The Wahine at Northridge and Long Beach State...............

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"We had our chances, we just weren't able to close it," said Hawaii coach Dave Shoji.

"This loss definitely hurts our chances to win the conference, but we get both Northridge and Long Beach at home. It's a long way to go and anything can happen, but we have to get better. Every match is critical for us now," Shoji said.

"You're not going to win very many matches hitting like that," said Shoji.

Vs Cal State Northridge
Taylor 8K 3BA 9.5pts
Greeley 8K 2BA 9.0pts
Manu-Olevao 6K 1SA 1BS 8.0pts
Magil 4K 2BA 5.0pts
Adolpho 3K 2BS 5BA 7.5pts

Overall efficiency after factoring in kill errors, service errors, receive errors, blocking errors, ball-handling errors:

Taylor 4E 5.5 actual points, 10 digs, .174 hitting %
Greeley 4E 1SE 3RE -3.5 actual points, 8 digs, .160 hitting %
Manu-Olevao 3E 2SE 2RE 1.0 actual points, 4 digs, .158 hitting %
Magil 1E 4.0 actual points, 1 dig, .300 hitting %
Adolpho 1BE 6.5 actual points, 3 digs, .500 hitting %

Vs Long Beach State

Taylor 9K 1SA 1BS 1BA 11.5pts
Greeley 10K 1BS 1BA 11.5pts
Manu-Olevao 16K 6SA 3BA 23.5pts
Magil 2K 1BA 2.5pts
Adolpho 4K 1BS 3BA 6.5pts
Maglio (4SP) 5K 4BA 7.0pts

Overall efficiency after factoring in kill errors, service errors, receive errors, blocking errors, ball-handling errors:

Taylor 6E 2SE 1BE -2.0 actual points, 11 digs, .091 hitting %
Greeley 6E 3SE 2.5 actual points, 14 digs, .103 hitting %
Manu-Olevao 13E 3SE 3RE 4.5 actual points, 13 digs, .054 hitting %
Magil 1E 1.5 actual points, .125 hitting % (2SP)
Adolpho 1E 1BE 1BHE 3.5 actual points, 1 dig, .333 hitting %
Maglio 1E 6.0 actual points, 1 dig, .308 hitting %

This year’s passing woes will most likely be the norm for the rest of year (hopefully not as bad as this past road game at Northridge--that was the worst display of passing ever by a Wahine’ team), so the Wahine’ outside hitters will have to start using a wider array of shots (dinks, hard angles, high hands, etc.) versus trying to overwhelm the block with heat every time….and when presented with a one-on-one situation, the hitters will have to deliver--to many wide open shots going wide or long.

And, the serving will have to improve big time…this past road trip, especially versus Long Beach State, to many back-to-back-to-back serving errors.

The losses to Arizona State, Oregon State, UCLA and Long Beach State (*even with Taylor hitting for 0.91%, Greeley .103%, and Manu-Olevao for 0.54%) were all winnable games. No Ifs or Buts, at Northridge the Wahine was out-played in all facets of the game. Northridge played like “a past Wahine team ranked in the top 5” handily dismantling and unranked conference foe with ease.

*From this morning’s StarAdvertiser article.