Comments on: No. 6 Hawaii 3, The Beach 1

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 01:52:53 +0000

171. while you won’t find it in the stat sheet about how long she holds serve you could always go to the play-by-play for each match. Doubt if it’s worth it.

The coaching staff has had many discussions on types of serves. High risk-high reward vs. consistently getting it in.
In the case of Manu-Olevao, as she has stated, she puts a lot of pressure on herself and that showed when she had the serving errors early and it took her mentally out of the game.
She has settled in nicely since being a little safer but that doesn’t mean it is an easy serve to handle. They’ve asked her to move back and go with the high lob rainbow, something that Kahakai. Something to also considered is the serving plan from the coaches. That dictates the area.

there was one comment way up there about what Ann wrote four years ago. It’s not how our business works by deflecting issues. She wrote about what was in front of her, which was Manu-Olevao’s vertical. had nothing to do with the Croson situation other than Manu-Olevao had replaced her in the lineup.
Disagree about the comment about her current vertical. when she gets the right approach and timing, it’s still impressive.

Anyway, links and new thread up for Saturday.
http://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/?p=34126

By: darkfire

darkfire — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 01:30:22 +0000

169. Isles. Much Mahalos for the link. I followed it and it took me to screen with the wahine poised for battle and a message that said, “The event you have selected will be available on replay. Please check back soon.” I hope that really does work and they’re not pulling our leg. Maybe all that complaining and inquiring of ours worked!

Just like when Maverick contacted OC Sports (well we all complained) about leaving out the player introductions, they’ve gone back to it. I hope they’ll stay with it if we have any more home matches this year. Power to the people! LOL! GO BOWS!

By: po'okela

po'okela — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 01:24:46 +0000

I swear to god lol nobody on this blog is ever satisfied.

they’re either always criticism something.

regarding TMO’s serve, the one statistic that you won’t find in the stat sheets are how many serving runs TMO was able to have because she went away from her inconsistent jump serve. one stat you can find in the stat sheets are total number of service attempts TMO has which is 153 and leading the team. so not only is she keeping her serves in more consistently but she’s giving opposing teams problems and creating opportunities for hawaii to score off her flat footed float serve which in the end allows her to serve more.

now can we move on to something else?

By: isles

isles — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 01:04:41 +0000

and while im at it heres vs fullerton

http://espn.go.com/watchespn/player/_/id/2662635/

and heres vs riverside

http://espn.go.com/watchespn/player/_/id/2662636/

By: isles

isles — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 01:03:40 +0000

heres is the vs the beach match if it should ever work for anyone

http://espn.go.com/watchespn/player/_/id/2673129/

By: isles

isles — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 01:02:57 +0000

160. forgot to add that tais deep float serving is much more better effective than jump serving while in the pyramid so the ball gets lost in the air with the pyramid background even if the beach are used to it. hudson knows and uses that very serve to effectiveness when beach was here at the stanley.

tayler higgins spin serving though comes natural to her besides consistent so she can do that. i suppose she designed herself that long before she even met tai in high school.

By: Same Old Jo

Same Old Jo — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 00:35:02 +0000

For those of you on the islands if you go to Big West TV you can watch the Wahine play on your computer. If your TV has a HDMI puka you can hook up your computer to your TV with a HDMI cable and watch it on your TV. Northridge has a good broadcast with announcer. Not as good as UH but better than nothing.

By: Same Old Jo

Same Old Jo — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 00:13:24 +0000

The Beach fan base is spread through out the Pyramid but their booster club is on the side where the teams sit. It is section 104. Section 103 is right next to 104 and 103 is right above where UH team starts. Section 103 was almost all UH fans but there were many UH fans in 103 above The Beach booster club. Also UH fans on opposite side of the Pyramid.

By: rage777

rage777 — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 23:59:22 +0000

BG was pretty quiet all night, I think the crowd only got on him maybe three times (of course that’s the UH crowd). The one that he complained the most was the most obvious one, the back row attacker when the setter touched the ball at the net. LBSU does have a really big home crowd, but for some reason they sit on the opposite side of the cameras and on the end where the band is. The UH crowd sat on the side with the players/coaches and camera. Maybe it’s because we had to pay more for those seats and have the backrests (most seats are the bleacher types).

I thought it was funny that when TMO would serve her cheering section would make her smile before the sets. I had the Kahakai and TMO families in front of me and they were a great bunch of people.

By: tongo

tongo — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 23:54:03 +0000

#157 The refs appear to be much younger than the older refs that had been doing the matches in previous years at the Pyramid. The younger refs were not intimidated by Coach Gimmillaro and often waved him off. the gentlemen seated next to Tai’s Dad shouted out very loudly for Brian to sit down and stop holding up the match, and then the rest of us joined in. Lots of fun!