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volleyball's over for me this season. I could give a shit about a SAGA Osaka Final
summoning the last remains of my reverse-jinx warlordism
Okayama the only non top team who made finals appearance in the last decade
Kawamoto GOAT
Kojima 💛
Iwasawa 💙
Fukudome ❤️
Nishizaki 💚
If only setters are as bountiful
I was "high" on Shiode at Uni. She hasn't played much in SVL and there seem to be better setters than her. I had hopes for her here just based on the fact that Ferhat chose her to tag along. She seems to have good leader quality but it takes more than that
Who would be better setters you think
Besides Seki, who would you rank to be second NT setter , this position seems the shallowest for them
Most of the faces I'd like to see were already cut from the roster
Are you still high on Shiode, I don't think they will use her at all, but I do wanna see Nishizaki at some point
Italy used Egonu against Korea why should Japan use their bench for Canada lol
They have b2b games tmr, resting the starters would be good don't you think? mainly Ishikawa
Play the bench tom
Wanna see some new faces
Comparing Araki to Carol's ability is honestly laughable. No offense to Araki she might be good I don't know since Yamada is the only MB that I've seen with a good slide. There are other younger MBs nowadays that are her height so Carol isn't a good reference because her level is vastly different.
I was just saying how Araki was killing balls emphatically- hence Carol metaphor- I'm not comparing her with Carol at all, no japan MBs would be comparable to her lol
If this is about Matsui she had very little opportunity in LOVB and her participation was hardly any good. I think her teammates were also very skeptical of her tosses because she couldn't give accurate 2nd and 3rd tempos to anyone. I would give her a 3/10.
Oh god
Is it possible that tbs has this wrong though?
Roster? They had a vid of the team at the airport, it's accurate
in Brazil?
Yes lol, I wouldn't say as bad as Iwasaki's but they were either too low or got read easily by blockers. Inconsistent. Though tbf I think that's mostly because her team and coach was shit, she kinda had a slump there
Maybe she improved in LOVB that's why she got called, I want her to do well again. Her, Seki and Momii are the only ones I can think of being NT material but 2 of those are in a slump
That's why PFU might be a good move for her, grind out whole season to get back in groove with no competition, same with momii for Hisamitsu
I hope Matsui gets the start and she does well. I forget what her limitations are
Matsui chokes worse than Seki, also not good with mbs
MB - Also safe. Araki is like the biggest and best built Japanese player in a long time. She's gotta break out of her weenie shit. I think she will
her weenie shit is entirely because of iwasaki's "sets", she spikes like Carol when Sakae is her setter
Fukudome is locked. Those tbs vlogs were from weeks ago they're not recent
There's no way Nishimura is snatching Fukudome's spot she was never good enough to be a starter or Kojima's sub
Based on the most recent tbs vlog
Could this be their week 1 lineup??
Nakagawa/Seki/Matsui
Nonaka/Wada
Yamada/Shimamura/Araki/Airi
Ishikawa/Akimoto/Fukazawa/Sato
Kojima/Nishimura/Iwasawa
I wish they would test Asano or Yamaguchi instead
Anybody else think Kurogo's smiling is a little sus? Feels overdone to me
I feel like kurogo died in 2021 and this is some sort of replacement of her
What? why? I thought I saw her in the training camp clips
They joined training camp but they are not included in the initial 30 man roster for vnl, but I think they can still make last minute changes until next week (?)
NEC and Saga hitters not in the camp videos so far, except for one appearance of Wada and Yoshino when it was mentioned that they just joined. Probably we will see them in the next one
Valdes, Matsui, NEC players all appeared last time so they're next
Seki and Fukudome were the last ones to join
Kurogo looks lethargic in all her clips in the training camp
I expect nothing but an Egonu performance from her because if not, then what are they doing why is she there even B team is not for her
Osaka MV’s libero Nishizaki is added.
Omg
no championship shirts, no medals, that's the most 'get it over with' awarding
[-] apparently there's a separate award ceremony on May 8, maybe that would be better
