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Post by justaUHfan on Feb 13, 2022 17:55:20 GMT -5
What are the strengths for each teams at the top of the conferences for this next season. I’ll do the top 3. 1) UH: setting & middles (easily the best in the conference) 2) UCSB: Top pin hitters! 3) Cal Poly: Defense! And Right side if Maia does return. What about LBSU? New HC and some interesting transfers should have them in the mix atop the BW... Agreed! Could easily be in the top 3. Just not sure what there strengths could be at this moment. But can’t wait to watch them shake things up in the big west! |
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Post by BeachbytheBay on Feb 13, 2022 21:32:32 GMT -5
LB position by position:
Setter. Added Meyer, BYU xfer, was top 50 prospect. Chavira returning setter to be junior. Upgrade in both talent and experience
Libero. Hoff. Returning junior, so more experience
DS. Giambi frosh to soph, DeLaCruz. to be senior, and can set. One of xfers could also play DS (Chacon). Upgrade in talent and experience
MB. Returns Bacon. athletic, frosh to soph. Booth red-shirted, athletic. Schwarzenbach comes from Nebraska. lost Canez to graduation. Significant upgrade in both talent, experience, athleticsm. Expect the biggest improvement here in blocking/defense
Opp. Kennedy. All Big West 1st team. One of the transfers may also provide some competition. SHould be improved.
which leaves OH.
Kash leaves, that's a loss in production and athleticsm. And the main question mark. Chacon is an all-around proven OH, and tons of experience in a better league, ACC. Nembhard, Starr Williams (red-shirt), O'Sullivan (Proven attacker from SDSU). Overall deeper with 4 plausible OHs in addition to Alison Martinez, who as of now will be healthy again and will compete to get in the rotation, and O'Sullivan & Chacon alone make the OH position improved at least slightly from prior year. LB simply did not have any 2nd OH attack.
Coaching Staff. Proven coaches, but not a proven HC. Still an upgrade, and the training/focus changes alone should help.
Overall, it's hard not to see this team making a significant improvement from the prior year. It helps Meyer will be in Spring. Is there a firm starting line-up. nope, not even for one single position as of yet, which should make the team much better, how much? we'll see
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Post by beachgrad on Feb 13, 2022 23:07:19 GMT -5
What are the strengths for each teams at the top of the conferences for this next season. I’ll do the top 3. 1) UH: setting & middles (easily the best in the conference) 2) UCSB: Top pin hitters! 3) Cal Poly: Defense! And Right side if Maia does return. I am not sure you can claim UH easily has the best setting and middles in conference. The returning setter is solid but she is not easily the best. Concerning the middles, Igiede will probably be the best middle but the UH’s second middle will be new and no one knows who that will be. Right now the only team that really has improved themselves is LBSU but how improved is the real question. UH, UCSB and Cal Poly have not announced many portal transfers so I expect they are some we do not know about. |
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Post by beachgrad on Feb 13, 2022 23:16:39 GMT -5
LB position by position: Setter. Added Meyer, BYU xfer, was top 50 prospect. Chavira returning setter to be junior. Upgrade in both talent and experience Libero. Hoff. Returning junior, so more experience DS. Giambi frosh to soph, DeLaCruz. to be senior, and can set. One of xfers could also play DS (Chacon). Upgrade in talent and experience MB. Returns Bacon. athletic, frosh to soph. Booth red-shirted, athletic. Schwarzenbach comes from Nebraska. lost Canez to graduation. Significant upgrade in both talent, experience, athleticsm. Expect the biggest improvement here in blocking/defense Opp. Kennedy. All Big West 1st team. One of the transfers may also provide some competition. SHould be improved. which leaves OH. Kash leaves, that's a loss in production and athleticsm. And the main question mark. Chacon is an all-around proven OH, and tons of experience in a better league, ACC. Nembhard, Starr Williams (red-shirt), O'Sullivan (Proven attacker from SDSU). Overall deeper with 4 plausible OHs in addition to Alison Martinez, who as of now will be healthy again and will compete to get in the rotation, and O'Sullivan & Chacon alone make the OH position improved at least slightly from prior year. LB simply did not have any 2nd OH attack. Coaching Staff. Proven coaches, but not a proven HC. Still an upgrade, and the training/focus changes alone should help. Overall, it's hard not to see this team making a significant improvement from the prior year. It helps Meyer will be in Spring. Is there a firm starting line-up. nope, not even for one single position as of yet, which should make the team much better, how much? we'll see The battle for the pin positions will be fierce next year. LBSU already had some talented players on the roster in Kennedy and Starr Williams and then you add the two transfer starters in Chacon and O’Sullivan. Add another very athletic transfer in Nembhard and the redshirt freshman the team indeed has a lot of depth. Will be interesting seeing the battles during double days and throughout the year. I expect the biggest difference maker will be the change in coaching. I expect big things in this department. |
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Post by justaUHfan on Feb 14, 2022 0:06:02 GMT -5
What are the strengths for each teams at the top of the conferences for this next season. I’ll do the top 3. 1) UH: setting & middles (easily the best in the conference) 2) UCSB: Top pin hitters! 3) Cal Poly: Defense! And Right side if Maia does return. I am not sure you can claim UH easily has the best setting and middles in conference. The returning setter is solid but she is not easily the best. Concerning the middles, Igiede will probably be the best middle but the UH’s second middle will be new and no one knows who that will be. Right now the only team that really has improved themselves is LBSU but how improved is the real question. UH, UCSB and Cal Poly have not announced many portal transfers so I expect they are some we do not know about. Lang had one of the top assists per set in the conference and the other middle would most likely be Kiraly who has one of the best slide attacks I’ve seen. But we’ll see how it all plays out during conference play. Should be a very competitive year |
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Post by Logan Tom Fan on Feb 14, 2022 5:46:51 GMT -5
What are the strengths for each teams at the top of the conferences for this next season. I’ll do the top 3. 1) UH: setting & middles (easily the best in the conference) 2) UCSB: Top pin hitters! 3) Cal Poly: Defense! And Right side if Maia does return. I am not sure you can claim UH easily has the best setting and middles in conference. The returning setter is solid but she is not easily the best. Concerning the middles, Igiede will probably be the best middle but the UH’s second middle will be new and no one knows who that will be. Right now the only team that really has improved themselves is LBSU but how improved is the real question. UH, UCSB and Cal Poly have not announced many portal transfers so I expect they are some we do not know about. Lang and Denocochea are the two best setters in the conference, but I’d give the nod to Lang for her abilities in running the offense better, as both teams had firepower. |
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Post by SmokeDogg on Feb 14, 2022 16:20:45 GMT -5
Sorry Logan Tom Fan and justUHfan but Fullerton's Elizabeth Schuster is the best setter in the Big West!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2022 19:17:26 GMT -5
I am not sure you can claim UH easily has the best setting and middles in conference. The returning setter is solid but she is not easily the best. Concerning the middles, Igiede will probably be the best middle but the UH’s second middle will be new and no one knows who that will be. Right now the only team that really has improved themselves is LBSU but how improved is the real question. UH, UCSB and Cal Poly have not announced many portal transfers so I expect they are some we do not know about. Lang had one of the top assists per set in the conference and the other middle would most likely be Kiraly who has one of the best slide attacks I’ve seen. But we’ll see how it all plays out during conference play. Should be a very competitive year Kiraly did like….all of 5 actually executed slides all last season. Sample size dahhhhling, sample size |
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Post by Logan Tom Fan on Feb 14, 2022 19:25:23 GMT -5
Sorry Logan Tom Fan and justUHfan but Fullerton's Elizabeth Schuster is the best setter in the Big West! Lol  |
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Post by babybacksets on Feb 14, 2022 19:30:08 GMT -5
Lang had one of the top assists per set in the conference and the other middle would most likely be Kiraly who has one of the best slide attacks I’ve seen. But we’ll see how it all plays out during conference play. Should be a very competitive year Kiraly did like….all of 5 actually executed slides all last season. Sample size dahhhhling, sample size I think the plus is that she had solid slide mechanics coming in. Better than Igiede and Sky, but she slotted into the M2 spot so wasn’t a ton of options to show it off. We’ll see if they move Igiede to M2 next season and can still keep her as a major part of the offense. Working pretty well for Voss. |
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Post by SmokeDogg on Mar 3, 2022 17:06:24 GMT -5
Hawaii has a spring tournament game this Friday against Pepperdine. Does anyone know of other spring tournaments for any Big West team?
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Post by Sunnydaze on Mar 4, 2022 13:34:00 GMT -5
Hawaii has a spring tournament game this Friday against Pepperdine. Does anyone know of other spring tournaments for any Big West team? LBSU is scheduled to play LMU on March 25th, SDSU on April 9th, and Fullerton on April 15th. |
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Post by BeachbytheBay on Mar 27, 2022 11:13:21 GMT -5
Beach wins 3 sets, LMU 1 during first 'competitive' scrimmage of the Tyler era.
takeaways
valuable time for the team to get familiar with Meyer, and more time for both setters to develop. Both setters Meyer and Chavira have all-court skills, and can attack, this is by far the best collective talent at setter since Hudson, before that Vargas. Chavira can play some at DS, opp, and setter if needed & definitely serving specialist.
Meyer will be a force at setter, good hands
Booth is physical, a ways to go, she's gonna be imposing by conference, and will become a force as a middle. LB's strength will be blocking, and the greatest improvement, and will translate into better transition offense
Starr Williams looks better, needs to develop 'explosiveness' and still a long way to go, which I think is a physical training aspect as much technique.
for not having 5 key players playing (Hoff, O'Sullivan, Nembhard, Chacon, Schwarzenbach), the progress is in a very positive direction.
Lopez has just an uncanny accuracy and effectiveness for serving. It's almost like she's a close out relief pitcher to come in cold off the bench like she does and serve that well.
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Post by SmokeDogg on Apr 18, 2022 4:04:13 GMT -5
If you were at Long Beach on the 15th you saw Fullerton's best in the fifth set. Elizabeth Schuster was great defensively and set a good ball. Fullerton at one point in the fifth set was ahead 11 to 2, and finished the set 15 t0 8.
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