Michał Kubiak at World Cup 2011

If some people have this opinion, this is the best opportunity for him to show them how wrong they are!! Forza Michal: I'm rooting for you ;-)

Can you add link where they wrote about weak disposition of Kurek ? IS that caused his problem with back ? About Kubiak I dont know because on European Championship he was in great form and sharp but when He came to JW , his performance has been little bit weak than from his play from Czech Republic , I think so.

no, it's not because of his back problem - it's because he didn't train a lot recently
http://www.volley24.pl/index.php/2011111617109/Puchar-Swiata/Anastasi-laczy-wode-z-ogniem

i think that his performance in JW is worse cause he was in hospital after ECH

thanx for information ? I repaat again ? Can somebody try to make new movie about Bartman ?. I will do with a huge pleasure but I have not possibility to that ?(

don't you think that Kubiak is like Giba or Murilo?;d

Kubiak can replace Kurek on serve, reception, digging, but in attack Kurek is the best in Poland. His absence will be noticeable, unfortunately /I want Poland and Russia to qualify now!/

I don't think that there's so big difference between them in attack raylight. Kurek's attack maybe are more impressive but kubiak's are also effective. I'm not saying that they're preety the same but with Paweł Zagumny as setter this difference won't be seen

Oh, if he was taller..

@SkyloIoannes: do you think so? To me, that of cm is a false problem. No need for you to be 2,00 tall if you can jump very high and be nimble. And Kubiak has both things. A good technique many times can compensate lack of cm. ?

Efficiency and impressiveness are different things.A spike over a triple block is always more beautiful than any block-out,yet they get the same result ? Don't get me wrong,it's important to know how to take advantage of the opponent's block,especially if you're well known as an attacker and they know how to "get" you,but you can have both height and technique,right? ? I'm not trashing shorter players,but I don't want to watch 1.80 volleyball players in 20 years...height is what makes volleyball such an exclusive and godlike sport.Well,exclusiveness is what makes it less popular than football,but for me it's a good thing ?

If you can spike over the block, you don't rely on setter so much and you are more efficient in attack. Kurek is more efficient than Kubiak, unless Kubiak always gets the ball against single block. More height and power, more options. Trentino as prime example

Shorter guys have advantage in back field, better agility for defense, and reception, but at the net size does matters.

"Shorter guys have advantage in back field, better agility for defense, and reception, but at the net size does matters." So,basically,they should be liberoes ?

I like all kinds of players 1,90 m + if they have a right coordination, dynamic and strentgh. Height doesn't matter that much, the skills are what matter. If a 2,05 can't play in the field, I don't like him cause the best actions start with an extraordinary digs. I don't want to give examples but Kubiak is way better to watch than many higher players. The best attacks are not over the block but the ones avoiding the block any possible way at the height of hands because it shows the skills of a player.

Kubiak's statistics after Pol-Cub:
spike: 6/16 37,50%
block: 2
reception: totally 18, good 10, perfect 8 44,44%

http://www.fivb.org/vis_web/volley/MWC2011/pdf/P3-002.pdf

Kubiak/Giba type of players are very useful for defense, reception, pipes, every team need such player, but Kurek/Leon/Kaziyski are the men for the close to the net attacks