Comments on: Girls BKB: The overrated, underrated & deserving

By: Pun Alum 95

Pun Alum 95 — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 20:45:56 +0000

It will be a 2 team race between Punahou and Kahuku. I see Kahuku winning states. Typically the team with the best player in Hawaii wins. Kalaheo won with Gilmore. Last year Iolani won with Hogland. I believe Kahuku wins with Villa who is amazing.

Punahou’s chances too a huge blow with the injury to Cole A. Makaula will be the Puns best player by the end of the season. Kobayashi’s shooting will keep them in games. I don’t see Punahou losing more than 1 game in the ILH if they even lose at all this year.

I’d be very surprised not to see a Kahuku-Punahou final unless some unfortunate injury happens. I believe in time Coach Akana will have Kahuku playing solid d. Right now they play good on ball defense. But they struggle to defend the Pick and Roll.

By: Paul Honda

Paul Honda — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 08:30:54 +0000

In reply to Pun Alum 95. Mr. Pun Alum 95/etc ... your interest in the Punahou girls basketball program is constant. I'm looking forward to your insights on Punahou boys basketball, too.

By: Pun Alum 95

Pun Alum 95 — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 07:22:34 +0000

http://scoringlive.com/story.php?storyid=14797

Funny how scoringlive picked up on this but the Star Advertiser completely missed on this.

By: Pun Alum 95

Pun Alum 95 — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 18:26:27 +0000

These are some of the things I saw last night that are taught in youth leagues:
-offensive plays are not crisp
-no communication on defense
-cannot defend a simple flex cut
-do not take care of the ball/careless turnovers
-defensively out of position/defenders has their back to the ball
-miss simple layups
-play slow

I was very unimpressed with coaching last night. You could get this type of coaching at any i9 league. The coaching staff might be the most inexperienced in the state. Ahuna is a volleyball coach who has never coached basketball at the HS level before. Kuehu has never coached high school basketball in her life. Just saying, just because you were a good player, doesn’t make you a good coach. It’s a very unfortunate situation for these young kids.

By: IMUA

IMUA — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 06:34:35 +0000

Saw the Maryknoll vs. Punahou game tonight. Punahou is just bad. They play zero defense. They are poorly coached. They lost by close to 30. They cannot defend against the most basic plays. Their coaching staff is bad.

By: ILH Observer

ILH Observer — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 06:23:12 +0000

I heard that Coach Kam wasn’t allowed to run her team for the past 1-2 weeks so she just decided to quit.

By: Pun Alum 95

Pun Alum 95 — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 01:44:05 +0000

@ Paul Honda. Mr. Honda, do you really believe Punahou could make an ILH Title and State Tournament run with their Head Coach Elizabeth Kam resigning last week? And this leaves them with their AD, Tita Ahuna taking over when I don’t recall her having any basketball coaching experience. And her lead assistant is another coach who has zero coaching experience prior to this season. I know they have talent, but pro and college teams rarely do well with a midseason coaching change. I highly doubt that teenagers would do any better.