Short characterization

BRAZIL

PLAYERS

STARTING SIX - SUBSTITUTES

18/10

3/13/2

General remarks about the team and about the playing-style

Some players (especially the middle blockers) of the team promises potential for near future.
Stable starting line-up.

Good performance in Complex 1 (use of left handed quick attacker) and Complex 2.
Athletic good developed players.
Some players are very tall.
Very good (quick) attacking and blocking performance.
Good application of modern scouting information.
Technical and tactical adaptation in individual playing actions.
Efficient and fluent playing.
Emotion based motivation.
Combination of universal playing abilities and individual strength.
Effective playing structures.

Serve

Technical precision and tactical efficiency adapted to opponent.
All the players use the jump float.
Major goals are: tactical effect, no direct point, let the opponent make the errors.
Consequence: Brazil is only on 8^th position in best server teams ranking.

Stable and secure reception (only 18 faults in whole tournament)
Three players in reception formation.
Before the ball passes the net players are in good position.
In case of jump serve by opponent: often impulse control or punch technique is used. The position is low and the arms move down, sometimes to the floor, or side- and backwards when the ball is played.
Application of variants of all other modern reception techniques:

- lateral

- jumping

- low

- falling forward, backward and sideways

- 3-point-reception

- high reception with flexible overhead technique

Set/Attack - Complex 1 and Complex 2

Easy and quick steps from starting position to target. During the steps moving with front or with back in the direction of the net, depending of the situation. Pivot by right or left foot.
Adjustment by little steps from target to playing position
Strategy is to play quick attack and jump sets. Jump sets with take off of both feet or running and take off by one foot.
Always taking the ball as high as possible by both hands, sometimes one hand.
Quick and precise sets from nearly all the positions in the court.
Effective variation of setting: tempo and positions. Incorporating back row attack in the combinations.
Left hand middle player Renan Buiatti plays often attack behind setter.
Effective structured attacks in Complex 1: effective set-distribution, with high percent-tage 1st tempo in the middle of the net, quick attacks to the middle player and to player in position 2 and back row attack incorporated in reception (“pipe”).
In Complex 2, based on good blocking and defense performance, effective variation of quick and sometimes high attacks.

Block and defense

Good level of block performance: kill blocks and rebounds.
Efficiency and organization of blocking.
Very fast lateral movement for outside blocking.
Tactical adaptation of blocking based on statistics and tactical analysis of opponent.
Different step combinations, blocking position adapted to the play situation.
No.1 in teams block ranking. Individual best blocker of the tournament was Renan Buiatti, the left handed no. 14. After moving by one or more little side steps to right or left, he used to jump with take off of both feet, moving his arms in the direction of the outside blocker trying to close the block.
Efficient cooperation and synchrony in movement of the blockers and diggers.
No.3 in teams ranking of best diggers.
Libero Thales Hoss makes the fewest faults of all libero in the tournament.