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Post by tjm on Sept 15, 2022 22:31:57 GMT -5
oof
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Post by GatorsChomp on Sept 15, 2022 22:40:41 GMT -5
ugh why didnt florida snatch the win when they had the chance
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Post by noblesol on Sept 15, 2022 22:42:15 GMT -5
Pepperdine is good. Better than their ranking. Is Minnesota worse than their ranking? Was this really an 'upset'?
Confirmation that the AVCA poll is demonstrating typical early season cluelessness and P5 bias?
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Post by Fight On! on Sept 15, 2022 22:44:41 GMT -5
ugh why didnt florida snatch the win when they had the chance Ummm. Isn’t it self-evident. |
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Post by GatorsChomp on Sept 15, 2022 22:44:45 GMT -5
Pepperdine is good. Better than their ranking. Is Minnesota worse than their ranking? Was this really an 'upset'? Confirmation that the AVCA poll is demonstrating typical early season cluelessness and P5 bias? typical early season is bias towards placements last season & P5 half the time... some of these pre season picks and what i've seen with the hitting %'s... yikes |
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Post by courtwatchers on Sept 15, 2022 22:44:46 GMT -5
That's exactly the point though. The ONLY chance Minnesota can get quality swings is with perfect passing. Pepperdine's setter gave their hitter so many chances even when she was brought off the net. Better tempo, better consistency, better location, deceptive choices. She led her team's offense. MN doesn't have that. Shaffmaster is rarely bettering the ball. If she doesn't start to, she'll be pulled, or MN will not be a top 15 team. I anticipate the latter will be the case. You are absolutely correct about Pepperdine's setter. She was spot on just about all night. |
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Post by Fight On! on Sept 15, 2022 22:48:19 GMT -5
And MN back to serving like it’s 12U.
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Post by courtwatchers on Sept 15, 2022 22:48:41 GMT -5
I'm afraid Choboy will come and start at Libero next year and this coaching staff will mess up her passing too.
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Post by gopherfan90 on Sept 15, 2022 22:51:24 GMT -5
Why Wenaas and Landfair never saw the bench was beyond me. I bet a freshman would at least jump at some of the out of system balls instead of hit them flat footed. We love the effort!!
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Post by mnsports255 on Sept 15, 2022 22:58:16 GMT -5
Some Gopher post match thoughts as I was able to view this beauty in person. Also I’m not going to try to censor my comments or sway it as overly positive or overly negative if the on court product doesn’t warrant it. I also won’t make any declarations on what this team can or cannot be by seasons end. There’s alot of volleyball left to be played and alot of practices ahead to keep developing in certain areas.
1) There is plenty of blame to go around. This doesn’t fall on any one or two players. It was generally the whole team. The pride factor and underlying hunger / disdain for losing seems to be lacking in a big way
2) Kilkelly has really stepped up her game as of late and was a bright spot tonight. So happy for a great kid!
3) Wucherer took some healthy rips tonight and hit some spots well. Her blocking was getting used, but so was everyone else’s on the team. Besides that I thought she had a nice debut!
4) The passing continues to be bad. Makes it impossible to accomplish anything with passing this sporadic.
5) Mel continues to have consistency problems with her set tempo and location and the decision making hasn’t been sharp either. It shuts down a lot of offensive opportunities that could’ve been possible and blockers are able to read her quickly and get to their spot an extra half second early since she tips her set choices.
6) As for Landfair, I’ll put the level of inspiration she plays with or whatever to the side as everyone has different on court temperaments. That’s fine. Purely from a mechanics / hitting standpoint, Landfair makes hitting (even on the good sets she gets) look harder than it actually is for being 6’5 on a women’s height net where you are already given a giant advantage as is. She plays stiff, doesn’t get any bend in her legs when she jumps which makes it extremely hard to come even close to optimizing your jumping abilities as an attacker, and her torso rotation is very limited. She is a predictable hitter as she never seems to use a line shot and has a hitting radius ranging from the middle of zone 6 to the back end of zone 4 which makes it so much easier for opposing blockers and liberos to handle their assignments on her. As for the out of system stuff she does… I’ll leave it at that. She has loads of potential that she’s not even beginning to take advantage of.
7) The defense, tip coverage, and overall scrappiness is alarming and after more than a handful of years of the same thing, this ultimately falls on the coaching staff. Their base defense has them out of position in a lot of scenarios. Something has to change here.
8) Wenaas has a distinct ceiling as a player. Has she played below her standards thus far this season? Yes. Has she been the recipient of more than a fair share of bad sets? Yes. Do I expect her to find a groove down the stretch? Also yes. She will never be exceptionally strong in any one area of the game against elite competition but she’s got tools that she can use to help contribute to winning volleyball. Let’s hope she pulls things together soon. A quick turnaround in her play wouldn’t shock me at all.
9) Some very dysfunctional play as of late but the sky is not falling. Things should return to equilibrium at some point and a couple of losses in preseason don’t make or break a season. Lots of big matches coming up to be won.
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Post by Fight On! on Sept 15, 2022 23:04:00 GMT -5
Also. I'd like to hear from all those crazies who kept spouting about Wenaas being the best outside in the B1G. Where did those nutjobs go. i said one of, not the  She played OPPO. |
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Post by firedup on Sept 15, 2022 23:09:35 GMT -5
ugh why didnt florida snatch the win when they had the chance Ummm. Isn’t it self-evident. Please enlighten everyone. |
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Post by Fight On! on Sept 15, 2022 23:11:32 GMT -5
Ummm. Isn’t it self-evident. Please enlighten everyone. BC they suck. |
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Post by Kingsley on Sept 15, 2022 23:13:35 GMT -5
Please enlighten everyone. BC they suck. I think Mary's F-bombs were the difference |
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Post by vbcoltrane on Sept 15, 2022 23:26:26 GMT -5
I had to leave after the second set. Oh boy. Have no idea what to think of MN now. What's the rundown of what happened - what worked, what didn't? Was Pepperdine playing well?
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