Nebraska Red-White Scrimmage | Sat 8/20 | 6 PM CT - B1G+

[bugeater]

My observations from the scrimmage:

2 inches make a huge difference. Blocking between Hames and Orr seems significant. Orr just seems to play bigger/taller and more physical.
Lauenstein is like a gazelle on a trampoline. She’s got some hops and power. So athletic.
Krause still resorts to roll shots too frequently.
Allick and Lil’ Kubik showed up big time. Allick should get plenty of playing time but it might be harder for Lil’ Kubik considering the depth at the pins.
Hope the experiment with Knuckles in front was simply to fill a need due to Batenhorst being out.
Blocking seems so natural for Hord. Would like to see more offense from her…I’m sure it’ll come when her timing with Orr improves.
Mendelson looks like a basketball player trying to play volleyball. The way she runs the slide and the way she hits the ball…her movements are very basketballish.
Serving and court defense didn’t match the level at the end of the last season but I suspect it’ll get better as the season progresses.
Overall, we looked significantly better than where we were at this time last season.

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Someone I did not think to be impressed with was maisie. She may be a contender for a serving specialist? she went on a lot of serving runs and also passed very well in serve recieve. I could see her serving for one of the middles potentially. Which would be awesome, its always nice to see a fresh face in the line up 😊

[vergyltantor]

Aug 21, 2022 11:45:21 GMT -5 @loverofvolleyball said:

Someone I did not think to be impressed with was maisie. She may be a contender for a serving specialist? she went on a lot of serving runs and also passed very well in serve recieve. I could see her serving for one of the middles potentially. Which would be awesome, its always nice to see a fresh face in the line up 😊

I think that if the dominoes fell in a way that Nicklin was put back into the setter role, playing time for Maisie would have been high. As it stands now Lexi, Kenzie and Nicklin are the likely back row. Having Nicklin as DS and OOS setter is too good to pass up.

[gobigredno1]

Aug 21, 2022 11:32:43 GMT -5 bugeater said:

My observations from the scrimmage:

2 inches make a huge difference. Blocking between Hames and Orr seems significant. Orr just seems to play bigger/taller and more physical.
Lauenstein is like a gazelle on a trampoline. She’s got some hops and power. So athletic.
Krause still resorts to roll shots too frequently.
Allick and Lil’ Kubik showed up big time. Allick should get plenty of playing time but it might be harder for Lil’ Kubik considering the depth at the pins.
Hope the experiment with Knuckles in front was simply to fill a need due to Batenhorst being out.
Blocking seems so natural for Hord. Would like to see more offense from her…I’m sure it’ll come when her timing with Orr improves.
Mendelson looks like a basketball player trying to play volleyball. The way she runs the slide and the way she hits the ball…her movements are very basketballish.
Serving and court defense didn’t match the level at the end of the last season but I suspect it’ll get better as the season progresses.
Overall, we looked significantly better than where we were at this time last season.

One thing you have to remember about Mendelson is that this summer for the most part she was a basketball player. She just joined the team a couple of weeks ago. Give her time with Volleyball training only and a lot could change.