{"id":71809,"date":"2021-02-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=71809"},"modified":"2021-02-22T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T14:00:00","slug":"mens-coaching-log-february-22-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/22\/mens-coaching-log-february-22-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Men’s Coaching Log \u2013 February 22, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is an entry in my volleyball coaching log for the 2020-21<\/a> season.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was our last full week of practice before starting our season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Had to cancel this session due to pending snow. It turned out that the snow hit a bit later than expected. What can you do, though?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Not quite up to having the full group of players for this session, but getting close with 8. I had two priorities for the session. One was to get the guys working through the pre-match warm-ups they’ll be doing. For our first match next week there will be a 5-5-5-5 protocol, similar to the one used in the NCAA women’s game (4-4-5-5). When we play our home non-conference match on 3\/5, and then all our conference matches, we’ll be using a 5-5-5-5-5-5 protocol. The guys suggested they want to use 5 minutes for serve & pass, 5 minutes for hitting lines, and the other 5 minutes will be triples. We practiced the shared court\/own side warm-up part, plus the hitting and serve\/pass segments in this session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After that, to get the guys playing a bit, we played 2 v 2 Speedball<\/a>. The rest of the session was given over to 15-point 4 v 4 games. They featured one side doing all the serving. Mostly, it was a MB\/OH vs MB\/RS situation, but I had a second variation in there as well. This was all to continue integrating the guy who’s first session was on Sunday, as well as to continue working on situational elements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Still on 8 for this session, but in a different configuration. We got the knee guy back, but one of the MBs had to miss due to work. We did the pre-match warm-up again, the rolled into working on Rotations 1 and 2 (setter in 1 and 6). Along with making sure we worked through our offensive options, I wanted to get a bunch of good passing reps for the receivers. Specifically, reps we could stat for comparative purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To facilitate this, I needed to make sure all the passers got in there – including all 3 of our DS\/Libero types – and that our passers faced our stronger servers. That means I flipped people back and forth, sometimes didn’t have the full 6 players in, or only had 1 of the two OHs in there. I also gave the guy who would be our back-up setter should anything happen to our starting guy a few reps. That also let said starter serve some as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After that, to get us hitting against blockers in a competitive fashion, we played narrow court 4 v 4. Since we only had the one MB, I had to get a bit creative. On one team I had one libero, the setter, our OPP, and the MB. On the other team I had our to OHs, a libero, plus the guy doing the back-up setting. The latter was limited in that he wasn’t supposed to hit or block. We played 4 games 22 v 22 style. For the second set of games I flipped the two OHs on the one team, and the Setter and OPP on the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of practice I had to talk to the guys about focus. While not as bad as the previous night, toward the end there was a definite lack. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

No practice this day. Instead, I had an evening zoom talk with my assistants. I wanted to go over match responsibilities and a few other things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Similar practice approach to Wednesday. We made a tweak to the pre-match warm-up we’d been doing. It occurred to me that we were going to likely have more limited balls available to us. That means in the hitting lines warm-up in particular we needed to incorporate more ball retrieval, so we made a change to accommodate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From there we again worked on a pair of serve receive rotations, and getting stats for the passers. I was really happy with the servers. They were really going after it and putting the receivers under pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since it was our first time having 9 players in the gym at the same time, I finished the session by letting them play Winners<\/a> 3s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the fun side, we did Media Day before practice. The guys (and I) all got their head shots for this year. No team photos this year, but a few of the guys did some additional shots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, back down to 7 for this session as a couple guys had to miss because of work. After returning to the stability work at the start of the session which we’d left out to work on the pre-match routine, we had a bit of a patch-work practice. I introduced them to the Player Winners<\/a> game. In fact, I went beyond that and had them, after a while, play it on a diagonal (4 to 4).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From there we did a bit of “get it in” target serving, then rolled into a bit of situational offense vs. block.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opposition scouting<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

I watched part of two matches during the week. One was a pair of teams from our conference playing each other. The other was a match between the non-conference opponents we have in our first two matches going against each other. Neither match was very good. Both were pretty lopsided and featured some bad volleyball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I actually gave the team the homework of watching that latter match. Now I have to worry about them getting complacent against Wednesday’s opponent (though probably not next week’s).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week of just training for the Medaille men as we prepared for our first match, and finally had all the guys together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[120,201,222],"class_list":["post-71809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2020-21-medaille-college-men","tag-college-volleyball","tag-mens-volleyball","tag-ncaa-division-iii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71809","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=71809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}