Comments on: No. 15 Hawaii 3, Pepperdine 1

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 17:03:27 +0000

http://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/?p=39326
new thread up. Shoji on morning show at 7:03 a.m.

By: warriorwahine

warriorwahine — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 10:16:39 +0000

84. jump serving is high risk, high reward but the idea is to put the opponent on edge even if you happen to miss. i mean its certainly better than high risk, low reward like the jump float.

if jump serving wasnt working or server injured/tired (like nikki was stumbling vs u-dub in set 5), the server can simply impromptu or temporary switch to a standing float just like tayler higgins did last year when recovering from being injured and shar manuolevao did when it was too much work for her. the latter who switched it permanently, is where you stand far back as far as possible behind the service line as if you were to simply hit the ball as hard as possible mortar lobbing it into the air (it certainly will go over the net and it wont tend to miss and go long, so you only have to worry about it going wide.)

a key to noreens stable jump serve is she takes her time with the toss and keeps it simple (notice she may miss if she served in haste) as so is annies jump serve is sturdy because she keeps it simple. tayler higgins also keeps her toss steady. in contrast with nikki, you can notice her jump serving kind of not so stable (she stabled it better both matches vs pepperdine but im comparing her serving to the previous 3 mentioned.)

anyways hawai’i has a total of 6 known jump servers this season (4 actively doing so, while 2 emily and savannah are currently not active with theirs.) since dave has 90% serving it in as alluded to in #12, i would say ‘spin away’ if i was him. after all, 8 seconds is plenty of time to get your toss right and smack it across.

By: warriorwahine

warriorwahine — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 09:43:07 +0000

81. first of all, its not my ‘friend.’ its the audience that were sitting near me they left the arena once ponce served it in the net. also like i said im not picking on katiana NOT katrina ponce. ‘ana’ as she is called or ‘little ana’ as she is remembered seldom misses her serve because she is seldom called upon to serve, let alone play. having her doing the serve when its set closing has not been her strength (i can only recall her not missing her serve during the ucla match in 2014 during aloha ball set 3 down 2-0 in which she herself grimaced and looked as was about to throw up; and that could of easily ended up worse.)

82. i disagree, her track record serving into the net at the crucial closing of the set has been she only not serve it into the net once as explained above.

anyways that actually can be easily fixed, get rid of the jump floater with a standing float just right behind the service line (just simply concentrate on hitting it over the net.) quite frankly, comparing the jump floater to the jump server, the jump floater is high risk, low reward. (hitting the net in that fashion – thats embarrassing!)

By: nomu

nomu — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 08:14:08 +0000

Agree with Cubicle1126, Ponce could start for many teams. And Ron’s assessment is spot on. If they keep on improving like they have, this team could surpass what they accomplished last year. My only disagreement is that we would be on the bubble if we do not win the Big West. This team will go to the NCAA postseason.

By: Ron

Ron — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 02:59:21 +0000

We will win the Big West. If we fail to do that then we don’t deserve to be in the play-offs. We are loaded with talent. We have people on the bench that would be starters on most top 30 teams. We have 4 starters, maybe 5, that would be starters at any of the top programs in the Country. We have not played a team yet this year that would have beaten us if we played like we did this weekend. We finally have the players , coaching staff and the mental attitude to win it all.

By: Maverick

Maverick — Sun, 18 Sep 2016 23:08:18 +0000

85. The odds of being a true two-bid conference are not good, except if Hawaii finishes second but with one or perhaps two losses. As of this morning, the Big West is 3 games below .500, a little better than last year but still not good enough to be a multi-bid conference. By comparison, the PAC-12 is 64 games ABOVE .500, and all its teams have a winning non-conference record. On avg, each Pac-12 team has won five more matches than it has lost. UH’s SOS, ranked sixth right now, will fall as more Big West records are factored into its RPI. As you wrote, UH just needs to get the auto-bid.

By: Cubicle1126

Cubicle1126 — Sun, 18 Sep 2016 21:57:32 +0000

I also want to give props to Ponce … a hard working walk on, who is usually very steady. On the tv broadcast, it was mentioned that ponce’s service error in set 3 was just her 2nd of the season. So it looks like shoji was playing the better odds, instead of a riskier jump server.

Execution in critical moments is something all the wahine have had to work on in this young season so far …

By: Cubicle1126

Cubicle1126 — Sun, 18 Sep 2016 21:50:36 +0000

islandman — burns was put in early in set 1 because at that point pepperdine made a run and even took the lead … around 9-7 pepperdine, iirc … so it just looked like shoji wanted to break the momentum shift and try something, without burning a timeout. Then burns got a couple blocks and kills, earning some more pt, i would guess … when she and castillo switched again late in the match, i would imagine Shoji was attempting the same thing …

By: islandman

islandman — Sun, 18 Sep 2016 21:44:55 +0000

Glad to see Burns in there hitting and blocking. How come they took Casey out ? Later, near the end of the last set, Burns was taken out after hitting a ball out, i think. Hope Burns keeps getting a chance to play, but that might go down when Sibley comes back and some players are moved ?

By: Cubicle1126

Cubicle1126 — Sun, 18 Sep 2016 21:44:49 +0000

Maverick — I’d love to see the big west get back to a 2-bid or even multi-bid conference. The early numbers look promising!

As you know, there are year end RPI scenarios on VT … and unfortunately, the numbers suggest the big west will be single bid again this year. A lot can still happen. Those are just predictions, of course. But bluepenguin’s calculations on VT have usually been a good and valuabke approximation.

Even hawaii’s year end RPI — if they suffer a couple losses in conference — might put them on the bubble or even out of the NCAA tournament, in the event they do not win the big west and fail to get an auto bid.

Goes without saying though that we need to see how it all shakes out. Hoping hawaii just takes care of business in the big west, as they should! And eliminate any possible scenario where hawaii doesn’t get invited to the big dance.

Because as we saw glimpses of this weekend, this team still has the potential to make a deep run, even like last year, as an unseeded team …