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Hill will NEVER be even close to the best Logan Tom we saw in Sidney, Athens and Beijing. In London she had the same job Larson has now, which is a pity, since they are all-around players, not defensive specialists. Both of them were score machines in the beginning of their careers. The lack of real OHs, who can actually take care of passing made them play that way in the USA system.

Logan has never been dependent on fast sets. Hill far from Glass or a good setters is nothing. We saw it in Sopot and Novara, in the last part of the season, when Signorile under pressure was setting awful.

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Yeah I agree. They were stronger on every position.. MB are the same, better libero

IMHO Banwarth is better than Davis.

USA Team won the WCH with a team ways weaker than the silver medal team in London.

Otomo and Inoue retired.

Otake has good blocking skills. Her problem is the height. She's too shorts to stop world class players. Shimamura is weak to me too. Iwasaka and Araki are needed.

Soga is the new star of the team. She changed NEC Red Rockets in 2014-15 season with her arrival and now she's taking the leadership of NT. Ebata and Ishii found a serious contender for the starting position.

Brayelin Martinez is so hot and beautiful.

I was already watching by Asian Volleyball HD. It stops every 3 seconds and music stars.

Could you link me? My streaming is late.

Japan is struggling against Dominican Republic without Bethania de la Cruz. Manabe should find as soon as possible 2 tall MBs. Every team physically strong brings many problems to Japan.

Now DR is killing herself by silly mistakes.

IMHO Hodge should play as opposite as soon as possible. Her passing is still terrible, but her spiking skills used to be amazing.

USA Team plays a system. Perfect passing to run the MBs. So so passing to run the OP or Hill, both dependent to the quality of setting. Trash passing to run Larson.

You can't play with just one player who can spike all kind of sets. Hill and Lowe (or Murphy) are useless when the sets aren't good. Fawcett could fix the situation, but I lost any hope for her, since Karch doesn't really see her as starter. We need another player we can run with all kind of passing/situations/sets. When we can't play our system we are lost, like it happened against Serbia.

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Best spiker rankings - Top 5 after 4 matches => http://worldcup.2015.women.fiv…on/results_and_statistics

1. Mihajlovic
2. Kosheleva
3. Zhu Ting
4. Hill
5. Obmochaeva

^No surprise there except maybe Hill? Also, Ombochaeva is listed as second best scorer (behind Kenya's Mercy Moim) and fifth best blocker overall.

I watched the reply of the USAxSRB match, and was really impressed by Serbia especially with their blocking! Serbia just has to win all its games for them to have a chance at qualifying.The only other team left that can pose a challenge to them are Russia (and possibly, Japan). The first and only time I will be hoping Russia to lose is against Serbia

Boskovic vs Goncharova
Mihajlovic vs Koseleva
Rasic/Stevanovic/Veljkovic vs Russian cheerleaders

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Not at all. She's that kind of player who kills the ball always and forever when the set is perfect, but gets blocked with slow ones, no shadows of grey in the middle. Against China Glass made her look really consistent spiker/scorer.

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but today in this match Kim is the best player on korea site

OF course, but I'm saying she played at 30% of her real possibilities. She missed 3 kills in a row in the same rally. She always kills the first ball, but when opponent can save it, she doesn't forgive at the second one. I wonder about the whole team shape. Maybe they worked to find the best shape in the second part of the tournament. Who knows?

China can't give up Chunlei Zeng and Ting Zhu. The first one changed the match when she came in. The second missed few points and China looked lost.

KYK is finding her rythm very slowly. Never saw her in such a bad shape.

What is wrong with KYK? She misses her usual power, looking completely out of shape!

Qiuyue Wei is back up for Xia Ding today!

South Korea is playing a bit different than usual. They don't rely on KYK always and forever. Setter is trying to move the opponent blockers. For now korean bocks are making the difference.

No Chunlei Zeng, no Xinyue Yuan and no Jingsi Shen for China.

It's a mistake. Varamin played the tournament last year as asian champions. Taichung Bank will represent Asia in 2015.

Thank you!

3-0 for us. Glass and Hill combination worked like in 2014 WCH. My MVP is Jordan Larson: her digging was insane! She plays always the right ball, she's alway in the right position. I like this kind of dark work.

Fawcett is so classy!

Please, guys, stop comparing Zhu Ting to KYK.

KYK is better server, receiver, spiker, blocker, digger... better everything. No way to compare.

Alisha's setting is making now Hill consistent. Crazy fast fits Hill's style very well. Now she has to fix connection with Akinradewo and Harmotto, not at its best yet.

Xia Ding in, better setter than Shen Jingsi IMHO.