Comments on: Warrior rewind

By: karmady

karmady — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 15:09:03 +0000

I guess I’m just bummed the Warriors didn’t win the tournament, when I really felt, as you did, it was very winnable. But, on to conference play! GO ‘BOWS!

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 01:39:58 +0000

I know you’re not. but when you said it was basically the same team minus Cheape … I don’t feel it was.
Plus it went 5 last year, as did UH’s matches with OSU and PSU. Warriors could have gone 0-3, 3-0, 2-1, 1-2. and they were 1-2

By: karmady

karmady — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 01:23:40 +0000

I’m not being a smartass, honest, but my point (which wasn’t clear) was UH was pretty young last year, Ohio State wasn’t, same w/Penn State, hence the losses. UCLA only returned 3 from last year and beat an arguably more-seasoned team, though agree Cheape, Marks and Holt were certainly missed this year.

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 23:37:32 +0000

16. yabbut … can’t have it both ways. different season, different teams, different match ups. For all 4 teams.
As I said, UCLA played 3 players who played against UH last year.
UH’s lineup more than missing Cheape. Holt and Marks not in there as they were last season.
and, agree, what matters is the season.

By: karmady

karmady — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 22:27:13 +0000

Yabbut, Ohio State didn’t have a bunch of freshmen playing last year. You’re right about Marks and Holt, Marks seems so long ago. My bad! But UCLA returned most of their top players, no? …and Penn State graduated five seniors. Ah well, I guess it only really matters during conference play. Hopefully by then Wade will have figured it out. Not optimistic though.

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 19:26:33 +0000

14. Then you also have to say it’s essentially the same team that lost to Ohio State and Penn State in last year’s OHVI, teams they beat this year.
Hardly the same team as last year vs. UCLA. they also had Marks and Holt as starters. UCLA had only 3 of the same starters as last year so quite a difference in match ups.
Last year, UH had 9 aces 18 SEs. This year, they had 1 ace, 12 SEs.
This was a winnable match. UCLA played better at the end.

By: karmady

karmady — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:07:35 +0000

This is essentially the same team that beat UCLA in last year’s Outrigger, with the exception of Matt Cheape. What happened?

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 04:31:00 +0000

12. we don’t know that Shoji is retiring after this year. Only thing is that he is coaching through 2014 season.

By: Close Up On Cindy

Close Up On Cindy — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 04:27:37 +0000

9.
Correct. I’d also presume that Nebraska would then return as a 1st/last to one of the preseason tourneys,,,Shoji’s final 2014 run in the SSC.

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 22:10:52 +0000

4. they went 2-1 to open. vast improvement over the previous years. Think they showed what they could do in Set 2 against UCLA when serving is on and they made the UCLA setter predictable, as happened with Ramos in the later stages.
3. agree with you. Think he was seeing if his starters could come back, as they did against Penn State the night before.
It’s early.