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Post by smartcookie on Oct 22, 2021 22:12:26 GMT -5
We see the difference between a BYU team with a consistent, reliable lineup and an unsteady San Diego team trying to figure out who's going to play in the middle (Goddard vs. Schraeder), who's going to set (Madill vs. Terçariol) and who's going to play on the outside with Pries gone (Wilson vs. Hester). All of this on top of the fact that Frohling had a poor match and BYU has SO many offensive threats led to the easy win for BYU. USD will need to find their go-to lineup if they stand a chance at taking a set off BYU next time.
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Post by bbg95 on Oct 22, 2021 23:15:05 GMT -5
Match is starting. Pries is not in the lineup. Emily Wilson is starting at OH for San Diego. Madi Allen is back at libero for BYU I believe Allen was back at libero for the LMU match, though that video seems lost to history. She was definitely back there against Pepperdine. |
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Post by bbg95 on Oct 22, 2021 23:16:29 GMT -5
BYU has too many threats. Between Koerber, Livingston, Ballard Nixon, Eschenberg and Bower...Blackwell is stuck completely guessing where to go. BYU is also completely shutting down Frohling...she's hitting -.062 with only 3 kills on 16 swings. BYU's serving also seems to be causing a lot more problems for San Diego than San Diego's is for BYU. Gneiting as well. And Callahan, Stowell and Grimmer can be dangerous, even if they haven't played that much this season. BYU has weapons. |
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Post by pelagius on Oct 22, 2021 23:19:13 GMT -5
Match is starting. Pries is not in the lineup. Emily Wilson is starting at OH for San Diego. Madi Allen is back at libero for BYU I believe Allen was back at libero for the LMU match, though that video seems lost to history. She was definitely back there against Pepperdine. Yeah, Allen was back at libero against LMU. It was only the Zags and Portland that Reinert played libero. |
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Post by chatchu-off moksri on Oct 22, 2021 23:27:36 GMT -5
Watching San Diego's setting situation is like watching Malinov set the Italian National Team. A lot of WTF moments
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Post by smartcookie on Oct 23, 2021 0:01:02 GMT -5
Allen & Ballard Nixon's serving was a difference maker tonight. In set 1, BYU went on a 5-0 run behind Allen's serve. In set 2, BYU had a 7-0 run and another 5-0 run behind Allen's serve. In set 3, Ballard Nixon helped BYU close out the set on a 6-0 run behind the service line. The closest San Diego got to that was a 3-0 run with Frohling behind the line in set 2.
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Post by bbg95 on Oct 23, 2021 0:09:30 GMT -5
Allen & Ballard Nixon's serving was a difference maker tonight. In set 1, BYU went on a 5-0 run behind Allen's serve. In set 2, BYU had a 7-0 run and another 5-0 run behind Allen's serve. In set 3, Ballard Nixon helped BYU close out the set on a 6-0 run behind the service line. The closest San Diego got to that was a 3-0 run with Frohling behind the line in set 2. I'm really impressed with how good Ballard-Nixon has become as a server. She was solid the last couple of years, but she might be the best sever on the team this season, though BYU has at least six servers (Ballard-Nixon, Hifo, Allen, Bower, Gneiting and Koerber) that can really hurt opposing teams from behind the line. Ballard-Nixon has 23 aces on the season so far on 187 attempts, which means that 12.3% percent of her serves (roughly one out of every eight) are aces. Edit: Looking at the stats, McComber has potential too, as she has seven aces on 67 attempts (10.4%), but it's a small sample size. |
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Post by azvb on Oct 23, 2021 9:57:34 GMT -5
Allen & Ballard Nixon's serving was a difference maker tonight. In set 1, BYU went on a 5-0 run behind Allen's serve. In set 2, BYU had a 7-0 run and another 5-0 run behind Allen's serve. In set 3, Ballard Nixon helped BYU close out the set on a 6-0 run behind the service line. The closest San Diego got to that was a 3-0 run with Frohling behind the line in set 2. I'm really impressed with how good Ballard-Nixon has become as a server. She was solid the last couple of years, but she might be the best sever on the team this season, though BYU has at least six servers (Ballard-Nixon, Hifo, Allen, Bower, Gneiting and Koerber) that can really hurt opposing teams from behind the line. Ballard-Nixon has 23 aces on the season so far on 187 attempts, which means that 12.3% percent of her serves (roughly one out of every eight) are aces. Edit: Looking at the stats, McComber has potential too, as she has seven aces on 67 attempts (10.4%), but it's a small sample size. Maybe they are passing better because they see tough serves n practice?? Fingers crossed!! |
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Post by Zazu on Oct 23, 2021 19:26:21 GMT -5
Allen & Ballard Nixon's serving was a difference maker tonight. In set 1, BYU went on a 5-0 run behind Allen's serve. In set 2, BYU had a 7-0 run and another 5-0 run behind Allen's serve. In set 3, Ballard Nixon helped BYU close out the set on a 6-0 run behind the service line. The closest San Diego got to that was a 3-0 run with Frohling behind the line in set 2. I'm really impressed with how good Ballard-Nixon has become as a server. She was solid the last couple of years, but she might be the best sever on the team this season, though BYU has at least six servers (Ballard-Nixon, Hifo, Allen, Bower, Gneiting and Koerber) that can really hurt opposing teams from behind the line. Ballard-Nixon has 23 aces on the season so far on 187 attempts, which means that 12.3% percent of her serves (roughly one out of every eight) are aces. Edit: Looking at the stats, McComber has potential too, as she has seven aces on 67 attempts (10.4%), but it's a small sample size. Bower and Allen were both very effective in sets 1 & 2. Madi Allen is extremely good at hitting spots, especially the left to right cross-court into the stack. She can drop it short at any time. She's not missing as much as earlier in the season, which really helps too. TBN is very good, but she misses more and isn't as adept at serving location.
I thought San Diego struggled more with some serves than other teams in the WCC, but then handled the harder ones better. But I thought the way they played in general was like that. The stuff you'd think would work, didn't, and the stuff you weren't expecting to work, did. In all my years of watching WCC teams, I have never seen this kind of play from San Diego. I thought the spring was an aberration due to unusual circumstances, but I'm truly surprised that they did not look much different yesterday.
San Diego's plan seemed to be to focus on slowing/stopping the middles and then Koerber. I guess their plan was to force Koerber to hit line, because I can't remember them taking away line once. They may have, but I don't remember seeing it. I don't know that it was a bad plan per se, but she wasn't bothered at all and hit extremely well, down the line again and again. She can be a bit error-prone at times, but fortunately for BYU (and unfortunately for San Diego) last night was not one of those nights. She was really good last night. Really good. It's the best I've seen her play since coming to BYU.
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Post by bbg95 on Oct 23, 2021 19:58:12 GMT -5
I'm really impressed with how good Ballard-Nixon has become as a server. She was solid the last couple of years, but she might be the best sever on the team this season, though BYU has at least six servers (Ballard-Nixon, Hifo, Allen, Bower, Gneiting and Koerber) that can really hurt opposing teams from behind the line. Ballard-Nixon has 23 aces on the season so far on 187 attempts, which means that 12.3% percent of her serves (roughly one out of every eight) are aces. Edit: Looking at the stats, McComber has potential too, as she has seven aces on 67 attempts (10.4%), but it's a small sample size. Bower and Allen were both very effective in sets 1 & 2. Madi Allen is extremely good at hitting spots, especially the left to right cross-court into the stack. She can drop it short at any time. She's not missing as much as earlier in the season, which really helps too. TBN is very good, but she misses more and isn't as adept at serving location.
I thought San Diego struggled more with some serves than other teams in the WCC, but then handled the harder ones better. But I thought the way they played in general was like that. The stuff you'd think would work, didn't, and the stuff you weren't expecting to work, did. In all my years of watching WCC teams, I have never seen this kind of play from San Diego. I thought the spring was an aberration due to unusual circumstances, but I'm truly surprised that they did not look much different yesterday.
San Diego's plan seemed to be to focus on slowing/stopping the middles and then Koerber. I guess their plan was to force Koerber to hit line, because I can't remember them taking away line once. They may have, but I don't remember seeing it. I don't know that it was a bad plan per se, but she wasn't bothered at all and hit extremely well, down the line again and again. She can be a bit error-prone at times, but fortunately for BYU (and unfortunately for San Diego) last night was not one of those nights. She was really good last night. Really good. It's the best I've seen her play since coming to BYU.
It's true that Allen is the least error-prone server on the team, at least among those that get a lot of attempts (McComber is even less error-prone than Allen, though again, she has a small sample size). I wish we had some kind of plus/minus while serving stat to keep track of how the team does with each server, but I guess the fact that Allen has the most serves of anyone by a significant margin (over 50 more than Bower) indicates what the coaches are thinking. Ballard-Nixon did miss 10 sets due to injury, so if we prorate her numbers for that, she'd have 221 serves to date (rather than 187), the same as Koerber. |
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Post by mintonetteman on Oct 24, 2021 10:35:22 GMT -5
Bower and Allen were both very effective in sets 1 & 2. Madi Allen is extremely good at hitting spots, especially the left to right cross-court into the stack. She can drop it short at any time. She's not missing as much as earlier in the season, which really helps too. TBN is very good, but she misses more and isn't as adept at serving location.
I thought San Diego struggled more with some serves than other teams in the WCC, but then handled the harder ones better. But I thought the way they played in general was like that. The stuff you'd think would work, didn't, and the stuff you weren't expecting to work, did. In all my years of watching WCC teams, I have never seen this kind of play from San Diego. I thought the spring was an aberration due to unusual circumstances, but I'm truly surprised that they did not look much different yesterday.
San Diego's plan seemed to be to focus on slowing/stopping the middles and then Koerber. I guess their plan was to force Koerber to hit line, because I can't remember them taking away line once. They may have, but I don't remember seeing it. I don't know that it was a bad plan per se, but she wasn't bothered at all and hit extremely well, down the line again and again. She can be a bit error-prone at times, but fortunately for BYU (and unfortunately for San Diego) last night was not one of those nights. She was really good last night. Really good. It's the best I've seen her play since coming to BYU.
It's true that Allen is the least error-prone server on the team, at least among those that get a lot of attempts (McComber is even less error-prone than Allen, though again, she has a small sample size). I wish we had some kind of plus/minus while serving stat to keep track of how the team does with each server, but I guess the fact that Allen has the most serves of anyone by a significant margin (over 50 more than Bower) indicates what the coaches are thinking. Ballard-Nixon did miss 10 sets due to injury, so if we prorate her numbers for that, she'd have 221 serves to date (rather than 187), the same as Koerber. Good discussion...but there is such a big difference in the good teams and bad teams in the WCC that you almost need two sets of stats...LMU/Pepp/USD and everyone else...espcially with regard to serve and servw recieve stats. |
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Post by bbg95 on Oct 24, 2021 10:37:56 GMT -5
It's true that Allen is the least error-prone server on the team, at least among those that get a lot of attempts (McComber is even less error-prone than Allen, though again, she has a small sample size). I wish we had some kind of plus/minus while serving stat to keep track of how the team does with each server, but I guess the fact that Allen has the most serves of anyone by a significant margin (over 50 more than Bower) indicates what the coaches are thinking. Ballard-Nixon did miss 10 sets due to injury, so if we prorate her numbers for that, she'd have 221 serves to date (rather than 187), the same as Koerber. Good discussion...but there is such a big difference in the good teams and bad teams in the WCC that you almost need two sets of stats...LMU/Pepp/USD and everyone else...espcially with regard to serve and servw recieve stats. Fair enough, though BYU's passing looked good against San Diego, way better than I had anticipated. They didn't get aced at all, and I don't recall them even being out of system all that much, especially compared to what we're used to. BYU also outscored USD 17-6 while Allen was serving. |
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Post by mintonetteman on Oct 24, 2021 10:42:53 GMT -5
Serving is probably the reason Allen plays libero over Rienert, IMO. Allen has been pretty consistent and ia not high error as mentioned earlier...and given that this is a good scoring rotation that is a big deal.
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