Comments on: Hawaii drops to 31 in RPI, 17 in poll

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 02:39:19 +0000

Greeley cannot redshirt or apply for a medical hardship.
She has played in too many matches
Disagree about her being ‘a mess.’ she’s not 100 percent and probably won’t be this season.
18. disagree about Iosia being overcoached They took her out against Long Beach to give her a chance to see the game from the bench (think this was in Set 3). was told she needed to go to the middle more.
24. don’t know why it was deleted. some of my comments were as well. Not happy with our server, which has affected the blog and emails.

agree with most of the comments about the passing not allowing the middle to be run.

The RPI is what is it is. And there’s no way for Hawaii to climb back up since they only play lower RPI teams the rest of the way. They were going to drop regardless if they beat Long Beach State or not. The goal is to win the automatic berth.

Shoji did say at practice today (Tuesday they were opening it up at all positions and that they may have some position changes this week.
see new thread for more.
http://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/?p=39668

By: Rabbit ears

Rabbit ears — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 00:55:31 +0000

Greeley is playing well. Not sure why people want her to redshirt. This year is our best opportunity in years. Once Nikki’s graduates, we are in rebuild mode.

By: kvlogic

kvlogic — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 23:43:14 +0000

Quit worrying about RPI and just win. The glory days are over, folks. The Power 5 conferences have long surpassed the likes of the Big West. Yes, even Hawaii. So get on with it. When Dave retires, we’ll look back at an era that will never be duplicated at UH in any sport. So enjoy it while it lasts because he’s not getting any younger.

By: rabbit ears

rabbit ears — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 23:24:01 +0000

In Maglio defense, she did not get very good sets.

By: Kauaiboy

Kauaiboy — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 22:51:59 +0000

Watched the replay this morning and thought the Beach played a heck of a match. Their libero was outstanding, outplayed ours by miles. Where the match was won for LBSU was in serve receive and back row play, having watched them before I felt their ball control would keep them in a match against Hawaii. On a side note I actually like this LBSU team, they seem to be playing steady team volleyball with no attitudes on the court. I agree with previous comments on Iosia, seems like she’s being over coached. Also, it was obvious that Maglio was frustrated the entire night… Very unfortunate to not show up on the biggest match of the season in conference.

By: tongo

tongo — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 21:53:06 +0000

Was at the match and you got to give credit to the Beach who played a truly outstanding game and exposed our weakness. UH had its chances. There were uncharacteristic mistakes as this new lineup was still gelling and sorting itself out. It clearly needed more rep with each other to form the necessary chemistry. Great UH fan support at the pyramid and attendance was the largest I ever saw there. IMO, if this lineup had another week or so together, the outcome would have been different. Was so proud to see how the wahines never gave up and persevere – a very good sign for this newly formed lineup going forward.

By: mei mei

mei mei — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 20:36:53 +0000

will put in my 2cents:

think smith or anderson should be placed in place of Granato… when she rotates to the back… then the middles will be set more…
keep mitchem in the middle
between sibbs and castillo on the LS should work out with a bunch of one on one situations…

also think Koelsch should be subbed in when Iosia rotates to the front… as a blocking sub more often.. she was very successfull / instrumetal in last year’s win against the beach…

wished kalei didn’t burn her junior year – and just medically red-shirt this year

pass / receive is always #1 – have to be in system and be able to side out for a high percentage
IMHO

hoping and wishing that they gel come post season and firing off all cyclinders
go BOWS!

By: nomu

nomu — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 20:18:04 +0000

Serving, passing, blocking, hitting, mental. How would you rank each each of these attributes for a team to be successful? Would you rank passing number 1, serving 2, etc?

Imho, the number one attribute should be mental, then passing, serving, hitting, blocking.

When you have players that have that something extra, it does tilt the scales, but the presumption is that “all other things being equal”. And in any case, if you don’t play as a team, you likely won’t win.

By: rabbit ears

rabbit ears — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 18:02:51 +0000

I still like Annie in the middle (her preference) and Casey on the outside. Casey is a pleasant surprise out there. Need to keep the faith. The LBS libero was playing out of her mind.

By: WAC_FAN

WAC_FAN — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 14:57:58 +0000

For those of you wanting Granato out of the back row? Who do you want as the 3rd passer then? We will run out of substitutions if we sub both of our outsides out every time they are in the back row…