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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2005 16:32:45 GMT -5
By the way, this is Nebraska's rotation:
Griffin/Stalls Houghtelling Larson Elmer/Busboom Pavan JSal
Busboom leading Pavan kind of limits what you can do on serve receive...
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Post by Pirate VB Fan on Dec 19, 2005 17:01:51 GMT -5
Take a look at Nebraska's serve receive pattern and you have your answer. Remember, the setters come in for the middles. Also, Pavan _was_ frequently moved from the middle of the serve receive to the side. UW kept serving her. And she had her moments. Heather has no idea what she's talking about. I remember one point where Pavan was moved off to the left and Heather Cox said something like "I see Nebraska has finally decided to hide Paven on the left". At which point our server, I think it was our serving specialist Ashley Arritani, promptly served one right to Paven who proceeded to shank it. I think the biggest factor in winning on Saturday may have been the loss to Minnesota in the Elite Eight two years ago. In 2003 we were a very hard serving team that tended to blast jump serves down the middle of the court. Paula Gentil sat there in the middle and calmly received everyone of those. That was the first time I had seen a libero totally take over a game. We tried to switch to finese serves to get away from her and tried to hit the lines, but we just were not good enough to do it and had service error after service error. Last year most of our players including Courtney and Sanja switched to precision floaters. We still havea few killers like Christal and next year Jill, but our whole service and serve receive game changed because of what Minnesota did to us. So, thank you Paula Gentil for helping UW win the 2005 Natioanl Championship.
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Post by vbking on Dec 19, 2005 17:08:14 GMT -5
Pavan may not have passed perfectly, but she did not shank as many passes as everyone is saying. The majority of passes that she made allowed the setter to make great sets to the hitters. The Huskers did not lose because of Pavan's passing. They lost because 4 of their hitters could hit no better than .100. They lost because their backcourt defense was awful. They lost because Washington was just too good on that night. Even if you take away the 6 or 7 balls that Pavan did shank, the Huskers still lose 3-0. Hitters that they were counting on could simply not beat the Washington defense.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2005 17:11:23 GMT -5
Pavan only had two aces recorded against her. I thought Cox was making too big a deal out of it myself.
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Post by VolleyTX on Dec 19, 2005 17:18:38 GMT -5
I agree with almost everything you said. I would add one more element. I thought Nebraska's setters did a poor job. Beyond execution.... I think they were WAY to predictable. They didn't take enough chances. I thought they were more willing to take risks in the previous matches I watched this season.
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Post by eiv805 on Dec 19, 2005 17:54:43 GMT -5
I don't think Pavan had as many bad passes as people are saying. There were numerous times the announcers mistakenly referred to Pavan after a bad pass when actuality it was another Nebraska player. In the third game, CH had two mishandled balls in a row and for some reason the announcers focused on Pavan. Bottom-line, Nebraska as a team, did not pass the ball as well as they should have to be successful in this match. This also led to the predictable setting by the setters.
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Post by Pirate VB Fan on Dec 19, 2005 19:04:45 GMT -5
I went back and watched the final game again and noticed that both Heather Cox and I were wrong. I know it comes as a shock, but Heather was wrong in saying they had finally moved Pavan to the outside at that point. It was 28-25 in game three when she made the comment and Pavan was in the front row (right front, left front on the TV) and so of course she was off to the left. Also, I was wrong in saying she shanked it. She played the ball cleanly and Nebraska got their last point off that serve.
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Post by Gorf on Dec 19, 2005 21:05:32 GMT -5
I mentioned this before, however, something else that stood out to me was that even on weak passes that Thompson didn't get to the Huskies put up very hittable sets that their OH's (or a back row player) would take an aggressive swing at whereas more often than not in the same type of situations the Huskers would send over an easy freeball.
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