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Post by gibbyb1 on Sept 4, 2022 20:02:55 GMT -5
haha great analogy! They really have little to no weakness. I don't know that I'd say that. They don't have any exploitable weaknesses so far, though. Minnesota gave them all they could handle for the most part. On a neutral court or in Minnesota, maybe they take another set to send it to 5. More importantly, I don't think they have any more teams on their schedule who can successfully exploit whatever weaknesses they have to take 3 sets. So we'll have to see how they do come tournament time, when other teams have been better tested in the meantime. Pressure and some history of not performing under it may be their biggest hurdle. They’re going to put the best team on the floor in every match they play this year. |
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Post by slxpress on Sept 4, 2022 20:11:22 GMT -5
I don't know that I'd say that. They don't have any exploitable weaknesses so far, though. Minnesota gave them all they could handle for the most part. On a neutral court or in Minnesota, maybe they take another set to send it to 5. More importantly, I don't think they have any more teams on their schedule who can successfully exploit whatever weaknesses they have to take 3 sets. So we'll have to see how they do come tournament time, when other teams have been better tested in the meantime. Pressure and some history of not performing under it may be their biggest hurdle. They’re going to put the best team on the floor in every match they play this year. They perform sometimes and not in others, just like everyone else. Last year they made an amazing comeback versus Washington after being down 2 sets and losing 15-10 in the third, then came back for the reslverse sweep. They did the same thing to Sweet Sixteen KU in Lawrence in their only orher 5 set match. Talking about how they don’t perform under pressure is cherry picking, which is simply another manifestation of what people said about Osborne until his teams finally broke through. You’re changing your language but it still ends up being the same Johnny One Note point, that’s never successfully rebutted by anything other than a championship. |
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Post by kashi on Sept 4, 2022 20:52:55 GMT -5
For those that said the stands were empty, there were over 4,000 fans there. Maples is just so spread out (seats 7,500) that it doesn’t feel packed.
Bergmark’s blocking (even if she doesn’t stuff it, she affects so many balls) was a difference maker imo.
Stanford’s passing didn’t allow them to get Sami Francis involved. So Texas’s middles could cheat alot.
Baird seems less clutch this season. But she passed really well today.
Left side blockers needed to step inside and challenge Molly to hit line.
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Post by tomclen on Sept 4, 2022 20:57:19 GMT -5
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Post by diggerdive on Sept 4, 2022 23:01:04 GMT -5
They aren’t as athletic as Texas which is pretty apparent. If Texas needs more offense out of the second middle, Caffey is warming up. But Bergman moves laterally quite well and is quicker than i thought. That would still be the separator. Texas has loads of girls with big-time experience. The transfer portal has given Texas five of the eight girls playing regularly. The back row feels like the true separator to me. But I'm a Texas fan. We had Brionne Butler playing Bergmark's rotations and Skylar Fields playing Skinner's. No offense to the current players, but that's a downgrade. Fleck, Halter, and Akana in the backrow are revelations. It's not fair to say SKT is serving better than Gabriel, because Gabriel had to play with her hair on fire, whereas SKT is constantly checking her Apple watch wondering how in the world she's going to get her steps in at this rate. But SKT does provide a MUCH better block (6' to 5'6) and now that she's letting loose on her serve a bit (in the Stanford match at least) she has a more impressive serve than Gabriel's too. But overall, SKT's setting is much better, even if a large part of it is better passing. It always makes me happy when we see reality through the same lens. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2022 23:42:17 GMT -5
Match being replayed right now on PAC 12 Network.
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