2024 Paris Olympic Games

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    Let’s factcheck, guys.


    Koslowski simply doesn’t belong to this level, he shouldn’t coach any teams playing in an Olympics.

    I was already saying he is the European Cai Bin in VNL, he was lucky enough to face the tired Canadians who just won a grueling match against Japan just slightly more than 12 hrs beforehand, and Jasper played the absolute best match of her life that she was never such a factor in attack in any match of her career.

    Still, his choice on the opposite position literally wasted all these 3 years on Plak and this young team’s potential as a real threat. I believe there’s no other coach on earth would waste so much time on such player who’s neither young or talented, at the position of having the most responsibility of scoring, while there’s other apparently much better options. What’s more ridiculous was he even put her as starter in the OG.

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    Japan wasnt at all trashed by Poland. They lost 1-3 (25-20, 22-25, 23-25, 26-28). In any parallel universe that score is been trashed.

    Trashed are the scores against Brazil. They had some set points in order to force a tie-break and with that, over passing DOM in points. (regardless if they lose that tie-break or not).

    To be honest I would attribute this more to Poland being nervous and shaky than Japan’s great plays. They made so many UEs just like against Brazil but Poland was unable to capitalize on them.

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    Still, his choice on the opposite position literally wasted all these 3 years on Plak and this young team’s potential as a real threat. I believe there’s no other coach on earth would waste so much time on such player who’s neither young or talented, at the position of having the most responsibility of scoring, while there’s other apparently much better options. What’s more ridiculous was he even put her as starter in the OG.

    I agree that he should have invested in Dambrink as she's still young, has grown a lot from her time in Schwerin already and can be a decent opposite as a lefty. Especially since Plak was playing as OH in her clubs... Sure she would have been a good sub to bring in the experience when Elles would be struggling, but it's definitely a missed opportunity :white:

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    I agree that he should have invested in Dambrink as she's still young, has grown a lot from her time in Schwerin already and can be a decent opposite as a lefty. Especially since Plak was playing as OH in her clubs... Sure she would have been a good sub to bring in the experience when Elles would be struggling, but it's definitely a missed opportunity :white:

    He actually had lots of options to try. Marring could play Opp and I think she has high ceiling than Dambrink who I think physically is a limited player. He could try 3 OHs at anytime like China or the USA men’s team, he just didn’t and wasted all the time and the team’s potential.

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    I was happy for The Netherlands to make the olympics, but Canada would have been much more interesting to watch here than this shitshow from Koslowski and the Dutch.

    I think the Dutch girls have done their best. They defeated their direct competitor in the decisive match to make it here, then won two games against Turkey and just two points away to block the Caribbeans to the QF. What can they do more when they have a coach who made them always play with only 5 players against the other?

    I don’t agree about that hate towards Koslowski. The Dutchies have the potential for sure, but they also have their limitations. I feel like some of you act like we have another China - Tokio 2020 case ^^ Don’t get me wrong, but I don’t think that they belong to the world TOP8 right now, even the ranking says it. Qualifying for the Olympics is already a huge achievement for them, I was sure that Canada would make it, as they have better players looking at the positions. They won the bronze at the last ECH, which is also a great result. But they are among the youngest teams, so who knows what the future brings. I somehow agree about Plak, but Dambrink isn’t the answer (yet). And if you are that mad at Felix, I’m sure that the Germans would be so happy to welcome him back :lol: at least the fans.

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    He actually had lots of options to try. Marring could play Opp and I think she has high ceiling than Dambrink who I think physically is a limited player. He could try 3 OHs at anytime like China or the USA men’s team, he just didn’t and wasted all the time and the team’s potential.

    Marring as opposite would be great, but then it's the same thing as Plak - having someone there who is doing club season as OH. But looking at youth teams they might need to consider it because there's not a very big talent there who I can see as dominant opposite in four years. We just need someone like Gong who can receive and set well, and is a reliable attacker with few mistakes. No need for a 30+ opposite if you can have one with 15p/25 attacks. Baijens and hopefully in two years Gerritsen can be dominant MBs and also Nika/Knollema can be 20+ scoring machines so that would make a perfect mix :box:

    Felix messed the team for the whole summer and these results are not enought according to the real power of the team. First of all the OPP position. After a lot of years Dambrink started to deliver. Not something amazing but she was truly good in this VNL and more than just decent because in some period she was scoring almost 20 points per match and even more sometimes. And after finding an OPP after so many years, what Felix does? Put her on bench and starts with a player who had not even one good match for the whole season. Second big mistake. Buijs was literally the best player of the team in the first week of VNL. After what he benched her and never tried with her again. Which was the reason??? Really strange and bad hoices. I feel exactly like the last season about Manzatti. NL federation should just fire him. Anyway the only good thing is that Nika will finally have some rest and time to heal her shoulder before the season starts

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    People on insta comment Koga had to retire due to some rule/law in Japan because the is married to another athlete. Is that true? Can someone explain? I’m interested to know more.

    I wouldn't say it is a law, more that she is expected to finish her career soon because she is a woman and she needs to give birth to children and take care of them, it is mostly tradition i think.