Tarr is MPSF POW

[Mac]

TARR EARNS MPSF HONOR
WOODLAND, CA-- Senior Robert Tarr was selected on Monday as the MPSF Molten Player of the Week. Tarr averaged 4.67 kills and 1.44 digs per game and hit .314 as the 49ers defeated BYU twice at the Walter Pyramid. Tarr tallied 21 kills in each victory.

www.longbeachstate.com/vol/mvol/index.html

Edited to correct, thanks. (Didn't mean to get mom's heart racing. ;D )

[swingaway]

mac said:

TARR EARNS MPSF HONOR
WOODLAND, CA-- Senior Robert Tarr was selected on Monday as the MPSF Molten Player of the Week. Tarr averaged 4.67 kills and 1.44 digs per game and hit .314 as the 49ers defeated BYU twice at the Walter Pyramid. Tarr tallied 21 kills in each victory.

www.longbeachstate.com/vol/mvol/index.html

I think you mean POW (although he is a qualified candadate for POY)

[vballmom]

Cool ;D

[fingrbustr]

Tarr is absolute stud. Very entertaining to watch when a 6'6 guy jumps 40". Watch closely--his wind-up is most like Pat Powers' in the modern NCAA era. Passes nails, wicked jump-serve, absolutely terminates the ball. First Nick last week, and now RT...good job, AVCA

[bigfan]

Tarr named Player of the Week
Staff reports



Senior outside hitter Robert Tarr was selected on Monday as the MPSF Player of the Week. Tarr led the 49ers to a pair of wins over No. 2-ranked BYU, averaging 4.67 kills and 1.44 digs per game while hitting .314.
He tallied 21 kills in both matches. It is his first MPSF Player of the Week honor this season.

[volleylife]

fingrbustr said:

Tarr is absolute stud. Very entertaining to watch when a 6'6 guy jumps 40". Watch closely--his wind-up is most like Pat Powers' in the modern NCAA era. Passes nails, wicked jump-serve, absolutely terminates the ball. First Nick last week, and now RT...good job, AVCA

Tarr passing Nails??? you have to be joking, right? Biggest serving target on the Beach

[fingrbustr]

He has 1/3 less reception errors (11 less, 22 in 106 games) than Caldwell (their libero) in 5 more games (who you know they're trying NOT to serve to). I don't have all the charting, but he has 4 more than Lotman...and I don't doubt they're serving him more than Lotman. Maybe earlier in his career he was more suspect, but now he's a passing machine.

He's passed the ball great this year. Don't hate, man!

[sharp716]

Just because he doesn't have as many errors as Caldwell doesn't mean that he didn't pass tons of balls 10 feet off the net. Remember that low quality passes that are still playable aren't considered errors, but they can lead to the setter having fewer offensive options which leads to more double and triple blocks.

[fingrbustr]

Very true. Again, I don't have the staff charting, but I'd say the majority of his passes are 2/3. You're not going to be a starting OH in the MPSF if your passing is suspect, let's be realistic. Don't forget he was 1st team All-American last year...apparently the voting coaches (who actually know more than us...what a concept!) agree he wasn't a liability. In fact, them voting him 1ST TEAM should tell you all you really need to know

[Ron]

My guess is that the AA voters from last year were looking mostly at his hitting stats when they chose him for 1st team. Lotman is hitting almost 100 points lower than tarr with almost half the attempts, which leads me to believe that he's in there to pass. I'd bet my new shoes that 9 of the 11 other coaches in the conference would have their players serve at tarr all day if they could.

[Ron]

the difference in reception errors is probably due to the fact that caldwell and lotman are taking a lot more court than tarr. Plus, a ball that lands between the libero and somebody else is usually charged as a reception error to the libero.

[fingrbustr]

Have you guys watched him play throughout his career? Where are you coming up w/ this passing deficiency? OH's don't get on the court if they can PASS 1st, bottom line. It's a requirement of the job, no ifs ands or buts.

A little education for you...an OH has the greatest likelihood to touch the ball 2 out of the 3 times in a rally (pass-hit). Your middles won't pass much at all, neither will your opposites. You NEED to know how to pass to get on the court @ OH, bottom-line. No way around it. No matter how hard you blast. If you can really hammer and/or your passing is suspect, you'll usually end up on the OPP in the modern game. Tarr is 6'6" and could sky...he could be the 2nd coming of Brent Hilliard at LBSU...but HE CAN PASS...hence, he plays OH.

Lotman is in there because he has the best combination of pass/serve/hit (in that order) on their squad for the OH position. He's 6'7", built (225), very young (SO), well-trained w/ the JNT program. He's only a SO...his hitting will get better. LBSU outsides aren't slouches, man.

[fingrbustr]

Typo correction above: "....OH's don't get on the court if they CAN'T PASS 1st, bottom line...."

[fingrbustr]

Addendum to Ron: I don't think the voting coaches look at 'stats' so much when choosing All-Americans. They know the game much more than we do. They know the players; they know what they're looking for. It isn't like sportswriters voting for the Heisman...vball is a small community...they're not just going off stats. They're casting for humans, not numbers.

[ucivball]

when servers from opposing teams are not jump serving, long beach usually goes to two man with caldwell and lotman and they hide tarr. so when tarr does pass, he usually only passes jump serves. not an easy task for sure, but he doesn't have to constantly adjust from float to jump serves.

and about the idea that d 1 outsides can always pass, this is not always true. teams are caught hiding their suspect passing outsides all the time. both times that uci played pepperdine this year, OH parfitt was taken out of the passing formation maybe 4/6 rotations. at times when he was back row, carroll, as an opposite, would have to step in and pass. the uci fans had a heck of a time heckling parfitt b/c of his inability to pass.