Colorado State University Athletics
Post-Match Quotes: CSU volleyball vs. Texas
12/13/2014 12:00:00 AM | Volleyball
Dec. 13, 2014
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Head Coach Tom Hilbert
(opening statement)
"We went into this match knowing Texas is an extremely good team, a very talented. We wanted to take a lot of risks as a serving team, and we probably didn't get out of that what I wish we would have. We disrupted them a little bit, but we missed nine in three sets and that's too many. I asked my team to be aggressive and they were, but it didn’t help."
(on Texas' defense, particularly against CSU's middle blockers)
"We went into this thing going, ‘If we get by their block we're going to have some success.’ They did a nice job touch blocking a lot of balls and they defended very well and held us to a very low kill percentage, which means they're playing the whole game and that is big. They really shut down our middle attack almost completely. I was pleased, though, with our outside hitting; I was pleased with Adrianna Culbert. I thought they had good matches, but they shut our middle down completely, and that's usually something that's really good for us. But Texas has great athletes in that spot. They also played really cleanly. Eleven errors . . . that's not very many out of 110 attempts. If they do that they’re going to beat a lot of teams. You don’t know if the answer is what we didn’t do to disrupt them versus them playing well. I felt we were playing OK and competing, but we just weren't able to sustain that kind of physical attack for a whole match; it's as simple as that."
(on the runs Texas had)
"They were digging and transitioning very well, and they've got kids that can bang it. Besides the missed serves, we played pretty clean, too. We've got to kill more than 30 percent or whatever it was, and that was what was impressive to me, because we went into this thinking that defensively, we were as good as they are. We weren't tonight. They were better than us defensively."
Senior outside hitter Marlee Reynolds
(on Texas’ ability to block)
"I guess it was a little bit tougher than I thought. I went in knowing they had some big athletes who could jump high and that they were going to get touches. I wouldn't say that it was completely more than what I expected."
(on the season as a whole)
"This hurts, and it is not the way we wanted to end our season, but looking back we don’t really have anything to be disappointed about. We rose to the occasion several times playing big teams. We won another Mountain West championship and got to host the first two rounds. In all, this was a really, really good senior year. "
(on CSU’s run in the third set, taking an 8-6 lead)
"I think we were starting to relax a little bit more and flow with each other. We kept telling each other, ‘Let's have fun. Let's have fun.' We were finally like, `We can have fun out here.' That always helps us play way better when we’re relaxed and playing together and having fun."
Senior setter Deedra Foss
(on the season as a whole)
"We talked about the season and how it was a great season for us. We played some big teams this year and got a lot of big wins, so I couldn’t have asked for a better senior year."
Texas quotes
(opening statement)
"We went into this match knowing Texas is an extremely good team, a very talented. We wanted to take a lot of risks as a serving team, and we probably didn't get out of that what I wish we would have. We disrupted them a little bit, but we missed nine in three sets and that's too many. I asked my team to be aggressive and they were, but it didn’t help."
(on Texas' defense, particularly against CSU's middle blockers)
"We went into this thing going, ‘If we get by their block we're going to have some success.’ They did a nice job touch blocking a lot of balls and they defended very well and held us to a very low kill percentage, which means they're playing the whole game and that is big. They really shut down our middle attack almost completely. I was pleased, though, with our outside hitting; I was pleased with Adrianna Culbert. I thought they had good matches, but they shut our middle down completely, and that's usually something that's really good for us. But Texas has great athletes in that spot. They also played really cleanly. Eleven errors . . . that's not very many out of 110 attempts. If they do that they’re going to beat a lot of teams. You don’t know if the answer is what we didn’t do to disrupt them versus them playing well. I felt we were playing OK and competing, but we just weren't able to sustain that kind of physical attack for a whole match; it's as simple as that."
(on the runs Texas had)
"They were digging and transitioning very well, and they've got kids that can bang it. Besides the missed serves, we played pretty clean, too. We've got to kill more than 30 percent or whatever it was, and that was what was impressive to me, because we went into this thinking that defensively, we were as good as they are. We weren't tonight. They were better than us defensively."
Senior outside hitter Marlee Reynolds
(on Texas’ ability to block)
"I guess it was a little bit tougher than I thought. I went in knowing they had some big athletes who could jump high and that they were going to get touches. I wouldn't say that it was completely more than what I expected."
(on the season as a whole)
"This hurts, and it is not the way we wanted to end our season, but looking back we don’t really have anything to be disappointed about. We rose to the occasion several times playing big teams. We won another Mountain West championship and got to host the first two rounds. In all, this was a really, really good senior year. "
(on CSU’s run in the third set, taking an 8-6 lead)
"I think we were starting to relax a little bit more and flow with each other. We kept telling each other, ‘Let's have fun. Let's have fun.' We were finally like, `We can have fun out here.' That always helps us play way better when we’re relaxed and playing together and having fun."
Senior setter Deedra Foss
(on the season as a whole)
"We talked about the season and how it was a great season for us. We played some big teams this year and got a lot of big wins, so I couldn’t have asked for a better senior year."
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