Q&A w/Talking Head: What Nebraska Match Tells Us About PSU
Oct 15, 2018 12:33:17 GMT -5
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Post by nyline on Oct 15, 2018 12:33:17 GMT -5
We've posted a Q&A with Talking Head, who played D1 volleyball and has coached the sport for many years, for his thoughts following the match with Nebraska at Rec Hall on October 13th.
Here's the link: www.dignittanyvolleyball.com/q-and-a-with-talking-head-what-the-nebraska-match-tells-us-about-this-penn-state-team/
And here's an excerpt:
Here's the link to the complete Q&A: www.dignittanyvolleyball.com/q-and-a-with-talking-head-what-the-nebraska-match-tells-us-about-this-penn-state-team/
Here's the link: www.dignittanyvolleyball.com/q-and-a-with-talking-head-what-the-nebraska-match-tells-us-about-this-penn-state-team/
And here's an excerpt:
DigNittany: So we’ve had some time to process Penn State’s great come-from-behind 3-2 win over Nebraska on Saturday night (25-22, 11-25, 24-26, 25-23, 15-9), which left the Penn State Women’s Volleyball team (15-3, 6-2 in the B1G) in a three-way tie for second place in the Big Ten race. The word that comes to our mind is “gritty” — an exceptionally hard-fought match (by both teams) in which Penn State didn’t have its cleanest performance, but refused to lose. Your thoughts?
Talking Head: Game 1 — neck and neck, neither team was playing particularly well, but they were within striking distance of one another. I would have thought that in that situation, the more veteran Nebraska team would have been more comfortable with who they are (at least at this point in the season) and would have been able to pull out the win. But with a couple of plays here and there in Penn State’s favor, and we take the set. Then Game 2 comes around, and we just get smoked. We can’t do anything right — we look worse than what we saw against Stanford or against Minnesota. But the team was able to just brush that one off — and that’s a testament to the players, but a lot of credit has to be given to the coaching staff and how they were able to react to a set in which the team just didn’t have it.
DigNittany: It was almost the reverse of what happened in 2014, in a match against the Huskers in Lincoln on October 3rd, when #3-ranked Penn State took the first set 25-12, but lost the next three sets 25-22, 25 -20, and 25-23, to lose the match 3-1 to #8-ranked Nebraska.
Talking Head: In both matches, the visiting team beat the home team badly in one set, but lost the match. In our match Saturday, you saw savvy coaches for Penn State react the right way to a young team. The great thing about volleyball is that there’s a reset button after every set. So after that beat-down by Nebraska in Game 2, both teams came out in Game 3 and probably played their best of any game in the entire match.
Talking Head: Game 1 — neck and neck, neither team was playing particularly well, but they were within striking distance of one another. I would have thought that in that situation, the more veteran Nebraska team would have been more comfortable with who they are (at least at this point in the season) and would have been able to pull out the win. But with a couple of plays here and there in Penn State’s favor, and we take the set. Then Game 2 comes around, and we just get smoked. We can’t do anything right — we look worse than what we saw against Stanford or against Minnesota. But the team was able to just brush that one off — and that’s a testament to the players, but a lot of credit has to be given to the coaching staff and how they were able to react to a set in which the team just didn’t have it.
DigNittany: It was almost the reverse of what happened in 2014, in a match against the Huskers in Lincoln on October 3rd, when #3-ranked Penn State took the first set 25-12, but lost the next three sets 25-22, 25 -20, and 25-23, to lose the match 3-1 to #8-ranked Nebraska.
Talking Head: In both matches, the visiting team beat the home team badly in one set, but lost the match. In our match Saturday, you saw savvy coaches for Penn State react the right way to a young team. The great thing about volleyball is that there’s a reset button after every set. So after that beat-down by Nebraska in Game 2, both teams came out in Game 3 and probably played their best of any game in the entire match.
Here's the link to the complete Q&A: www.dignittanyvolleyball.com/q-and-a-with-talking-head-what-the-nebraska-match-tells-us-about-this-penn-state-team/
