Comments on: Hawaii men’s volleyball: FINAL No. 1 Hawaii 3, No. 2 BYU 2

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 01:40:27 +0000

https://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/?p=53207
new thread up for Sunday

By: Maverick

Maverick — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 09:40:46 +0000

26. Thank you. I am not always right, but I ask others to be careful about how they represent what I or anyone else posts on this forum.

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 02:03:11 +0000

21. did not agree with the “too much to drink” comment. was agreeing with the rest of Lina’s comment. Then going back and rereading your original and then the comment in 21, I misinterpreted what you wrote originally.

By: UHVoice97

UHVoice97 — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 02:02:21 +0000

Recruits: also there both nights was Makua Marumoto of HBA (this year, St. Francis last year) — who is also already signed for next season. Nice to see Marumoto and Buchanan forming a bond prior to becoming Warriors. I saw Charlie Wade talking extensively with them after Thursday night’s match.

This year’s BYU team is pretty much the same personnel as last year with the exception of Wil Stanley who sat out much of last season with an injury. The other replacements who have made a difference are Branden Oberender for Felipe de Brito Ferreira at middle blocker and Mitchel Worthington for their graduated libero. In my opinion, Stanley is the difference this year and makes them a National Championship caliber team. The Cougars struggled with his replacements last year.

It will be fun to see how the rest of the season plays out and if/when UH and BYU meet again in the NCAA Men’s Volleyball Championship.

By: kahuna

kahuna — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 00:51:01 +0000

Austin Buchanan was definitely there. Saw him on the court as the team was walking around the arena shaking hands.

Many fans probably recognized him as he was constantly stopped by fans as he walked by. Even had a prolonged chat with the Aunties.

By: Tamale

Tamale — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 22:17:20 +0000

BYU stuffed their back pockets with the first two wins then Rainbow Warriors stuffed theirs with twoi wins and then Patrick Gasman ate ’em up How delicious was that, LOL???

By: islandman

islandman — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 20:55:16 +0000

19. Thanks, i clicked on the PDF that is over the C for ” CSUN, Next Match” and it has all the stats, including by each set. In general, i thought that BYU was receiving well.
The stats you cite for the 5th set with the blocks would seem to favor BYU winning that set except for BYU having one more attack error and one more SE.
In the 3rd set, which UH won, BYU hit .360 to UH’s .125 but BYU had six SE’s.

By: Maverick

Maverick — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 20:48:22 +0000

16. That is NOT what I said. Maybe I should write in pidgin cuz you no can read on dis place.

I said that BYU’s level of play on Thursday night was all world and would have beaten last year’s UH and LBSU teams on a NEUTRAL court. The .603 hitting percentage against UH says it all, but add to that the blocking and ace differentials. Rewatch Thursday’s match, BYU was bombing everything and doing it efficiently. I did NOT say that BYU is a better overall squad than last year’s teams. The team we saw last night was more human and would not have won. To paraphrase, it is similar to when a team plays so well that someone says, “They could have beaten anyone tonite.” Another example, LMU beat Michigan 149-115 in the 1990 NCAA men’s basketball tournament, going 21-for-40 in 3-pt FGs. Announcers said the same of that LMU performance. Some days you just are in the zone.

19. You say I had good observations in 13, but now agree with 16 that I must have had too much to drink last night? Really? lol

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 19:35:53 +0000

Would have been nice to have swept the two matches but I think Thursday served as a good wake up call. Sometimes dropping a match and regrouping can be more beneficial than cruising through the season unscathed.

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 19:02:54 +0000

14. Then you have missed the UH-Beach battles the past few years if you think this one was best “in a while.”
I do not know about the lineup card. I didn’t have time to ask after match. There was an issue when they turned it in at the start. Warriors got called for overlap 3 times, once it was reversed and a replay.
I missed deadline twice since it went late and it was a bit chaotic after. probably won’t get an answer until Monday.
15. only one I heard was supposed to be there already signed in Austin Buchanan.
16. agree. you never know what the matchups would be or how 19 Beach or Warriors would handle serve-receive.
17. there is a second box that has that. go to the game story page. upper right green link that says box score
BYU target Humler and that is his weakness. not normally in serve-receive but they went to a four-man to deal with the Cougars, part of which being without Cowell.
Humler 44 receptions, got aced 3 times
Worsley 28, 0 aced; Galloway 19, 0 aced.
The other two aces went down as team since no one played it.
Hawaii serve-receive percentage .948. gave up 5 aces on 91 receptions
BYU .906. gave up 9 aces on 85 receptions.
in Set 5, UH .923. got aced once in 12 receptions
BYU .938, aced once in 15.
Set 5 both teams had 9 kills, UH .278 with 4 errors, BYU .174 with 5 errors. both had 1 ace and 5 digs. BYU 4.5-2 blocks.