Posts by taylor10

    I don't think that American league will impact Europe that much. League won't be a success and the local American talent will not improve there. 2028 will be a big lose at home.


    Main danger for European Leagues are changing foreign limits in Japan, up to 3 foreigners. Many big names will go to Japan.

    I wanna ask about Leo(MB, 2002)


    He was so damn good but then couldn't keep that level after his first showing with Sesi. I've checked his new team, Renata, matches and he wasn't playing.


    Any update on him? Injuries or just couldn't keep up the expectations?

    Oh yeah, I meant big sister Skinner.


    Her little sister's reception is even worse than 2010 Kosheleva, 2012 Mihajlovic level.


    I think the biggest problem in current Gs team is libero. Tashiro/Logan/Cuttino are all inconsistent but at least they had 1 great game lol. Libero is just pure terrible. I hope they will go after a foreigner.


    I don't think Gs can find foreign middle who is better than Yasemin Guveli. Also Kuzeyboru and THY wouldn't like to lose their current liberos and other options are almost not exist.

    I'm not mad at him cause of results. As mentioned, this team without Efe Mandiraci has serious limitation, Adis is not enough. Plus injuries were problem.


    But there was so many things off watching this team, it wasn't a good fit to the eye test. There were also a big stuff problem. Federation gave him a bunch of Turkish guys while Santarelli brings almost his entire stuff other than 1 Turk. Synergy was missing in men's team.

    I'd like to see one of these coaches;


    G.Hoag:


    He finished his mission in Arkas, he needs a change. He has done a lot for Turkish volleyball and he likes to work with youngsters. He can train with federation high school in winter and train with NT in summer.

    Normally, I'd not prefer someone who has worked in Turkey before. Turkish players are not easy to handle as characters, for example Guillani had a beef with Burutay in his Halkbank days and Burutay joined to the NT after we had unexpected losses in European League group stage. On the other hand, Glenn Hoag is a person noone has any personal problems with and everyone respects him.


    Verbov:


    He has done good job with Zenit Kazan. He put a young libero instead of Russian NT main libero because younger was just better...The style of game Kazan plays is just so smooth. He had an unexpected lost in his first year in semi final to Moscow but after that, he won all cups in Russia. He knows how to build relationships with the players and he has courage. (Which Guillani didn't have)


    I don't want to see any mediocre Italian, I don't want Stoychev who had toxic relationship with Turkish guys in the past Halbank days. I'm hoping for Verbov but if federation picks a random Turkish guy, coach of Ziraat, I'd be pissed badly. This group of players we have now deserves a world class coach.

    Guidetti made logical choices with his available roster yesterday but his transfer strategy was so wrong.


    -Van Aalen doesn't worth to spend foreign quota. Because of her, Chiara can't be in the roster for local league. Plus Van Aalen is very inconsistent in general, she is not the setter you'd like for double sub. She is a talented setter needs to mature her game and gain stability. Gui tried a lot double sub before this tournament but finally gave up on this, which was correct.


    -Busa is simply not a player for this level. He had to wait a lot to sub off Frantti cause her alternative doesn't exist.

    Or maybe you should try and watch in this match again? She should have been on that offensive task but Guidetti/cansu wants a tactical and make this gabi's best performance but didn't work out right.

    Entire game, Gabi and Ayca took majority of the court on passing, frantti received in 1 meter. You should watch again.

    Gabi played with 13 kills on 39 attacks, 8 times got blocked and made 2 errors.


    But I think she was not EVEN bad. She has to cover Frantti in receiving and plus deal out of system balls a lot. There is so much pressure on her since MBH left Vakifbank. Noone can handle this.

    Frantti, 3 kills on 13 attacks with 4 errors.


    After Guidetti's belittling Turkey NT OHs, karma is not leaving him.


    Serbian NT OHs played much worse in 2023 compared to 2022 and also his club team transfers(Nika-Bajema-Frantti-Busa) are not giving any stable performance.


    Congrats to Eczacibasi. Ferhat had done some good coaching today, surprisingly.


    Elif should be starter setter and Naz should contribute with her experience.


    I think this was Hande's best tournament after 2020 Olympics Qualifications. She MUST get an award.