What happened to Shimamura? She had some good matches last summer but didn’t get much (or any?) on court in VNL this year and now even demoted to the b team? She showed declined form during the V-league or just Manebe gives her up and prefers the younger players?
Japan Women's NT 2023
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Didn't Yanagida get demoted to the men's B team?
im sure he was offered the deal that he can return to the nt if he agrees to play for the b team. i doubt blain even considered him with all the rising new faces so much taller, stronger and younger than him. nobody and i mean nobody will take ran's spot now.
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What happened to Shimamura? She had some good matches last summer but didn’t get much (or any?) on court in VNL this year and now even demoted to the b team? She showed declined form during the V-league or just Manebe gives her up and prefers the younger players?
i can't say whether she did decline but shimamura is still far superior to irisawa. honestly it's hard to compete when airi is now mb and is now doing what shimamura did back then.
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nagaoka is not in the clear either and it's not known whether she's still training with the team since they didn't post a birthday group shot with her during the 25th when they sent off the b team. i didn't see airi and seki either but that's beside the point. anyway wada and hayashi are simply superior to nagaoka now. she hasn't yet shown 1/3 of what she's supposedly capable of. she's already exempted from receiving she can't fall behind in offense that's literally her only role.
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It would be great if they dropped Seki and go with Shibata as main
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It would be great if they dropped Seki and go with Shibata as main
i dont think that's even an option although i wouldnt mind it
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The women's next schedule is that useless intersquad fanservice match by Mizuno there's really not much for them to do. How will Manabe tweak his OQTeam. Koga did not underperform but she was not the key player during crucial games. how to best incorporate her instead of forcing her to do too much early on and only make her stats look good while the rest of the team suffers and fades to oblivion.
There's a very very slim chance of them defeating Turkey with Vargas in it. Brazil may have flopped this VNL but it's still Brazil they could just as easily bounce back like USA.
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Asian Games Roster
OH/OPP: Mizuki Tanaka, Yuki Nishikawa, Miwako Osanai, Minami Nakamoto, Miyu Nakagawa, Yuka Sato
MB: Haruyo Shimamura, Erina Ogawa, Shion Hirayama
S: Koyomi Iwasaki, Tsukasa Nakagawa
L: Yuka Meguro
Is it the same coach from last year the guy from Toray? it looks too veteran-y
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Is it the same coach from last year the guy from Toray? it looks too veteran-y
jt's yoshihara is the coach that's why ogawa is there
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jt's yoshihara is the coach that's why ogawa is there
Where did you guys see the full roster + the coach for the Asian games?
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Where did you guys see the full roster + the coach for the Asian games?
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i only see Nagaoka's role as THE senior to "guide" the team (like Araki back in Tokyo) if she even makes it to OQT.
I felt like Manabe added her for some bygone era that he felt the need to cling to.
Even Inoue is more useful than Nagaoka at this point.
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bygone era. this generation is the bygone era. guarantee no one knows inoue but everyone knows nagaoka. you can say that once inoue actually does something relevant
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is this in china? fisu >>>>> vnl
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What is that? that actually looks crazy
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What is that? that actually looks crazy
university games in chengdu
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Dammmn that stadium is huge and they get to do a parade and everything how cool is that
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but is it streamable?
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China should just host everything.
I don't know the whole roster but Yoshino Sato for however mediocre she is got super lucky in the NT just cuz she's from Tsukuba