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Post by ESTRELLA on May 16, 2007 14:47:35 GMT -5
Nebraska is a very good team. I personally don't like their style, but get the job done! Barboza was not intimidated by Pavan. Please give us a break. She just could not get it done on the net. She had many swings with holes in the block, line shots and cross court that just did not fall. Have on tape and like to watch it once in a while. The Huskers defense was great in that match. Lets give them credit who credit is due. By the way, Stanford is who it is thanks IN PART to Kehoe. Her athletiscm allows her to make plays that many other setters can't. ESTRELLA
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Post by mervynpumpkinhead on May 16, 2007 15:08:17 GMT -5
Nebraska is a very good team. I personally don't like their style, but get the job done! Barboza was not intimidated by Pavan. Please give us a break. She just could not get it done on the net. She had many swings with holes in the block, line shots and cross court that just did not fall. Have on tape and like to watch it once in a while. The Huskers defense was great in that match. Lets give them credit who credit is due. By the way, Stanford is who it is thanks IN PART to Kehoe. Her athletiscm allows her to make plays that many other setters can't. ESTRELLA Don't get me wrong. I'd love to have Kehoe on my team any day. She's a winner. I just thought some of her sets in that match didn't help the outsides much. Combine that with Nebraska playing great, and you have the hitting percentage that Barboza had.
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Post by Tex_VB_Fan on May 16, 2007 15:17:30 GMT -5
For who? And since when does hitting percentage = the complete story on how a player performed? Similarly, as good as Foluke is, Stanford would not have scraped out a razor-thin victory over Texas in the Regional Final if it weren't for Barboza's blocking the slide - 4 solos, 3 assists - and her jump serving which she used to take Texas out of system at crucial points as well as racking up an ace on each of Texas "best passers" (Engle, Acevedo, Jennings, Kisner). Barboza put Stanford on her back and took them to victory against Texas. She single handedly took over that match.
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Post by VolleyTX on May 16, 2007 16:23:11 GMT -5
I wish I could have seen that match!
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Post by holidayhusker on May 16, 2007 16:32:32 GMT -5
Nebraska is a very good team. I personally don't like their style, but get the job done! Barboza was not intimidated by Pavan. Please give us a break. She just could not get it done on the net. She had many swings with holes in the block, line shots and cross court that just did not fall. Have on tape and like to watch it once in a while. The Huskers defense was great in that match. Lets give them credit who credit is due. By the way, Stanford is who it is thanks IN PART to Kehoe. Her athletiscm allows her to make plays that many other setters can't. ESTRELLA You are right. She was not intimidated. It just so happened that on those particular matches with Barboza lined up against Pavan , she had possibly the worst hitting matches of her career. But of course she was not intimidated. It was those terrible sets that trapped her. You Betcha.
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Post by holidayhusker on May 16, 2007 16:39:17 GMT -5
In both those matches didn't Barboza hit under .100. I would call that even worse than mediocre. For who? And since when does hitting percentage = the complete story on how a player performed? We were referring to those particular matches, and Barboza's hitting output but I don't remember her being stellar in the back row either. In my opinion her overall performance in those two matches was mediocre. She has had great matches against Penn State and other power teams,.....just not NU.
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Post by OverAndUnder on May 16, 2007 16:43:04 GMT -5
Kinda like Larson in San Antonio 2004. She was not at all intimidated by the seasoned european pro RS in her mid-20s. No, her -.200 percentage was because of those terrible sets by Busboom and Griffin that trapped her!
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Post by holidayhusker on May 16, 2007 16:49:58 GMT -5
Over the river and through the woods. I agree....it was those sets.
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Post by cvbc14 on May 16, 2007 17:13:23 GMT -5
I think we can all agree:
Larson vs Washington - choke Barboza vs NU (twice) - choke, choke
NU had an advantage in both matches against Stanford, they were basically at home. I fully expected to see Jordan collapse in the final 4 again in 2006.
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Post by OverAndUnder on May 16, 2007 17:34:56 GMT -5
I think we can all agree: Larson vs Washington & UCLA - choke, choke Barboza vs NU (twice) - choke, choke NU had an advantage in both matches against Stanford, they were basically at home. I wasn't surprised to see Jordan collapse in the final 4 against UCLA in 2006. Fixed It For You
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Post by Gorf on May 16, 2007 19:55:58 GMT -5
I think we can all agree: Larson vs Washington & UCLA - choke, choke Barboza vs NU (twice) - choke, choke NU had an advantage in both matches against Stanford, they were basically at home. I wasn't surprised to see Jordan collapse in the final 4 against UCLA in 2006. Fixed It For You What year (in eligibility) were Larson and Barboza respectively then they "choked"?
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Post by OverAndUnder on May 17, 2007 9:29:31 GMT -5
What year (in eligibility) were Larson and Barboza respectively then they "choked"? As you know, both were sophomores this year.
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Post by Gorf on May 17, 2007 10:22:27 GMT -5
Actually, I couldn't remember if Barboza was a sophomore or a junior last year. For some reason it seems like she's been around for longer than "just two" collegiate seasons. Probably because she was in the news for things like playong on the Pan Am Cup team before she comitted to Stanford.
Larson "choked" as a freshman and Barboza "choked" as a sophomore or would we technically still consider Cynthia to have been a freshman in terms of collegiate maturity (for lack of a better term) for last year's finals because she missed so much of the 2005 season because of her knee injury?
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2007 10:31:02 GMT -5
Barboza didn't choke.
People always want to find a scapegoat. It started with Howard Cossell and Monday Night Football. Sometimes the other team plays better!
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Post by Gorf on May 17, 2007 11:02:55 GMT -5
That's why I put choke in quotes, I don't really like applying that term.
The performance of players can be easily affected by their level of experience in a particular situation.
In 2005 Larson had her first experience in a national championship match, last year Barboza had her first experience in that same situation.
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