I had A PLEASURE to watch Eczacibasi against Ilbank and I can tell they will be one of my faves. I think it is the heighest team in volleyball that I have seen. Simge looks like a toddler next to everyone.
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Yesterday, she had 4/5 in attack when she subbed Sylla. What’s strange for me that Barbolini replaced the Italian player instead of Ilkin who had less than 30% in attack, while Sylla was around 50%.
Foreigners limits and at that moment they stucked with Sylla in front row and she made like 2 or 3 mistakes in a row. He can rotate but won't. I don't trust him as far as I can throw him. Łukasik will only sub Sylla when he will not have any other choice and maybe play in some matches when she will need rest. Ilkin is locked in starting six due to her being Turkish.
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Foreigners limits and at that moment they stucked with Sylla in front row and she made like 2 or 3 mistakes in a row. He can rotate but won't. I don't trust him as far as I can throw him. Łukasik will only sub Sylla when he will not have any other choice and maybe play in some matches when she will need rest. Ilkin is locked in starting six due to her being Turkish.
Foreigners limit have nothing with that in my opinion. He can use Alexia instead of average Grobelna or Aycin as a middle blocker. The rest of you answer can be true, we will see.
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How it has nothing to do? He couldn't replace Ilkin with Łukasik. There were 3 foreigners on court. And he will not use Naz-Alexia duo. Forget about it. It is obvious that for him Bongaerts will play with Alexia and Naz with Grobelna. He never tried Naz-Alexia duo as far as I remember. It has probably a lot to do with the fact that Naz and lefties is not a good fit. Sylla will play because she is Italian and Ilkin because she is Turkish and captain and some kind of star of the team, playing there for years. So yeah, Łukasik will barely play. Period.
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How it has nothing to do? He couldn't replace Ilkin with Łukasik. There were 3 foreigners on court. And he will not use Naz-Alexia duo. Forget about it. It is obvious that for him Bongaerts will play with Alexia and Naz with Grobelna. He never tried Naz-Alexia duo as far as I remember. It has probably a lot to do with the fact that Naz and lefties is not a good fit. Sylla will play because she is Italian and Ilkin because she is Turkish and captain and some kind of star of the team, playing there for years. So yeah, Łukasik will barely play. Period.
Of course it hasn’t—he can replace Timmerman with Aycin if he wants to. Are you aware that they’ve only played two official games together? Why isn’t the Naz-Alexia duo considered a good fit? Is it because of Boskovic? Alexia is a completely different player than her. As far as I remember, she played really well with Neslihan in the national team. There are plenty of options; he can rotate more than Guidetti did a year ago. At this point, this seems to be only his preference, not a limitation due to foreign players. Period.
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Of course it hasn’t—he can replace Timmerman with Aycin if he wants to. Are you aware that they’ve only played two official games together? Why isn’t the Naz-Alexia duo considered a good fit? Is it because of Boskovic? Alexia is a completely different player than her. As far as I remember, she played really well with Neslihan in the national team. There are plenty of options; he can rotate more than Guidetti did a year ago. At this point, this seems to be only his preference, not a limitation due to foreign players. Period.
Of course it has... Why he would ever do that when they were leading 2-0 in sets and start struggling a bit in the 3rd set? Even if Ilkin wasn't good there was no reason to make such changes. It is volleyball and not chess. He did basic thing changing Sylla who had bad moment in the match and in the situation when he probably thought that a set is lost. And also Timmerman was sitting at bench so how he could change her? I agree that he can rotate and change starting line-ups. He will not make changes like this in the matches, especially if the things go right. You were asking why he changed Sylla and not Ilkin in that particular match and not generally speaking.
I saw also some friendlies. It was always Naz-Grobelna, Bongaerts-Alexia.
Łukasik should be happy that she is in match squad and not on the stands like Frantti...
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Of course it has... Why he would ever do that when they were leading 2-0 in sets and start struggling a bit in the 3rd set? Even if Ilkin wasn't good there was no reason to make such changes. It is volleyball and not chess. He did basic thing changing Sylla who had bad moment in the match and in the situation when he probably thought that a set is lost. And also Timmerman was sitting at bench so how he could change her? I agree that he can rotate and change starting line-ups. He will not make changes like this in the matches, especially if the things go right. You were asking why he changed Sylla and not Ilkin in that particular match and not generally speaking.
I saw also some friendlies. It was always Naz-Grobelna, Bongaerts-Alexia.
Łukasik should be happy that she is in match squad and not on the stands like Frantti...
I’m not talking about Sylla having a bad moment, but about the whole match and future matches in general. If he isn’t able to change a weak link during the game, don’t blame it on limit, blame it on his preferences, that’s all. Barbolini has a very balanced squad when it comes to wing spikers and can easily rotate the lineup.
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Nilüfer went 2/2 against opponents close to them (while ndiaye was having an off-day today) while having very limited roster and honestly they have more heart and soul then thy/kuzeyboru
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I’m not talking about Sylla having a bad moment, but about the whole match and future matches in general. If he isn’t able to change a weak link during the game, don’t blame it on limit, blame it on his preferences, that’s all. Barbolini has a very balanced squad when it comes to wing spikers and can easily rotate the lineup.
You were wondering how he changed Sylla and not Ilkin... in that particular match...That's what you wrote. So I explained why he did what he did in that match. He couldn't make direct change of Ilkin. Also there was no need to change her in that match. They were 2-0 in sets, very easily won and then it was 18-18 in third set. There was no need to change something that was working.
Of course he has options but he is not that type that rotate a lot. At least it is how I remember him. So I am afraid Łukasik will not see a lot of court. That last minute transfer of Sylla was terrible for Łukasik. She went there knowing that probably she will play with Ilkin. Unfortunate choice of the team after a season on bench in Conegliano. -
Yesterday, she had 4/5 in attack when she subbed Sylla. What’s strange for me that Barbolini replaced the Italian player instead of Ilkin who had less than 30% in attack, while Sylla was around 50%.
Another surprise for me is Grobelna being the main OPP instead of Alexia. I think the Turkish player is better and local.
What I like about Galatasaray this season is that they have a good domestic pool of players. Barbolini can rotate a lot!No dear...I really don't know what you talk about. It was just the right time to sub Sylla with Lukasik. Sylla made back to back errors at attack at critical moments. That is why she was subbed by Lukasik. Also, have in mind that, when this change happened, İlkin was at the back row. Lukasik had an extraordinary performance in those moments. Lukasik 5 attacks with 4 points and 0 error.
By the way, İlkin didn't have less than 30% at attack. Her performance at attack was 40% kill with 30% efficiency 12 kills and 3 blocks, which was well distributed across sets also she was the best at reception after Eylül.
About Alexia, yes I like her a lot and I also feel like, she should have more time in the court but I still cannot blame Barbolini for his decision. It was Barbolini who wanted Grobelna's transfer and seems like he wants to give her more time in the court. The truth is, Grobelna was not bad (not very good either for an OPP) and believe me, if she was supposed to have a weaker performance, Barbolini wouldn't hesitate to sub her with Alexia, in which she did against Aydın Büyükşehir and Alexia showed a great performance there and I can easily say that, she was one of the game changer, along with İlkin and Sylla (with her serve efficiency and kill performance with 7 points 50% attack and efficiency) and 0 attack error. Lets's wait and see, what the time will bring.
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No dear...I really don't know what you talk about. It was just the right time to sub Sylla with Lukasik. Sylla made back to back errors at attack at critical moments. That is why she was subbed by Lukasik. Also, have in mind that, when this change happened, İlkin was at the back row. Lukasik had an extraordinary performance in those moments. Lukasik 5 attacks with 4 points and 0 error.
By the way, İlkin didn't have less than 30% at attack. Her performance at attack was 40% kill with 30% efficiency 12 kills and 3 blocks, which was well distributed across sets also she was the best at reception after Eylül.
About Alexia, yes I like her a lot and I also feel like, she should have more time in the court but I still cannot blame Barbolini for his decision. It was Barbolini who wanted Grobelna's transfer and seems like he wants to give her more time in the court. The truth is, Grobelna was not bad (not very good either for an OPP) and believe me, if she was supposed to have a weaker performance, Barbolini wouldn't hesitate to sub her with Alexia, in which she did against Aydın Büyükşehir and Alexia showed a great performance there and I can easily say that, she was one of the game changer, along with İlkin and Sylla (with her serve efficiency and kill performance with 7 points 50% attack and efficiency) and 0 attack error. Lets's wait and see, what the time will bring.
I have checked the stats today and you are right. It seems the one from yesterday were incomplete.
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You were wondering how he changed Sylla and not Ilkin... in that particular match...That's what you wrote. So I explained why he did what he did in that match. He couldn't make direct change of Ilkin. Also there was no need to change her in that match. They were 2-0 in sets, very easily won and then it was 18-18 in third set. There was no need to change something that was working.
Of course he has options but he is not that type that rotate a lot. At least it is how I remember him. So I am afraid Łukasik will not see a lot of court. That last minute transfer of Sylla was terrible for Łukasik. She went there knowing that probably she will play with Ilkin. Unfortunate choice of the team after a season on bench in Conegliano.Please don't be so pesimistic about Lukasik. She is one of the underestimated player in volleyball community. She is like the Polish type of İlkin and needs to play more to show her real performance so comparing her with Frantti doesn't fit well. She is, tall, strong, athletic, productive over the net and well balanced at reception and back row floor defence. Conegliano did not transfer her randomly or coincidentally. Another point is, she still belongs to Conegliano and GS just hired her from Conegliano. She has a very bright future in her NT and whereever she plays and yasterday she proved this at the end of final set. Hope that GS can manage to keep her for the coming seasons as well. I strongly believe that, she will have more time on the court.
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I have checked the stats today and you are right. It seems the one from yesterday were incomplete.
OK this is not your mistake but as we chat with VBdiamond and others about how VolleyStation's stats are mess, I can recommend to everyone to be patient in not to jump on stats at the 1st moment. It is advisable to give a buffer something like at least 24 hours, since they change those stats frequently, sometimes 3 times as it happened with last week's GS vs Aydın Büyükşehir. İlkin's attack performance was changed from 15 to 18 points and block from 1 to 2. Also they put some absurd figures about reception stats + wrong figures for Dangubic at Vakıf Match. This week's İlkin's attack performance was also wierd indicating 6 kills for whole match and later on they changed and put correct figure 12. This week also there were some anomalies abou Eczacıbaşı. The worst point is that, some program makers in Türkiye, jump on these stats right after the match or after a short while without verifying the figures and caught on wrong foot.
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Nilüfer went 2/2 against opponents close to them (while ndiaye was having an off-day today) while having very limited roster and honestly they have more heart and soul then thy/kuzeyboru
i'm agree that its a positive start . agree also about limited roster , and it goes worst because of MB injury yesterday.
but totally disagree about heart and soul . for me this team didnt express nothing, no joy, no fighting spirit ...but the roster is pretty balanced and they have a good "lower performance level" especially on side out.
but i have a doubt that they can fight for something high , and for sure with ndiaye so far from his vnl level
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i'm agree that its a positive start . agree also about limited roster , and it goes worst because of MB injury yesterday.
but totally disagree about heart and soul . for me this team didnt express nothing, no joy, no fighting spirit ...but the roster is pretty balanced and they have a good "lower performance level" especially on side out.
but i have a doubt that they can fight for something high , and for sure with ndiaye so far from his vnl level
Nilüfer was considered as relegation teams before start of season thus what they showed so far is very impressive. Their only top level players are supposed to be their setter and opposite while ndiaye flopped badly, they still won that game
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Ilbank’s setter is probably the worst setter I’ve seen in the Turkish League. She’s incapable of setting to the middle blockers, not a single ball was hittable.
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Ilbank’s setter is probably the worst setter I’ve seen in the Turkish League. She’s incapable of setting to the middle blockers, not a single ball was hittable.
Which one?
2nd setter in the game is Hilal Kocakara and Zeren beat Vakif 3-2 last season with her
she isn’t good by any means but not that bad, Idk why she isn’t starter. The other girl is tragic.
You should’ve watched Sariyer setters from last season, now that was the competition for “worst setter ever seen” -
Which one?
2nd setter in the game is Hilal Kocakara and Zeren beat Vakif 3-2 last season with her she isn’t good by any means but not that bad, Idk why she isn’t starter. The other girl is tragic.
You should’ve watched Sariyer setters from last season, now that was the competition for “worst setter ever seen”I have no idea, unfortunately. But she really struggled in this match, which is strange because I’d watched them before the league, during the Turkish Cup matches, and they were playing much better back then. The chemistry was better and now they look like it’s the first time they see each other.
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Which one?
2nd setter in the game is Hilal Kocakara and Zeren beat Vakif 3-2 last season with her she isn’t good by any means but not that bad, Idk why she isn’t starter. The other girl is tragic.
You should’ve watched Sariyer setters from last season, now that was the competition for “worst setter ever seen”It was Kocakara for sure and she is only able to give hitable balls to Klimets from what I've seen
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Kuzeyboru has played against Eczacıbaşı and Galatasaray so far and failed. They should have won some sets at least. Also THY is just a lost. They should find some solutions, otherwise they can find themselves at bottom of the league.
I really like Nilüfer, Göztepe and Aras. Göztepe is playing really good without Bajema and Rotar.