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Post by Psychopotamus on Jan 9, 2004 6:27:33 GMT -5
At the beginning of the season I said that I thought the team with the best RS would win. With the production of the LSs in the FF, Candelas seems like she did the best job stopping opponents LS attack.
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Post by Gorf on Jan 9, 2004 9:50:35 GMT -5
She was playing middle more than right side whenever I saw USC play.
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Post by rayb_14 on Jan 9, 2004 10:29:18 GMT -5
At the beginning of the season I said that I thought the team with the best RS would win. With the production of the LSs in the FF, Candelas seems like she did the best job stopping opponents LS attack. every time I saw USC play, Bibi was in the middle. Minnesota and Florida had the best right sides when the season ended... |
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Post by macpahl on Jan 9, 2004 11:12:18 GMT -5
Didn't Olsovsky play right side for USC usually? She's pretty good--but I'd argue that Busse was a better right side player.
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Post by brybry on Jan 9, 2004 12:07:34 GMT -5
Didn't Olsovsky play right side for USC usually? She's pretty good--but I'd argue that Busse was a better right side player. Bibi was a MB and primarily hit out of the middle. Olsovsky is obviously a very good player, but IMO she doesn't appear that comfortable at RS. Her best position is MB and I've seen her hit pretty well from the outside, but she seems to struggle on the RS when the set is off the net, if the set is coming from behind 10 foot line, or if she has 2 blockers up against her. |
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Post by Barefoot In Kailua on Jan 9, 2004 13:25:16 GMT -5
At the beginning of the season I said that I thought the team with the best RS would win. With the production of the LSs in the FF, Candelas seems like she did the best job stopping opponents LS attack. ;D Sorry Richee, you were incorrect.  As others pointed out, Candelas played MB. Olsovsky was USC's rightside. If the team with the best RS were to win, Minnesota would be the current National Champions. |
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Post by IdahoBoy on Jan 9, 2004 13:28:59 GMT -5
Richee, You were right in your own eyes, and, in most cases, that is all that matters right? Besides, do you really care what we think here anyways? Agree with Barefoot, though, Busse was the best right-side, hands down. Next time, make a premonition that has Hawaii coming out on top, if you're gonna be wrong, at least keep face with your fellow fans. |
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Post by fightingminime on Jan 9, 2004 13:33:56 GMT -5
I dunno . . . I'll take playing like KatieO most days of the week.
Granted Busse was AWESOME! I love the way Mike manipulated there D so that she (as a RS) was hitting out of middle back. I think like half of her kills were hitting the pipe.
Richee . . . you could have refined it to "the team with a distinguished RS that has a lot of backup."
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Post by Psychopotamus on Jan 9, 2004 20:47:41 GMT -5
Sorry, I meant Olsovsky. That post was inspired by a 6-pack to it was kind of garbled. I meant to say the team with the better defensive RS seemed to win throughout the tourney.
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Post by Gorf on Jan 10, 2004 15:39:58 GMT -5
Sorry, I meant Olsovsky. That post was inspired by a 6-pack to it was kind of garbled. I meant to say the team with the better defensive RS seemed to win throughout the tourney. When USC was running their 6-2 Katie wasn't playing back row so she wasn't making an impact at all on defense in that situation. When USC went to their 5-1 she played opposite Toni and she did play very good defense. Cassie Busses played back row all season as the opposite for the Gophers and was behind only Paula and Lindsey in digs for Minnesota for the season. In Minnesota's match against USC her 12 digs lead the Gophers and the only USC player that had more digs was Nicole Davis at 18. Katie only had 4 digs in that match, but as I said she played back row only when USC switch to playing a 5-1. |
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Post by beachman on Jan 10, 2004 19:25:23 GMT -5
Busse is definitely the superior player between her and Olsovsky! No contest!
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Post by roofed! on Jan 10, 2004 19:59:52 GMT -5
Yeah Busse is a more accomplished Opposite than Olsovsky, but you have to remember that Olsovksy is primarily a MB who i sshifted to Opp this season. What I like about Busse is that she is quite an offensive weapon from the backrow too. She can torpedo down a kill from behind the 10-foot line. Olsovsky meanwhile is tentative in her backrow attack (mostly, just lopped the ball over), and is more dependent on perfect sets from Anderson.
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Post by beachman on Jan 10, 2004 20:19:23 GMT -5
From what we saw at the regional in the Pyramid, Busse was an awesome player! totally complete game as you said, big, strong, and durable! Smart player as well. They had a chance to put USC out of the tournament but their inexperience really showed in the first two games(both of which they could have won)  |
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Post by brybry on Jan 10, 2004 22:25:14 GMT -5
There's a lot of coulda woulda shouldas. UW should have beaten Minnesota but they didn't. Oh well.
Busse is far better than Olsovsky at OPP. Olsovsky is far better than Busse at MB.
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Post by Psychopotamus on Jan 11, 2004 3:52:50 GMT -5
Front row defense? I didn't think about digging included in defense, whcih it is. I'm not sure how to phrase it. The idea was that all the LSs were so good it was a matter of negating them, which would make that the RS's primary function this season. I actually should include the setter as well because blocking wise USC's setter was the smallest liability (strongest weakness?)with their 6-2.
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