Comments on: Sifting through House Awa, girls hoops Top 10

By: The Rim

The Rim — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 16:08:02 +0000

Pana not coaching boys or girls basketball. He took over the boys last year and was replaced this year by another former Hilo High standout athlete Bruce Ferreira. I’m not sure what the deal is but Ferreira might be a interim coach.

By: Education First

Education First — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 19:22:52 +0000

I have seen the Maryknoll vs. Punahou game. The Punahou coach Elizabeth Kam is not equipped to run a program, yet a team in my opinion. Yes I may be biased since I have a niece on the team. But she plays a ton, so the complaint has nothing to do with playing time.

It’s just things that any coach who even coaches KAC or KBA would recognize. And I am talking about volunteer parents who have minimal coaching experience.

Punahou is playing Maryknoll. They are noticeably smaller. So they decide to slow the game down in the second half and go to a man. Their advantage is team speed. They could use their (2) stretch 4’s Aplaca and Uyeda to pull Maryknoll’s bigs out of the key. That would give Kandiah more room to penetrate and kick or finish. Also, bigs don’t like guarding in space. But Punahou never makes the adjustment to go small and push tempo. Also by pushing tempo it makes bigs have to run. Typically bigs don’t like to run and they tire.

Punahou sticks with their normal rotation of playing 1 big. That matches up perfectly with Maryknoll who has a better 1-5 player.

And down 20, Punahou is still content to sit in their tired, non aggressive zone. Maryknoll’s two big wings can just look over the top of the zone and make any pass they want. And with no ball pressure they can get any shot they want and run as much clock as they want. Down 20 with 4 mins to go in the game, Punahou refused to come out of their zone. They basically gave up.

If Punahou wants a chance I will lay out their blueprint for success:
1) GO SMALL
2) Rotate Aplaca and Uyeda at the 5 for this game.
3) Push the ball every chance, make Maryknoll tired
4) Go deeper into your bench, playing 6-7 girls is not working
5) Run a combination of full court, 3/4 court, and half court traps to not allow Maryknoll to get into a rhythm.
6) Go to a zone only if your players are in foul trouble
7) Continue to push
8) Have the PG coach the team. She is obviously smarter than the head coach.
9) Certain girls on this team are shooting less than 30% on Maryknoll. Sag off them and force those kids to make shots. Double the scorers and force non-scorers to make plays.

By: red x

red x — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 02:51:54 +0000

Typical ILH snobbery. Always leaving out Kahuku. RR4L.

By: bball fan

bball fan — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:08:54 +0000

Paul,
Just an FYI, Coach Pana coached the Hilo boys team last year, and is no longer coaching the girls team at Hilo. Which is unfortunate because he would always get the girls teams ready to play anybody in the state.

By: Buzz

Buzz — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 07:55:48 +0000

“Either way, sure, they lost some great talent to graduation (two Division I college freshmen”

They actually lost three to division 1 colleges
Cameron Fernandez- Washington state
Mea Hafoka- San Jose state
Keleah koloi- Hawaii

By: Pun Alum 95

Pun Alum 95 — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 07:28:50 +0000

HI Mr. Honda. Why do you have Kamehameha over Punahou? They both are 1-1 in league. But when Punahou beat Kamehameha in their ILH regular season game they went up 20 and won quite convincingly. When Kamehameha beat Punahou, it was in a Kaiser Preseason tourney. And Punahou was missing 2 starters, Tanisha and Hina. A 3rd started played while very ill (Abby). And Kamehameha barely won by 2.

I think this should factor in quite a lot.