Posts by Janko
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i can say that boskovic is a downgrade to serbia than an upgrade
Fact she is strong and can score a lot but when she's not in Mt,Serbia plays better even if they can't achieve the same results maybe
Perfect. I don't know what I love more about this post: whether it's potential status as the single dumbest post in the history of a forum that has had Crovolley for a decade now, or that the second sentence is for some weird and illogical reason bolded, or that it caused 2 other members to respond to it in earnest, as if to a perfectly valid argument.
It's like watching Tommy Wiseau's The Room: it's so bad, it's good.
As for the game, haven't watched it, but seems like it was a career game for Busa, so that was great.
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Drca felt some pain in her back after yesterday's match, so today Mirkovic will start.
Please be nothing, please be nothing!!
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this!! You don’t ever notice her because she never messes up. She just sets such consistent balls to everyone. I do wish she used the middle a bit more yesterday tho
Maja was visibly out of rhythm, and Jovana, while excellent at slide attacks and block, is relatively poor for her standards at quick attacks. Having that in mind, IMO Bojana set just the right amount for middles.
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I watched only the first set and a half, but what I've seen Brankica was actually solid and to a lesser extent so was Busa (I see her percentages sharply dropped in the latter half of the match). Bad game for Aleksic. Fairly good serving performance from the whole team, even with such a relatively high number of errors. Tica her usual dominating self (even while visibly at half speed)
I've never seen any player intentionally aim for the tip of the net so many times in a single match as Maglio (I think it was?).
I forgot to said that the biggest positive in this match for me was Drča. Of course, there are no brilliant moves and points clawed from nowhere, but she was so utterly reliant and consistent, with excellent distribution of balls, even when reception was pressed. If she continues like this, it will be a major plus for Serbia.
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Brankica worked so hard to get back into playing shape. I’m so happy it paid off
While her performance today is encouraging, let's wait to be sure it's not a one-off.
One of the reason for combined roster was probably change of schedule by fivb.
Bulgaria vs Serbia was originally scheduled at 17:00, but fivb changed it to 15:30, they now have even less time for recovery and rest.
That's a good point. Also, I could have sworn that when I checked yesterday, the match with Canada was scheduled at 16:00...
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I watched only the first set and a half, but what I've seen Brankica was actually solid and to a lesser extent so was Busa (I see her percentages sharply dropped in the latter half of the match). Bad game for Aleksic. Fairly good serving performance from the whole team, even with such a relatively high number of errors. Tica her usual dominating self (even while visibly at half speed)
I've never seen any player intentionally aim for the tip of the net so many times in a single match as Maglio (I think it was?).
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It seems to me, since Brankica is paired with Busa who seems undoubtedly in Santarelli's mind as a bench player, that Brankica is also a bench player, and that Santarelli is deliberately using this first match (at least the start of it) to see how good is reserve option at OH.
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The presenter didn't mean to actually call her "monkey" but she did, I just saw a small clip so not sure of the full context but basically the guy before her said "Italy will have to shake of these two monkeys" (monkey in this context was figuratively meant as burdens/potential issues) and she said "You talked about two monkeys, I think there's going to be a third, Egonu" I guess meaning her performance is going to be the key for the tournament. It wasn't meant as a racist insult but she should have known better than keep using that analogy instead of saying something else
Uff, talk about stepping into it. Honestly, a lot of TV figures could use additional classes of media literacy.
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That post about betting odds made me say "out loud" here what I've been thinking about for the last couple of weeks: surely it would be too much for a single nation to win practically all tournaments that matter in a calendar year, in both male and female category, AND in both junior and senior? I mean, I feel like people are just not talking enough about this phenomenon and how astonishing it would be...
Italian volleyball NTs are like American billionaires: no matter what happens they will come out the winners in the end.
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Any update on what we can all agree is potentially the most important volleyball-related news today, namely Tugba's tweets?
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On Turkish side, Tugba is the last thing this team needs. If you want her back, that's simply because you like chaos lol
Chaos is a ladder.
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Wow it sounds like it was a great first match of the day! Congrats to Thai girls! I couldn't watch, but it seems like Hande played a subpar match?
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Today just 2 matches on 2 different courts, there was time for at least 1 more if not 2.
Tomorrow we have 6 matches, some will be played in the same time. Fivb really want to stop us to watch every game.
I don't understand their calculation about this.Purely symbolic, to have only the hosts play on the opening day. It's utterly stupid for such a long competition, but no one has ever slandered FIVB by calling them smart.
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Croatian girls played above their ability for the first 2 and a half sets (and that with an atrocious play by their most famous player), but then they got scared in the 3rd and lost it. After that, they no longer had the belief to raise above themselves plus Kąkolewska and Stysiak played much better.
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I love to watch Kąkolewska
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You won't be once he starts commenting, which is probably when his flight lands lol
Sadly, you're probably right.
Classic case of nerves. Croatian girls got scared of going 2-1 and shit the bed.
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Never thought I would be saying something like this, but I'm honestly sad for Crovolley that he is missing this. His girls are opening WCh, and they are giving a proper resistance to Poland so far. As Bogdan said, Šamadan playing good.
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A correspondent of SportKlub bitched and moaned about conditions of pretty much everything in Arnhem for full 5 minutes prior to the match.
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As for my prediction, it's the same as Bogdan's.
Display MoreGold: Italy
Silver: Serbia
Bronze: USA
MVP: Egonu
Best scorer: Boskovic
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