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Post by spicycheesebread on Sept 3, 2024 22:02:49 GMT -5
I need to see what happened, but… we’re not getting swept by SMU here. 3 losses to top 6 teams isn’t anything to feel bad about. The sky is absolutely NOT falling for any one right now... unless you are involved in ranking the Top 25 teams for the next 6-8 weeks. Feeling good about the steady progress. I'm not an armchair coach, but I do have the benefit of having met most of the current Badgers on multiple occasions. Freaking tough as nails and the fortitude is through the roof on all of these seniors. They WILL figure it out this year, and I am absolutely certain we will be proud of the state of the team by the time they get into the heart of the B1G schedule. Everyone take a deep breath and enjoy the parity of the league, the slow burn and the prolonged journey. It's the last season for some of the best Badgers we've ever had in our program. Savor the ride.
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Post by moimoi on Sept 3, 2024 22:35:42 GMT -5
I need to see what happened, but… we’re not getting swept by SMU here. 3 losses to top 6 teams isn’t anything to feel bad about. The sky is absolutely NOT falling for any one right now... unless you are involved in ranking the Top 25 teams for the next 6-8 weeks. Feeling good about the steady progress. I'm not an armchair coach, but I do have the benefit of having met most of the current Badgers on multiple occasions. Freaking tough as nails and the fortitude is through the roof on all of these seniors. They WILL figure it out this year, and I am absolutely certain we will be proud of the state of the team by the time they get into the heart of the B1G schedule. Everyone take a deep breath and enjoy the parity of the league, the slow burn and the prolonged journey. It's the last season for some of the best Badgers we've ever had in our program. Savor the ride. Amen to that! 💪🙏
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2024 22:37:14 GMT -5
The sky is absolutely NOT falling for any one right now... unless you are involved in ranking the Top 25 teams for the next 6-8 weeks. Feeling good about the steady progress. I'm not an armchair coach, but I do have the benefit of having met most of the current Badgers on multiple occasions. Freaking tough as nails and the fortitude is through the roof on all of these seniors. They WILL figure it out this year, and I am absolutely certain we will be proud of the state of the team by the time they get into the heart of the B1G schedule. Everyone take a deep breath and enjoy the parity of the league, the slow burn and the prolonged journey. It's the last season for some of the best Badgers we've ever had in our program. Savor the ride. Amen to that! 💪🙏 Let’s see how teams progress as season goes in. Psu already had advantage of having early training with European tour other teams didn’t have. Plus Izzy had adv of her sister being there last three years. I guarentee she knew that players and exactly what Katie wants to do
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Post by badgerbadgerbadger on Sept 3, 2024 23:41:54 GMT -5
Hopefully the Stanford and Texas matches put the Wisconsin service errors rant to bed. Service errors are not the reason Wisconsin is losing against the elite teams. Also, I get this has been a very tough start to the season and Wisconsin is still trying to find their groove, but I have a hard time seeing Wisconsin as a final four team this year without Smrek being a 3+ kills per set, .300%, 1+ blocker per set opposite. Half of the fans in this thread currently wants her benched lol, simply because she’s had a bad start while injured and trying to connect with a freshman setter. People out here making up narratives she’s a liability blocking on the right lmao.
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Post by badgerbadgerbadger on Sept 3, 2024 23:55:06 GMT -5
Let’s see how teams progress as season goes in. Psu already had advantage of having early training with European tour other teams didn’t have. Plus Izzy had adv of her sister being there last three years. I guarentee she knew that players and exactly what Katie wants to do The difference right now isn’t as much the setting as the backcourt play because Grimes is elite while Wisconsin has a bunch of liberos they can’t decide on because all of them are mehs.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2024 0:11:34 GMT -5
Let’s see how teams progress as season goes in. Psu already had advantage of having early training with European tour other teams didn’t have. Plus Izzy had adv of her sister being there last three years. I guarentee she knew that players and exactly what Katie wants to do The difference right now isn’t as much the setting as the backcourt play because Grimes is elite while Wisconsin has a bunch of liberos they can’t decide on because all of them are mehs. Grimes is killing it. So much that the top libero recruit in nation is having hard time getting alot of playing time. It reminds me of a past penn state team that starting libero was so good that a back up who would start for a lot of other teams was playing ds. Gonzalez/ fueller. Psu got two titles with them in back
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Post by pull3 on Sept 4, 2024 6:47:16 GMT -5
After the MN-TX, PSU-LOU games, I think we just looked like a mid-major. I mean it is not that TX and LOU are world beaters.
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Post by chibadgerfan on Sept 4, 2024 7:27:19 GMT -5
Hopefully the Stanford and Texas matches put the Wisconsin service errors rant to bed. Service errors are not the reason Wisconsin is losing against the elite teams. Also, I get this has been a very tough start to the season and Wisconsin is still trying to find their groove, but I have a hard time seeing Wisconsin as a final four team this year without Smrek being a 3+ kills per set, .300%, 1+ blocker per set opposite. Half of the fans in this thread currently wants her benched lol, simply because she’s had a bad start while injured and trying to connect with a freshman setter. People out here making up narratives she’s a liability blocking on the right lmao. Smrek was an All American last year and was the difference between winning and losing against the top Big Ten teams. Moreover her stats have continued to improve, even though she started from being playoff MVP in our championship season. She can demoralize opposing attackers on the block. This season she’s clearly gotten off to a bad start, for whatever reasons. I suspect those reasons will be overcome in short order. In general I think our biggest problem is simply the change at setter, and everyone figuring out how to make that successful. The one issue difficult to solve is the second OH. It sounds like Orzol has lingering injury problems, while clearly TSC is a little green. One option is to have TSC play front row only, subbing out her back row rotations. Then she can focus exclusively on attack and block. I think our smalls are pretty good this year, so doing a lot defensive subbing can work well. Of course TSC will still make mistakes, but perhaps she can get up to speed sooner in this arrangement.
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Post by badgersinsix on Sept 4, 2024 8:06:52 GMT -5
Hopefully the Stanford and Texas matches put the Wisconsin service errors rant to bed. Service errors are not the reason Wisconsin is losing against the elite teams. Also, I get this has been a very tough start to the season and Wisconsin is still trying to find their groove, but I have a hard time seeing Wisconsin as a final four team this year without Smrek being a 3+ kills per set, .300%, 1+ blocker per set opposite. Sure. And I expect Anna to be that. And the Badgers to have an Elite 8 or better finish.
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Post by robtearle on Sept 4, 2024 8:07:46 GMT -5
Half of the fans in this thread currently wants her benched lol, simply because she’s had a bad start while injured and trying to connect with a freshman setter. People out here making up narratives she’s a liability blocking on the right lmao. One option is to have TSC play front row only, subbing out her back row rotations. Then she can focus exclusively on attack and block. I think our smalls are pretty good this year, so doing a lot defensive subbing can work well. Of course TSC will still make mistakes, but perhaps she can get up to speed sooner in this arrangement. They have been doing exactly that. But a left in the front row still has serve-receive responsibilities.
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Post by volleyball90 on Sept 4, 2024 8:33:13 GMT -5
There were a lot of good moments against some really good teams, more so vs Texas (first 2 sets) and Stanford than Louisville match. I thought I saw real improvement in the team and the title winning potential we all expect. It's clear that TSC is not ready and that Orzol would make a major difference if healthy. I do think the 2-libero system may not be best idea because I do think its hurting the libero defense. I think because neither Saige or GG can get into flow of game, it is harming their ability to read the hitters and we just aren't having many wow plays on defense out of them. It's also clear that our serving has taken a step down in losing both MJ and Izzy. Charlie is a good server, but losing 2 of our best servers def makes us worse at that end.
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Post by honeybadger88 on Sept 4, 2024 10:50:26 GMT -5
I'm being optimistic but championships isn't won in August and early September. Plenty of time for the team to improve.
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Post by chibadgerfan on Sept 4, 2024 12:21:41 GMT -5
One option is to have TSC play front row only, subbing out her back row rotations. Then she can focus exclusively on attack and block. I think our smalls are pretty good this year, so doing a lot defensive subbing can work well. Of course TSC will still make mistakes, but perhaps she can get up to speed sooner in this arrangement. They have been doing exactly that. But a left in the front row still has serve-receive responsibilities. I know many have said it’s impossible, but why not try Crawford at OH?
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Post by robtearle on Sept 4, 2024 12:31:28 GMT -5
They have been doing exactly that. But a left in the front row still has serve-receive responsibilities. I know many have said it’s impossible, but why not try Crawford at OH? Because the Big Ten isn't a Tuesday night bar league? I really don't think Sheffield and Gary and Brittany need our help in identifying the problems facing the team, and the potential solutions to those problems. If they think CC is a better short-term option than TSC, they'll try it.
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Post by crossover2 on Sept 4, 2024 12:32:56 GMT -5
They have been doing exactly that. But a left in the front row still has serve-receive responsibilities. I know many have said it’s impossible, but why not try Crawford at OH? Should have taken Mele Corral-Blagojevich from the portal. She’s not perfect but at least she knows how to pass and play defense, and has a heavy arm.
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