Comments on: Hawaii 3, Erskine 0

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 02:29:12 +0000

McKellar is an Opp, pressed into MB duties out of necessity last season. Had 17 starts last season at MB, the other matches he was Opp. so no surprise there either.

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 02:26:39 +0000

27. Frank is an undersized middle. no surprise that he’s moved to OH. and as you point out, he is way down on the depth chart

By: turfwar

turfwar — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 02:23:19 +0000

If last night was any type of indicator, despite the competition from Erskine, Dalton Solbrig is our best blocker in the middle. Has quicker feet and is more athletic than the starters and dominated the net at times. We’ll see tonight and tomorrow if that holds true. Last night was just a horrible team that will be over matched this weekend.

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 02:22:29 +0000

http://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/?p=40927
new thread up for Frida
28. so I’m assuming you were in the arena in order to make the observation about the passing. thought the middles were involved enough. hard to gauge because the competition was so poor. not like there were a lot of attempts.
Set 1 team was 8-2-14
the MBs were Gasman 2-0-3, Mol 1-0-1. Opp van Tilburg 3-1-4.
Set 2 team 14-4-21
Mis Mol 0-1-2, Solbrig 3-0-3. the freshmen OHs that they want to look at Parapunov 5-2-8, Rattray 5-1-6
Set 3 team was 9-2-16, Mol 1-0-1, Solbrig 1-0-2. Tuileta 5-0-8.
it’s early We’ll see what happens tonight vs. Princeton.

By: warriorfan

warriorfan — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 01:42:52 +0000

Also I want to see our setters set the middles more, passing was good enough. The middles should have been more involved. UCLA set their middles half the time in their game earlier against Penn State.

By: warriorfan

warriorfan — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 01:39:40 +0000

Yes this is a deep team at the pins but they are not deep in the middle. Is anyone else really surprised Frank and Mckellar were moved to the pins?? it makes zero sense to me , those two who at times looked good in the middle last season . Mckellar has Rado and Stijn ahead of him on the right, and Frank will never play on the left behind Austin, Kupono, Brandon,Brett and Tui.

By: turfwar

turfwar — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 22:28:17 +0000

Noticed when Worsley sets Tui it’s as quick a shoot set as can be executed. I mean it barely clears a foot above the net but Larry gets there so fast he’s able to find the seems in the block and unless the middle guesses right there’s no way he gets there in time. But he also looked very small blocking even against non elite 6’3″ outsides. But his knowledge of the game and his experience playing at a National level since he was about 12 years old in club ball at Junior Nationals shows. He slides to spots effortlessly covering his hitters or finding hitters angles and will be a tremendous back row guy. He will be a huge contributor just with his presence on the floor. Can see why he won all those accolades in high school.

By: diamonds808

diamonds808 — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 18:40:37 +0000

Team looked good for their first match, just need to work on their rotation errors that kept occurring in the 2nd and 3rd sets. But with a new lineup in there I guess it took some getting used to.
Hope to keep it up through the season. Glad that Tui is on the team now, starters looked lethal.

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 07:44:05 +0000

Had forgotten how dynamic Tuileta was. so quick. Jobey Ramos was sitting next to me and said, if you’re not there when Tui gets there you’ll never get there (for a block attempt).

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 07:40:39 +0000

20. could be worse. it could by the 1970s and ’80s when volleyball wasn’t on TV or radio and there was no game tracker. or blog updates’-)