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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2021 16:05:04 GMT -5
I would love to see the service reception stats for both teams. Box score doesn’t show those, just SA, SE, RE. 2, 8, 3 and 3, 4, 2 for UCLA and Washington respectively. EMP was constantly running all over to set the second ball out of serve receive. UW passed a 2.01 with a 50.3% good pass. UCLA passed a 2.29 with a 63.2% good pass. UCLA were 20% better in FBSO. Bays struggled for UW with match high 28 passes for a 1.86. |
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Post by doublecontact on Nov 1, 2021 16:45:15 GMT -5
Wow. Got our butt kicked. Was UCLA that good? Offensively, yes. Back row, for sure. McCall complements Fleck so well, and May and Luper were off/on as usual (on defense and serve receive). McCall takes away a lot of left side tipping that works against most teams. The puzzle to me was that UDub seemed to lose confidence in serve receive. So EMP had little to work with most of the time. It's not like UCLA is known for tough serving, and the serves that UDub failed to pass in system were pretty typical... hardish, flat float serves... good, solid serving but nothing exceptional. I feel like there were a few sub par passes and then it became a mental thing. Yes Claire definitely looked uncomfortable and on a few overpasses Bays seemed to swing her arms on the pass. I wonder if it was all the hype building up to the match: going on ESPNU on halloween, Karch would call the match, NCAA reveal during the match. It was marketed as the match of the season and UW got dominated, which absolutely broke my heart and I'm still not over t lol. One silver lining for me... seems Karch thinks highly of Grote; he kept complimenting her. He also made a good point in that UW's block wasn't lined up properly to help the back row. It's still strange to me the block wasn't better. The ball pretty much only goes to 2 people and Dodson on occasion. Have to give credit to May and Luper though, they can hit over the block fairly often. |
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Post by DaDawgFather on Nov 4, 2021 15:12:50 GMT -5
Wow. Got our butt kicked. Was UCLA that good? Offensively, yes. Back row, for sure. McCall complements Fleck so well, and May and Luper were off/on as usual (on defense and serve receive). McCall takes away a lot of left side tipping that works against most teams. The puzzle to me was that UDub seemed to lose confidence in serve receive. So EMP had little to work with most of the time. It's not like UCLA is known for tough serving, and the serves that UDub failed to pass in system were pretty typical... hardish, flat float serves... good, solid serving but nothing exceptional. I feel like there were a few sub par passes and then it became a mental thing. Our passing has been suspect to me for sometime now. Hopefully a little technical breakthrough happens by playoff time. Also it seems like we have a hole at one OH spot. Seems overwhelming to me to have to rely on 2 hitters all the time. We need that third hitter so we can get to 14, 15 or 16 kills per game. Otherwise we have to serve out of our mind or teams have to error a lot. I'm not convinced that our average of about 13 is good enough. |
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Post by alwayslearning on Nov 4, 2021 16:07:58 GMT -5
I'm thinking/hoping that UW's serve receive troubles in the UCLA match were just a one-game contagion. For the most part, UW's serve receive has been markedly better than last Spring, and, as noted above, UCLA isn't one of the best serving teams in the country.
The key, for me, isn't the number of kills per match, it's the overall defense -- passing, blocking, floor defense. When this is clicking, the offense follows. See Stanford. We just haven't seen that sort of consistency yet, but there is still time.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2021 17:45:54 GMT -5
I'm thinking/hoping that UW's serve receive troubles in the UCLA match were just a one-game contagion. For the most part, UW's serve receive has been markedly better than last Spring, and, as noted above, UCLA isn't one of the best serving teams in the country. The key, for me, isn't the number of kills per match, it's the overall defense -- passing, blocking, floor defense. When this is clicking, the offense follows. See Stanford. We just haven't seen that sort of consistency yet, but there is still time. UCLA with Luper are a bad matchup for Washington. UW doesn't have a terminal OOS attacker so they take smart swings in transition and force opponents into an error. That works against most teams but May and Luper are so physical in trans that UW couldn't extend points. Even when the UW back row could dig a ball they couldn't keep it in system to run the offense. Volleymetrics records points won off of dig touches. In the first UCLA match (without Luper) UW's scoring rate on their dig touches was 27%. On Sunday it was 15%. 15% is also the average for UCLA's opponents vs the May, McCall and Luper lineup. With that lineup UCLA are scoring on 25% of their dig touches (highest in the Pac). Beating UCLA in transition means digging May and Luper back to target more than the UCLA back row can dig your OHs to target. UW aren't built to win those matchups. |
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