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Post by nellynel on Nov 9, 2023 7:10:57 GMT -5
I was at the WBB game and my daughter texted us the set results. My wife is a K-State grad who is a staunch Texas supports for all things not related to K-State. So, I decided not to watch the replay because why give make you shout at the computer screen for a game that's long over?
If he wouldn't put in Devin, then yeah I agree she's outta here and has told him.
it was my first time seeing madison booker play. i didn't realize how tall she is. when she played point, i was impressed I watched some of the first half, I was impressed with her skills set. You need players with enough skill to get their own shot off in clutch moments.
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Post by mln59 on Nov 9, 2023 7:17:06 GMT -5
when i got my season ticket for Texas wbb, the email said that they were moving to a tap-to-scan type system similar to apple pay. when i opened the ticket, the QR code was still available, albeit one further click.
i have never used apple pay or google pay before. i fully expect that i will fail this test tonight and be permanently banned from moody
I predict you’re going to be such a master UT is going to hire you to teach all the other technophobes how it’s done. by the way, the tap-to-scan worked. i am basically nikola tesla over here
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Post by eyeroll2021 on Nov 9, 2023 7:28:16 GMT -5
I thought I would feel better about the loss in the morning, but no.
Without a time machine, the next best result would be for the team to use the beat-down as motivation and really light a fire under their bellies. There's hopefully more, tougher road matches deep in the tournament.
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Post by hornfanaustin on Nov 9, 2023 7:31:38 GMT -5
I thought I would feel better about the loss in the morning, but no. Without a time machine, the next best result would be for the team to use the beat-down as motivation and really light a fire under their bellies. There's still a tough road match at Iowa State to come, and hopefully more, tougher road matches deep in the tournament. Pssst, that's football at Ames. Volleyball is in Greg.
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Post by nellynel on Nov 9, 2023 7:55:12 GMT -5
from way up on I-35 in Gopherland When Jenna was an underclassman I had visions of blossoming like Sarah Wilhite who grew to become the NPOY After Taylor Landfair came on board it was clear that Wenaas might be OH2, and then Wucherer arrived. Wenaas, good soldier, took on OPP, was no Stephanie Samedy, but had a nice D ball attack and a big oncourt IQ It was clear she was portal bound. No one was going to fill Eggleston's shoes. I don't follow Longhorn ball without LHN access. Up here in MN our future AA Wucherer has had trouble as a sophomore because MN has no middle attack and Wookie routinely faces a wall Wilhite wasn't all that tall but she became capable of reading the block and effectively using a wide variety of attacks to be very successful Once our setter, Shaffmaster, started giving Wookie a higher set she became more successful with more time to choose better angles. Maybe Jenna's sets were fine, she had a bad night. Maybe she needs a more varied set location, a wider set to the line so she could go line or tool the block. I haven't seen enough of Wenaas to have any opinion how high her ceiling is. Last year she had 1/2 of one rotation on the left in Ro1 In the McCutcheon era there was little priority in taking big swings on OOS sets. I know that was an Eggleston strong point. Mabye she can't live up to your expectations, or maybe, she has a big as yet unrealized upside. I just know I was sorry there wasn't a postion for her this year in Minnesota. btw, you let an opponent hit over 150pts higher than your season avg. and your match H% was close to your season avg. when the match hits youtube I'll be interested to see how y'all got dismantled You nailed it. No expert video analysis is needed. Texas hits .269 on the season and avg's 13.2 k/s. For the match Texas hit .246 and avg 14.6 k/s K-State hits .225 on the season and avg's 12.6 k/s. For the match K-State hit .351 and avg 15 k/s. Texas opponents hit 12.6 k/s for the season. Texas beat BYU this year 3-1 and hit .199. I wouldn't call it dismantled, more like crumbled late. Set 1 is 21-21. Texas Service Error K-State Service Error Texas Service Error Texas Blocked Texas Attack Error. K-State wins 25-22 Set 2 Texas is down 22-21 K-State Block Texas Kill Texas Attack Error K-State Kill. K-State Wins 25-22 Set 3 Texas is down 21-20 Kill by K-State Kill by K-State Kill by Texas Texas Service Error Kill by K-State Texas was tied or within a point of every match late in the set But when you don't play defense well enough and you remove any margin for error you have to play almost perfect to win, or hope your opponent's make errors. K-State limited errors and Texas did not. Then in the 3rd Texas just couldn't stop K-State from getting kills.
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Post by eyeroll2021 on Nov 9, 2023 8:16:44 GMT -5
I thought I would feel better about the loss in the morning, but no. Without a time machine, the next best result would be for the team to use the beat-down as motivation and really light a fire under their bellies. There's still a tough road match at Iowa State to come, and hopefully more, tougher road matches deep in the tournament. Pssst, that's football at Ames. Volleyball is in Greg. oh you're right, thank goodness. Fixed. I must still have PTSD from last year
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Post by nellynel on Nov 9, 2023 8:41:43 GMT -5
from way up on I-35 in Gopherland When Jenna was an underclassman I had visions of blossoming like Sarah Wilhite who grew to become the NPOY After Taylor Landfair came on board it was clear that Wenaas might be OH2, and then Wucherer arrived. Wenaas, good soldier, took on OPP, was no Stephanie Samedy, but had a nice D ball attack and a big oncourt IQ It was clear she was portal bound. No one was going to fill Eggleston's shoes. I don't follow Longhorn ball without LHN access. Up here in MN our future AA Wucherer has had trouble as a sophomore because MN has no middle attack and Wookie routinely faces a wall Wilhite wasn't all that tall but she became capable of reading the block and effectively using a wide variety of attacks to be very successful Once our setter, Shaffmaster, started giving Wookie a higher set she became more successful with more time to choose better angles. Maybe Jenna's sets were fine, she had a bad night. Maybe she needs a more varied set location, a wider set to the line so she could go line or tool the block. I haven't seen enough of Wenaas to have any opinion how high her ceiling is. Last year she had 1/2 of one rotation on the left in Ro1 In the McCutcheon era there was little priority in taking big swings on OOS sets. I know that was an Eggleston strong point. Mabye she can't live up to your expectations, or maybe, she has a big as yet unrealized upside. I just know I was sorry there wasn't a postion for her this year in Minnesota. btw, you let an opponent hit over 150pts higher than your season avg. and your match H% was close to your season avg. when the match hits youtube I'll be interested to see how y'all got dismantled You nailed it. No expert video analysis is needed. Texas hits .269 on the season and avg's 13.2 k/s. For the match Texas hit .246 and avg 14.6 k/s K-State hits .225 on the season and avg's 12.6 k/s. For the match K-State hit .351 and avg 15 k/s. Texas opponents hit 12.6 k/s for the season. Texas beat BYU this year 3-1 and hit .199. I wouldn't call it dismantled, more like crumbled late. Set 1 is 21-21. Texas Service Error K-State Service Error Texas Service Error Texas Blocked Texas Attack Error. K-State wins 25-22 Set 2 Texas is down 22-21 K-State Block Texas Kill Texas Attack Error K-State Kill. K-State Wins 25-22 Set 3 Texas is down 21-20 Kill by K-State Kill by K-State Kill by Texas Texas Service Error Kill by K-State Texas was tied or within a point of every match late in the set But when you don't play defense well enough and you remove any margin for error you have to play almost perfect to win, or hope your opponent's make errors. K-State limited errors and Texas did not. Then in the 3rd Texas just couldn't stop K-State from getting kills. And K-State just hit .204 and .216 in back to back losses to Kansas. They are good but not the juggernaut offensively Texas allowed them to be.
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Post by longhorn9214 on Nov 9, 2023 9:05:17 GMT -5
Gotta give credit when it's due because K State played well. They really did their research and just knew where and what we were gonna do. It just seemed like the girls got outplayed on a Wednesday night. Coaching had some questionable decisions but what do you do on REALLY close games.
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Post by eotexas5 on Nov 9, 2023 9:17:13 GMT -5
I'm gonna do my best to not come for any of the girls but my goodness, does JE scout potential setters while drunk? The fact that we haven't had a good setting recruit in literal years is insane to me. Keep in mind, for as much of a bust as Shook was, she still went undefeated in Big 12 play. Shook and Swindle are essentially the same kind of player, awkward-footed/tall/lanky/not very athletic. Time and time again, we've been outset in matches by players who maybe topped the top 100 players. Putting up a consistent ball to any of the hitters should not be something a Top 10 ranked setter should be struggling with on a game-to-game basis.
The coaching decisions from last night were just awful. Awful. I thought for sure he would change something in the third set but NOPE. Idk if it's stubbornness or if it's something else but damn, like change SOMETHING. Utterly ridiculous.
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Post by hornfanaustin on Nov 9, 2023 9:42:06 GMT -5
When down, I try to look to history. A sorta "those who forget history are doomed to repeat it"...though I don't know if that's good or bad for me. One thing I remember is that when JE won his first NC, he said "That loss to Iowa State was great for us. That late into the season was a wakeup call that helped us in the tournament" I went back and looked at late "Kick in the Pants" losses, looked up how far the season had gone and how close the the tournament it was before the loss. One effect I was surprised (forgotten this all) that we were allowed to host Regionals with poor records as we had. The other teams must have been worse! Typing/researching while weeping, so there's a chance I got a cell or two wrong.
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Post by jwvolley on Nov 9, 2023 9:43:06 GMT -5
I'm gonna do my best to not come for any of the girls but my goodness, does JE scout potential setters while drunk? The fact that we haven't had a good setting recruit in literal years is insane to me. Keep in mind, for as much of a bust as Shook was, she still went undefeated in Big 12 play. Shook and Swindle are essentially the same kind of player, awkward-footed/tall/lanky/not very athletic. Time and time again, we've been outset in matches by players who maybe topped the top 100 players. Putting up a consistent ball to any of the hitters should not be something a Top 10 ranked setter should be struggling with on a game-to-game basis. The coaching decisions from last night were just awful. Awful. I thought for sure he would change something in the third set but NOPE. Idk if it's stubbornness or if it's something else but damn, like change SOMETHING. Utterly ridiculous. Every program in the country looking for a setter wanted Swindle at the time of that recruiting class. I'm quite happy Nebraska went with Bergen, but it's not like Texas got some rando.
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Post by storyteller on Nov 9, 2023 9:57:32 GMT -5
I think the reason we didn't see any changes last night was because the sets were always within reach. JE never seems to make changes in those situations, and the team is able to pull out the close wins more often than not. Even this team, which feels less clutch in these moments than in past years, has been able to do that for most of conference play.
I actually prefer JE letting players play through things versus constantly swapping players like some coaches do. But I also feel like enough of the things the team usually relies on weren't clicking last night, and he had enough information to make a proactive change instead of the reactive ones he usually makes. I know that's not his style, but it might be necessary this season.
That being said, I feel like lulls at this point in the season are pretty common. (Look at all the upsets from the past two weeks!) Even last year's team didn't look sharp late October/early November. This is probably where the season feels longest to the players, and I'm sure traveling to West Virginia > Austin > Kansas St this week didn't help. Hopefully the team can use this as a reset and build momentum going into the tournament. I don't think we've seen their best yet, and this could be the springboard to get them there.
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Post by eyeroll2021 on Nov 9, 2023 10:02:07 GMT -5
I'm gonna do my best to not come for any of the girls but my goodness, does JE scout potential setters while drunk? The fact that we haven't had a good setting recruit in literal years is insane to me. Keep in mind, for as much of a bust as Shook was, she still went undefeated in Big 12 play. Shook and Swindle are essentially the same kind of player, awkward-footed/tall/lanky/not very athletic. Time and time again, we've been outset in matches by players who maybe topped the top 100 players. Putting up a consistent ball to any of the hitters should not be something a Top 10 ranked setter should be struggling with on a game-to-game basis. The coaching decisions from last night were just awful. Awful. I thought for sure he would change something in the third set but NOPE. Idk if it's stubbornness or if it's something else but damn, like change SOMETHING. Utterly ridiculous. Reminding you all, Swindle also had an offer from Nebraska. So scouting is not the issue. This is also the same crowd that went nuts over Swindle's performance in the Under-Armour All-American game, and all Spring. She has the skills, give her better passing and time. Losing is a collective failure. It wasn't just Jenna. It wasn't just Swindle. Just about everyone had a bad night, including the coaches.
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Post by uofaGRAD on Nov 9, 2023 10:17:13 GMT -5
i honestly didnt think swindle was that bad? asjia was getting good sets on the slide and couldnt put any of them away. bella, when set, would hit straight at morris and get dug. the sets to jenna seemed fine, there were just far too many of them. connection with molly was pretty good, at least compared to where we've been during the season, but for whatever reason ella ignored her set 2. her connection with madi from the backrow was my biggest concern. that's been money and it looked horrible yesterday.
more molly, less jenna, more bella behind, better backrow sets to madi, but i thought her location to everyone sans madi backrow was fine. we just have to be better. ive never seen asjia so poor offensively:/ and the fact bella wouldnt even try a power swing cross instead of her thumb down/wrist away to the libero wasnt great, but i really, really wish ella wouldve given bella a chance on the slide.
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Post by braque on Nov 9, 2023 10:21:23 GMT -5
I think the reason we didn't see any changes last night was because the sets were always within reach. JE never seems to make changes in those situations, and the team is able to pull out the close wins more often than not. Even this team, which feels less clutch in these moments than in past years, has been able to do that for most of conference play. I actually prefer JE letting players play through things versus constantly swapping players like some coaches do. But I also feel like enough of the things the team usually relies on weren't clicking last night, and he had enough information to make a proactive change instead of the reactive ones he usually makes. I know that's not his style, but it might be necessary this season. That being said, I feel like lulls at this point in the season are pretty common. (Look at all the upsets from the past two weeks!) Even last year's team didn't look sharp late October/early November. This is probably where the season feels longest to the players, and I'm sure traveling to West Virginia > Austin > Kansas St this week didn't help. Hopefully the team can use this as a reset and build momentum going into the tournament. I don't think we've seen their best yet, and this could be the springboard to get them there. Goodness there is a shocking amount of calm, measured judgment and common sense in this post. Have you forgotten you're on Volleytalk???
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