Ok but do you ever think about how Itachiyama has always been a powerhouse school, has always been expected to win, and when their captain goes down and they don& #39;t win?? It& #39;s just bad luck and it& #39;s the kind of luck that Sakusa shrugs off at first,, but then he thinks about it and

starts to wonder what& #39;s the point of being the best high school ace, playing alongside the best high school libero, if they couldn& #39;t even hold their team together without Iizuna,, and maybe Sakusa never cared much about leading, never thought about being captain,,

BUT MAYBE HE STARTS TO THINK THEN,, that if he& #39;d stepped up and learned to lead and inspire confidence in his team they wouldn& #39;t have lost,, bc in the end it wasn& #39;t that they weren& #39;t strong enough or that their second setter wasn& #39;t good enough,,

It was just that without Iizuna-without their captain-Itachiyama didn& #39;t believe they could win.

And Sakusa hates this, bc he never stopped believing they could win, he never doubted the strength of his team.

So he finally decides to open his mouth and make them believe it too.