Posts by haruezuki

Quote from sitenoise

Anybody have a good site to follow the upcoming SEA Games? Volleytrails is loose, volleybox is untrustworthy, wikipedia is thin. AVC site doesn't cover it? Is there an "official" site kind of a thing? A site that will have B forms and official rosters? Some good tweetboxers?

Majoy Baron is my future wife

I'm not sure if Cignal Play is geo-blocked, but this channel has been televising the SEA Games and other Ph NT Games (more so with the women's team since they're more mainstream) since 2019. Just sign up using an email and they'll let you stream for free (at least right now they do...).

There's always the Ph One Sports and Puso Pilipinas on Facebook (since it's the SEA Games, there's a high chance Thai One Sports will be streaming it too, but the first three sites are kind of locked in for streaming with partially English coverage).

As for updates on the Women's Team, they're currently in Brazil on their 6-week long training camp with their newly appointed head coach. The Philippine team doesn't really have an "official account" or site for NT updates, the general public usually gets updates from prominent news outlets such as Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, and Rappler. The more active fans get Ph Volleyball news from Twitter accounts like this one a little earlier than the general public, you just have to be wary with their posts, though. Some of them are unconfirmed news.

I'm pretty sure you know about her team F2 Logistics and the already. But I'll just leave this site here in case you don't know about their recent transfer to the PVL, so you can watch some of her team's games this season if you feel like it.

is it just me, or does the seagulls-springs match seem a lot more intense than yesterday’s?

the fact that okayama only lost by 2 points in every set is just…

and 2 over 3 of those even went to 29 - 31!

Quote from sitenoise

Can anyone tell me what this means, and what 'A Pass' and 'B Pass' are?

I only read a vague explanation about it, but it literally just grades how well the serve receive is

An A Pass is more or less passed just above the setter's box, wherein they don't have to adjust or chase the ball that much, it's usually when they try to pull quicks and combination plays.

A B Pass is around 1-2 meters away from the setter's box, not that bad, just gives the setters fewer options, unless they can pull off good quicks with underhand sets, run or kneel while setting and whatnot (I think I remember Miyashita doing some of these during the Rio era). Some of them are still salvageable to the point where a setter can still set up quicks and combination plays though.

There's also a C Pass = more than 2 meters away from the setter's box, usually when the setters are forced to use the pins (I categorize them as Out of System Plays though).

Quote from sitenoise

DAZN's contract ended. As far as I know, there is no distributor outside Japan. It's VTV or nothing

I think V.League is working on something with Thailand and the Philippines

I read somewhere that Japan and Thailand have good connections, so that doesn't seem unlikely.

This matter about V. League working with the Philippines seems much more realistic though, I think One Sports already has a partnership with the B. League, seeing as they stream almost every game with a Philippine import with them. The V. League could also profit a lot from a deal like that, lots of Filipino fans have gotten interested in both Japanese men's and women's volleyball. Volleyball is already the second most popular sport in the country even though it's been only around a decade since it became mainstream, close to bumping out basketball that's been around since the 70s.

A partnership with both countries could profit both sides (more going to Japan), it could happen, it just depends on whether or not they'd agree to endorse their league in international media.

Quote from werka

i mean JT and Toray's location

toray is based in otsu, shiga, and jt is based in osaka, hyogo.

hyogo and shiga seem rather close, and the japanese usually just use bullet trains to travel from prefecture to prefecture.

okayama lost?!?!

what happened? my stream died at 8-7

Quote from wargirls

Did we jinx Ageo too much? 😶

are they not doing well? i thought for sure that they'd win against a foluke-less saga, that's why i stopped streaming it after i saw one of lorenne's spike in the first set.

this okayama-himeji game is crazy!

Quote from sitenoise

Damn NoSmilers. What happened haru_12 ?

they lost a 16-12 lead in the 4th set and lost the match and set at 25-20. kawamoto put miyashita in for a double sub at around 20-22, but it was already too late.

Quote from Aryka

I can't watch the Himeji-NEC and Okayama-Torray games. VTV I hate you

someone on twitter posted a link for the toray-okayama match and a tweet that's filled with other match links

Quote from werka

This JT setter is too short lol

i only watched a few snippets of the jt matches, but now that you say that, where is aki momii? is she injured or something?

a link for the toray-okayama match finally popped up on twitter!!!!

Quote from voly

Mika is an MB, not an OH. Attacking type with a strong whip. From what I can remember she had a good serve but bad reception

Mika is considered a better blocker than she is an attacker by most fans. She's not really the best, but she offers a stable performance whenever she's called upon. She's also one of the few PH MBs that has good floor defense (along with Majoy Baron And Aby Maraño, they all went to the same University). As far as I remember, she was always part of the top 3 best blockers in her college days, up until now in the pro leagues (aside from this season, not really as up to par as last season's performance).

Quote from sitenoise

I don't really know her. The 2019 SEA Games and Grand Prix was when I tried to ramp up on PHI and I haven't seen a lot more than that

She was out for most of the latter part of the 2019 season due to a minor knee injury she got in the All-Filipino Conference when she was still playing for Petron. She did get a few minutes of playing time in the 2019 SEA Games, but that was just in the bronze match against Indonesia (she played in the 4th and 5th sets).

She wasn't selected for this year's NT, which caused some ruckus with the fans. She's one of the "pioneers" of PH volleyball since she was part of the ADMU-DLSU college rivalry (started in her first year) that made volleyball so popular in the Philippines. Currently one of the more well-known volleyball players, but she didn't play that well this season (her new club's setter didn't use their middles that much).

Quote from sean1

Speaking of Santiago, wasn't there a rumour(?) that she wants to naturalise. Is that still happening?

It isn't a rumour. IIRC, she said something in an interview about someone from the Saitama coaching staff (not really sure if it's from Saitama) offering her assistance to get Japanese citizenship. She said that she declined because she wanted to be part of the rise of Philippine volleyball on the international stage, but she says that she might reconsider the offer in the future (she said something about wanting to compete in the Olympics).

thai one sports posted a live stream for the jt-saitama match.

if a non-vtv subscriber is looking for links, i have the pfu-toyota and okayama-kurobe ones.

the other links for the next games are on the caption of the pfu-toyota match.

Quote from haru_12

Kawamoto

it's not that bad...

if you compare it to the first two sets

if a non-vtv subscriber is looking for an okayama-saitama link, i have it right here

Quote from haru_12

drop the link for Seagulls-Ageo

found this on twitter

https://www.facebook.com/10223…1009595019772994/?app=fbl