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Post by newbeach on Feb 23, 2019 17:53:52 GMT -5
They mentioned 3 of the 5 flights consist of players who are best friends in real life. Who are these 3? Video: KHON2 News Not accurate.
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Post by newbeach on Feb 23, 2019 18:00:31 GMT -5
Who scheduled this tournament? Seriously. I would schedule #1 UCLA a little tougher. Saint Mary's and Stanford on Day 1? They also have nice breaks between matches. While I am not saying to schedule them unfairly, but you'd think they were the home team. I don't think they are obligated to give them a #1 seed in their tourney, do they?
The Bows were scheduled incredibly tough at many of the tournaments they went to the past couple of years. In the East Meets West Tournament they might as well played back-to-back (they had an hour break in the pouring rain and then had to play FSU who had at least a 4 hour rest). Many teams are using tough scheduling to their advantage so the Bows might at least make it a little tough on Pepperdine.
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Post by kaipono on Feb 23, 2019 20:52:08 GMT -5
Hawaii loses to Pepperdine, 3-2:
1. Bauer/Dyer defeat Maglio/Huddleston, 21-16, 21-15 2. Ozee/Martin defeat Hernandez/Kraft, 21-15, 21-11 3. Homayun/Scoles defeat Caputo/Tunneil, 21-16, 21-9 4. Dilfer/Filippone defeat Napoleon/Loker, 21-19, 21-13 5. Gavin/Lyons defeat Hurkett/Forbes, 21-18, 21-16
Hurkett/Forbes played in at the 5's instead of Dreeuws/Russo. Right now, it does not look like Maglio/Huddleston is a clear #1, and I think it may be possible that Hall switches up flights #1 and #2, but I'm not sure if he would change it up for the UCLA match tomorrow.
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Post by brooselee on Feb 23, 2019 21:10:25 GMT -5
I hope Mags and Hiliawe was just having a bad match. They looked pretty average. Mags got roofed a couple times and made numerous hitting errors. Also seems to be quite a bit of miscommunications between them.
On the other hand, Martin and Ozee looked awesome and Julia Scoles is a beast of a beach player. Imagine if Julia had more beach experience?? That girl have the skills to defend and also block. Her hits are unreturnable. She got to be the hardest hitter on the team.
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Post by hwnstunner on Feb 23, 2019 21:32:12 GMT -5
Why swap out Dreeuws/Russo for Hurkett/Forbes? Does not make sense to me. That could have been the flight that went in Hawaii's favor.
No. 2 and No. 3 look like REALLY good flights. Maybe Mags and Huddleston should be No. 2 or No. 3. Ozee and Martin could be a really good No. 1 team IMO.
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Post by brooselee on Feb 23, 2019 21:36:03 GMT -5
Why swap out Dreeuws/Russo for Hurkett/Forbes? Does not make sense to me. That could have been the flight that went in Hawaii's favor. No. 2 and No. 3 look like REALLY good flights. Maybe Mags and Huddleston should be No. 2 or No. 3. Ozee and Martin could be a really good No. 1 team IMO. One thing about Ozee and Martin. They are both high energy type and fire each other up after good plays. Mags and Hiliawe seems to be on the quiet side and are more business-like.
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Post by newbeach on Feb 24, 2019 12:20:24 GMT -5
Yeah, maybe you all on here are right. "Maglio and Huddleston look average", "maybe Maglio and Huddleston should play at flight #3". This is nonsense. Maybe the coaches should figure out how best to utilize Maglio, not throw her at Flight three. Huddleston has always been a good player who has been underrated by the coaching staff. Yesterday she lacked the experience to make the right calls at the net for Maglio (when Pepperdine was doing defense fakes). Huddleston deserved to get some experience over the last couple of years because she is good, she might just be lacking confidence right now. I would say they shut down a bit and played tight. Physically they are more than capable and regularly beat all our other pairs.
We know Maglio can play and win against the best #1 flights in the country. I believe, she has the highest winning % on the team of current players. I could be wrong but I remember her being right up there in the Top 5 of all time. The problem is she is being underutilized at the detriment of this team. We already lost one good impact player (Monkhouse) and we were lucky to get another impact player back (Maglio). The team lacks depth and needs this pair to do well for the team to do well. Playing at #3 is not the answer. Why put one of your best players there? You have to remember they were playing the best opponents yesterday, the flight threes were not.
Who makes a team lineup based on "buddies"? What idiot puts two quiet players together because they are friends? As Ozee said last year "Ari is the calm to my hype". Yes, you need chemistry but being friends doesn't mean chemistry on the court.
Both Huddleston and Maglio are not the type to ever question the coaches judgment and that is why they find themselves in this position. They both have all the physical tools they need to play in the top pairs. For their sake, I hope they can work it out. If they can it is because they will give everything to the team to try and make it right.
I have always supported the coaching staff before, but if this pair fails and the team fails as a result, IMO it is on him. Switch up the pairs or work it out. Give them the tools they need to succeed.
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Post by wang pu on Feb 24, 2019 21:10:47 GMT -5
Yeah, maybe you all on here are right. "Maglio and Huddleston look average", "maybe Maglio and Huddleston should play at flight #3". This is nonsense. Maybe the coaches should figure out how best to utilize Maglio, not throw her at Flight three. Huddleston has always been a good player who has been underrated by the coaching staff. Yesterday she lacked the experience to make the right calls at the net for Maglio (when Pepperdine was doing defense fakes). Huddleston deserved to get some experience over the last couple of years because she is good, she might just be lacking confidence right now. I would say they shut down a bit and played tight. Physically they are more than capable and regularly beat all our other pairs. We know Maglio can play and win against the best #1 flights in the country. I believe, she has the highest winning % on the team of current players. I could be wrong but I remember her being right up there in the Top 5 of all time. The problem is she is being underutilized at the detriment of this team. We already lost one good impact player (Monkhouse) and we were lucky to get another impact player back (Maglio). The team lacks depth and needs this pair to do well for the team to do well. Playing at #3 is not the answer. Why put one of your best players there? You have to remember they were playing the best opponents yesterday, the flight threes were not. Who makes a team lineup based on "buddies"? What idiot puts two quiet players together because they are friends? As Ozee said last year "Ari is the calm to my hype". Yes, you need chemistry but being friends doesn't mean chemistry on the court. Both Huddleston and Maglio are not the type to ever question the coaches judgment and that is why they find themselves in this position. They both have all the physical tools they need to play in the top pairs. For their sake, I hope they can work it out. If they can it is because they will give everything to the team to try and make it right. I have always supported the coaching staff before, but if this pair fails and the team fails as a result, IMO it is on him. Switch up the pairs or work it out. Give them the tools they need to succeed. Agree with you. Hall is the coach. A coach needs to make the decisions and then adjust. One thing I feel Hawai’i lacks is their ability to grow the lower flights. For the past few seasons, I felt that players ranked 11 and below didn’t get many opportunities to get into the duals.
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Post by kaipono on Feb 24, 2019 21:25:43 GMT -5
Hawaii wins against Stanford, 3-2. The top two flights lost, and the bottom 3 flights swept their games. Right now, the top two flights are both pretty even, and it is not clear which one belongs at flight #1. Both of the teams did not win a point in either of the games today, but they did face pretty tough flights. These flights battled in 3 sets for both matches in Stanford and UCLA, and both Ozee/Martin could not close out in the 3rd against Stanford, and Maglio/Huddleston could not close out against Justine/Sponcil (given they would be a flight #1 at many other schools). Homayun/Scoles are in a pretty good place at flight #3, being 3-1 on the weekend (only loss coming from Muno/Van Winkle), and they have looked pretty dominant together (aside from the loss). Loker/Napoleon is a solid team, and they should be fine at flight #4. I think that Hall might have possibly found his flight #5 with Dreeuws/Banz since they were pretty dominant in their win over Stanford, and they hung tough with the 5's for UCLA. Luckily, I see a lot of improvement being possible from the bottom 3 flights as each team builds chemistry, and they would gain valuable experience as the season continues.
Next up is the East meets West challenge, and they will face some really good teams in LSU and FSU, so I hope the team gets to practice more, and the flights will be a little more established come that time.
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Post by brooselee on Feb 24, 2019 22:11:38 GMT -5
Hawaii wins against Stanford, 3-2. The top two flights lost, and the bottom 3 flights swept their games. Right now, the top two flights are both pretty even, and it is not clear which one belongs at flight #1. Both of the teams did not win a point in either of the games today, but they did face pretty tough flights. These flights battled in 3 sets for both matches in Stanford and UCLA, and both Ozee/Martin could not close out in the 3rd against Stanford, and Maglio/Huddleston could not close out against Justine/Sponcil (given they would be a flight #1 at many other schools). Homayun/Scoles are in a pretty good place at flight #3, being 3-1 on the weekend (only loss coming from Muno/Van Winkle), and they have looked pretty dominant together (aside from the loss). Loker/Napoleon is a solid team, and they should be fine at flight #4. I think that Hall might have possibly found his flight #5 with Dreeuws/Banz since they were pretty dominant in their win over Stanford, and they hung tough with the 5's for UCLA. Luckily, I see a lot of improvement being possible from the bottom 3 flights as each team builds chemistry, and they would gain valuable experience as the season continues. Next up is the East meets West challenge, and they will face some really good teams in LSU and FSU, so I hope the team gets to practice more, and the flights will be a little more established come that time. Flight one should be OK. They do need to clean up some miscommunication on serve receive. Sometimes when the serve is in between them, neither went after the ball or both went after the ball. When both went after the ball and it is popped up, nobody is in position to take the second hit. Gave up too many of those free points IMHO.
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Post by Wolfgang on Feb 24, 2019 22:41:08 GMT -5
Yeah, maybe you all on here are right. "Maglio and Huddleston look average", "maybe Maglio and Huddleston should play at flight #3". This is nonsense. Maybe the coaches should figure out how best to utilize Maglio, not throw her at Flight three. Huddleston has always been a good player who has been underrated by the coaching staff. Yesterday she lacked the experience to make the right calls at the net for Maglio (when Pepperdine was doing defense fakes). Huddleston deserved to get some experience over the last couple of years because she is good, she might just be lacking confidence right now. I would say they shut down a bit and played tight. Physically they are more than capable and regularly beat all our other pairs. We know Maglio can play and win against the best #1 flights in the country. I believe, she has the highest winning % on the team of current players. I could be wrong but I remember her being right up there in the Top 5 of all time. The problem is she is being underutilized at the detriment of this team. We already lost one good impact player (Monkhouse) and we were lucky to get another impact player back (Maglio). The team lacks depth and needs this pair to do well for the team to do well. Playing at #3 is not the answer. Why put one of your best players there? You have to remember they were playing the best opponents yesterday, the flight threes were not. Who makes a team lineup based on "buddies"? What idiot puts two quiet players together because they are friends? As Ozee said last year "Ari is the calm to my hype". Yes, you need chemistry but being friends doesn't mean chemistry on the court. Both Huddleston and Maglio are not the type to ever question the coaches judgment and that is why they find themselves in this position. They both have all the physical tools they need to play in the top pairs. For their sake, I hope they can work it out. If they can it is because they will give everything to the team to try and make it right. I have always supported the coaching staff before, but if this pair fails and the team fails as a result, IMO it is on him. Switch up the pairs or work it out. Give them the tools they need to succeed. I think you edited the "controversial" parts of your post. I think. Unless it wasn't your post I'm thinking about. Anyway, re. buddies and the ability to choose partners, I looked at the box scores from last year to see what changes were made. They were the same throughout. So, I came back here to reread your post and that's when I noticed you had edited it because the crucial bits were missing.
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Post by Wolfgang on Feb 24, 2019 23:35:33 GMT -5
The team has a lot to work on but I'm not sure I'm thrilled with the results. Losses to highly ranked UCLA and Pepperdine, a solid win against unranked St. Mary's, and a narrow win over Stanford. It was kind of painful to watch 0-5 and 2-3 defeats to UCLA and Pepperdine, respectively.
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Post by brooselee on Feb 24, 2019 23:47:15 GMT -5
The team has a lot to work on but I'm not sure I'm thrilled with the results. Losses to highly ranked UCLA and Pepperdine, a solid win against unranked St. Mary's, and a narrow win over Stanford. It was kind of painful to watch 0-5 and 2-3 defeats to UCLA and Pepperdine, respectively. Your expectation is too high and unrealistic. We lost a lot from last season and those who returned are paired with new partners. You cannot expect us to be in the same class like UCLA and Pepperdine. Our only “blue chipper” this season was Kylin Loker. We got no transfer to help us out like Kan and Weaver to plug into the lineup. Hopefully next season with 3 pretty good feeshman recruits along with Pepperdine transfer Blossom Sato and maybe indoor setter Norene Iosia and that 6-3 Swedish girl...we can experiment more with the lineup. Right now we really don’t have a lot of depth so there are not a lot of options.
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Post by kaipono on Feb 25, 2019 1:46:52 GMT -5
The team has a lot to work on but I'm not sure I'm thrilled with the results. Losses to highly ranked UCLA and Pepperdine, a solid win against unranked St. Mary's, and a narrow win over Stanford. It was kind of painful to watch 0-5 and 2-3 defeats to UCLA and Pepperdine, respectively. Your expectation is too high and unrealistic. We lost a lot from last season and those who returned are paired with new partners. You cannot expect us to be in the same class like UCLA and Pepperdine. Our only “blue chipper” this season was Kylin Loker. We got no transfer to help us out like Kan and Weaver to plug into the lineup. Hopefully next season with 3 pretty good feeshman recruits along with Pepperdine transfer Blossom Sato and maybe indoor setter Norene Iosia and that 6-3 Swedish girl...we can experiment more with the lineup. Right now we really don’t have a lot of depth so there are not a lot of options. Yeah, I'd say Scoles and Loker were the biggest gets from this class, but we lost 4 starters from the line-up. To be honest, I wasn't surprised at how the team did this past weekend (although a win against Pepperdine would have been nice). Today, I was pleasantly surprised that Ozee/Martin and Maglio/Huddleston were able to challenge and take the McNamara Twins and Justine/Sponcil to 3 sets. Since those two UCLA pairs were the same last season, and these two pairs are new ones for this season (especially Huddleston/Maglio since Maglio only started practicing with the team last month), I thought they both did a commendable job. The rest of the pairs are also new with: Scoles/Homayun (one who is a newcomer to beach), Loker/Napoleon (both freshmen), and Dreeuws/Banz (put together today as flight #5). All of these flights should improve as the season progresses, and we should be competitive in all of the upcoming matches.
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Post by brooselee on Feb 25, 2019 2:08:46 GMT -5
Along with the 4 who graduated(Kaiwi, Kan, Weaver and Zapalony we also lose Monkhouse to transfer.. If Lea was still around, we could have used her in the first two flights and not have to bring Hi’ilawe up too far to flight one or two.
Monkhouse/Maglio Martin/Ozee Scoles/Homuyan
Very solid top 3 flights.
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