{"id":15142,"date":"2016-06-03T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=15142"},"modified":"2016-06-03T08:00:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T13:00:46","slug":"trying-hide-setter-signals-make-fake-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/03\/trying-hide-setter-signals-make-fake-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying to hide setter signals or make fake calls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In another post I addressed an email on the subject of hitters calling their sets or calling for the ball<\/a>. One part of the email I didn’t specifically address in that post is the idea of hiding play calls and\/or otherwise trying to deceive the other team about what attack routes the hitters will be taking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I certainly have no problem with the setter hiding their signals. I’m a bit less enthusiastic about hitters yelling for one set and running for another, as the emailer described.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In all seriousness, does that sort of thing ever work?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I’m a blocker I’m watching<\/a> you make your run, not really listening to what you’re saying. If you call for a 51<\/a> (quick in front of the setter) and run a 31 (quick away from the setter), I won’t be faked out. There is only one real fake I think might work. That is one where you do something like show a 51, but then step around the setter to hit a 71 (quick behind). This can work because the blocker pretty much has to commit on the 51 to be able to stop it. At least if you’re on the right tempo<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’d actually go one step further. I contend that you can tell the other team exactly what each hitter will run and it wouldn’t make a massive amount of difference. Look at the men’s game, especially at the upper levels. They all pretty much run the same thing. You don’t see a lot of variation. Doesn’t stop the offense from being highly effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have often compared the setter in volleyball to a quarterback who runs the option in football<\/a>. Every defense who plays against the option offense knows where the different players are going. It comes down to whether the quarterback (setter) can make the correct decision. They need to select the right option based on how the defense (block) commits itself and how well both teams execute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And of course there’s the broader question of whether the proper play calling is being done in the first place. Is your best hitter against the weakest point in the block? If so, then you’ll probably have success. That’s true even if the other team knows exactly where the ball’s going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How much does hiding your team’s play calls from the other side or trying to fake them out really make a difference? Probably not as much as you’d think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[125,230,421,469],"class_list":["post-15142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-coaching","tag-communication","tag-offensive-strategy","tag-volleyball-offense","tag-volleyball-strategy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15142","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=15142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}