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Post by Burly Ives on Aug 27, 2024 23:59:33 GMT -5
Barnes is the most under-appreciated Badger in recent memory. I'm Laurens biggest fan and I'll arm wrestle anyone that claims otherwise. |
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Post by princessavb on Aug 28, 2024 0:13:38 GMT -5
A question, if anyone knows: How long can a team hold up play for a player who has a problem or injury? Specifically, how long could Louisville spend stretching out cramping players before they have to call a full time-out or sub somebody in? (Were they charged with a time-out?) IIRC, we had taken a lead, but lost the point out of the 'yoga class', which killed the momentum (much like will happen when a team sides out after a actual time-out.) ---------------- Edit: looking at the live stats play-by-play, I think Louisville was indeed charged a time-out. Even before today Charitie luper has always had occasional crmaps, this happened a lot last year i dont think it was to stretch out the game plus Debeer just removed her brace.. Plus they were in the lead |
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Post by honeybadger88 on Aug 28, 2024 0:22:27 GMT -5
Never easy to lose, but definitely better to get it out of the way now and grow from it the rest of the season. Louisville was going to be a tough matchup considering they only graduated one of their starters. A few initial impressions: 1. The passing was better than I expected it to be, especially with a team as experienced as Louisville. I don’t have the passing stats, but only two aces in a four set match means that the passers are at least getting non the ball. 2. The two Libero system definitely helps the GG-passing issue, but it definitely seemed like Damrow never took charge of the backcourt and the Libero-split likely impacted this. 3. Fuerbringer is very talented, and I’m excited for her future in Madison. There was definitely some iffiness tonight, but that’s to be expected of a freshman setter in their first ever (huge) match. 4. The block is definitely weaker than the last two seasons. Booth in particular struggled with closing the block most of the night, and it put Louisville in some very good positions. 5. Franklin is incredible, but the offense really needs to be spread out to give her some rest. 60 swings is way too many on the first night of the season. 6. Robinson and Orzol were the MVPs for Wisconsin. Robinson closed the block well and had a strong offensive night (until the end), and Orzol’s backrow defense is unmatched. I’m not sure why Sheffield swapped Booth and Robinson at M1 and M2, but I’d keep Robinson in at M1 going forward. 7. Granted, Smrek’s not an easy player to set, but she shouldn’t have been blocked as often as she was. She can hit over any block on a good set, but she should be better at reading the block and using high hands to her advantage. The Badgers will certainly learn from tonight and should have an amazing season. Hoping they are quick learners and dominate in the Fiserv this weekend! Agreed, I also think both Sarah and Anna are both underdone and lack the chemistry with Charlie. We cannot expect freshman Charlie to be as good as final year Hilley. They will improve later in the season as their injuries are fully healed, they gain match fitness and connection with Charlie improves especially setting much higher balls for Anna to hit over any block at will. They should've ran more middle attacks from Devyn and Carter, they were too over reliant on the underdone pins to get it done. Different story though if Sarah and Anna are fit and firing and developed the chemistry with Charlie. |
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Post by robtearle on Aug 28, 2024 0:26:28 GMT -5
A question, if anyone knows: How long can a team hold up play for a player who has a problem or injury? Specifically, how long could Louisville spend stretching out cramping players before they have to call a full time-out or sub somebody in? (Were they charged with a time-out?) IIRC, we had taken a lead, but lost the point out of the 'yoga class', which killed the momentum (much like will happen when a team sides out after a actual time-out.) ---------------- Edit: looking at the live stats play-by-play, I think Louisville was indeed charged a time-out. Even before today Charitie luper has always had occasional crmaps, this happened a lot last year i dont think it was to stretch out the game plus Debeer just removed her brace.. Plus they were in the lead I added an "update" to my original post: Louisville was chsrged a timeout with Wisconsin leading 16-14 in the 4th set. I fairly certain that is when the delay for cramping was. But we can check video in the morning. ------------ Checking the video, Louisville did call a timeout with UW leading at 16-14. But the cramping happened at UW leading 17-16, and as best I can tell, no 2nd timeout was charged. They just got whatever time they needed. |
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Post by tablealgebra on Aug 28, 2024 1:14:33 GMT -5
Way too early learnings: Charlie should have graduated early and the staff should have gone harder for OH portal depth I'd never tell a kid to graduate early from high school. That is her choice to make and if she chooses to make it for non-volleyball reasons, good for her. There's enough time for her to build familiarity with the hitters, but we are going to have some ugly moments in the non-conference schedule because she is still building it. The situation on the outside is the real tragedy, of course - TSC looks like she can contribute against lesser teams but against a Top 10 team I don't think much should be expected yet, and coming it it wasn't. We always knew OH depth was our bugaboo and here we are. |
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Post by tablealgebra on Aug 28, 2024 1:21:54 GMT -5
As for Charlie's sets and the serving, I really think we're better off being aggressive now and riding out some of the errors and losses, we'll be a better team in November for having spent a lot of time figuring out how aggressive we can be. I do think, though, that if Devyn, Anna and/or Carter cannot be more accurate that Sheffield will be using at least one serving sub and maybe situationally two, aggressiveness be damned.
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Post by bucky415 on Aug 28, 2024 4:58:22 GMT -5
Also, I would like to point out that Carlini's back sets in the first month or so, once she returned from injury, were, um, a work in progress as well. I hope everyone can get healthy, just in general and also so they can get more reps in to establish connections. They will get there.
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Post by princessavb on Aug 28, 2024 5:55:25 GMT -5
I am convinced that Kelly sheffield is only using the 2 libero rule cause he’s still afraid of benching GG
because it did not benefit them in any way
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Post by northwoods on Aug 28, 2024 6:40:13 GMT -5
Digging into the serve errors, it was Robinson & Smrek with 4 each and Booth they didn’t even send back there! They need to understand that won’t fly at the next level, be it pro or National team (not even in Canada;) Chiaka pushes the envelope of bad serving at that level, but is also getting Best Middle Blocker awards at the Olympics and in Turkey…
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Post by swaggyp on Aug 28, 2024 6:57:35 GMT -5
It will only get better from here! What are some positives from tonight? Here’s a few pls add more Sarah is back on the court Charlie went after nearly every ball Devyn had fun playing middle (fun is the key to it all) Sarah's back row attack looked good at times. With a healthy Oz back at the pin that could be dangerous. TSCs numbers were...not what we're used to for OH, but she didn't get timid. Anna Smrek with a ball set high enough on tempo is still a nuclear weapon with no counter. |
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Post by volleyball90 on Aug 28, 2024 7:17:29 GMT -5
Barnes is the most under-appreciated Badger in recent memory. I'm Laurens biggest fan and I'll arm wrestle anyone that claims otherwise. Nebraska was afraid to serve at Lauren in Title game. She literally locked down 50% of the court in serve receive. Also shout out to Clark, ME Dodge, and Civita who were all held up quite well in Serve Receive. |
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Post by ndodge on Aug 28, 2024 7:18:21 GMT -5
Hard for GG to have an impact or get into any kind of flow with that many service errors.
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Post by SportyBucky on Aug 28, 2024 7:43:12 GMT -5
Passing wasn't the issue. We didn't have connections because they're only a few weeks into practicing. That's to be expected. I would love to see the passing stats because I thought Damrow was clearly better than GG. Like not even close to GG's form from last year.
Charlie will get there. Serve, also fine. Sheff needs that to improve. When it went in it wasn't getting Louisville OOS.
Have to think Anna and Frank are still injured. They did not seem themselves. Setting wasn't much worse than last year.
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Post by maigrey on Aug 28, 2024 8:08:22 GMT -5
Passing wasn't the issue. We didn't have connections because they're only a few weeks into practicing. That's to be expected. I would love to see the passing stats because I thought Damrow was clearly better than GG. Like not even close to GG's form from last year. Odd, I thought Saige did well in SR (to be expected) and had a couple great digs, but GG was far better on everything else Saige's second contacts were nowhere near GG's, and GG was making some incredible saves. I haven't seen stats yet, and I'm known to not always be right, but I was thinking, maybe put GG back in the L, and have Saige and Lola shore her up as DSes, and if we have to hide GG in SR, well, we hide her. |
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Post by savannahbadger on Aug 28, 2024 8:29:44 GMT -5
I haven't seen stats yet, and I'm known to not always be right, but I was thinking, maybe put GG back in the L, and have Saige and Lola shore her up as DSes, and if we have to hide GG in SR, well, we hide her. Here I was thinking we needed Julia back at L while praying that TSC develops or CC could try to slide over to OH. Good passing is desperately needed, and Julia helps lock that down. |
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