The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between serve and serve reception on the effect of the offensive system in the national junior male volleyball teams. Eleven games were analyzes, totaling 781 attack actions. The results showed that the attack point occurred more than expected after the top spin placed jump serve from the opponent and after the reception that allowed all the attack options. In contrast, to this one and the reception that did not allowed an organized attack occurred less than expected after the power jump service. This study made it possible to infer that powerful service and the reception with low levels of efficiency reduce the chances of scoring in the attack. The fact that the opponent's powerful service results lesser occurrences of the attack point for the opponent team may suggest some offensive organization's weakness when facing power jump services. Therefore, as the power jump service is used in the teams U16, the training process should consider the problems that it causes in the serve receive offensive system.
Volleyball; Service; Reception; Effect of Attack
