The Best of Middle Blocker Javier Concepcion

Yes, lovely. Concepcion banks his one. That's the situation where the middle takes the first contact. They have the best idea of the rhythm. They need to be moving out to approach this ball forward. Perfect pass that time from Balasova. What a block! Oh my goodness. Concepcion, an absolute beautiful block. As the pitcher of a monster block. Almost another ace. Cuba recovers quick through the middle. That was beautiful. Concepcion. Concepcion is putting on his own show. OK, first of all, he's angled toward Mark. Start of the game with lefty serving. He's serving again. Oh my goodness. Concepcion. What a swing. This angle is ridiculous. Hold from this side. That tip is picked up. And a clever little backhand touch through the middle by Concepcion. Look how tricky this is. Just put him in a foot. Concepcion over the top. One solid move. Fantastic. Oh, yes. Oh, goodness me. Yamouchi's looking up saying, I thought I had that. That was sharp. Concepcion just finding a way to put that ball within a meter of the net. Well, maybe a little bit more than one on one. I guess we'll put it up again. Oh, not one on one. That was Concepcion. What a block. Everybody's getting it done. First, it's Yant and then this double block. Good improvisation. They can recycle and Concepcion comes up with the point. So Lopez reaping the benefits of having a little bit more patience. It was an interesting shot. But Contrico Galassi. It's been very solid for Italy in their two opening matches. Good jump serve there. Oh, and then Concepcion going with the left handed throw down. Yeah. The set here just kind of moves faster, but he takes advantage of it, actually. I wonder if he's thriving. Let me just pick my job off the points. Play it like you did in the first set. Nothing flashing. Just stick to the game plan. Good block again. Concepcion and Herrera. Like Cuba's block is feeling it right now. Now Slovenia can try and head for the hills here. Lovely, lovely work. That's what you do as a setter. Your guy just missed one. Yeah. So Cuba's still scoring early, so far. Janusz, a soft, safe one. Concepcion with a contentious little backflip there. Well, it's like Concepcion and Simón are having a battle for the bounce, aren't they? Who can pop the ball out? What's he got? Decent one, Ernaut's picked it up. And there's Bloch. Concepcion with the wipeout block. I mean. Ready to serve. Middle attack. Concepcion says, yeah, this set's not over yet. Yikes. Concepcion unleashes on this ball. OK, first of all. But Cuba just continues to go through the middle and Concepcion gets that gloat serve from Maso right after the whistle. And Concepcion gives Galassi a stuff down. And Concepcion committed to the. Three blockers across. Ivovic, patrol in the back line. Kujunic, beautiful block by Cuba. Lubaric, as Serbia starts mixing speeds more. First time he tried something softer. Second time is the block steady? Yes. Yes, it is. This is what makes Javier Concepcion so great. Not only does he move so well side to side, he hangs up there. Oh, now Nikolov started making errors. Dimitrov needs to rescue it. Built up here by Cuba. Float serve just gets over. And it's a free ball chance. Cuba. Sandeke, Concepcion with the delivery of the goods. Now, I would have been the last international season. There's a pickup wave across Luccarelli. Oh, and that approach there from Darlan into that block. Well, the young man is getting a good look at the opposite. Lovely. Yeah, that synchronicity between Seta and Concepcion. He windmills that arm up and over and drills that down. Concepcion puts it in play and he's got the ace. Nice position here. And this is what Serbia did yesterday. Arlen Jahn has 15 points in the match. And the block from Concepcion, that has been a rare block point one for Cuba. He's explaining what I did. He's like, oh, you guys are the ones who say bad stuff about us. I said, no, we try not to. We try to say nice things about you. And he just laughed. He's like, I'm just kidding. Some seven foot guy on the elevator says stuff to you. Oh, yeah. In Poland next season. I don't know why they're serving yet. Oh, and there's the age old question when you're blocking, but kind of in no man's land. If you're Tom Dijkstra and you reach back and try and throw something out there. Tom Dijkstra sets up Concepcion. Why not? That play works to perfection almost every time. Still in play. Not anymore. Comes and Cuba make a breakthrough. Concepcion shutting that one down. Concepcion receives. Look at the pass from Kogut. Free ball, though. Till he's got a good set. Oh, I say Concepcion almost shut that one down. It still won't hit the floor. Oh, it does now, though. And it's a block for Cuba. They're on the board. That's quite things down a bit in the hall. And this Cuban block, when they get the chance to be athletic, are so high. From Lopez. Oh, back to the 80s from Concepcion, but he was right on top of the ball. A great tempo. He's up and high. Concepcion, he just jumped so high, even though he was in front of the ball. He's still able to do something with it. Here's a chance for Germany. Crick in the middle. That's a rejection. Middle play. Beautifully done. Concepcion drills it down. The match, two blocks and he came pretty close to the other kind of point. But this is going to drop down on the Canadian side quick. Lopez gets to serve again. Nowhere to go. Concepcion puts up a huge wall and Cuba edge in front. Right. Christensen takes something off of it. And yet they did. Concepcion, it's a windmill. Little recycle. No doubt about that. A statement made by Mario and Concepcion. Concepcion got lucky because he's had a swing. He's come right back at him off his shoulder and over.