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Post by pcll0718 on Oct 3, 2024 15:37:48 GMT -5
she has barely played against the 8 ranked teams the Huskers have faced. Notably, she did start the only match Nebraska has lost this year. Hopefully you appreciate how Taylor has played in huge matches over her career with strong performances, garnering B1G POY and First-Team AA accolades. As such, her strong outings against what you consider weaker competition this season aren’t anomalies. Lindsay has also played against weaker competition but still struggles to put balls down, including against Ucla when she hit negative and fortunately got pulled. The loss against SMU was largely due to a complete passing meltdown, which I consider to be rather anomalous for this team. I don’t place that loss squarely on Taylor or Lindsay. I definitely do. No doubt. I also do appreciate that Krause has played in 9 career NCAA Tournament matches while hitting .324 or better in 7 of the 9. I think almost anyone would consider these big matches, in fact the most important time of the year. Chad Gordon on Twitter will blow a lot of minds with his NCAA OH ratings for this year. Not all about the hitting % The sky isn’t falling just yet.
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Post by gophervballfan on Oct 3, 2024 17:13:15 GMT -5
Andi Jackson is not dressed for the illinois match. Is she injured?
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Post by knapplc on Oct 3, 2024 17:15:04 GMT -5
Andi Jackson is not dressed for the illinois match. Is she injured? Andi Jackson is injured and will not play in the Illinois match tonight.
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Post by Floyd R. Turbo on Oct 3, 2024 21:21:09 GMT -5
Idk if anyone has brought this up but it would be really fun to have a volleyball game at the Coliseum for old times sake. Just like the men’s basketball team is doing a scrimmage at The Bob this year. Would love for us to do something at the Coliseum! From your keyboard to God's ears. Or at least Dannen's ears.
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Post by donaldjamesparker on Oct 3, 2024 21:31:31 GMT -5
Andi Jackson is not dressed for the illinois match. Is she injured? Andi Jackson is injured and will not play in the Illinois match tonight. I went looking for a post match press conference on Youtube, but came up empty. I was hoping that Coach Cook might speak on this topic. It's so much more fun when Andi is kabooming and putting dents in the court! Blackwell did a nice job filling in though.
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Post by rjaege on Oct 4, 2024 7:24:01 GMT -5
Andi Jackson is injured and will not play in the Illinois match tonight. I went looking for a post match press conference on Youtube, but came up empty. I was hoping that Coach Cook might speak on this topic. It's so much more fun when Andi is kabooming and putting dents in the court! Blackwell did a nice job filling in though. On the radio post game Coach Cook did not say anything about Jackson's injury. Nor do I remember questions on her status. I thought Blackwell had a better 3rd set than the sets 1 or 2. Hopefully she was getting adjusted.
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Post by Big đź”´ Energy on Oct 4, 2024 9:11:36 GMT -5
Grabbed coffee with a club coach this morning (I forgot to thank you for the latte ❤️ if you see this), and we both recognize the crushing weight of expectations that Landfair must have felt last night. It didn’t look like she was playing freely but quite rigidly from not wanting to error; normally, Landfair is the queen of abusing blocks with the angles she creates, but she was doing too much to hit around or over Illinois’ block and going with her comfortable crosscourt shots (but without much spank on the ball). Knowing how so much was on the line and that she could be replaced by Krause, Landfair seemed to be trying too hard to play too error-free. Granted, it’s sometimes a good thing when Nebraska’s players can experience, overcome, and grow from this type of pressure during college before they go pro, but it’s clear Landfair plays more freely when she comes off the bench to replace Krause. I’m sure the coaches and support staff will figure this out with Landfair, but I wonder if anyone else picked up on this.
I still maintain Landfair should be given more opportunities to play with the same reassurances from Cook that he’s said this entire season: he doesn’t want players to worry about getting pulled if they make errors, because it gets into their heads.
Side note: This also speaks to an earlier comment I made in last night’s match thread about fans worrying too much about statistics; this is one of the last things fans should be impressing on players. When the types of players that Nebraska recruits play freely and in the moment, the stats typically get in formation. ✊
GBR
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Post by bborr on Oct 4, 2024 9:24:56 GMT -5
Based on comments last week that lineups tend to be for the week, I imagine Landfair will get the start against Iowa, and will play more freely. I thought she was a little out of position on some block attempts, but I know blocking is a team effort and affected by those around her. And having a change at middle as well makes judging difficult.
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Post by rjaege on Oct 4, 2024 12:10:21 GMT -5
Based on comments last week that lineups tend to be for the week, I imagine Landfair will get the start against Iowa, and will play more freely. I thought she was a little out of position on some block attempts, but I know blocking is a team effort and affected by those around her. And having a change at middle as well makes judging difficult. Agree. Not sure but felt Blackwell did not block well in sets 1 & 2, but was better in set 3. Not sure Landfair was tight/nervous, but maybe. In the radio post-game, Coach Cook said he subbed her because she was wearing down or something to that effect. Not sure how to interpret that. Maybe just coach-speak motivator, or was she a bit ill, or does she need more conditioning, or mental/anxious. She was subbed out after several long rallies. Coach Cook also said he wanted to switch the players at OH1 and OH2, as part of providing Beason more back row rotations to add her backrow hitting opps.
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Post by rjaege on Oct 4, 2024 12:13:56 GMT -5
Is Murray ahead of Foecke as a sophmore? Regardless, Murray is demonstrating dominant play IMO.
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Post by eastbeachwestcoast on Oct 4, 2024 13:22:16 GMT -5
Is Murray ahead of Foecke as a sophmore? Regardless, Murray is demonstrating dominant play IMO. I feel like Foecke was more physical and able to take over a match offensively with more consistency than Murray has to this point, but I think Harper’s all around game is better.
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Post by milkmandan on Oct 4, 2024 14:31:43 GMT -5
Hard to say since Foecke only played three rotations her first two years. Interested to see where Murray is midway through next season.
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