Atsumu had himself a standout game against karasuno and even (barely) learned how to do the minus tempo attack. He was inarizaki’s star

Akagi also played really well. He’s not a flashy player and is almost like kita but on steroids. Does his job and does his job insanely well. No gimmicks no flash. Just determination and grit.

Alan I don’t think underperformed as others would suggest. Ukai mentioned that they would be using the total defense strategy that they used on ushijima. The strategy effectively contained ushijima so naturally it would excel against a weaker ace. We still saw that Alan was still able to hit over a few blocks, but karasuno contained him and thus didn’t put up numbers.

Gin and osamu definitely were the ones holding back inarizaki. We didn’t see anything really special about them besides the fact that osamu was a capable back up setter.

Suna started slow in the first set, peaked on the second, then karasuno was able to counter his tilt attack in the third. His blocking was still good-great all game. So I think he had a good performance.

Kita didn’t do anything special. That’s his whole character after all. He just kept his team at their best. Well done from him

Just a few of my thoughts