A Volleyball Coach's film breakdown of A&M v Kentucky - 25minutes

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For those who like me are digging deeper into the game…
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Seems interesting
flintdragon
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and he calls the Aggies "Texas A&M" in this one.
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If anyone can give a clear explanation on the difference between international and USA play styles, would much appreciate it. Several commentators have mentioned it now.
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Our sets for the hitter were lower and quicker, not giving KY long periods to react. Their sets were higher or loopier for lack of better word - giving Ags more time to time their blocks. Feel free to correct if wrong.
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I think it's largely referring to the facts that we ran Logan on a D ball with the middle in front (vs running a Bic with a slide) and our hitters were almost always aggressive and would attack the block frequently.
I also think it's a buzz word people use since Jamie's from an international background.
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Really interesting. Thanks for sharing!
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flintdragon said:

If anyone can give a clear explanation on the difference between international and USA play styles, would much appreciate it. Several commentators have mentioned it now.


Not sure what they were talking about specifically, but there are some differences between NCAA and international.

A couple years back Jamie mentioned that the labeling of rotations or zones was different at the international level and he stuck with international labeling to prep the girls for international play. I would guess club/HS level is pretty much in-line with what most NCAA programs are doing, so it is a matter of when the players have to go through the transition. Obviously, this has no real effect on play, and not something the announcers would be seeing.

NCAA allows a lot more substitutions per set than at the national team level. So international has more 6 rotation players and front row players need to be good at all phases of the game. Maybe the announcers are picking up on Logan and Kyndal playing most rotations and Ifenna serving and playing back row for a half rotation. There were a couple matches this season where the other team got into substitution trouble and were stuck with what they had on the court.

Jamie also said something at the beginning of the season of incorporating more technique for the men's game. He wasn't specific, but I wondered if it was something like Ifenna serve. Maybe some of the speed of Maddie's sets? Watching the playoffs, my wife commented a few times about the various teams and their arching servers and their high slow sets.

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I don't remember seeing any slide sets for our middles in any of the matches I watched. Wonder if it's personnel or just Jamie's preference?
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akm91 said:

I don't remember seeing any slide sets for our middles in any of the matches I watched. Wonder if it's personnel or just Jamie's preference?

No idea how hard it is but I don't think many middles have the proper footwork for some reason. Also probably a tough set at least what I've observed in club.

We did run a handful of slides but most I didn't think looked that good compared to what Nebraska loves to do.
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This was a good video, and he does talk a little about what he sees as the differences in the International game. He sums it up as playing a lot more aggressively with power and creativity, though I think it's a little more complex than that.

Take this with a grain of salt as I was just a mid-level rec league player who for oddball reasons sometimes played with players who were much better than me, but I don't think the concepts he talks about would be unfamiliar to other NCAA teams. But executing them consistently and having a scheme that emphasizes them is not the norm.

For example, he mentions a couple of times that if the ball is set tight to the net that the hitter should assess the weaknesses in the block, and then wipe it on the weaker opposing blocker and out of bounds. I'd be very surprised if any high-level player didn't know this in principle.

I also wonder if teams will respond to how A&M is playing and if this will influence the NCAA game more widely. Morrison's system puts a lot of pressure on opposing teams with aggressive serves and swings, a lot of emphasis on blocking, and a very fast system that often doesn't allow the blocks and back row defense time to set up.

A&M uses a lot of fast low sets (quick 1-sets, and low-arc 2 or 3 sets that we might call shooters) and when there's a good first pass and the timing is right it makes it hard for even a good opposing team.

They don't seem to slide the middles much to hit, but my uneducated take is they didn't need to because Maddie Waak could quickly distribute the ball to three or more options on many plays, which already forces the defense to pick their poison and often be late to respond. The speed of the offense meant that there was often a seam in the block or a defender couldn't pull off the net in time to cover the cross court angle shot.
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About the lack of slides, Morrison has mentioned that both our middles were exceptional attacking "off two legs". Combine that with the fact that we could run Logan on backrow attacks on the right side (where a slide is normally run) just as effectively without taking away our middle threat. No reason the mess with slide attacks this year given our roster strengths.

With Logan and middles now gone, Morrison has brought in 2 transfer middles who he said were much better attacking "off one leg" (ie off a slide). So he clearly sees value in that ability and it's safe to assume we'll have more slide attacks incorporated into the offense next year based on roster strengths next year vs this year.
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flintdragon said:

akm91 said:

I don't remember seeing any slide sets for our middles in any of the matches I watched. Wonder if it's personnel or just Jamie's preference?

No idea how hard it is but I don't think many middles have the proper footwork for some reason. Also probably a tough set at least what I've observed in club.

We did run a handful of slides but most I didn't think looked that good compared to what Nebraska loves to do.



Jamie made a comment about the incoming middles being good off one foot. Edit: Swollen Thumb explained it better than me.

I will add Jamie made a side remark during that interview that the new freshman/recruit middles are also good off one foot.

Jamie has been doing this long enough at the national team level where they get a group of players and a couple weeks practice that I think it is more of a "best plan for the players you have". Although the fact that all our next batch of middles are "good off one foot" might provide some indication of what Jamie's preference is.
akm91
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Thanks! Makes a lot of sense based on our middle's tendencies.
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