Display MoreI don't know your point of conclusions with the players but at some points, it looks unrealistic and unfair.
First of all, it would be better to exclude the players, who joined to A team for the 1st time in a tournament, unless they show an outstanding performance. One thing at that front is true that, Defne is a promising player for the future and Santa should not give up on her. Another point is that, Merve also should be tested and Ayşe should take more time at the court, while Saliha flopped a lot.
About Karmen, Berka and Deniz, they might have some bad moments but overall, they need to improve more.
Dilay is not new and deserves some critics, since she is in a competition with Elif and her performance really disappointed me. Not only the quality of her sets but also her preferences. She is not new and warned by Santa several times.
Your comment about Eylül also is not clear. She performed very good against Italy both at reception and floor defence and good performance at floor defence against Poland. What else were you expecting from her to be spectacular? It is always better to look at a match which was lost and make your assessment based on the players performance of that match.
Finally, how you reached to conclusion or assumption that, İlkin had difficulty in her attacks? I watched all matches and I have all the stats sheets and based on them, I derived all figures.
Yaprak played 13 sets (in all 3 matches) and İlkin played 4.8 sets in 2 matches (missing in the last one due to her injury). Referring to all, Yaprak finished the tournament with 40.5% Kill with 31.4 efficiency while İlkin finished with 45% Kill and 29% efficiency. For a player at OH spot, both performances were quite good and fulfills the expectations. Looking at other stats, Yaprak has 0.5 winning blocks and İlkin has 0.4 winning blocks. Yaprak won the blocks against to Polish OPP. Yaprak has 0.15 points from Serve and İlkin has 0.21 points from Serve per set. Yaprak made 0.4 service errors and İlkin made 0.6 errors per set. So all figures you see here are very close to each other.
The main divergence and the disappointment about İlkin's performance was about her reception. While Yaprak achieved a great performance against Italy at reception with 67% pos and 24% Perf, İlkin surprisingly (again, highest performer as Local OH at reception in the season) achieved only 32% Pos and 16% Perf. When you look at the rootcause, you can easily see that, İlkin was absolutely bombarded by Italians strong serves with 38 reception with 3 errors in 3.3 sets. This reflected to her overall reception performance, Yaprak with 42% Pos and 22% Perf while İlkin had 34% Pos and 17% Perf (quite low for her average).
Looking back to that particular match (against İtaly) Yaprak was better at reception but İlkin was better at attack. So I disagree with you, saying that, İlkin had difficulty at attack.
While down value one, taking the other to the stars is not the right thing. It is just the starting point, preparation friendly matches for the upcoming actual tournaments. Well done to both. I am expecting to see both at the court with excitement and hopefully İlkin has a speedy recovery until then...
Raw stats sheets shared below.
https://x.com/gibbybaris/status/2057886847930421380/photo/1 https://x.com/gibbybaris/status/2058295546402546165/photo/1
Dude, we know you like İlkin a lot, but defending her like this only makes more people dislike her. This isn’t a good way to communicate.
You don’t need to attack every person who criticizes İlkin, and honestly, you should make your posts much shorter. Most people won’t read them if they’re this long.
what you’re doing really doesn’t help the thing you’re trying to achieve.
