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Post by DaDawgFather on Jul 30, 2021 10:47:09 GMT -5
I’ve always been a big fan of Coach Speraw. Great coach, great person. His teams at Irvine won national championships while leading the nation in both aces and errors- they seemed to hit their serves only the important moments of a match. But for the last four ir five years with both UCLA and the NT we seem to crumble at the service line, and seem to miss an inordinate amount of serves by the match end. I don’t know why this is happening but it’s killing us! Come on USA. Let’s get hot from the service line. Dial up your inner Zaystef and hit some heat under pressure! Maybe they need to bring back Andrea Becker. |
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Post by bruinsgold on Jul 30, 2021 11:25:26 GMT -5
I’ve always been a big fan of Coach Speraw. Great coach, great person. His teams at Irvine won national championships while leading the nation in both aces and errors- they seemed to hit their serves only the important moments of a match. But for the last four ir five years with both UCLA and the NT we seem to crumble at the service line, and seem to miss an inordinate amount of serves by the match end. I don’t know why this is happening but it’s killing us! Come on USA. Let’s get hot from the service line. Dial up your inner Zaystef and hit some heat under pressure! Maybe need to bring back Andrea Becker. Man, she was great for the team. What happened to her? |
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Post by DaDawgFather on Jul 30, 2021 11:51:31 GMT -5
Maybe need to bring back Andrea Becker. Man, she was great for the team. What happened to her? I'm not a USAV or Bruin insider so don't really know. My guess is after a number of years working on Speraw's staff she wanted to continue in a faculty role somewhere, continue research and gain tenure. That's pure speculation but that's my guess anyhow. |
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Post by akbar on Jul 30, 2021 12:03:14 GMT -5
Man, she was great for the team. What happened to her? I'm not a USAV or Bruin insider so don't really know. My guess is after a number of years working on Speraw's staff she wanted to continue in a faculty role somewhere, continue research and gain tenure. That's pure speculation but that's my guess anyhow. Highly respected www.csus.edu/college/health-human-services/kinesiology/meet-us/ |
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Post by DaDawgFather on Jul 30, 2021 12:06:26 GMT -5
I'm not a USAV or Bruin insider so don't really know. My guess is after a number of years working on Speraw's staff she wanted to continue in a faculty role somewhere, continue research and gain tenure. That's pure speculation but that's my guess anyhow. Highly respected www.csus.edu/college/health-human-services/kinesiology/meet-us/Nice find. Moved away from SoCal and working her way up to a full professor. |
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Post by blackiechan1999 on Jul 30, 2021 12:17:32 GMT -5
His on court demeanor is appalling. How about his armpit hair? C'mon, Defalco. Get it together and trim that bush. I’m screaming cuz I thought the same thingggg 😂 |
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Post by Hawk Attack on Jul 30, 2021 13:50:21 GMT -5
Jendryk wasn’t good enough to make the cut ? He was good enough. He just wasn’t chosen… |
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Post by Disc808 on Jul 30, 2021 13:54:51 GMT -5
Jendryk wasn’t good enough to make the cut ? He was good enough. He just wasn’t chosen… A strong argument could have been made for Averill as well |
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Post by timduckforlife on Jul 30, 2021 17:07:41 GMT -5
Encouraged and discouraged at the same time.
We've lost 2, but let's face it, we were expected to lose these matches. But with that said, with both Russia and Brazil, we could've won those matches. Sure, Russia was 3-0, but all were deuce sets and extremely winnable.
The discourging part of it is thst we didnt win. We really gave up the advantage with really bad serving and even really weird substitutions. I think of the GM substitution into the front row against Russia. The guy has zero offensive game. You either ignore him or just leave one blocker there and he'll just tip the ball somewhere.
Another discouraging point is almost all of them are trying to sort of do floats. They are jump servers and trying to change it up in the Olympics not only looks really bad but typically just giving the other team a free point thru a miss or easy 1st tempo offense.
That said, one match left before QF, and we should beat Argentina and as thus secure 3rd so we won't have to face Poland in the 1st round.
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Post by superflip on Jul 30, 2021 21:13:47 GMT -5
Nice find. Moved away from SoCal and working her way up to a full professor. Dr. Becker has also had a child since Rio, so that may also be a factor in her no longer being involved with the team. Given the feedback from the players about her work with them, I'd venture to guess her presence is missed (I do not know if the USA Men have a replacement for her there in Tokyo). |
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Post by DaDawgFather on Jul 30, 2021 21:31:12 GMT -5
Nice find. Moved away from SoCal and working her way up to a full professor. Dr. Becker has also had a child since Rio, so that may also be a factor in her no longer being involved with the team. Given the feedback from the players about her work with them, I'd venture to guess her presence is missed (I do not know if the USA Men have a replacement for her there in Tokyo). Ah. Didn't know that. My guess probably wasn't even close to the real reason. |
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