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Post by wisfan2000 on Dec 16, 2023 21:43:54 GMT -5
It was really a toss up to me. I would have been fine with a co NPOY. But I think the committee tends to like an OH who is a primary passer. I'm not being sarcastic, but with Skinner even really in the conversation before the tournament started? I could definitely be B1G biased... It seems like a fair point to me. I may be B1G biased too, but I thought I was staying relatively on top of what was happening with the top 10-15 teams all season (and with the interwebs coverage of those teams), and my sense was that in the first half of the season POTY was Kipp's to lose, and then Franklin started emerging as a potential contender mid-season, and then Skinner really only emerged in the back third of the season, after people started realizing Texas was on the rise. Maybe Skinner was unfairly overlooked earlier in the season because of TX's early season struggles? The great thing for her is that if she keeps this up, it seems like she could be a lock for it next year. Edit: Well, not "the" great thing for her, but "a" great thing.
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Post by neatwithatwist on Dec 16, 2023 21:49:44 GMT -5
Am I the only one who was at least a little disappointed to find out that Charlie's last name is not pronounced FEAR-bringer? I personally like fire-bringer Well, I guess we'll have to bid adieu, to the days of the flashy, bold 6-2. The time to hesitate is through. To again try to set the nights on...fire.
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Post by swaggyp on Dec 16, 2023 23:26:02 GMT -5
I personally like fire-bringer Well, I guess we'll have to bid adieu, to the days of the flashy, bold 6-2. The time to hesitate is through. To again try to set the nights on...fire. Let’s hope we break on through!
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Post by tablealgebra on Dec 16, 2023 23:36:06 GMT -5
[If Orzol or Wrobel is OH2 next year, I will fear rotation 4 every time it comes up. I was fearing a whole bunch of shanks when Sarah was passing, like she did toward the end of 2022. I’m glad that fear turned out to be almost entirely unfounded. The point is that people are saying that we have enough firepower, and I'm pointing to a specific rotation next year where we will be short on firepower. Now, at least if it's Orzol at OH2 then we can figure that we'll have three good passers that rotation, meaning that our first ball sideout percentage will be decent (I have no worries about Orzol in system, and you'd have two other good options besides - Frank from the back and Booth(or other M1) on the slide. Look, I'm not saying go out and do a full-court press to get Landfair. I'm saying that if she wants to come to UW and if she fits in the culture, then I'd welcome her. I think it's funny that the same fanbase that has multiple people suggesting moving Devyn or CC over to the left side next year worries that Landfair wouldn't be a good enough passer for us.
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Post by mibadger on Dec 17, 2023 15:04:24 GMT -5
I was fearing a whole bunch of shanks when Sarah was passing, like she did toward the end of 2022. I’m glad that fear turned out to be almost entirely unfounded. The point is that people are saying that we have enough firepower, and I'm pointing to a specific rotation next year where we will be short on firepower. Now, at least if it's Orzol at OH2 then we can figure that we'll have three good passers that rotation, meaning that our first ball sideout percentage will be decent (I have no worries about Orzol in system, and you'd have two other good options besides - Frank from the back and Booth(or other M1) on the slide. Look, I'm not saying go out and do a full-court press to get Landfair. I'm saying that if she wants to come to UW and if she fits in the culture, then I'd welcome her. I think it's funny that the same fanbase that has multiple people suggesting moving Devyn or CC over to the left side next year worries that Landfair wouldn't be a good enough passer for us. Orzol was OH on a team that won a national championship. Believe it came out after that she had a stress fracture in her leg thru the tournament. I think good chance she ends up as Libero again but I have no worries with her going back and taking that spot again. The staff is going to find a way to get the best players on the floor.
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Post by tablealgebra on Dec 17, 2023 16:10:11 GMT -5
Watching the national championship game and, well, looks like Nebraska better overhaul their service reception personnel, time to bench all their players. Because clearly, the problem is the service reception and not Texas's serve.
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Post by ndodge on Dec 17, 2023 16:18:30 GMT -5
Watching the national championship game and, well, looks like Nebraska better overhaul their service reception personnel, time to bench all their players. Because clearly, the problem is the service reception and not Texas's serve. Yeah this is somehow familiar. Oh, and Lexi has 2 digs.
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Post by talkbdgrvb65 on Dec 17, 2023 16:31:22 GMT -5
So, perhaps the reason the Badgers lost to Texas was... Texas.
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Post by chibadgerfan on Dec 17, 2023 16:31:57 GMT -5
Texas’s serve is really amazing.
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Post by tablealgebra on Dec 17, 2023 16:33:24 GMT -5
So, perhaps the reason the Badgers lost to Texas was... Texas. I'm not saying I wasn't concerned by our passing display on Friday. But Texas's serving was clearly better than the Pitt serve that knocked out the year prior, and they are doing it again.
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Post by savannahbadger on Dec 17, 2023 16:37:09 GMT -5
Forget pin firepower… we really need serving firepower.
I think we’d match up well against Nebraska, if we’d have beaten Texas, or if Tennessee could have taken the Horns out earlier. Texas’s serving is absolutely elite.
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Post by badgerbadgerbadger on Dec 17, 2023 16:52:23 GMT -5
Well, next year it looks like we will have the only blocker in the country in Smrek who can at least slow down Skinner because she's just doing obscene things to Nebraska right now jesus
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Post by talkbdgrvb65 on Dec 17, 2023 16:57:13 GMT -5
Bright side? Badgers took a set from Texas...?
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Post by mnwis20 on Dec 17, 2023 17:06:00 GMT -5
Wow. Hats off to Texas. Not a consolation but at least we took set two from them? I dunno that I’ve seen a team dominate like that at the end of a season.
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Post by Wiswell on Dec 17, 2023 17:09:28 GMT -5
I think it's a big consolation. Texas was amazing and Skinner should be MVP of the FF.
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