Do you come on this site just to talk negatively? Can’t we highlight the good in Hawaii Sports instead of talking negatively about coaches who donate their time to the game? I’m surprised you’re not on a bench based on your need to evaluate these coaches. Do you not want to apply or perhaps you have a criminal record or sketchy past?

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Please tell me what is good about having a talented team lose by 30+ points with a coach who couldn’t make simple adjustments that most i9 dads who coach could?

As for coaching, why would I want to coach for $3.00 an hour? If you really want to make a positive change, then donate real money. Go and check out Weinberg and see what they do since I often donate money to their fundraisers.

Good luck with the rest of your season Owl Dad.

I notice that you have yet to refute my opinions. I am guessing you don’t have any. But I forgot, you are an avid MPI Owls fan and never winning and having 1 league win through half the season is okay for you.

Haha. But you are entitled to your opinion.

Do you come on this site just to talk negatively? Can’t we highlight the good in Hawaii Sports instead of talking negatively about coaches who donate their time to the game? I’m surprised you’re not on a bench based on your need to evaluate these coaches. Do you not want to apply or perhaps you have a criminal record or sketchy past?

Punahou has a player who has already signed to play NCAA D1 Basketball. They have 3 players (Kandiah, Uyeda, Aplaca) who were starters or heavy contributors on their 2014 State Championship team where they upset a very talented Lahainaluna team. I believe Uyeda was a starter.

You have all that talent and you lose by 32? I mean, I can see why they parents are all upset. You pay $22,000 tuition and the only coach you can find to coach these kids are a coach who got run out of Mid Pacific and a former Wahine who hasn’t proven she can win games at the KAC or KBA Level.

That is a travesty and injustice to these kids.

Now granted, Maryknoll is an outstanding team. But they are not 32 points better. But when you have 4 year players playing with their back to the ball, when you have coaches that cannot even recognize that their opponents are running flex and they have no counters to it, and they do not know how to defend the dribble weave on the perimeter, it’s going to be a very long day.

I can make a strong argument that any adult could have walked into the gym last night and did a better job than Kuehu did. I mean, does she ever yell anything that include detail or a specific instruction? There is a HUGE difference between yelling to instruct and yelling just to yell.

But then again, she never was trained to coach and never coached high school before, so I am guessing her resources of knowledge is limited. From what I have seen this year on Oahu, she is the worst basketball coach in Hawaii.

I really hope Punahou opens the job up and they can find someone qualified, or even half-way competent to coach these kids.

On the D2 side, it’ll be interesting to see who gets the #1 seed. I expect it to be Mid Pac, but putting Mid Pac #1 would put all 4 of Kalani, KS-Hawaii, HBA, & St Francis on the other half of the bracket giving Mid Pac a cake walk to the championship game.

Fast Forward to 2016-2017…..Parents are still complaining, albeit at a different school. Varsity returnees threaten to quit or try out for Varsity 2. Hardly any kids want to play for the program which is why around 10-12 kids came out for the entire program. That caused Punahou to cancel both the intermediate and jv summer league teams. Coach Kam slowly has her powers taken away from her and handed to former star Kuehu.

Coach Kam is fed up and resigns via email. Kuehu is interim co-head coach. She get promoted to head coach. Their only wins have been over a bad Sacred Hearts team (3 times). They cannot beat anyone else. Kuehu has zero coaching experience.

She is seen screaming on the sidelines, but nothing ever make sense. She makes no adjustments whatsoever and cannot identify match-ups. Her normal yelling includes, “play harder, move the ball, pass the ball.” But there’s nothing specific.

Her teams are known to get front cut, play with their back to the ball, and get screened on simple flex cuts. It’s borderline elementary basketball being taught and run.

But it’s not all Kuehu’s fault. She has no high school or even middle school coaching experience. How are you supposed to take over a top program with no experience and really no known-how to do anything correct?