In the game volleyball
it is very important to set your middles for a lot of reasons. It is also one
of the hardest things to do. You need to set your middles to keep the blockers
on the other side honest, leave your outside and right side 1 on 1 as much as
possible, keep your opponents defense off balance, and allow your setter an
open tip or attack.
Keeping the
other teams’ blockers honest means making sure they are staying with their
hitter (Outside with outside, middle with middle and right side with right
side). For example say that I never set my middles, the middle blocker would
cheat to the outside or right side and would cause them to have a double block
almost every time. This is why a setter needs to run a smart offense based on
the blocks. If your left and right side are facing a double block every time
they swing that probably means you need to run your middles more often or mix
up the offense that you are running. This is why running a fast offense is very
important, the faster I can deliver the ball to my hitters the less time the
other teams’ blockers will have to get in the right position to block. So
mixing up my sets often and running fast plays gives my hitters a better
opportunity to get a kill.
On the other
hand running quick middle offense often is one of the hardest things to do as a
setter. There are many factors that determine whether I can set my middle or
not. The pass is most important. If the pass is more than 10 feet off the net
it is very difficult to deliver the set the way it should be. If I’m that far
off the middle will hopefully call a 31. I can set a 31 if I’m off but it takes
a lot of practice to figure out how far off and how fast you can push the ball
so that the middle will be able to get a good swing. The other factor that goes
into setting my middle is the positioning of the blockers. If I see that the
middle blocker is following my middle I will push it outside or back. If the
middle blocker is cheating towards the outside I can set my middle and she will
have either 1 or no blocks.
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