Q&A w/Talking Head: Nebraska; 2017; Looking Ahead
Dec 18, 2017 9:32:11 GMT -5
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Post by nyline on Dec 18, 2017 9:32:11 GMT -5
Here's the link to a post we've added to DigNittanyVolleyball.com: Q&A with Talking Head: Nebraska Match, 2017 Season, Looking Ahead.
Here's an excerpt:
Here's an excerpt:
DigNittany: Let’s start with the Nebraska match. Obviously, really tough loss — second year in a row where the Nittany Lions were one swing away from defeating the Cornhuskers. Your thoughts.
Talking Head: Everything Nebraska tried seemed to work very, very well for them — their game plan, their execution, their serving. The play of their libero [5-8 Jr. Kenzie Maloney] was better than I recall even 2016 First Team All-American Justine Wong Orantes playing against us in the past four years. That kid made a huge difference — not only in passing and defending and setting. Her serve was as effective against us as any server we had to face all year long, whatever they were calling. They were mixing it up a bit with some short serves that for some reason we just could not handle, and she drove us back a few times too. But all their players were playing at a high level. 6-3 Jr. OH Mikaela Foecke, with that high snap down the corner got us a ton of times. 6-3 Fr. Jazz Sweet was feeling really good about herself on the rightside, and just bombing away with that cross-court shot. And 6-1 MB Briana Holman? I don’t know if we stopped her — she seemed to have a one-on-one situation a lot of times and she was just unloading. But what was amazing is, I just kept looking at what they were doing, with efficiency, and then looking at the score and thinking “Man, we’re still in this.”
Talking Head: Everything Nebraska tried seemed to work very, very well for them — their game plan, their execution, their serving. The play of their libero [5-8 Jr. Kenzie Maloney] was better than I recall even 2016 First Team All-American Justine Wong Orantes playing against us in the past four years. That kid made a huge difference — not only in passing and defending and setting. Her serve was as effective against us as any server we had to face all year long, whatever they were calling. They were mixing it up a bit with some short serves that for some reason we just could not handle, and she drove us back a few times too. But all their players were playing at a high level. 6-3 Jr. OH Mikaela Foecke, with that high snap down the corner got us a ton of times. 6-3 Fr. Jazz Sweet was feeling really good about herself on the rightside, and just bombing away with that cross-court shot. And 6-1 MB Briana Holman? I don’t know if we stopped her — she seemed to have a one-on-one situation a lot of times and she was just unloading. But what was amazing is, I just kept looking at what they were doing, with efficiency, and then looking at the score and thinking “Man, we’re still in this.”