Here’s how I voted in this week’s Star-Advertiser girls basketball Top 10 as of Monday (Jan. 6). Pupule’s ballot BKG 1/6/14 1. LAH 2. MS 3. KS 4. KON 5. ROS 6. HIL 7. MIL 8. PUN 9. IOL 10. HON This season is as unpredictable as I can recall in girls hoops. There is no completely seasoned, dominant team. Lahainaluna is somewhat close to that, with veteran guards and a surplus of tall, athletic bigs. They also love to […]
The wild final 5 minutes between No. 3 Kamehameha and No. 9 ‘Iolani in ILH girls basketball.
Doubleheader is underway at ‘Iolani, where the Kamehameha Warriors are visiting for a basketball twinbill. The girls are at halftime and the boys will follow. BOYS ‘Iolani 19, Kamehameha 18, halftime A defensive struggle with a ton of blocks by the Raiders – particularly Kamu Borden, their big center. ‘Iolani 36, Kamehameha 28, end Q3 The defensive battle continues, though the Raiders are picking up momentum. Zach Buscher had a block in the corner on Kamehameha gunner Noa Kinimaka, but […]
Here are video interviews with a player (Haka Johnson of Saint Louis), referees Eric Morales, Tony Collazo and Pat Silva, and St. Francis coach Sol Batoon. The new emphasis on illegal contact/hand-checking in high school basketball is affecting the game positively — or negatively — depending on who you talk to. Here’s the extended version of the “Checking In” story that is on this blog, which also includes interviews with Alton Mamiya of HSBOA and coach Mike Taylor of Punahou.
(The shorter version of this story was published in Tuesday’s Star-Advertiser.) Some coaches and players are getting downright defensive about it. One of the three points of emphasis in basketball by National Federation of State High School Associations this season is simple: enforce the hand-check rule. But the actual enforcement or lack of it has left players and coaches bewildered. From the NFHS site: Guidelines to Enforce Illegal Contact – When contact occurs that affects the rhythm, speed, quickness and […]
Pupule’s ballot BKG 12/23/13 1. LAH 2. MS 3. KS 4. HIL 5. MIL 6. KON 7. PUN 8. ROOS 9. IOL 10. HON Not much to bicker about here. The Star-Advertiser Top 10 girls basketball poll matched up with my ballot exactly the same, a rarity. (Non-subscribers can see the poll on the front page of this blog.) I’ve been voting in polls for more than a decade, and this kind of stuff almost never happens. Maybe once a […]
AZCentral.com is reporting that Kamehameha point guard Tiare Kanoa has committed to play basketball for Arizona State University. Kanoa is a senior returnee and all-state selection for the defending champion Warriors. Teammate Alohi Robins-Hardy has already signed to play basketball and volleyball at BYU next season. Kamehameha (6-1) is ranked No. 1 in today’s Star-Advertiser Girls Basketball Top 10.
That’s right. What you, me and about 300 other fans saw at Moanalua High School gym on Friday night was truly, incredibly epic. Farrington 90, Maryknoll 83 in overtime. Even without the OT, when regulation ended with the score tied at 75, it was phenomenal. I live-blogged it, not just for your information, but so that I could go back and retrace the steps of this game once the awesomeness and madness was done. I don’t remember the last time […]