 Welcome back to the Aldis Bersen show presented by Buffalo Wild Wings. I'm Sam Murray joined now with Stevenson men's volleyball head coach Aldis Bersen's and coach off week last week didn't have any matches. How's the week of practice? It was great. The guys pushed really hard They do two days of weights and then five days of practice and we got a lot of Some fun stuff in we had a doubles tournament. I like that where you pair up With every other guy and then at the end I can rank the team from 1 to 15 They don't have any like excuses like I didn't play with him or so So anyway, we had you know, that's a lot of fun for him just goofing around but we We're starting to play some sixes this this week and prep for Wilkes on Saturday. Yeah talking about that preparation They're a brand new team. It's a it's a first match for for both teams in the inaugural Mack tournament How do you go into a game like that a team that's brand new has only played a handful of games? well, we search for tape on the internet and You know, we know We talked to other coaches too. So we try to get some info on them But it's mostly on our side of the net right now at the start of the season. So We're gonna focus mainly on our side And what are some of those things that you're focusing on in this week of practice that you want to see your team Execute in that game. Well We want to hit better a hitting efficiency has been down. I that has to be in like the two three hundred So you're competing we've had some matches where we're hitting close to zero and that's not helping a lot Then you just have to ace them and block them, but we've been working on our hitting and And also we've had some injuries. So I'm not to give anything to Wilkes or to anybody, but we've had players step up and play in different positions and So we've been going through that in practice, you know having guys that aren't used to playing middle or or setting Just stepping in and doing a good job of it. Oh Coach we wish you the best of luck in your in your match on Saturday. We'll see you back here next week Okay, see you there for coach Aldis Bursons. I'm Sam Murray and this has been the Aldis Bursons show