Hattaya for Toray, and Chachu-on for Hisamitsu?
Posts by Hinotorious
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Can anyone provide details on Yoshino Nishikawa? She seems like a highschool standout and a Junior NT regular, but I can't see her stealing either Kurogo or Ishikawa's slot on Toray.
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Nabeya who outperformed Ishii and has the defense the pins need was cut.
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Is Miyu playing later?
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Momii keeping the ball up with her face. Now they're finally playing japanese volleyball.
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Removes the best receiver and server for the serve just to get aced x times?
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One thing I have noticed today is the play restart from USA's blocks are very effective with their floor coverage.
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Where is Nagaoka? The last news were from 2020 that she had surgery on left knee. But how is she now?
Will she play on OG in Tokyo?
She's in the bubble and was expected to play on the latter part, but last seen with her knee being iced on the stands and didn't join the jump in the jumpshot after the game.
I don't think she'll be fit in time for Tokyo. Kurogo is the default OPP at this point.
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It has not been Hayashinnabe, but Hayaishii and Ishinnabe all along.
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So Ishii can have her turn. She definitely needs this. Even if she suffers here, she's gonna have to work through it.
Indeed. I'm glad they subbed Mayu out for Kotona, but we ride or die with Ishii today.
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That was unexpectedly satisfying.
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So we're playing with 4 MBs and 3 OHs? Interesting...
Make this 5 MBs. Missed to count Mai. I wonder what the coaches are thinking.
And there we go for the first mention of Ishikawa's brother
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So we're playing with 4 MBs and 3 OHs? Interesting...
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It's surprising to me how unwavering NakadaBunny are with the three spikers. I say stick to it. There must be something they are looking/hoping for. I'll trust it. I don't know what you folks are on about with 'reception failures'.
The Japanese Defense is not there with this group, though. Maybe they think keeping them out there will cause it to gel, but Kurogo and Ishikawa have been playing together since high school. They just
arearen't defensive players. Maybe they think not confusing Momii by playing other hitters will make "super aces" of them all, but that's a risky bet.Ishikawa and Kurogo's defense is frustrating . . . even Momii's sometimes (but I'm glad she dug well today).
Ishikawa exceeded expectations with her reception (after being punished by ZCN's aces last WC) but her width seems to be insufficient to cover her scope of defense. Kurogo, on the other hand, can be too lazy to move for a dig but mostly it's just bad reading and anticipation of the spikes (same case for Momii in the backrow but I can see that she's improving). All the teams with powerful opposite hitters are gonna swallow that sharp cross defense from Zone 1 which used to be metal with Shinnabe/Miyashita.
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Nakada and Aihara should let Ishii be a starter in the match tom. All that waiting around in the bench is starting to make her limp. And what's with the lack of Hayashinnabe? if they truly need someone to pull through on reception, they should finally get her to sweat.
I have noticed. This might be carry over of her dull performance last season which was way below her WC2019 vibe.
She seems fresh out of bed when deployed to the court as a sub.
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this look like CHN JPN friendly match, NED look scared
Sure did with the extended 3rd set. 😂
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Best scenario for Japan is the highly probable loss to USA tomorrow but win ALL their remaining matches, and Brazil losing some of theirs to place 4th so Japan would face Turkey in the semifinals.
Any loss aside from USA is definitely an upset (like VNL 2019 against Herbots and BEL 🤭) but it would be probable with DOM, SRB, BEL. Two losses from this group would be a huge shame.
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Yuri Nabeya in . . . to wipe the taraflex. Hope her defense radiates to the starters.
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Did I miss a match with Araki having a 90% attack rate? Why is she a go-to girl today? 😂
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i’m sorry but ishikawa is lazy on defence. Don’t think about only hitting. Koga straight away points!
Such as Kurogo. Don't single out Ishikawa on this.