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Post by gogophers on Sept 21, 2023 20:36:20 GMT -5
Minnesota with 32 more kills than Iowa... 33 (76-43) according to the stats-thing.
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Post by comet on Sept 21, 2023 20:37:59 GMT -5
Mel was so close to a triple-double. 8 kill, 57 assists, 14 digs.
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Post by dietcokefan on Sept 21, 2023 20:38:13 GMT -5
I would head back to Turkey if I was her lol that's a stupid thing to say Probably a bad joke; my bad. I guess I just don’t understand the logic of using every player except Z. Is the backup setter really better defensively than her? I just don’t get it 🤷🏼♂️ Wasn’t Z playing at a pretty high level? It’s odd we had to go to a different country to find someone to sit the bench. Oh well rant over.
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Post by donaldjamesparker on Sept 21, 2023 20:39:24 GMT -5
Obviously Iowa has upgraded their volleyball program.
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Post by comet on Sept 21, 2023 20:42:38 GMT -5
that's a stupid thing to say Probably a bad joke; my bad. I guess I just don’t understand the logic of using every player except Z. Is the backup setter really better defensively than her? I just don’t get it 🤷🏼♂️ Wasn’t Z playing at a pretty high level? It’s odd we had to go to a different country to find someone to sit the bench. Oh well rant over. I'm not sure what level she was playing, but I think she practiced with high level players. I have no idea why she's not on the court , and I doubt we will ever know unfortunately. She came here for academics too, not just volleyball.
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Post by staticb on Sept 21, 2023 20:43:39 GMT -5
I feel like it was an easy trap game for Minnesota with this sandwiched between Creighton and Nebraska. But they got past it and that's what matters.
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Post by mn99gt on Sept 21, 2023 20:44:29 GMT -5
Not me screaming at the tv that they aren’t looking at that net touch….. It's amazing to me that the announcers had no idea that the net touch happened earlier in the play. Nor the replay people.
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Post by dietcokefan on Sept 21, 2023 20:45:54 GMT -5
Probably a bad joke; my bad. I guess I just don’t understand the logic of using every player except Z. Is the backup setter really better defensively than her? I just don’t get it 🤷🏼♂️ Wasn’t Z playing at a pretty high level? It’s odd we had to go to a different country to find someone to sit the bench. Oh well rant over. I'm not sure what level she was playing, but I think she practiced with high level players. I have no idea why she's not on the court , and I doubt we will ever know unfortunately. She came here for academics too, not just volleyball. Fair enough!
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Post by volleysota on Sept 21, 2023 20:50:48 GMT -5
I wasn't able to watch the first couple of sets as I had league night, but I was around for the rest of, well, whatever that was out there. I'm back for more observating!
Game Stuffs * The trendline for Taylor appears to be going up in the past week. Can we definitively say she's back? That's up in the air, but last week her passing looked better (to me at least) and tonight she seemed to be terminating much better. We'll see if this trend continues, but it looks like she might be getting back into her groove and it's good to see! * Conversely, Wucherer has gone from funk to liability. She averaged nearly 3 errors per set between hitting, serving, and passing. To put that into perspective, for every 6 points Iowa scored, 1 was an error specifically by Wucherer. I could maybe live with the attack errors if the serving wasn't as bad. At times, it seems like despite 900 square feet to work with, she can't put the ball in that 30x30 box. It may be time to look at taking her out in some capacity (SS, DS, or bench) to both get her out of the funk and mitigate the volume of errors. * I'm concerned that we are not seeing Zeynep at all. Nearly any conclusion you want to reach as to why she's not in the lineup does not reflect well on the team (coaching staff) right now. It's certainly not an eligibility issue anymore, and I think there are plenty here baffled by this decision. * This was an average-at-best Iowa team and we needed 5 sets to beat them. Quite frankly, this probably should have been a sweep given what the Gophers are capable of, but until they figure things out and start executing, expectations for this season probably need to be significantly tempered.
Non-Game Stuffs (that may only interest me) * If you only listened to the announcers on TV, you wouldn't be blamed if you thought Taylor Landfair was the only player on the court tonight. They couldn't stop gushing over her at every opportunity. It was reminiscent of the early 2000s NFL, where announcers practically confessed their love to Michael Vick on air for every game. I was starting to get to the point where I'm like "Okay we get it, she's having a great game but you're pouring it on a little thick" * FS1 wins lolcow of the week. Technical difficulties? For a live game? And you're supposedly one of the two biggest sports networks in the world? I don't know exactly how long the outage was, but I think it was at least 15-30 minutes. That's bad, like, really bad. * That said, what I did like was hearing the dialog between the R2 and the scorer's table on challenges. I don't know if that was by design, but it's a great plus to be able to hear that whole process as it's happening. * Being color blind sucks. I was watching the game and thought to myself "That's a different look for Keegan" as the shirt didn't look like something I'd expect to see him wear, and his face looked different. I was, of course, going off the shirt thinking it was maroon and gold. NOPE! My dumb, color blind self can't tell apart maroon and black sometimes, and I pegged Barnes as Keegan as a result. * That dang Firestone ad was back again. Hopefully you all took my advice from the last time and did not do the drinking game for this one, I saw it multiple times tonight.
Now it's on to a tough one in Nebraska. If the Gophers don't play up to the competition and execute, things could get ugly out there.
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Post by minnevolleyballfan on Sept 21, 2023 20:58:57 GMT -5
Am I the only one that thinks the score didn’t reflect how the gophers actually played? Hit at .313. Started getting middles involved, the real landfair started to show, and the energy from the players felt better tonight. If gophers didn’t allow the runs this would’ve been a 3-0 match.
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Post by maigrey on Sept 21, 2023 21:16:51 GMT -5
I just got home so I'm watching this on delay, but at 9:00 6:00 in the 1st I got to say wookie with the shaffmaster ponytail is giving her superpowers 🤣
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Post by maigrey on Sept 21, 2023 21:17:33 GMT -5
Who wants to tell the announcers that UCLA is running the same 5-2 offense? This is definitely not a first at this level. It's not even the only one this year.... I yelled at the TV and said, obviously you didn't look at Purdue last year. It's even in the Big ten.
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Post by maigrey on Sept 21, 2023 21:20:07 GMT -5
Wookie with the back row attack, wow! Knocking them down like Skittles!
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Post by jwvolley on Sept 21, 2023 21:20:16 GMT -5
Am I the only one that thinks the score didn’t reflect how the gophers actually played? Hit at .313. Started getting middles involved, the real landfair started to show, and the energy from the players felt better tonight. If gophers didn’t allow the runs this would’ve been a 3-0 match. I mean, allowing the runs is part of how they played lol.
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Post by comet on Sept 21, 2023 21:23:07 GMT -5
Wurcherer is being aggressive out there. I know she had moments of being high error (she had 14 errors this match), but she came out with a tough jump serve and is swinging hard every point. She had 15 k, .250, 12 digs tonight. Hopefully consistency will come.
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