Long Beach State Athletics!: Re: A night at the Beach WVB

absolutely will need to get more from Murphy. 1st game so will see what types of sets Murphy gets tonight. Maxwell getting 30 attacks and Murphy only 20 is a bit crazy

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Set 2 LB was up 19-15. UCLA ran off 10 straight to take the set. Natalie never called a time out to try to stop the bleeding?They were in a tough rotation. Had brought Madi C in to set who proceeded to almost exclusively st Madi M telegraphing where the set was going. They just looked out of sorts.

Set 4 had another lead mid game and then went into a funk. They looked defeated late in the set. Perhaps it was UCLA’s not letting any balls hit the floor? They were digging everything.

Don’t think the Beach had any blocks through the first two sets. Pola had four blocks over sets three and four.

Agree with RCB1 and hope Reagan and think they will be able to shake the rust off either having played competitive indoors for a while

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The attendance was great and hopefully that is an indication of increased crowd size throughout the season.

UCLA was definitely beatable last night if LBSU just cut down on the prolonged periods of bad play. Seemed like they got caught up in it and just could not side out fast enough. UCLA did dig up some balls that typically go down.

The team really did not receive much help from their transfers and that has to change if the team wants to contend for a conference championship. Hopefully, they will come alive tonight and bring the team a road victory.

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wow, that crowd was beyond impressive, and 95% Beach fans and the student section has to be top 5 in the nation if not vying for #1.

and we were entertained throughout, yep not the best VB by both teams at times

backcourt I thought was really good Izzy and Jelinek, more confident and covering even more ground. & they know how to place their serves. Jelinek I think was a difference maker

serving. whoever is coaching serving last two years deserves credit, the placement is really good. yes, UCLA didn't look too impressive on alot of receptions, contributing to that first set win, still Beach serves strategically very well.

Hamaker, was nervous, but she looked sharp especially at the beginning. unfortunately as the game wore on she had trouble scoring. her serve was improved and does do damage. hopefully keeps confidence just she is gonna need help from middles getting more production to get attempts.

Maxwell as well improved and obviously gonna be a key to improve upon some sets. her Hybrid game to hit from the right and her ability to score at setter is such a huge dynamic to throw teams off.

The block looked ok, the good thing is improvemetn from here.

Stamina/strength. just seemed UCLA's physical play (those players had some bulk behind the height) felt like it eventually wore on Beach like a boxer. Not making some plays and blowing leads sets 2-4 results from not making 3 or 4 plays here and there in the middle of runs, especially that 19-15 lead that got erased with all sorts of plays made by UCLA. combo mental but also strength. are the practices / weights gonna get more rigorous, the skill level is ok, but we were not good enough to grind out UCLA.

tonight will be interesting, I'd like to think they can rebound, just they are going to have to adjust and not sure where the adjustment will be & UCLA has some pins/middles that can bash.

this team will need more than to ride and die with the serve game getting other teams out of position, even some middle lower Big West teams will not be pushovers cause they'll be able to receive.