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Post by backinthesaddle on Sept 1, 2019 13:06:09 GMT -5
You couldn’t have hit the target more accurately with a laser. With a few exceptions, the USA team was required by staff to serve the float. Most of these players have developed a decent, age appropriate, hard driven jump serve and struggled with a new, to them, float. Hill, Knight and Kauling, to name a few, have a very good jump serve yet, were all floating. The international teams have very effective floats because they practice it all year and with the same FIVB ball. Russia and Germany in particular, serve a crazy float that, when watching from the end line moves side to side a foot to foot and a half. That’s an extremely difficult ball to track as a serve receive passer. The USA floats might as well have been a free ball toss at times, we just don’t develop that in the lower levels. So, should the strategy have been to let the servers go for it and bomb a jump or, with one week of practice, try something completely foreign, with a new ball, and float? There is no question that some on the USA team struggled with the float in serve receive but perhaps more importantly, dished up cake serves at times that enabled huge attacking teams to run a more complex offense and pound ball after ball. I would imagine the players were frustrated with being asked to float so often but they certainly followed directions.
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