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Post by tomclen on Dec 17, 2005 19:59:13 GMT -5
+ Endzone camera. Fercrisakes, why stick with that camera? It's a bad shot. You can't see.
+ Orange Floor. Please. You're on television. Orange and Red are video bleed colors. Even HDTV would have trouble with it.
+ Cook timeout in game 1 when it was 2-0 Huskies. The dumbest move in the history of volleyball. His team was fired up and confident and he spooked them and took away their confidence with that dumb timeout. He should turn in his COY trophy.
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Post by JHAM on Dec 17, 2005 20:01:15 GMT -5
I agree with all 3, especially the orange floor. Maybe it was an homage to TN or something???
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Post by Chance on Dec 17, 2005 20:02:14 GMT -5
i like that view in general, but it was too zoomed out and needs to be a little more overhead for it to work.
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Post by ladyvolunatic4ever on Dec 17, 2005 20:04:02 GMT -5
Yes, chance, we know that you like the overhead camera view.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2005 20:04:28 GMT -5
The angle from up high was great. The one from the boom has never been good.
Timeout at 0-2 worked---they took the lead. Can't see how you can fault him for that. Personally, I give him credit for doing it. Besides, it's his team. Don't you think he probably saw something he wanted to address.
WAAAAAY too much 2nd guessing here:
+Take Pavan out. Right. They don't need her backrow attack. +Take Larson out. Right. They aren't digging _anything_ and you take out one of the better defensive players. +Use 1 setter. Right. For the first time all year. +Use a libero. Right. For the first time all year. +Too many service errors. Maybe. But UW was not being stressed at all by the serves going in. Passing and defense won this for them.
Nebraska had to stick with their strengths and play better. UW won this. Plain and simple.
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Post by GatorVball on Dec 17, 2005 20:05:40 GMT -5
I agree with all 3, especially the orange floor. Maybe it was an homage to TN or something??? Could it have to do with UTSA's colors being orange and blue? They were the official host school.
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Post by Gorf on Dec 17, 2005 20:16:14 GMT -5
Ninny, if what "worked all year" for you isn't working in your biggest match of the season and you aren't prepared to make any adjustments other than saying "you need to play better" then your team isn't very prepared for the match.
He took Larson out at times, it didn't work any better than having Larson in the match but at least he tried a change in that respect.
With Pavan being picked on in serve receive you'd think at the very least Cook would have hidden her on serve receive for a while to give her a chance to settle down. For the first two games she wasn't a dominant force on back row attacks so at least trying to use their libero wasn't going to make them lose significantly worse than they did and it could potentially have helped stabalize things for a while.
No one is questioning that Washington won and dominated the match.
Nebraska not being able or willing to make key adjustments when being dominated isn't a good thing for the team.
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Post by tomclen on Dec 17, 2005 20:20:08 GMT -5
Maybe Nebraska should have played Washington State instead of Washington. It would have been a more balanced contest.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2005 20:23:58 GMT -5
Ninny, if what "worked all year" for you isn't working in your biggest match of the season and you aren't prepared to make any adjustments other than saying "you need to play better" then your team isn't very prepared for the match. That's called panicking. I'm not talking about subtle changes. I'm talking about some of the suggestions made here to re-tool the entire team. There's a good example. Personally, I think it was a mistake. I think Larson needed some time to get comfortable. Getting pulled twice didn't help--plus they then lost her defense and passing. But that's the fine line a big time D1 coach has to walk. He did. And they kept serving her. She passed poorly, but she also passed well at times. Again, the suggestion she be yanked is just silly. One, he doesn't have the subs (that's why he uses the libero to serve for her) and two, they need her backrow defense. What you hope is that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. Maybe. But do you really want to experiment that drastically in the final? If Schwartz had shown she could play better defense than the others, he would have been using her. That's also the problem I had with inserting Mancuso. UW played better. It _can_ sometimes be as simple as that. You think they made _no_ adjustments? C'mon, Gorf. Cook's a better coach than that.
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Post by tomclen on Dec 17, 2005 21:09:27 GMT -5
One more dumb thing at the Alamo Dome:
+ The front row seats look like theyre 15 yards from the court. They wonder why more people don't go to the Final Four? Why spend a couple thousand bucks on airfare and hotel and sit so far away. All season long, fans sit up close in a gyms and arenas all over the country. Then the NCAA wants to put the paying fans soooooo far away.
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Post by FloridaPerson on Dec 17, 2005 21:17:48 GMT -5
+ No basement.
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Post by sexy on Dec 17, 2005 21:28:53 GMT -5
+ Endzone camera. Fercrisakes, why stick with that camera? It's a bad shot. You can't see. i have always hated when the camera was filming a match from the 'endzone' of the court -- hard to tell which side of the court the ball is on
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Post by edburby on Dec 17, 2005 21:32:34 GMT -5
One more dumb thing at the Alamo Dome: + The front row seats look like theyre 15 yards from the court. They wonder why more people don't go to the Final Four? Why spend a couple thousand bucks on airfare and hotel and sit so far away. All season long, fans sit up close in a gyms and arenas all over the country. Then the NCAA wants to put the paying fans soooooo far away. here! here! ...the very first thing I noticed during the coverage. and WHY do they need SOOO much space for press??? Who are all those people, and why aren't they making the sport more popular since they are taking up all the prime real estate!
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Post by Chance on Dec 17, 2005 21:39:20 GMT -5
+Use 1 setter. Right. For the first time all year. +Use a libero. Right. For the first time all year. I'm not going to try to second guess a coach who knows WAY more about volleyball than i do, but i think they should have experimented with a 5-1 in some of their easy matches, just to have that option. Also, i don't think there were more than 20,000 were there? Why a dome instead of an arena?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2005 21:45:56 GMT -5
+Use 1 setter. Right. For the first time all year. +Use a libero. Right. For the first time all year. I'm not going to try to second guess a coach who knows WAY more about volleyball than i do, but i think they should have experimented with a 5-1 in some of their easy matches, just to have that option. Here's what he loses: 1) blocking 2) a middle (remember his setters are subbing for his middles) 3) hitting (backrow and front row) 4) defense Now, he could have started a game with a setter in for an opposite, but then he's stuck with that for that whole game. Cook had all summer and early fall to figure out what worked best for his personnel. I think, short of bringing in Holloway (and she was not healthy when that was an option), that he did the best he could.
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