3rd ball.
If I serve under or dead short and other side pushes, often it is long under spin. If my partner declines that invitation to attack, I wanna choke him out right there.
There is almost nothing worse than passing up a high percentage attack, then giving an easy high weak ball to opponent to crush for a winner.
That is like losing TWO POINTS. Really, we had very high chance to win from the attack or follow up attack cleanup... but now we lose point for no good reason, because partner is to scared to bring his guns to the fight... arrrgggghhhhh.
I have a few partners who do not attack under spin well, but the quality of their push makes it difficult to attack, low percentage, or otherwise discouraged an attack...
I can live with that. Such a push gets us points or gives the initiative right back to us for high percentage high leverage attack to win point or clean up on follow.
In doubles, it is about risk management, sound decision making, and working together with what skills the team has... to use them in effective ways to leverage points.
Attacking everything is not always the best decision, but if a player has a strong loop, what better ball to get that stroke into play is there besides a long underspin?
A popup? Yeah, we gunna get those every time we want them.
When a player cops out of an attack and gives back an indecisive weak low quality push... man that kills a team's chances to win.
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