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Post by badgerguru on Aug 25, 2024 8:45:27 GMT -5
Haven't seen this. Super exciting if true! Did Punzel publish/post this somewhere? Yes, he did. It was a reply on his Twitter. Where exactly? I’m not seeing him say that anywhere |
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Post by swaggyp on Aug 25, 2024 10:29:19 GMT -5
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Post by badgerbreath on Aug 25, 2024 10:30:25 GMT -5
Haven't seen this. Super exciting if true! Did Punzel publish/post this somewhere? Haven't see this either. EDIT( I see the addition above that got posted simultaneously with this post, but the following still stands) There was some standard statement about Julia trying to come back by Louisville during or immediately after the exhibition, but of course she will try to come back. Whether she will is the issue. Eye witness reports were she was limping noticeably. It was listed as a sprain and that almost always means more than 1 week out - IF it's really a sprain. Otherwise we're just interpreting a photo of the team in gear. |
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Post by badgerbadgerbadger on Aug 25, 2024 10:36:02 GMT -5
Having Julia back will make me feel a lot better about having GG at libero again since we can then pinch her in serve receive
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Post by robtearle on Aug 25, 2024 10:43:08 GMT -5
Haven't seen this. Super exciting if true! Did Punzel publish/post this somewhere? Eye witness reports were she was limping noticeably. It was listed as a sprain and that almost always means more than 1 week out - IF it's really a sprain. Last Tuesday night, when the team was running onto or off the floor, Orzol would trail the rest, and was moving with a slight but still noticeable limp. |
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Post by dragan11 on Aug 25, 2024 11:30:22 GMT -5
I'm excited to follow Wisconsin this year, it was boring for me to watch 6-2 with two average setters and I didn't watch many games.
Charlie will be a great pure setter but I'm curious how she will do physically.
Sarah had great time in national team and I feel that it will show off.
I remember watching Robinson with Team USA youth team. I believe that playing in 6-2 system didn't let her polish her skills as a middle blocker and this is her chance to shine as a candidate of Team USA level slide attacker.
Orzol will have better time in attack thanks to Charlie.
As someone who watched Gulce in her youth days, her problem is not technique nor mental. She was never a good passer, I have thought it would be okay with molten ball but it didn't. Her talent in defense&out of system setting and serve receive don't match. Playing in 2 libero system would be great considering both OH will play 6 rotations.
My concerns are Smrek at opp, i'd prefer a natural opp while having a great setter like Charlie, and Charlie's block.
Coach can solve these 2 problems with smart subs. I don't want to see serving sub, just keep your subs for at the end of set and make Charlie&CC sub while Wisconsin serving couple of times at the end of set. Gulce can set out of system at those points. If Smrek doesn't contribute, coach should consider someone with natural pin skills, TSC, maybe for couple of rotations. Giving up on Smrek's block doesn't make sense and Sarah&Franklin can deal with out of system balls but sometimes it'd be good to change things up.
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Post by badgerbadgerbadger on Aug 25, 2024 11:43:19 GMT -5
I'm excited to follow Wisconsin this year, it was boring for me to watch 6-2 with two average setters and I didn't watch many games. Charlie will be a great pure setter but I'm curious how she will do physically. Sarah had great time in national team and I feel that it will show off. I remember watching Robinson with Team USA youth team. I believe that playing in 6-2 system didn't let her polish her skills as a middle blocker and this is her chance to shine as a candidate of Team USA level slide attacker. Orzol will have better time in attack thanks to Charlie. As someone who watched Gulce in her youth days, her problem is not technique nor mental. She was never a good passer, I have thought it would be okay with molten ball but it didn't. Her talent in defense&out of system setting and serve receive don't match. Playing in 2 libero system would be great considering both OH will play 6 rotations. My concerns are Smrek at opp, i'd prefer a natural opp while having a great setter like Charlie, and Charlie's block. Coach can solve these 2 problems with smart subs. I don't want to see serving sub, just keep your subs for at the end of set and make Charlie&CC sub while Wisconsin serving couple of times at the end of set. Gulce can set out of system at those points. If Smrek doesn't contribute, coach should consider someone with natural pin skills, TSC, maybe for couple of rotations. Giving up on Smrek's block doesn't make sense and Sarah&Franklin can deal with out of system balls but sometimes it'd be good to change things up. What?? Smrek is Wisconsin's 2nd best pin by a fair margin, and one of the best RS in the country in terms of terminating the ball in the front row. In fact, in an OOS situation, she hits an even higher % than Franklin last year, though obv Frank got a lot more of those balls and lot %*$#tier balls in general. Her absence was the direct cause of half of Wisconsin's losses last year lol. Smrek at opposite is not a concern like at all for Wisconsin. Like yes, she doesn't play 6-ros or is servicable in floor defense, but...how many 6-ros opposites are there even among elite teams? Babcock and Beason? (And with how Mauch looks last night, Beason might not even be 6-ros this year). |
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Post by dragan11 on Aug 25, 2024 11:46:48 GMT -5
I'm excited to follow Wisconsin this year, it was boring for me to watch 6-2 with two average setters and I didn't watch many games. Charlie will be a great pure setter but I'm curious how she will do physically. Sarah had great time in national team and I feel that it will show off. I remember watching Robinson with Team USA youth team. I believe that playing in 6-2 system didn't let her polish her skills as a middle blocker and this is her chance to shine as a candidate of Team USA level slide attacker. Orzol will have better time in attack thanks to Charlie. As someone who watched Gulce in her youth days, her problem is not technique nor mental. She was never a good passer, I have thought it would be okay with molten ball but it didn't. Her talent in defense&out of system setting and serve receive don't match. Playing in 2 libero system would be great considering both OH will play 6 rotations. My concerns are Smrek at opp, i'd prefer a natural opp while having a great setter like Charlie, and Charlie's block. Coach can solve these 2 problems with smart subs. I don't want to see serving sub, just keep your subs for at the end of set and make Charlie&CC sub while Wisconsin serving couple of times at the end of set. Gulce can set out of system at those points. If Smrek doesn't contribute, coach should consider someone with natural pin skills, TSC, maybe for couple of rotations. Giving up on Smrek's block doesn't make sense and Sarah&Franklin can deal with out of system balls but sometimes it'd be good to change things up. What?? Smrek is Wisconsin's 2nd best pin by a fair margin, and one of the best RS in the country in terms of terminating the ball in the front row. In fact, in an OOS situation, she hits an even higher % than Franklin last year, though obv Frank got a lot more of those balls and lot %*$#tier balls in general. Her absence was the direct cause of half of Wisconsin's losses last year lol. Smrek at opposite is not a concern like at all for Wisconsin. She could have better stats cause she doesn't deal with bad sets OOS. She is not natural, her foot work, hitting OOS and this might limit Wisconsin against top teams if they stop Sarah/Orzol down with block-defense. |
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Post by badgerbadgerbadger on Aug 25, 2024 12:05:21 GMT -5
What?? Smrek is Wisconsin's 2nd best pin by a fair margin, and one of the best RS in the country in terms of terminating the ball in the front row. In fact, in an OOS situation, she hits an even higher % than Franklin last year, though obv Frank got a lot more of those balls and lot %*$#tier balls in general. Her absence was the direct cause of half of Wisconsin's losses last year lol. Smrek at opposite is not a concern like at all for Wisconsin. She could have better stats cause she doesn't deal with bad sets OOS. She is not natural, her foot work, hitting OOS and this might limit Wisconsin against top teams if they stop Sarah/Orzol down with block-defense. She dealt with plenty of bad OOS sets...in fact, even in-system, MJ's sets to her....weren't exactly good a lot of the time either. She has consistently performed against top teams, especially in the post-season....like look up her stats in the latter rounds of the tourney before you try to imply that she somehow...shrinked against top teams???. She was the only person on the team who showed up to last year's semifinal match against Texas (maybe TAA did too). In fact, if you count the score with Smrek on the court last year in the last two sets...Wisconsin outscored Texas...despite the set score being 25-13, 25-16 in those two sets LOL. Optimally, OOS sets should be going to Smrek when Julia is front-row. Who the hell cares if she looks wonky if she's smashing high .300 lmao? |
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Post by dragan11 on Aug 25, 2024 12:16:17 GMT -5
. Who the hell cares if she looks wonky if she's smashing high .300 lmao? This team doesn't get OOS help from right wing as first option. Smrek gets OOS if the left side doesn't work. Maybe can you think more about strategy of other teams? When big teams controlled left side attackers, Smrek hitting .300 won't matter anything cause Wisconsin will lose. What I am suggesting is changing the style of system if this doesn't work in first place and get more traditional with a great setter. |
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Post by badgerbadgerbadger on Aug 25, 2024 12:30:00 GMT -5
. Who the hell cares if she looks wonky if she's smashing high .300 lmao? This team doesn't get OOS help from right wing as first option. Smrek gets OOS if the left side doesn't work. Maybe can you think more about strategy of other teams? When big teams controlled left side attackers, Smrek hitting .300 won't matter anything cause Wisconsin will lose. What I am suggesting is changing the style of system if this doesn't work in first place and get more traditional with a great setter. When the left side is Sarah Franklin then yes, the OOS sets should go to her first. But when the left side is Julia, then Anna Smrek should be the first option in OOS situations and it's weird that you can't comprehend that. If the left-side attack gets shut down then yeah, Wisconsin prob will lose because that means Sarah Franklin got shut down lol. But conversely, if Wisconsin has no RS attack, Franklin can go off for 20+ kills at .300 clip and it won't matter either (see the Purdue loss last year). The strategy of the other teams lot of times IS to slow down Anna Smrek LOL (John Cook literally says such when interviewed before Wisconsin's first match against Nebraska last year), yet for some reason you're trying to imply Smrek hits well and goes off in latter rounds because other teams don't focus on her lol. That might have been true her freshman year, but now? Really? It's ridiculous that you can contemplate replacing Anna Smrek with TSC, a true freshman replacing a second-team AA whose impact when she's in the front row is first-team AA level. She's legitimately the second-best player on the team. You let your stars work through their rough patches, you don't sit them unless they're completely in their head or injured. There were plenty of times last year when even Sarah Franklin struggled, do you suggest replacing her with TSC in those moments? But i'm done here, you seem to have some sort of weird hate boner against Anna Smrek even tho she's a second-team AA who puts up 2.5+ kills last year on .400 hitting lol. But sure let's focus on her not looking natural when she hits. This is like focusing on Patrick Mahomes' footwork and not looking textbook when he's playing QB. Same with Aaron Rodgers with all those throws when his feet weren't even planted? Omg, replace them right away please, I don't care if it's a 60-yards rope right into the receiver's hands. |
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Post by 25or624 on Aug 25, 2024 12:35:31 GMT -5
. Who the hell cares if she looks wonky if she's smashing high .300 lmao? This team doesn't get OOS help from right wing as first option. Smrek gets OOS if the left side doesn't work. Maybe can you think more about strategy of other teams? When big teams controlled left side attackers, Smrek hitting .300 won't matter anything cause Wisconsin will lose. What I am suggesting is changing the style of system if this doesn't work in first place and get more traditional with a great setter. You're focused on the past. Some of your concerns are likely to be moot as of Tuesday night. Let's see what Sheff rolls out against Louisville. |
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Post by tablealgebra on Aug 25, 2024 13:40:03 GMT -5
. Who the hell cares if she looks wonky if she's smashing high .300 lmao? This team doesn't get OOS help from right wing as first option. Smrek gets OOS if the left side doesn't work. Maybe can you think more about strategy of other teams? When big teams controlled left side attackers, Smrek hitting .300 won't matter anything cause Wisconsin will lose. What I am suggesting is changing the style of system if this doesn't work in first place and get more traditional with a great setter. Literally, your first two sentences show zero knowledge of what Badger volleyball was the last two years, and your third sentence is basically an opinion statement which is refuted by our results from last year. |
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Post by badgerbyproxy on Aug 25, 2024 13:44:23 GMT -5
Randos coming out of the woodwork to say that Fuerbringer is “overrated” and Smrek is “ineffective”? Must be a sign that the Badgers are gonna have a great season!
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Post by dragan11 on Aug 25, 2024 13:55:25 GMT -5
I wasn't sure you all wanted to watch Texas to win another one in a row while Smrek is your "OOS" opp lol.
My comments were about big matches and what could gone wrong and what have gone wrong. Not about conference play stats.
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