Comments on: UCLA-Hawaii rewind

By: Volleyman

Volleyman — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 20:43:56 +0000

Stop insulting Dave. Do u guys these girls practice every day? He has the experience and knowledge of 40 years. Do u have that?

By: tongo

tongo — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 06:11:16 +0000

Am still amazed about all the posters who not only see the situation better than the coaches who work with the players everyday but clearly know more than the three coaches who also happens to be All Americans.

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 04:27:51 +0000

Will be on tomorrow before the match. Good night

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 04:25:59 +0000

29. only alluded to the ‘stubbornness’ because others did. I wrote I didn’t think he was stubborn, that he sees the players every day.
Specifically asked him about Huff, Maglio and Koelsch. He said he doesn’t feel like they are ready

Koelsch is taller than Higgins, a better blocker, but her location isn’t as good as Higgins’

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 04:22:38 +0000

33. you may email him if you want to tell him something.

By: tossup

tossup — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 04:12:47 +0000

28. cindy if long is starting. tell dave to use her more defensive in the back row especially versus opponents bigger than her. her beach experience at seeing the block and her high velocity swing should be able to tool and deflect off large blocks high into the air from the back row rather than close quarters front row against larger players.

By: islandman

islandman — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 04:03:38 +0000

#26 — max13, thanks for the answer. Why not use ” RS ” ?

By: tossup

tossup — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 04:01:23 +0000

12. im referring to most senior serving specialist (ds/designated server). its ponce, anderson, baby g, and kahakai (not counting mendoza since she is libero and she was needed elsewhere). shoji was dependent on her seniority/experience to make the do or die serve in place of tai even though yes she was about to throw up.

16. if long was to be used, she should of been used backrow, where her experience at seeing the block (from beach) and high velocity swing can be used to tool the block. she should not be used close quarters front row where she has to dink or get smothered by the bigger block. her defense seems to have gotten a bit better this game though just not her attack for the obvious physics reasons.

you know watching the game again on ocsports there were some elements of interest

keys to the match for hawai’i being ‘2 up on lowe and bring a stepladder’ – thats a shoddy strategy… how bout HALO – high altitude LOWE opening, blocking against lowe wasnt the problem, it either is you cant stop her bullet or you do by chance. instead it should of been offensive high hands like tai did especially well in and this is where long would be useful.

na wahine just has some bad luck in either being 2nd game in the tourney or green wahine (in solid/dark green uniforms) lacking peak performance. compare aesthetically their solid/snowy white uniforms, the snow wahine look like shock troops compared to their opponent thus far.

ucla had a greek juggernaut in their serve (left hand jumper in olga)

tai could of made her jump serve in set point for set 1…if she had hit it harder enough.

pesky net – affects both sides but in the way of service errors and net violations…mostly bad luck to the bows. remind me why is it that mens volleyball net violations happen..whats it..on the bottom of the net only? i guess women are expected to be nimbler and avoid the net at all costs while ball is in play. ncaa changed something regarding net contact for womens volleyball this year but the rule change appears to be moot.

bad set – a couple or few by both higgins and koelsch resulting in double hit. in case of indecision or indirection including because of too many players in one area or the impracticality of setting it to a specific player why not simply set the ball completely vertical in the air for someone maybe backrow to attack it? yes higgins especially needs to be pushed.

By: idk

idk — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 03:55:05 +0000

How does one combat inexperience? by given playing time. How does Dave expect Huff to gain experience if he doesn’t give her the oppurtunity. I understand that she has been given some playing time but a proven ineffective hitter with 3 years of experience over an inexperienced frosh with potential and height seems counterproductive.

By: Wop ur jaws

Wop ur jaws — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 03:09:45 +0000

Cindy. From what you said, you also alluded to Dave’s stubbornness, but for me, the stubbornness I mentioned previously wasn’t about keeping Greeley off the court, but it was about, 1. Higgins starting even in sets where the whole entire arena that are knowledgeable about setting and setters knew she was out of gas which did cause a lot of points lost specifically against Oregon, Arizona State, St. John’s. The observation I made was to bring Koelsch in and then have them share the position, and when the block is not working out when Higgins is blocking right side. Of course Higgins did get some blocks throughout play on the right, but I’m saying having Koelsch set front row during the sets that Higgins is on fumes would not be a disaster, since she can block and brings height in that position. 2. Starting Long/Passi over the freshmen in various positions only having to remove them with the freshmen anyways. That was covered by your report. The question to Dave’s stubbornness is specifically about those two items. Maybe it’s something you can ask him about it. I know people will say, that mistakes happened even when the freshmen came in at times, that was true, but at the same time, Long/ Passi had more errors being in the match. My point was, as you mentioned that Dave feels that Higgins is not where they want her to be, but he is confident that she will get there could be applied to Koelsch or Huff or Maglio as well. If Dave gave them the chance to play and kept them in there throughout the growing pains, then I think the team would be so much better.