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Post by austintatious on Dec 16, 2011 0:28:11 GMT -5
Illinois is gonna get spanked! Way to go you KISS OF DEATH But the huge Ass will either have 20 excuses or disappear for awhile. My guess is excuses.
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Post by tomclen on Dec 16, 2011 0:29:03 GMT -5
:-XWay to go you KISS OF DEATH But the huge Ass will either have 20 excuses or disappear for awhile. My guess is excuses. And the sun will come up tomorrow.
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Post by foreignball on Dec 16, 2011 0:29:43 GMT -5
A few random thoughts of mine (I watched only 1/2 of 3rd, 4th and 5th sets): a) A. Jupiter - what a player. I'm not able to recall other NCAA players in the last decade that could take single handedly over a decisive game besides D Hooker and S Gordon. My, she was so-o-o close to take over this one .... b) USC just ran out of luck......because by the end of the 4th I was thinking "This one is going the same way as the previous 2 ones". I know a lot of people will say "Line-up, AJ front/back row, etc.". Yes it matters but having to play and win in 5, three times in a row coming from behind (1-2) is very, very difficult. This USC team has proven they are mentally tough..... c) Illinois got a huge help in the 5th from their frosh RS. She was the difference maker....I'm not sure they expected that at all. Credit to IL Setter for setting her (RS) the ball in those decisive plays. IMHO if IL had kept going only to their OH’s they most probably would have lost. d) Whoever recruited IL’s Libero has to turn his credentials back and stop being involved in this activity. Nothing personal – I know neither her name nor where she is from (just that her jersey has #3). An elite team Libero IS NOT ALLOWED to mishandle 2 free balls in a row in a decisive playoff 5th game and miss a serve after that!
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Post by nelson56 on Dec 16, 2011 0:29:47 GMT -5
Best match ever? How quickly we forget Penn St./Texas in 2009. I agree that this is a classic match, but the build up and intensity of that match was on a different level.
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Post by lionsfan on Dec 16, 2011 0:31:28 GMT -5
ESPNU is showing the matches from 3-6 a.m. I think; hopefully for those who didn't see them they will broadcast the second one in full. Is this ET? And is it 3-6 on December 16? Thanks for the info. ET, yes...here's the schedule: espn.go.com/espntv/onair/index?start=12-15-11-10:42-PMEDIT: cut and paste the link...colon is messing it up here...
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Post by ForSureSurfin on Dec 16, 2011 0:31:44 GMT -5
Best match ever? How quickly we forget Penn St./Texas in 2009. I agree that this is a classic match, but the build up and intensity of that match was on a different level. Penn State/Nebraska in 08 was even bigger than that.
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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Dec 16, 2011 0:31:53 GMT -5
that was a tremendous match ... and tremendous rally on match point! fitting too, b/c that's pretty much what the whole match was like.
Congrats to Illinois! Hambly's investment in the PT of McMahon has really paid off. And Ward and Bartsch are both playing very well at the right time. If McMahon is blocking and hitting this well in the final, then Illinois can slow down Kidder (the way they slowed down Jupiter, albeit Jupiter still got a ton of kills).
Congrats to USC on a great season ... 3 five-setters in a row proved to be too much.
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Post by volleyballfanatic1 on Dec 16, 2011 0:35:02 GMT -5
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Post by austintatious on Dec 16, 2011 0:37:41 GMT -5
They must be smoking some pretty powerful stuff at that party if they expect anybody to go along with that. LOL, I know what you mean, but I am not kidding. I think they said it on every Big Ten Network broadcast "Current big ten schools have won the past 5 national titles". That "current" makes it true on a technicality. Come on what are you trying to sell? That won't sell, and not even on technicality. Be happy with five if Illinois wins.
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Post by Psychopotamus on Dec 16, 2011 0:38:39 GMT -5
Best match ever? How quickly we forget Penn St./Texas in 2009. I agree that this is a classic match, but the build up and intensity of that match was on a different level. Hawaii-BYU, no question.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2011 0:38:50 GMT -5
Beltran was very good in this match. Two mistakes in g5 doesn't change that.
Luhrsen set a great match, I thought.
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Post by tenniscraze on Dec 16, 2011 0:40:12 GMT -5
A few random thoughts of mine (I watched only 1/2 of 3rd, 4th and 5th sets): a) A. Jupiter - what a player. I'm not able to recall other NCAA players in the last decade that could take single handedly over a decisive game besides D Hooker and S Gordon. My, she was so-o-o close to take over this one .... b) USC just ran out of luck......because by the end of the 4th I was thinking "This one is going the same way as the previous 2 ones". I know a lot of people will say "Line-up, AJ front/back row, etc.". Yes it matters but having to play and win in 5, three times in a row coming from behind (1-2) is very, very difficult. This USC team has proven they are mentally tough..... c) Illinois got a huge help in the 5th from their frosh RS. She was the difference maker....I'm not sure they expected that at all. Credit to IL Setter for setting her (RS) the ball in those decisive plays. IMHO if IL had kept going only to their OH’s they most probably would have lost. d) Whoever recruited IL’s Libero has to turn his credentials back and stop being involved in this activity. Nothing personal – I know neither her name nor where she is from (just that her jersey has #3). An elite team Libero IS NOT ALLOWED to mishandle 2 free balls in a row in a decisive playoff 5th game and miss a serve after that! Well said
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Post by pogoball on Dec 16, 2011 0:40:38 GMT -5
A few random thoughts of mine (I watched only 1/2 of 3rd, 4th and 5th sets): a) A. Jupiter - what a player. I'm not able to recall other NCAA players in the last decade that could take single handedly over a decisive game besides D Hooker and S Gordon. My, she was so-o-o close to take over this one .... b) USC just ran out of luck......because by the end of the 4th I was thinking "This one is going the same way as the previous 2 ones". I know a lot of people will say "Line-up, AJ front/back row, etc.". Yes it matters but having to play and win in 5, three times in a row coming from behind (1-2) is very, very difficult. This USC team has proven they are mentally tough..... c) Illinois got a huge help in the 5th from their frosh RS. She was the difference maker....I'm not sure they expected that at all. Credit to IL Setter for setting her (RS) the ball in those decisive plays. IMHO if IL had kept going only to their OH’s they most probably would have lost. d) Whoever recruited IL’s Libero has to turn his credentials back and stop being involved in this activity. Nothing personal – I know neither her name nor where she is from (just that her jersey has #3). An elite team Libero IS NOT ALLOWED to mishandle 2 free balls in a row in a decisive playoff 5th game and miss a serve after that! +1 on points a, b & c. Beltran was lights-out for 4 sets and I'm not sure that there are more than a handful of NCAA liberos that could have played better. Illinois would not have been in the 5th set without her stellar play. I agree that she was nervous in the first half of the 5th set and played poorly, relatively speaking. Not just the couple obvious errors, but her passing was off and she played a little timid. She settled down around 8-7 and played well to finish -- making several great plays in that last rally, which she also served.
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Post by smiley on Dec 16, 2011 0:41:08 GMT -5
d) Jennifer Beltran (so) set the IL season record for digs last year. She's from So. Cal. She was rated the second best Libero in the last DECADE by prepvolleyball when recruited. Her biggest problem seems to be she's not flashy. She just plays. She had one more dig the the drooled over Hagglund. So two mishandeled balls, so what. We'll be more than glad to keep her.
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Post by austintatious on Dec 16, 2011 0:42:14 GMT -5
Congrats to Illinois! As for the commentators, it was yada yada yada Jupiter...yada yada yada Jupiter. Even when she was playing bad, it was Jupiter, Jupiter, Jupiter. Now, don't get me wrong, I think Jupiter is a great player, but damn, spread the love around. Announcers are great at picking a story/player prior to the match and riding it to make them selves seem knowledgeable. Plenty of love for four or five others would have been nice.
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