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Post by AmeriCanVBfan on Nov 15, 2021 17:36:46 GMT -5
What the hell is the point of this post? This is exactly what he’s talking about. Instead of just letting things go you come on here and attack him just to egg him on some more. Knox it off. And for the record I think Diet Pepsi is delicious. GBR The point was to add some levity to a topic that has generated a lot of anger and name calling. Of course leave it to someone to label that an “attack” I, for one, appreciated the levity although I am Team Pepsi all the way! Okay gang, I am forced to acknowledge that Purdue is for real and capable of beating anyone (Including your Mighty Big Red). Do you guys feel like you've dropped a notch or are the other Big Ten teams starting to rise? Some of the observations you guys are making about Nebraska mirror those we Gopher fans are making about our team.
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Post by AmeriCanVBfan on Nov 15, 2021 17:38:32 GMT -5
Good weekend for The Volleyball State. No doubt The State is being well represented. I'm very curious to see what these three teams do in the post season.
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Post by vergyltantor on Nov 15, 2021 18:11:58 GMT -5
Another thing I would like to see improved is communication on defense. I see far too many players fighting for balls that should be going cleanly to Rodriguez.
BTW: Pepsi, It's the Real Thing.
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Post by volleyb on Nov 15, 2021 18:18:47 GMT -5
just watched the indiana game. how long of a leash does hames have.. everyone else getting yanked and she stays. surely the other setters can’t be worse than her.
also WTF at the amount of attacks knuckles gets. like if they’re gonna set bsckrow that much keep sun in. once in a while ok but over 10 attempts as a DS. christ
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Post by photos1 on Nov 15, 2021 19:03:52 GMT -5
I was watching some 2018 tourney games and Nicklin was setting quite a bit better then than she has at all this season tbh. Her setting in the tourney that year was a big reason we looked much better than in the regular season. She’s going to have to do something similar this post-season if the team wants to make a decent run in the tourney. As her setting stands now, this team is no better than a sweet 16 team, and I would say has a very realistic chance at getting taken out in the second round. Not to put the blame all on her, but the passing has been better than the last two seasons. Not great, but better than previously. She has the same hitters, and one who even upped her game, but the team is performing significantly worse offensively. She’s capable of being an above average, and at times quite good setter, but this season her setting has straight up been bad at times. I’m not sure Hames problem has been her setting placement. . . it’s more where and who she is setting. She just isn’t making the correct choice of who to set . . . and then you add that she just refuses to make second hit attacks, and other times even with good passing, she won’t set the middles and the result is she has become predictable against the best coaches and teams in the country. We’ll see how Friday goes because Rose will have a plan. . . I don’t know if I agree she has regressed since 2018 ( more she just hasn’t improved in one area); in 2018 I think she may have been just as predictable, but Foecke was such a focus that Sweet hardly ever had two blockers and even when Foecke did have two blockers-she repeatedly beat the block. Foecke made every setter look better. I wish Hames well, but I just don’t see the natural improvement a four-year starter should show. She’s become a great leader, a great defensive player, but the choice of who she sets has become a huge problem, she just doesn’t seem to be able to read a defense . . . We’ll see how it goes 🏐
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Post by gibbyb1 on Nov 15, 2021 19:49:23 GMT -5
I was watching some 2018 tourney games and Nicklin was setting quite a bit better then than she has at all this season tbh. Her setting in the tourney that year was a big reason we looked much better than in the regular season. She’s going to have to do something similar this post-season if the team wants to make a decent run in the tourney. As her setting stands now, this team is no better than a sweet 16 team, and I would say has a very realistic chance at getting taken out in the second round. Not to put the blame all on her, but the passing has been better than the last two seasons. Not great, but better than previously. She has the same hitters, and one who even upped her game, but the team is performing significantly worse offensively. She’s capable of being an above average, and at times quite good setter, but this season her setting has straight up been bad at times. I’m not sure Hames problem has been her setting placement. . . it’s more where and who she is setting. She just isn’t making the correct choice of who to set . . . and then you add that she just refuses to make second hit attacks, and other times even with good passing, she won’t set the middles and the result is she has become predictable against the best coaches and teams in the country. We’ll see how Friday goes because Rose will have a plan. . . I don’t know if I agree she has regressed since 2018 ( more she just hasn’t improved in one area); in 2018 I think she may have been just as predictable, but Foecke was such a focus that Sweet hardly ever had two blockers and even when Foecke did have two blockers-she repeatedly beat the block. Foecke made every setter look better. I wish Hames well, but I just don’t see the natural improvement a four-year starter should show. She’s become a great leader, a great defensive player, but the choice of who she sets has become a huge problem, she just doesn’t seem to be able to read a defense . . . We’ll see how it goes 🏐 What’s her record against Rose plan?
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Post by tedheise on Nov 15, 2021 20:32:38 GMT -5
My prediction is 7 pm ET with the Old Oaken Bucket 🪣 game at noon ET (still TBD on schedule). 👍 Can’t imagine they will move it up with the stadium full of 🏈 fans. If football moves to 3 pm ET (unlikely) it could move back. Well, put me down as wrong on Purdue vs Indiana football - now 3:30 ET for TV 🤯 so volleyball 🏐 moves to 9 pm ET start for the big Nebraska matchup 👍🚂🏐 sounds like your schedule will work 😃 Yay--thanks!
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Post by photos1 on Nov 15, 2021 21:07:02 GMT -5
I’m not sure Hames problem has been her setting placement. . . it’s more where and who she is setting. She just isn’t making the correct choice of who to set . . . and then you add that she just refuses to make second hit attacks, and other times even with good passing, she won’t set the middles and the result is she has become predictable against the best coaches and teams in the country. We’ll see how Friday goes because Rose will have a plan. . . I don’t know if I agree she has regressed since 2018 ( more she just hasn’t improved in one area); in 2018 I think she may have been just as predictable, but Foecke was such a focus that Sweet hardly ever had two blockers and even when Foecke did have two blockers-she repeatedly beat the block. Foecke made every setter look better. I wish Hames well, but I just don’t see the natural improvement a four-year starter should show. She’s become a great leader, a great defensive player, but the choice of who she sets has become a huge problem, she just doesn’t seem to be able to read a defense . . . We’ll see how it goes 🏐 What’s her record against Rose plan? What’s her record against Wisconsin? How about this, who is the only Nebraska setter to lose against Penn State in the past ten Neb/PennSt matches? The point that apparently escaped you is that Hames has become so predictable, and the offense has been shut down by nearly everyone since we hit .244 in the first Penn St match. And now we have the Penn St rematch and Rose will draw from the teams that have shut us down. They also appear to be totally healthy-unlike the first match this year. Even when we beat Purdue we hit barely over .200. The truth is clear, we are winning matches due to our floor defense and getting very little help from our 4th year setter. I have supported her as much as anyone on this board, or anyone I know, but the past 5 matches have been horrid-from the setter position. I don’t know what is going on with her, but unless it changes in a hurry, we run a high risk of having a repeat of 2011. This season is in peril.
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Post by gibbyb1 on Nov 15, 2021 21:53:26 GMT -5
What’s her record against Rose plan? What’s her record against Wisconsin? How about this, who is the only Nebraska setter to lose against Penn State in the past ten Neb/PennSt matches? The point that apparently escaped you is that Hames has become so predictable, and the offense has been shut down by nearly everyone since we hit .244 in the first Penn St match. And now we have the Penn St rematch and Rose will draw from the teams that have shut us down. They also appear to be totally healthy-unlike the first match this year. Even when we beat Purdue we hit barely over .200. The truth is clear, we are winning matches due to our floor defense and getting very little help from our 4th year setter. I have supported her as much as anyone on this board, or anyone I know, but the past 5 matches have been horrid-from the setter position. I don’t know what is going on with her, but unless it changes in a hurry, we run a high risk of having a repeat of 2011. This season is in peril. Well they did hit over .250 four matches after PSU. Hames has underperformed but she’s just one part of how this group has underperformed as of late. You say “I don’t know what’s going on with her” but I’d say “I don’t know what’s going on with them” just as much. Something is missing with this group and yes Hames play is part of that.
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Post by jwvolley on Nov 15, 2021 21:59:23 GMT -5
What’s her record against Wisconsin? How about this, who is the only Nebraska setter to lose against Penn State in the past ten Neb/PennSt matches? The point that apparently escaped you is that Hames has become so predictable, and the offense has been shut down by nearly everyone since we hit .244 in the first Penn St match. And now we have the Penn St rematch and Rose will draw from the teams that have shut us down. They also appear to be totally healthy-unlike the first match this year. Even when we beat Purdue we hit barely over .200. The truth is clear, we are winning matches due to our floor defense and getting very little help from our 4th year setter. I have supported her as much as anyone on this board, or anyone I know, but the past 5 matches have been horrid-from the setter position. I don’t know what is going on with her, but unless it changes in a hurry, we run a high risk of having a repeat of 2011. This season is in peril. Hames has underperformed but she’s just one part of how this group has underperformed as of late. She is, however, the only part that hasn't been taken out at any point. And yes, we know, blah blah we aren't in practice blah blah if they were better they'd play blah blah, spare me. Her play has absolutely warranted someone else to at least get a meaningful in-match opportunity.
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Post by gibbyb1 on Nov 15, 2021 22:04:06 GMT -5
Hames has underperformed but she’s just one part of how this group has underperformed as of late. She is, however, the only part that hasn't been taken out at any point. And yes, we know, blah blah we aren't in practice blah blah if they were better they'd play blah blah, spare me. Her play has absolutely warranted someone else to at least get a meaningful in-match opportunity. I don’t have an explanation as to why Orr hasn’t had a few opportunities. Clearly they have their reasons of which we aren’t privy.
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Post by photos1 on Nov 16, 2021 1:07:39 GMT -5
What’s her record against Wisconsin? How about this, who is the only Nebraska setter to lose against Penn State in the past ten Neb/PennSt matches? The point that apparently escaped you is that Hames has become so predictable, and the offense has been shut down by nearly everyone since we hit .244 in the first Penn St match. And now we have the Penn St rematch and Rose will draw from the teams that have shut us down. They also appear to be totally healthy-unlike the first match this year. Even when we beat Purdue we hit barely over .200. The truth is clear, we are winning matches due to our floor defense and getting very little help from our 4th year setter. I have supported her as much as anyone on this board, or anyone I know, but the past 5 matches have been horrid-from the setter position. I don’t know what is going on with her, but unless it changes in a hurry, we run a high risk of having a repeat of 2011. This season is in peril. Well they did hit over .250 four matches after PSU. Hames has underperformed but she’s just one part of how this group has underperformed as of late. You say “I don’t know what’s going on with her” but I’d say “I don’t know what’s going on with them” just as much. Something is missing with this group and yes Hames play is part of that. Yeah, “something is missing”. . . an elite setter. Hames seemed to have plateaued at a level below that, at least in her ability to make on-the-fly choices on who to set the ball to. That part of her game just hasn’t improved in the past four years. And I know they train her, and plead with her to be a more offensive second ball attacker, but she just doesn’t do it. Great setters have the ability to improve the balls they get and make hitters better than they are…but that’s not Hames.
I don’t think anyone could say we don’t have elite talent at OH and MB, yet they are all either in a season long slump or just not getting many sets.
The number of opportunities she has had to set the middles the past 6 matches, but just doesn’t, is really astounding. She continues to just mindlessly fire balls outside where two blockers are camped out waiting to block. And the number of mistimed passes she makes to even Stivrins-even after 3+ years is troubling. Sun has been an elite hitter at every level she has ever played, but she hasn’t been one here this year. People want to know why Lauenstein isn’t playing- and the story is she was only switched to OH 2 years ago so she is still learning the position and if she gets perfect in-system sets she is lethal, but has trouble with out of system balls. The truth is she seems to have trouble with sets that are not perfect and she has to adjust her swing. Hames seems to have the same trouble setting Lauenstein that she had setting Sweet. Krause has been slightly better because she just has a great deal of talent dealing with bad sets. If Nebraska had an elite setter this season there is no telling how much better we would be. We are tied for first in the conference with a very mediocre offense. I doubt any change at setter will be made at this late date. We are tied for first in the conference but can anyone name a Nebraska player besides Rodriquez who, right now, would be All B1G? I’m sure Stivrins may be a first team pick, but more on past performance, not what she has done this season. I’m sure Hames would probably be a second team pick. I don’t see this team making a serious run in the tournament, but. . . We’ll see how it goes. . .
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Post by photos1 on Nov 16, 2021 1:08:33 GMT -5
What’s her record against Wisconsin? How about this, who is the only Nebraska setter to lose against Penn State in the past ten Neb/PennSt matches? The point that apparently escaped you is that Hames has become so predictable, and the offense has been shut down by nearly everyone since we hit .244 in the first Penn St match. And now we have the Penn St rematch and Rose will draw from the teams that have shut us down. They also appear to be totally healthy-unlike the first match this year. Even when we beat Purdue we hit barely over .200. The truth is clear, we are winning matches due to our floor defense and getting very little help from our 4th year setter. I have supported her as much as anyone on this board, or anyone I know, but the past 5 matches have been horrid-from the setter position. I don’t know what is going on with her, but unless it changes in a hurry, we run a high risk of having a repeat of 2011. This season is in peril. Well they did hit over .250 four matches after PSU. Hames has underperformed but she’s just one part of how this group has underperformed as of late. You say “I don’t know what’s going on with her” but I’d say “I don’t know what’s going on with them” just as much. Something is missing with this group and yes Hames play is part of that. Yeah, “something is missing”. . . an elite setter. Hames seemed to have plateaued at a level below that, at least in her ability to make on-the-fly choices on who to set the ball to. That part of her game just hasn’t improved in the past four years. And I know they train her, and plead with her to be a more offensive second ball attacker, but she just doesn’t do it. Great setters have the ability to improve the balls they get and make hitters better than they are…but that’s not Hames.
I don’t think anyone could say we don’t have elite talent at OH and MB, yet they are all either in a season long slump or just not getting many sets.
The number of opportunities she has had to set the middles the past 6 matches, but just doesn’t, is really astounding. She continues to just mindlessly fire balls outside where two blockers are camped out waiting to block. And the number of mistimed passes she makes to even Stivrins-even after 3+ years is troubling. Sun has been an elite hitter at every level she has ever played, but she hasn’t been one here this year. People want to know why Lauenstein isn’t playing- and the story is she was only switched to OH 2 years ago so she is still learning the position and if she gets perfect in-system sets she is lethal, but has trouble with out of system balls. The truth is she seems to have trouble with sets that are not perfect and she has to adjust her swing. Hames seems to have the same trouble setting Lauenstein that she had setting Sweet. Krause has been slightly better because she just has a great deal of talent dealing with bad sets. If Nebraska had an elite setter this season there is no telling how much better we would be. We are tied for first in the conference with a very mediocre offense. I doubt any change at setter will be made at this late date. We are tied for first in the conference but can anyone name a Nebraska player besides Rodriquez who, right now, would be All B1G? I’m sure Stivrins may be a first team pick, but more on past performance, not what she has done this season. I’m sure Hames would probably be a second team pick. I don’t see this team making a serious run in the tournament, but. . . We’ll see how it goes. . .
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Post by nothingbutcorn on Nov 16, 2021 8:50:24 GMT -5
So how do we feel about RC Cola?
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Post by kidsker7 on Nov 16, 2021 8:57:28 GMT -5
The biggest problem this team has is service errors. They nullify good defense, stop the team from taking advantage of favorable matchups in certain rotations, destroy rhythm, kill energy and enthusiasm, and allow the other team to relax and gain confidence.
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