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Post by uofaGRAD on Sept 8, 2024 16:18:54 GMT -5
Averie is your best passer, you literally can’t take her out even when she’s struggling. it’s why she got reinserted. maybe if CMM was libero you could have a little more flexibility but you cannot have CMM and Averie off the court at the same time.
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Post by exit237a on Sept 8, 2024 16:22:06 GMT -5
Averie is your best passer, you literally can’t take her out even when she’s struggling. it’s why she got reinserted. maybe if CMM was libero you could have a little more flexibility but you cannot have CMM and Averie off the court at the same time.
Great point. Without seeing advanced stats and just going by the eye test, I have to imagine Averie and CMM are the top two passers so far. Lily had a couple positive passes when she drew in briefly the other day but not a real sample size to work with.
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Post by oldmanvb on Sept 8, 2024 16:23:39 GMT -5
I suppose I understand why Tamas wanted to get his starters plenty of playing time to gel at the beginning of the season, but he missed a golden opportunity to play reserves he may have to rely upon when playing the relative cupcakes in the first four matches. Not many cupcakes left on the schedule to use as safe playing time.
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Post by ilalum92 on Sept 8, 2024 16:34:40 GMT -5
Hey ILL VT posters, make sure we all nominate Brooke for Big Ten SOTW when the VT POW week 2 thread pops up. Her triple double 32-10-10 deserves it!!! Go Brooke
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Post by exit237a on Sept 8, 2024 16:36:02 GMT -5
Hey ILL VT posters, make sure we all nominate Brooke for Big Ten SOTW when the VT POW week 2 thread pops up. Her triple double 32-10-10 deserves it!!! Go Brooke
I think they're using the same nominations thread all season:
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Post by exit237a on Sept 8, 2024 17:08:02 GMT -5
Hey ILL VT posters, make sure we all nominate Brooke for Big Ten SOTW when the VT POW week 2 thread pops up. Her triple double 32-10-10 deserves it!!! Go Brooke Just nominated Brooke and Raina:
Big Ten Nominations for Week 2
Illinois: 4-0 record in Week 2 (3-1 over Illinois State, 3-0 over Toledo, 3-2 over Iowa State, 3-2 over Wake Forest)
Offensive Player of the Week: Raina Terry - Outside Hitter
4.29 Kills/Set, .304 Hitting percentage, 0.71 Aces/Set
Setter of the Week: Brooke Mosher - Setter (sets five rotations, plays opposite one rotation)
*Triple double in 5 set win against Wake Forest (10 kills, 32 assists, 10 digs) 7.64 Assists/set (setting five rotations, six rotations prorated equivalent = 9.18 assists/set) Team hitting percentage without Brooke's attack numbers = .254 Brooke's other stats: 1.35 Kills/Set, .347 Hitting %, 0.41 Aces/Set, 1.76 Digs/Set
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Post by oldmanvb on Sept 8, 2024 19:07:33 GMT -5
To go back to the passing discussion, Raina has received 139 serves, Caroline 102, CMM 77 and Averie 39. I suspect these numbers reflect opponents targeting who they believe are our weakest passers. Some thought needs to be given to developing a serve receive strategy that increases the number of passes made by CMM and Averie, something probably easier said than done. As good as Caroline has played on defense first contact is most important and, as many have said, the easiest way to adjust these numbers is to give CMM the libero jersey. Of course, her 3 shanks at the end of the Iowa State match is concerning. Is it possible bad serve receiving is a contagious disease?
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Post by pepperjack on Sept 8, 2024 19:44:23 GMT -5
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Post by cathy5 on Sept 8, 2024 20:02:21 GMT -5
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Post by ilalum92 on Sept 8, 2024 20:27:54 GMT -5
To go back to the passing discussion, Raina has received 139 serves, Caroline 102, CMM 77 and Averie 39. I suspect these numbers reflect opponents targeting who they believe are our weakest passers. Some thought needs to be given to developing a serve receive strategy that increases the number of passes made by CMM and Averie, something probably easier said than done. As good as Caroline has played on defense first contact is most important and, as many have said, the easiest way to adjust these numbers is to give CMM the libero jersey. Of course, her 3 shanks at the end of the Iowa State match is concerning. Is it possible bad serve receiving is a contagious disease? Sub Lily for Raina if we are not using her in back row attack. That is an immediate upgrade in our passing.
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Post by Pasquale on Sept 8, 2024 21:12:19 GMT -5
News-Gazette alert . . . there are 9 articles on the football team's upset win over Kansas and absolutely nothing about the volleyball team's 3 wins over the weekend. Keep up the good work, News-Gazette.
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Post by notpriddy (COIF) on Sept 9, 2024 5:21:17 GMT -5
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Post by pointillinois on Sept 9, 2024 8:56:27 GMT -5
Didn't catch any of the action this weekend. Happy to see the results. Go Illini!
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Post by oldmanvb on Sept 9, 2024 10:13:57 GMT -5
Where is our RPI after the weekend?
We have now won more pre-season matches than last year or 2022. The two matches next weekend will be our biggest challenges.
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Post by trojansc on Sept 9, 2024 10:45:26 GMT -5
Where is our RPI after the weekend? We have now won more pre-season matches than last year or 2022. The two matches next weekend will be our biggest challenges. RPI is pretty much irrelevant at this point, it's not stable or a valuable measurement. USC was in the 300's last week and is now #3 after losing to Creighton and beating Kansas State. Illinois needs to root for the rest of the Big Ten, and root for all of its non-conference opponents to win as many matches as possible and then the RPI will fall into place.
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