Short characterization SERBIA
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PLAYERS |
STARTING SIX - SUBSTITUTES |
Ranking 2001-2011 |
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1 |
KOVACEVIC Uros |
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LISINAC Srecko |
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3 |
KOPRIVICA Lazar |
WCH 2003 |
7 |
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4 |
KAPUR Milorad (L) |
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5 |
MRDAK Milija |
WCH 2005 |
7 |
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7 |
JOVOVIC Nikola |
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8 |
VRBAN Miroslav |
WCH 2007 |
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9 |
MILUTINOVIC Vuk |
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10 |
PETKOVIC Dusan |
WCH 2009 |
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12 |
PERIC Milan |
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14 |
ATANASIJEVIC Aleks. (C) |
WCH 2011 |
3 |
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16 |
BUCULIJLEVIC Maksim |
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- Average height of first six: 197.
- Serbia wins a medal in Men’s Junior WC for the first time.
- Only 19 errors (points for opponent) in finals (place 3-4 against USA).
- High level of performance in complex 1 and 2.
- Athletic, explosive players, able to jump high and with power in spiking.
- Aleksander Atanasijevic is the best overall scorer of the championship: 193 points and Uros Kovacevic is no. 5 players ranking best scorers (129).
- Technical and tactical adaptation in playing actions.
- Good combination of universal playing abilities and individual strength.
Serve
- Serbia is on 5th place in team ranking best servers (31 aces).
- 2 players in top 4 individual players ranking (Kovacevic 3rd and Atanasijevic 4th place).
- Power-service, sometimes precision and tactical efficiency adapted to opponent.
- Good balance between risk full (full power jumps) and safe serve (tactical floats).
- Most of the players use the jump spin power serve, others use (jump) float.
- Major goal: try to score direct point or directly disturb opponents Complex 1 play.
Serve reception
- In teams ranking “best receivers” Serbia is in 6th place.
- Only the libero, Milorad Kapur, is in Top 10 best receivers.
- Libero is often receiving the ball with 2 arms, rolling or falling sideways.
- Reception is sometimes instable, but the team makes only 20 faults in championship.
· Jump serve by opponent: the arms of the service-passer move backward or sideward in the direction of the floor.
- Three players reception formation.
Set/Attack - Complex I and Complex II
- Serbia is no. 8 in team ranking setting. Nikola Jovovic is no. 6 in individual ranking.
- Mostly jumping setting techniques: with takeoff and landing with both feet, sometimes running and take off by one foot. Always taking the ball as high as possible.
- Variable distribution of the sets, mainly with short movement impulse (active wrist and finger actions).
- Easy and quick steps from starting position to target. Adjustment by little steps from target to playing position.
- Simply structured attacks in Complex 1: effective set-distribution, with high per-centage 1st tempo in the middle of the net, and to player in position 2 and an stan-dard used incorporated back row attack (“pipe”).
- Effective variation of setting: tempo and positions. Incorporating back row attack in most of the combinations.
- Freeball-attack: variable pass distribution with a trend towards „quick outside attack from position 4“.
- Quick and precise sets from nearly all the positions in the court.
- Effective variation of setting: tempo and positions.
- Secure quick sets to pos. 4 and 2.
Block and defense
- High level of block performance: kill blocks (86) and rebounds(168) of 400 attempts.
- Two players in top 6 best blockers: Milutinovic (21 kill blocks, 42 rebounds, 0.64 average by set) and Lisinac (21 kill blocks, 35 rebounds and 0.64 average by set).
- Efficiency and organization of blocking.
- Different step combinations and blocking positions adapted to the play situation.
- Good cooperation and synchrony in movement of the blockers and diggers.
- Fast, strong and skilled middle blockers; self covering tactical tip balls as well.
- In teams ranking of “best diggers” in defense Serbia is on 3rd place .
- Serbia is n. 3 in team ranking “best diggers”: 386 digs in total, 11.70 average by set.
- Libero Kapur is no. 6 in players ranking (150 exc., succ. % 49.34).