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Post by robtearle on Sept 19, 2024 14:34:56 GMT -5
In other news, there was a fun article that includes an interview of when John Cook played pickup basketball at the Shell (about to be torn down). I ran in the Shell as an undergrad during the winters; not on the team - not quite good enough - but had a number of friends who were on the team. It got crazy in there, with team runners using the inner lanes and others using the outer lanes. AND with the UW baseball team trying to hold what practice they could on the inside of the track all at the same time; they would drop down these nets from the ceiling that were supposed to keep the baseballs from flying out and hitting the runners. But one friend of mine - a middle distance guy from Kenya - got hit flush in the face with a ball; IIRC cracked tooth, orbital fracture and a really good black eye. A half-dozen years ago, they opened it back up to members of the general public to use during 'off hours', so again during winters, I'd go run there on colder or snowier days. But they were smarter about things; we'd have to leave by 1 PM to the track teams could come in and practice in peace. There are 'running tracks' in the Nick and in Bakke, but they're not remotely the same. I'm going to miss the Shell. (It smelled the same in there in 2018 as it did in 1978. :-)
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Post by volleyball90 on Sept 19, 2024 14:48:27 GMT -5
Pickup basketball at the shell was the best. The serf pickup was super intense, while the shell was the laid back version. I remember playing with professors and retired alum in those pickup games. Oldest guy I played with was in 60s (full court!). It was a great experience honestly.
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Post by 200backer on Sept 19, 2024 15:50:31 GMT -5
Badgers are starting to look good, feeling good about all the phases of the game or I feel like they’ll be settled soon. My one area of concern is serving. There aren’t really any servers right now who I feel like an opponent would fear and overall the serving doesn’t seem to be disruptive enough to make teams like Nebraska/purdue/psu sweat. This graphic is interesting: x.com/chadgordon09/status/1836850525121433760?s=46Last year showed how game changing it can be to have 1-2 great servers (asjia oneal) and then 6 solid servers (Texas). I feel optimistic about getting to 6 solid servers, we have 5 okay servers who I think can improve (GG, CC, Charlie, orzol, Franklin are all okay, Schumacher hasn’t impressed me in that phase yet but she is still adjusting to a lot so won’t count her out) but no one has really shown they can strike fear into opposing passers. Am I being pessimistic?does anyone see anything in any of our servers that make you think they can be super disruptoive and go on some service runs against good teams? I know GG lead that big run against marquette, but I don't see her doing that against the best teams.
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Post by tablealgebra on Sept 19, 2024 16:36:31 GMT -5
Badgers are starting to look good, feeling good about all the phases of the game or I feel like they’ll be settled soon. My one area of concern is serving. There aren’t really any servers right now who I feel like an opponent would fear and overall the serving doesn’t seem to be disruptive enough to make teams like Nebraska/purdue/psu sweat. This graphic is interesting: x.com/chadgordon09/status/1836850525121433760?s=46Last year showed how game changing it can be to have 1-2 great servers (asjia oneal) and then 6 solid servers (Texas). I feel optimistic about getting to 6 solid servers, we have 5 okay servers who I think can improve (GG, CC, Charlie, orzol, Franklin are all okay, Schumacher hasn’t impressed me in that phase yet but she is still adjusting to a lot so won’t count her out) but no one has really shown they can strike fear into opposing passers. Am I being pessimistic?does anyone see anything in any of our servers that make you think they can be super disruptoive and go on some service runs against good teams? I know GG lead that big run against marquette, but I don't see her doing that against the best teams. I think Chad Gordon said in the replies that because he ran that pre-Marquette that no one from Wisconsin qualified for the minimum number of serves. Regardless, I don't think it's a surprise that our serving is down after our best two servers left. Plus, Wisconsin last year I think operated under the idea that our serve simply had to get them out of system and after that we were so good on the block and in transition that it didn't matter if we aced them or caused free balls, we were still going to score. So I don't think we had the mentality of racking up aces. Still though, I think we have a few good servers. In order, who I want serving with the game on the line is: 1. GG 2. Orzol 3. Frank 4. Charlie In a non-pressure situation where a SE doesn't really matter, I'd switch Charlie and Frank. For the others, I think many put in good tough serves but nothing that's going to routinely get a team OOS, and if I'm guessing almost al our service runs have come off the serving hands of those four.
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Post by badgerbreath on Sept 19, 2024 17:30:40 GMT -5
Badgers are starting to look good, feeling good about all the phases of the game or I feel like they’ll be settled soon. My one area of concern is serving. There aren’t really any servers right now who I feel like an opponent would fear and overall the serving doesn’t seem to be disruptive enough to make teams like Nebraska/purdue/psu sweat. This graphic is interesting: x.com/chadgordon09/status/1836850525121433760?s=46Last year showed how game changing it can be to have 1-2 great servers (asjia oneal) and then 6 solid servers (Texas). I feel optimistic about getting to 6 solid servers, we have 5 okay servers who I think can improve (GG, CC, Charlie, orzol, Franklin are all okay, Schumacher hasn’t impressed me in that phase yet but she is still adjusting to a lot so won’t count her out) but no one has really shown they can strike fear into opposing passers. Am I being pessimistic?does anyone see anything in any of our servers that make you think they can be super disruptoive and go on some service runs against good teams? I know GG lead that big run against marquette, but I don't see her doing that against the best teams. I am also worried about it. Serving against Marquette looked pretty mediocre until GG started serving deep floaters to the Left back om the 10 point run. One reason set 4 was close is that the serving pressure lightened up again. I think that's why Devyn is getting a long look. I think Andersen's serve can be pretty good too, when she plays.
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Post by badgerbadgerbadger on Sept 19, 2024 17:31:31 GMT -5
Lol, if you want to call me out, then do that, don't try to beat around the bush. Carly did well enough sure, but how much was it Carly doing well, and how much was it Franklin literally destroying everything in her path? Because CC and GG set Frank to 5 kills in the best Badgers' run of the season of 10-0, winning the set with the biggest margin without even a setter. Even in the 1st set when Carly's sets were completely off, Frank had 5 kills hitting .400+. It was more of a case of a great player elevating her game and due for one considering she was hitting .220 or something like that. Our passing was so off last night, most of the time it was just fling to the left and pray. So yeah, I'm wrong that we were going to lose with Carly, but it was because I forgot we have the best/2nd best pin in the nation who can take over games if needed to, and she did so last night. Why would I call you out when you are more than willing to do so yourself? And hilariously so, by being unable to resist not only bashing her but half the team in your need to justify your own previous statements. Bash half the team lol? Praising Sarah for being able to take over games is bashing half of the team now? K dude. Imagine putting random meanings into people’s words and taking that as correct.
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Post by Wiswell on Sept 19, 2024 18:25:02 GMT -5
In other news, there was a fun article that includes an interview of when John Cook played pickup basketball at the Shell (about to be torn down). I ran in the Shell as an undergrad during the winters; not on the team - not quite good enough - but had a number of friends who were on the team. It got crazy in there, with team runners using the inner lanes and others using the outer lanes. AND with the UW baseball team trying to hold what practice they could on the inside of the track all at the same time; they would drop down these nets from the ceiling that were supposed to keep the baseballs from flying out and hitting the runners. But one friend of mine - a middle distance guy from Kenya - got hit flush in the face with a ball; IIRC cracked tooth, orbital fracture and a really good black eye. A half-dozen years ago, they opened it back up to members of the general public to use during 'off hours', so again during winters, I'd go run there on colder or snowier days. But they were smarter about things; we'd have to leave by 1 PM to the track teams could come in and practice in peace. There are 'running tracks' in the Nick and in Bakke, but they're not remotely the same. I'm going to miss the Shell. (It smelled the same in there in 2018 as it did in 1978. :-) Pre pandemic I was in there 3* a week in the winter. I am still waiting for the pandemic refund for my membership (they said no). One thing that was a constant was that it was hot in there, and there was always 1-2 creepy old guys sitting on the equipment just watching the female students. I've missed the Shell for the last four years. It's hard running outside when it's cold, and the treadmill is no fun.
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