Funny how everyone can play in a match and all have such different perspectives on it. Some quick thoughts from me on our match yesterday and what I have read online so far about it.
We can all agree that our serving was clearly not good yesterday. There is no doubt in my mind that that was the biggest difference between the two teams and one or two points out of our serve could have been a big lift for us. We also can't expect to win when the other team's setter (especially someone as good as Makoto) gets to stand at the net and get consistent passing up to his hands. It's just not going to happen.
What JP wrote about the match is fairly skewed (maybe this is to be expected) towards the home team's favor. But I mean, looking back on it, the match could have easily been a whole different story. We had a swing to win the second set which unfortunately didn't go down, to Aarhus' credit, but it easily could have. That ball goes down and the whole match is different. This isn't taking anything away from them, they were better than us and they won, but the JP article makes it sound like SK pretty much had control of the match throughout. I don't think that was the case.
We were passive. Passive blocking, hitting, serving. You can't do that against a team fighting to survive. So, all credit to them for winning a must win for them. Now we have to go back and look at what caused us to play that way. What do we need to do to be better and to play aggressively from the beginning? We'll need answers to these questions if we are going to do well in the rest of the season. We had a chance to basically finish SK off and we didn't take that opportunity.
Anyways, anyone can pretty much beat anyone at this point. At least we can look forward to an interesting end to the season. Should be interesting to see what happens in Middelfart tomorrow. It looks like SK is going to need to win that one as well if they want to remain in contention. Exciting!
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Looking at the score, it must have been in the third set you had a swing to win it. You lost the second by 21-25.
I don't exactly see SK Aarhus' match tomorrow as a must-win. They have a match left against Holte and a home match against Aalborg. Those two are must-wins, and if Aalborg don't win against Marienlyst, Middelfart or Gentofte, then SK will beat them to fourth place.
Yeah, third set. For some reason I keep insisting on saying the second set.
And you are right, it's not a must win, but it is still tough to lose at all at this point. They need all the points they can get...
Med en sejr i morgen ligger de jo alt preset over på os (HIK) igen, vi havde jo ligesom lagt afstand med en sejeren over et af "topholdene" da vi slog Middelfart. Marienlyst kunne ha' give os en lille matchbold med en sejr da vi så havde været 5 point for SK, men sådan skulle det ikke være :-)
Men som du siger der ser ud til at kunne blive en rigtig spændende afslutning ikke bare på slutspillet, hvor kun Holte er ude af betragtning til semifinalerne men også i de afgørende kampe hvis den jævnbyrdighed kan forsætte....
Thomas P
Hey, Jordan, I agree that the game could have gone either way, you had your chances, but it seemed like we wanted it the most. But all in all I think that it was a good game where neither team at any point was cable of gaining a big lead. If we won because you served badly or we passed well I will let you decide
skibelund
Skibe, I agree totally. And my point wasn't to take anything away from you guys. I just felt like the JP article especially, made it sound like you guys dominated the match and were only really in danger at one point. I would argue that was not the case. You guys deserved to win there is no doubt about that, but I think the match easily could have gone in a different direction. That's all I meant.
What do you expect from the hometown paper? They're not gonna make us look like bums.
It was a good win for us.
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