Setting Busa pipe attack while you have Uzelac in the front row... Maja really got brainwashed by Terzic on his way out. I have no idea what she is doing this past 2 years.
Posts by jelena
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But definitely she is the best blocking MB among them
Which I expected after her last year in Italy but I personally always saw her as the better attacker. She also probably would have been the 2nd scorer of the team if she converted her usual attacking numbers.
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What Aleksic is showing on attack is getting embarrassing.
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Kurtagic and uzelac are slaying so far. Everyone else is mid lol
They are also the ones trying the hardest. I can assure you that Ognjenovic/Boskovic/Busa are not gonna give their 100%. We also historically lost more preparation games than we won so...
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2 of the blocks on Boskovic are more the fault of Maja imo I would say Boskovic is overall good. Not her best but still good. Her blocking and defense have been great
Still could have tipped the ball and not attacked straight at the block... She clearly didn't have this kind of block in practice so it's gonna be an adjustment, I have no doubt on her being better soon.
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They are looking good in system yes, sorry to not highlight that, my bad
but when there is some OOS plays their defence is just not there or how to say that, also reading the opponent.
I will give you that. Their defense definitely isn't much to write home about, but I don't think Uzelac attacked enough OOS balls to give judgment yet.
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maybe I am not right on this, but right now Serbia lacks experience playing with Uzelac and Kurtagic
And you are basing that off? Aleksic made more attack errors than both Uzelac and Kurtagic combined. Not to mention 4 blocks for Boskovic. Uzelac and Kurtagic looked pretty good imo.
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Italy having capable backup OP is such an understated boost considering how error-prone Egonu is. Catching them on a day when both Egonu and Antropova are bad is going to be hard. The only option is to shut down all other options and our service wasn't good enough for that.
Also, the first sub Milnekovic over Lazovic wasn't on my bingo card for this game. Maybe it's an injury which would explain the 5 OH on the list for OG.
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My primary question after seeing the roster is in what shape is Hande. I think it's the only factor that determines whether Turkey competes for gold or not. She had 3 small injuries in a really short time. This break is definitely gonna help + OG are a shorter tournament compared to VNL but it's still a question how her body is gonna handle all of the mental stress that comes with those important matches. They need Hande at peak form desperately, and while you have a lot of options for a variety of problems, the revolving chairs game that Santa had to play at VNL this year is not something you want to see at OGs that have such small number of games.
I personally don't find the Meliha instead of any of the other liberos makes much of a change. Sure, in theory, you can use her in the front row but you have Derya and Ebrar for that, and as a back row sub it's probably just as good as any of the 2 liberos IMO. I can't remember, was she there last summer for the VNL/EV?What is strange is that Santa spoke before the VNL Finals about how he didn't wanna bring new players in before the Olympics as a reason why he is bringing injured Ilkin to the final week, and here he is putting a new player instead of her. There must have been some disconnect between the medical staff and her recovery speed, it's a shame.
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????what do you mean ?
I just noticed I wrote Orro instead of Malinov, my bad. I was writing while watching something else and it slipped, sorry.
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Brankica will play OP most defenitely. They don’t have real OP signed and OHs are Uzelac, Seyma, Idil Naz and Bianka Ilayda. There is no way Uzelac isn’t starter there. Kochurina however won’t see that much play time unless Malinov is really bad, but their back up setter isn’t any good so I guess thy will rock with Malinov no matter what.
I just looked at the backup OPP and it's a '05 born player so that probably means Brankica really is gonna be an OPP. I wonder if she knew that before signing.
I hate that for Kochurina though, I enjoyed watching her in Volero. -
#official Zeren Spor announced Elizaveta Kochurina and Fatma Beyaz
I actually quite like Kochurina and wanted her in Turkey for a couple of years now. What I don't love is conflicting number of foreigners. I doubt Malinov left Italy to not be starter so that is a lock. That means you have to fill 2 spots left with Uzelac, Mihajlovic and Kochurina, right? And it's not even clear which positions is Brankica even playing, OPP or OH.
I'd hate it if Uzelac isn't a starter.
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It's so funny how so many players said that practices are hard and last 2-3 hours, and then they cut to Boskovic that is like yea it's not as hard as it usually is. Boss.
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KVR floor is so low...
While she does have stretches where she's unstoppable, she has even more stretches where she is an error machine. -
I wasn’t aware that Poland didn’t lost a set till now
First set they lost was from Serbia (3-1)
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Nice summary.
Using middles in attack is main thing that we lack in challenging top teams on this level.
We struggled in the block too, but this is just a bad day, but middle attack is something that we care forever in vnl when we play without Maja and Drča.
I wouldn't say it was just a bad day. Our service pressure was pretty low in the first 2 sets which largely contributed to our poor blocking imo. The reception lineup of Knollema, Marring and Reesink isn't the best and it's a shame we weren't able to use it to our advantage outside of the 3rd set. Their attackers had too many 1 on 1 attacks which was caused by fast sets to the outside after a perfect or tight reception.
Biggest factors of why we lost the game, despite having better reception, are MBs who were 3/13 in attack (23%) compared to 11/20 from Netherlands (55%) and errors with the discrepancy of 33 to 21, so +12 points gifted to Netherlands. This game was much more winable than it seemed.
But I agree on the last part completely, it's gonna be a continuous problem post Paris. -
I expected our middle to struggle but they were beyond awful in this game. Granted, Miljevic completely ignored them for a large majority of the match and they are still figuring out which position to attack from since both Osmajic and Malesevic are predominantly slide attackers, but all of that aside, they were awful in pretty much all segments.
That said, both Perovic and Miljevic middle setting isn't their strength so hopefully we see some improvement in these coming matches. -
I am really happy about Perovic and Ivanovic. Perovic ran the team so well in that 3rd set for her NT debut and Ivanovic was best player today on our side imo, alongside Bukilic.
Medved was also really great IMO.
I wish they didn't sub out Perovic in the 4th(despite her mistakes), but hopefully it was enough to get a starting spot for the next match since she clearly suits this team much more compared to low and fast style sets that Miljevic has. -
Our setter finally realised that the pos 4 is our strength and pushing high balls to them in counter attack.
Our serving also improved. I have no idea why Ivanovic served float for the first 2 sets. -
Jovana or Tijana Cvetkovic?
Jovana Cvetkovic, who is gonna be playing in Poland next year I believe.