Comments on: USD-Hawaii rewind

By: Cubicle1126

Cubicle1126 — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 06:21:32 +0000

dedicatedfan — if only you would just agreed with me or see it my way every time … then i promise you, that you’d be a way less stressed out fan … 😉

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 01:53:55 +0000

77. LB, Lozic tooled the block very efficiently.
don’t remember mentioning a timing issue with Vorster and Uiato last night. said that they had been working on their timing from last season and that it was looking better in practice.
Agree that the USD defense covered well.

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 01:48:57 +0000

34. no, not ready to reveal the source. but it will make for a funny story if it happens.

By: LanaiBoy

LanaiBoy — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 23:43:16 +0000

By the way, one of the most common statements this year is that Ginger Long is undersized and the same is true for Keani Passi. Notice that Sandra Lozic of San Diego, the Serbian outside hitter, is listed as 5 feet nine inches tall. She had 22 kills last night.

Cindy Luis has always disagreed with the assessment that Uiato and Vorster had timing and connection problems last year in general and specifically last night. She claims that Vorster just jumps too early and it is something that she has to correct. Whoever’s right doesn’t matter. It needs to be corrected. Her soft hits went down against Texas and UTEP. It did not fall at all against the scrappy San Diego defense. It just got returned and converted to scores. Not all balls can be blasted, especially with out-of-system plays, but Vorster has shown she can hit the ball sharply and effectively when the timing is right.

By: Dedicatedfan

Dedicatedfan — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 22:06:50 +0000

72. Cubicle, for once I totally agree with you.

By: Dedicatedfan

Dedicatedfan — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 22:02:58 +0000

74. I agree with you about Vorster. Last year, many of us thought her hitting was due to set location being to low, by Uiato. But this year it is not proving to be so. Uiato is setting her quite well, and she is still hitting ball like you have mentioned. With the sets, Uiato, is giving her this year, she should be putting the ball straight down with authority, but she is NOT.

Kastl will never be the 2nd terminator, cause she only has one shot, cross court, trying to overpower the blockers. That would only be accomplish maybe 10% of the time. The other times, the ball will be blocked right back into her. Which happened numerous times last night. She never tries to go high hands, or even down the line.

By: steve

steve — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 20:44:20 +0000

The Wahines are good but not great. They were outdug and outhit by San Diego last night.

Their defense against the step out move was terrible and when is Jade Vorster gonna hit a ball flush and hard. Most of the time it looks like she makes partial contact with the ball and is lucky when it falls in. It’s too bad because at 6’4″ she could be a real force in the middle but instead can’t be relied upon to put the ball down. I would have thought she would have improved from last year but I see the same faulty hitting stroke.
I’m not picking on her though, no one played particularly well and too many balls dropped in. Someone besides Hartong has to be a terminator or they will never make it to the finals.

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 20:21:33 +0000

71. Where the heck did that come from, especially the comment about Kari?
The wrong player went out on the court.
The down ref is supposed to check the lineup handed to him before play starts. That was not done.
Shoji has said he is taking full responsibility.
Do you really think that it is something that needs to be corrected now?
Been covering this team since 81. Have never seen it happen.
The only thing that comes comes close, and it likely cost USC the national championship against Hawaii in 82
Hawaii 0-2 and losing Game 3. USC called for being out of rotation in the middle of the game, believe it erased 3 points. UH wins in 5.

By: Cubicle1126

Cubicle1126 — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 20:07:48 +0000

hawaii is 2-1 after the opening weekend, but with a win (against texas) and loss (to san diego) that i thought would be reversed.

better to get this loss out of the way early, so they can see what their weaknesses are, and then work their asses off to fortify things.

no one knows what seeding implications this will have until the rest of the season plays out, and we see how the rpi falls.

the silver lining … if we can glean one? hartong can will this team to a 5th set nearly single-handedly, even when all the other offensive options are non-existent. i don’t think all the hitters going cold — except for hartong — will happen like that again.

By: RedZone

RedZone — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 19:36:54 +0000

I won’t blame the ref. There is a reason why we have a coaching staff. They should have made sure that the right players were on the court. That is their job. It is something that they need to correct now. Good that it happened early on. I wonder if this would have happened if we still had Kari?