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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2023 12:36:48 GMT -5
5-1 against Texas in 4th set would look like this. I must say I like it. Setter Hammill OH1 Franklin OH2. TTA MB Booth MB Robinson OR Crawford OPP Smrek /DS G. G. Libero Orzol How does that make our back row defense or our serve recieve any better than it was last night. I’ll agree that MJ is the better setter but Izzy is far better at defense in the back row. If you are going to remove CC or Robinson(which I am not advocating for) I’d rather run a 5-2 with MJ across the front and to serve and the Izzy across the back after MJ was done serving. I also really like the 5-2 concept. As MJ just doesn't have the range to save some of those oncoming kills. MJ has improved though defensively since beginning of last season.
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Post by savannahbadger on Dec 15, 2023 12:37:44 GMT -5
5-1 against Texas in 4th set would look like this. I must say I like it. Setter Hammill OH1 Franklin OH2. TTA MB Booth MB Robinson OR Crawford OPP Smrek /DS G. G. Libero Orzol Who is coming in to DS for TTA then? Boyer?
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Post by mibadger on Dec 15, 2023 12:40:55 GMT -5
Smrek would play the same 3 rotations at the front with or without Robinson on the floor. So what you are talking about is just removing Robinson all together as the odd one out and switching to a 5-1. Unless you have figured out a way to keep Anna on the front row for more than 3 rotations which I’d be excited to hear about. Minus that what is your thoughts on what to do with Smrek once she rotates to the back row for 3 rotations? Personally I’d like to find a way to keep Robinson on the floor since she’s an All American in 2 positions. Clearly she was struggling with some injuries thru the year but she stilllba hell of a player even at not quite 100 percent. Sliding her over to the other pin to replace TTA might be worth at least exploring. [bDS Absolutely. But she Hasn't looked like one as much though with Izzy's sets. Dev could bump Caroline from MB2 as she poses little offensive threat on an elite opponent. I would let Anna serve for herself the amount depending how great serve is and how bad her floor defense is. This year would have Boyer or Reed DS for her back row slots. Next year I would love to see Schumacher DS for Smrek. I often wonder if the middles, specifically CC, don’t get set much just because of the fire power on either side of them are usually better options. I would have liked to have seen both middles get set more to keep the defense more honest. When Robinson was out for a couple games and MJ had her concussion I will concede that the 5-1 looked pretty good. I almost would have liked to see how that would have done against Nebraska in that first match with them. Would have also given Robinson time to get back to 100 percent but maybe that wasn’t happening during the season no matter what. Some injuries are just like that.
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Post by robtearle on Dec 15, 2023 12:44:28 GMT -5
5-1 against Texas in 4th set would look like this. I must say I like it. Setter Hammill OH1 Franklin OH2. TTA MB Booth MB Robinson OR Crawford OPP Smrek /DS G. G. Libero Orzol Who is coming in to DS for TTA then? Boyer? 5-2 for the 2023 Badgers: most of the flaws of a 6-2, with few of the benefits.
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Post by savannahbadger on Dec 15, 2023 12:45:11 GMT -5
Also have been wondering about Devyn a good bit, and whether or not she could be moving on. I’m not sure what her NIL status is, but I thought she was near the bottom of the team along with Izzy. That could be a reason to go pro, moving back to middle somewhere. Also wondering with MJ moving on, the tight little trio of MJ, Jade, and Dev leaves only Robinson left, and that could be another strong reason to move on (I used to see them walking around together a lot in the offseason).
Does anyone know what her education goals are? Maybe she’s ready to be done and isn’t as interested in a masters as others have?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2023 12:49:29 GMT -5
This thread has gone exactly the way I thought it would. C’est la vie. I’m excited for 2024. There’s no reason I shouldn’t be. What a program we’ve grown to have. I took a moment to reflect while grumpily eating my postgame frozen pizza last night. Reflecting on the game, but the more I thought about it, the easier it was to sign off as a disappointing end to a still remarkable year. No, they did not play well. I wish they had. Some of my favorite players had some of their roughest games. It’s happened before. Regrettably, I imagine it will happen again at some point. It will be remarkable if it never does. But I reflected on the sixteen times I walked into the Field House this year (I missed the Purdue game because of a neighborhood meeting) and felt the energy and passion of an invigorated fan base. I thought about the buzz as Danielle and Shanel unveiled a Big 10 Championship banner that needed its own end because we’d filled up the south end with banners over the last few years. I thought of Izzy firing serves that defy the laws of flight, of Dr. Crawford slicing in for a black and walking back to the service line with a locked-in expression, GG punctuating every moment with flying hugs and wonderful expressions of energy, of the old faces of Anna and Devyn with the new faces of Carter and Temi to build a wonderful wall. I think of Sarah Franklin emerging as a do-everything wonder woman and doing it all while giggling a fair amount of the time. I also thought about my whole journey with this program, the name on the front of the jersey. I think of the nervous middle schooler asking Amy Lee to sign that one page sheet of white printer paper roster you could grab on your way into the Field House back in the day. I think of the fact that we would have won in 2000 of Claudia Rodriguez hadn’t hurt her shoulder. I remember going up to Green Bay and watching us go blow for blow with undefeated Hawai’I in the Resch Center and coming out on top. I remember taking the athletic department for all it’s worth with my Red Card each year, flashing it like a VIP admission ticket on my way in to stand in the student section. It’s been decades of memories. But I don’t take this program for granted. I remember walking into the Field House around game time in 2012 and sitting in the third row in the end zone people now sprint to fill. I remember walking out of the Field House resigned after getting swept by Penn State AGAIN. I think about what I would tell the few people sitting around me if I said that people would be FURIOUS after we lost in the final four, our fourth final four in five years. I wish I could wave my arm and perform a Field of Dreams ghost image where the people in the north end in 2012 could see the banners in the south end in 2023. Everyone’s entitled to be a fan in their own way. Live your life. For me, I hope I never take the success so for granted that the losses outweigh them. I hope I come away from this season remembering the unveiling of the banner and the emergence of Super Franklin and the emphatic denial of Nebraska’s effort at an undefeated season and everything far more than the last couple sets of an unfortunate end. Let me not become so jaded that anything that isn’t a championship is a failure. So I hope each and every of our beloved faces come back. I’m excited for Charlie to etch her name amongst the legends on the wall of the west concourse as she takes the helm of our program. I’m excited to see Saige and Lola and Maike join GG and relentlessly defend the floor in spectacular fashion. I’m excited to see Ella’s patience pay off. I’m excited to see Julia and Tosia become a Polish duo to be reckoned with. I’m excited to see Trinity fly. I’m excited to see how much further Sarah can take her game. I’m excited for 2024. Why should I not be? We are Wisconsin, and we are fantastic. This was an absolutely amazing post. It was a pleasure to read it. I though am still gonna be pissed at Coach Sheffield for awhile though
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Post by badgerbyproxy on Dec 15, 2023 12:59:15 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2023 12:59:20 GMT -5
5-1 against Texas in 4th set would look like this. I must say I like it. Setter Hammill OH1 Franklin OH2. TTA MB Booth MB Robinson OR Crawford OPP Smrek /DS G. G. Libero Orzol Who is coming in to DS for TTA then? Boyer? Boyr is most likely assuming Dammrow still hurt. It seems like Reed is always tail end of any list including serving.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2023 13:00:37 GMT -5
Dang it, her NIL price just skyrocketed.
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Post by mibadger on Dec 15, 2023 13:01:12 GMT -5
I’ll say this about last night. I’ve never been less excited by a long break after second set as I was last night. Texas was rolling in the first and then we got momentum and had them on their heels in the second. They went in locker room and calmed down and went right back to what they were doing in the first and we never had an answer again. In the end the better team last night prevailed.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2023 13:01:15 GMT -5
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Post by mnwis20 on Dec 15, 2023 13:04:48 GMT -5
[bDS Absolutely. But she Hasn't looked like one as much though with Izzy's sets. Dev could bump Caroline from MB2 as she poses little offensive threat on an elite opponent. I would let Anna serve for herself the amount depending how great serve is and how bad her floor defense is. This year would have Boyer or Reed DS for her back row slots. Next year I would love to see Schumacher DS for Smrek. I often wonder if the middles, specifically CC, don’t get set much just because of the fire power on either side of them are usually better options. I would have liked to have seen both middles get set more to keep the defense more honest. When Robinson was out for a couple games and MJ had her concussion I will concede that the 5-1 looked pretty good. I almost would have liked to see how that would have done against Nebraska in that first match with them. Would have also given Robinson time to get back to 100 percent but maybe that wasn’t happening during the season no matter what. Some injuries are just like that. I think some of our move to push the ball to the outsides instead of middle was our style of play in a 6-2. It’s hard to set middle out of system and we played a lot out of system this year which pushes those sets out. Booth certainly got more swings when we were in system. I’ll be interested to see how that moves next season if we go 5-1 and try for more in system play. I mean think of how often we’d feed Rettke the ball.
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Post by mibadger on Dec 15, 2023 13:07:23 GMT -5
I often wonder if the middles, specifically CC, don’t get set much just because of the fire power on either side of them are usually better options. I would have liked to have seen both middles get set more to keep the defense more honest. When Robinson was out for a couple games and MJ had her concussion I will concede that the 5-1 looked pretty good. I almost would have liked to see how that would have done against Nebraska in that first match with them. Would have also given Robinson time to get back to 100 percent but maybe that wasn’t happening during the season no matter what. Some injuries are just like that. I think some of our move to push the ball to the outsides instead of middle was our style of play in a 6-2. It’s hard to set middle out of system and we played a lot out of system this year which pushes those sets out. Booth certainly got more swings when we were in system. I’ll be interested to see how that moves next season if we go 5-1 and try for more in system play. I mean think of how often we’d feed Rettke the ball. I miss the slide so much.
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Post by mnwis20 on Dec 15, 2023 13:08:56 GMT -5
I think some of our move to push the ball to the outsides instead of middle was our style of play in a 6-2. It’s hard to set middle out of system and we played a lot out of system this year which pushes those sets out. Booth certainly got more swings when we were in system. I’ll be interested to see how that moves next season if we go 5-1 and try for more in system play. I mean think of how often we’d feed Rettke the ball. I miss the slide so much. If we run a 5-1 next year, I can imagine Booth just going off on some slides.
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Post by mnwis20 on Dec 15, 2023 13:11:47 GMT -5
Yes Sarah! I think Carter called Sarah the team’s motor in a recent interview which is a great way to talk about her impact. She’d score points, she’d pass, she’d make ridiculous diving one fisted saves to keep points alive in the Elite 8 and then just hit ridiculous cut shots and swings when we needed them. Such a great season for her!!
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