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Post by alohavball on Jun 18, 2024 19:35:32 GMT -5
I'd rather see Wang Yizhu at opposite than Zheng at this point which I heard was the position they were training her at rather than on the outside. Zheng's passing, block, and attack is worse than Gong and that slide attack is ineffective. imo the starters for the finals should be, S: Ding Xia OPP: Wang Yizhu OH: Zhang, Zhuang MB: Gao Yi, Yang Hanyu L: Ni FF Can this line up beat Japan? if Japan sends a B Team then maybe. The worry with this Chinese group is setting and who's going to provide the offense. Ding Xia has really aged past her prime, but her experience trumps the other options. Zhang has been playing a minor role whenever she came off the bench so idk if she can sustain being the go-to scorer. These middles are also weaker and were never used during the preliminaries so it's hard to gage what level they will bring.
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Post by akinradeheaux on Jun 18, 2024 21:02:16 GMT -5
In the short downtime, does anybody want to come up with an all-star team as of pool play? I'll try with each country represented at most once: - S: Brie King.
- OPP: Vargas (not thrilled about this, the OPP pool at this VNL was the weakest).
- OH: Gabi.
- OH: Sylla.
- MB: Yuan.
- MB: Alagierska (curious about blocking stats - avid 2.0 would you mind posting?).
- L: JWO.
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Post by Reach on Jun 18, 2024 21:11:32 GMT -5
In the short downtime, does anybody want to come up with an all-star team as of pool play? I'll try with each country represented at most once: - S: Brie King.
- OPP: Vargas (not thrilled about this, the OPP pool at this VNL was the weakest).
- OH: Gabi.
- OH: Sylla.
- MB: Yuan.
- MB: Alagierska (curious about blocking stats - avid 2.0 would you mind posting?).
- L: JWO.
Brie King? You need a timeout.
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Post by badgerbyproxy on Jun 18, 2024 21:24:31 GMT -5
In the short downtime, does anybody want to come up with an all-star team as of pool play? I'll try with each country represented at most once: - S: Brie King.
- OPP: Vargas (not thrilled about this, the OPP pool at this VNL was the weakest).
- OH: Gabi.
- OH: Sylla.
- MB: Yuan.
- MB: Alagierska (curious about blocking stats - avid 2.0 would you mind posting?).
- L: JWO.
I’d probably go with KVR for OPP over Vargas. Vargas had dominant stats, but she didn’t look nearly as indomitable as last season. All of the other picks seem on point. King makes sense for setter just because she did play every single match for Canada and did a LOT with poor passing.
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Post by CAI BIN MUST GO on Jun 18, 2024 21:24:49 GMT -5
In the short downtime, does anybody want to come up with an all-star team as of pool play? I'll try with each country represented at most once: - S: Brie King.
- OPP: Vargas (not thrilled about this, the OPP pool at this VNL was the weakest).
- OH: Gabi.
- OH: Sylla.
- MB: Yuan.
- MB: Alagierska (curious about blocking stats - avid 2.0 would you mind posting?).
- L: JWO.
sheesh each country at most once
S: against my better sense, Wolosz, although no one was great
OP: Antropova
OH: Gabi
OH: LYY
MB: Kurtagic MB: Carol L: JWO (would have said WMJ but... can't remove LYY)
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Post by manyshaped on Jun 18, 2024 21:25:00 GMT -5
In the short downtime, does anybody want to come up with an all-star team as of pool play? I'll try with each country represented at most once: - S: Brie King.
- OPP: Vargas (not thrilled about this, the OPP pool at this VNL was the weakest).
- OH: Gabi.
- OH: Sylla.
- MB: Yuan.
- MB: Alagierska (curious about blocking stats - avid 2.0 would you mind posting?).
- L: JWO.
orro rosamaria LYY koga asli alagierska jwo
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Post by CAI BIN MUST GO on Jun 18, 2024 21:28:31 GMT -5
In the short downtime, does anybody want to come up with an all-star team as of pool play? I'll try with each country represented at most once: - S: Brie King.
- OPP: Vargas (not thrilled about this, the OPP pool at this VNL was the weakest).
- OH: Gabi.
- OH: Sylla.
- MB: Yuan.
- MB: Alagierska (curious about blocking stats - avid 2.0 would you mind posting?).
- L: JWO.
Carol 33 Kurtagic 33 Maglio 32 Kalac 29 Wang Yuanyuan 28 Weitzel 27 Dasani 24 Korneluk 24 Yuan Xinyue 24 Diana 23 White 22
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Post by avid 2.0 on Jun 18, 2024 21:33:18 GMT -5
In the short downtime, does anybody want to come up with an all-star team as of pool play? I'll try with each country represented at most once: - S: Brie King.
- OPP: Vargas (not thrilled about this, the OPP pool at this VNL was the weakest).
- OH: Gabi.
- OH: Sylla.
- MB: Yuan.
- MB: Alagierska (curious about blocking stats - avid 2.0 would you mind posting?).
- L: JWO.
I wont do them all but (touch %/good touch) Korneluk: 13.1/40.9 Alagierska: 8.5/44.7 Carol: 10.1/51.2 Thaisa: 12.3/46.7 Danesi: 11.6/50.4 Fahr: 7.9/48.3 Araki: 7.8/51.4 WYY: 10.3/50.3 Yuan: 10.6/51.5 Chi: 11.3/47.8 Rettke: 10.6/57.6 Asli: 13.1/44.1 Eda: 12.9/41.3 Timmerman: 8.4/44.5 Lohuis: 8.1/54.9 Maglio: 12.6/50.7 Kurtagic: 13.3/43.9 Weitzel: 9.4/39.7
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Post by ironhammer on Jun 18, 2024 21:52:09 GMT -5
I'd rather see Wang Yizhu at opposite than Zheng at this point which I heard was the position they were training her at rather than on the outside. Zheng's passing, block, and attack is worse than Gong and that slide attack is ineffective. imo the starters for the finals should be, S: Ding Xia OPP: Wang Yizhu OH: Zhang, Zhuang MB: Gao Yi, Yang Hanyu L: Ni FF Can this line up beat Japan? I know your post may be a rhetorical question but I will answer anyway. So I could be wrong and there can be surprises, but I doubt it. Japan is taking their A team with Koga to the finals. Masayoshi Manabe, the coach for Japan, has the number on Cai Bin. Time and again, he has outcoached and out-think Cai (or whoever will coach in his place in the finals if Cai won't be there). If the China A team can't beat Japan A team, then certainly the China B team has even less chance. The only scenario that China can somehow pull off an upset win is that Japan is not familiar with some of those China B players and don't know how to counter them.
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Post by akinradeheaux on Jun 18, 2024 22:16:16 GMT -5
In the short downtime, does anybody want to come up with an all-star team as of pool play? I'll try with each country represented at most once: - S: Brie King.
- OPP: Vargas (not thrilled about this, the OPP pool at this VNL was the weakest).
- OH: Gabi.
- OH: Sylla.
- MB: Yuan.
- MB: Alagierska (curious about blocking stats - avid 2.0 would you mind posting?).
- L: JWO.
I’d probably go with KVR for OPP over Vargas. Vargas had dominant stats, but she didn’t look nearly as indomitable as last season. All of the other picks seem on point. King makes sense for setter just because she did play every single match for Canada and did a LOT with poor passing. Brie King also gets special points from me because she impressed me when I saw her live. Setter also happens to be a so-so pool this time around. I'd consider Orro, Wolosz maybe. But Wolosz really could not connect with her pins I felt. Kind of a classic Polish problem.
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Post by akinradeheaux on Jun 18, 2024 22:17:46 GMT -5
In the short downtime, does anybody want to come up with an all-star team as of pool play? I'll try with each country represented at most once: - S: Brie King.
- OPP: Vargas (not thrilled about this, the OPP pool at this VNL was the weakest).
- OH: Gabi.
- OH: Sylla.
- MB: Yuan.
- MB: Alagierska (curious about blocking stats - avid 2.0 would you mind posting?).
- L: JWO.
orro rosamaria LYY koga asli alagierska jwo I considered Koga, but I eliminated her based off of the USA match alone. 5-5-31 is an embarrassing statline.
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Post by ironhammer on Jun 18, 2024 22:21:08 GMT -5
orro rosamaria LYY koga asli alagierska jwo I considered Koga, but I eliminated her based off of the USA match alone. 5-5-31 is an embarrassing statline. True, although I wonder if she just had a bad day in that US match...I don't know, some folks have off-days every now and then, hmmm.
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Post by CAI BIN MUST GO on Jun 18, 2024 22:22:31 GMT -5
orro rosamaria LYY koga asli alagierska jwo I considered Koga, but I eliminated her based off of the USA match alone. 5-5-31 is an embarrassing statline. there's always Stysiak's 1-4-17... how did that even happen
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Post by akinradeheaux on Jun 18, 2024 22:33:24 GMT -5
I considered Koga, but I eliminated her based off of the USA match alone. 5-5-31 is an embarrassing statline. there's always Stysiak's 1-4-17... how did that even happen I feel like lately this is one in every three matches for Stysiak.
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Post by ironhammer on Jun 18, 2024 22:48:26 GMT -5
there's always Stysiak's 1-4-17... how did that even happen I feel like lately this is one in every three matches for Stysiak. Question is why?
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