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Post by doublecontact on Nov 7, 2021 19:24:16 GMT -5
Before posting separately on my impressions, I'd like to highlight possibly the biggest question facing the Huskies regarding personnel. The question is who to play at the OH2 position. With Bush apparently injured, Endsley had an opportunity to seize the day and show what she could do in the front row this weekend. It was a little underwhelming, to be honest (overall hitting percentage of .114), with too many hits right into the block or the net. And bear in mind this is against the two Arizonas, not the most elite blocking or defensive teams. Madi did show some excellent serving this afternoon. I do think she needs more in-game reps to build up the confidence and skill set. The question is whether continuing to play Madi is the most productive move for the Huskies or whether you go back to Bush (when healthy) or Crenshaw. Bush is hitting .113 for the season and can look spectacular one moment and one-dimensional the next. She is probably a better blocker than Endsley but probably is not an option for either serving or back row duty. I have no doubt she is a critical piece of the Huskies' future and so that could be an argument to just have her get more experience. But Endsley is also a potentially critical piece of the Huskies' future. Of course there is another possiblity: Shannon Crenshaw. Cook inserted Shannon midway through a third set that was basically a blow out win. We are looking at an extremely small sample size here, but I will say that Shannon looked really good on the left side. She already had a couple kills out of middle back. In her short time at the net, she pounded a couple cross court balls that were dug nicely by Arizona, tooled the block a couple times, and got a couple block assists. In short, she looked comfortable and confident. Shannon entered the match with a grand total of 5 kills for the season, so she really hasn't gotten the opportunity to strut her stuff. In my opinion, Cook should continue the Crenshaw front row experiment. A larger sample size will tell us whether she has the hitting chops to consistently hit above .200, which neither Bush nor Endsley have done this season. I don't think she will be a liability on the block and she will provide better defensive instincts and ability than either Bush or Endsley. Plus she may bring greater maturity, as a fourth year player, than her younger teammates, and would save the team substitutions as a true six-rotation outside. The upcoming Bay Area road trip might be a good chance to try this out, especially against the tall block of Stanford. Love the analysis. Crenshaw definitely surprised me. She had a couple of shots against fairly well formed blocks. Hope Endsley gets her mojo from last year back. Also I managed to get a selfie with Claire, not that anyone cares  . |
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Post by nowhereman on Nov 7, 2021 21:04:14 GMT -5
Bays had a nice kick on a point won by Arizona. Even the public address guy mentioned it.
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Post by redbeard2008 on Nov 7, 2021 21:52:17 GMT -5
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Post by dawgnerd on Nov 7, 2021 22:04:50 GMT -5
Bays had a nice kick on a point won by Arizona. Even the public address guy mentioned it. It was an incredible play! For the third touch, she ran along the sideline, away from the net, and kicked the ball back over her head, across the net to drop to the floor on the Az side of the net. This great play was negated by a very dubious, IMO, call that it passed over the antenna while crossing the net. It was close, but both the contact point with her foot and the contact with the floor were close to, but well inside of the sideline. The line ref called it before it hit the floor. Another difficult to accept ref call was the 5 minute video review that overturned a no-call, turning it into a net contact. If it takes you 5 minutes to make a judgement, I do not see how you are still only looking for something that obviously refutes the call on the court. |
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Post by huskyvolley on Nov 8, 2021 0:13:57 GMT -5
Just finished watching the replay, two things I find interesting and no one has made any comments yet.
1. Crenshaw might be the best OH blocker we have. Herman set the OPP right away when she realized Crenshaw was playing front row, but the OPP got blocked.
2. They still did 2 person passing even with Crenshaw in the rotation. I wonder if they think Crensahw's pass to hit isn't that good yet.
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Post by dawgnerd on Nov 8, 2021 8:29:04 GMT -5
Just finished watching the replay, two things I find interesting and no one has made any comments yet. 1. Crenshaw might be the best OH blocker we have. Herman set the OPP right away when she realized Crenshaw was playing front row, but the OPP got blocked. 2. They still did 2 person passing even with Crenshaw in the rotation. I wonder if they think Crensahw's pass to hit isn't that good yet. 1) It was good to see Crenshaw taking up front row duties, including that block (and one other BA). Her front row swings effectively found the spaces in and around the block, while maintaining speed, and either went down or forced very good digs. 2) Did you mean Drecshel? She was out of the receive this weekend, leaving Hoffman and Bays the whole court when Crenshaw was not in, where she has been receiving earlier. I did not notice Crenshaw being out of the receive, in fact AZ seemed to be targetting her. I just checked the box score and she had 19 receptions (and no receive errors!), the most of the team. Drecshel has had some passing struggles, so I understand trying the two person reception. That seemed to work well, even though it did play into at least one of Hoffman's receive errors, on a high, deep serve, right to the corner that was just too good for her to reach. Overall, I thought the UW serve recieve was a strong point of both matches this weekend. |
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Post by huskyvolley on Nov 8, 2021 9:47:18 GMT -5
Just finished watching the replay, two things I find interesting and no one has made any comments yet. 1. Crenshaw might be the best OH blocker we have. Herman set the OPP right away when she realized Crenshaw was playing front row, but the OPP got blocked. 2. They still did 2 person passing even with Crenshaw in the rotation. I wonder if they think Crensahw's pass to hit isn't that good yet. 1) It was good to see Crenshaw taking up front row duties, including that block (and one other BA). Her front row swings effectively found the spaces in and around the block, while maintaining speed, and either went down or forced very good digs. 2) Did you mean Drecshel? She was out of the receive this weekend, leaving Hoffman and Bays the whole court when Crenshaw was not in, where she has been receiving earlier. I did not notice Crenshaw being out of the receive, in fact AZ seemed to be targetting her. I just checked the box score and she had 19 receptions (and no receive errors!), the most of the team. Drecshel has had some passing struggles, so I understand trying the two person reception. That seemed to work well, even though it did play into at least one of Hoffman's receive errors, on a high, deep serve, right to the corner that was just too good for her to reach. Overall, I thought the UW serve recieve was a strong point of both matches this weekend. Sorry I wasn't clear on the second point. In the second half of the third set when Crenshaw was in the front row, they still only passed with two in Hoffman and Bays at rotation 2. They could use Crenshaw to pass at the rotation but they chose not to. |
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Post by alwayslearning on Nov 8, 2021 11:13:10 GMT -5
1) It was good to see Crenshaw taking up front row duties, including that block (and one other BA). Her front row swings effectively found the spaces in and around the block, while maintaining speed, and either went down or forced very good digs. 2) Did you mean Drecshel? She was out of the receive this weekend, leaving Hoffman and Bays the whole court when Crenshaw was not in, where she has been receiving earlier. I did not notice Crenshaw being out of the receive, in fact AZ seemed to be targetting her. I just checked the box score and she had 19 receptions (and no receive errors!), the most of the team. Drecshel has had some passing struggles, so I understand trying the two person reception. That seemed to work well, even though it did play into at least one of Hoffman's receive errors, on a high, deep serve, right to the corner that was just too good for her to reach. Overall, I thought the UW serve recieve was a strong point of both matches this weekend. Sorry I wasn't clear on the second point. In the second half of the third set when Crenshaw was in the front row, they still only passed with two in Hoffman and Bays at rotation 2. They could use Crenshaw to pass at the rotation but they chose not to. I didn't notice that but the idea might have been to ease Crenshaw back into front row duties. My guess is the long-term solution would be to have Crenshaw pass and hit. Shannon's nice mini-performance did not escape notice of the coaching staff, so it will be interesting to see what they do in the upcoming matches against Cal and Stanford. |
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Post by redbeard2008 on Nov 8, 2021 12:32:48 GMT -5
Just finished watching the replay, two things I find interesting and no one has made any comments yet. 2. They still did 2 person passing even with Crenshaw in the rotation. I wonder if they think Crensahw's pass to hit isn't that good yet. They've been doing that for a while, always with Bays and Hoffman. More floor to cover, but you force them to serve your best receivers. |
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Post by redbeard2008 on Nov 8, 2021 13:31:49 GMT -5
For those who've been speculating otherwise: The announcer said that Powell has been accepted in a masters program (UW's Athletic Leadership Program, I'm guessing) and will be coming back for a fifth year.
Dani Cole, after being absent for the ASU match, was on the court for the UA match.
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Post by rightsideonly on Nov 8, 2021 13:32:36 GMT -5
If you wanna see the difference so far, the outsides with the most swings for each side: Jaelyn Hodge: 5 kills, 5 errors on 18 swings, hitting .000 Claire Hoffman: 10 kills, 2 errors on 19 swings, hitting .421 There’s your difference. Feed the reigning PAC 12 freshman of the year please! Jaelyn Hodge apparently heard read your post and responded by: Your post of 5 kills, 5 errors on 18 swings, hitting .000 After your post 7 kills, 0 errors on 11 swings hit .636 For the match 12 kills, 5 errors on 29 swings, hit .241 |
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Post by dawgnerd on Nov 8, 2021 17:48:33 GMT -5
1) It was good to see Crenshaw taking up front row duties, including that block (and one other BA). Her front row swings effectively found the spaces in and around the block, while maintaining speed, and either went down or forced very good digs. 2) Did you mean Drecshel? She was out of the receive this weekend, leaving Hoffman and Bays the whole court when Crenshaw was not in, where she has been receiving earlier. I did not notice Crenshaw being out of the receive, in fact AZ seemed to be targetting her. I just checked the box score and she had 19 receptions (and no receive errors!), the most of the team. Drecshel has had some passing struggles, so I understand trying the two person reception. That seemed to work well, even though it did play into at least one of Hoffman's receive errors, on a high, deep serve, right to the corner that was just too good for her to reach. Overall, I thought the UW serve recieve was a strong point of both matches this weekend. Sorry I wasn't clear on the second point. In the second half of the third set when Crenshaw was in the front row, they still only passed with two in Hoffman and Bays at rotation 2. They could use Crenshaw to pass at the rotation but they chose not to. Got it. I had missed that. My suspicion is that they just did not want to add any additional complication to a receiving scheme that had been working all match. As Always noted, it also served to simplify things for Crenshaw resuming front row play. Since AZ had targetted her in the back row, it would make sense that they would have been likely to continue that once they noticed she was staying in across the front row. I would not be at all suprised for them to add some reps with her in the reception while in the front row during this week's practice, so it is not an improvisation if they use it in the match. |
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