Phoenix can you imagine if saga went for herbots instead of van hecke? im sure they can afford her.
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Victorina is just pitiful. They should get better coaching staff.
Also I hope Tapp is alright
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Not the potatoes lmao
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sitenoise who was okayama's vom?
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istg there are 2 mikoto shimas at pfu. when they stand side by side is the only time i can tell them apart but i usually mistake them for each other even though i don't know the name of the other mikoto shima
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Display MoreRe: PFU / Kurobe ...
I don't know why Airi Tahara hasn't dressed for PFU since break, but V2 recruit Kumina Shimahara (Breath Hamamatsu) is gonna jump all over this opportunity for court time. She came in mid-set 2 last night, stayed, and got the job done. She's a pioneer in the no knee pads craze
Her 3 season gig with Hamamatsu was all about speed ball. She's only 172cm but seems big on court , at least in V2. She would practically put the ball directly in the attacker's hand. If she sticks around and bonds with 4T ... look out
The downside is: PFU's other middles are not fastees, and neither are Acosta and Valdes ... so
How does a fastee work? like being light on their feet or having crackhead awareness or both
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Kurogo was supposed to be the next next player after Saori Kimura. The first one was Koga, but she had a horrible 2016 after her breakout 2015. Koga was left off the Rio team.
Kurogo was the captain of the Shimokitazwa-Seitoku high school team that had Mayu Ishikawa as her teammate. Kurogo was basically MVP of the Haruko championships in 2016 and 2017.
However, Kurogo never really changed her style of play and even as the captain of Seitoku, she was more a sayer and not a doer. Mayu was the doer and modified her play as she was not the focus of the offense in the team with Kurogo.
in their club, Toray, Kurogo’s flaws could be covered up by Jana Kulan and Mayu. However with the national team, Kurogo’s flaws could not be covered up, plus throw in the Koga injury and now Kurogo has all the pressure on her as the middles are doing nothing. I love Erika Araki, but 2021 was not kind to her in the Olympics. Let alone Mayu is playing better than Kurogo. Kurogo really felt that The team not even making the quarterfinals was her fault, given how important the sport is for women during the Olympics and with Japan winning the first goals medal in TOkyo.The succession to become the next Saori has been as someone here already put it -erratic. Very erratic. All aces from Ishii to Nagaoka to Koga and especially Kurogo have been inconsistent in the NT. Kurogo was never considered a Saori type since she isn't an all-rounder and even as an attacker she could not carry the team as the main scorer. Their only link would be the Toray pride.
Koga had her ups and downs. Ishii then stepped up by 2019 under Nakada and suddenly everyone thought for sure she'd be the next Saori however Hisamitsu failed horrendously for 2 or 3? seasons one of which Ishii captained. Koga gained confidence and was in top shape, she was peaking. Kurogo got injured. Mayu debuted and Nagaoka came back. I think Kurogo became insecure at some point due to those 2 players specifically.
This generation will not have its Saori. Koga is already in her mid-twenties with zero titles and zero medals.
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The realization that Koga hasn't won any prestigious awards yet is pretty disappointing. Was she not around when Montreux was still a thing?
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Do you think Ai Kurogo's has a chance of returning this cycle? She's not playing with Toray at all except serve subbing and she looked a little flabby and tired at the all star game
Too bad Anna Uemura is only 168cm. She's really lighting up the under world, and only second year HS
What's wrong with her? did she get injured? The only thing different about her now is that she's no longer pouting.
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sitenoise are you still subscribed to vbw's vtv? i need to know if you need a separate subscription to the japanese version of vbw's vtv since their features are different? i don't know
this month's feature is about nakada "taking a new step" i'm kind of curious if she's returning as a coach
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Wait, I got the liberos wrong
Hitomi Fukumoto and Miiku Iwasawa are on the same team, throw in a Mana Toe, whoa! ... so I'm rooting for that team
I cautioned earlier against mixing up Hitomi Fukumoto and Satomi Fukudome, but that's what I did
Is this Iwasawa girl the one that Lozo keeps pranking?
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Why'd they put ishiinagaoka and aimayu together they should've made them rivals
For the men's team it was the coaches who chose their roster so it could be the same for the women's team
We're never getting Haruka and Miyu smh
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Saga did better with Nakajima why would Sakai not use her in this match
Anyways NEC is winning this
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they are not
Watch them slowly lose to NEC then
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My wifi is choppy as hell but I think Saga is losing. I saw Toe having to double time on defense
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Wasn't Shimamura in 2nd place during the fanvoting for MBs? why isn't she in the list? Momii was also in the top 3 for setters but I didn't see her
my guess is that it's 1 per team in a position, since shimamura is also from nec they couldn't include her. idk with momii's case though i thought she was leading in votes ahead of matsui and fukudome was 2nd after toe but now she's under "recommended"
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i meant link to the livestream. is it still covered by vtv.easysports?
Ohh in that case I don't know...
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link pls
Starts on the 9th btw
https://www.jva.or.jp/cms/wp-c…inal_women_tournament.pdf
sitenoise will probably post it here
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Tomorrow will be the last game of the year after that they're celebrating with the All Stars in Aichi event. I hope VL does better. They should stop with the extremely long talks by Obayashi no one really cares for that segment even the players are seen yawning every time.
Empress Cup is on the 10th I think. It never ends this early
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It's very rare for male athletes to cheer on their female athlete friends It's almost taboo for them. it must be out of huge respect especially since Shimizu is an older senpai and very much active during that time and until now you definitely don't see that kind of thing.