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Post by jwvolley on Jun 8, 2021 16:01:27 GMT -5
Not JWO's day. She'll bounce back (am I allowed to say that or should I put a disclaimer that Courtney would bounce back too?)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2021 16:02:16 GMT -5
I cry a little inside when I see the six on the court now who didn’t make the Olympics roster but they still have to put on a smile. 😢 Or it’ll be held against them for the rest of their careers. |
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Post by gibbyb1 on Jun 8, 2021 16:02:42 GMT -5
Do you all understand now why Larson is so key to this teams success? She isn't on the floor and the entire back row is a liability. Robinson has some big shoes to fill when Larson finally retires from the NT. Who didn’t understand??? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2021 16:03:23 GMT -5
Do you all understand now why Larson is so key to this teams success? She isn't on the floor and the entire back row is a liability. Robinson has some big shoes to fill when Larson finally retires from the NT. Who didn’t understand??? A few up in the peanut gallery. 🤷🏻♂️ |
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Post by Reach on Jun 8, 2021 16:03:34 GMT -5
Someone start the canceling Poulter thread. I’ll make the flyers I already ordered. |
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Post by trianglevolleyball on Jun 8, 2021 16:03:42 GMT -5
I know you don’t like it when people are negative towards players but this is a team full of Olympians playing a team full of young Italians who don’t all even start for their club teams that are near the bottom of the standings. There must be players out of form. It's not that. It's the absolute refusal on here to give players a chance to make mistakes, or entertain the possibility that an opponent could do something well. Why was it your assumption that it was someone's fault that we lost? We're either not getting tested or we are trash. There's never a middle ground on here. It was amusing. Now it's just boring. Carry on. I'm just a grouch, lol. I was asking because I’m invested in the race for starting setter and starting outsides, which are very much in the air and fun things to speculate about. Their play in these matches is used to evaluate who will start, and it’s likely that one or more of MBH, Kelsey, and Poulter looked shaky, an important consideration to that evaluation. |
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Post by werka on Jun 8, 2021 16:04:05 GMT -5
Volleytalk when matches are blowouts: YAWN, I CAN'T STAND TO WATCH THIS, TAKE ME OUT OF HERE, EW Volleytalk when matches are a *little* bit closer: OMG THE USA SUCKS SEND EVERYONE HOME WTF HOW DID THEY GET HERE you always do this. The USA looked awful for like an entire set against a B team. Starting our Olympic roster. That’s concerning a month before the olympics Good thing it’s not entirely our starters 🙏🏼 |
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Post by midnightblue on Jun 8, 2021 16:04:06 GMT -5
Do you all understand now why Larson is so key to this teams success? She isn't on the floor and the entire back row is a liability. Robinson has some big shoes to fill when Larson finally retires from the NT. Who didn’t understand??? Well one poster suggested Larson is only on the team due to white privilege. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2021 16:04:44 GMT -5
My favorite is when it's not considered 'grouchy' to bitch about the same players all day long while showing actual disdain for the entire sport, but then once someone points it out, the pointer-outer becomes the 'grouch.' And then when those same people are like 'I'm not being rude or disrespectful about that player I just called a loser, iT's JuSt mY PeRsOnAlIty' as though it's not this completely overused excuse to rag on whoever, for whatever. i think people are mad about the roster.. so every mistake anyone from the floor makes, its taken as an opportunity to point out why their pick should have been chosen instead. and i mean every single mistake, a new way to point it out.. i think the only position that haven't really been the target is MB. It's sad. The only thing this team can do is win gold otherwise the second-guessing will be brutal. And even if they win it'll be, for some, that the rest of the world was down that Olympics. It's just too much. That's all. I don't expect people to be cheerleaders. I just wish there was a little more perspective. Perfection is an impossible goal. |
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Post by werka on Jun 8, 2021 16:04:58 GMT -5
I cry a little inside when I see the six on the court now who didn’t make the Olympics roster but they still have to put on a smile. 😢 I’m still so sad for Lauren  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2021 16:04:58 GMT -5
LOL! Expect a lot more and worse during the Olympics. Sorry, but it is not going to be cute for Karch and the PoulterPosse.
I don't mind people complaining about the staff's decisions or other fans, but when those complaints spill over and people attack the players, then I'm not a fan. And that happens here, more often than not. I've not been a fan of people criticizing any of our setters or other players.
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Post by gibbyb1 on Jun 8, 2021 16:05:10 GMT -5
Well one poster suggested Larson is only on the team due to white privilege. Just Larson? |
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Post by tamz on Jun 8, 2021 16:06:48 GMT -5
I cry a little inside when I see the six on the court now who didn’t make the Olympics roster but they still have to put on a smile. 😢 I’m still so sad for Lauren Same… |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2021 16:06:52 GMT -5
It's not that. It's the absolute refusal on here to give players a chance to make mistakes, or entertain the possibility that an opponent could do something well. Why was it your assumption that it was someone's fault that we lost? We're either not getting tested or we are trash. There's never a middle ground on here. It was amusing. Now it's just boring. Carry on. I'm just a grouch, lol. I was asking because I’m invested in the race for starting setter and starting outsides, which are very much in the air and fun things to speculate about. Their play in these matches is used to evaluate who will start, and it’s likely that one or more of MBH, Kelsey, and Poulter looked shaky, an important consideration to that evaluation. Cool. And it's totally unfair for me to single you out, which wasn't my intention. Yours was just another example. I just wish we could say "How'd we drop a set? What did we do? What did Italy do?" rather than "Who f***ed up?" |
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Post by werka on Jun 8, 2021 16:07:40 GMT -5
Drews and Gunderson were the lone bright spots today.
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