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Post by azvolleydad on Nov 29, 2021 18:54:05 GMT -5
Drews should have been POY. Higher hitting percentage and more KPS, DPS, BPS, and points than May.
EDIT: both total and in PAC-12 play.
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Post by c4ndlelight on Nov 29, 2021 19:06:36 GMT -5
Ok, here are the C4ndle PAC Awards predictions: Ok, differences - First team: Bacon, Dodson and Robinson on instead of Martin, Murphy, and Jankiewicz. What's funny is all of them are same-team switches disfavoring setters/liberos. I thought Bacon/Murphy was close, but really didn't think of Robinson as having a first-team type year. IMO, Jankiewicz was somewhat disrespected here. I put Martin 1st Team in part to get UCLA a 3rd in Luper's ineligibility, IDK if Dodson stacks up to some of the other middles who weren't chosen. HM: They picked 18, so you think my 15 would all be included but I was way off. They nixed the freshmen (Miner/Ryan) and Stanford girls (none of Oglivie or Vicini), Goings, Bergmark and van der Werff in favor of Ewert, Hiapo, Sanders, Tabron, Scully, Levinska, McCall, and Mutiri. These players had some nice performances but a lot of them didn't have great numbers over the year. I'm most surprised for Oglivie and van der Werff... they had nice years and were probably more deserving. VDW had better numbers than Dodson across the board, and one got 1st team and the other shut out completely. Sanders is good but she hit .196 in conference, and it's not like she has a bad setter. If you're gonna give something to a middle w/o offense because of blocking, Vicini was right there and at least her average was good. They also completely shut out Cal, I thought they'd throw one tot them but I guess Cal had that kind of year so I missed on Bergmark - it's not the worse choice. Goings/Massey were flipped too but I thought that was close and Massey is probably the "better" player overall - but hard to pick her when Oglivie wasn't. . . . Freshman: I got all 7. This was pretty straightforward, esp. since the next best two options (Luper/Robey) weren't eligible.
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Post by azvolleydad on Nov 29, 2021 19:10:51 GMT -5
Ok, here are the C4ndle PAC Awards predictions: Ok, differences - First team: Bacon, Dodson and Robinson on instead of Martin, Murphy, and Jankiewicz. What's funny is all of them are same-team switches disfavoring setters/liberos. I thought Bacon/Murphy was close, but really didn't think of Robinson as having a first-team type year. IMO, Jankiewicz was somewhat disrespected here. HM: They picked 18, so you think my 15 would all be included but I was way off. They nixed the freshmen (Miner/Ryan) and Stanford girls (none of Oglivie or Vicini) and van der Werff in favor of Ewert, Tabron, Scully, Levinska, McCall, and Mutiri. These players had some nice performances but a lot of them didn't have great numbers over the year. I'm most surprised for Oglivie and van der Werff... they had nice years and were probably more deserving. They also completely shut out Cal, I thought they'd throw one tot them but I guess Cal had that kind of year so I missed on Bergmark - it's not the worse choice. Goings/Massey were flipped too but I thought that was close and Massey is probably the "better" player overall - but hard to pick her when Oglivie wasn't. . . . Freshman: I got all 7. This was pretty straightforward, esp. since the next best two options (Luper/Robey) weren't eligible. I'm a Murphy fan, so I'm a bit biased, but she belongs on the 1st team. Her numbers, especially passing, are equal to anyone in the PAC.
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Post by c4ndlelight on Nov 29, 2021 19:13:08 GMT -5
Ok, differences - First team: Bacon, Dodson and Robinson on instead of Martin, Murphy, and Jankiewicz. What's funny is all of them are same-team switches disfavoring setters/liberos. I thought Bacon/Murphy was close, but really didn't think of Robinson as having a first-team type year. IMO, Jankiewicz was somewhat disrespected here. HM: They picked 18, so you think my 15 would all be included but I was way off. They nixed the freshmen (Miner/Ryan) and Stanford girls (none of Oglivie or Vicini) and van der Werff in favor of Ewert, Tabron, Scully, Levinska, McCall, and Mutiri. These players had some nice performances but a lot of them didn't have great numbers over the year. I'm most surprised for Oglivie and van der Werff... they had nice years and were probably more deserving. They also completely shut out Cal, I thought they'd throw one tot them but I guess Cal had that kind of year so I missed on Bergmark - it's not the worse choice. Goings/Massey were flipped too but I thought that was close and Massey is probably the "better" player overall - but hard to pick her when Oglivie wasn't. . . . Freshman: I got all 7. This was pretty straightforward, esp. since the next best two options (Luper/Robey) weren't eligible. I'm a Murphy fan, so I'm a bit biased, but she belongs on the 1st team. Her numbers, especially passing, are equal to anyone in the PAC. It's hard out there for a libero!
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Post by mikegarrison on Nov 29, 2021 19:14:10 GMT -5
HM: They picked 18, so you think my 15 would all be included but I was way off. They nixed the freshmen (Miner/Ryan) and Stanford girls (none of Oglivie or Vicini), Goings, Bergmark and van der Werff in favor of Ewert, Hiapo, Sanders, Tabron, Scully, Levinska, McCall, and Mutiri. Miner is HM.
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Post by c4ndlelight on Nov 29, 2021 19:15:44 GMT -5
HM: They picked 18, so you think my 15 would all be included but I was way off. They nixed the freshmen (Miner/Ryan) and Stanford girls (none of Oglivie or Vicini), Goings, Bergmark and van der Werff in favor of Ewert, Hiapo, Sanders, Tabron, Scully, Levinska, McCall, and Mutiri. Miner is HM. Whoops. I wish they'd table it out instead of just clumping them in a paragraph.
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Post by mikegarrison on Nov 29, 2021 19:18:54 GMT -5
I'm most surprised for Oglivie and van der Werff... they had nice years and were probably more deserving. van der Werff did not start playing entire matches until mid-October. I don't think that should rule her out of anything, but maybe the coaches saw it differently.
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Post by naujack85 on Nov 29, 2021 19:22:06 GMT -5
Drews should have been POY. Higher hitting percentage and more KPS, DPS, BPS, and points than May. EDIT: both total and in PAC-12 play. Definitely agree
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Post by rainbowsets on Nov 29, 2021 19:34:05 GMT -5
Drews should have been POY. Higher hitting percentage and more KPS, DPS, BPS, and points than May. EDIT: both total and in PAC-12 play. and had a positive ace to error ratio!
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Post by naujack85 on Nov 29, 2021 19:38:42 GMT -5
Drews should have been POY. Higher hitting percentage and more KPS, DPS, BPS, and points than May. EDIT: both total and in PAC-12 play. and had a positive ace to error ratio! Wow!
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Post by azvolleydad on Nov 29, 2021 19:46:04 GMT -5
Drews should have been POY. Higher hitting percentage and more KPS, DPS, BPS, and points than May. EDIT: both total and in PAC-12 play. and had a positive ace to error ratio! And this isn't a knock on May. She's incredible. Drews just had a slightly better year.
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Post by hammer on Nov 29, 2021 19:51:13 GMT -5
Drews should have been POY. Higher hitting percentage and more KPS, DPS, BPS, and points than May. EDIT: both total and in PAC-12 play. Here's a good test for left side hitters in the Pac-12: How well do you do against the the Kendall Kipp block. Dani Drews, match 1: 20 kills, 10 errors, 50 attacks, .200 Dani Drews, match 2: 19 kills, 9 errors, 52 attacks, .192 Mac May, match 1: 12 kills, 13 errors, 46 attacks, -.022
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Post by mikegarrison on Nov 29, 2021 19:55:47 GMT -5
I do not have a Dawg in this fight, but I lean toward Drews myself. It's hard to say May is not a deserving choice, however. They both are players who serve, block, dig, pass, hit from anywhere, and can carry their team when everybody in the gym knows who the set is going to go to.
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Post by JJVb on Nov 29, 2021 21:23:22 GMT -5
Ok, here are the C4ndle PAC Awards predictions: Ok, differences - First team: Bacon, Dodson and Robinson on instead of Martin, Murphy, and Jankiewicz. What's funny is all of them are same-team switches disfavoring setters/liberos. I thought Bacon/Murphy was close, but really didn't think of Robinson as having a first-team type year. IMO, Jankiewicz was somewhat disrespected here. I put Martin 1st Team in part to get UCLA a 3rd in Luper's ineligibility, IDK if Dodson stacks up to some of the other middles who weren't chosen. HM: They picked 18, so you think my 15 would all be included but I was way off. They nixed the freshmen (Miner/Ryan) and Stanford girls (none of Oglivie or Vicini), Goings, Bergmark and van der Werff in favor of Ewert, Hiapo, Sanders, Tabron, Scully, Levinska, McCall, and Mutiri. These players had some nice performances but a lot of them didn't have great numbers over the year. I'm most surprised for Oglivie and van der Werff... they had nice years and were probably more deserving. VDW had better numbers than Dodson across the board, and one got 1st team and the other shut out completely. Sanders is good but she hit .196 in conference, and it's not like she has a bad setter. If you're gonna give something to a middle w/o offense because of blocking, Vicini was right there and at least her average was good. They also completely shut out Cal, I thought they'd throw one tot them but I guess Cal had that kind of year so I missed on Bergmark - it's not the worse choice. Goings/Massey were flipped too but I thought that was close and Massey is probably the "better" player overall - but hard to pick her when Oglivie wasn't. . . . Freshman: I got all 7. This was pretty straightforward, esp. since the next best two options (Luper/Robey) weren't eligible. Agree with your assessment. Some of the HMs didn't seem to have as good of years as some of those left off that list. It's very subjective for sure.
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Post by mikegarrison on Nov 30, 2021 11:32:24 GMT -5
In another thread, someone posted that "it was nice to see Greeny finally win COY". What was interesting to me about this is that this was Greeny's second PAC COY award, but it was actually Sealy's first one. In fact, of the current PAC coaches she is the only one to have won twice.
Current coaches:
Greeny -- 2016, 2021 Sealy -- 2021 Cook -- 2020/21 Launiere -- 2019 Hambly -- 2018 Barnard -- 2017 Rubio -- 2000
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