Post by nyline on Sept 4, 2016 12:55:28 GMT -5
We've posted a quick recap of the Colorado match (with analysis from Talking Head). Below is an excerpt (and Click Here for the full post)
For the second straight match, Penn State fell in five-sets (25-22,20-25,19-25,25-20, 3-15), this time to the Colorado Buffalos (not pictured at left) in the first of two matches for the Nittany Lions in the Big Ten – Pac-12 Challenge. Today’s opponent: Stanford and its cast of Trees.
Penn State’s 6-2 Fr. MH Tori Gorrell had a career-best 14 kills (.333 attack %) and five blocks (the team had a total of 16), 6-1 Jr. OH Simone Lee put down 19 kills, and 6-1 Jr. OH Ali Frantti registered 11 kills, but 33 team attack errors, 12 service errors, and 5 serve-receive errors proved too much to overcome. 6-3 Jr. MH Haleigh Washington totaled eight kills and a team-high nine total blocks (three solo.)
Talking Head’s Recap
About the 5th Set
I think if you’ve been in this game long enough, most coaches and players have been on the receiving end, and on the giving end, of a Game 5 like the one that we saw last night. There often isn’t too much to take from those kinds of games, and last night, Penn State looked like a team in Game 5 that had been starting to find its identity (particularly in game 4) but it hasn’t done that yet. And in Game 5, it wasn’t able to fight six-against-six, as a team. For many of the points, it looked like six (Colorado) on one (Penn State) — by which I mean that many of the points were decided by one Penn State player making a mistake, or a poor decision. It wasn’t a case of bad pass, bad set and bad hit, it was one of those (or some other kind of mistake). The cumulative effect was the 15-3 loss.
Penn State’s 6-2 Fr. MH Tori Gorrell had a career-best 14 kills (.333 attack %) and five blocks (the team had a total of 16), 6-1 Jr. OH Simone Lee put down 19 kills, and 6-1 Jr. OH Ali Frantti registered 11 kills, but 33 team attack errors, 12 service errors, and 5 serve-receive errors proved too much to overcome. 6-3 Jr. MH Haleigh Washington totaled eight kills and a team-high nine total blocks (three solo.)
Talking Head’s Recap
About the 5th Set
I think if you’ve been in this game long enough, most coaches and players have been on the receiving end, and on the giving end, of a Game 5 like the one that we saw last night. There often isn’t too much to take from those kinds of games, and last night, Penn State looked like a team in Game 5 that had been starting to find its identity (particularly in game 4) but it hasn’t done that yet. And in Game 5, it wasn’t able to fight six-against-six, as a team. For many of the points, it looked like six (Colorado) on one (Penn State) — by which I mean that many of the points were decided by one Penn State player making a mistake, or a poor decision. It wasn’t a case of bad pass, bad set and bad hit, it was one of those (or some other kind of mistake). The cumulative effect was the 15-3 loss.
