Serving to announce the start of a game in volleyball used to be a concept of service, but it is the first method of attack in modern volleyball. If you score a point by not allowing an opponent to receive a goal, it will be icing on the cake, but you cannot score a serve every time. The main purpose of a serve is to shake the opponent's reception. If the reception is shaky, you cannot use fastball or attack routes with high probability such as time difference. If you make it well, you will have to open it with both wings, and most of them will have no choice but to open it with the so-called "fengtos" to make it open. As an open toss has a long time, at least two or as many as three potential players can try to block. You can shut out an opponent's attack with two or three blocks, or you can make effective blocking to make it easier for you to dig and then fight back to score points.
In order to sway the opponent's receiving through serve, it is better to send it to the most vulnerable receiving player in the opponent's receiving line. This increases the probability of receiving as well as the probability of scoring serve. That's why it is more common to serve as a target to a player who is more vulnerable to receiving among the two outside heaters in the receiving line than to a libero who is good at defense. Or, it is a good idea to hit a player with a much larger offensive proportion among the two outside heaters to prevent the player from attempting to attack.
The reason for this lengthy discussion about the serve is to talk about the first round of the 2023-2024 V-League Women's Championship Match between Hyundai E&C and Heungkuk Life Insurance held on the 28th.
Hyundai Engineering & Construction, which went straight to the championship game as the No. 1 player in the regular league and had a gap of more than 10 days after the match against Pepper Savings Bank on the 16th, gave up the first and second sets because it rarely found the rhythm of the game at the beginning of the game, but began to recover its rhythm from the third set and won three sets, winning the reverse sweep victory with a set score of 3-2, gaining an advantage to win the championship in eight seasons after the 2015-2016 season.
Hyundai Engineering & Construction's plan on the day was to hit Reina, who has the weakest receiving ability among the two, Libero Do Soo-bin and outside heaters Kim Yeon-koung and Raina Tokoku (Japan), to make a target hit, shaking her receiving and hindering her offensive work at the same time. Before the game, coach Kang Sung-hyung said, "Kim Yeon-koung hits weak spots in the opponent's court so that she feels if she has four eyes. She cannot be easily stopped by trying to stop Kim Yeon-koung. That's why I'm trying to target her serve and make her score less."
In the first set, Hyundai E&C hit the most six serves to Raina, five to Kim Yeon-koung, and three to Do Soo-bin. There was a twist in the result. Raina connected four of her six receptions correctly over the setter's head. There was not a single reception that Kim and Do Soo-bin delivered correctly.
Then, from the second set, Hyundai E&C's sub plan changes. Raina hit only three serve, and changed the target target by hitting Kim Yeon-koung and Do Soo-bin five each. Kim Yeon-koung posted three receptions correctly, while Do made only one.
As Do's receiving was the most shaky among the three players in the receiving line, Hyundai E&C openly hit Do's serve as a target from the third set. It hit 11 to Do, six to Raina, and three to Kim Yeon-koung. Do's sense of receiving did not return in the third set. Only three were correctly connected, and one receiving led to a serve score, which failed at all. The efficiency of receiving up to the third set was only 15%.
In the fourth set, Hyundai E&C's attack on Do Soo-bin as a target hit was more explicit. He hit 15 out of 23 serves, which is 65% of the total. When receiving, the libero, which should cover the receiving area of the outside heater, which is mainly the target of the target, became the target of the target. Hyundai E&C's attack on Do Soo-bin also hit the mark in the fourth set. Only three of Do's 15 receptions were accurately passed over the setter's head. The receiving efficiency was only 20%. Hyundai E&C's blatant attack on Do Soo-bin hit the mark perfectly, winning three or four sets and leading the game to the fifth set.
Hyundai E&C continued its serve in the fifth set. Of the 15 serves that he hit in the fifth set, nine were directed to Do. Do delivered only one over the head of the setter, and with the score tied 12-10, Hanmi-r's serve received, which flew towards the stands, not over the head of the setter Lee Won-jung. In addition, it was a ball that was thrown out on the trajectory. Do's efficiency in receiving in the fifth set was 0. Heungkuk Life lost the first round, losing the fifth set 14-16 after a close game of deuce.
On this day, Heungkuk Life had played the playoff with Jeong Kwan-jang until the third game. The energy rhythm was ahead in the first and second sets, but the physical strength deterioration was noticeable from the third set. In this situation, the reception shook greatly from the third set, eventually giving up the third set.
On the day, Do received a total of 43 serves, making only eight of them accurate. While allowing two serve aces, Do's overall receiving efficiency was 13.95 percent. As Heungkuk Life had 25.27 percent of the team's receiving efficiency, Libero did not increase the team's receiving efficiency, but rather cut it short. He won 17 of 22 and seven of them were judged "Excellent," showing off quality performance in Dig, but accepting the worst grade in receiving. And the result was the team's defeat.
At this juncture, the name of Kim Hae-ran, which Heungkuk Life Insurance owns, cannot help but come to mind. Kim is a living legend who ranks first in digs (1,1059) and second in receptions (5,059) in the women's history of the V League. His overall receiving efficiency also amounts to 51.665%. Born in 1984, Kim already has the capacity to play separately from his prime, but he has the capacity to perform efficiently by playing matches with Do. However, it seems that there is no Kim in Heungkuk Life's Avon Dan-ja's plan for this postseason. Kim never played in the court in three playoff games against Jeonggwanjang. Do was the only one in charge of the Libero position. 토토사이트
After losing the second playoff game against Jeonggwanjang 1-3 due to Do's shaky reception, Avon Dan-ja once asked whether he would utilize Kim ahead of the third playoff. Avon Dan-ja said, "Currently, Kim has problems bending his knees. As his physical condition is not perfect, it is hard to predict that his performance will be 100 percent as well. However, if the team is needed, I would like to hire him."
Will Avon Danza really stick to the "one libero" in which Do Soo-bin plays the back of the court in the second round of the championship match to be held in Suwon on Thursday? Or should he take out the "Kim Hae-ran card"? Another point to watch is to enjoy the second round. Obviously, if Heungkuk Life Insurance loses the second round, it will be even more difficult for him to win the championship. Since he played in three playoff games, time is by no means on Heungkuk Life's side.
