netninja
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Post by netninja on Aug 28, 2024 15:46:33 GMT -5
Can we agree that Charlie's bump sets were insanely good?
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Post by tablealgebra on Aug 28, 2024 15:48:53 GMT -5
I wonder if Smrek could go to a standing serve. She's so high up that the extra jump may not be necessary (it's not like she's *really* jumping that much in her jump serve anyway) and clearly her footwork on her serve is an issue. B1G fans might think "oh god, it'd be Podraza all over again" but internationally Agnieszka Korneluk (a really tall MB for Poland) uses a standing serve and really puts teams in trouble.
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Post by clambinator on Aug 28, 2024 16:00:55 GMT -5
Not only do we need to not have so many service errors but we need to be solid in serve receive. It is not a secret to us Badgers fans, nor the rest of the NCAA that serve receive has ended our seasons the last two years. Our Libero needs to be the best serve receiver IMO. We know Orzol and Franklin are reliable in serve receive (almost always). Everybody knows that the opposition will target our Libero and DS. My honest opinion is GG should not be in a libero jersey, she is good in defense and second touches, her kryptonite is serve receive and remains a liability. In terms of Saige, I think she was alright last night. We got aced 2 times last night which isn’t terrible considering what happened against Texas last year. However, even with a setter of Charlie Fuerbringer’s caliber the offense can get too predictable really fast when we are OOS. I believe Lola Schumacher has the *best* and the highest ceiling for being a lock in serve receive. During the non-conference schedule I would like to see her get to be THE libero and see what she can do with it. She has the skill, energy and pedigree to be our libero. I personally think just 1 libero is the solution, the lack of rhythm killed us last night, which also has to do with serving. We know what we are going to get out of Charlie and our pin hitters, when healthy, but I’m a firm believer that this team will be as good as our serving and serve receive.
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Post by maigrey on Aug 28, 2024 16:09:40 GMT -5
I wonder if Smrek could go to a standing serve. She's so high up that the extra jump may not be necessary (it's not like she's *really* jumping that much in her jump serve anyway) and clearly her footwork on her serve is an issue. B1G fans might think "oh god, it'd be Podraza all over again" but internationally Agnieszka Korneluk (a really tall MB for Poland) uses a standing serve and really puts teams in trouble. Yeah, Agi's serves are vicious. If Anna can get hers to that level she'll be dangerous. |
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Post by volleyball90 on Aug 28, 2024 16:30:51 GMT -5
Not only do we need to not have so many service errors but we need to be solid in serve receive. It is not a secret to us Badgers fans, nor the rest of the NCAA that serve receive has ended our seasons the last two years. Our Libero needs to be the best serve receiver IMO. We know Orzol and Franklin are reliable in serve receive (almost always). Everybody knows that the opposition will target our Libero and DS. My honest opinion is GG should not be in a libero jersey, she is good in defense and second touches, her kryptonite is serve receive and remains a liability. In terms of Saige, I think she was alright last night. We got aced 2 times last night which isn’t terrible considering what happened against Texas last year. However, even with a setter of Charlie Fuerbringer’s caliber the offense can get too predictable really fast when we are OOS. I believe Lola Schumacher has the *best* and the highest ceiling for being a lock in serve receive. During the non-conference schedule I would like to see her get to be THE libero and see what she can do with it. She has the skill, energy and pedigree to be our libero. I personally think just 1 libero is the solution, the lack of rhythm killed us last night, which also has to do with serving. We know what we are going to get out of Charlie and our pin hitters, when healthy, but I’m a firm believer that this team will be as good as our serving and serve receive. Based on the numbers, Damrow was pretty mediocre in serve receive. Unfortunately. But it was just one game. |
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Post by swaggyp on Aug 28, 2024 16:31:44 GMT -5
I know this is oversimplifying it but really it boils down to: we need more aces. The # of SE was not great, but survivable if we picked up some free points in the serve. This would also mean our serve was really putting pressure on the other team, and even our non-ace serves would be getting us more free balls or soft digs to set up great transition play. (Also, yes, we need healthy Oz and Frank, and of course, CC for Booth (important to the above because then the bro can serve for Dev, and CC can unleash her serve and defense)) I was thinking about this in relationship to Sheff's comment in the presser that he isn't sure there are 6 players who have confidence back there. I was looking at last years service numbers. Service Line Leaders 10+ matches played 2023 Player : SA — SA/S — SE Oz : 37 — .31 — 54 (1) GG : 32 — .29 — 44 (2)
Izzy[*] : 29 — .24 — 41
Jos : 8 — .23 — 7 MJ : 23 — .21 — 18 NPOY : 21 — .18 — 34 (3) CC : 19 — .16 — 25 (4)
TTA : 9 — .08 — 25 Anna : 3 — .03 — 5 Dev : 0 — .0 — 1 Cardi B : 0 — .0 — 6 I put a little number in paren to represent a player I think Sheff would say has confidence back there (I certainly have confidence in these players, last night's performance aside). So moving forward to 2024 you swap out Izzy, Jos, MJ and evidently CC with Charlie, Dev, Smrek, and I guess Lola or Saige. I think you'd probably say Charlie has confidence back there so that gets you to 5. It is easy to forget how critical MJ and Izzy were back there. [*] : I'm no expert but to me Izzy actually regressed a little from the service line in her final year. She was lights out in the 2022 season. |
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Post by robtearle on Aug 28, 2024 16:42:09 GMT -5
I know this is oversimplifying it but really it boils down to: we need more aces. The # of SE was not great, but survivable if we picked up some free points in the serve. This would also mean our serve was really putting pressure on the other team, and even our non-ace serves would be getting us more free balls or soft digs to set up great transition play. (Also, yes, we need healthy Oz and Frank, and of course, CC for Booth (important to the above because then the bro can serve for Dev, and CC can unleash her serve and defense)) I was thinking about this in relationship to Sheff's comment in the presser that he isn't sure there are 6 players who have confidence back there. I was looking at last years service numbers. Service Line Leaders 10+ matches played 2023 Player : SA — SA/S — SE Oz : 37 — .31 — 54 (1) GG : 32 — .29 — 44 (2)
Izzy[*] : 29 — .24 — 41
Jos : 8 — .23 — 7 MJ : 23 — .21 — 18 NPOY : 21 — .18 — 34 (3) CC : 19 — .16 — 25 (4)
TTA : 19 — .08 — 25 Anna : 3 — .03 — 5 Dev : 0 — .0 — 1 Cardi B : 0 — .0 — 6 I put a little number in paren to represent a player I think Sheff would say has confidence back there (I certainly have confidence in these players, last night's performance aside). So moving forward to 2024 you swap out Izzy, Jos, MJ and evidently CC with Charlie, Dev, Smrek, and I guess Lola or Saige. I think you'd probably say Charlie has confidence back there so that gets you to 5. It is easy to forget how critical MJ and Izzy were back there. [*] : I'm no expert but to me Izzy actually regressed a little from the service line in her final year. She was lights out in the 2022 season. Sideout percents by server for the year 2023 (lower number the better) Izzy: 0.545 Orzol: 0.515 GG: 0.458 MJ: 0.493 Franklin: 0.566 CC: 0.560 Boyer: 0.468 TTA: 0.570 (I deleted everyone with fewer than 50 attempts. Izzy in 2022 was 0.496) |
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Post by badgerbreath on Aug 28, 2024 16:54:34 GMT -5
I actually found myself liking the two libero system, surprisingly.
It's really nice to see some adventurousness at the setter position. It will just take a while for the connections to settle. There is a ton of upside there.
The blocking will get better. It's always the last skill that clicks. I remember watching Tionna repeatedly nudge Hilley into the proper place during one of Syds first real matches.
The serving errors and not having a viable option at OH2 was the real problem. TSC will be great eventually, but this is a huge step up. We need Orzol. I wouldn't be surprised if she can't go this coming weekend. However.
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Post by badgerbreath on Aug 28, 2024 17:12:10 GMT -5
Also, I remember thinking Booth started last year a little slow to close the block as well. She may just need to warm up a bit with her eye work.
Teams never look that good coming out of the gate. It's always a bit of a coin flip who is ahead of who this early when you are talking about fairly evenly matched teams. Injuries have robbed the badgers of a lot of prep time. I'm forgiving at the beginning of the year. I'll be more judgy if they don't show signs of improvement week on week.
I was more concerned about Sheff's comments. He already feels he has to challenge this team. It's unusual. He must think the personalities in the squad need that push. Hammill, Izzy, GG and Orzol accounted for a lot of the service pressure last year in a down year for service pressure. Two are gone and GG didn't server that well last night.
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Post by badgerguru on Aug 28, 2024 21:56:04 GMT -5
First game of the year. Most teams will not be holding both Sarah & Anna to .183 & .161 hitting percentages. I’d almost argue once they both are feeling themselves after these little ankle tweaks that it never happens again. The OH2 spot will eventually be filled by Julia who was our OH2 for a national championship team & normally a +.200 hitter. The passing of our littles remains to be this groups largest issue, but they are generally young (minus gg) & need time to work it out. Like someone else said, we chose to start the season with a gauntlet. We could’ve easily began playing teams like Milwaukee & Troy to work on our cohesiveness before big matches. It matters how we play in December
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Post by Pepperjack on Aug 29, 2024 9:48:49 GMT -5
One of the Badgers’ primary areas of emphasis in the spring and in practice this summer has been to toughen up their serving. The goal is to get opponents on their heels, like Texas did last last season in its run to the national title. And if that leads to some early season hiccups, Sheffield has been willing to live with that. That approach came at a cost as the Badgers committed 17 service errors with just one service ace. Louisville had nine service errors with two aces. The worst of it came in the second set with the Badgers had eight service errors to help fuel the Cardinals’ reversal of the match. Sheffield made no attempt to disguise his disappointment with that phase of the game. “It’s one thing to want to do something but you’ve got to earn the right to be confident in game situations,” he said. “Clearly, we’re not there. Quite honestly, we’ve got to have more players that are taking that part of the game more seriously in practice. These guys don’t hear me call them out very much in press conferences. I can’t remember the last time we did that. Right now, I’m not sure I’ve got six players that are confident in that area, to go back there and put pressure (on the opponent). Hope is not a strategy.” The serving issues were across the board as each server had at least one error. Devyn Robinson and Anna Smrek had four each, with Smrek giving way to freshman defensive specialist Lola Schumacher at the service line the last couple sets. Article written by Dennis Punzel badgerextra.com/sports/volleyball/wisconsin-volleyball-loses-louisville-analysis-score/article_ffa82b30-64ce-11ef-b40e-27b2a6da3d63.html |
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Post by Pepperjack on Aug 29, 2024 10:31:21 GMT -5
Per Sarah's instagram story, Anna, Carly and she jumped in the lake today. Not sure where CC, Devyn, and Julia were—maybe they had classes?   |
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Post by honeybadger88 on Aug 29, 2024 10:57:38 GMT -5
Per Sarah's instagram story, Anna, Carly and she jumped in the lake today. Not sure where CC, Devyn, and Julia were—maybe they had classes? View AttachmentView AttachmentThey'll probably do another official one this time with CC, Devyn and Julia in it too and post it on the official Badgervb account. |
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Post by robtearle on Aug 29, 2024 11:02:13 GMT -5
Per Sarah's instagram story, Anna, Carly and she jumped in the lake today. Not sure where CC, Devyn, and Julia were—maybe they had classes? View AttachmentView AttachmentAs far as I know, the first day of classes is next Wednesday, the 4th. After a week of days in the 90s, they jump on a cloudy 70 degree day? |
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Post by Pepperjack on Aug 29, 2024 11:05:08 GMT -5
Per Sarah's instagram story, Anna, Carly and she jumped in the lake today. Not sure where CC, Devyn, and Julia were—maybe they had classes? View AttachmentView AttachmentThey'll probably do another official one this time with CC, Devyn and Julia in it too and post it on the official Badgervb account. Look at Sarah’s stories there’s a professional photographer taking pics of them. Why would they jump twice and not wait for the other girls? That certainly doesn’t make sense |
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