she did. but she also got blocked at least 3 times, and is a liability in backrow.
better than larson on both counts... in this game anyway
Posts by lche059
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the better team wins. when the us can't get to the middle, their ohs just can't hang with zhu and li.
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chinese should relieve zhu ting of reception
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lol karch is getting emotional. he must be under a lot pressure
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Don't think either USA or China with this kind of performance can put up much resistance to the Italians or Serbians.... hope they loosen up soon
agree. italy and serbia blocking defense are way better, chinese will have problems, except for zhu ting.
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usa sucks. they just can't kill the ball. the only difference between two teams so far is zhu ting is killing it. where's hooker these days
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Lang ping was silver medal at olympic with USA . How she was not brilliant outside China?
What I love about her is her imprevisibility, she can read the other team really well and do the necessary changes. Ze is trying to understand what she did in Rio yet
silver medal for the USA wasn't a breakthrough for the US, kinda expected i'd say. to each their own i guess.
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Dutch always plays China tough, I think this time won’t be different. USA probably missed their best chance to win Olympic gold medal in Rio. They have an old team and USA coach doesn’t seem to be a good teacher to develop young players. Coach Lang Ping and GUI are probably two of the best teachers now, young players are always getting better under them.
Unless bujis and maret miraculously play like sylla and bosetti all of sudden, don't see how they'll beat China. And this Chinese team did overachieve under lang, to her credit. But outside of China, Lang's record was good but not that brilliant.
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That is not entirely true. In Rio they had Stam as a stable libero, Steenbergen as a good replacement in the middle and Pietersen who could play as a outside and as a opposite. In my opinion, the team lacks this experience during this tournament.
Im aware of two retired vets and I forgot about pietersen but while they would certainly help this Dutch team, imo they are not difference makers for them, at this level anyway.
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Can someone give me an opinion about the Ned?
I haven't watch them but I'm curious, mostly because it seems to me that - if it's true that Japan has an easy path so far - then it has to be true for Ned as well, since they played in the same pools, and with similar results: if you think about it, they won vs Japan but at the 5th so it was a close match, then they lost vs Brazil at the tie break as Japan (who was already qualified, though), then won vs an already qualified and not with all the titulars Serbia as Japan did (well, more clearly, but still with a 3 points victory)...
Of course in their case the (supposed) easier path was luck and not 'host advantages', but do they really show such more than Japan?
they are basically the same team as in Rio both in terms of personel and strength. robin is not here because of injury who could really help here. they still can't beat top teams and still take 5 sets to beat japan just as in the Rio cycle. it's gonna take a miracle for them to beat olympic champions china, just as in rio. they will have a better chance against the usa because the usa got a lot worse since rio but i still think the us would take it in 5.
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Display MoreSeriously?
Was Michael Jordan more talented than Larry Bird?
Let's not be coy about the real issue here...
Nobody can match Egonu&Sylla's athleticism, power and explosiveness...
Can you say Malinov more talented than Cansu, or Danesi than Zehra or Sylla than Hande...
Thanks to African immigrants Italians are building a "Cuban" team in the middle of Europe.
And good for them.
French should take an example, I am sure thay can overmatch Italians easily.
But they don't seem to care about volleyball.
athleticism is the fundamental part of sport talents.
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I've tried to avoid thinking about how the Japanese players feel about the whole thing.
Not holding my breath or anything, but it would be hilarious if Japan beat Serbia this weekend.
it wouldn't be hilarious... It would exonerate the "Crime" everybody thinks they commit. It might actually happen you know because its obvious winning hasn't always been their goal
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People, Serbia very often plays like crap when they feel they have nothing to play for. It wasn't anything new. It's just that they for once ran into an opponent who wasn't having any of it and gave them a real good kick in the ass, which is what they sorely needed. They must wake up and start taking things seriously.
that has been the problem for this serbia team. you never know when and if they will bring it to the game. and their championship window is rapidly closing with the emergence of this young italian team.
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Saori Kimura isn't much of a high ball solution on the pins compared to Kim or Zhu.
It's absolutely ignorant to say Kim can never hypothetically help Japan when Korea defeated Brazil's golden generation with only one player of world class quality.
read the original post i relied to.
of course kim would help japan. she would help any team. but to say that she would make japan the next best thing? like consistently better than the current china, italy and serbia team?? really? i doubt Luis aka the GOAT can do it. i said she can only to make the point.
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Then you haven't seen KYK in her prime
Olympics 2012; dragging a whole team by herself! Well she did that whole her career with Korea and every medal they got...And Japan already is a good team, they just need that 1 reliable gun. A KYK style player would do tons of good but at the same time such players are not just being developed like that, it's once in generations so I'm aware of that. Korea has more tall players f.e. but they're not that good...
in london, japan lost to brazil by 24 points and saori scored 14 points. and no kim wasn't going to score 24 points more than saori to put that japanese team into final.
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Japan needs a tall player, yet one that can play Asian style volleyball. With other words they need to develop a next gen Kim Yeon Koung
they will stop losing those 16-12 leads all the time and Japan already is better then Korea with all other players so that could forreal become the next best thing!they will need a mireya luis to be the next best thing. not kim yeon koung, not even zhu ting.
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italy and china are clear favorites now. serbia can't beat china, busa would get killed by chinese blocks, and coming off 2 straight losses, i don't know if they can just turn it on and have their top form back.
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Well they had a fair chance to beat GER, a fair chance to beat NED with 3 points and a fair chance to beat MEX in 3 sets and they failed. I wanted Brazil to qualify, but the fact is they’ve not played well in this competition and that’s why they’re out.
they have played no worse than japan, prior to this game.
the only difference is how hard serbia played both teams.
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of course they didn’t play their best game, they were terrible. But they weren’t tanking, they had absolutely no reason not to try.
maja said after 7 wins it isn't so bad to lose. there you go the reason. it actually shocked me to hear that.
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People need to realise that Serbia only have 1 decent passer in the team (Popovic) and an OPP that really is a very mediocre player because the regular OPP has a (small) injury and is being rested. Sure, maybe the team is lacking a bit of motivation as well, but with this lineup they are always going to struggle against good teams.
sloetjes, maja, and terzic basically all said serbia didn't play their best after the game. no excuses.