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Stokr, like Granvorka or Dennis actually looks like athlete which is not very common among volleyball players

He is muscular, not fat

Kaziyski and Juantorena together with 30 serves, 0 errors and 5 aces

Here is the full match:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50TcsM5D6wI

Yes, hanes, but Zlatanov outserved Matey in that match http://www.legavolley.it/TabellinoGara.asp?IdGara=17519

I love athletic volleyball and there is still technique for the lovers of the classic ?

You are exaggerating, handan. Piacenza was on 6 finals, won the title with Trentino /Zlatanov outplayed Kaziyski in the fifth final 30pts vs 27pts/, last year they won the battle for the fifth place vs Treviso. Simon elevates their quality from top 5 to top 3, but he is not alone, they got De Cecco, who happens to be the same beast in setting as is Simon in spiking and serving.

It is a one-sided trailer

What about Holt - he was great as well

He needs time playing as first choice. He should be first choice anywhere except in Belogorie and Kazan, from what he has shown since 2010. It is harmful for him to be benched anymore. He did win matches with crucial points by him, with half of the points in a tiebreak by him. He is not going to be more stable while out of the court. The only bench he should be using is the one in the gym to press 150kgs

аttracting fans gives you money to buy the best players and is win for volleyball :)

Michal, think again about spiking - increasing spiking efficiency decreases chances to get in tight situations in first place. More is more. Giving extra work to the opposite sets the sidout hitters free for the crucial situations. And Sokolov doesn't fail often in important points, he did his job vs Modena and vs Macerata, that's not unreliable enough for me to compensate for his prolificacy. About Grbic you are right - he is professor in playing with OP's, but still I've seen him putting Sokolov against triple block and/or with slow high ball and Sokolov often managed it. The last time he scored over the triple block of Modena for the match point. https://volleybox.net/tsvetan-sokolov-winning-point-in-cuneo-modena-m7087

Power serves are more fun, hanes233, they attract more fans :)

Well, he has a habit of winning a match alone

Juric is better for attack and serve, Trentino don't care that much for the block, it has to be there, but they don't count on it as main weapon

The more points WITHOUT LOSING EFFICIENCY

A year go I wouldn't think of questioning Stokr's position as first in Trentino, but then he was obviously better

Hanes - Milijkovic?

Well, Michal, some things are obvious and in those obvious things Stokr is far behind. I am noт talking only about his smaller numbers and so on, I am talking speed. His spikes are slow motion. He doesn't have big arsenal of hits. He is very strong, very consistent, rarely makes mistakes, knows what the hell is back field play, but he has a limit. Sokolov on the other side is like Kaziyski on steroids - he has great power /that's why he needs to remember his great responsibilities/, strangely or not - better arsenal in attack and is capable of defeating any team alone. He is probably vulnerable in some points of the matches, but my personal opinion, based on the billion points he scores is that a minor fix in his code will make him the perfect choice for an opposite.

When I pointed Sokolov successes it was not to compare with Stokr's, just to point that he has quality. About CL, Sokolov made the stats, because HE pushed his team to the final four, while Stokr didn't. Stokr, Kaziyski, Juantorena didn't do their job helped by the scheme and they landed quickly. Why didn't Stokr won them the golden set? Is he reliable if we can't rely on him to win a set alone? What does "reliable" means depends on the context, my friend

My mathematical theory is that more is more. You score more points without losing efficiency - you drammatically lower the chances for your team to be in situation with too many decisive points which you could potentially screw. Just score 30-50 pts and don't care about your fears of breakpoints in tiebreaks, where everyone can crash, like Milijkovic, Giba, Dante and everybody else, because tiebreaks are so random

Michal, you didn't get the point:

1) Is really Sokolov unreliable and how big is the base of matches to decide that. I gave counterexample.
2) If he is really less reliable, does this is more important than the fact that he is more productive - he scores more with every element?

I don't think Sokolov is the end of all. I just SEE, and don't THINK that he plays better volleyball than Stokr in general /except for reception/ he is much higher in all charts /including best spiker with Wijsmans in CL Final Four, best scorer in all Champions League/ and on top places in all elements in Serie A1 stats. I just question if the reliability is estimated from large enough sample and even if it is correct evaluation is it more important. I haven't decided yet. Have you? This is reasoning, not prejudice. I didn't talk about Sokolov until recently, when he gathered facts in his favor. Like medals, points, MVP's

Perfect actions by Luca Vettori before that