OU Week, Let's go Ladies!!!

[majorwhiteapples]

Where are my expert analysis of the OU team? I can read the pregame press report and other skinny on these ladies from north of the Red River?

Let's go Horns!!!!!

 

[Bill in Sinton]

The game is this Saturday at 5 P.M. in Austin. Those in Austin that can please go support these ladies. Also do the same for our Women's Tennis Team which has a tournament in Austin from Friday to Sunday.
I know the football team isn't playing this weekend but we must remember when we keep the synergy and focusness for all teams it helps our football team and other sports get the desired results.

Go Horns! Fight and Win!

 

[LonghornCatholic]

 

[DINO22]

OU upset Kansas St last night. Hope we are ready!
Hookem'

 

[TempestHorn]

OU gave K-State a very steady diet of Reynolds from the right side with a little McLaurin from the middle to keep 'em honest. I was not impressed with OU's outside hitters. I'm hoping Bailey & Hayley and our middle blockers can control Reynolds and not allow her to go off. Fernanda will dig everything which will really frustrate us so we're going to have to remain patient. I hope we've been working on our lineup all week and the connection between the setter and our middles. It's strange to me that we are a month into the season and I feel like tomorrow we are going to the "opening" match of the season wondering what to expect.

 

[s102r18]

I was out of town and missed the match (and the leadup to it), but it sounds like the expected hard fight turned into a dominating sweep. Wins of 18/14/10, for a total of 42, average of 14?? Mighty impressive!!!JE:

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[majorwhiteapples]

Did get a chance to watch the game, just so the post game comments and stats. Sounds like it was a dominating team that had switched up the strategy.........Gone back to the 6-1? Not sure if that was the strategy change or if I have the terminology correct.

 

[s102r18]

The terminology does seem strange at first: 5-1 versus 6-2. You never have eight players on the court at once, so it is naturally confusing.

Texas started the year running a 6-2, which means 2 different setters, each of whom usually always operates as a setter only in the back row. Because the setter is always in a back row slot (rotation wise), and because back row players are not allowed to attack from in front of the 3 meter line, you can never see a (legal) setter dump in a standard 6-2. (Lauren Cook was notorious for getting away with illegal setter dumps in Nebraska's 6-2.)

Our 'Horns are now using the more traditional 5-1, which means a single setter who plays all six rotations. Because she plays in the front row for three rotations, the setter usually also fills the role of the second "OPP" player. She is responsible for helping with the block while in the front row rotations. (Back row players are not allowed to block.) Of course while in the front row she only has two front row attackers she can set, but she can use the setter dump to offset that limitation.

If you ignore jersey numbers and think only about rotation positions, in the 6-2 there are six different "players" that the two setters can set in the course of a match. In the 5-1 there are only five different "players" that the single setter can set. The difference is the second RS (OPP) player who subs in for the second setter in the front row. Frequently this second RS player is the taller of the two setters, so she is actually a six rotation player who acts as a dedicated setter in the back row and a dedicated blocker/attacker in the front row. That was how Texas used Nicole Dalton while running the 6-2.

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[DINO22]

I hope he's keep the same lineup.
Hookem'

 

[majorwhiteapples]

That helps a bunch, now I have to watch a game and put it in perspective. Thanks.

I am not sure if it was the strategy against OU, they were that bad, or a combination of the two. Probably a combination.

Thanks again.