ハイキュー・Haikyuu! 🏐 (Beginner Book Club) - Week 3

@crayfish actually answered it above but you have to click the link:

~てなんぼ , where なんぼ is a kansai-ben version of いくら) is a little slangy set phrase that means “to be worthy only if ~”, “to be meaningless without ~” or “to be all about ~ing”

More specifically:

バレーボールは繋いでなんぼ大事のは - the important thing about volleyball is that it’s all about “connecting” (roughly translated)

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