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Post by robtearle on Sept 25, 2024 23:00:40 GMT -5
Looking at live stats, Wisconsin had more aces than Minn, the same number of hitting errors, more blocks, only two fewer digs. But more service errors, and fewer kills. Played like crap for much of the night, and still damn near won. We also played like crap against Texas and Stanford and had multiple set points to be up 2-0 in those matches. But at some point, the "ifs" have to become reality. Of course. How about November, and December?
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Post by badgerbyproxy on Sept 25, 2024 23:04:24 GMT -5
Well, the good news is that 4 of the next 5 matches should be very winnable: Rutgers, Maryland, and Northwestern twice. Washington should be manageable as well, but they can definitely put up a fight.
Hopefully, the Badgers take these next few weeks to regroup and iron out 1) the passing and 2) the lineup.
Whoever is the best passer needs to play Libero. Sheff needs to make a decision regarding the middles and run with it. The musical chairs at that position is throwing off blocking and is probably causing some problems with Fuerbringer’s connections/continuity with the middles.
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Post by badgerbreath on Sept 25, 2024 23:04:55 GMT -5
Looking at live stats, Wisconsin had more aces than Minn, the same number of hitting errors, more blocks, only two fewer digs. But more service errors, and fewer kills. Played like crap for much of the night, and still damn near won. We also played like crap against Texas and Stanford and had multiple set points to be up 2-0 in those matches. But at some point, the "ifs" have to become reality. We played way much better against Minnie than we did against those two teams. Minnie played way better than those two teams did against us. A truly impressive defensive performance by them. Lterally no one in our passing rotation could handle Grote's serves. No one has been able to handle them all year. We could have won that match anyway, but we have to get better handling the ball in transition, and involving our middle attack. We seem to have forgotten that element of our play after two years in the 6-2. It will take a bit with a freshman setter.
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Post by badgerbadgerbadger on Sept 25, 2024 23:05:27 GMT -5
Charlie has been making progress with connections with our hitters and all that dissipated tonight. However, I can't even blame her when she was running marathons the entire night and actually saved several passes with smart dumps that I haven't seen her done in previous games. Like if we have an AA setter still then I can understand experimenting with the backrow somewhat. But bad passing is leading to bad setting right now because our freshman setter is sprinting all over the court while she's literally brand new to all these hitters.
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Post by Burly Ives on Sept 25, 2024 23:06:04 GMT -5
We also played like crap against Texas and Stanford and had multiple set points to be up 2-0 in those matches. But at some point, the "ifs" have to become reality. Of course. How about November, and December? We will improve if we decide on two MB's and not continue this rotation. We will see considerable improvement from Charlie and tbe setting as she builds more experience with the bigs. GG has not improved, same ole GG. If anything her serving has regressed from last season. Lola or Saige needs to be libero or we are going to get shellacked by Nebraska and Penn State.
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Post by swaggyp on Sept 25, 2024 23:08:19 GMT -5
Looking at live stats, Wisconsin had more aces than Minn, the same number of hitting errors, more blocks, only two fewer digs. But more service errors, and fewer kills. Played like crap for much of the night, and still damn near won. I think this is right. Basically played this one to a draw even though there are 50 different things we can reasonably expect to be better. On the road against a top 20 team that might have been playing above their head. At least that will be what I think tomorrow. Tonight, because I am an emotional adolescent, I am going to let my favorite team’s near-win ruin my night and be grumpy for another 52 minutes.
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Post by badgerbadgerbadger on Sept 25, 2024 23:10:27 GMT -5
We also played like crap against Texas and Stanford and had multiple set points to be up 2-0 in those matches. But at some point, the "ifs" have to become reality. We played way much better against Minnie than we did against those two teams. Minnie played way better than those two teams did against us. A truly impressive defensive performance by them. Lterally no one in our passing rotation could handle Grote's serves. No one has been able to handle them all year. We could have won that match anyway, but we have to get better handling the ball in transition, and involving our middle attack. We seem to have forgotten that element of our play after two years in the 6-2. It will take a bit with a freshman setter. Yes, the middle attack is absent, but there were many times tonight in transition where GG couldn't even pass a simple dig to make it easier for Charlie. Not to mention, when on SR you're running marathons to throw balls to the pins, it's also hard to build middle connections. Those are the times when she's supposed to be able to just stand in her spot and deliver to the middles, which will then help with the chemistry during the chaos of transitions. I'm not sure how many good passes we had tonight where we were able to run the middle.
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Post by wiguy94 on Sept 25, 2024 23:11:30 GMT -5
Of course. How about November, and December? We will improve if we decide on two MB's and not continue this rotation. We will see considerable improvement from Charlie and tbe setting as she builds more experience with the bigs. GG has not improved, same ole GG. If anything her serving has regressed from last season. Lola or Saige needs to be libero or we are going to get shellacked by Nebraska and Penn State. The question is if you're going to bench a middle which do you bench? Based on performance to this point, I feel like you'd need to bench Booth. If you bench Booth and stop the rotating, will she transfer out at the end of the year?
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Post by honeybadger88 on Sept 25, 2024 23:13:30 GMT -5
I think this Badgers team this year is good enough to beat low and mid tier teams but will fall short against top teams.
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Post by badgerbyproxy on Sept 25, 2024 23:13:30 GMT -5
We will improve if we decide on two MB's and not continue this rotation. We will see considerable improvement from Charlie and tbe setting as she builds more experience with the bigs. GG has not improved, same ole GG. If anything her serving has regressed from last season. Lola or Saige needs to be libero or we are going to get shellacked by Nebraska and Penn State. The question is if you're going to bench a middle which do you bench? Based on performance to this point, I feel like you'd need to bench Booth. If you bench Booth and stop the rotating, will she transfer out at the end of the year? If you’re keeping people in the lineup just to make sure they don’t transfer, you’ve lost the season. Look at Minnesota with Landfair last year. At the end of the day, the strongest lineup needs to be on the court regardless of fear of transfers.
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Post by badgerbadgerbadger on Sept 25, 2024 23:14:16 GMT -5
We will improve if we decide on two MB's and not continue this rotation. We will see considerable improvement from Charlie and tbe setting as she builds more experience with the bigs. GG has not improved, same ole GG. If anything her serving has regressed from last season. Lola or Saige needs to be libero or we are going to get shellacked by Nebraska and Penn State. The question is if you're going to bench a middle which do you bench? Based on performance to this point, I feel like you'd need to bench Booth. If you bench Booth and stop the rotating, will she transfer out at the end of the year? We can't play a player simply because we think they might transfer out. If she does because she's benched due to performance, then so be it. Wardlow and Tosia can start at middles next year and we can completely rebuild.
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Post by wiguy94 on Sept 25, 2024 23:15:12 GMT -5
The question is if you're going to bench a middle which do you bench? Based on performance to this point, I feel like you'd need to bench Booth. If you bench Booth and stop the rotating, will she transfer out at the end of the year? If you’re keeping people in the lineup just to make sure they don’t transfer, you’ve lost the season. Look at Minnesota with Landfair last year. At the end of the day, the strongest lineup needs to be on the court regardless of fear of transfers. While I somewhat agree with that, it's something that needs to be taken into consideration with the modern transfer portal.
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Post by clambinator on Sept 25, 2024 23:15:24 GMT -5
We will improve if we decide on two MB's and not continue this rotation. We will see considerable improvement from Charlie and tbe setting as she builds more experience with the bigs. GG has not improved, same ole GG. If anything her serving has regressed from last season. Lola or Saige needs to be libero or we are going to get shellacked by Nebraska and Penn State. The question is if you're going to bench a middle which do you bench? Based on performance to this point, I feel like you'd need to bench Booth. If you bench Booth and stop the rotating, will she transfer out at the end of the year? I mean the decision to who doesn’t get playing time has to be Smrek and Booth. Both have been very underwhelming this season. IMO, for the time being, I would bench Smrek and put Devyn on the right. Smrek’s blocking and attacking has been disappointing and ultimately a liability. I 100% believe Devyn has to be on the court one way or another.
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Post by clambinator on Sept 25, 2024 23:17:21 GMT -5
The question is if you're going to bench a middle which do you bench? Based on performance to this point, I feel like you'd need to bench Booth. If you bench Booth and stop the rotating, will she transfer out at the end of the year? We can't play a player simply because we think they might transfer out. If she does because she's benched due to performance, then so be it. Wardlow and Tosia can start at middles next year and we can completely rebuild. I would pump the brakes on Wardlow. She has been playing pin in high school for this season and 2nd half of last year
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Post by swaggyp on Sept 25, 2024 23:18:06 GMT -5
The question is if you're going to bench a middle which do you bench? Based on performance to this point, I feel like you'd need to bench Booth. If you bench Booth and stop the rotating, will she transfer out at the end of the year? We can't play a player simply because we think they might transfer out. If she does because she's benched due to performance, then so be it. Wardlow and Tosia can start at middles next year and we can completely rebuild. In this NIL+portal era, until it changes, every team needs to be thinking of every season as a one year roster. Everyone is a risk to leave every year. In football it’s even more awful than that and that’s coming for volleyball too.
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