Here’s a situation I saw posted in an online coaching group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nI broke down stats from our last tourney and they support what my assistant and I have specifically told our kiddos. Setting a ball over on the 3rd touch is not effective. Kill percentage on sets was 14% and kill percentage of spikes was 28% at the last tourney. Tips and down balls were also statistically better than sets. Sometimes we have to save the play and set it over, but a good chunk of the time, it\u2019s just putting the ball back to play. Few are strong enough to shoot a set to a deep corner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It worked when they were younger (I saw them play on occasion last year.) A year later, up a division, playing with a regular ball, the teams are better skilled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I want to work on other options so they can gain the confidence to lessen those unnecessary setting attempts or sending over free balls when they could have attacked\/tipped\/shotted a less than ideal set. Our last tourney is 5-ish weeks away.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The reference to being up a division and playing with a regular ball suggests we’re talking about a younger team here. Maybe 14s? Any time you transition from one level\/age to the next there’s going to be an adjustment. After all, the players need to learn a new set of what works and doesn’t work. The question this coach is basically asking is how to speed that up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Honestly, the solution is a pretty simple one for me. Play games in practice where they can only score off non-set attacked balls. Or do other versions of process scoring<\/a> based on attacking. And in terms of drills, do ones where they count for a good rep if they attack as desired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n