Posts by econmtl

Kim Hyung Sil what an idiot... You're by far the shittiest team and you end up harvesting the least amount of players at the draft...

What's the cost of picking two or three more players and develop them like you're supposed to. You're not near the salary cap. The ownership is rich as fuck, so you don't have a money problem. You don't have too many extra players in your squad. In fact, you have no depth at all.

So why pass on free young players, especially when no free agent wants to play for your team unless you overpay...

Pepper PASSES in the 2nd round? Are you a team that can afford to pass on young players? LOL.

What a dumb system! Let's waste an hour for nothing just waiting for a ball to pop out...

It's ON! So nervous for the kids!

I'm stealing this calendar from theloneracer.

Will update links to the matches as the championship goes on. Or you can just go on their Facebook page, the games are all there...

Sep 2 (Fri)

10:00 KST - Pohang City Sports Assoc. vs Daegu City Hall

https://www.facebook.com/10008…26/videos/614733220354772

12:00 KST - Suwon City Hall vs Yangsan City Hall

https://www.facebook.com/10008…26/videos/892870788352738

Sep 3 (Sat)

10:00 KST - Suwon City Hall vs Daegu City Hall

https://www.facebook.com/10008…6/videos/1429972304182668

12:00 KST - Pohang City Sports Assoc. vs Yangsan City Hall

https://www.facebook.com/10008…26/videos/649236156349560

Sep 4 (Sun)

• No Women's Matches

Sep 5 (Mon)

10:00 KST - Pohang City Sports Assoc. vs Suwon City Hall

https://www.facebook.com/10008…6/videos/1123277935063237

12:00 KST - Daegu City Hall vs Yangsan City Hall

https://www.facebook.com/10008…6/videos/1168078900589094

Sep 6 (Tue)

• 13:00 KST - Women's Final (Will be broadcasted live on Naver)

We can't embed Instagram posts here anymore?

Our girls are training hard! We can see in that 3rd video how important Minky is to the team in terms of defense and ball control.

So funny hearing Matthew Jang being all talks last year about being visionary, about ''AI'' representing this modern futuristic team they want to create and then he brings in a semi-retired boomer to lead the pack...

This was THE perfect moment to hire a young foreign coach with fresh ideas. Start from scratch, focus on development, development, development. Build something new away from the old boys clubs/cliques that parasitize Korean volleyball.

To watch the game:

Do it quick cause it's gonna be a short one .

V-League should be aptly renamed as I-League for Idols League since it has become a league of memes, cute gifs, personality cult, toxic fandom wars and backstage drama, sprinkled here and there with just a little bit of volleyball...

Some AI Peppers ''fans'' are trying to organize a truck protest, calling for the resignation/firing of the coaching staff.

Took them 1 year.

That's what the owners get for thinking a guy born during the Korean War, who's been out of touch with the game for a decade, could be the ideal leader to bring a ''fresh'' perspective to a newly minted team! Especially when he brings with him an assistant widely famous for being in the top 3 worst V-League coach of all time.

https://twitter.com/aipeppers/with_replies

And it's gonna be broadcasted on SPOTV... Screw that! Hopefully, it'll be put on Youtube later...

Quote from suminj

There seems to be no news of Korea's line-up for AVCs, I'm guessing it is the same line-up as WCH?

Yep, we're trying the field the worst team possible challenge.

Don't know anything about the Korean school system, but if you were gonna send a non professional team, why not try more experienced players from the amateur leagues and some college players in their early 20's. This might be their last chance in volleyball and they'll at least be better than a team of 16-17 year old kids... And where are the best senior high school players + Kim Se Bin? Maybe it's too close to the draft and they're afraid to get hurt, or they have to take graduation exams?

Anyone taking bets on how many sets we'll win? 0? 1?

document (asianvolleyball.net)

Kim Ji Won is my revelation of this competition. She seems to be the smartest brain among the young setters of her age group. Certainly reads the game better than any of her peers. Look at how she creates all those single block situations during the matches. Even with a short stature, she has not been a liability in front of the net, even managing to outwit the opposing OH a couple times to get her team some points.

Not flashy, but her play is very stable and fluid (rarely cuts the rhythm due to indecisiveness like other young setters). When she's put in a difficult spot, she's creative enough to find a way out of trouble and never makes ''forced'' plays. There's little hesitation in her game, which is surprising for a 21 year old kid like her.

The sample size is very very small, and it's just the shitty KOVO cup, but so far I'm impressed (especially at that quick set right at Yang Hyo Jin's face ). What a crafty little one, with some guts too! If only she were 5-6 cm taller...

And 5 middle blockers...

I smell a trade...

A bunch of crybabies, those Hanbom girls.

Haha! IBK! You finally drafted an OH who can pass! LOL

Park Su-Yeon from Gangneung might be available in round 2 too if needed.

Quote from Kofudakji

I bet Seo chae won gonna be fans favorite

Yeah, she's got a "national first love", star-quality face.

Kim Se-In is a rock defensively. A future libero? A serve+defense specialist? Loved watching her team kill stronger, more talented teams.

Cute Park Sa-Rang. Reading just like I did during my oral presentations in elementary school.