Hawaii/UCLA match Mar 1
L. Ravi Narasimhan
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>In game 2 the Rainbows came out on fire. Japan has the bullet train,
>Hawaii has bullet serves. The service game was so effective that in
>games 1 and 2 UCLA burned both timeouts quickly. From there, they
>turned to the stall tactics of "the mystery wet spot that needed
>wiped" and the old "shoelaces need to be completely re-tied."
One of their standard numbers, disrupt the opponent in any way
possible. UCLA has done this many times in the past when things don't
break their way.
>Game 3 was a good back and forth battle. Nihipali was really in a
>zone until the coaches made a blunder. With UH up 14-10 and the
>Bruins with the serve, Vallely was subbed in to serve for Nihipali.
>Vallely promptly served into the bottom of the net and then Coach
>Scates tried to sub Nihi back in. Survey says.....EHHHHH.
Ouch! Someone is going to be swimming back to the mainland, I am sure.
Vallely is
>locked into the game. I have only seen Vallely twice, once in January
>at the tournament and tonight, but he was one of Hawaii's best weapons
>both times. I know it is hard to come off the bench cold and serve
>tough, but this guy was only like 2 of 6 tonight and 0 for everything
>in January. Game Bows!
I have seen a lot of this throughout the MPSF. Serving specialists
come in and miss serves. By a wide margin. Don't know why that is.
>Game 4 was a repeat of 3. Hawaii was up early and UCLA struggled
>back. Coach Scates tried a different stall tactic...getting a yellow
>card for arguing what he thought was a lift by Katz. In my opinion
>the card was way overdue, but he wasn't the one who deserved it.
Al Scates got a card? The millenium is nigh! I hope to see that event
happen someday in person. Bravo/a to the ref.
The
>first who should have gotten one is Metzger. After getting no support
>from the up ref on what he thought was a touch, he pulled a temper
>tantrum and yanked on the towel that hangs across the bottom of the
>net. Then net shook vigorously, showing the force he put into the
>display. The ref blew it off.
I am surprised to hear this. In the matches I've seen, Metzger
usually directs his abger at himself and his team. He did slap at the
net after dropping one game to Loyola Marymount, but, I am very
surprised to hear he did it while a game was in play.
Next on the list is Nihipali. After
>getting stuffed, he put down a fairly forceful kill. With that, he
>stood right at the net facing the rainbow side and started a childish
>tirade of yelling and flapping his arms like he was trying to take
>off. Again, the ref blew it off. Two words for Nihipali...GROW UP!
I he grows any more, he'll be frightening. He's already 6'8" with a
huge jump. :-O
>Bows win the game and match, fittingly, on a Naveh Milo kill.
>Final note: Katz 43 kills, Milo 26. Nihipali 39 kills
Brian, how well did the middles for the two teams play? Did Ring and
Milo start for Hawaii with Turner and Stillwell for UCLA? And how was
the Hawaii passing attack? I had thought that Wilton, too, would have
gotten a few sets and kills.
Did Hawaii run its trademark Double Rainbow quick to pin down the blockers?
>In the newspaper here, Coach Scates was reported to have said some
>things about the Israelites like..and don't quote me on this...it's
>like playing Tel Aviv University, and the new Hawaii fight song is
>that Russian or Jewish ditty that they play at parties.
Snippy is as snippy does. I think Al ought to have a beer, have a
little more grace in defeat, or just Hava Nagila.
This is one reason I attend UCLA matches but don't support te team
otherwise. Not that they need my money in any case.
Sorry, but I
>don't know the name. If we were to use that view on his squad, they
>could be referred to as a second string Hawaii team, since they start
>4 players from the islands (Metzger, Robins, Nihipali and Wells)
I think that Nihipali is from Southern California.
>Wasn't there a similar ranting going on during the women's season
>(Oral Roberts) Hey, everybody has thier fair shot at recruiting.
Oooh yeah! I seem to recall Ozzie Volstad helping UCLA to a title
somewhere along the line...
--- Oski
Taj Mahalo
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Ravi Narasimhan
Dept. of Physics, UCLA
http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~oski