text: What I am say is, the last few years Dave has become mellow, and it translated into more mellow practices.  Not the way he held practices back in the 80's and 90's.  I am all for tall players, as long as they can play defense, ie. Kalei Greeley and Nikki Taylor.  But the bottom line is, defense.  The Wahine need to get into that mindset in practice, then translate it to matches.  That is the problem right now, the Wahine are not doing that.  The girls are not used to that portion, defense, being stressed so much.  The Japan team is never a really tall team, but they stress defense so much, that is the reason why they are one of the premier teams in the world.