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Post by Barefoot In Kailua on Sept 13, 2024 16:58:40 GMT -5
Welcome back. Please refrain from consistently deriding the Wahine program. Thank you. Where in that statement was I deriding the Wahine program. I am just trying to come up with ways to make this Wahine Team better. We all can see that Tali Hakas is ineffective as an Opposite, but she is effective, at her natural position, as an Outside Hitter. Tali Hakas is also an effective back row player, so why not put her in Riley Wagoner's old position. Caylen Alexander can get kills at Opposite. She seems a lot more comfortable playing that position then Tali Hakas, or even Stella Adeyemi. What you would is a balanced attack, not one that is predominantly Outside, and sometimes Middles, depending on the pass. I can see Tali Hakas upping her Offensive numbers if she is allowed to play her natural position, Riley Wagoner's old spot. I also do not believe, moving Caylen Alexander will hurt her Offensive numbers much, if she is used like Dave Shoji used Nikki Taylor. Caylen can still be the go to player even at Opposite, like Nikki Taylor was. Your last comment was fine. I was talking about the kind of comments that got you banned.
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Post by cosmo on Sept 13, 2024 17:01:35 GMT -5
Welcome back. Please refrain from consistently deriding the Wahine program. Thank you. Where in that statement was I deriding the Wahine program. I am just trying to come up with ways to make this Wahine Team better. We all can see that Tali Hakas is ineffective as an Opposite, but she is effective, at her natural position, as an Outside Hitter. Tali Hakas is also an effective back row player, so why not put her in Riley Wagoner's old position. Caylen Alexander can get kills at Opposite. She seems a lot more comfortable playing that position then Tali Hakas, or even Stella Adeyemi. What you would is a balanced attack, not one that is predominantly Outside, and sometimes Middles, depending on the pass. I can see Tali Hakas upping her Offensive numbers if she is allowed to play her natural position, Riley Wagoner's old spot. I also do not believe, moving Caylen Alexander will hurt her Offensive numbers much, if she is used like Dave Shoji used Nikki Taylor. Caylen can still be the go to player even at Opposite, like Nikki Taylor was. I think this depends on the assumption that Caylen can be equally effective from the right as she is the left. If that is true, then you're absolutely right. If it isn't, then it's a matter of keeping the best offensive player in the position where she can produce to the extent the team's needs. That said, I am very much with you on if Caylen can move to the opposite and still score to the same extent, then it is absolutely a change the coaching team should be at least looking into.
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Post by wahinefan on Sept 13, 2024 17:16:48 GMT -5
Thank you. Where in that statement was I deriding the Wahine program. I am just trying to come up with ways to make this Wahine Team better. We all can see that Tali Hakas is ineffective as an Opposite, but she is effective, at her natural position, as an Outside Hitter. Tali Hakas is also an effective back row player, so why not put her in Riley Wagoner's old position. Caylen Alexander can get kills at Opposite. She seems a lot more comfortable playing that position then Tali Hakas, or even Stella Adeyemi. What you would is a balanced attack, not one that is predominantly Outside, and sometimes Middles, depending on the pass. I can see Tali Hakas upping her Offensive numbers if she is allowed to play her natural position, Riley Wagoner's old spot. I also do not believe, moving Caylen Alexander will hurt her Offensive numbers much, if she is used like Dave Shoji used Nikki Taylor. Caylen can still be the go to player even at Opposite, like Nikki Taylor was. I think this depends on the assumption that Caylen can be equally effective from the right as she is the left. If that is true, then you're absolutely right. If it isn't, then it's a matter of keeping the best offensive player in the position where she can produce to the extent the team's needs. That said, I am very much with you on if Caylen can move to the opposite and still score to the same extent, then it is absolutely a change the coaching team should be at least looking into. I am thinking, Caylen may be more effective, at the Opposite position. Here is my reasoning, Tali Hakas will be more effective as an Outside Hitter, then she is now. That would leave Caylen Alexander with less Double Blocks to go up against, then she is now. Also, it will give the Wahine Team a more balanced attack, giving opposing teams a more difficult time defending. When I say, Caylen Alexander will be more effective, maybe not so much in the number of kills she has, but more that her hitting percentage will go up. Not to mention she will not have so many attempts, keeping her right arm fresh. Caylen Alexander will still have her double digit kills, playing Opposite, but her attempts will go down, and her hitting percentage will go up. So will Tali Hakas number of kills go up, playing the Outside Position.
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Post by thor on Sept 13, 2024 18:51:33 GMT -5
We don't have a whole lot of options at RS, someone entertained the idea that we could move Stella there but she is a stronger passer statistically than Hakas and by no small margin. The other option would be to try Arquette at right, but maybe its Robyn's plan to redshirt her so she can take over at Setter for 4 years after Kate's done here. When Koavball mentioned that we were in the running for Henke and Elliot I imagined we were going to be stocked with firepower but that fell thru then Paula transferred out so here we are. Hopefully next season our offense won't resemble a two legged stool and we can terminate from all three front positions. On the brighter side, we are 4-1 and have survived the likes of SMU, USD and Pepperdine so something is clicking.
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Post by veebz17 on Sept 13, 2024 18:55:09 GMT -5
While Tali might be more comfortable swinging on the left, what we’ve seen (last season and this season) is that she struggles with terminating from either pin. So to me it seems like the coaching staff is weighing the cost/benefit of having her on the right vs left. In my opinion, there is less of a “cost” to have Tali on the right pin and lose some offense, with the benefit being she is a solid back court defender and puts up a decent block against opposing teams’ outside hitters. She’s also not a primary passer on serve receive this way (as someone else pointed out, she has the lowest serve receive numbers on the team). I know a lot of teams funnel their offense through the right pin but it’s more natural (for lack of a better word) to run out of system plays to the left pin. Caylen on the left gives a more consistent scoring option and she can take out the trash if passing is poor.
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Post by ManapuaSurprise on Sept 14, 2024 3:49:06 GMT -5
Wahine Sprites for Video Game Night. Sadly I missed Leyva since she was the 1st one on camera
By this point they started noticing
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Post by VT Karen on Sept 14, 2024 3:56:39 GMT -5
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Post by brooselee on Sept 14, 2024 4:06:58 GMT -5
LOL Caylen probably cracking up about the flower on the right ear. Is she single and looking for love? Hahaha
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Post by toonscivb on Sept 14, 2024 4:33:46 GMT -5
Video game night was a lot of fun. They had some old volleyball video games clips playing after each Hawaii point. They had clips for spikes, aces, and blocks. It was a lot of fun.
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Post by raian13 on Sept 14, 2024 13:29:20 GMT -5
While Tali might be more comfortable swinging on the left, what we’ve seen (last season and this season) is that she struggles with terminating from either pin. So to me it seems like the coaching staff is weighing the cost/benefit of having her on the right vs left. In my opinion, there is less of a “cost” to have Tali on the right pin and lose some offense, with the benefit being she is a solid back court defender and puts up a decent block against opposing teams’ outside hitters. She’s also not a primary passer on serve receive this way (as someone else pointed out, she has the lowest serve receive numbers on the team). I know a lot of teams funnel their offense through the right pin but it’s more natural (for lack of a better word) to run out of system plays to the left pin. Caylen on the left gives a more consistent scoring option and she can take out the trash if passing is poor. Can she be a backrow specialist and have some occasional D swing and backrow swings like Kendra Ham?
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Post by veebz17 on Sept 14, 2024 13:31:01 GMT -5
While Tali might be more comfortable swinging on the left, what we’ve seen (last season and this season) is that she struggles with terminating from either pin. So to me it seems like the coaching staff is weighing the cost/benefit of having her on the right vs left. In my opinion, there is less of a “cost” to have Tali on the right pin and lose some offense, with the benefit being she is a solid back court defender and puts up a decent block against opposing teams’ outside hitters. She’s also not a primary passer on serve receive this way (as someone else pointed out, she has the lowest serve receive numbers on the team). I know a lot of teams funnel their offense through the right pin but it’s more natural (for lack of a better word) to run out of system plays to the left pin. Caylen on the left gives a more consistent scoring option and she can take out the trash if passing is poor. Can she be a backrow specialist and have some occasional D swing and backrow swings like Kendra Ham? I wouldn’t mind that!
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Post by Kangaroo on Sept 14, 2024 13:43:47 GMT -5
I saw a tiktok where Braelyn said she’s only 5’9” but UH listed her as 6’. How tall are these girls fr 😭😭
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Post by Barefoot In Kailua on Sept 14, 2024 15:41:47 GMT -5
I love the fight and grittiness of this Wahine team. They don’t give up. Their floor defense can be relentless at times, like Wahine teams of the past. Well done, ladies!
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Post by islandman on Sept 14, 2024 15:47:43 GMT -5
If 2,500 fans pledged to donate 25 cents per Ace, & using last year's total of 167 aces, that's $104,375
So it's possible to get the amount in the aggregate.
UH Manoa out-of-state tuition: $34,218 www.bing.com/search?q=how+much+is+out+of+state+tuition+at+university+of+hawaiiSo, one full out-of-state scholarship for four years = 4*$35k = $140k. Six additional four-year out-state-scholarships requires ~ $840,000 in committed and approved funding. There is the WUE or Western Undergraduate Exchange which applies to certain western states where the student from a western state can pay 150% of the Univ of Hawaii resident tuition. Example 150% of $11,304 annual resident tuition = $16,956 vs $33,336 for the 2024-25 regular non-resident tuition or something to that effect .
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Post by hapaguy on Sept 14, 2024 15:50:45 GMT -5
Got my money's worth once again and once again was considering leaving after Hawaii got trounced the 1st two sets. Glad I didn't as that was a nice comeback. If anything these young ladies are resilient. My two cents for what it's worth: our defense is what is going to keep us in matches this year. We don't have the overall firepower to dominate these kinds of teams so we rely on our defense to keep us in the match. We keep digging, digging, digging, until the other team makes a mistake or we finally get a good transition and swing on offense. Also, last night demonstrated that we have ZERO depth which is what happens when you have such a small roster. At one point in the match Stella was hitting negative 400 hundred something but she never came out because who you gonna put in for her? Mane? She can't pass. There's literally no one on the bench to come in when one of our pin hitters is having an off night. Also, I think Hakas plays better on the left. She seems more comfortable hitting there. She's this years RW with all the tipping though. I wish she would just swing away and challenge the block more rather than just rolling the ball over which is essentially a free ball for the other team to convert. And finally, as Caylen goes so goes the team. I really don't see anyone that can carry the team if Caylen has an off night.
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