trojansc
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Post by trojansc on Dec 16, 2011 1:22:56 GMT -5
Jupiter's play was poor on the serve receive and the passing, and her serving was suspect and her hitting sporadic....all in all she had a sub par performance tonight....it will be ironic if she gets POY! She could have taken charge of this match and she didn't! UMM, Alex Jupiter is the reason why there was a set 5. Of USC's last 10 points in the 4th set, Alex had 8 kills. She finished with 32 kills. Sure, she didn't post 20+ digs like she did last weekend, but she was the only one who stepped it up as a go to player late. Come on. Fuller could have taken charge but she didn't either. Williams wasn't clutch late. Give me a break. USC didn't play good as a team but Jupiter had a good performance. 32 kills!
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Post by jayj79 on Dec 16, 2011 1:34:01 GMT -5
colon is messing it up here... quick! someone call a proctologist!!
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Post by smiley on Dec 16, 2011 1:36:14 GMT -5
As an IL fan I don't think it goes 5 without Jupiter. I would agree she didn't get enough support from her teammates for which I'm glad.
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Post by Barefoot In Kailua on Dec 16, 2011 1:37:28 GMT -5
First off congrats to the Illini, they stuck with it and battled.Ward,Bartsch, and McMahon played well, Ward especially. USC lost the match when they blew a 3 point lead late in set 3, Shaw hits out, Bateman with a bad decision setting Williams who really wasn't expecting the set, then Fuller gets blocked on another bad setting decision by Bateman. SC could have put a lot of pressure on Illinois but lost the set and ended up down 2 games to 1 for the third straight match. You can't continue to live on the edge against this kind of competition and expect to pull through all the time.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2011 1:40:54 GMT -5
They lost g3 for the same reason they were up in g3. Jupiter got her kills against Luhrsen, but then they had no one who had a chance against McMahon. Such are the risks of spinning the old dial.
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Post by Barefoot In Kailua on Dec 16, 2011 1:43:14 GMT -5
They lost g3 for the same reason they were up in g3. Jupiter got her kills against Luhrsen, but then they had no one who had a chance against McMahon. Such are the risks of spinning the old dial. Two of those points for the Illini late in game three were unforced errors by USC.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2011 1:49:02 GMT -5
Define "unforced."
(That's rhetorical.)
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Post by westsidevballer on Dec 16, 2011 1:51:02 GMT -5
usc ran a timid offense tonight... maybe relied too much on Jup... bateman should have spread it around, and give the other hitters more confidence. fuller put the balls away when she had the set, but far and few.... lauren was on fire, and should have had some key sets in the 5th. the seniors stepped up, but little too late. illinois fought hard and deserves to be in the finals.
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Post by lely on Dec 16, 2011 1:51:50 GMT -5
Wow! What a match - congrats to Illinois!
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Post by westsidevballer on Dec 16, 2011 1:53:50 GMT -5
the difference was blocking as Ill was the better blocking team tonight... ala rs freshman Illinois.. she was great tonight for an underclassmen... and she used her 6'6 to shut usc down...
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Post by lely on Dec 16, 2011 2:02:48 GMT -5
The Nebraska announcer did a great job at pronouncing names and just doing the announcing at the game tonight, even if he didn't get to say "Mancuuusoooo"!
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Post by jgrout on Dec 16, 2011 2:06:21 GMT -5
How's the championship match going to top this one? Reminds me of the Nebraska/Penn State semi final five setter a few years ago which turned out to be waaaaaay better than the final. There's just a slight difference between playing Penn State in front of 12K or 13K fans screaming their lungs out for you in the semi-final and playing Penn State in front of a bunch of people sitting on their hands in the final. Even if I weren't a Stanford fan, being there would have taught me the difference... my ears rang all day and all evening on Friday.
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Post by MarsH on Dec 16, 2011 2:06:51 GMT -5
All sources I can find say the word should be pronounced LEE-ber-o (with the middle syllable sounding like the English word "bear"). The Italian word is pronounced LEE-beh-ro. I do hear some English speakers say LEE-bear-oh. Actually, the official pronunciation is leebro. I don't like it, but that's what they say. The correct pronunciation is lee-behr-oh, really fast I hear this a lot internationally. Where I'm from, 'libre' means 'Free' so hearing lee-beh-ro said quickly (almost like leebro) is an easy pick up for me. Now, liberi vs liberos ...
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Post by jgrout on Dec 16, 2011 2:08:52 GMT -5
If you want to hear how it is pronounced, feed "free substitute" into Google Translate (English to Italian) and click the little speaker on the Italian side. "Sostituto libero" comes out as SOHS-tee-too-toe LEE-beh-roh.
P.S. Because the term is not "substitute" but "free substitute", its plural is "Sostituti libero". Unlike some other Romance languages, in Italian, the adjective doesn't change form in a plural conjugation (e.g., in French, the adjective changes from singular "gratuitement" to plural "gratuits" and in Spanish, from singular "libre" to plural "libres").
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Post by ay2013 on Dec 16, 2011 2:11:25 GMT -5
I think it's interesting that USC actually has more kills, a better hitting percentage, a stronger middle attack, and the same number of digs in this match than they did @ Hawaii, yet some on here are saying that USC didnt bring their A game in this match, whereas the Hawaii match was their best effort...
ummmm ok
Frankly, the USC that showed up to the post season just wasn't the same team that plowed through the Pac-12. In too much of their past few matches they shown big bouts of inconsistency, and that just didn't happen for much of the conference season. The blocking will disappear, the passing goes south, nobody but jupiter scores....these just weren't things that were happening a couple weeks ago when USC took it to UCLA, @ UCLA.
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