Posts by Rhaemon

Quote from hakin12

This isnt about volley, but China Junior NT in basketball has a 16-year old girl who is 230 cm tall lmao! She dominates and scores like 40-50 pts in every game. Yes, they are arguably getting taller. I wonder when a volleyball NT get a player who is 230 cm as well hehe

🤯 at 16. She'll grow even more.

but i think in VB, being too tall will be more of a liability because it makes the player less explosive and slower . Height works best when power is the main consideration (this girl is literally immovable). Which isn't the case in volleyball.

Quote from Copravolley22

"Millitary accademy Bonitta"- Karpol could have done something like this in the 1980s in USSR or early 1990s in Russia. In Italy such working methods will never be accepted, especially in the age of the Internet etc. You need someone calm but at the same time with authority: I believe that Barbolini and Velasco have these qualities. Barbolini was able to shout at Pietrini during an Italian league match when he felt it was the right thing to do. Ze Roberto could also make Jaqueline cry sometimes during one of the breaks during the match and no one considered him a tyrannical despot.

is Pietrini a bit of a diva? the way her coach talke about her (when they announced her transfer to Russia) seem to imply that she is.

Quote from Altinli

It's the Tatar orgs in Russia thanking Arina's dad for representing Russia as Tatars and other Tatar ethnic sportsmen and women along with him. Just shared it because it's interesting and Arina's possible naturalization was spoken of here, it could also be for league purposes with double citizenship. Some people said she is from a neo-nationalist old school Russian family and therefore would never which didn't age well with a bit of research.

Also ngl this isn't a real solution for naturalization, at most NTs will scout young talents before they can play for senior NT similar to Antropova for Italy. Also gives a lot of power to some corrupt federations which will force a player to play for their NT if they already plan to move, while the other with a more lax federation will be able to play abroad. Just my opinion.

patriotism is surely strong among the Russians. Arina said herself her main goal for going to a stronger league is to better serve the RU NT.

Quote from hakin12

The new Russian OPP (Valeria Kozlova) who is 209 cm and the daughter of an ex-professional who plays for Zarechiye Odintsovo seems to be the new "real deal". Still very early, but she seems talented and scored a lot in the junior league. https://women.volleybox.net/valeria-kozlova-p75949/clubs

Goodness me. What do they feed these kids?

the new ones are taller than ever.

Quote from volleySrb

Serbia and Bulgaria also have clubs "Dinamo"

I forgot they're in one region

Quote from Sassy

Draisma Dynamo is located in Apeldoorn, NL

oh. I thought only Russia say Dynamo

Quote from Sassy

According to the NOS, Kirsten Knip will return to the national competition and play for Draisma Dynamo this season. I'm not sure if it will really help her towards Paris, but at least she has a club now so that's good I guess

she was so heartbroken when she was cut from the NT. she's playing in some smaller leagues before. I think going to Russia is not bad at all.

Quote from serdar

Check Carrillo's and Godina's serves from past, they are better than Arina and Vargas. Many cuban and Russian players had very strong jump serves, as strong as best servers of our time, if not better.

I've seen them before but I don't think the consistency of the power behind their serves are comparable to now.

Italy has to lose. They have to.

Quote from side.out

Lavarini's timeout half in Italian and half in English just drives me crazy...

Probably most of the poles understand Italian by now?

Quote from sitenoise

Why is there any mumbling about this, that, or another thing happening when it comes to Japan making Paris? I have it on good word that Japan is 100% going. Am I being punked?

probably because this is the only time (in a long time) that they did not qualify via OQT? and teams are almost unpredictable nowadays. their ranking CAN go down and they may not make it to Paris after all.

Quote from arreath

does thailand even have any realistic chance?

none.

Quote from sitenoise

So you just made something up ?

I mean the only thing I can think of is her injury maybe more serious than we can see. or maybe she's heartbroken... I fill the void in my head for stuff like this

she's probably sulking too,

Quote from sitenoise

She's fine, and has the best combination of power (such that it is in Japan grading on a curve) and accuracy

then I couldn't think of any other reason she's sitting most of the time

Quote from Sassy

I'm so excited to watch Mayu in A1 next year

I'll be watching more of Italian VB because of her. then fener for Fetisova

Quote from Hassan Kadem

Manabe's system is starting to annoy me and I was not questioning his overshit system before any of this. Why does he keep holding back Mayu and bringing her in during gthe most inconvenient of times.

maybe her injury is more serious.

I have a bad feeling about this. Paris 2024 may make Tokyo look like a bronze medal.

Quote from IMB

KOGA cant carries japan . Maybe should try mayu

she can't even captain it. maybe Mayu's injury is a lot more serious

koga can't captain and has been off for how long... tsk

Quote from sitenoise

Suelle Oliveira when she played for Himeji

maybe if they train like Gabi (who's as tall as Koga), they'll probably be more explosive on the spikes.

girl has an absurd body fat ratio