WebCast for ISU-Creighton
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We need a new setter to get the people in the middle something to work with (both Stadick and Straube).
She's a senior playing in the NCAA tournament. Suck it up. She either sucks it up, or their season is over. Well, their season is over.
Setting has been marginal at best all year. Last year our setting was absolutely phenomenal and we got away with bad passes. This year we didn't.
Comes down to this team not having killer instinct. All year: Have chances to put sets away, waste them.
Hey, easy on that. I think we have a decent shot in the dual. Have faith. The team that went there in '04 didn't think they were going to win either.
I would say good year, but, no. It was just a year, too bad, too. Great seniors. They'll need to work on some things.
I agree with all you've said, but this is Creighton. They were on the bubble to even get in the tournament. Not a player on that team who would ever get a schollie to a program like ISU's.
This is a lot worse than losing to a Mizzou or OU. It shouldn't matter who our setter is against Creighton.
Any team can beat Iowa State when you only have to defend the outsides because the setter doesn't set well in the middle. At all. One team played with heart tonight, one looked like they thought they'd win because they were Iowa State. We had some AWFUL losses this season, this qualifies.
What'd Victoria end the 5th set with...5 errors and 2 kills? You simply can't have that from your senior "leader."
"We" knew we would go as far as Alison's setting would take us; you just don't replace an All-American setter (Manns) with someone who had practically zero experience (Landwehr saw action in something like 5 matches last year). CJL said so when I talked to her in the spring.
So why did things regress so much as the year went on? We started out very well, Landwehr played great against teams much, much better than Creighton (like UNI, for instance). The coaching staff was very pleased with things after the Runza Classic. Allison didn't seem fazed at all against Florida or Kentucky. CJL specifically mentioned her great progress, and CJL is nationally known as a premier coach of setters.
I don't get it.
Asa was said earlier she had not played much, so the scouting reports early on for her weren't to thick. As the season went on, I would suspect teams figured out her tendencies a bit.
The loss hurts a lot. This team could have been better, but, they weren't. Their setter found our corners quite a few times. I was surprised by that. They didn't give up on trying. They had most of their team committed to the net, and their libero hit everything. We didn't find corners. Better coaching?
