Coach Smith: What I like to do -- let's have base please, let's assume it is a high ball like a combination play; so the middle would not click and we knew, the middle was not there and there is a outside coming up for a very high ball and it is an out of system ball. We want to crash and have three blockers, we have a wing player who is on the wing, right there, and right there, and then Ashley is right in the middle. This is very good for a back row attack; anywhere in the middle of court or even if I am over here they are all going to come over.
If I am over here we are all going to block, if I am back row or in the middle we are going to block, if I am back row on this team we are all going to block. Emily always wants to be on the hand of the attacker. So Keith is moving to her body is on my hand, okay, because she is our middle, we want the wings to take away my angles by doing so our defense adjusts. If I am here, Ashley is behind the middle, Virginia is hard angle, right, and they are there.
And the reason we are so deep is because how hard is it to jump from here and tip a ball over there. That is a near impossible shot. I might get a roll shot there, but Virginia is going to see it hopefully fast enough to crash. More likely I am going to deflect the ball off the block, so we are going to be really fast when we hit it high off their hands, and it is going to go to the end lines which is why we are deep.
If I am in the middle of the court and I am front row and I am attacking this ball now it is easier for me to tip, so you want to be shorter, over on he sideline. Cindy and Ashley have the whole defense, because from here it is really hard for me to hit through them if they all jump really well together, and they jump at the same time and when I have to tip a roll shot very all -- again hit it off of their hands and Ashley is going to run.
So let us see a couple of these please; front row, really work on the -- you know, there we go. There we go, nice easy blocks, perfect, look at that, perfect. That is all we want to do, all of a sudden they thought they had the advantage when we had three blockers up and we quickly turned them in to our point, nice and easy. I guarantee you do this once, twice you stop them they are not going to. want to play again, you are taking one thing out of their arsenal
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