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Originally Posted by Kneel B4 Zod
just letting the one good kid on the team win the game while everyone else watches, etc.
Then you have the other extreme, the coach who continually plays a bad player. My daughter's club volleyball team started off with two setters, but one broke their hand early in the season and couldn't play again. So the coach let this one setter set the entire game every game.
That'd be fine if she was a good setter. But she wasn't. It was pathetic. She has terrible judgment and can't even set the ball at the right height. But the coach refused to even try to let another player try to set.
Finally, we went to one two-day tourney. At the end of the first day, our setter has an asthma attack and coach decides to finally sub her out the second day to give her a breather (pun intended). My daughter (who normally plays middle blocker for the club, but is setter for the school team) comes in to set. Plays exactly two balls, makes one mistake, and is immediately pulled for the original setter! This setter makes mistakes all the time and the coach lets her play all the time. My daughter made one mistake and got yanked immediately. And keep in mind that the setter had an asthma attack the previous day and was supposed to take it easy.
That said, the repetitions she gets from being on the club team did help her. At the beginning of the season, her serve was so unreliable that the coach didn't even let her serve. By the end of the season, she was probably the most consistent server on the team.