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Post by beachman on Dec 18, 2005 22:41:32 GMT -5
I will go out on the proverbial thread and make my prediction for next year's title match.......barring significant injury, I predict that Nebraska and Stanford will play for the title next year....and playing in Nebraska I don't think I have to give you my probable winner  |
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Post by lilred on Dec 18, 2005 22:57:59 GMT -5
I also think that NU has a good chance to open up the 2006 season as preseason number 1 followed by Stanford. I just wish we could finish there! Oh well might as well keep working on the "Number of Weeks Spent at Number 1" streak.
The nice thing is I think with the loss of Jen (one of the best passers and diggers in NU history) and Elmer (the best blocker) there will be a lot of people wondering if we can fill those glaring holes. On the other hand you would like to think the setting will keep improving. So the expectations will still be great (especially with the Final Four in Omaha) but maybe not as great. If anything the most pressure will come from the girls themselves trying make sure they don't let an entire state down in December.
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Post by BadKnees on Dec 19, 2005 0:06:58 GMT -5
Yes, Stanford and Nebraska. Stanford will be SO much better if they find an actual Libero.
PSU could be good if they replace Tortorello with someone fairly good. It seems like Rose ALWAYS has a good setter. I think he loses Salyer too. Fawcett played like a freshman. Too much up and down. When she gets steady next year or the year after, they will be VERY good.
Purdue might be a surprise. They were very young this year, but did fairly well. They need to replace Dargan though.
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Post by aaronic on Dec 19, 2005 4:18:15 GMT -5
I think Saleaumua is definetely a huge loss for Nebraska because during the championship match, after Pavan was not doing so great on the passes, I noticed JS starting to take care of nearly all the passes, not to mention she was doing a good job too. Add the fact that she had no hitting errors.
*The most amazing thing in my opinion is that the tough Washington servers were all jump floaters. The only actual jump server was Morrison.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2005 10:52:41 GMT -5
PSU could be good if they replace Tortorello with someone fairly good. It seems like Rose ALWAYS has a good setter. I think he loses Salyer too. Fawcett played like a freshman. Too much up and down. When she gets steady next year or the year after, they will be VERY good. They don't lose Salyer (unless they literally lost her) and there was quite a setting problem in between Bremner and Tortorello. I'm kinda hoping there'll be another down cycle. ;D Also, let's see how Nicole plays with a frosh setter. Her hitting could be off next year and it wouldn't be her fault. Again, let's hope so. ;D Another frosh setter. That's the tough row to hoe hoe hoe, Merry Christmas! |
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Post by chipNdink on Dec 19, 2005 13:07:50 GMT -5
(previous stuff deleted) *The most amazing thing in my opinion is that the tough Washington servers were all jump floaters. The only actual jump server was Morrison. Last year, Tomasevic and Thompson were also jump servers. Very good ones I might add. Tomasevic actually has a faster, harder jump serve than Morrison in my opinion. I believe Sanja leads the UW in aces, most of which she got in her earlier years while jump serving. When she used to jump serve, she would get a few aces, but would invariably miss one eventually to end her service run. Now with the float serve, even without an ace, she has longer serving runs because other teams pass poorly and the UW defense just gobbles up alot of free balls or weak hits and easily transitions for the kill. Perhaps McLaughlin lets Morrison continue jump serving only because she hasn't learned how to float serve well yet. :-) Just kidding, I believe Morrison is the only one allowed to jump serve because she's the most consistent. Nebraska might consider making Pavan and Larson float serve as well, given their number of service errors during the championship match. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2005 13:10:56 GMT -5
When you block and play defense as well as UW does, jump-serving's an unnecessary risk.
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Post by BadKnees on Dec 19, 2005 16:52:37 GMT -5
When you block and play defense as well as UW does, jump-serving's an unnecessary risk. My daughter played L and she said she was always relieved when a server began a jump-serve approach. For most players, their jump serve is easier for a good passer to handle. Also statistical studies have shown that if you can get more aces than serving errors, it pays off. I suspect few players can do that. Stacy Gordon was a notable exception. If you can hit it that hard, go for it. |
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Post by silversurfer on Dec 19, 2005 16:55:14 GMT -5
When you block and play defense as well as UW does, jump-serving's an unnecessary risk. Perhaps UW blocks and plays defense as well as they do because of the jump-serving. |
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Post by johnny on Dec 19, 2005 17:00:56 GMT -5
Ahhhhhh....... a paradox.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2005 17:09:59 GMT -5
When you block and play defense as well as UW does, jump-serving's an unnecessary risk. Perhaps UW blocks and plays defense as well as they do because of the jump-serving. But they just said they don't jump serve. Besides Morrison, who rarely misses by the way. It's definitely true that Nebraska's jump-serving helps their block. And maybe helps hide some defensive liabilities? I dunno. I thought their defense had improved a lot this year. But it wasn't there on Saturday. |
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