"Champions don't beat themselves. If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does...We're not going to fool people or outscheme them. We're just going to outplay them...When we get into a critical situation, we won't have to think. We'll play fast and fundamentally sound." - Chuck Noll, quote in The Leadership Playbook by Jamie Bechler
Translate to volleyball.
1) Don't beat yourself. Teams beat themselves with mental mistakes - lack of focus, lack of communication, ball watching not reaction, errors at the net, foot faults and rotation errors.
2) Do ordinary things better. Score more points on serve, block-kills, and smart attacks. Keep the ball up. Make good not always perfect passes.
3) Don't worry about trickery. Move some attackers around (e.g. slide attacks) and if you have the personnel, attack through the pipe. Serve intentionally to seams and sidelines. Keep the ball up on serve receive.
4) Play fast and fundamentally. There is always attrition. After the 2003 season, Melrose graduated its senior core, All-Scholastic Marianne Foley, Erin "Hammer" Hudd, setter Amanda Labella, and core outside hitter Denise Applegate. Youth can be served. Over the next two seasons, the team went 44-5 with two more sectional titles and a Finals appearance in 2005.
Work hard, improve, play together and the results take care of themselves.
Lagniappe. Adjusting out of system
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