mar 7, 2019 15:26:35 GMT -5
It will be interesting to see if this team stays together thru 2020. With them playing AVP now, they will get many more matches under their belt. Guess I missed it. Did Miles and Billy sign the AVP player contract? I was about to ask too.
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