Martins Plavins, Latvia – “In this game we wanted to show our best game. This Canadian team usually doesn’t go to FIVB tournaments so we haven’t seen them. So we just served to the small guy. In the first set I got some defenses and my partner played without many mistakes, so that is why we won. They made adjustments in the second set, and started to block better. Tomorrow I hope we show our best performance in front of our fans.”
Aaron Nusbaum, Canada – “I thought the match started a little slow. We did a lot of good things but had some difficulty executing in transition. Kudos to them, they did a real good job when they got the opportunity. Their serves put us out of system. In the second set we fought with them all the way but just a few errors at the end. That’s a good team. Plavins is a real experience guy and Regza is a young, solid blocker. But we got better throughout the tournament so we’re happy about that.”
Ryan Vanderburg, Canada – “We’re right there, it’s just little errors we’re making. We feel like we can compete at this level. We’re right there to taking the next step. It’s the little things that make the difference. We played a very experienced team, and congratulations to them. They played a great game and found a way through, that’s what matters. There are little things that they picked up on, and that’s the reason they won the game and we didn’t. We’re going to go back and work harder than ever and make sure those points go our way next time.”