August 8, 20241 yr 1 minute ago, Blotto said: Its crazy. Womens basketball and tbh soccer also bore the living fuck out of me. WVB is electric. Continual flowing games vs Bite sized power points.
August 8, 20241 yr 10 minutes ago, kingkoopa6 said: If any Brazilians need holding. I’m here I’ll be holding mine tonight. with my penis.
August 8, 20241 yr 9 minutes ago, Js1 said: Who is ready for a 6am watch party on Sunday lol I'll be in Italy, so I'm 100% down for this after brunch
August 8, 20241 yr 29 minutes ago, G650 said: I'll be in Italy, so I'm 100% down for this after brunch Man, if the men had won yesterday, it would have been back to back 6am CT matches for gold on a Saturday and Sunday
August 8, 20241 yr Germany beating WW2 Nazi-occupied countries in the Olympics will never not be weird. It felt super weird rooting for the 6'11" German as the underdog team.
August 8, 20241 yr Watching the replay of the women vs Brazil. Did I hear correctly that the US doesn't coach jump serves at all?
August 9, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, Mittens said: Watching the replay of the women vs Brazil. Did I hear correctly that the US doesn't coach jump serves at all? That is indeed what was said. The women aren’t allowed to jump serve so they bring in men to practice defending it
August 9, 20241 yr They hit loads of jump floaters, but not heavy topspin. Maybe they just figured we didn't have any big topspin serving threats, so it'd be better to just focus on the float and keep the ball in more ... or maybe it's analytics telling them the float gets other teams out of system more. Who knows. Personally, I always liked passing a good jumpserver's topspin more than trying to pass a good float serve, esp a jump float. More predictable ... but I'm also a big proponent of mixing things up as much as possible in the serving game, a la a pitcher changing speeds, spins, location, etc. Edited August 9, 20241 yr by wood
August 9, 20241 yr 11 hours ago, Mittens said: Aren’t allowed by whom? Sunderland said the coaching staff doesn't allow the players to jump serve.
August 9, 20241 yr 5 minutes ago, Mittens said: That seems stupid, but they're playing for gold and I'm watching, so... I’m going along with Karch’s judgement on this. He seems to know a little bit about volleyball.
August 9, 20241 yr Good news, they are going to break "gold" coverage of the Bronze mens game to get back to Break Dancing so you won't miss any important action in that sport. Oh yeah, they broke away from the VB bronze just now and for half the US golf taekwondo match so I could get some Rhythmic Gymnastics and Chinese diving. Fantastic stuff.
August 9, 20241 yr The way that 2nd set went long, that was a huge win. Going up 2-0 after that is going to demoralize the Italians.
August 9, 20241 yr 7-2 USA and Italy already out of TOs lol Block party for the Americans in this set
August 9, 20241 yr 10 minutes ago, Mittens said: Italy not going quietly Yep, from about 15-15, it's just been a super high FBSO% Match point USA
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