Pitt vs Miami Volleyball part 2
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25-12 that was pretty easy. A pretty complete match by the ladies.
I would like to think we have a number one seed locked up. We shall see.
Don’t crap the bed against a terrible cuse team and it’s acc champs again
You have to move one spot every time there is a change of service and your team is serving again. You move around in a circle so if you start on the side in the first row, you will play 3 rotations (each team serves once) in the first row and then three in the second row, on one of which you will be the server.
Fisher likes to substitute his two designated servers for his weaker servers when it is their turn to serve. That’s why you almost never see Monk or Klinka, for example, serving. He also sometimes substitutes to get better defensive players in the back row. But, he doesn’t do it that much.
Lots of teams substitute for their big hitters when they are in the back row if they are not good defensive players. Fortunately, Babcock, Stafford and Vasquez Gomez all are good defensive players. They usually get substituted because Fisher thinks they need a rest and not because they are weak in the back row. If you are in the back row, you can’t cross the line and enter the front row. But, Babcock, particularly, is a capable hitter from the back row. As long as she is standing behind the line when she leaves the ground it doesn’t matter on which side of the line she lands. So she gives us another offensive weapon when she is in the back row. Stafford hasn’t done it as much at Pitt, but in HS she also was deadly from the back row. Her HS setter now is the setter at Stanford. She is as good at setting for hitters in the back row as you ever will see.
Griffin, it seems to me, has come out of nowhere to be our #1 designated server. That lefthanded, knuckleball, diving serve is very tough to handle.
Hopefully letting Nwokolo serve is over now with Griffin's emergence, in addition to Flood. Griffin and Flood were the difference tonight. H2P
I thought the biggest play in the third set was the challenge on the touch call when VVG hit it out. If Miami got that call and it’s 11-8 with them serving, maybe they hang around. But, when the touch was confirmed, they seemed to lose any remaining spark they had.
They clearly suffered a letdown after losing set two when they had a lead early.
By the way, this is the second time I have seen Miami play and I’m not particularly impressed with Lopez. I actually think our third frosh, Bayless, is as good as her.
Did their players tell their coach they didn't touch it? It was 1 of the more obvious touches that I've seen on challenges.
Your players have to be honest in those situations. In the Louisville game there was a play that the refs called out of bounds off the Pitt block. Fisher immediately picked up the challenge card and started walking to the official. But as he was walking up he said something to the player, iirc it was Nwokolo, and she said something back, and he turned right around and put the card back on the table. It was obvious that he asked her "did you touch it?" and she said yes.
This is great stuff. So what is the rule on substituting, for instance. When your big hitter's slot ends up in the back row, can they sub out, then sub into a spot on the front row? Or are they locked into the "slot" for the match? Can subs be subbed into any position?
There’s a position called the Libero that subs in for both middle blockers in the back row when they rotate into the back. That doesn’t count as a substitution and is just part of the natural lineup. So you always have a middle blocker in the front and a Libero in the back (except for one or two serve rotations since a Libero can only serve in one slot, this is when Pitt subs in Cat Flood and Dylan Griffin to serve instead).
For non-liberos, once players sub into a specific slot in the rotation they can only be subbed in and out of that slot for that set
For people who don't know, the libero is the player wearing the different colored jersey. That's how the officials know that the regular substitution rules don't apply to her. So, for example, when Pitt is wearing white jerseys, the Pitt liberos wear blue jerseys.
