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Post by bigjohn043 on Sept 13, 2023 8:31:38 GMT -5
It was not all "little things." Nebraska matched them, but, in Stanford's two losses, a prodigious amount of service errors has played a role. Yes, no way you can serve lollipops at elite teams and win, but, again, like against Florida, the execution wasn't there. And, yes, Wisconsin has had the same issue, no doubt, but, to be elite, you have to serve tough without missing too many! Good side, just a little improvement there maybe switches set 1 against Nebraska and the close ones against Florida. Holy crud, have not gotten to see Miner much, due to my work schedule and no Pac 12 on my sports package in Wisconsin, because Spectrum is terrible, but my can she better the ball! 3.7 SE per set is actually one of the lowest for the year for Stanford. The issue was we lost the serve pass battle. Hard to beat a good team when that happens. Add in a couple of serves taping over and some over passes and you lose. Rubin didn't help either. When you play top teams sometimes you lose. We play this kind of schedule early to get better....
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Post by liberosetter101 on Sept 13, 2023 8:52:26 GMT -5
It was not all "little things." Nebraska matched them, but, in Stanford's two losses, a prodigious amount of service errors has played a role. Yes, no way you can serve lollipops at elite teams and win, but, again, like against Florida, the execution wasn't there. And, yes, Wisconsin has had the same issue, no doubt, but, to be elite, you have to serve tough without missing too many! Good side, just a little improvement there maybe switches set 1 against Nebraska and the close ones against Florida. Holy crud, have not gotten to see Miner much, due to my work schedule and no Pac 12 on my sports package in Wisconsin, because Spectrum is terrible, but my can she better the ball! 3.7 SE per set is actually one of the lowest for the year for Stanford. The issue was we lost the serve pass battle. Hard to beat a good team when that happens. Add in a couple of serves taping over and some over passes and you lose. Rubin didn't help either. When you play top teams sometimes you lose. We play this kind of schedule early to get better.... Agreed I’d rather take an L right now than in the NCAA tourney I wonder why Rubin wasn’t pulled for Blyashov? Perhaps she’s red shirting?
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Post by liberosetter101 on Sept 13, 2023 9:14:00 GMT -5
A. Smith wasn’t even dressed to play. Imagine if one of our middles got injured? Tragic…. We have no depth We don’t even have elite DS players either. Nobody to even try and push Oglivie for a starting spot. Hambly needs to stop recruiting pins and address this issue. We don’t have the luxury of picking up players from the transfer portal
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Post by jwvolley on Sept 13, 2023 9:17:55 GMT -5
3.7 SE per set is actually one of the lowest for the year for Stanford. The issue was we lost the serve pass battle. Hard to beat a good team when that happens. Add in a couple of serves taping over and some over passes and you lose. Rubin didn't help either. When you play top teams sometimes you lose. We play this kind of schedule early to get better.... Agreed I’d rather take an L right now than in the NCAA tourney I wonder why Rubin wasn’t pulled for Blyashov? Perhaps she’s red shirting? Blyashov and Harvey have both played already this season, no redshirt.
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Post by juancook on Sept 13, 2023 9:18:42 GMT -5
Agreed I’d rather take an L right now than in the NCAA tourney I wonder why Rubin wasn’t pulled for Blyashov? Perhaps she’s red shirting? Blyashov and Harvey have both played already this season, no redshirt. Yup. Blyashov was in place for Baird when she was injured.
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Post by ShaneM2005 on Sept 13, 2023 9:23:39 GMT -5
3.7 SE per set is actually one of the lowest for the year for Stanford. The issue was we lost the serve pass battle. Hard to beat a good team when that happens. Add in a couple of serves taping over and some over passes and you lose. Rubin didn't help either. When you play top teams sometimes you lose. We play this kind of schedule early to get better.... Agreed I’d rather take an L right now than in the NCAA tourney I wonder why Rubin wasn’t pulled for Blyashov? Perhaps she’s red shirting? Blyashov or Harvey should have come in last night for Rubin.
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Post by JJVb on Sept 13, 2023 10:35:33 GMT -5
Agreed. Rubin was struggling. She should have been pulled, at least from the front row, for Harvey would be my first choice. Lack of middle depth is a problem. Basically, Neb had stronger middles and stronger backrow digging. Stanford is still a top 5ish team, but cant go higher without changes/additions to these spots next year.
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Post by dokterrudi on Sept 13, 2023 11:29:20 GMT -5
Horrible absolutely horrible. Hats off to NB they saw a weakness and exploited it…tip, tip, tip….slow, slow, slow. How many times does the ball get hit at Kipps feet? Flop…wipe floor. In the 4th set when NB starts pulling away do you sit your “All-Star” down for someone with a better floor game? John Cook would. There is something very wrong with this team besides the obvious problems at MB. Baird has been solid but she adds nothing in the BR, there should be 2 DS back there cmon. Throw all the stats you want at me you want but they just don’t have the extra something. It’s not too late but I don’t know if Hambly has it in him. Cooks an Ahole, I don’t think he treats his players well I can’t stand him. Heck of a game planner though.
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Post by dokterrudi on Sept 13, 2023 11:33:03 GMT -5
And don’t get me started on leadership…
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Post by dokterrudi on Sept 13, 2023 11:34:34 GMT -5
Would not be surprised to see Oglive out for CP, she took a hell of a shot.
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Post by Cruz'n on Sept 13, 2023 14:15:45 GMT -5
A lot of people here crapping on Rubin. Some posters I respect feel she should have been pulled. While perhaps these posters are right, I am fine with Hambly leaving her in.
Serves. 6 missed serves is a lot. I especially dislike the ones she missed by 15 feet long. On the positive, she had some good serves late in the match.
In the back row, I did not notice her playing poorly. I thought she did fine. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Blocking: heck, she had more blocks than our middle, Francis. It was not a great blocking performance by Stanford, but I thought Rubin blocked well.
Hitting. Mostly, I thought Nebraska played well against her. To her credit, Rubin never backed down, and continued to swing hard. For me, it's time to pull someone when they "give up" and start dinking and lollipopping shots over. Rubin kept firing away. Ok, she'll review the game, and realize that she shouldn't always swing low hard crosscourt into a formed double block. She was put into a difficult position, always swinging against a tough double block. Cook had a good game plan: let Stanford's middles beat him. Well, Stanford's middles couldn't beat him, and he shut down Rubin.
I don't think replacing Rubin with Harvey, an opposite, would have helped. And after watching Blyashov so far this year, she is just not ready. Rubin is one of the few players on the court with fire. For that reason I think we really need her out there 6 rotations. Baird has ZERO emotion or fire; Miner is a quiet leader; Kipp is always smiling (which is fine), and is a lead-by-example type. Rubin is the one who continuously fires up her teammates. I think that is important.
In summary, I will defer to Hambly. He knows his roster, and would have subbed in someone for Rubin if he thought it might help.
I applaud Rubin's effort out there. I hope she reduces her SE's, and figures some things out, but I definitely want her on the court.
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Post by dokterrudi on Sept 13, 2023 14:25:37 GMT -5
I agree here, needs to make smarter shots you can’t power through like in club anymore. That comes with experience. If anyone deserved to be pulled it was Kipp. Yes people are laughing at me for saying that but she was a mess.
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Post by photos1 on Sept 13, 2023 14:44:37 GMT -5
It was not all "little things." Nebraska matched them, but, in Stanford's two losses, a prodigious amount of service errors has played a role. Yes, no way you can serve lollipops at elite teams and win, but, again, like against Florida, the execution wasn't there. And, yes, Wisconsin has had the same issue, no doubt, but, to be elite, you have to serve tough without missing too many! Good side, just a little improvement there maybe switches set 1 against Nebraska and the close ones against Florida. Holy crud, have not gotten to see Miner much, due to my work schedule and no Pac 12 on my sports package in Wisconsin, because Spectrum is terrible, but my can she better the ball! 3.7 SE per set is actually one of the lowest for the year for Stanford. The issue was we lost the serve pass battle. Hard to beat a good team when that happens. Add in a couple of serves taping over and some over passes and you lose. Rubin didn't help either. When you play top teams sometimes you lose. We play this kind of schedule early to get better.... Nebraska had more SE (17 to 15) than Stanford did-which is very high for them. I really didn’t expect Nebraska to win because I didn’t believe all the freshman understood the level of play they would need produce to stay with Stanford(turns out I am not sure Stanford understood how good our freshman would play). Although I had never been to a match at Maples I actually tried to get out of going, but I discovered a nicer facility than I anticipated-(but I don’t understand why Stanford doesn’t play on a teraflex floor), and the crowd was bigger and more congenial than I anticipated. Unlike Gregory… And based on Hambly’s reactions, I believe he was stunned with the outcome. I don’t know if you could see it on the broadcast, but his reaction to the final point was very telling. I expect we’ll play Stanford again in Tampa.
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Post by Cruz'n on Sept 13, 2023 15:26:28 GMT -5
3.7 SE per set is actually one of the lowest for the year for Stanford. The issue was we lost the serve pass battle. Hard to beat a good team when that happens. Add in a couple of serves taping over and some over passes and you lose. Rubin didn't help either. When you play top teams sometimes you lose. We play this kind of schedule early to get better.... Nebraska had more SE (17 to 15) than Stanford did-which is very high for them. I really didn’t expect Nebraska to win because I didn’t believe all the freshman understood the level of play they would need produce to stay with Stanford(turns out I am not sure Stanford understood how good our freshman would play). Although I had never been to a match at Maples I actually tried to get out of going, but I discovered a nicer facility than I anticipated-(but I don’t understand why Stanford doesn’t play on a teraflex floor), and the crowd was bigger and more congenial than I anticipated. Unlike Gregory… And based on Hambly’s reactions, I believe he was stunned with the outcome. I don’t know if you could see it on the broadcast, but his reaction to the final point was very telling. I expect we’ll play Stanford again in Tampa. Hambly's reaction after the final point was due to Nebraska's hit actually being long, but Hambly was out of challenges. It really didn't change the final outcome, so whatever.
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Post by bobbk on Sept 13, 2023 16:32:20 GMT -5
In the past no place to store the Tera flex floor Guess now there is room as Stanford will have one next season
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