{"id":13268,"date":"2015-09-29T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T08:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=13268"},"modified":"2015-09-29T09:00:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T08:00:46","slug":"is-blaming-the-hitters-really-the-right-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/29\/is-blaming-the-hitters-really-the-right-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Is blaming the hitters really the right call?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This post is from September 2015 &#8211; early during my time in Sweden.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was a post on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volleywood.net\/volleyball-tournaments\/2015-world-cup\/why-team-usa-did-not-win-the-world-cup\/\">Volleywood<\/a> website following the conclusion of the Women&#8217;s World Cup. In it the author sought to explain why the US failed to finish in the top two. It&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve wanted to talk about since seeing the article. PhD thesis work occupied my non-coaching time, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now I&#8217;ve got a chance, so here goes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The author of the piece spends a lot of time talking about hitting errors and the team&#8217;s low hitting percentage in key matches. At the end, though, he also says the US had by far the best serve reception efficiency among the key contenders. It&#8217;s easy to blame the hitters for poor hitting. I couldn&#8217;t help but think, though, the problem was with poor decision-making and\/or execution by the setters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately, I didn&#8217;t get to watch any of the matches. However, when a team passes well and generally speaking has a pretty good collection of attackers, but hits poorly, then my first question is whether the setter is getting the job done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is actually an under-examined element of the game. Setters can make poor set choices. So long as the set is a good one, though, people tend not to blame them for any attacking failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One commentator blames hitting errors against key opponents for the failure of the US women at the 2015 World Cup. But what caused all those errors?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[177,230,293,421],"class_list":["post-13268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-coaching","category-volleyball-coaching-articles","tag-hitting","tag-offensive-strategy","tag-setting","tag-volleyball-offense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}