re: #2 LSU gymnastics takes on #4 UCLA today in the Metroplex Challenge

In a perfect world I wish Ruby could lead off and I would go Ruby, Myia, Edney, Durante, Priessman, Finnegan.

Also, I’ve been calling for it since they switched it but Myia needs to just go back to the full on vault. Her full was money every time and was scoring higher.

Do the coaches find out after the meet what the deductions were in each routine?

Not that it’s possible anymore, but Cannamela would be a perfect lead off on bars (pre shoulder injury)

Ruby is frustrating for sure, but she has time to figure it out.

Agreed on vault for Edwards...vault scores tight in the first rotation for sure

Meet results are posted. Yall will lose your shite.


On Finnegan's vault

judge 1: 9.95
judge 2: 9.80


Christina Desiderio Beam

judge 1: 9.85
judge 2: 9.70

So did we lose or something?

how is it possible to come up with a 9.80 from the vault?

Desiderio was underscored on beam looks like

quote:

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Christina Desiderio Beam

judge 1: 9.85
judge 2: 9.70

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When the score was posted Jay threw his hands up in the air and wave them at the judges in disgust.... It's the second time in two meets he's done that I'm pretty sure he feels like she's being overly harshly judge

Scoring for Finnegan on vault has always been really strange. She always gets hit harder than everyone else. I thought this year things may change because her vault has more power and opens up more than it did a year ago. But nope, at least one judge hits her hard for something. It clearly isn't her form or landing so what are they taking? Amplitude? She's a small girl but she gets plenty of height. Distance? Could be better but she has sufficient distance. The only thing is, as someone else said, she tends to land with a deep knee bend to absorb the landing and stick. Maybe they see it as coming in short? Harrold does this too but usually she is actually landing short.

Desiderio has work to do and we absolutely need her to peak come post-season. I just wonder if she can get into the shape needed to hit the big tumbling skills she used to do with ease. Hopefully she can get consistent with a set that works for her this year, maybe next year she can add in more difficulty if she stays healthy. A new 9.9 routine on FX and a couple upgraded vaults would go a long way to making sure we are right in it.

I go back and forth on whether Hambrick should go back to the full. I think she probably just tries too hard to stick. I'd rather her keep working the vault because in post-season we need those 1.5's, it will be a big gamble but a bunch of fulls won't do it, even if they stick them (see Finnegan's scores).