1. First off, congratulations to our Lady Panthers! That was a fabulous comeback. Reverse sweeps are sort of becoming our thing this year
2. I think I lost 2 years off my life yesterday. The girls need to take into consideration the age of some of their fans. I much prefer matches like WSU where I can relax and marvel.
3. Give credit to Louisville. They are never easy. They seem to play Pitt hard all of the time, and this game it was with different players. Kong was unstoppable. This was not Luper's and DeBeer's best games. I would like to think the Lady Panthers had something to do with that.
4, The coach for Louisville Dani Busboom Kelly summed the game up pretty sussinctly This game was decided by the quality of the serve receive. The first 2 games Louisville was a little bit better and Pitt was kind of tentative with its serve. The last 3, Pitt was more aggressive, forcing Louisville to play out of system a lot more.
5. Congratulations to Olivia Babcock on being name player of the region. I am not sure that award couldn't have gone to Rachel Fairbanks or Torrey Stafford though.
6. I have not previously understood the importance put on service aces. But it is not really the aces that matter. If the serve is aggressive, the aces and errors will usually come close to balancing out but aggressive serves that are not aces often lead to out of system offense which is easier to defend.
7 Busboom Kelly describes the serve receive as very mental and Louisville was just out of sorts the last 3 games.
8 I gotta tell you, at the beginning of the year, I was pretty skeptical the Panthers would get this far. I thought we would see a lot more Dalton, and wondered who would be the other constributors. Babcock and Stafford are just so much better than I ever imagined. Still it is tough to have freshmen come in and be major cogs in the offense. I think a lot of the credit goes to Fairbanks. She makes setting look easy (which it isn't!), It also goes to coach. He manages to always find a way to weave a really competitive team out of the players that he has.
9. I don't know how far Pitt will get in the final 4. But I do know Pitt will be even better next year!
2. I think I lost 2 years off my life yesterday. The girls need to take into consideration the age of some of their fans. I much prefer matches like WSU where I can relax and marvel.
3. Give credit to Louisville. They are never easy. They seem to play Pitt hard all of the time, and this game it was with different players. Kong was unstoppable. This was not Luper's and DeBeer's best games. I would like to think the Lady Panthers had something to do with that.
4, The coach for Louisville Dani Busboom Kelly summed the game up pretty sussinctly This game was decided by the quality of the serve receive. The first 2 games Louisville was a little bit better and Pitt was kind of tentative with its serve. The last 3, Pitt was more aggressive, forcing Louisville to play out of system a lot more.
5. Congratulations to Olivia Babcock on being name player of the region. I am not sure that award couldn't have gone to Rachel Fairbanks or Torrey Stafford though.
6. I have not previously understood the importance put on service aces. But it is not really the aces that matter. If the serve is aggressive, the aces and errors will usually come close to balancing out but aggressive serves that are not aces often lead to out of system offense which is easier to defend.
7 Busboom Kelly describes the serve receive as very mental and Louisville was just out of sorts the last 3 games.
8 I gotta tell you, at the beginning of the year, I was pretty skeptical the Panthers would get this far. I thought we would see a lot more Dalton, and wondered who would be the other constributors. Babcock and Stafford are just so much better than I ever imagined. Still it is tough to have freshmen come in and be major cogs in the offense. I think a lot of the credit goes to Fairbanks. She makes setting look easy (which it isn't!), It also goes to coach. He manages to always find a way to weave a really competitive team out of the players that he has.
9. I don't know how far Pitt will get in the final 4. But I do know Pitt will be even better next year!
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