Comments on: Hawaii women’s volleyball: FINAL Nebraska 3, Hawaii 0

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 05:31:46 +0000

https://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/?p=52376
new thread up with Warrior signing and updated NCAA scores.
all matches in except Stanford-Utah. tied 1-1. Utes up in Set 3 9-6
Appreciate the observations.
Hawaii’s middles disappeared. Williams 3 kills, hit .000; Igiede 2 kills, negative .200. if Igiede hadn’t hit the net twice early in Set 1 i think it’s a different match. Nebraska keys were to serve tough and take away Hawaii’s middles.
Press conferences are press conferences. This one no different than most. Usually very sad for the winners. Thought Wahine were pretty composed. Have been at some where there are a lot more tears.
It was a great season for them. Set 1 could have gone either way. unfortunate seed and matchup. Personally feel they could have beaten Texas. They would have liked another shot at Baylor.

By: blunite

blunite — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 03:42:26 +0000

Congrats to the team on their accomplishments and for “over-achieving” this year.

Hopefully the passing improves next year, allowing the UH coaches to go with the percentages. (To do that requires accurate passing.) UH’s poor passing is reflected in the stats of their (All Conference 1st Team) middles. Unsurprisingly, in a battle of OHs Nebraska won.

To offset Nebraska’s OHs Hawaii needed strong scoring in the middle. Moreover, a strong middle attack would open up the pins (because the middle blocker cannot defend the middle attack and double the outside at the same time.)

2020 Goal: Improve the passing. The rest of the pieces are in place.

By: Mytake

Mytake — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 03:21:20 +0000

I watched the match and the stream was awesome! I’m from the era of pagers and pay phones and let me tell you this is light years ahead. So stop whining you X, Y , Zers and suck it up!. It’s obvious to me UH lacks an outside power terminator. Jolie is that person but she’s rusty. Too bad cause they would have beat the Corndogs with her 100%.

By: nomu1001

nomu1001 — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 02:39:58 +0000

Imho, just a few plays in each game could have turned this match around. Maybe tried to do some things we didnt have to on some plays. Gave them points we probably shouldnt have in a few instances. But the fight we put up wiill get us to the finals again next year. We can match up with a team like Nebraska or Wisconsin. We have an awesome core returning team that will be at least as good, or imho, better than this year.

On different note, the incoming setter Lang looks like a good one. Kiraly will make our solid middles significantly better. Hope we can continue recruiting great players.

Thanks to the seniors who made this such a great year and have laid the foundation for future teams. Awesome, fun year. And yes, totally agree that height is overrated. It can be an advantage, but balance, talent and chemistry is far more formidable. Anyday, anytime.

No. 71, you are 100 percent right. The press conference was awesome. This team are winners.

By: T103

T103 — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 02:22:31 +0000

Opps sorry just saw the link, dis-regard my previous post.

By: Harvey

Harvey — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 02:18:57 +0000

71. Thank you for the link, but that press conference was brutal. I had to turn it off about three questions in, just after Norene couldn’t compose herself to answer a question.

As fans, we see these young women flying through the air. They’re strong, and fierce, and fearless. But they are also human beings. After so much work and sacrifice, they hurt at a premature end of the season. That press conference hurt me.

I’m an old guy, with a 12-year-old daughter. And I thank our Creator that we live in a time where strong women in sports are embraced, idolized. It tells my daughter that in her gymnastics club, during viola practice, in the classroom….she should not fear being aggressive. Not fear being tagged as not girl-like for working up a sweat, elbowing her way to the front of the class marks. Women like the Rainbow Wahine allow this to be so in our contemporary society.

So to each and every Rainbow Wahine. To each and every coach and support staff:

Mahalo.

May all of you have a joyous holiday season. On to the off-season and next year. I mua.

By: T103

T103 — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 02:15:26 +0000

Anyone got the link to the post game press conference?

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 02:02:34 +0000

No, not staying. Coming back to Hawaii as soon as we can. looking like 5:30 a.m. flight out of her.
74. Winning team goes first, losing team second for NCAA press conferences.
personally, i need quotes from both teams regardless of who wins.
And yes, Coach Ah Mow, Iosia and Van Sickle were emotional. End of a great season that didn’t go as far as they hoped.

By: Astroboy

Astroboy — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 01:55:45 +0000

That whole interviewing the losing team right afterwards is such BS. What exactly does it accomplish? Who wants to watch it? You can watch the players be bummed out while they say some variation of “we did our best, but we were outplayed today”?

By: T103

T103 — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 01:34:46 +0000

Not shifting anything away from the wahine, both men’s and women’s program have done well and its a huge recruiting tool. UH just announced they signed a 6’4 outside hitter from Greece for 2021. There are now 4 recruits in the 2021 class. Didn’t realize we had a stinking 6’8 guy coming in too! shesh! so awesome!

Austin Buchanan S 6-8 Fr. Moscow, Idaho (Monte Vista HS [CA])
Spyros Chakas OH 6-4 Fr. Athens, Greece
Makua Marumoto OH 6-4 Fr. Honolulu, O’ahu (Hawai’i Baptist Academy)
Jack Walmer S 6-3 Fr. Manhattan Beach, Calif. (Mira Costa HS)