Comments on: Pins, needles, Mitchem

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 02:50:38 +0000

http://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/?p=39269

17. kind of answer that on the new thread.
Taylor is back, Greeley still not 100 percent.
Biggest thing is Sibley is out (flu) so Mitchem is playing left.

By: hollycow

hollycow — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 00:43:15 +0000

I have to agree with the posters here, that Emma should be the regular DS for one of the middles. Her passing is consistent and her serves just dives with good pace. If she keeps up and improve on her serving, defensive skills, I can see her getting Savannah’s scholarship in 2018 as the team’s libero.
Annie needs to get court time in these two matches before the trip to the continent. Tape up her pinkie and ring finger with a popsicle stick and turn her loose!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 00:03:08 +0000

Cindy, if it was your call, how would you work Mitchem back into the lineup (also assuming Taylor and Greely are available)?

By: AlexM

AlexM — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 23:22:24 +0000

Excited to see Mitchem back in the lineup again. It seems like it’s been so long since we last saw her. When she returns, will Castillo move to the left or opp? I also wonder if they considered using Nikki in the backrow only, until her elbow heals?

By: haleiwacrossfitter

haleiwacrossfitter — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 22:48:34 +0000

Hawaii has run a 3 middle offense before, but we had the personnel to do it. Not this team. Castillo is not a true middle. I would love to see her have a stable position, it’s not her fault she thrown all over the place to play, which impedes her development.

I think McKenna needs sets off the net, gives her more options and she can go off when she has those options. Sets are too high and too tight right now.

Tips….are freaking killing me. I lost my voice during the UW match screaming TIP every time. Soooooo frustrating to see that many go down. That needs to be fixed or teams will continue to tip us right out of the tournament. But, I will say the Crissy Jones had an amazing tip shot placement. Right over the block and right behind them, almost every time. But still….pick up at least most of them.

Emma Smith…I can’t see no way any one of our DSs beating her out during practice week after week for her to not get the playing time she isn’t getting. She is passing nails back there. She needs to be on the floor more…period. I say until KG returns fully healthy, she sits and Smith takes over. I like Granato’s pipe sets, when she gets them.

Please let Mitchem play this week…outside, middle, both. Whatever. Get her out there. Rest KG until she can play 100%. She’s too tentative when not and its obvious. She’s my girl when healthy, but she needs to sit right now.

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 21:55:45 +0000

No guarantee that Mitchem will play this week but she was looking pretty good in practice yesterday. she was 6 rotation at IVC but not seeing that happen, at least this early as they work her back into game speed.
as mentioned earlier, we’ll see what happens.
3MB is possible. Depends on the rotation they want to set up.

By: Bleachercoach

Bleachercoach — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 20:54:43 +0000

Oh by the way what I wanted to say is I cannot wait to see what Annie can do this weekend…She may be that missing element to finally solve that missing piece of that Wahine puzzle…

By: Bleachercoach

Bleachercoach — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 20:51:56 +0000

Love all the comments above especially about Emma Smith…Hey, when you see an a fundamentally sound athlete we cannot help but to shout out loud. She has been nothing but totally consistent in her passing in resulting in points for us.
KG problem with passing is due to her ineffectiveness in hitting. It wears on an athlete and her mind could be thinking about her injury or her mind is thinking about terminating the ball which she cannot do right now. With that said, her concentration at times back there might be all over the place..IMO, Greenly is probably one of our 2 best 6 rotations players when she is 100% healthy…The other is Nikki…

By: blunite

blunite — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 19:27:37 +0000

@2 & 3:
Coach will give the libero another year to improve her passing. In the meantime, everyone else tries to stabilize the passing.

@3:
Passing is also an issue with MG who has not been very consistent. Given that the libero and MG make up 2/3s of the serve receive pattern, what to do?

@5:
This leads us to the potential of AM’s return. The libero consistently passes to the 3 meter line and it is difficult to run the middle from that far off the net.

The tips, which continue to drop, is a related issue. Coach has relieved the libero from tip duty (she is too slow.) The wings are now tasked with that duty; unfortunately, results have not been entirely satisfactory.

By: tongo

tongo — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 19:15:21 +0000

Great news on Mitchem! While it true Annie has not played a lot of D1 ball, what we saw last year especially in the Irvine match, shows she is has solid all around skills- and can smack the heck out of the ball.