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Post by volleyfan24 on Aug 7, 2016 17:44:58 GMT -5
Not sure why Jashchke wasn't given a shot today. Sander was awful. Maybe troy would have given the team a boost. Yeah something needed to be done Sander was not getting it done. I haven't seen official numbers but at one time during the match he was 3 for 12. I say put Thomas in. If Sander isn't doing it, it's not like we don't have anyone on the bench.
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Post by vboldskool on Aug 7, 2016 17:45:14 GMT -5
That idiot Barnett keeps saying that this is the best young US generation ever.. OF course Sunderland NEVER says that he agrees with that.. YOu know why?? Because Sunderland was on the team when Karch was in his early/mid 20s and already the best player in the World.. One time if love to hear Sundy say, "hey Kevin, can you polish my Olympic violleyball gold medal?" I give him credit he has always done a good job of down playing his success to his partner. He does have a retirement to think about.
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Post by haze on Aug 7, 2016 17:49:29 GMT -5
I don't follow indoor as much as sand, but I don't really get the hype on the men's indoor team. They just don't look that good im comparison to other World Class teams. I watched their world league finals and this was more of the same, terrible first ball contact control and getting dominated at the net. When our starters couldn't even beat Brazil's second team I wasn't really getting the hype at all. Canada was better in every category. Maybe this team is just young I don't know but it just isn't a very good team.
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Post by haze on Aug 7, 2016 17:57:26 GMT -5
Does us have any other opposite options to move Anderson over to outside, or is that too late in the game?
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Post by vinnielopes on Aug 7, 2016 18:02:58 GMT -5
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Post by c4ndlelight on Aug 7, 2016 18:09:46 GMT -5
How many times has Canada actually beaten us in a serious match?
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Post by emeyezee on Aug 7, 2016 18:10:58 GMT -5
No clue why Jaeschke was on the bench
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Post by akbar on Aug 7, 2016 18:14:59 GMT -5
How many times has Canada actually beaten us in a serious match? We were not prepared for what they brought. That is a good team who made the most of their relatively new roster. I suspect they will have a tougher time as the tourney gets older
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Post by volleyfan24 on Aug 7, 2016 18:18:48 GMT -5
I don't follow indoor as much as sand, but I don't really get the hype on the men's indoor team. They just don't look that good im comparison to other World Class teams. I watched their world league finals and this was more of the same, terrible first ball contact control and getting dominated at the net. When our starters couldn't even beat Brazil's second team I wasn't really getting the hype at all. Canada was better in every category. Maybe this team is just young I don't know but it just isn't a very good team. I feel they are young. Their lack of composure and team cohesiveness sometimes shows on the court like it did today. This is most of these guys first Olympics, so it is to be expected. Outside of Lee, Anderson, and Priddy all these guys are first timers. The hype though comes from last year. They literally came out of nowhere and won the World Cup and gold for the first time in 30 years a USA Men's Indoor Team has done that. The hype is warranted. They are very good the roster reads like a list of All Stars. They don't always show it when the teams breaks down the way they did today but this Olympics it's anyone's medal to win the field is deep with lots of teams capable of taking home gold. The US just has a target on their back because of past Olympic success and World Cup gold but the roster is fresh and young. Will they win Gold or medal remind to be seen but they certainly have the talent and capability to do so and anything less is a let down to me. Anderson is our best option at OPP we have depth at outside if we had a good enough RS we would use them but he is our best option there.
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Post by haze on Aug 7, 2016 19:11:19 GMT -5
So with the loss against Canada today, what are USA's chances of breaking pool? I believe 4 of the 6 teams break. How many other teams in our pool should we beat assuming USA plays better? I'm assuming Brasil will probably run away with the pool.
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Post by panicvb on Aug 7, 2016 19:23:15 GMT -5
I don't think anyone is going to run away with the pool. I think Canada is going to knock off someone else as well, it's a group of death.
Second, Jaeschke has to play for Sander. Sander was making me yell at the TV - a lot.
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Post by akbar on Aug 7, 2016 19:35:54 GMT -5
I don't think anyone is going to run away with the pool. I think Canada is going to knock off someone else as well, it's a group of death. Second, Jaeschke has to play for Sander. Sander was making me yell at the TV - a lot. We know he can play better but it was clear we needed our OH1 to play better it every aspect of the game. Tuesday is a new day.
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Post by akbar on Aug 7, 2016 19:43:40 GMT -5
“I knew we were in for a battle,” U.S. Head Coach John Speraw said. “I didn’t think we’d come out and perform like that, particularly from the service line in the first set. Actually, going in, I felt like we were in a pretty good place mentally.”
Five out of the seven U.S. starters had no Olympic experience. But they have performed well in major competitions, including winning the 2014 FIVB World League and the 2015 FIVB World Cup.
“These guys have proven themselves on the biggest stages,” Team Captain David Lee said. “You hope it’s just nerves. That’s very uncharacteristic of these young players to make some of the errors they did in some of the moments they did. I expect them to be extremely motivated in the matches to come.”
U.S. outside hitter Taylor Sander admitted the Olympic Games are bigger than he expected.
“There are so many more athletes than I thought there were,” he said. “It’s a cool experience.”
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Post by brooselee on Aug 7, 2016 20:09:56 GMT -5
Watched the France/Italy match and Italy looked good. We could have problem with them if the Italians play like they did today.
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Post by akbar on Aug 7, 2016 20:19:49 GMT -5
IMO the best matches we have played in the past 2 years were matches where we were really aggressively from the service line.
The losses that we have, we were not.
Example: I would bet Canada ran middle successfully 8/10 times that Russell float served.
Too much thinking going on at the service line recently I think.
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