AWVP

I learned something today?

New rules implemented. What was the "net" (pun intended) result?

Not sure what. The net was lowered. I was told 2-3" but there are no stats on that. It was lower. This makes it flimsy, and it will have to be re-engineered to make it optimal for the New World Order.

We are all in agreement that net touching is bad now, m'kay? While I couldn't keep track of all the violations, I remember having one very stupid one, where I hit the botom of the net. If memory servers, LJ(!) and Master Bruce tied for the most violations, at like 6. The difference being, LJ "knew" he was in the net, and Bruce didn't. While there is a differnce, I'm wondering whether the person who knew, and is the progenitor of these new rules, shouldn't have known better.

Everyone was more or less OK with this plethora of vague and unexplained rule changes.

While I get it somewhat, I'm still a little confused about what anything besides not touching the net is gonna do to improve the game.

We now have a lower net, which favors servers and hitters. We have some new rules I don't entirely understand about fielding, but that Ford and Dub have explained to me in texts. Can you put these on the website please?

I can see how these make defense more professional, but they also make it more limited, and we've made steps to favor offense.

This makes the net result, after 1 day's experiment, that we do indeed look more like Dallas, in that good serves and big hitters tend to dominate. Was that what was intended? Because I'm not sure that's exactly our game...

Sorry to beat you up for your innovative solutions for better play, but, in exchange for these rule changes, I was promised a massive influx of highly skilled sand players. How many did we get? LJ? Beuller?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4zyjLyBp64

I was also told in the post game show from the Dallas road trip that we have to improve our first pass off the serve. Now riddle me this--if we struggled with a good first pass on a low net where people can serve downhill and you are facing tall opponents in a short court, how will our first pass be improved if you lower our net and let servers go more downhill in a long court? Especially when there are new rules about "lifting" that still need to be clearly defined (again, I refer to Edub/Ford texts that need to be posted) because I am still a little confused.

If anything, our first passes were worse, not better, in favor of the improved offense. Is that what was supposed to happen? Or are we saying "give it time," and the rule limited defense will improve, survive and adapt against a rule enhanced offense?

I will tell you this. In one day, on a low net, I tied my number of blocks for the entire season--3 against Mikey, if memory serves. Short serves are harder to do if people are off the net. LJ massively improved his hitting % from the back row.

Will these rules make us more "professional"? The no net touch will.

The rest of it? Very hard to tell...

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Chief

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Last night is not a good representation of what future ball will look like. We were playing 5 on 5 which makes passing harder and we were also missing a lot of good players. As for passing, the idea isn't to mmake it easier for people to pass, but to make people better passers. People need to move to become better passers. Watch and learn from people that do pass better. Nothing will change over night. I don't know why some think it will.

Also, sanders aren't just going to drop everything and come out on The first Thursday that the rules changed. That too will take time. Hell, we couldn't even get all the regulars to come out. We have mentioned to some and they are intrigued. Seeing it on weekends is the way it will happen.

Rome wasn't built in a day! Everybody did pretty well last night in my opinion and nobody had that big of a problem with it.

I was about to post what Edub did.

Chief, take it easy man. lets not take a lower net to mean we can jump into the deep end right away! Its a process. How you can post something as silly as questioning why all new players didn't drop out of the sky? Come on man.

like dub said, only 5s, missing many good players, etc

and the lowering of the net 3" is not going to benefit anyone more than anyone else. LJ got some good crackers in last night. good, more people hitting

lowering the net is a good idea. i have changed teams on this. i used to think like most others. but lowering the net + no touching will increase our game much more IMO. it does not = more injuries, but less. and it also opens the game up for others which challenges many people to expand their talent sets, and that goes for hitters and setters. i for one will work on being a better setter while also getting more air under my passes.

patience.

i like the calls on two hands under. thats i think a good absolute thing. other than that i am open on one hand unders to self call

patience

Chiefy...Not quite accurate AAR which is unlike you...I personally had 3 net in 7 games...Bruce had about 10 of which he called about 3 of them on himself...Sanders on short notice near end of a summer gonna take some time...New dude Kyle had a very good first ever playing the game day...The net was not lowered...The rope through top is broken...

Man, this is so unlike you to pout...

Edub & Mikey: Very good AAR posts...

Our game is advancing, evolving, and best of all getting better...

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Chief

Death from above! Fire down below!