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Post by Millenium on Oct 13, 2024 15:17:43 GMT -5
Sooooooo Pitt just lost to SMU. I don't think that'll change anything for our team but it gives me comfort that people from the other forum will finally stop comparing this Pitt team to the '08 PSU team. That deeply offended my PSU fan heart. Plus, it makes me feel better that PITT can fall into trap games like everybody else. It always difficult for a team to get up for a team that they beat handily at an earlier time. Now if we can just bottle this and use it the next(?) time PSU plays PITT.
Edit: PITT didn't have RR. I've read stories about those teams (2008-2009). RR conjured up all kinds of ways to beat them in practice. So when a challenge actually came from teams in the tournament, the team was ready for it.
Yes. I've been thinking about this A LOT. I don't recall where I read this, or which coach did this, but a certain coach would make the back line shorter by a few feet during serving practices. The reason he did this is because he realized the players were amped-up during matches and hit the ball long, more often than not during actual games, whereas in practice they would serve extremely well and in-bounds. I thought that was a great managerial breakdown and tactic. |
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Post by ethankasales on Oct 13, 2024 21:01:26 GMT -5
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Post by ethankasales on Oct 14, 2024 22:03:36 GMT -5
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Post by ethankasales on Oct 15, 2024 11:36:39 GMT -5
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Post by ethankasales on Oct 17, 2024 18:33:48 GMT -5
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Post by ethankasales on Oct 17, 2024 20:28:12 GMT -5
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Post by ethankasales on Oct 22, 2024 19:42:39 GMT -5
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Post by ethankasales on Oct 22, 2024 23:11:41 GMT -5
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Post by ethankasales on Oct 23, 2024 19:14:13 GMT -5
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Post by ethankasales on Oct 23, 2024 21:41:06 GMT -5
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Post by ethankasales on Oct 24, 2024 12:50:01 GMT -5
I wonder who the next USWNT coach will be.
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Post by ethankasales on Oct 24, 2024 13:41:13 GMT -5
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Millenium
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Post by Millenium on Oct 24, 2024 20:30:13 GMT -5
I wonder who the next USWNT coach will be. Whaaaatttt?!!! I can't believe it. Yes!! I too can't wait to see who the new Women's NT coach will be. |
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Post by jojonito on Oct 25, 2024 7:14:01 GMT -5
I wonder who the next USWNT coach will be. There will be a lot of happy people on the other forum. For some reason many dislike him, probably that he doesn't want women on the team who don't buy into the team first concept; they call it the Kumbaya type of coaching. And of course, they know much more about volleyball than Karch does. They seem to think that he way overdoes the whole team thing. And I'm sure that these detractors have all spent many years playing/coaching volleyball like Karch has.
A funny anecdote: I was watching a women's VNL match, US and somebody, and the other team tipped the ball and the US players didn't cover it so it dropped for a pt. One announcer said that the US players needed to read the tip better to be prepared for it. The other announcer started laughing and then said, "Karch's volleyball IQ is so high, he probably recognized that the tip was coming before the opposing player who tipped it decided to tip it".
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