Comments on: Pupule ballot: From #1 (Maryknoll) to #21 (Kahuku)

By: RR4L

RR4L — Sun, 31 Dec 2017 09:53:42 +0000

Awesome #21

By: Maihiro

Maihiro — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 09:23:39 +0000

Mililani

By: Paul Honda

Paul Honda — Wed, 27 Dec 2017 08:23:20 +0000

In reply to Rams33. Thanks.

By: BuffAllDay

BuffAllDay — Mon, 25 Dec 2017 23:44:48 +0000

Like I told many of my buddies, Kuehu is not ready. They should have hired a bench coach with far more experience to mentor and teach her. By the look of things, it seems Punahou gave Kuehu full autonomy to pick and choose her staff. Looking at the posts above it looks like there isn’t a seasoned veteran on staff.

I have never seen someone with so little experience thrown into the fire so quickly. Talent can only get you so far. But this year, there are several talented teams in D1. There are no freebies. So since everyone has talent, you need to surround that with good coaching. And while the effort is there, the coaching is very suspect right now.

There are hardly any adjustments made. Their offensive sets are plain and basic. There are no wrinkles. Defensively, they are not very diverse so their opponents know what to expect.

They run equal opportunity offense instead of using advanced stats to figure out who should shoot and at what spots they should take these shots from.

I have seen them try to run pick and roll against a match up zone. This tells me they either do not recognize the defenses being thrown at them, do not understand how to attack a match up zone, or just don’t care.

There is talent, I do agree. Hopefully administration will look at changing up the coaching staff and bring in more experienced coaches to help Kuehu. The kids really need it for their development.

By: Olympia

Olympia — Mon, 25 Dec 2017 00:29:27 +0000

@PublicSchoolAllTheWay, no everyone was there. Plus, Tanisha played. She was out for a while and is a returning starter.

The issue is lack of experience on the current coaching staff.

Shawna Kuehu – only 1+ years of coaching experience ever. Isn’t ready.
Kyle Pape – has like 2 years of experience as an assistant for his wife on jv. boy was suspended by either punahou or the ilh for breaking ilh rules coaching kids when he wasn’t supposed to.
Kanisha Bello – heard this is her first year coaching.
Scott – former video guy at uh. heard he has zero coaching experience. but the guy yells a lot.

Puns got tons of talent. Coaching staff doesn’t know to use it or who to play in my humble opinion.

Staff is just overwhelmed. When was the last time the Puns were 0-6 in league with 2 losses to MPI and another loss to Sacred Hearts. And they lost by 20 last night to Mid Pac while only scoring 19. That’s bad. It’s like watching a KAC youth game at times.

By: PublicSchoolAllTheWay

PublicSchoolAllTheWay — Sun, 24 Dec 2017 21:26:59 +0000

Olympia were they missing key players? Or just off? I’m sure they got the talent.

By: Olympia

Olympia — Sun, 24 Dec 2017 20:33:03 +0000

Saw the game yesterday. Punahou scored 19 points. That is not a typo. That is so anemic.

By: PublicSchoolAllTheWay

PublicSchoolAllTheWay — Sun, 24 Dec 2017 04:15:00 +0000

Go Owls! Congrats to the girls for beating Punahou again today! Proud of them for pushing forward despite all the pilikia surrounding the “adults” in this situation (admin, coaches, parents). Keep doing your thing ladies! Good luck to all the teams this season …

By: Rams33

Rams33 — Sat, 23 Dec 2017 21:35:41 +0000

Also, minor correction. Kalina Obrey played the entire 32 minutes against HBA. It was their senior wing who was out with an ankle injury (as well as HBAs starting post being out).

By: Olympia

Olympia — Sat, 23 Dec 2017 19:39:10 +0000

I agree with Rams33. Punahou is 0-5 in league play. That is terrible. When was the last time Punahou lost to Mid Pac and Sacred Hearts in the same year? Probably way back in the BC’s.

Their team is inexperienced and the coaching is even more green. They need to play some of the upperclassmen more. They have one huge advantage, their big girl Tama. But they struggle to get her the ball.

Teams often double team Tama, and the Punahou coaching staff does not know how to get Tama into a single team situation. That just shows how unprepared this coaching staff is.

Cross screen, Upscreen, Diagonal Screen, Flash, Cross the posts, Overload. There are so many ways to get Tama into scoring situations.