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Post by nittlion on Sept 17, 2024 22:08:35 GMT -5
I think Izzy and Ava are going to have really great games against Pitt. They both have been improving in various areas of their game each time they play. I think if PSU can keep their attacking errors down then they will be in good shape. It does seem as though the passing has gone down a bit since the first few games of the season, but I do believe Ava’s has been consistently getting better especially as each game goes on. Similar with Izzy, I think her setting choices get better as the game goes on. Hoping her connection with Trammell and Mendelson will continue to shine tomorrow!
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Post by nittlion on Sept 17, 2024 22:10:55 GMT -5
And to add on to the passing. Although it hasn’t been as good I will say Izzy does a great job in making a bad pass look as if it was perfect by the way she can get under the ball and pass it around wherever she’d like. And the OOS attacking seems to still be solid for both Cam and Jess.
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Post by ethankasales on Sept 18, 2024 8:23:08 GMT -5
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Post by ethankasales on Sept 18, 2024 8:25:19 GMT -5
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Post by dc155 on Sept 18, 2024 9:07:07 GMT -5
State College Residents (and those nearby) --
If you can't make it to Pittsburgh tonight but would like people to watch the match with (and/or don't have access to ACC Network)... There is a Watch Party tonight at:
Antifragle Brewing Co. 324 E Calder Way State College, PA
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Post by ethankasales on Sept 18, 2024 10:19:39 GMT -5
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Post by ethankasales on Sept 18, 2024 10:22:46 GMT -5
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Post by ethankasales on Sept 18, 2024 10:23:43 GMT -5
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Post by ethankasales on Sept 18, 2024 10:26:52 GMT -5
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Post by pinkpanther on Sept 18, 2024 10:30:20 GMT -5
State College Residents (and those nearby) -- If you can't make it to Pittsburgh tonight but would like people to watch the match with (and/or don't have access to ACC Network)... There is a Watch Party tonight at: Antifragle Brewing Co.
324 E Calder Way State College, PA I've heard lots of good things about Antifragile and have been wanting to check it out, and this seems like a great excuse. Does anyone know if it's kid-friendly? I assume since they aren't all alcohol that under 21s are fine, but will a kid like the atmosphere there for a watch party?
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Post by ethankasales on Sept 18, 2024 10:37:49 GMT -5
State College Residents (and those nearby) -- If you can't make it to Pittsburgh tonight but would like people to watch the match with (and/or don't have access to ACC Network)... There is a Watch Party tonight at: Antifragle Brewing Co.
324 E Calder Way State College, PA I've heard lots of good things about Antifragile and have been wanting to check it out, and this seems like a great excuse. Does anyone know if it's kid-friendly? I assume since they aren't all alcohol that under 21s are fine, but will a kid like the atmosphere there for a watch party? Yes, absolutely! The projector screen is very large and people bring their kids to Antifragile all the time.
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Post by pinkpanther on Sept 18, 2024 10:51:18 GMT -5
I've heard lots of good things about Antifragile and have been wanting to check it out, and this seems like a great excuse. Does anyone know if it's kid-friendly? I assume since they aren't all alcohol that under 21s are fine, but will a kid like the atmosphere there for a watch party? Yes, absolutely! The projector screen is very large and people bring their kids to Antifragile all the time. Thanks! I may end up there!
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Post by ethankasales on Sept 18, 2024 10:57:26 GMT -5
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Post by ethankasales on Sept 18, 2024 12:13:16 GMT -5
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Post by psuphdstudent on Sept 18, 2024 12:58:09 GMT -5
If we compare the matches that matter (ranked matches), PSU is a better offensive team outhitting Pitt 0.316 to 0.276. Pitt is a much better serving team (and if you watched the first spring match, you know this) serving 2.67 aces/set to PSU's 1.16 aces/set. Blocking is pretty much a scratch with PSU barely out blocking Pitt 2.58 blocks/set to Pitt's 2.33. In terms of floor defense, PSU out dug Pitt 13.75 digs/set to 12.5 digs/set. ...
I wonder about the serving difference. 1) The ranked teams that PSU has played is a lot higher than Pitt, i.e. the serve receive for those team is, I think, better 2) It's my impression that PSU serving has gotten better as the season goes on - in particular, Falduto has been serving REALLY well. She goes on serving runs regularly. She has 11 aces so far, but we know that the aces stat is not a good indicator of how well a person/team is serving. When Ava serves, she frequently puts the other team oos even when she doesn't have many aces. (Anyone know how well she served against Pitt in the spring?) I think that PSU has at least 5 servers who can go on runs. So I think that the PSU serving may be underrated. I also don't know how good the server receive is for Pitt. I guess I'll find out tomorrow!
On a different subject, the Massey rating only give PSU a 1 in 3 chance of winning. That seems low to me. I don't know if that's my prejudice for PSU or if Massey is still taking last year into account and isn't fully using 2024 data yet. Since PSU has played better (higher ranked) team this year than Pitt, I wonder why/how that is figured.
Someone can say all they want that Pitt looks so good this year; that's nice, but who have they played? PSU is the only highly ranked team Pitt will play in their pre-conf matches. And I doubt that Pitt was expecting PSU to be this good when the PSU vs PItt match was scheduled last year. So while the other top teams are playing each other, (Texas, Stanford, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Louisville, PSU), Pitt is not. Interesting.
Something else that is annoying; Pitt's RPI is the highest of all the NCAA teams so far, in spite of the fact that they have played very few highly ranked teams. Just goes to show that Pitt is gaming the system (RPI) really well, i.e. they are playing teams that maximize Pitt's RPI, not teams that are necessarily very good. Another reason that I dislike the RPI system. Oh well.
PSU's RPI will seldom be as high because Katie, along with RR, feels that playing lower ranked teams is good for those teams and is good for raising volleyball awareness/popularity.
Edit: Will be interesting to see the Pitt vs Stanford match during the regular season. I know Pitt vs Louisville is always a barn burner, but with Louisville's small OH's Louisville's offense has to be really on to beat the top ranked teams.
And just my luck, Pitt will destroy PSU and I'll have to eat my words. Don't think that will happen, but it could. Hopefully Izzy/PSU will not be fazed by the Pitt crowd. I definitely agree with PSU's serve being underrated. And this is undoubtedly the best serving team PSU has had for a while. It's kinda hard to gauge how truly good Pitt's reception is cause the of the opposition USC is the only team with pretty strong serve but their numbers have been good. All three passers have been passing well above 2.00 with Klika passing above 2.30 (according to Avid from the other site). As far as RPI goes, I actually think KSC has done pretty well so far. If you look at figstats we're currently at 2 and was at 1 for the longest time. They scheduled smaller teams, yes but they chose small teams that did well in their conferences last year. Yale won Ivy, JMU won Sun Belt (#2 in wins), Duke was 5th in ACC and was in the top 50 of the RPI and St John's was 3rd in the BE. Now yes, Princeton is a clunker but they tried to plan smart it just so happen that some of those teams are particularly good so far (looking at you Duke and JMU). But as far why Pitt is so high still, I'm also mad at that cause they only played USC and an overrated Oregon. And well, Massey and other metrics rate Pitt, Neb and LV high cause predictive tools take historic performance into account and expect PSU to lose cause they have no data on Izzy, Maggie, Ava and Caroline with rest of the team. But I can't be mad at a predictive tool that much haha.
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