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(VB) Ongoing Volleyball Thread

Discussion in 'Alligator Alley (other sports)' started by johnny_cakes, Apr 9, 2022.

  1. cron78

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    Big time face kiss. Powerful. Almost worth watching us fade when one of those exclamation points happens.
     
  2. gatornharlem

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    12-14
     
  3. gtr2x

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    A couple of service aces would be nice.
    12-14.
     
  4. flnative75

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    I always paid my players 50 bucks per blast lmao
     
  5. flnative75

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    Great match!! These teams could play 10 times and would split 5/5
     
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  6. GatorPlanet

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    With Stuckey, we win that.
     
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  7. gatornharlem

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    Losing Stuckey was the difference.. I hope it's not an ACL injury
     
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  8. gtr2x

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    Tough loss, great atmosphere, hope Stuckey is gonna be ok.
     
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  9. bigDgator

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    Oh crap. I just saw the final score and came here to get the recap. Hope Stuckey is ok.
     
  10. gatornharlem

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    Still a very impressive showing for the Gators!
     
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  11. sweetpotato2

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    Great match losing Stuckey sucked. We will probably see them in the tournament later. hopefully with a different result.
    go gators
     
  12. gatornharlem

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    10,313!!! This should have a positive impact on Recruits! I wonder how many times SEC teams have sold out their arena for volleyball? Our team is so young. As long as our best players stay put, the next 3-4 years have the potential to be the greatest in Wise's career. Volleyball will be in great position to bring home that elusive natty for Wise. Women's Softball, Gymnastics, T&F, Swimming, Lacrosse will all be national title contenders. And women's tennis is on the upswing too.
     
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  13. ETGator1

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    the dolt color announcer said she didn't see a difference without stucky. lol! they didn't catch essix wasn't playing either. if we have stucky, essix, and hutson, uf is unbeatable. with just stucky, wisky goes down 3-0. i hope stucky's injury isn't season ending. btw, cmw looks like genius to getting okammor pt in earlier matches. nnedi played great today.
     
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  14. gatornharlem

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    I was watching the Louisvillle-Stanford match before ours. Commentators were talking about their current top 5 teams. Neither one mentioned Florida. They said "Louisville, Wisconsin, Stanford...Texas and Minnesota have a couple of losses...oh and Nebraska looks good. Then everyone else...such parity...
     
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  15. GatorLurker

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    While losing the match hurts the possibility for losing Stuckey for a few games or the season hurts much more.

    Her replacement was OK but not the same threat at the net for a killer dump. That threat can keep some blockers away from the pins. And she has incredible court awareness that is rare.
     
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  16. ETGator1

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    1. wisconsin 2. nebraska 3. florida 4. louisville 5. stanford
     
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    The setter is like the team QB - the offense runs through her. Kennedy Muff is a Grad Transfer who was a star at Flagler College in St. Augustine. But that's a lot different that playing at a Top 5 D1 program. Stuckey is taller, very deceptive with her passing, can serve really well, blocks well and can sneak in a kill shot every now and then. She is truly an All-American and will be missed tremendously when she's not on the floor. I noticed, too, that Kennedy Martin's production dropped off dramatically when Stuckey left the game. The preciseness of the set-up passing was just not as efficient or crisp. No fault of Muff's - she's good and the only other setter on the team. She's just not Alexis. Mary Wise even experimented a few times without a setter on the court and stole a few points that way. But it's going to be really hard to win matches against quality teams without a high tier setter.
     
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  18. johnny_cakes

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    I was about 10 feet from where Stuckey ended up down on the floor. I don't know how much they showed on TV -- sometimes they cut away for this type of thing -- but her face showed obvious intense pain. It was just horrible to see and it was amazing that the team could play at all after that, much less get to a tie-breaker. Even as a fan, it was hard to get back into it.

    Godspeed to Alexis and hopefully, as she says before every serve, "Got it!"
     
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  19. johnny_cakes

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    Without Stuckey, our hold on the #3 ranking might be tenuous.
     
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