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EP. REVIEW: Haikyu!! To The Top

But a dinner between two of the under-coaches (assistant coaches? Sub-coaches? I didn't play team sports)

I will say though i have never heard anyone ever use the terms under or sub coaches.

...trying to play in a safe way that pleases everyone. ... it'll be worth watching to see how, and if, he can learn to be more flexible in his playstyle.

I don't understand this. If he can play in a way that pleases everyone, that sounds pretty damn flexible to me. But moreover, I didn't understand Atsumu's criticism in the first place. Oikawa practically beat it into his head that a setter's job was exactly that - to put the ball where the spiker wants it. Which is what Kageyama was doing. I don't blame him for looking exasperated. It seemed to me like a jealous dig because Kageyama was able to be so flexible in his play that he could immediately adjust to each of the spikers (and the coaches) after only being told once. Or maybe he was just trying to get under Kageyama's skin when he didn't get to see any fireworks when Hoshiumi was flipping out on him. Mostly it felt like a moment to establish that Atsumu is a jerk who's looking to be trouble for Kageyama.

That's a good point - I was looking at it as Kageyama being annoyed at getting conflicting information (which I think he'd see as jabs) at/about his setting style. He's either playing so that he's doing what the spiker wants (a la Oikawa) or doing what he thinks is best, which is more what Atsumu is getting at (and Kageyama's natural inclination) - not a combination of both, which could be beneficial at times in my totally-limited-to-this-show (and a couple manga series)-based idea of the sport.

It probably would be good for Kageyama to play off of his natural instinct more often instead of playing it safe all the time trying to please everyone...

Treecko Tempo wrote:

It probably would be good for Kageyama to play off of his natural instinct more often instead of playing it safe all the time trying to please everyone...

I guess I'm not seeing where you and Rebecca are getting the idea that he's playing it "safe." Atsumu's dig was that he was a "goody-two-shoes," apparently for trying to be polite to others instead of being "prickly" and biting back at them (as his former self probably would have done). He didn't elaborate beyond that. Rebecca interpreted that as playing it safe, but to me that's not what he was doing. He was making adjustments to accommodate his spikers and follow the general advice of the coaches who presumably know more or see a different picture (since he can't see himself or behind him at all times). Accepting advice and listening to what his spikers want seems to me what Atsumu was calling being a goody-two-shoes, not that he was only making "safe" plays. He was expecting or hoping Kageyama would be more, "I'll set the ball where and how I want to, and you'll like it!"

Adjusting his sets to suit his spikers doesn't remove the fact that the setter is still the playmaker - it's up to him to choose who to set to, based on the situation on the court at that moment. That's where his natural instinct comes in, and as far as I can see, he hasn't been playing in a way that suppresses that. He's only been refining how he sets to each of the various spikers, which is exactly what he should be doing.

So you think he should have the attitude of "I'll set the ball where and how I want to, and you'll like it!"? That's exactly what got him into the problems he had with his middle school team and earned him the "King of the Court" epithet.