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Post by nevollfan on Sept 3, 2023 13:59:34 GMT -5
I saw about one set and looked at the final statistics only. First touches clearly won by Stanford. Not just from an aces to serving errors statistic. They clearly won first touches. They were in system much more. Seven Stanford players have at least one year of starting experience. Talent and experience go a long way. I do not know wtf happened against Florida. Lol
Maybe Florida is a final four team. Plus Stanford has the sour taste of coming up short last year. A bitter experience that will last all this season. I knew last year after seeing Texas a few times in September, that the Longhorns were the team to beat. This year it is Stanford. They have more depth and choices if some starters are struggling and not correcting their ship. All other teams have three and a half months to try to catch the Cardinal and maybe Wisconsin. Imo.
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Post by B1GHuskerGuy on Sept 3, 2023 13:59:50 GMT -5
What a roller coaster week for both fan bases!
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Post by slxpress on Sept 3, 2023 14:03:12 GMT -5
I saw about one set and looked at the final statistics only. First touches clearly won by Stanford. Not just from an aces to serving errors statistic. They clearly won first touches. Seven Stanford players have at least one year of starting experience. Talent and experience go a long way. I do not know wtf happened against Florida. Lol Maybe Florida is a final four team. Plus Stanford has the sour taste of coming up short last year. A bitter experience that will last all this season. I knew last year after seeing Texas a few times in September, that the Longhorns were the team to beat. This year it is Stanford. They have more depth and choices if some starters are struggling and not correcting their ship. All other teams have three and a half months to try to catch the Cardinal and maybe Wisconsin. Imo. Well, they were missing Baird. That’s one thing that happened against Florida. |
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Post by Turlington on Sept 3, 2023 14:08:38 GMT -5
Catie was solid all around. Oglivie was more crisp this time. Rubin did not shy away from hitting hard. Miner was much better in placement/location.
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Post by nevollfan on Sept 3, 2023 14:08:59 GMT -5
I saw about one set and looked at the final statistics only. First touches clearly won by Stanford. Not just from an aces to serving errors statistic. They clearly won first touches. Seven Stanford players have at least one year of starting experience. Talent and experience go a long way. I do not know wtf happened against Florida. Lol Maybe Florida is a final four team. Plus Stanford has the sour taste of coming up short last year. A bitter experience that will last all this season. I knew last year after seeing Texas a few times in September, that the Longhorns were the team to beat. This year it is Stanford. They have more depth and choices if some starters are struggling and not correcting their ship. All other teams have three and a half months to try to catch the Cardinal and maybe Wisconsin. Imo. Well, they were missing Baird. That’s one thing that happened against Florida. I remember that but still had Blyashov or a more experienced pin to play at home. Stanford got in a bad rhythm and did not correct its course that day. What was surprising with all that experience and being at home. So many questions for so many teams on September 3rd. Stanford has the fewest questions. Imo |
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Post by sleepy on Sept 3, 2023 14:14:05 GMT -5
also I feel like when you take a step back this result isn’t too surprising. Stanford should have been the clear #1 heading into this season and Texas lost 3 starters. It’s just that when Texas beat Minn and Florida swept Stanford everyone sort of overcorrected their expectations. But Minn is probably not a top 15 team rn.
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Post by slxpress on Sept 3, 2023 14:21:38 GMT -5
Well, they were missing Baird. That’s one thing that happened against Florida. I remember that but still had Blyashov or a more experienced pin to play at home. Stanford got in a bad rhythm and did not correct its course that day. What was surprising with all that experience and being at home. So many questions for so many teams on September 3rd. Stanford has the fewest questions. Imo It’s not like the sets were blowouts. Yes it was a sweep, but it was way closer than the dismantling they just put on Texas. Not to mention Florida looks better than Texas. Yes, Texas beat Minnesota in Maturi, but they were the significant benefactor of their strategy to go right after Landfair all match long, and Keegan Cook choosing to do nothing to compensate for it. |
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Post by nevollfan on Sept 3, 2023 16:02:45 GMT -5
I don’t think K. Cook has a quality ds to replace Landfair in the backcourt. I will take your word for it in regards to the dismantling of Texas by Stanford. I only saw one set. I think generally people forget how important first touches are. On average it snowballs from both touches to points more times than not. Without any statistical analysis. It sounds like Stanford player experience with each other and first touches really determined the story of this match.
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Post by widdledumpling on Sept 3, 2023 17:04:26 GMT -5
I don’t think K. Cook has a quality ds to replace Landfair in the backcourt. I will take your word for it in regards to the dismantling of Texas by Stanford. I only saw one set. I think generally people forget how important first touches are. On average it snowballs from both touches to points more times than not. Without any statistical analysis. It sounds like Stanford player experience with each other and first touches really determined the story of this match. Stanford wasn’t passing especially well, and we targeted Baird fairly successfully. It just didn’t matter. They K Plummer’ed their way out of it. Texas first contact wasn’t good though, and we don’t have the personnel to be able to compensate for that this year |
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Post by xlumie on Sept 3, 2023 21:16:09 GMT -5
Nebraska I’ve never asked you for ANYTHING, but if it’s something? BEAT EM😭 IDK Stanford's hitting % has been AMAZING (even in the Florida sweep). We'd have to hope Stanford's SEs bite them in the butt. |
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Post by VT Karen on Sept 3, 2023 22:10:04 GMT -5
Stanford came to play and were bolstered by Baird’s return. Their pins are more solid than Texas’ are at this point but all of the Longhorn pins are new to the roles/situations that they are in. After a rough start to the season, Swindle has actually been decent in my eyes. I don’t think she is the problem. Sure she’s making some freshman mistakes but she’s got the goods. I think this Texas team is formulating and finding their identity after losing key contributors in Eggleston, Fleck and Ka’aha’aina-Torres.
Side note I need Miss Molly to show us something in the next match. She for sure can do better than that.
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Post by Riviera Minestrone on Sept 3, 2023 22:40:51 GMT -5
I refuse to believe the staff has instructed her to do that on 50% of her swings. she’s not even TRYING to score. the staff might have taught the two hand push, but there’s no way they wanted them to do it ever play. Madi and Devin are both swinging OOS where Jenna isn’t Average player, not bad not great. Yup I absolutely agree! |
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Post by nellynel on Sept 4, 2023 8:41:12 GMT -5
Stanford came to play and were bolstered by Baird’s return. Their pins are more solid than Texas’ are at this point but all of the Longhorn pins are new to the roles/situations that they are in. After a rough start to the season, Swindle has actually been decent in my eyes. I don’t think she is the problem. Sure she’s making some freshman mistakes but she’s got the goods. I think this Texas team is formulating and finding their identity after losing key contributors in Eggleston, Fleck and Ka’aha’aina-Torres. Side note I need Miss Molly to show us something in the next match. She for sure can do better than that. Molly is great, but Molly isn’t playing next to Logan-Skinner, Logan-Skylar that allowed her to flourish at RS. If you can’t hit OOS in the OH you need to be able to hit OOS from the RS and that’s just not her game. Swindle just needs rep counts IMO, and her serving is nasty. Stanford could not deal with her serve through the first 2 sets. Their transition game is light years ahead of Texas at this point so it really didn’t matter. Keep moving forward. |
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Post by nellynel on Sept 4, 2023 8:49:51 GMT -5
First time watching Stanford, but the transition game reminded me of Texas last year. They drag you to the deep end and drown you. The floor defense was really solid allowing good second contact, Miners making good decisions and good placement and the hitters are taking care of business.
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Post by vbsam16 on Sept 4, 2023 12:44:20 GMT -5
Do we know why there isn’t a replay for this match on the espn app?
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