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Post by ilalum92 on Sept 14, 2023 11:53:05 GMT -5
I'll be watching tonight, I'll give a re-cap. Have no expectations. Maybe we can pull a rabbit out of the hat.
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Post by pointillinois on Sept 14, 2023 14:17:29 GMT -5
The attendance at Huff is already on the decline. Last year wasn't great (except the Nebraska match where it was a home match for them) and I'm sure this year will be the same. Mostly just students, townies, and youth volleyball.
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Post by exit237a on Sept 14, 2023 14:43:47 GMT -5
Where can I find a video of the Illinois locker room and player facilities? I looked this week at a video of the women's basketball player facilities. I don't know what I'm talking about. But, when I compare that to the brief glimpses I've seen of the volleyball facilities, the difference looked to me enough to be a huge competitive hurdle. Facilities by themselves will not win top recruits, but if really outdated, they are not fun to be trapped in all week and they are a huge billboard for lack of adequate administration support. While searching "Illinois Volleyball" on YouTube a while back, I came across R-Freshman Sophie Stephenson's page. She's got some footage of Illinois's home facilities at Huff Hall- locker room, training room, lounge area, etc. If folks are inclined to compare those clips with the 15 second TikTok video shared of the visitor locker room, they can see that there is a difference in how nice it is.
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Post by oldmanvb on Sept 14, 2023 16:00:50 GMT -5
Those facilities are obviously much nicer than the TikTok video posted by the PSU team. Nothing to brag about but not a total dumpster fire. Oddly, I’m a little disappointed the facilities are not worse as that might provide some explanation for the current state of our recruiting.
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Post by exit237a on Sept 14, 2023 19:09:32 GMT -5
Though we're bummed you didn't pull off the W that was still a great match, Illini. A lot of good things to build off of. Everyone on the court had a big contribution at some point in the game and it was a lot of fun to watch. The same couldn't really be said about some of our previous matches this season, so hopefully it's a sign of the things to come. Shake off the immediate sting of this loss, get back at it tomorrow and keep moving onward and upward. Truly looking forward to watching this team continue to grow.
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Post by mosser on Sept 14, 2023 19:20:37 GMT -5
They looked pretty good. Burbage was great. Need to feed Raina even more. Still wanna see Barnes get a shot at libero. Mosher gotta keep getting better.
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Post by ilalum92 on Sept 14, 2023 21:42:15 GMT -5
This team in games 2-3-4 looked amazing. Passing, blocking, hitting & digging all on point. Game 5 was a toss up and a few key errors cost us. Not much you can do when Fields is on and hitting over a 6’4” block.
I would not have set Raina back row on that last point when Fields is blocking and you have Tuniaga front row.
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Post by ilalum92 on Sept 14, 2023 21:43:47 GMT -5
Mosher got better in this match. Still needs to work on location but much improved this match
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Post by boilermaker5 on Sept 14, 2023 22:10:39 GMT -5
Though we're bummed you didn't pull off the W that was still a great match, Illini. A lot of good things to build off of. Everyone on the court had a big contribution at some point in the game and it was a lot of fun to watch. The same couldn't really be said about some of our previous matches this season, so hopefully it's a sign of the things to come. Shake off the immediate sting of this loss, get back at it tomorrow and keep moving onward and upward. Truly looking forward to watching this team continue to grow. Illinois and Playing better than usual in Holloway Gym. Name a better combo. I'm not scarred. Illinois looked pretty solid today.
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Post by inpaign on Sept 14, 2023 22:51:28 GMT -5
It was crazy seeing the correlation between serve receive and our success in this match. First set, we looked atrocious...like a bad junior high team. Second and third set especially our serve receive was on point and we dominated. Truly looks like we will go as far as our serve receive will take us this season. At least we showed we can be competitive with a good USC team. Hoping this translates to tomorrow.
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Post by ilalum92 on Sept 14, 2023 22:58:08 GMT -5
It was crazy seeing the correlation between serve receive and our success in this match. First set, we looked atrocious...like a bad junior high team. Second and third set especially our serve receive was on point and we dominated. Truly looks like we will go as far as our serve receive will take us this season. At least we showed we can be competitive with a good USC team. Hoping this translates to tomorrow. Our hitters were actually taking good rips. Burbage & Nunge especially. Having watched them for a few matches, they were running under the ball and not keeping it in front of them.
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Post by photos1 on Sept 15, 2023 0:18:26 GMT -5
It was crazy seeing the correlation between serve receive and our success in this match. First set, we looked atrocious...like a bad junior high team. Second and third set especially our serve receive was on point and we dominated. Truly looks like we will go as far as our serve receive will take us this season. At least we showed we can be competitive with a good USC team. Hoping this translates to tomorrow. Oh come on, how can you put USC women’s volleyball and “good” in the same sentence? They haven’t beaten anyone… and the losses are ugly. Illinois setting is horrid and the back row is unacceptable. I don’t understand why Chris can’t get better talent to Champaign… I thought Illinois would be a bubble team this year… I just don’t see that after watching tonight…
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Post by oldmanvb on Sept 15, 2023 7:52:09 GMT -5
So much better after set 1. They seemed interested in playing defense. Not sure I understand the concept of tipping from the back row as there is so much time to get to the ball - is it because setter/hitter timing is off? Mosher needs to spread the offense more - including sending out of system sets to the right side. Both Burbage and Collins are capable of hitting those balls with authority. I would also like to see Burbage hitting a 4 set (shoot) on the right side assuming she is quick enough to get there. Tuniaga was very effective —the 4 set almost guarantees a single block with Raina on the left side. Finally, with a quick tempo offense hitters have a terrible time adjusting to sets at the 10 foot line. Mosher and Barry need to work on location.
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Post by oldmanvb on Sept 15, 2023 20:19:33 GMT -5
I would like to some statistics which would tell us how many of our “safe” off speed hits are immediately converted into points by our opponents compared to the number of points we ultimately win having kept the ball safe. Then factor in the number of points we win when we aggressively attack out of system balls. From a purely mind set, attack mode perspective I would like to see us swing away even when there are sometimes bad results.
That and someone needs to get Mosher to understand the second ball is her ball and her teammates need to get the heck out of the way.
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Post by northwoods on Sept 15, 2023 21:12:44 GMT -5
Well, here we go with the B1G schedule…..3 of the first 4 are as winnable as it’s going to get.
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