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Post by jwvolley on Nov 9, 2023 13:40:25 GMT -5
lol i was looking around at our numbers on the season in VM and tell me why molly is statistically our best server LOL small sample size of course but still funny. as slxpress noted last night, we serve well. the issue is that we couldnt convert anything to take advantage of that. kansas state passed a 1.84 to our 2.13 and they still SMOKED us. that's unacceptable. Hitting .351 on 1.84 passing😳. I believe they were over .400 for the first set and a half. Texas 2021 is that you?
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Post by nellynel on Nov 9, 2023 13:50:58 GMT -5
Hitting .351 on 1.84 passing😳. I believe they were over .400 for the first set and a half. Texas 2021 is that you? Didn’t know KSU had Logan and Skyler😂
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Post by mcmike on Nov 9, 2023 14:45:25 GMT -5
from way up on I-35 in Gopherland No one was going to fill Eggleston's shoes. I don't follow Longhorn ball without LHN access. 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. 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. when the match hits youtube I'll be interested to see how y'all got dismantled Thanks for your input. My perspective was that when we first faced her a few years ago, commentators were really building her up and when we played Minny, afterwards I thought, "Well, she's good, but she also makes a lot of errors. Okay, she's a freshman."
Played against her one more time, didn't think any differently about her impact against the Horns. When the big to-do about her transferring, I didn't really get pumped about it since I'd seen her on TV once and in person the second time. At the start of the season, she wouldn't go for a kill if the ball wasn't JUST PERFECT for her. She would tip and tip and tip and then sometimes hit directly into the block. I think the staff had a talk about that with her because her tipping has dropped tremendously. Either she was told to JUST-HIT-IT or Swindle got better with setting her. Or both. Finally, why does JE keep her in and give her second and third chances? I believe it is the fulfillment of the chase.
He tried to recruit her the first time and she committed to A&M - "it's not you, it's me" A&M fires their coach before she signs, JE is after her to come to Texas, she picks Minny - "We Want Different Things" Hugh uhhhh, retires? and Jerritt FINALLY gets his long lost love - "If you love something, you'll set it free. If it was always meant to be, it will come back to you"
I know nothing of the drama of how Wenaas came to Minny I watched the match on youtube 1. Wenaas isn't Eggleston. She received very few in system sets. On one of the blocks she passed the serve on her knees, got up and was set?? Why no pipe to Skinner, why no back set?? 2. She got a TON of OOS bump sets from all over the place. Most of the OOS bump sets were fairly good. One, IIRC, was a trap set that was basically roofed. What happened to the TX pass? 3. Taking a big swing in transition from an OOS set when you previous career focused on keeping the ball in play should be seen as a work in progress. 4. IRE IN CRUNCH TIME. Her HE at the end of set1 was not shown on my video. At the end of set 2, 22-23 a great xcourt drive was dug, she went xcourt again, was called out, but a challenge revealed a touch. She then went line and missed hands and missed the court. Ouch. Her 2nd HE in set 3 was on a kill on a too close OOS set that caused her to touch the net when the ball was dug to the net instead of the floor. Early in the set she did miss long by about 2'
Eggleston maybe was a Queen of 'taking out the trash'. Wenaas is not there and may be not ever going to be there. She is more of a finesse than power OH. After reading the game thread I wanted to see if 'take her out' was warranted. IT WASN'T. POINTS LOST IN CRUNCH TIME ARE MAGNIFIED. Too many of her 3rd contacts were well blocked or block touched because TX had no other 3rd contact options, or because the setter, under extra pressure maybe?, just went with the easier relief valve set to Jenna. OOS bump sets require more focus on making a good contact and thus, don't allow for a lot of peripheral "where is the hole in the block, is there a hole in the block, can I drive this xcourt, planning. The MB in her face was TALL. If you go high hands your trajectory is upwards and your misses are by 10'. That being said maybe JE should have encouraged more high hands hoping for kills. I think y'all were being hypercritical, but I understand it's just not the same as last year.
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Post by eyeroll2021 on Nov 9, 2023 14:59:21 GMT -5
I think y'all were being hypercritical, but I understand it's just not the same as last year. Lol. The hypercritical part is the same every year.
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Post by eotexas5 on Nov 9, 2023 15:07:41 GMT -5
I think y'all were being hypercritical, but I understand it's just not the same as last year. Lol. The hypercritical part is the same every year. oh 100p but let me see a non-Texas fan or a hater come for my girls and I'm ready to throw hands!
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Post by longhorn9214 on Nov 9, 2023 15:10:26 GMT -5
Lol. The hypercritical part is the same every year. oh 100p but let me see a non-Texas fan or a hater come for my girls and I'm ready to throw hands! FR
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Post by anastasia1 on Nov 9, 2023 15:17:28 GMT -5
i am about to rewatch and see where it all went wrong 😭😩
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2023 15:23:13 GMT -5
I have finally accepted our team is what it is and lowered my expectations. I love our ladies and will cheer them with all my heart. I’m in the ‘can it please be 2025 already?’ phase of my grief cause I can’t take another year of this and unless the portal pops off or JE comes to his senses I’m gonna be forced to watch Wenaas start another year
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Post by omder on Nov 9, 2023 15:26:28 GMT -5
jerritt is already behind the scenes making a switch happen 🕯️
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Post by sunsuphornsup on Nov 9, 2023 15:30:00 GMT -5
I’m rooting for Jenna to get it together, but also Jerritt needs to know when to relieve the girls of some of the pressure and carry the burden of feeling the loss on their shoulders.
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Post by mln59 on Nov 9, 2023 15:32:49 GMT -5
i am about to rewatch and see where it all went wrong 😭😩 or we can take you out back and repeatedly kick your shins
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Post by longhorn9214 on Nov 9, 2023 15:36:32 GMT -5
I’m rooting for Jenna to get it together, but also Jerritt needs to know when to relieve the girls of some of the pressure and carry the burden of feeling the loss on their shoulders. I think it's a little bit of everything. It was all way too close to make that call. He made the call to leave her in there and she didn't produced. She has produced in previous games like TCU.
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Post by uofaGRAD on Nov 9, 2023 15:48:30 GMT -5
I’m rooting for Jenna to get it together, but also Jerritt needs to know when to relieve the girls of some of the pressure and carry the burden of feeling the loss on their shoulders. I think it's a little bit of everything. It was all way too close to make that call. He made the call to leave her in there and she didn't produced. She has produced in previous games like TCU. Jenna went off against TCU after being benched. he allowed her to hit her own reset button, watch the game from the bench perspective, and then allowed her to try again the next set. I’m not sure why that wasn’t done against Kansas State. why not let Devin go out there and try for a minute and then let Jenna come in at the start of the next set after she’s had a minute to mentally reset and refocus. what JE did last night was almost cruel😭 just letting her hit into the block over and over and over again. I LOVE that he spun the wheel set 2 to give her a different look, but it didn’t work, so then you have to change personnel. there’s no other option, unless you’re okay with losing or think we aren’t good enough to comeback against Kansas State.
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Post by storyteller on Nov 9, 2023 16:02:40 GMT -5
I think it's a little bit of everything. It was all way too close to make that call. He made the call to leave her in there and she didn't produced. She has produced in previous games like TCU. Jenna went off against TCU after being benched. he allowed her to hit her own reset button, watch the game from the bench perspective, and then allowed her to try again the next set. I’m not sure why that wasn’t done against Kansas State. why not let Devin go out there and try for a minute and then let Jenna come in at the start of the next set after she’s had a minute to mentally reset and refocus. what JE did last night was almost cruel😭 just letting her hit into the block over and over and over again. I LOVE that he spun the wheel set 2 to give her a different look, but it didn’t work, so then you have to change personnel. there’s no other option, unless you’re okay with losing or think we aren’t good enough to comeback against Kansas State. This is what gets me. Devin has shown she can come in hot from the bench, and Jenna has shown she responds well with a reset. That's a great tool to use, especially for a position that's subbing in and out every three rotations anyway.
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Post by dlsf909 on Nov 9, 2023 16:13:11 GMT -5
We need to rescue O'Neal from this team and bring her back to Anaheim. I don't want her to settle into bad volleyball and risk her chance at 2024.
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