Mark Pavlik
Mark Pavlik
against great match national wins
This was a great match against a well-coached team. But no one wins a national championship in February.
danny giving good great passing pleased responsibility sets team
There's some responsibility on a setter for a team that isn't a great passing team. I wasn't pleased with the sets Danny was giving the hitters. We just didn't get good swings.
expect game great hand match matter neither rivalry score
It's a great rivalry with the Buckeyes. You just know that neither team, no matter what the score of the game is, will never be out of the match so you can't back off and expect them to hand it to you.
front great hometown love playing
It's always great to play in front of your hometown crowd. It's something you can't underestimate, and we love playing at home.
gonna options settle spending sure time trying
I think we'll just keep spending time on the passing. As we go through April, that's what's really gonna settle out. I'm not sure anything is solid, settled, set in stone. I think we're trying to make sure we have all options available.
against care played princeton took
We played the way we should against Princeton and took care of business. Against Irvine we played well, but not well enough.
bigger came level physical point price shot stronger sudden
When Price came in, all of a sudden our physical level just shot out of the roof. An exclamation point on, 'We're bigger than you, we're stronger than you,' was made by Price.
advantage enjoyed match obviously physical took winning
This was a match we need a little bit. Just to get back on the winning track. Obviously it was one where we enjoyed some physical mismatches, and I think we took advantage of that.
bad ocean sent step
I didn't want him to just step aside. The only bad thing is, if I sent him any (farther), he'd be in an ocean right now.
block effort focus pass
Going on the road, we're not going to be comfortable in those gyms. And when you're not comfortable, you really have to focus in on your effort and execution. We have to block balls, and we have to pass balls.
five four gonna slack teams work
Those teams don't let you slack off for four or five points. They're gonna make you work.
arenas four good gotta hostile matter next playing teams three
We gotta keep getting better, it doesn't really matter who you play. We're playing some pretty good teams here the next four matches, and we're going to be in some hostile arenas for three of the four. We have to find a way to keep getting better.
faced gives good matches nice pleased tough view weekend
We've had two tough matches this weekend, and I think we look at this weekend as two different extremes. I'm pretty pleased with what we faced this weekend. It gives us a real good view of where we're at. Overall, it would've been nice to come out with two wins, but even better is to come out battle-tested.
both gotten gym improved last question quite teams time
Both teams have gotten so much better from the last time we played. Both teams have been in the gym quite a bit. We know what they do, they know what we do, the question is how they've improved on what they didn't do well here in November, and how we've improved from what we didn't do well in November.