2015 World Cup - Japan - 9/8

    HUGE win :obey: If there was a previous life, Kubiak should have been an acrobat. personal trainer and Olympic god in the same time. He left me totally speechless though I'm perfectly aware of what he is capable of. Simply a guy who can freely challenge the hell. People can dislike him, hate him and call him troll, clown or however else... As a big-hearted guy, he's a perfect captain. Always on guard :obey: and again, I adore Bieniek, but yesterday it was Kubiak who deserved thousands of awards.


    Is it only me or from a certain moment this match had a pace faster than Bolt running for a gold? MASSIVE.


    I HOPE, strongly, that guys can stay fully focused against Japan and in a top shape against Italy.

    Gauna hasn't played a single point since he argued with Velasco in game vs Canada (he didn't like being subbed off). He didn't play vs Japan, and he hasn't played so far today. We have to play with Crer who can't do shit.

    Argentina's usual problem of the lack of an OPP is still dragging them down. Monster game by Solé and Conte today. Zornetta and Crer weren't that bad too imo.


    Meanwhile, even with a slow start today, Juantorena is schooling the haters and showing that Italy desperately needed him to truly stay relevant. No joke.

    You do realize it 1:15 AM on the East Coast of the USA.
    Argentina dead.
    Russia must win out and Poland lose out, plus USA loss to Argentina.
    Italy needs to win tomorrow, Poland loss against Japan helps, but USA loss helps more.
    USA just needs to win out. 5 set matches will complicate set ratios.
    Poland wins today, all but in, ahead on points ratio and sets ratio with Italy. Italy would have to win 3-0 and big points spread and hope for USA loss against Argentina if USA beats Russia.

    I don't think Russia can beat the US. Maybe Argentina could take a couple of sets, but honestly I don't think there's any chance for winning.


    Winning tomorrow 3-0 or 3-1 against Poland is really beyond our possibilities, so I guess we will end the tournament 3rd... not such a bad result, it's still a world podium that this team desperately needed after the disasters of the last months.


    I'm satisfied with the level of volleyball displayed by Italy at this tournament, if anything it's the other European teams that need to be worried. Russia mostly.

    Quote from brahmin

    You do realize it 1:15 AM on the East Coast of the USA.
    Argentina dead.
    Russia must win out and Poland lose out, plus USA loss to Argentina.
    Italy needs to win tomorrow, Poland loss against Japan helps, but USA loss helps more.
    USA just needs to win out. 5 set matches will complicate set ratios.
    Poland wins today, all but in, ahead on points ratio and sets ratio with Italy. Italy would have to win 3-0 and big points spread and hope for USA loss against Argentina if USA beats Russia.


    Thanks.
    what is more important, points ratio or set?
    Because Japan won a set today, how can Poland still win set ratio against Italy?

    This Ishikawa kid is really good. And he's got one of the finest serving techniques I've seen, everything he throws (if not missed) is an ace or half-ace/free ball (I really wonder how the hell is he outside the top 30 servers of this tournament).

    Poland thank to yesterday match 3:1 with USA need only two sets unlike to Italy that lost 3:0 and as we see lost single sets are less important. First number of wins, second ratio. Italy before match with Poland has 1 lose, Poland 0.

    Holy shit. I have so much respect for Japan and was far from expecting it will be an easy game. Still I didn't expect us being in such a big trouble. Japanese were literally kicking our butts, especially those two youngsters on wings. What a great perspective players :thumbup: Whole Japanese team looks much more interesting overall compared to the previous teams.


    Our middles do the job today. Don't know where would we were without playing through the middle so much. Also Kubiak was a libero, blocker and attacker, all in one :) Again. Zatorski is waking up quite a long time just to be awesome right after that.


    Hahaha guys greet each other in after match interviews for Polsat, Możdżonek greets Zatorski and one vice versa :D Atmosphere is just great.
    And I just dislike Jarosz's father when he is as an expert in Polsat studio and pretending to be the smartest, every time deny anything Kadziewicz say :cursing:


    Argentina again is helping us taking some energy from Italy.


    I can't even imagine such a nightmare in which we're losing it all tomorrow after an amazing run so far.


    And can't stop thinking how weird is that 4 years ago we lost 3 matches and claimed the ticket before last match was even played. Now we are staying undefeated and still don't know if we're going to Rio.


    PS. I see USA - RUS game is refereed by a deadly duo of the coolest refs in the whole universe :D

    Polish worst case scenario USA win 1 match in 3 sets and 1 match in 5 sets and Italy sweeps Poland tomorrow.
    All tied at 29 and 10-1. Sets ratio USA 31-7, Italy 30-7, Poland 30-11. Poland would be 3rd
    Even if USA went 4 sets in one of the matches Poland still out.
    Poland needs 2 sets to get ticket. Gets to 30 points without win, Italy can't match, USA can.


    Russia needs 2 wins (not 5 sets, unless Italy swept by Poland), Argentina win tomorrow and Poland win to finish 2nd.
    USA need one win and Italy loss to clinch. Two USA wins guarantee spot also unless both in 5 sets.