Posts by bumpsetspike

Will Lai Yawen retire after Tokyo as well?

The last time the lots drew A2/B2 and A3/B3 was at Beijing 2008.

Quarterfinals:

Cuba - Serbia

USA - Italy

China - Russia

Japan - Brazil

Thaisa's reaction or should I say lack of during that timeout. Lol. It was nice of Macris to tell the camera person who was getting too close to step back.

Covering their mouths to shut them up was wrong.

I felt for her when she made the error and stepped on the 3 meter line giving Tianjin the game winning point. It looked like she said "I'm sorry", then one of the Chinese player said "It's ok".

Poor management on both sides. The club waited last minute (Jan. 9) to make a transfer a day before the deadline (Jan. 10). Did they not have knowledge that the league was still in session. Though if the players were transferred on time then they shouldn't have played on Jan. 11 against Beijing. They postponed their match just because they were waiting for their transfers to arrive, unprofessional.

What's the score? I can't watch it live and the stat sheet stopped updating during this set.

What happened to Liu Yanhan? I didn't see her name.

I was looking at the stats of the other matches and saw that Yuan Xinyue had 32 points against Shandong. If this is true, wow!

http://cva-web.dataproject.com…D=163&PID=77&type=LegList

As a kid I remembered that I admired athletes that would persevere through injury/illness in order to win. They showed strength and resilience, but now as an adult I realized how crazy and foolish it was that they would put their bodies on the line and risk further injury or even something more worse. It's a bad example to our younger generation.

Athletes need to know their limits and coaches need to respect them not just as an athlete, but as an individual who's health is more important beyond sports.

benchwarmer wrote:

Boskovic knew that her team did not have any chance to win if she did not play just like LYY did. Their respective teams needed them. They did not want to let their teammates down (disappoint) and their commitment (win / victory) to their clubs/teams.

Same for Zhu at the 17-18 CL when she injured her ankle against Imoco in the semis. Vakif's coaching staff shouldn't have let her continue, but she still played her heart out while limping. I remember there was a point during the match Rasic went up to her to see if she's ok.

What happened to Bartsch-Hackley, injured?

serdar wrote:

Most of the USA nt players are coming from great colleges. With such degrees, they have the options to pursue different careers other than volleyball and still earn decent salaries. That's why a lot of talented American players quit volleyball at early ages

This is unfortunately true. There are some who don't even try club volleyball after college and go straight into another career. Then there are others who struggle playing in a low level league that would rather go back to the US and find a better job. Imagine all the lost talent that could've been, not just for USA, but for other countries as well.

Jiangsu should look to sign some middles to add more depth next season.

Is it true that Jordan Thompson will go pro after her NCAA season?

zhutingfan wrote:

I miss Yang Junjing so much.

If only she didn't get injured, she would fit in well with Yan Ni and Yuan Xinyue. These young middles have got a lot of work to reach their level.

zhutingfan wrote:

Given the recent performance at the cwc, who do you think Lang Ping will take to Tokyo?

To me at least, there are 8 players going for sure:

OH: Zhu Ting, Zhang Changning, and Li Yingying

MB: Yuan Xinyue and Yan Ni

OPP: Gong Xiangyu

S: Ding Xia

L: Wang Mengjie

That leaves four left, a substitute opp and setter, a substitute Mb, and most likely another outside hitter.

Substitute setter really is key, since the setter is someone who (ideally) touches the ball every play. It's unclear if Yao Di is up for the task given this last tournament, yet it's hard to find anyone in place of her.

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Yao Di is the only setter right now with the second most experience (Ding Xia being the first). Although she had a poor tournament I think she's going to make it to Tokyo. Even though they bring back Diao Linyu year and year I still have yet to see improvements.

One things for sure, once the season is over there will be a long and tough training session till VNL.

Disappointing finish by Tianjin against a Guangdong team who didn't even have Kosheleva, Lin Li, and Zheng Yixin. Anybody know the extent of Zhu's injury, I know it's related to her wrist, but how bad is it?

yudeko wrote:

I wondered why Dobriana only scored 4 points. Was she injured during the game?

Calf strain, out for possibly 1-2 weeks. http://sports.sina.com.cn/othe…doc-iicezzrr8466731.shtml

pope wrote:

Well, Vakifbank should go as a Mini Serbia with Maja,Boskovic,Mihajlovic,Rasic and Vitra as mini Turkey Naz,Eda,Zehra,Meliha,Hande,Ebrar etc......That should be fun.

Wouldn't Vakif be the mini Turkey since they already have Zehra, Kubra, Ebrar, Cansu, Meliha, Gizem, and Gozde?

zhutingfan wrote:

I wish they could both play, but one plays for SiChuan and the other for Tianjin. it's unlikely Wang will get to play much this season. Maybe in the 2nd match vs. Henan.

I honestly thought Wang Yizhu would sub for Zhu in the previous match against Henan. Yu Junwei was not a good choice.