Comments on: Long Beach State 3, Hawaii 2

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 19:16:23 +0000

Magill has ice on her knees after every match. You only saw it because she wasn’t playing in the latter part of the match.

By: wildcard

wildcard — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 11:07:30 +0000

in case anyone didnt know/noticed, magill had ice on both her knees after the vs irvine game like 2 big bulges

By: bleachercoach

bleachercoach — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 07:52:01 +0000

Present at both games on road…tai -manu olevao should resort to serving specialist and outsides. Way too of many shanks and errors passing the ball from the top of her forearm. Need a ds/ back there. Kendra brings life and makes plays. She should be inserted earlier and often in a set. Looks like she’s got good leadership qualities and can contribute much more. Nikki Taylor is not playing to beast-like of last year..If she really is not going be a factor due to injury, let her rest and get a girl 100% ready to go.our back row are allowing too many balls drop to the floor. They either are reacting, flat-footed, and bad communicating….Maglio did a fantastic job coming for Magill and contributed wonderfully.

By: wildcard

wildcard — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 07:16:18 +0000

here is a kicker come the ucsb match. no tai sunday, courtesy of your uh football who (apparently) won yesterday. and i say that because them winning nowadays is a rarity.

By: tong

tong — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 07:05:15 +0000

213 Can appreciate your on-going drum beat for your favorite player – but deleted your recording. It was redundant. IMHO, it is without merit. The setting on this team is “set” in large part by a certain setting coach who is a 3x Olympic setter. So perhaps you should re-direct your campaign and directly challenge the judgment and competency of the setting coach? I can’t wait to hear your new narrative.

By: Big Island VB fan

Big Island VB fan — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 05:00:09 +0000

216. Kazu, I totally agree with you. My sentiment, too.

When I watched the Long Beach match, the Wahines seemed as sleepy and lethargic as I was. I guess the 8-hour delay at the airport wore them out. It sure would have worn me out. Also, the soccer team affected by the delay, also lost both of their road matches. Anyone knows which airline that was? Dave Shoji should not book with that airline again. Maybe try Hawaiian Airlines which is more on time and also sponsors one of our September tournaments.

I don’t blame the girls for losing both matches. This was a tough and brutal road trip and many of them are new. Hope that they can get lots of practice the next two weeks. Cal Poly is a better team than last year and UCSB is also improving steadily.

By: Kazu

Kazu — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 02:31:33 +0000

They have almost two weeks to work out the kinks. Guess the new girls are finding out what D-1 volleyball is all about.

By: tongo

tongo — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 01:58:44 +0000

Wow, the perfectionists are out in full force. How sad! Just re-watched the game to see the yellow card incident again. Just love hearing us boo the up ref again!! It was so much fun! Things I really liked was Tai and Taylor H. getting the serves in during critical moments in set 4 and 5. It must give the staff a lot confidence that they can deliver it in moments that really count. Also really felt for K. Greeley as the Beach targeted her on every possible serve. It was tough for her but the repetitions will only make her better. Proud seeing how the K. Adolpha and Sarah rallied the team. For Taylor N., hang in there as your day will come. Also saw DS Anderson do a jump floater for the first time. Very nice.

By: Cubicle1126

Cubicle1126 — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 00:36:13 +0000

can we try the 6-2 now? … setting is a weakness, and i would have hoped that higgins would have found a consistency by now. but if she and koelsch shared duties, it might help both setters to find focus. they’d only need to be consistent for 3 rotations, rather than 6.

in a 6-2, i’d switch taylor and olevao. put taylor on the left, and olevao at opposite — a passing opposite. again the limited time as a passer might allow olevao to focus more on only the 3 rotations she’s asked to pass.

taylor is more comfortable on the left anyway. higgins’ sets to the left are more consistent than her backsets to the right pin and to the D set. give taylor more of the quality sets to swing on. and the D set isn’t quite the weapon that it can be yet, with taylor still coming back from injury.

i’m just trying to figure out some adjustments that might work. i don’t know if these are the answer. but this weekend proved that adjustments need to be made. and these might help to emphasize the team’s strengths, while limiting the weaknesses that opposing teams can exploit.

if not anything along these lines, then i hope the coaching staff comes up with something that will propel the team forward.

By: kimo browner

kimo browner — Sun, 12 Oct 2014 19:05:16 +0000

Hello, play Kendra, Huff, Maglio, Baby G and Anderson. This is a recording. They not only are talented, but they have guts and are eager to play. Passi and Long have been given reserved roles, but their effort has increased. Do the same to the so called “starters”. They need to sit and watch and value their court time. Look what happened to Ikaika Woolsey after losing a start…Tayler Higgins needs to sit. Take it in and reinvent her game. We need a fresh QB.