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Today, I'm Tiffany Oshinsky and I'm Capbo, and 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:45.800 this is serving pancakes with League one Volleyball. The inaugural 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:49.000 Love Season is finally here. Each episode will be going 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:50.720 over the matches from the week to keep you up 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:54.120 to date on everything League one Volleyball. Then stick around 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:57.360 after the analysis for interviews with some amazing people in 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:00.240 and around the sport with only If you were weeks 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:03.760 left in the regular season and after a jam packed weekend, 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:07.960 We're gonna focus just on all the action from week eleven. 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:10.080 But before we get into the games. 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:11.600 How are you doing Cat, I'm doing good. 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:14.680 Long travel day, going to Omaha, Longevelday, coming back, But 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:15.280 I feel great. 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:15.880 How are you doing? 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:18.919 Not doing great? I feel like, you know, I'm probably 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:20.360 a little more arrested than you are. 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:23.400 But I'm feeling good for sure, for sure. But you know, 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:26.959 body still tea. We keep going, We keep going, keep going. 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:28.920 Yeah, there's three more weeks, lap, so you guys can. 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:31.840 Believing for three more weeks? So crazy, I know. 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:35.959 I gotta say, like this season flew by so quick. 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:38.240 Yeah, I'm for sure I say the same thing. 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:41.600 All right, Well, let's get into it in week eleven. 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:44.640 We're gonna start with Thursday Night's matchup between White Hot 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:48.240 Love Madison versus Love Salt Lake at Bruin Arena, and 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:52.520 Madison continue their hot streak in dramatic fashion, solidifying the 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:56.760 w in five sets twenty twenty five, twenty five, fifteen, seventeen, 0:01:56.840 --> 0:02:01.480 twenty five, thirty two, thirty fifteen seven. So what was 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:03.880 Madison doing right to stick out this win? 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:05.680 Hey, Madison has found their groove. 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:07.920 Honestly, like kind of shortened the're kind of like long 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:09.480 term in the game, but now they found a groove 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:11.520 of the consistent right Now, obviously Annie's amazing. 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:14.040 They found a connection through Lauren car Leading. So they're 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:14.760 in a group right now. 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.080 They're killing it, Yes they are. Now let's talk about 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:20.280 that fourth set. Madison was trailing twenty four to twenty one, 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.760 one set point away from losing the entire match. We've 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.320 talked about previously on the podcast about how the best 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:29.880 teams find ways to win and can persevere in these moments. 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:33.280 But what specifically did Madison do at the end to 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:37.320 not just stay in the game but eventually get the 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:38.440 win at thirty two to thirty. 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:41.040 Honestly, I think exeking transition. I think tradition game is 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:43.240 always very important. If you can defend the ball and 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:44.680 get the ball hop in the mental court and get 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:46.920 a great set to do your pins. I think transitioning 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:49.120 out of system was great. Defending well and just staying 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:50.519 in those moments, taking one point of the time. I 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:51.920 feel like Madison wasn't being rushed. 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:54.320 They're super patient and obviously helped them out on the end. 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:57.720 Now you already mentioned Annie Drew Schumacher. We can't talk 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:02.239 about this match without mentioning the great Southpaw. Cannot, no, 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:05.600 not at all. She has been unbelievable in this wind 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:08.440 streak for Madison, and Thursday night was absolutely no different. 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:14.120 A love best twenty six kills, only five errors in 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:18.440 fifty eight attempts, absolutely insane, and her biggest contribution probably 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:21.119 came in that fourth set where she had nine kills alone. 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:23.520 But I actually want to give a shout out to 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:28.600 outside Jennifer Yaniska, who finished with fourteen kills, including the 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:32.760 match winner. Those fourteen kills were a season high for her. 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:36.560 So talk about the importance of being ready to come 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:38.320 in off the bench and contribute. 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:38.960 Yeah, for sure. 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:40.400 You know, we didn't see a lot of Jennifer I'm 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:42.240 coming in the beginning of the season, and now she's 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:44.200 kind of made us stride with the team these last 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:46.480 five matches. And I love that when she comes on 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:48.000 the floor, she's bringing in what she does. I said 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:49.400 last time I talked with her a few weeks ago 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:52.560 that she's very consistent. So they have a consistent attacker 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:53.920 on the pan. That is what you need where there's 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:56.400 ball control, I'm putting a ball away. She brings him 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:59.000 a much more stable option on the outside because they 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.120 have Annie all day on the right side, so she 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:02.440 helves them out quite a bit now. 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:05.720 They're on a five game win streak right now, two 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:09.560 more weeks left in the regular season before Love Finals begins. 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:13.040 Are they peaking too soon? Or is this the right 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:14.080 time for them to peak? 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:16.200 You know what, I'm gonna say, it's the right time. 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:18.440 It's a great time to peak. Actually, I think it's 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:21.000 better late than never. You do have some teams still 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:24.320 figuring some stuff out aka Austin and Omaha, but hey. 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:26.280 We're gonna figure it out. I think it's a great 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:27.800 tradition game with them right now. 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:30.040 They found a way to pivot and they're playing well, 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:31.599 and I just hope they continue to play well. Not 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:33.280 too well gets this, but like I hope they could 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:35.080 even good playing well and showing up every week. 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:40.039 Speaking of Austin and Omaha, perfect pivot to the next match, 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:44.240 which was the game that you crushed it. Let's go. 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:51.680 After three straight losses, Love Austin beat Love Omaha and 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:55.200 five thrilling sets on Friday twenty four to twenty six, 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:59.120 twenty five, twenty twenty five, fifteen, twenty three, twenty five, 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:03.880 eighteen sixteen, and you and Middle Chiacobago had had a night. 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:07.599 I mean, absolutely incredible between the two of you, you 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:11.400 had forty three points thanks to thirty one kills, eleven 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:15.640 blocks and an ace, and you yourself had seventeen kills. 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:20.760 So besides being on the court, what was the what 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:23.560 was different in this game that helped you ladies get 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:24.120 that wh. 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:25.640 And know, I think it's one thing that Chiaca mentioned 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:27.679 to our press conference, said, like there's just some things 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:30.880 you just a score on paper doesn't have, you know, 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:32.600 I think it takes more than just beople to put 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:33.840 a ball away, be able to kind of feed the 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:35.919 energy around the players around you. And I felt like 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.359 I was breathing fire into the girls around me. 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:39.440 You know. 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:40.920 It was just it was a great night. I think 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:42.800 we were bobbing off each other really well. I came 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:44.200 in with a lot of energy, just trying to, like 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.760 I said, feed into them, feed into logan and try 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:48.480 to find stop a flextapability on the course. 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:49.960 So it was just it was our night and it 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:50.720 was great. It was great. 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:54.039 I mean, Chiaca mentioned that during her postgame interview because 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:57.360 she earned Player of the Match honors in this match, 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:01.400 but I mean she mentioned that you being on the 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:05.360 court helped create Like you said, you lit a fire 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:06.360 underneath them, right. 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:09.280 I feel like today we needed a lot of energy 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:11.200 and a lot of fire coming on the court, and 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:13.640 I felt like Kat lit a fire under everyone's part 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:15.479 of my French ass. And I feel like when she 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:16.280 was in I. 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:17.200 Felt more confident. 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:19.240 So I feel like I could not have done tonight 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:21.200 without her, without her pumping up everyone. 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:24.440 So thank you. You two are good friends. So talk 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:27.520 about the sixth sense that you guys kind of have 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.160 when you get to play with your friend, and how 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:33.920 do you try to replicate that sixth sense when you're 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:36.680 not actually lined up to block next to your bestie. 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.480 I think it's the communication. I'm talking to Chi, I'm 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:41.000 tripping to her em I'm in the back court. I'm 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:42.400 telling her, you know, give me one, sell me what 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:43.919 you got, what you could you get her or not 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:47.599 like somebody like I'm giving her just some like you know, information, 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:49.080 just like you know, just trying to get her to 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:51.479 like kind of like perk up a little bit, you know. 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:53.640 I talked to the girls like they're my friends. I 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:55.960 don't have a a kind of like a volleyball dialogue. 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:57.919 I'm kind of like, hey, guys, let's go. No I 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:00.839 talk how I talk normally to them like hey, get 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:02.640 this ball right now, like shut her down, be in 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:04.480 her face, like that's the kind of thing I'm saying, 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:06.800 as well as like obviously the opposing team you can 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:09.880 hear it too, So you know, just like bringing who 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:11.920 I am my personally into the court and being able to, 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:14.400 like I said, feed into the girls around me and 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:16.640 bring the spirits up is what it's cost me nothing, 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:18.440 you know what I'm saying. So it's a tough job 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:20.240 obviously come off the bench, but it's what I do best, 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:22.320 and I was very fortunate. I'm very happy to be 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:24.000 able to be able to contribute the way I did 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:24.680 on Friday night. 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:28.280 Absolutely, and after a pretty dominant win in the third set, 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:32.160 Omaha fought back to win that fourth. So what did 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:34.760 you say to the team in between that fourth and 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:37.400 fifth set to keep their spirits up? And what did 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.880 you say to yourself because seven of your seventeen kills 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:42.160 did come in that fifth set. 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.160 Honestly, I told him, I was like, hey, I was like, 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.440 give me your best Bally ball right now, like fifteen points. 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:48.680 Everything you have on the floor right now. 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:50.200 Obviously we're all tired and kind of being like a 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:51.720 dog fight throughout the tire and nighte I was like, 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:53.160 give me your best balleyball and the rest of. 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:53.679 The work itself. 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:55.880 I think in the fifth set it was connect towards 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:57.800 the end, I would kept telling myself, but we got 0:07:57.840 --> 0:07:59.440 to get two more points in the last block. 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:01.640 I told you. I was like, get me one, get 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:03.240 me a block, and she would and did that. So 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:04.600 it was it was great. It was great. 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:06.800 You didn't need just fifteen points, you needed eighteen points 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:11.600 to when that matche towards me and we were like, dang, 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:16.920 you're like, let's go. What was the celebration like post game? 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:19.800 I mean, it was just like I was screaming and 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:21.600 then like I stopped screaming, and I just like was 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:22.920 just taking it in the moment of just like hugging 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:25.880 Chiaka and hugging their girls around me and just knowing that, like, 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:28.040 you know, the well fought battle was working towards the end, 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:29.680 you know, it wasn't all for nothing. It sucks to 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:32.160 go into a fifth set and lose, you know, regardless 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:33.600 of you're getting you know, it's a good match or not, 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:35.240 but it just sucks to go all the way and 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:36.720 not to get the results. So the fact that we 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:38.640 went all the way and it was at one point tied. 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:42.120 They were up game. Matt set point fourteen fifteen on 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:44.800 us and we managed to fight back and you know, 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:46.640 to be able to be and that moment with them 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:47.360 was amazing. 0:08:47.400 --> 0:09:03.440 It was great, all right. 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:05.800 Well, that game was a great win for you ladies, 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.400 But unfortunately there wasn't a repeat in the first game 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:09.360 of Saturday. 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:12.000 Shortly normal it's normal. 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:14.920 A good a good win on Friday. But in the 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:17.840 end love Atlanta pulled off a sweep over you guys 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:21.240 on Saturday twenty five, nineteen twenty five, one twenty five 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.120 to fifteen. So what was the difference between Friday night's 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:27.280 match and this one and how did Atlanta take advantage? 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:29.320 I mean, what are we talking about here? The difference 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:32.000 was the team, obviously Atlanta. We held them pretty well, 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.400 I think offensively with our blocking and defense. 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:36.760 But Atlanta's great. They're a really good team. 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:40.200 They have really good chemistry right now. Obviously, Kelsey is 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:42.480 going to be Kelsey every single night, and she definitely 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:45.800 was for us the player of the match as well. 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:47.640 I know it's Mackinsey as well, but I think Kelsey 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:50.560 doesn't kept from the game a lot, and they found 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:52.480 a weakness. I think we caught onto tips kind of late, 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:55.480 I would say, in the second set, but I would 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:57.000 just say, you know, they played the game well. 0:09:57.040 --> 0:09:58.120 They had some really good points. 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:01.240 Blocking was amazing and like you've either had to try 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:02.560 to go through them or around them, and they would 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:04.880 just have touching balls all day long. So we just 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:06.319 a really good job fars like blocking us and we 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:07.280 kind of figure out what we were at in our 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:07.880 offensive speam. 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:10.199 So let's talk about Mackenzie for a second, because, as 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:12.200 you said, you know, she won the player of the 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:16.080 match honors. She scored twelve points from nine kills three blocks, 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:18.760 but she also had eleven digs. So which part of 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:22.080 her game do you find the most dominating and hardest 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:22.520 to stop? 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:26.280 Surprising dominating, I would say passing. You know, we served 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:29.520 her basically almost every ball and she kept them in system. 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:31.680 So that was things that was one thing kind of 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:33.120 cut us off by surprise. 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:33.319 You know. 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:35.520 I think in the past this season Mackenzie has kind 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:37.520 of struggled in the passive line. I think that's kind 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.120 of all of all areas on every team you have 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.160 one passer who's you know, pretty good and like, you know, 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:44.080 you can kind of get the ball in a certain way, 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:45.520 maybe we can kind of catch them at the system, 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.160 but Mackenzie was just passing dimes or catch them the system. 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.040 On top of the said defense, in transition, they're digging 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:52.640 balls high middle of the core. And then they have 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:54.760 Maddie Buck who's an amazing center as well, and she 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:56.520 would keep them and keep them in transition. So it 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:58.520 was tough, tough to be, very tough to be. 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.640 Week after we keep topalking about how great Atlanta has 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:04.680 been playing, and they've been atop the standings the majority 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:07.080 of the season and have already clinched a buy in 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:09.360 the Love Finals as one of the top two teams 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:13.040 in the standings. But you've played them three times now, 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:17.640 we've seen them lose to Houston. So what is their 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:21.679 achilles heel? How can teams beat Atlanta? 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:24.560 That's a hard to needle in a haystack. That's the 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:26.720 hard thing to kind of fine. It's almost like you 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:28.840 have to kind of catch them on a bad day potentially, 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.080 and even if their bad day is bad, it's not 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:34.880 that bad, you know. If anything, I would say if 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:38.000 a team can outdefend them, that helps know, Houston's a 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:38.800 great defensive team. 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:40.200 I would say probably the best team in the league 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:40.880 defensive wise. 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.640 I think Maddi Kingdan Michelle, she's actually the league defensive 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:48.240 player right now outside even including Livero. So I think 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:50.080 Houston has done a really good job of far as 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:52.199 defending them pretty well. And I think, like I said, 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:54.600 if you could, if you can defend more balls, it's 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:56.600 going to help you and again transition out and be 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:57.360 more successful in that. 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:59.960 It's that's easy, a good way to help you beat Atlanta. 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:04.040 Well, at Lana was hoping to secure that number one 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.079 spot going into the finals, but they're going to have 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:09.160 to wait a little longer because number two. Houston secured 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:12.400 another win beating love Omaha Saturday night and four sets 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:16.000 twenty five, twenty one, twenty five, eighteen, twenty three, twenty five, 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:18.880 twenty five, twenty three. Now you can tell by the scores, 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:21.679 especially the last two sets, that this was a tough 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:24.400 match for them to win. So what did Houston ultimately 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:25.439 do to get that w. 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:28.360 I think, honestly, what most people can't really see is 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:31.360 the chemistry that Houston has, Like everyone has a third mesh. 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:33.400 Their jail is so nice. It's so tight. 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:35.480 The most Jordy, that starting six are really good friends. 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:37.440 They have their relationship, but I think it kind of 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:39.200 relies off the court and it helps them on the 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:41.920 court as well the communication standpoint. They're able to kind 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:43.400 of feed into each other the way they can communicate 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:45.120 with one another, and it's able to help them be 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:46.160 consistent about the season. 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:47.720 Those intangibles for sure. 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:49.679 Yeah, they're besties. 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:55.280 Of course. Jordan Thompson, no surprise here, was named Player 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:57.920 of the match thanks to twenty one kills, two blocks, 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:01.880 and thirteen digs. Then, looking at Jordan's stats, her three 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:07.079 highest kill efficiencies came in matches against Omaha. How does 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:09.280 she do it when she goes up against that Omaha 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:10.200 block and defense. 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:13.200 I think, honestly just being her JT is so athletic. 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:15.440 She gets so high. 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:16.720 On top of the ball, and I think it's finding 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:18.600 that range in motion if she can keep the ball. 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:20.640 I think throughout her game she keeps the ball off 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:22.800 of jesting, which helps a lot. So her being able 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.400 to trigger between middle back and right back. Putting the 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:27.480 ball in those placements placements areas definitely does help. 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:27.640 You know. 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:29.360 Just teams won the best of barrels or probably the 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:31.079 best barrow in the league right now. And if you 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:32.320 can be able to keep any ball off of her 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:33.640 will help you off with some game for sure. 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:36.400 And we talked about Madison being on a hot streak 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:39.320 and if they're peaking too early, but with Omaha, we 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:41.720 kind of have the opposite right they've lost nine in 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:45.360 a row. Now, do you think this slump might get 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:48.760 to them enough to actually turn it around before the finals? 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:51.080 You know, going to the finals, I think it's anyone's game. 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:54.600 I think right now, it's almost like you know, chess, 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:57.360 it's okay, we win this game. Who do we want 0:13:57.360 --> 0:13:59.280 to play in the SMIs on the quarterfinals? 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:00.800 Who do we don't want to play? Kind of thing. 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:02.400 Like I said, it give me anyone's game. 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:06.080 Hopefully Omaha going into the finals can find some type 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:08.400 of like stinch together and kind of will together to 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:10.600 come to the final chemistry. But it's tough, but I 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:12.199 think they can come of manage their game and manage 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.800 their mindset and manage each other. They will be able 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:15.720 to kind of pull it together. 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:16.160 All right. 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:19.040 Well, now we only have two weeks left in the season, 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:23.160 so we're gonna look ahead to week twelve and which 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:25.880 game we are most excited for? So the lineup we 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.240 got for Week twelve. On Thursday night, the top two 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:31.400 teams face off for the final time in the regular season, 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:34.760 with Houston hosting Atlanta and Atlanta looking to clinch the 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:39.080 top spot in the finals. Your team, Austin hosts the 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:41.440 Weekend with Love, and we start with you ladies playing 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:44.600 Omaha on Friday night. Then it's Love Salt Lake versus 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:47.640 Love Omaha in the first match of Saturdays doubleheader. And 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:51.400 we end with you guys Austin facing off against Love Madison, 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:54.920 who are on a five game win streak. So which 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:56.480 game are you most excited for? 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:59.040 I would say Love Madison. 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:00.960 The last time you played them, it wasn't the best 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:03.160 volleyball and now be able to be more in of 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:05.880 our home court advantage, so to speak. I think we 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:07.560 have a little bit of about that game. We were 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:09.440 not as a team, we were not happy about that match. 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:11.640 So I think I'm excited to see what we come 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:14.400 up this week. Durham practice unfair for that and for Omaha, 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:16.920 but yeah, that's my match of the game for sure, 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:17.520 match of the week. 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:19.520 That's what I'm thinking of. I like it. 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:21.240 That's definitely going to be a really good match, and 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:22.920 I can't wait to watch you guys especially. I mean 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:24.680 the way that you guys played Friday night. If you 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.880 show up like that against Madison, who's white hot, I mean, 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.000 it's going to be a really good match exactly. But 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:32.920 I'm also I mean, I've been saying this weekend and 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:36.640 a week out, but I just Houston Atlanta for me, rivalry, 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.320 that's not that's not officially a rivalry. 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.400 But to me exactly, I think it is for everyone. 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:43.080 I think we all do the same thing. One would 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:44.120 always be a rivalry for sure. 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:45.840 And I think also I think this is the game 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:48.040 to secure the spot for number one, right mm. 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:51.080 Hmm yeah, because if Houston wins, then they're tied with 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:56.520 so because there are two games back, so it'll be exciting. 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:57.880 I'm pumped. 0:15:58.040 --> 0:15:58.360 All right. 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:02.600 Well that's to be it for this episode of Serving Pancakes. 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:05.520 Say tune next week where you and I will recap 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:13.359 Week twelve. Wait lea go. Serving Pancakes is an iheartwomen's 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:17.040 sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:20.920 You can find us on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:25.160 or wherever you get your podcasts. 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