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Post by gogophers on Sept 13, 2024 13:04:13 GMT -5
Is that the year we ran a three middle offense? They were awesome players, BTW. Together with Moly Lohman the Tapps covered both the middle and the rightside. SSS had played club ball with all three so there was a very good connection. We can't expect to ever see that again, but we can hope. That explains the % outlier. So it looks as if 2024 middle attack is normal but more terminal. 🤷♂️ Please see my earlier post. 2015 wasn't all that much of an outlier during the SSS era. Assuming your 2015 figures are correct, 2017 was actually more like 27, 28%, not 17%. I believe that in 2019, with a mix of Kylie Miller and Bayley at setter, the % was less than in the SSS era, but still close to 25%.
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Post by mplsgopher on Sept 13, 2024 13:34:41 GMT -5
All the talk about the MB, Minatee is currently sitting at #5 in hitting percentage in B1G at 0.430. Such a ranking should require a minimum number of swings. Rankings by percentages usually do.
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Post by B1Gminnesotafan on Sept 13, 2024 13:47:17 GMT -5
rec % = total attempts - receiving errors, aka getting aced/total attempts. In Wucherer's case, for instance, she's given up 13 aces in 128 attempts. 115/128 = .898. This doesn't tell you how good she passed in the 115 times she wasn't aced. Thanks - I knew it didn't include quality but, IMO the ranking of passes as 1, 2, 3 is not much for comparing different teams as it is too subjective. It can be used for a team to compare against itself as the season rolls on.
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Post by douglass9 on Sept 13, 2024 14:09:10 GMT -5
One thing I remember about Morgan and Pittman is that they were deadly on overpasses. We were not last year.
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Post by mplsgopher on Sept 13, 2024 14:11:45 GMT -5
One thing I remember about Morgan and Pittman is that they were deadly on overpasses. We were not last year. We haven't been in any year since them. It's a really weird thing.
Almost any other elite team I feel like, if a ball is clearly going to be a couple feet just on the other side of the net, it's an automatic smash kill. We purged that from our program, for some reason.
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Post by mcmike on Sept 13, 2024 16:15:44 GMT -5
I saw some really good volleyball last night.
on BTN B1G Volleyball in 60: Neb. vs Creighton Down 2 sets to 0, the third set was decided at 33-31! And it wasn't drunken picnic stuff.
When I started watching I wondered if the video replay was at 1.25x. The speed of NEB attacks were something to behold And Creighton was digging most of them.
Why do Krause and Murray wail on their sets...repeatedly, and the MN outsides not so much? (btw TayLa saw almost no court time)
I wouldn't expect NEB to perform at last night's level all the time (in fact they hit .000 in set 4), but when they were good they were very very very good.
The reason for the above diversion? Two swing and misses then a third for a kill Grote Highlights 0:22
perfect pass on free ball, Shaff's '2'? to Phoebe almost out of her reach good? pass on free ball, Shaff's gap set to Phoebe is a second misconnection leading to good pass on free ball, Shaff's back set to Lydia is high and perfect allowing a kill over the 4 hands above the net.
I hope MN continues to focus on the MB connection in the rest of the pre-season. 21/99 vs LIU Maybe someone with more coaching experience can comment on MB swing arc. You get the most down angle when your swing arc is 12 to 6. A natural swing is more 10:30 or 11 to 5ish. A MB could bend at the waist or increase the shoulder rotation to achieve that 12 to 6 swing angle. Somehow the MN middle attack has to make adjustments so that we are earning points, not free balls for the opponents.
Somehow, some way a MN MB has to get on top of the ball to drive it.
PS Some of these preseason matches are as entertaining as the Final Four: Stanford/Texas and Louisville/Creighton this weekend
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Post by pepperjack on Sept 13, 2024 20:11:02 GMT -5
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Post by gopherhim on Sept 13, 2024 20:34:40 GMT -5
RPI isn't being officially released yet, but since it's so easy to calculate there are unofficial numbers that update multiple times per day.
Earlier today we were 3-3 and #108 in RPI when I looked. Now we are 4-3 and #44 after beating the #1 RPI team Auburn. I'll be rooting for them to have a good SEC season! I know it's early and there will still be a ton of RPI movement, but 44 feels a lot better than 108 lol
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Post by dietcokefan on Sept 13, 2024 20:41:58 GMT -5
RPI isn't being officially released yet, but since it's so easy to calculate there are unofficial numbers that update multiple times per day. Earlier today we were 3-3 and #108 in RPI when I looked. Now we are 4-3 and #44 after beating the #1 RPI team Auburn. I'll be rooting for them to have a good SEC season! I know it's early and there will still be a ton of RPI movement, but 44 feels a lot better than 108 lol RPI with bonuses has us at #32. We also need to be Texas fans.
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Post by skolgophers on Sept 13, 2024 20:42:33 GMT -5
RPI isn't being officially released yet, but since it's so easy to calculate there are unofficial numbers that update multiple times per day. Earlier today we were 3-3 and #108 in RPI when I looked. Now we are 4-3 and #44 after beating the #1 RPI team Auburn. I'll be rooting for them to have a good SEC season! I know it's early and there will still be a ton of RPI movement, but 44 feels a lot better than 108 lol RPI with bonuses has us at #32. We also need to be Texas fans. Their loss to Miami and then Miami’s loss to OSU doesn’t help lol But all we need to do is just go undefeated the rest of the season and we can host a regional 😂
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Post by skolgophers on Sept 14, 2024 9:20:15 GMT -5
For those who were at the match last night, did they do anything for Phoebe’s 500th career block? It was mentioned on the broadcast, but wasn’t sure if they acknowledged it at the Pav?
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Post by vonner on Sept 14, 2024 10:42:44 GMT -5
I didn't notice or hear anything about it if they did.
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Post by vbcoltrane on Sept 14, 2024 11:22:15 GMT -5
RPI isn't being officially released yet, but since it's so easy to calculate there are unofficial numbers that update multiple times per day. Earlier today we were 3-3 and #108 in RPI when I looked. Now we are 4-3 and #44 after beating the #1 RPI team Auburn. I'll be rooting for them to have a good SEC season! I know it's early and there will still be a ton of RPI movement, but 44 feels a lot better than 108 lol I assume it will drop from 44 after next weekend's matches against ND, Chicago St., and Green Bay (though maybe they have decent RPIs early in the season). But then shoot up again the first week of conference play with Wisconsin and Purdue.
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Post by GoGophs on Sept 14, 2024 13:23:28 GMT -5
Avery Jesewitz was such a solid last minute recruit for Rutgers, she’s having a great first set against VCU right now
(I know it isnt Gopher related but she’s a Minnesota native so I gotta root for her!)
ETA: and just as I post that she goes down hard with an injury…
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Post by JT on Sept 14, 2024 20:31:04 GMT -5
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