Comments on: ‘Iolani’s 3-time state-championship coach Dean Shimamoto retires

By: M.T.

M.T. — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 01:28:56 +0000

Their coaching is elementary at best. They live off Derek’s name. They use all of Coach Agena’s stuff, they just don’t teach it as well. If coaching involved standing and watching and not making any adjustments, then they are the best. Men only wanting to coaching young girls is veery strange.

By: Pun Parent

Pun Parent — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 06:02:15 +0000

Sounds shady and inappropriate if you ask me. My daughter played for Mr. Pape’s wife several years ago. I feel so sorry for her and what she has gone through. Coach Agena told us the entire story of all the things he did.

By: JetWavy

JetWavy — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 22:36:03 +0000

Maybe that explains why your username is “???”. You’re confused and need further explanation it’s all good. Let’s take another crack at it. I have never heard of kids going to HBA, Le Jardin, Hanalani, Hawai’i Mission, etc. etc. for basketball. Ever. Punahou, ‘Iolani, and Maryknoll will always and continue to be the places players go for basketball in the ILH. Damien used to compete solely at D1 for basketball. It seemed like when the state opened a D2 state championship, then Damien reclassified to D2. My point continues to be if Mid-Pac can compete with the players they have year in and year out, Damien could have very well done the same. Heck, maybe they might have been raising a D1 trophy this year instead of D2. We’ll never know. I’m not for the “we’re good this year so we’ll play up but when we suck we’ll declare D2”. Continue to play at D1 and compete… good year or bad. And to me, the only team that has shown they’re willing to do that is Mid-Pac. You say I’m hating on Damien cuz they had one good year… well, Mid-Pac has had NO good year and still hoop it up with the big boys. Calm that “stop hating” noise down. You do just as much running your mouth in these comments as I do.

By: ???

??? — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 04:19:31 +0000

@JetWavy
STF is closing, so much for your comment on ability and resources?
If Mid-Pac can play D1 regardless of their talent/height, than so can everyone else!
But you choose to single out Damien because of their one good year of recruits & talent?
Stop Hating!!!

By: ???

??? — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 04:10:52 +0000

@JetWavy Hahahahahaha, your own statement proves you’re SLOW! So now you’re saying just because Damien has the talent they should be in DIyou obviously hating on Damien! You know for a fact every ILH school can recruit but since Hawaii Baptist doesn’t recruit as hard as Punahou they should stay at DII. You’re a joke!

By: JetWavy

JetWavy — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 00:28:58 +0000

@???

I don’t see how you connect both statements to mean the same thing. You’re a little slow but we will work together to help you understand what was said. I did say that if you recruit and bring in transfers locally or out of state, you should absolutely be competing at Division 1. That is not to say that all ILH teams recruit. That’s two different statements that you seem to feel overlap each other. I don’t expect teams like Hawai’i Mission Academy, HBA, Le Jardin, UH Lab, Hanalani, to recruit studs and D2 should really be meant for teams like that. Damien and St. Francis before them have shown they have the ability and resources to bring in talent and run through those teams.. They should have not been in the same league as them. Mid-Pac could make the same argument as them but they continue to play D1 regardless of the talent/height they have.

By: ???

??? — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 05:25:01 +0000

That’s what I thought!!

By: ???

??? — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 03:51:29 +0000

@JetWavy
Cat got your tongue?

By: ???

??? — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 03:42:55 +0000

ALLILH March 4, 2019 1:07 pm

Everybody knows you didn’t graduate from an ILH school just by your uneducated Grammar.

Change your screen name to Dropout!!

By: ???

??? — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 03:37:51 +0000

@JetWavy
You don’t understand what you, yourself wrote?
You said, if you going recruit at least play at the highest level.
You basically saying ILH should only have DI cause all ILH schools recruit. “DUH”