If Chemik had better setter and another decent MB...
but I like the fact that they fight for every ball. Also, they made so many serve errors in first set. Probably, they should work on that, because it will be really important agaist teams like Mogilno, Kalisz, Mielec
maybe chemik should've grabbed grabka instead.
i was gonna do a pun but you might not understand lol.
nothing wrong with having confidence but its just the way she said she will surpass koga it sounds offensive coming from a nobody who impressed literally nobody during her brief time with the nt's main team. you just dont say things like that when you haven't done anything to back up your bravado. either someone set her up for failure or she's just so full of it because of nec's fanbase feeding her bullshit.
"I will surpass Sarina" - Yoshino Sato
Why are you in NEC if you wanna surpass Koga shouldn't you be in Imoco or Vakifbank
shes only 6 months younger than mayu thats way too old to be considered newgen. they need someone younger than mayu and not close to her height either. hard pass on whoever this is
jt will be fine. some teams with 2 foreign players can equal 1 of lise. plus jaja who i will still call jaja respectfully until i feel like finally calling her sachi.
still 2 thais and 2 philippines and 1 of them is only 180 and had an acl injury is sketchy. if gen kawakita can push kurobe as this season's dark horse that would certainly make things interesting.
my initial prediction list still stands and jt will come out on top.
My predictions for top 3
I'm putting NEC in 5 I guess because I don't like their coach and now that they're Kogaless and Kojimaless things could play out very differently. Koga domination is over.
I'm secretly hoping PFU surprises. I'm not expecting any surprises however from Saga and Toray. Not a fan of Samedy
Lol sorry, but are people not allowed to have their opinion on topic of naturalization and how it is ruining national sports?
Doesn’t seem very presentable or cutesy
Telling someone they're retarded is your way of being cute? weird flex
My dream team:
L: Torres (PER)
Mediocre all throughout the tournament. If they gave it to her that would've been foul
Sylla and Bosetti played really good unlike the expectations from them. They even beat the Turkey with their contribution at the and of every sets in SF, otherwise Italy would have had big Trouble, if every Ball had to go to Egonu.
Every ball did go to Egonu and 10 out of a 100 balls went to Bosetti. They made it anyway
Daalderop is never not not injured. She basically gets paid to be in rehab. And during the little period she is not injured, she underperforms. Wonder how she still gets contracts from big clubs.
when you get injured and you get back you obviously won't be at your 100% she's not bionic. which player gets injured and goes automatically back to 100% and performs like a bull even neymar with his chronic injuries hasn't played well since 2012 and still gets paid to be everywhere
i dont like that they killed the vleague accounts why dont they just replace the logo and name. now i have to go and follow a new svleague on twitter youtube and instagram. j sports is dogshit
Ibaraki, Himeji, and Shiga are the only ones who picked a MB
Okayama with ZERO and Osaka with ONE foreign pin. The rest have TWO foreign pin hitters (assuming @vollyb keeps batting 1000). I can't even imagine how foreign this is going to look
what team is osaka? this is so confusing i cannot remember them by their prefectures
There is semifinal live action at the 2024 Asian Eastern Zonal Women’s V C'Ship involving Japan u23 and Korea at 20:00 gmt+8, in about 4 hours time. I know it's not as big as the Olympics, but at least Asian teams are guaranteed Gold, Silver and Bronze here
who is the roster for u23?
In this article Shunichi Kawai specifically favors 193cm Keihan Takahashi
https://www.daily.co.jp/general/2024/08/16/0018016077.shtml
They don't go below 188. Nishida is their only exception since he's superior to Miyaura who is 190. The women should start setting that standard as well. They got scouts for that those people should work harder for the girls as they do for the boys.
ran is 188 and his club in italy monza i think made him play libero lmao
otsuka i would say is better than ran he's 195 and is a good defensive player too
Going back to what Zetterlund said, Airi has to be one of their key players going forward but Yoshihara isn't the type to have the middle prioritized so I don't know how she'll make that work better than what Manabe did
depends on who her setters will be.
miyashita said in her retirement interview that the reason she wasnt able to make full use of koga was that her expertise are on the right
Display MoreIn line with the 180cm+ OH/OPP conversation above, here are the 180cm+ wing spikers who played for Junior/Uni NT this year:
U18 Asian Championship
YUZUKI BABA (2008) - 180cm - OH - Kinrankai HS 2
RION CHUGANJI (2008) - 179cm (looks like already 180cm) - OPP - Higashi Kyushu HS 2
ANGELINA LILI MURASE (2007) - 181cm - OPP - Kochi Chuo HS 3
U20 Asian Championship
MIKU AKIMOTO (2006) - 185cm - OPP - Kyoei HS 3
KEILA GABRIEL (2006) - 193cm - OPP - Del Norte HS 3 (USA)
East Asia Championship
RINO TAKIZAWA (2004) - 183cm - OPP - Tsukuba Uni 2
Keila Gabriel? is that the white girl we saw in one of those U something training photos taken at the Ajinomoto training center. Question is if she's going to play for Japan in the long run. Interesting list thanks for posting
Mayu's got that covered and hopefully the liberos too. Fukudome is younger so I have higher expectations for her.
JVA should make it a point that the incoming OPP and MB slots should only be 180 and above. Develop better opps and middles. You already have your cupcake sized OHs and it will never be enough. This is the national team it should be by all means elitist. Japan is making it way too accessible.
rio 2016 they ranked 4th which is nowhere even near their disastrous fall from grace during tokyo to now. and if you rewatch their korean match it became a square up between saori and kyk. nagaoka was practically invisible and ishii did not help at all. arisa sato also performed poorly in that very match out of all the matches she really struggled to keep up in that match.
i said nothing about their ranking i was talking about manabe's strategy in utilizing the opp. miyashita relied so much on nagaoka to keep the scores moving. it was more balanced back then with someone like saori and they had a real opp plus a defensive setter who functioned like a libero.
iwasaki had a great vnl start but for some reason she didn't bring any of that this olympics and she was even bugging during kenya. i would go back and check with shibata and matsui.
TBH, the biggest problem that JPN's 2024 is that they made themselves far too centered Koga that they became predictable. It worked in the VNL but just like everything JPN did, it was easily read after a single tournament. AND I still think that the decision to hide Koga for the most part in reception gave Hayashi and Ishikawa unnecessary problems. The ball distribution during 2021 is the best tbh - almost equal on all departments. They are small and would stay small for the longest time. Unpredictability and speed will be their focus.
Also, underrated thing I hate about Manabe - but such an unflexible lineup. Wada and Inoue are specialized offensive options that usually just do not work together. They have two undersized defensive players that can handle block to an extent. It such match made in hell. Clearly, it somewhat points towards the lack of tall enough, efficient enough and receiving enough players in the local league but he could have at least gave sometime especially for players like Kaneda or Yoshino to at least grow. He literally just throw them the minute he could.
lots of great points here. as expected the method of making allrounders be the team's gun works against their odds. but he probably did it this way since the last rio 2016 nagaoka was left pushing the offense but became all too predictable. she's not exactly a whopping 6'4 artillery so while she can shift the ball faster at an angle that only lefties can do but once they read her its game over and a complete shut out.
i also wanna point out that this team's pipes are a failure. manabe used to be all about pipes but less so this time. koga is the only one with a seriously packed pipe. mayu is so-so. she can do it well but as we've seen this year it was pretty weak as was her serve. hopefully wada hones both back row attack and serve.
yoshino sato? i don't know about her but we shall see if she's even an option once the league starts and i would not look to kaneda's direction anymore that ship has sailed. i dont think she's interested or have any desire to play at a higher level.
Enter Ameze, Valdes and Santiago come next cycle and the following cycle Miku Akimoto will join NEC. Valdes is such a waste at PFU I don't know why she won't get the hell outta there.
The bitch faced girl at Toyota that was also included in the U squad might be an option too but I don't like her I'm just saying they're bound to get from one of those girls.
Sadly theyre over
