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Post by clob on Sept 25, 2022 22:03:20 GMT -5
We’ll that’s frustrating. We have to figure something out. FAST. Please, Sheff, I beg you. Ditch the 6-2. Genuinely curious, but does ditching the 6-2 solve anything? Or what are the thoughts/opinions/concerns?
I'd love to hear more opinions about this as well.
I don't have opinion at all. My uneducated view is that I think the 6-2 makes the hitters seem like robots and they don't get a connection with the setter.
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Post by badgerbreath on Sept 25, 2022 22:03:48 GMT -5
You're panicking. If you don't pass, it doesn't matter if Smrek is in the middle, she's not getting the ball. And when teams find out that Hart and CC can't hit of two feet on the RS, they know we're going to her anyway. Rettke and Hilley bailed us out so often because they could run a slide on a pass to the 10' line. That opened up the court for Smrek. They need to get the passing together before Smrek can be a threat from the middle. In the mean time, she has to learn to hit out of the right side. Huh? If we can't get the ball to the middle because of either the passing or the setting, the only option Smrek has to be effective is to be able to hit from the RS. She needs to learn how to do that anyway. She is never going to just hit out of the middle. She can learn to do it. She is not going to play MB until she learns to speed up laterally on the block. I liked that she went high hand today once. She doesn't do that very often. |
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Post by vollem on Sept 25, 2022 22:04:31 GMT -5
Aight who voted for a sweep. I voted Badgers in 5. I had the Goofs 😁 I mean Gophers in 4 🙂 I just expected something sloppy and both playing like ass |
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Post by horns1 on Sept 25, 2022 22:04:38 GMT -5
Diva diva diva: last year you lose your stud MH he adjusts with a high bread MB RS tactic and a back row attacker specialist !!! And now he’s out of his league?? Wow Stay in your lane diva! Baby girl... he's running a %*$#ty 6-2 to apiece a 9 year program member (Izzy) ... he has Shrek, which clearly is unstoppable in the middle, trying to run her on RS like she's doing something there... Has the best potential Libero (Orzol) and likely one of the best freshman OH's (Wrobel) riding the pine and yet he chooses this garbage line up... Are we really going to depend on 80 swings from Franklin every match, 40 of which will be out or blocked... he's not a visionary, lacks the fortitude, that's very apparent. Winning a national championship as nothing to do with the coach, just look at Jerrod Elliot... Your takes get dumber as the season progresses . . . |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2022 22:04:46 GMT -5
Genuinely curious, but does ditching the 6-2 solve anything? Or what are the thoughts/opinions/concerns? Slightly better setting. Better setting leads to better attack attempts thus more pressure on opponents defense. DS in backrow for Franklin likely increasing sideout percentage (defensive purposes not passing as Franklin is fine there). 6-2 looks like Brad Pitt on paper but in the flesh it looks more like a gargoyle. |
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Post by SportyBucky on Sept 25, 2022 22:07:23 GMT -5
but is one of MJ/Izzy significantly better than the other? i see everyone complain about both lol I think Izzy. Neither is Poulter but Izzy less frequently puts her hitters in bad positions and is faster. I mean, with all the transfers I do not know why we didn't grab a setter given what we have. |
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Post by gopherfan90 on Sept 25, 2022 22:08:17 GMT -5
What a match! The Barnes era is over. 😮💨
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Post by robtearle on Sept 25, 2022 22:08:47 GMT -5
Baby girl... he's running a %*$#ty 6-2 to apiece a 9 year program member (Izzy) ... he has Shrek, which clearly is unstoppable in the middle, trying to run her on RS like she's doing something there... Has the best potential Libero (Orzol) and likely one of the best freshman OH's (Wrobel) riding the pine and yet he chooses this garbage line up... Are we really going to depend on 80 swings from Franklin every match, 40 of which will be out or blocked... he's not a visionary, lacks the fortitude, that's very apparent. Winning a national championship as nothing to do with the coach, just look at Jerrod Elliot... Your takes get dumber as the season progresses . . . I have her on 'ignore' so as to not even see her nonsense posts. But you guys keep quoting her when you respond! I can't win! |
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Post by tablealgebra on Sept 25, 2022 22:10:00 GMT -5
We’ll that’s frustrating. We have to figure something out. FAST. Please, Sheff, I beg you. Ditch the 6-2. Genuinely curious, but does ditching the 6-2 solve anything? Or what are the thoughts/opinions/concerns? I'm a 5-1 proponent for a few reasons, and they are the usual I think - setting consistency (especially with new setters, allowing one to become established), freedom to sub elsewhere (in particular for Franklin in backrow, let her have a break from passing for 3 rotations), and the ability to maximize the opposite position using subs which UW did so effectively last season. But today it didn't matter - the game was lost on passing (or Minny won it from the service line, however you want to look at that interaction), and moreover, in UW's first(!) time being forced to rotate a setter front-row, she sure did look like a weakness on the block, so I'd think today was a win for the 6-2 proponents. At this point, the best available route to improving passing looks to be Shanel Bramschrieber and we get another 6 games of NCAA-hates-Wisky* purgatory before she's back. *FYI I completely base the NCAA-hates-Wisky statement on the Micah Potter fiasco, I had no idea how they were going to rule on Bramschrieber and if you put it in isolation I don't know if I see bias |
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Post by robtearle on Sept 25, 2022 22:10:51 GMT -5
Not many BIC's or quick sets for the Badgers tonight. Was it because of the lack of opportunity or was it more of Izzy/MJ just not running a good match?? My guess is the passing and the choices it left the setters with. If you look at the box score, it is TONS of swings fron the left sides and too little from the middles and rights. To me, that says bad passing. |
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Post by volleystan on Sept 25, 2022 22:12:38 GMT -5
Weird to me that no one is mentioning blocking - WI’s block was non-existent. We’ve talked setter, liberos, Smrek, but the blocking difference was the real culprit here.
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Post by spikerthemovie on Sept 25, 2022 22:14:56 GMT -5
Weird to me that no one is mentioning blocking - WI’s block was non-existent. We’ve talked setter, liberos, Smrek, but the blocking difference was the real culprit here. That had a lot to do with passing. Those OOS moonballs gave the Gopher block time to file their nails, then go up. |
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Post by vollem on Sept 25, 2022 22:17:54 GMT -5
Wait was @madden55 the gopher sweep voter?
also after having solid setters and some inconsistent OH play, Badgers seem to have the exact opposite problem now. Although Franklin heated up toward the end after digging herself a bit of a hole (Landfair did as well).
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2022 22:20:30 GMT -5
Weird to me that no one is mentioning blocking - WI’s block was non-existent. We’ve talked setter, liberos, Smrek, but the blocking difference was the real culprit here. Yes, I mentioned it but in the Wisconsin thread. Sets 2 and 3 the Gophers hit .400 and .432. Shall we say teeing off. The Badgers started off in Set 1 with better formed blocking but things went to hell from there. |
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Post by volleystan on Sept 25, 2022 22:22:29 GMT -5
Weird to me that no one is mentioning blocking - WI’s block was non-existent. We’ve talked setter, liberos, Smrek, but the blocking difference was the real culprit here. That had a lot to do with passing. Those OOS moonballs gave the Gopher block time to file their nails, then go up. Lmao that’s definitely true, but what accounts for WI having only 5 blocks when they essentially have two MBs on court at any time (Crawford, Hart, Smrek, Robinson)? Would expect way more blocks on MN’s outsides in sets 2 & 3 in particular. |
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