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[pnwvb]

Omfg y’all take it easy on Daniel haha

[JJVb]

Sept 9, 2022 23:53:44 GMT -5 bprtbone said:

Huskies survive! Cal Poly is the best 0-6 team in volleyball.

I agree. Dvoracek and Markovska both hit over .400. They were outplaying the Huskies for most of the match, and have better numbers in most categories. Maybe need a better ace vs. service error ratio moving forward.

[Deleted]

Poor cal poly

[BumpSetKill]

Sept 9, 2022 23:55:01 GMT -5 pnwvb said:

Omfg y’all take it easy on Daniel haha

He is horrible.  Voice and comments are just obnoxious --- and he is a know-it-all that doesn't know as much as he thinks he does.  Among many other WRONG comments... "There's no better team in the west than UW and Pepperdine".  Um....wrong.

[bucky415]

Sometimes you just win. Take it and work on your issues. Fortunately for Washington, their upcoming schedule is not too bad. Take care of business in Montana, and then the early league matches are either at home or against teams working stuff out as well.

[nowhereman]

Sept 9, 2022 23:59:17 GMT -5 bucky415 said:

Sometimes you just win. Take it and work on your issues. Fortunately for Washington, their upcoming schedule is not too bad. Take care of business in Montana, and then the early league matches are either at home or against teams working stuff out as well.

Well there was an article in the Seattle Times on Thursday, September 8 describing this team having championship aspirations. they sure didn't look like it on Friday. Is there hope? Sure. But they better start sweeping some teams. Winning ugly four and five set matches isn't going to cut it. That's just being realistic, not pessimistic.

[bucky415]

Sept 10, 2022 0:11:40 GMT -5 nowhereman said:

Sept 9, 2022 23:59:17 GMT -5 bucky415 said:

Sometimes you just win. Take it and work on your issues. Fortunately for Washington, their upcoming schedule is not too bad. Take care of business in Montana, and then the early league matches are either at home or against teams working stuff out as well.

Well there was an article in the Seattle Times on Thursday, September 8 describing this team having championship aspirations. they sure didn't look like it on Friday. Is there hope? Sure. But they better start sweeping some teams. Winning ugly four and five set matches isn't going to cut it. That's just being realistic, not pessimistic.

No, it won't. In a recent example, though, remember Wisconsin went 4-4 in the non conference in 2019, including 2 matches versus Washington I would like to forget, so turn arounds are possible to the level of playing for a title, at least.

[DaDawgFather]

Sept 10, 2022 0:26:11 GMT -5 bucky415 said:

Sept 10, 2022 0:11:40 GMT -5 nowhereman said:

Well there was an article in the Seattle Times on Thursday, September 8 describing this team having championship aspirations. they sure didn't look like it on Friday. Is there hope? Sure. But they better start sweeping some teams. Winning ugly four and five set matches isn't going to cut it. That's just being realistic, not pessimistic.

No, it won't. In a recent example, though, remember Wisconsin went 4-4 in the non conference in 2019, including 2 matches versus Washington I would like to forget, so turn arounds are possible to the level of playing for a title, at least.

Ok but all 4 of those losses were against ranked teams who were all top 20 teams at the time and all 3 of those opponents made the elite 8 with 1 going to the national semis. The 4 wins were all 3-0 sweeps.
That's quite the difference compared to the Husky results so far. I think the Huskies have a long ways to go attain the level and the consistency they'll need for a deep run this year.

[mikegarrison]

Sept 7, 2022 15:26:40 GMT -5 vballfan17 said:

Sept 7, 2022 15:25:32 GMT -5 avid 2.0 said:

Northwestern over ? (besides Cal Poly) 

I'm thinking NW over Pepperdine, Pepp over UW & UW over NW

Wait....

[trojansc]

Using sets W:L as a tie-breaker, Northwestern won this tournament. Or using the FIVB method 3 pts for 3-0/3-1 win, 2 for 3-2 win, 1 for 2-3 loss.

[huskyvolley]

Sept 7, 2022 15:26:40 GMT -5 vballfan17 said:

Sept 7, 2022 15:25:32 GMT -5 avid 2.0 said:

Northwestern over ? (besides Cal Poly) 

I'm thinking NW over Pepperdine, Pepp over UW & UW over NW

Can you tell me what the next lottery numbers will be? Thx

[tomclen]

Sept 9, 2022 23:59:17 GMT -5 bucky415 said:

Sometimes you just win. Take it and work on your issues. Fortunately for Washington, their upcoming schedule is not too bad. Take care of business in Montana, and then the early league matches are either at home or against teams working stuff out as well.

Hope I'm so wrong people will be mocking me, but I can see a path where UW starts conference play 2-5.

[alwayslearning]

Sept 10, 2022 12:58:13 GMT -5 tomclen said:

Sept 9, 2022 23:59:17 GMT -5 bucky415 said:

Sometimes you just win. Take it and work on your issues. Fortunately for Washington, their upcoming schedule is not too bad. Take care of business in Montana, and then the early league matches are either at home or against teams working stuff out as well.

Hope I'm so wrong people will be mocking me, but I can see a path where UW starts conference play 2-5.

C'mon, tomclen, stop with the gloom and doom. It really is still early, the team is still trying to find its identity, and Cook & Co. have proven themselves to be adept developers of volleyball talent. I haven't seen all the matches, but Pepperdine and Arkansas are good teams, no doubt. The weaknesses are pretty clear and the team has its work cut out, but at least they know what they should be working on.

[Huskyfan]

[/quote] The weaknesses are pretty clear and the team has its work cut out, but at least they know what they should be working on.
[/quote]

Passing, Serving, Blocking, Attacking, Digging and playing as a team

[redbeard2008]

"The first home match always comes with a lot and you try to prepare but we certainly were not where we needed to be in that first set. But as we often do, the response was outstanding," Head Coach Keegan Cook said. "The second and third kind of reminded me of the first set in our last match (vs. Illinois) where we're the team we are aspiring to be in terms of being great both sides of the ball. We did enough amidst some adjustments from Northwestern in the fourth."

gohuskies.com/news/2022/9/8/volleyball-huskies-catch-fire-for-home-opening-win.aspx

"Serve and serve-receive was the first thing that jumped out," said Head Coach Keegan Cook. "Not very effective serving and pretty high error as well, which is always difficult because we pride ourselves on it. Pepperdine was great in that space. Then just not winning medium pass and dig situations, just hitting high hands. We actually had a relatively effective blocking day, but they found high hands a lot, and we couldn't find high hands the way that they did. So I thought that they did a lot of things that we generally aspire to do, so a good win by them and we have a tough challenge the rest of the day."

gohuskies.com/news/2022/9/9/volleyball-no-24-pepperdine-upsets-no-13-huskies-3-1.aspx

"We talked about what these three matches were going to look and feel like, and it became pretty apparent early on that every team here came to play and had talent, and I think you saw that in the results," said Head Coahc Keegan Cook. "Nothing was easy in either match today, and we made lots of changes, and I think we had to tap into some grit, but I think we leave here a little tougher and with a little better understanding of what it's going to take to compete at the highest level."

gohuskies.com/news/2022/9/9/volleyball-dawgs-grit-teeth-rally-past-mustangs-in-five.aspx

“Most of all, I’m glad that our athletes have a better understanding of what it’s going to take to compete at a really high level,” Cook said. “I think all these teams showed us where we’re at, and where we have to go.”

www.dailyuw.com/sports/washington-volleyball-comes-back-to-win-in-its-second-match-of-the-day/article_5548ef10-30ca-11ed-a1cb-2b42a8011e87.html

In recent seasons, UW Daily has provided more extensive quotes from post-home-match pressers than GoHuskies.com, but that doesn't look to be the case this season. I'm not sure if this is because of previous UW Daily reporters going the extra mile, current reporters sloughing off in their coverage, or students not yet being on campus (and thus not much of a readership). GoHuskies.com also used to provide more extensive post-match quotes in the past.