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  1. It's the dumbest metric in volleyball. The point of a serve is not to get an ace. It's to put pressure on the opponent so their scoring options are limited. But we don't measure that in the box score. There should be a measurement of how many points a team scores with the player at the service line. That would be an easy, objective measurement that wouldn't take any time at all to tally. It's not a fair assessment of a server. It is, however, a fair assessment of the effectiveness of that specific service rotation. Swindle had a service run in the 4th set where she had two effective serves. Texas scores on both. Her third serve goes a little long - not much long mind you, but a little - and the announcers are all over her about how you have to get that serve in against that rotation. I will take a 67% scoring run from the service line all day long every day. Texas scored on 42.7% of their serves versus Florida scoring on 31.8% of their's. That's literally the difference in the match. I hate the stupid ace/error ratio so much. It has absolutely no meaning regarding the outcome of a match whatsoever.
  2. Reanchor: How Texas is Responding to Their First Losses of the Season // Hook-Em Nation
  3. I was just about to post, lol. When Florida is on, they can be dangerous. Auguste and Rothe are good middle blockers. We tried to recruit Rothe. Byrd is talented but uneven as an outside hitter. Auguste is terrific as an offensive middle. Madkin is the second outside. A transfer out of Arkansas. Smallish, and up and down, but when she's on she's dangerous. I love Stucky. I think she's one of the best setters in the country. It's a shame her career at Florida has gone the way it has. I'm sure not what she expected. She's celebrating senior night with one year of eligibility left, so that's a pretty good sign she's gone after this season. I will be surprised and disappointed if we lose to this Florida team. They have talent, but they haven't been consistent all year. Just lost to South Carolina of all teams 3-1, with 15 service errors. Out hit, out dug, out scored the Gamecocks, but in the end out lost to them, too. There was a vbadrenaline article about changes Elliott has made with the team. I should have posted it here but haven't. I'm interested to see if anything manifests tonight, whether good or bad. I feel like fans take too literally what coaches say to the media in terms of what is going on with the team. I'm interested to see if there are any differences in how the team plays and what is emphasized. Specifically in terms of serving and blocking. Apparently that's what David Hunt was recently put in charge of. Don't know who had those responsibilities before, or what can be done in a week versus a whole off season.
  4. It's more misguided with Herman since the guy was a pos. I do reminisce about the glory days under Shaka Smart. No way he loses to Duke in that game. Never should have strongly encouraged him to take that job at Marquette and saved us the hassle of firing of him. I'm glad Miller is the head coach now. I don't know how he ends up doing, but I have hope for the program again.
  5. I think game threads in general bring out the toxicity. I like what I saw. I didn't know what to expect, but whatever it was, this team exceeded it. Now we have a good baseline. I knew there were going to be parts missing from this roster. I had doubts whether we had enough shooters. I had doubts about how much playmaking is on this team. I had doubts about how good we'd play defensively. And all those are question marks. But I do feel like we have the semblance of a legitimate tournament level frontcourt. I believe we have a legitimate stud for a swingman in Swain. And our backcourt has some length and effort. I wish we had more of true point guard, but as a friend of mine pointed out to me, "is that even a thing any more? Florida won the national championship last year with a game runner. Duke doesn't really have a true point guard this year." I just replied I'm old and I want what I want. There probably isn't a team on the schedule with as much length in the backcourt as Duke. We couldn't run transition because the guards had to help rebound defensively. I'm interested to see how the team evolves this year. It's about Miller creating an identity for this team, and establishing what he wants potential incoming players to see so he can upgrade the roster. This was the opening salvo, and as should be expected, mixed results were achieved. A little irritated by the coverage. I expected this on some level, but the fellating of Duke and Boozer exceeded my expectations. By a lot.
  6. Oh man. Thanks for the correction. Yeah, I need to get that right. Like I said, I'm amazing at getting names wrong. So I nail Vokietaitis and Traore, but screw up Swain. That's on me for sure. I was over here double and triple checking, too, lol.
  7. Whose name did I misspell? I honestly get names wrong all the time in embarrassing ways, but I don't think I did there, and neither one of those names are super easy.
  8. Nice high low from Vokietaitis to Traore. Traore is just rusty out there. Couldn't finish. Swaim directing traffic. I really really like this kid.
  9. I'm looking at the box score and he's got 16 shots, with the next closest Pope at 9. I guess I want him to shoot every shot. I hope I don't think that, but I would like to see him touch the ball more regularly on every possession.
  10. This doesn't feel like sharing. This feels like Swaim passing the ball out and never seeing it come back in. It's the first game. Not really complaining. He's just really good and he needs the opportunity to be a difference maker. Especially when this roster lacks them.
  11. With Smart and Terry 9 of the last 10 years it feels like a luxury. Penders' teams gave off the same vibe, too. It's nice to have a real coach in charge, regardless of what ends up transpiring. Other than being arrested for domestic violence. Almost regardless.
  12. It's like we're freezing Swaim out. He gives up the ball and it never goes back to him. His teammates aren't even looking for him. Of course, Pope hit a couple of nice 3s, so I'm happy about that. But we need to make sure we're giving the ball to our best player consistently.
  13. More Swaim, please.
  14. If I was sent to prison and my cellmate sodomized me, knowing it was probably going to happen wouldn't make it feel any better.
  15. Another phantom foul call in favor of Duke with no replay.
  16. I find myself thinking Swaim needs to be touching the ball every possession. At some point this season he's going to take over this team. He's clearly a much better player than anyone else.
  17. That was highly entertaining. Bad pass, but thank you.
  18. They're going to talk more about Kansas tonight than they do about Texas.
  19. I mean...PJ Tucker.
  20. 2024 .749 2023 .757 2022 .748 2021 .746 2019 .685 2018 .697 2017 .665 I'd say 75% free throw shooting as a team is pretty good.
  21. Yes. I agree. That was my first impression. My first impression was wrong.
  22. Anyone hear the story about Sean Miller as a free throw shooter?
  23. Last possession was a waste. But we're up at half. I'm going to love how they talk about all the things Duke did so well in the first half if the Blue Devils go in to the locker room down by one.
  24. I love Vokietaitas's physicality. I see a big skinny white kid, I get worries about how physical they're going to be. No worries with that kid. I see a future hated Texas player in our opponents' future. I understand there's some polish needed, but easier to coach polish than toughness. You either have it or you don't.
  25. It's ridiculous. We're the Washington Generals here.
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