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Post by pull3 on Sept 8, 2024 10:06:06 GMT -5
probel I'm not sure how Frank and Anna differ from one another. Whereas Anna's wounded is treated like a CIA secret, Frank's injuries was made public. As long as Anna's injury doesn't appear in the press, I hold Sheffield accountable for his personal motivation to bench Anna. If I'm not mistaken, Frank's injury happened "in public" during play with the US (junior) national team this summer; everybody saw it happen. Smrek must have been injured during practice, so little is known about the specifics or severity.
Frank's blood clot problem wasn't "an national TV" thing. Sheff could have kept it silent, but he chose not to. And recovery progress was announced very clearly. Damrow, CC, and Orzol were all pretty well known. Explain to me why Anna's injury is all speculation?
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Post by 25or624 on Sept 8, 2024 10:10:02 GMT -5
I'm not sure how Frank and Anna differ from one another. Whereas Anna's wounded is treated like a CIA secret, Frank's injuries was made public. As long as Anna's injury doesn't appear in the press, I hold Sheffield accountable for his personal motivation to bench Anna. You are unhinged and ridiculous. If you would calm down and take the time to read other posts, you might be able to glean that Anna is not 100% and wouldn't be playing at all in a perfect world. You might also consider that Anna doesn't want to emulate Sarah's candor in her approach to being injured and doesn't want Sheff to talk about it.
Repeat after me: Anna owes me nothing, Sheff owes me nothing.
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Post by swaggyp on Sept 8, 2024 10:13:47 GMT -5
probel If I'm not mistaken, Frank's injury happened "in public" during play with the US (junior) national team this summer; everybody saw it happen. Smrek must have been injured during practice, so little is known about the specifics or severity.
Frank's blood clot problem wasn't "an national TV" thing. Sheff could have kept it silent, but he chose not to. And recovery progress was announced very clearly. Damrow, CC, and Orzol were all pretty well known. Explain to me why Anna's injury is all speculation?
It's not speculation. Dennis reported it. x.com/DennisPunzel/status/1826048855173214668
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Post by honeybadger88 on Sept 8, 2024 10:31:28 GMT -5
Carter hasn't been in the best form yet although she's showing some form against Baylor. I think it's still chemistry issues. As good as Devyn is on the RS block, she is no Anna who's height, reach and leap make it a nightmare for OHs to hit at. It's not so much Anna's block itself that's threatening, it's her perceived threat on the block which causes the opposing team to change their gameplan and force their OHs to his across as evident in OHs lower hitting percentage against Anna. With Devyn or even CC, OHs can feel they can go over their blocks since they don't have the length and reach Anna has.
Hopefully Anna is fit and firing again so the team can get back in form as a whole because Anna's hitting when she has the chemistry with Charlie and fit and firing is among the best in the country especially with her OOS swings and can terminate at an efficient rate.
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Post by badgerbreath on Sept 8, 2024 10:33:05 GMT -5
probel If I'm not mistaken, Frank's injury happened "in public" during play with the US (junior) national team this summer; everybody saw it happen. Smrek must have been injured during practice, so little is known about the specifics or severity.
Frank's blood clot problem wasn't "an national TV" thing. Sheff could have kept it silent, but he chose not to. And recovery progress was announced very clearly. Damrow, CC, and Orzol were all pretty well known. Explain to me why Anna's injury is all speculation? Guys, I know everyone is frustrated that the season is not going as smoothly as hoped, but let’s not try to rewrite history here. He had to explain why Sarah and Dildine weren’t on the plane to Turkey, and why she wouldn’t be in Europe at all. We all knew something was up when she didn’t show up in images. They only talked about why after the news came back that it was not bad as first thought, and the surgery was successful. We didn’t know about Orzol’s injury in 2021 until after the season was over. Sheff hid it. He has not hid the fact that Smrek is hampered. He’s repeatedly stated that she hasn’t practiced much. We have someone on the board who noted when Anna had rolled her ankle in practice before the Louisville match, but that she should be “ok to go.” (Who was that?) I even made a joke about Sheffs comment that Charlie was breaking ankles in practice. Finally Anna has just not been playing that well - often hitting into blocks, showing limited motion, and not connecting well with Charlie. She has made a difference at the end of these two matches, but it has been a very spotty start for her. People were rightly annoyed after Texas and Louisville. There are a lot of things going on here. We just won two tough games digging out of really hard situations. The play is def improving. Let’s take a breath.
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Post by badgerbyproxy on Sept 8, 2024 10:35:30 GMT -5
Wasn’t able to post my comments last night due to a charcuterie & movie night with friends, but WAY TO SURVIVE, Badgers! Fighting of 3 match points in a 5th set is never easy regardless of the opponent, and thrilled that they pulled through. Would’ve loved it to be a sweep, but last night’s victory showed such determination and mental toughness.
Schumacher should be a lock for Libero now, and it was great seeing the Fuerbringer-Booth connection figure itself out throughout the match.
Outside of Marquette, the Badgers should have an easy time winning out the rest of their matches, and will have ample time to rest and recoup for conference play at the end of the month. We’ll get our sweeps later, but being able to get through Waco victorious is a huge step for where this team looked to be last weekend.
Also (cuz I woke up feeling petty), Badgers are 2-0 in 5th sets this season, whereas Texas is 0-2 😝
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Post by 25or624 on Sept 8, 2024 10:36:04 GMT -5
Smrek had played only briefly in the match but was subbed in for Devyn Robinson with the Badgers trailing 13-10. Robinson came out despite having 19 kills to share team honors with Sarah Franklin.
“Nobody was hotter the first part of the match than Devyn,” Sheffield said. “They switched to a 6-2 and got a better blocker on her and she had a tough time scoring from there. Anna stays ready. Anna hasn’t played in 2½ hours and comes in there and gets two really big kills.
“I’ve said it before and I’m going to continue to say it: That can be our strength if we allow it, if we don’t get down on ourselves, we’re not judging it, we’re just staying ready. Nobody was happier in that locker room than Devyn. She gets subbed out in the fifth set and she wasn’t overly pleased with that, but it’s a huge team win.”
Looks like the fans who aren't happy now will have to remain that way. I'll take the huge team win and look forward to even better things as The Badgers heal up over the next 9 days or so.
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Post by robtearle on Sept 8, 2024 10:36:54 GMT -5
probel If I'm not mistaken, Frank's injury happened "in public" during play with the US (junior) national team this summer; everybody saw it happen. Smrek must have been injured during practice, so little is known about the specifics or severity.
Frank's blood clot problem wasn't "an national TV" thing. Sheff could have kept it silent, but he chose not to. And recovery progress was announced very clearly. Damrow, CC, and Orzol were all pretty well known. Explain to me why Anna's injury is all speculation?
Well, at some point soon we get into discussion HIPAA and FERPA, and who can disclose what information. Did Franklin give permission to discussion of her clotting problem? Don't know. Does the fact that Smrek is Canadian make a difference with regard to what can be disclosed, and by whom? Don't know.
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Post by badgerbreath on Sept 8, 2024 10:45:23 GMT -5
probel
Frank's blood clot problem wasn't "an national TV" thing. Sheff could have kept it silent, but he chose not to. And recovery progress was announced very clearly. Damrow, CC, and Orzol were all pretty well known. Explain to me why Anna's injury is all speculation?
Well, at some point soon we get into discussion HIPAA and FERPA, and who can disclose what information. Did Franklin give permission to discussion of her clotting problem? Don't know. Does the fact that Smrek is Canadian make a difference with regard to what can be disclosed, and by whom? Don't know. You remind me that I should have mentioned in my post above that THE PLAYER HAS TO AGREE to release such info by federal law. It’s not all down to the coaches. Often nothing gets said unless it becomes really obvious that something needs to be explained to avoid worse speculation. In smreks case, however, it’s not like it’s been a secret.
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Post by robtearle on Sept 8, 2024 10:46:36 GMT -5
probel
Frank's blood clot problem wasn't "an national TV" thing. Sheff could have kept it silent, but he chose not to. And recovery progress was announced very clearly. Damrow, CC, and Orzol were all pretty well known. Explain to me why Anna's injury is all speculation?
We didn’t know about Orzol’s injury in 2021 until after the season was over. Sheff hid it. Orzol missed four matches early in the year, so the fact that she was injured wasn't 'hidden'; the nature and severity was not known. (One of the those weekends, I happened to run into Loberg and Civita outside the stadium after a football game, and I said "If I ask you about Julia's injury, you're going to tell me nothing?" They laughed and said "Absolutely nothing!".)
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Post by badgerbreath on Sept 8, 2024 10:58:55 GMT -5
We didn’t know about Orzol’s injury in 2021 until after the season was over. Sheff hid it. Orzol missed four matches early in the year, so the fact that she was injured wasn't 'hidden'; the nature and severity was not known. (One of the those weekends, I happened to run into Loberg and Civita outside the stadium after a football game, and I said "If I ask you about Julia's injury, you're going to tell me nothing?" They laughed and said "Absolutely nothing!".) Yes. We knew about that injury period. What we didn’t know is that she was struggling with a hairline fracture that limited her jump during most of the year after that. It was never clear to me that they were the same injury. Have we ever had that confirmed?
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Post by pull3 on Sept 8, 2024 11:03:35 GMT -5
I should explain myself more.
If Anna played the whole 2 matches, she is ready. If Anna was re-injured, tell the fans. Fans don't necessarily need details involving privacy; all fans need is if a player is ready to go or not. If the player is ready to go but you bench her, be ready for some criticism.
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Post by badgerbreath on Sept 8, 2024 12:10:48 GMT -5
The thing I wonder is what happens with CC if Anna does come back. The badgers just looked so much more poised as a team when she was in the middle. It’s all the little things she does. She’s got good hands, anticipates and moves well, can dig when she’s playing RB and can set. Everything holds together better. Booth is a still a bit of a wild card when she is in there and it sometimes causes confusion just because she is so long.
When the badgers sometimes start to lose cohesion as they’ve been doing, I feel like you want CC in there to get it back more e quickly.
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Post by volleyball90 on Sept 8, 2024 12:27:24 GMT -5
The thing I wonder is what happens with CC if Anna does come back. The badgers just looked so much more poised as a team when she was in the middle. It’s all the little things she does. She’s got good hands, anticipates and moves well, can dig when she’s playing RB and can set. Everything holds together better. Booth is a still a bit of a wild card when she is in there and it sometimes causes confusion just because she is so long. When the badgers sometimes start to lose cohesion as they’ve been doing, I feel like you want CC in there to get it back more e quickly. CC is a hard one because she is so good all around but isn’t a stand out at anything except blocking, but all the other options are also good blockers so her advantage there isn’t very big. That being said, she has been playing very well this year and looks a lot more dynamic as a hitter.
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Post by swaggyp on Sept 8, 2024 12:40:24 GMT -5
The thing I wonder is what happens with CC if Anna does come back. The badgers just looked so much more poised as a team when she was in the middle. It’s all the little things she does. She’s got good hands, anticipates and moves well, can dig when she’s playing RB and can set. Everything holds together better. Booth is a still a bit of a wild card when she is in there and it sometimes causes confusion just because she is so long. When the badgers sometimes start to lose cohesion as they’ve been doing, I feel like you want CC in there to get it back more e quickly. CC is a hard one because she is so good all around but isn’t a stand out at anything except blocking, but all the other options are also good blockers so her advantage there isn’t very big. That being said, she has been playing very well this year and looks a lot more dynamic as a hitter. As problems for this team go, this one is a pretty good one to have!
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