Sense of Urgency

"Hurdle‐ism 18: We Don't Have Time to Have “Just Another Day”" - Clint Hurdle in Hurdle-isms

Six games remain in the regular season, five in the ML12 and one non-league game (Duxbury). 

Exceptional teams have "urgency" to improve headed toward the 'second season', the postseason. 

Every team has "stuff" to work on - fundamentals like serve-receive, serving, and blocking. Years ago, coaching middle school basketball, we asked the girls to improve shot selection (track shooting percentage) and reduce giving the ball away (turnovers). We improved by about 20 percent in both areas. We didn't report individual performance, only team stats. 

How could MVB improve:

• Serving
• Serve-receive 
• Blocking

Dave Landry is an elite stock trader who calls himself a "trend-following moron." At best I'm a volleyball-following moron" who wants to see MVB succeed on and off the court. Coach Scott Celli guides you through the problems and possible solutions. 

1) I noticed that Anna Burns, statistically with the highest serving percentage, also serves with intent. She's serving to areas or attacking the weakest defender. Serving with bad intent can help you score more points and force more "out of system" play by opponents. 

2) Sadie the First, Sadie Jaggers shared a tip from another great MVB star, Gia Vlajkovic. Gia told her not to try for perfect passes, just good ones that the setter could work with. That also reduces overpasses. You practice serve-receive every day and the first pass matters. 

3) Blocking occurs in the middle and at the pins. You have "better than average" blocking in the middle and potential improvement at the edges. Coach Jiri Popelko (VolleyCountry) shared that when he played for Russia, the goal was to have seven blocks per set. Why not set a goal to get at least three blocks each set from the pins? And middle hitters, who have to close the block, are you reading the setter's eyes and getting "early warning" on the attack? 

Remember, I'm just the volleyball-following moron.