I really want see hyundai hillstate setter play in Olympics
Has she ever been called for NT before?
she's getting her chance right now and looks pretty good!
Posts by jyeatbvg
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Any news on the twins? They gonna be back any time soon?
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I can't remember now but didn't KIXX win that matchup in the KOVO Cup?
I think they did, and Pink Spiders won a nailbiter 5 rounder during the regular season (if memory serves..).
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This matchup would've been juicy with the full squads.
LSY + KSH + Lutz vs. LJY + LDY + KYK
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Damn Bruna's done a complete 180 from when she first joined. Looked great out there today. Could it be due to her suffering COVID in the beginning and just fully recovering now?
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Below is who I think the top 15 spikers in V-league currently are (based primarily on offense and not defence). Please let me know if I've missed anyone or if you have any thoughts otherwise.
- Anna Lazareva
- Kim Yeon-Koung
- Valentina Diouf
- Merete Lutz
- Lee Jae-Yeong
- Kang So-Hwi
- Lee So-Young
- Kelsie Payne
- Park Jeong-Ah
- Helene Rousseoux
- Lucia Fresco
- Kim Ju-Hyang
- Go Ye-Rim
- Pyo Seung-Ju
- Kim Mi-Yeon
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Kang So-Hwi is unreal. Probably a top non-foreign spiker in the league right now after KYK, Lee Jae-Yeong* and tied with Lee So-Young. I’d put her above foreign players like Bruna and Lucia. She’s gonna play in Europe one day.
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Is there any way to bet on games or league results? I’d like to put some money on GS Caltex winning the championship.
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Pink Spiders don’t have any closers except KYK. They had so many opportunities to close out rallies in the clutch today but couldn’t. GS Caltex, on the other hand, have three elite closers - LSY, KSH and Lutz.
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Nice win by the Pink Spiders today. The fact that they are still beating teams is a testament to how overpowered they were at the beginning of the season with the best Korean setter, a top 3 Korean hitter and a top-tier foreign player.
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Serious choke job from Hillstate today. GS Caltex always find a way!
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Bruna is incredibly weak. The quality difference in foreign players was very evident today between her and Lazareva. Goes to show how much a foreign player going down can affect a team's performance.
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Display MoreWhat a performance today! Emotionally the greatest game of the season! Bring on the playoffs NOW!
I don't give an F which team between IBK or Hi-pass finishes third.
I'll be happy if Hi-pass makes it. We'd witness V-League's greatest winner, Clutch Park, burn up the court during her favorite season. 7 straight finals, 4 championships. That's a Lebronesque record! She'll have a chance to go for 8 and 5 (since last season was cancelled)! What a narrative that would be! This is an aging team, with a lot of old legs, so it's pretty much one of their last opportunities to go for it all. A great farewell finish. The question marks will be Kelsie's ability in the clutch (which has not always been there this year) and Lee Go-eun.
I'll be happy if IBK makes it. I want to see Lazareva's prowess in big moments. So much skill. She possesses a destructive combination of speed, POWER and flexibility that I don't remember ever seeing in V-League. Will it be redemption time for Kim Hee-jin, who has sucked all season. An IBK with an alive Kim Hee-jin is absolutely scary. Her team has that kind of record without her performing. Imagine what they could do when she's alive! We know she always steps up in big games. But first you gotta get there... I worry very much about their OH lineup. Pyo Seung-ju is about as bipolar as a player can get. She's never been asked to be THE leader before in her career, so I want to see how she reacts in big moments when the opposing team targets the hell out of her on the serve. She has a tendency to go on huge stretches of receiving errors when she makes a mistake. In championship games, when every single point is important, you need a short memory and move on to the next play quick.
And don't take Heungkuk for dead either! A pair of KYK and Kim Mi-yeon is as good as anything else in the league. GS Caltex's So-So duo has more balance, but neither of them can take over a game the way KYK does. When she's in the back, she's a second libero with a killer back row attack. Give her the ball! When she's in front, she can shut you down. Just imagine a wall of KYK-Kim Seyoung-Bruna. Tallest block in Korea. Kim Mi-yeon has clutch genes. She'll eat those spikes in the back row. I do worry a bit about her reception. Her serve should be good to steal a few points every game. There are some people that just seem to get you those few points when you need them the most. Kim Mi-yeon is one of them. Everything will depend on who the real Bruna is. If she plays like her first games, Heungkuk will get spanked. If she delivers like today, Pink Spiders might not win, but they'll give a good fight. Kim Da-sol is of course a huge question mark. IMO, she should just keep it simple. Don't try anything crazy, just stable and accurate, and she should be OK. Her lack of height is a problem. Especially if you end up with Kim Mi-yeon-Middle Blocker-Kim Da-sol in front. You could solve that by putting KMY as OP so that KMY and KDS never end up on the same row. But then, you can't get KYK and Bruna on the same row... Arbitrage, Arbitrage!
For a nice ending! Let's go!
Nothing about GS Caltex? They're just too good and the championship is theirs to lose. I hope they win.
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GS Caltex look unbeatable. Their chemistry is top notch. KSH will be the new face of the league after KYK.
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OK so there's a new article posted today about some behind the scenes stories in Heungkuk. I believe the same journalist posted a shorter "preview" of those stories a couple days before, but here they are explained in more details.
If someone with a good command of the Korean language could translate for us, it'd be great. I'll just try to summarize what I can get from this. All errors are mine.
The source of the discord
Besides criticizing Park Mi-hee and listing the things we already know, the article mentions that the twins became somewhat of the outcasts in the team. Until last year, Lee Jae-yeong lived a normal/harmonious life with the rest of the players, but after the arrival of her sister, the atmosphere changed and they became the "black sheep".
It is said that almost all of the training was centered around the twins. Kim Yeon-koung, who found it unreasonable, complained to the coach about it. Apparently, the other two setters barely had the chance to practice with the rest of the team.
Two players who are set to become free agents have already decided to bail out or retire next year (probably Kim Mi-yeon and Kim Se-young).
Their relationships in the team's dorm life
The twins did not hesitate to disturb the discipline of the team even in their dorm life. On the night of the 5th, after Heungkuk got trounced against GS Caltex, Lee Da-yeong left the team without permission. She only got back the following evening, but did not get any sanctions from the team.
Lee Da-yeong took a body bath in the middle of the night to lose weight, and sang in a loud voice (LOL), drawing the attention of the other players.
Apparently, the twins were using a younger player L (Lee Ju-ah) as a pet/slave.
Around midnight on the 7th, Lee Da-yeong tried to "commit suicide" by lighting up some charcoal (maybe like those below?) in a bathroom. The players who discovered Lee Da-yeong were Lee Jae-yeong and player D (Do Soo-bin) who was resting in another room. Thoughts that this was a "show" put on by the sisters are inevitable (not sure if I understood this part well).
Conscious of the tense atmosphere built up inside the team, coach Park Mi-hee apparently told the players to "take the twins with you when you go out or to the convenience store".
All the other stuff is already known, so I'll stop here.
If there is a real English translation out there, I'll delete this post.Holy cow this is much worse than expected. Rather than a mere battle of egos, it seems the twins literally tried to bully the entire team. The obliviousness of the twins in thinking this was okay and not putting an end to it until it reached a boiling point is remarkable. Probably didn't help that the coach and the twins' mother were supposedly close and were friends from having been teammates a while ago.
All speculation, but LJY seems alright but perhaps subservient whereas LDY is
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This opens a precedence. Anyone who have done something in the past should also be punished just as bad as they have.
I think that's the point.
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Based on the information of the initial writer, who has since deleted the post, it might or might not have been Go Ye-rim.
MBC made a feature on bullying in volleyball that slightly talked about the new anonymous accusation. They blurred the image of course, but nothing can escape the eyes of Korean netizens.
No way. GYR seems so timid and innocent in videos and matches. Very shy and quiet personality. What is going on..
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Bruna look lost out there, to many unforced error. Not to mention her spike routine is unusual, which can take longer to match with the setter.
definitely need more time.Agree with this. I've been very underwhelmed by her performance. Not even sure it's worth it for the team to bring her in..they're probably better off just developing their youth.
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Will add that "suspended indefinitely" is not a defined period of time. The club and national team can reinstate the twins whenever this drama dies down. I'm not familiar with Korean culture, but in North America it wouldn't be surprising to see the athletes be reinstated right before the Olympics...because that's just how things are.
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Display MoreActually I wonder how a national setter/ fairly senior can allow herself to be bullied and what actually started it. Was it all their losses?
Everybody needs to take a leaf out of GS Caltex page, the seniors are so loving of the juniors.
LSY even scoops a drink for PHM @ 2:16 and gets "bullied" in the end when PHM chinks her glass while drinking and she chokes up.
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[/meThe GS Caltex english class video on YouTube is hilarious. And kind of nice for us non-korean speakers to actually understand what's going on. I wish these teams and KOVO would put english subtitles on their videos.