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Posts by Phoenix
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*this may be a free article for the time being but sometimes sanspo closes articles that get good traffic.
Manabe set the goal of becoming the best in the world in four areas: serve, serve receive, spike receive, and fewest goals conceded. This time, the five areas he wants to dominate are serve, serve receive, dig & assist, fewest number of runs, and "unity". Statistical figures for serve, serve receive, and goals scored are released by FIVB for each international tournament. In that ranking, the team set a specific goal: Six players in the top 10 in serve and three in serve-receive.
His focus is on digs and assists. A dig is a spike receive. The second one is usually called a "toss" or "connection" to the third spike, but the coach introduced the concept of "assist," which is not found in volleyball.
In soccer and basketball, an assist is given to the player who made the pass immediately before the scorer. Similarly, when a player scores with a spike, the player who tosses the ball is given an assist point. Of course, this is not in the official records, so the Japanese teams come up with their own figures.
If the setter can lift the toss in a good position from a good receive, it is easy to score a point. However, when the setter raises the dig, or when the dig deflects and the toss becomes a two-tiered toss, how can the ball be supplied in a way that makes it easier for the attacker to hit? This is one of the concrete forms of meticulous volleyball that Japan needs. The coach said, "(Depending on the result), it may be better for a non-setter to win the two-tier toss."
The coach spoke of "unity" that cannot be expressed in numbers, citing the example of Mizuho Ishida, who continued to support the team even after being left out of the squad just before the London Olympics, and said, "Invisible strength is also necessary. The concept of assisting, which is "service to one's fellow teammates," may be a starting point for the creation of invisible power."
In the women's basketball team at the Tokyo Olympics, Rui Machida led Japan to the silver medal by becoming the top assister with a new Olympic record of 18 assists in a single game in the semi-finals. Will there be another player like Machida to support the team's breakthrough? "Although it will not be an official record," said Manabe, "I would like to win the coach of the year award."
bruh... The coach's policy of motivating his players by setting clear goals has given rise to hopes, however slight they may be, that a repeat of the success of 10 years ago may happen again.
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Kobata and Akutagawa are retiring
Shibata, Jahs and Fukagaya are transferring
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Btw here's the link to the livestream (not free) for the upcoming Red & White match happening after VNL and before WCH
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You guys can rewatch all their VNL matches and you'll see just how vocal Koga is with the team more so than Araki. She does it naturally. She's not a moody bitch, not arrogant in the slightest with the newbies and she has never shown any strong negative emotion whenever they lose which is part of the reason she looked so good during VNL.
She may not be as warm or well-spoken with her remarks, she sounds very much like someone in turmoil in these interviews. But I do sense that she also values the team as a whole regardless of whether they get along or not. That's what I think she's tryna say.
Yamagishi should level things out she's very ~motherly and knows how to handle situations when it gets outta control.
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You got a problem with that?
If she sucks it'll definitely be a problem
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Denso libero is illegally cute
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Summer League is from July 1-3 https://www.vleague.jp/topics/news_detail/22422
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J Volley fans suspect a possible internal conflict at JT following their team's setbacks during the championship and for failing to participate at the Asian Club Championship.
Honestly I think things already started to crumble for JT during the Empress Cup. There's also no basis that Momii is injured.
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I haven't really been paying attention to both girls. I only watched 1 match during Black Eagle Flag but I was so put off by Mandai's lack of direction I stopped watching. But I like her the most out of the newbies. Hopefully she catches up
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Aoi Furukawa, Natsuki Onodera, Miharu Yoshioka, Manami Sato, Moe Takayanagi and Kanako Nagama are all leaving Okayama.
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