2023 Women's Volleyball Nations League

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    Always ready for volleyball talks.


    I think it was "change the rythm" thing. Jegdic was playing fine, a bit less good then against Japan, especially in reception (stats are really no accurate). Jegdic reception style is more agressive than Pusic, so when she don't pass ideal ball, that is really hard to set, especially for setter like Mirkovic. Jegdic is much better defender, she is so well positioned and ready to catch all the tips all the time, it seems to me that we had should play two libero system since set 3/4. Pusic only advantage when it comes to defense is down the line balls, especially when the ball is a bit higher, she is really confident and efficient with her fingers to dig that balls, while Jegdic is shaky when it comes to this part.


    This compration story is just based on last two matches, serbia have 2 really good liberos, so i'm happy that Guidetti choose to use them both, and i'm sure that she will slowly give more chances to Jegdic, i said it already that it seems to me that she is much more Gui style player than Pusic (especially when she is not playing on WCH and VNL 22 level).

    Thanks for the insights :win:

    What I admire most about Jegdic's defense is her ball control, she does not only defend many balls due to her great anticipation but often she defends them towards the perfect place for the setter. Pusic is also a very good player, but for me Jegdic has that "extra" something and I hope she can show it more and more in NT. After all we have to remember that she made her NT debut with approximately 28 years which is rather unusual.

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    I think that too, but you never know, both are awful :D Hope to see a terrible tiebreak to seal our winner here :cheesy:

    The Croatian girls are tall and they are good at blocking, but I think the Koreans will have a surprise for them today. I think they will do a lot of combination with fast attacks and ‘Ninja’ style deception....Croatia might end up blocking shadows :lol:

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    Nah, it's just because people are salty Vargas is part of the team when they don't want her to be :rolll: If you can put 2+2 together, that's very obvious as it's the subject surrounding everything.

    Anyway moving on: Turkey is having a fairly mediocre VNL actually^^ imo despite that the vibes at least are very good with Santarelli, I guess they need more time together. I don't get though why Eda is playing so many games...yet again, especially since every time another MB was on court they did a fairly good job. Also despite that Turkey looks strong, I don't see an oiled machine yet at all, Santa has to figure out a game plan and a system that works, but he has a lot to work with and it's too early to make final judgements. So far the team isn't looking "great" though imo, but they seem to be having fun so that counts for something too.

    I thought Turkiye would also be super scary with the addition of Vargas, but then it's the OH that has always been their problwm. I'm always amazed at eda's stamina. she starts almost all of the games in both club and national team games. does she even rest at all? and at that age.

    I think it is difficult to tell something about teams' performances until the finals, especially when some teams like Turkey and Serbia have new coaches, working with their teams for a month so far. Clearly these rounds are very experimental, not only for those two teams but also for others, trying new players. I guess they only aim to finish in top 6 to be in the finals where we will be able to see their actual game plans.


    Btw, does Serbia have a chance to qualify to the finals still? Missed that part.


    All in all, I am very happy with this new world ranking system. Although coaches are being experimental, they still know some matches are "must win", not to drop too much in the rankings.

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    I think it is difficult to tell something about teams' performances until the finals, especially when some teams like Turkey and Serbia have new coaches, working with their teams for a month so far. Clearly these rounds are very experimental, not only for those two teams but also for others, trying new players. I guess they only aim to finish in top 6 to be in the finals where we will be able to see their actual game plans.


    Btw, does Serbia have a chance to qualify to the finals still? Missed that part.


    All in all, I am very happy with this new world ranking system. Although coaches are being experimental, they still know some matches are "must win", not to drop too much in the rankings.

    Serbia has a quite decent chance to make finals. They just need to beat Thailand today. Croatia should be no issue. Then Boskovic comes back for week 3 and we should be able to go 4-0. Serbia has looked messy for sure but we’ve been playing with no opposite so all the scoring pressure is on the outsides but that can be a good thing for them to learn right now. When bosko comes back we have some really nice pieces again. Stevanovic and Uzelac are in great form. Lazovic Busa and Lozo are a nice trio to pick from. Jegdic looks pretty good too. I think when we have a legit opposite in the line up this team is going to be quite good again

    hecksfire I don't like this commentator dude in Brasilia

    hahaha Germany's got a little thing going on :dance4:for their intro