With two weeks down and four more to go before it’s Nov. 11 season opener vs. Southern Illinois-Edwardsville, the University of Hawai’i men’s basketball team has effectively shifted into “second gear,” so to speak.
More accurately, the Warriors are now in the “middle phase” of their six-week preparation period, having spent most of the two-week “first phase” building a solid base of fundamentals while many of the players began their adjustment to NCAA Division I practices. This middle phase — also roughly planned for two weeks — started Saturday with a 30-minute film study session followed by an increasingly intense two-hour practice in Gym II.