Bea de Leon, Denden Lazaro-Revilla join Creamline Cool Smashers

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Last December, Bea de Leon and Denden Lazaro-Revilla were part of Choco Mucho's Valiant finals run against Creamline in the PVL all-Filipino conference.  Now BDL and Denden are playing for the very team they tried to beat in time for the new season.  Joining us for an all out conversation are the newest members of the Creamline Cool Smashers! Bea de Leon live in the studio, while Denden joins via zoom from Osaka, Japan.   Visit our website for more #NewsYouCanTrust: https://www.cnnphilippines.com/  Follow our social media pages:  • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CNNPhilippines • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cnnphilippines/ • Twitter: https://twitter.com/cnnphilippines

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00:00 Let's go to the TeraFlex volleyball fans. Last December BDL Bedaleon and Denden Lazaro-Revilla

00:05 were part of Choco Mucho's Valiant Finals run against the Creamline Cool Smashers in the PVL All-Filipino Conference.

00:12 Now, both BDL and Denden are playing for the very team they tried to beat in time for the new season.

00:20 Joining us for an all-out conversation are the newest members of the Creamline Cool Smashers.

00:25 Joining Team Good Vibes and joining us inside the studio once again, she is back. I just love having her on the show.

00:31 She always drives to the studio. BDL Bedaleon is live. Good evening. Thank you for being here on the show again, BDL.

00:39 Good evening, Andres. Thank you for having me here.

00:41 Thank you. No, it's really great. Last time we talked about your scholarship. I'll ask you about that.

00:45 But your teammate, well, your teammate in Choco and now also teammate in Creamline, who's in Japan,

00:51 she's joining us via Zoom from Osaka in the land of the rising sun. Denden, konnichiwa.

00:57 Konnichiwa.

01:00 Regards to LA. Hi, Denden. Thank you. I wish we could have had you here in the studio, but I know that you're there in Japan.

01:06 Enjoy the rest of your vacation with LA. Great to be talking to you. Congratulations to you and Bea

01:13 starting your new chapter in your careers, joining Creamline.

01:17 Then I'll get back to you. I'll start with Bea, but you can chime in also.

01:23 So both of you, of course, played a very important role for Choco Mucho. You were team captain, BDL.

01:28 You spent, you went 10 and 1 in the elimination round, defeated Signal in the semis.

01:36 Then as I said, you reached the finals, you faced Creamline.

01:40 How special, if we're going to look back first at that run, how special was that run, Bea?

01:44 I think it was even more special because we struggled a lot in the past conferences.

01:51 Well, I've been in Choco Mucho since it started, and so to see everything come together that way

01:56 was really so special to me. And to be with the people who we all struggled with, you know,

02:04 again, we went from 7th place, 4th place, all of it, to finally getting to the finals

02:12 was really, really, really special for us.

02:15 Yeah, and the process was really difficult and I'm sure frustrating at times, but to reach the pinnacle,

02:20 to be there at the finals was just more than rewarding for you girls.

02:23 So finally, here we are. And I always said it, you know, just watch out.

02:28 Choco Mucho will be in the finals one of these days.

02:31 I've been saying this for years, and then they met Creamline in the finals.

02:35 Then, when you played last conference, of course, obviously you and Bea played for Choco Mucho,

02:42 went all the way to the finals. Was there a sense already that that would be your last dance with Choco Mucho?

02:49 No, I didn't have that feeling or thought actually. It was right after the conference

03:00 that my plan to move on from Choco Mucho.

03:04 Okay. Well, as veterans, Bea, of course, team captain, how confident were you guys during that time

03:13 to make it to the finals or at least have a chance against Creamline?

03:18 Because there were parts of that series where I saw, "Wow, they're giving Creamline a run for their money."

03:26 And you girls were playing like a well-oiled machine at times.

03:30 Um, sorry, what's the question?

03:33 How confident were you girls that you could have made it to the finals and at the same time take down Creamline?

03:40 Actually, when the season started, we started off the season losing to Creamline.

03:44 Yes, that was the first game I remember.

03:46 And so, we were always unsure. One game at a time, we got there.

03:50 I remember our first big game, bigger game, was Signal, who always took us out.

03:59 So when we won that, it was great.

04:00 Oh yeah, that was redemption.

04:02 Yeah, yeah. But we had to go against them in the first part of the season.

04:06 I think they were like our third game, maybe, around that.

04:10 And it was one of our first bigger challenges after Creamline.

04:14 And after that game, we said, we didn't know, the feeling, "Is this a joke? Is this really it?"

04:22 Because, you know, we've gone through everything, the ups and downs of being a good team and losing to the same team.

04:28 Exactly, yeah.

04:29 So you never really know. And then we got to, like, we kept winning.

04:34 And then we were like, "Hey, it's going pretty well."

04:37 We can actually go all the way here.

04:39 Yeah, and then we went 10-1.

04:42 Yeah.

04:42 10-1.

04:43 Yeah.

04:44 And then we said, "Maybe it's not a joke anymore."

04:48 So, you know, we took everything at the game at the time and really gave everything every game.

04:53 And we were there. We were finally there.

04:56 And the semis looked shaky again. We lost the first game.

04:59 Yeah.

05:00 Again, to Signal.

05:01 To Signal.

05:01 So, yeah, you know, after the first game, we said, we really told ourselves, you know,

05:07 we didn't come this far, we just come this far.

05:09 Yes.

05:09 We've had the terrific eliminations and we wanted to take it further.

05:15 And it's a good thing it really came together.

05:18 But yeah, really, confidence, in terms of confidence, I wouldn't say you're 100% sure that you're finally going to be there.

05:24 But it was a process that built up throughout the whole season.

05:28 And by the time we got to the semis, honestly, we knew we were ready for the semis.

05:33 From the finals, we said, let's give it our best shot, see where it takes us.

05:37 You know, we were against Scream 9.

05:39 Yeah.

05:40 Been there for so long.

05:41 And so, you know, it was our first time.

05:44 So we wanted to just see where it took us.

05:47 And thankfully, we gave them a good run.

05:49 Of course. Yes, yes, you did. Absolutely.

05:52 Then, if you're going to look back, where do you think your what-ifs, or where you fell short in that,

06:01 particularly in that championship series against Scream 9,

06:04 what were the things that maybe you could have said, we could have done this differently?

06:10 Definitely, game one.

06:15 Game one.

06:15 There was a set where we were already up.

06:19 Up ahead, yeah.

06:20 By a significant amount against Scream 9.

06:24 And we couldn't capitalize on that.

06:27 We couldn't finish that set.

06:28 Para pabor sa'min throughout the game.

06:31 Yeah, yeah.

06:32 That would have been a turning point for us to, I think, win game one.

06:36 I was that confident that we could have, if we won that set, we could have won game one.

06:41 And who knows what would have happened game two if we won game one.

06:43 I was about to say. Exactly. Yeah.

06:45 And it could have been, yeah, it could have been different.

06:48 I get what you're saying, what if that set could have been the turning point.

06:53 And then game one, it would have been different heading into game two

06:56 with a game ahead in the series.

07:00 Bea Chocomucho pretty much started it all for you in the pros.

07:05 You've also shared this journey, of course, with your good friends and your teammates in college,

07:11 Maddie and Kat, Maddie Madayag and Kat Tolentino.

07:15 What's it like to take on, because, you know, it's a business, the pros,

07:21 and you all went to Chocot, right, together.

07:24 And then now you're parting ways, not just with your teammates, but friends.

07:29 You've been teammates for a long time.

07:32 So what's it like now taking this new challenge of,

07:35 although you'll see each other for sure, but it's going to be different.

07:40 Without them, you know, one of the hardest parts of making a decision was

07:47 leaving the people in the team.

07:50 I think we've grown, it was a process as well,

07:55 but I think we've grown to be a family in a sense, obviously, you're with them every day.

08:00 And yeah, honestly, when the season came and towards the end,

08:08 there were so many things that I was weighing out, and it would always be back and forth.

08:13 And the one thing that would always pull me back from saying maybe I don't go,

08:17 was really the people, my friends, my friends in Chocomucho.

08:22 And well, yeah, it's going to be so different going into this without any of them.

08:27 But it was a decision I wanted to do for myself.

08:31 So yeah, I had a whole conversation with Kat and your time about how

08:38 it's going to be so different because she started out playing in the Philippines

08:41 and we were already teammates.

08:43 And we haven't parted ways since for now.

08:46 So it's going to be just so different not seeing each other every day.

08:48 I don't know, it just feels so surreal up to now.

08:52 It makes me sad, of course.

08:55 Mixed emotions, no?

08:57 Yeah, a lot, a lot of mixed emotions.

08:59 But yeah, I'm going to miss them.

09:01 Well, let's continue this conversation.

09:05 We have to take a quick break, but let's wrap up this time with Chocomucho.

09:11 Talk about, of course, focus on the pink.

09:14 I like the sweater you're wearing, the hoodie you're wearing, the jacket you're wearing.

09:18 Team Good Vibes.

09:19 It's pink, cream line, cool smashers.

09:21 And the new additions, Bea De Leon and Denden Lazaro-Revilla will still be with us on the show

09:28 after this quick time out and accessibly here on CNN Philippines.

09:32 And our guests today, Bea De Leon and Denden Lazaro-Revilla of the now cream line cool smashers.

09:37 There's BDL joining us live inside the studio.

09:39 And of course, Denden joining us via Zoom all the way from Osaka in Japan.

09:44 Den, I'll ask you, I know you haven't trained because you're there obviously in Japan,

09:51 but why cream line?

09:53 Why did you choose to play for cream line?

09:58 Oh, simple answer, but then it also can be complicated.

10:07 That's our sister team.

10:11 Cream line, Chocomucho, we're sister teams.

10:14 I know how it looks.

10:17 We're Chocomucho to cream line, and then again, and then long.

10:22 But I really wanted to stay bottom line.

10:25 I really wanted to stay with the Rebisco family.

10:28 And I'm very blessed and very grateful that they allowed me to stay with Rebisco and play

10:36 for cream line.

10:37 Well, as long as you stay within the family, within the Rebisco family, I'm sure the Chocomucho

10:43 fans are like heartbroken with seeing you and Bea gone.

10:48 Two of the veterans of the veterans and the artists of Chocomucho led all the way to the

10:55 finals.

10:56 But you're in cream line team, good vibes.

10:58 Bea has joined practice since you got back from San Francisco, right?

11:03 So how many, three days?

11:04 Three days.

11:05 Since Tuesday, I was practicing.

11:07 How is it so far?

11:08 I'm very, very good, very competitive.

11:11 I love it.

11:12 It's very early.

11:13 I wake up very early now.

11:16 It's my bedtime.

11:17 Sorry, sorry.

11:18 6 to 9, 6 a.m.

11:20 to 9 a.m.

11:20 So how's the adjustment?

11:22 It's early.

11:26 That's all I can say.

11:26 No, yeah, I wake up at like 4.40, 4.30.

11:34 So yeah.

11:34 Apart from that, other than that, it's actually very nice training in the morning.

11:39 It's just the waking up that's hard.

11:41 Yeah.

11:41 But other than that, practice has been good.

11:45 It's the first week.

11:46 So I think Coach Erwin's going a bit light, but not so light.

11:51 Honestly.

11:52 The light on him, not the light.

11:55 But how is it like, of course, you're used to a certain routine.

12:00 Yeah.

12:00 And now getting into a new system with Coach Erwin, obviously a champion coach,

12:06 and then with teammates who've been there, also veterans, champions.

12:10 Was the adjustment part hard, difficult, or challenging?

12:15 Aside from the waking up part, yes, I know.

12:17 Well, I'm really just trying to get a grasp of everything now.

12:20 I'm not fully, I haven't been fully taught the system.

12:25 It's little by little.

12:27 I think we're doing it one by one.

12:29 So with the little parts that I know, I have learned these past few days.

12:35 There are similarities, of course.

12:38 So those are easy to get, obviously.

12:40 And then there's some that takes a while for me to get used to,

12:43 because volleyball is very situational.

12:46 Some things will for sure take time.

12:50 Take time, yeah.

12:51 Yeah, but then hopefully, yeah, we get there.

12:53 It's only a month, though, before the next conference.

12:56 So you feel team good vibes?

12:58 Yes, actually, yeah.

12:59 For people who train from 6 to 9, they're actually very happy.

13:02 Good vibes, really?

13:03 I'll try to visit your practices.

13:07 It's actually fun.

13:08 Really fun and competitive.

13:10 Look at Den Den smiling there.

13:11 I'm sure she's excited for team good vibes.

13:13 See you on Monday.

13:14 Oh, yeah, it's Monday.

13:16 She'll be back.

13:18 Volleyball fans are really, really excited.

13:20 I can't blame them, you know.

13:22 It's like heart-strong Ateneo all over again.

13:25 No, here in Creamline, because of course, you have Alaysia Valdez, Sofina.

13:31 You have Ella De Jesus.

13:32 The Ateneo Lady Eagles team in UAP Season 77 was simply built different.

13:38 Now, to be reunited there, I'll go with Den Den.

13:43 Den, to be reunited, of course, with Lai.

13:46 I'm sure you're pretty, you're really, really excited.

13:52 But can you describe in your own words what you're feeling?

13:56 And then, of course, to be teammates again with Alaysia, with Ella, with me, with Bea.

14:03 With Bea, of course.

14:07 But yeah, after a very long time, me and Bea will be reunited with Lai, Ella, Gia.

14:14 Excited, very happy that we'll be able to be together again on the same side of the court

14:23 this time.

14:24 But at the same time, I'm a little anxious because, of course, we haven't been together

14:33 in training, we haven't been together in court for a few years.

14:39 So a lot has changed during the years that we didn't play together.

14:44 So yeah, just mixed emotions, really.

14:50 But of course, the excitement and happiness are rising.

14:55 Same.

14:57 Yeah, but one of the main reasons I actually went here also was for Atalay.

15:03 She's been a big part of whatever I've achieved thus far.

15:09 And her guidance and just her being her has been, again, a big part.

15:16 And a lot of the things I've learned is from her.

15:19 So just to be back under her wings was one of the bigger reasons.

15:26 And I truly understand that's the Liza Valdez that we're talking about.

15:29 Bea, then this is for both of you.

15:32 Creamline is seeking to retain its titles in the new PBL season with a team.

15:37 Let's get Bea directly.

15:41 I hope there's no limit, right?

15:44 So much.

15:45 Can't stop.

15:46 The type of when you arrive, don't stop, right?

15:49 The hope that it will continue.

15:51 For sure, yeah.

15:53 Creamline is seeking to retain its titles in the new PBL season.

15:56 Of course, they lost Gia, Sed.

15:58 But now, the expectations and the pressures there, how will you be able to fit in and fill in

16:07 the void?

16:09 Now, Gia is gone, Sed is gone.

16:12 And just to come into a championship team and, you know, because it's different.

16:18 It's really different to be joining this team that's already loaded and to keep that championship

16:22 tradition going.

16:23 I'm not really looking into it that way.

16:29 Honestly, for me, at least for me, coming into the pros, I feel like I haven't really

16:36 proven anything in this league.

16:37 So to me, I don't see myself as somebody who's like, wow, like me coming into Creamline.

16:44 More of me coming into here with a lot of room to learn.

16:52 I feel like, you know, I'm lucky again here.

16:54 These are veterans, you know, in Chaco Mucho, I didn't even get to play as much anymore

17:02 in the end.

17:02 So I mean, my expectations to be in a champion team, what more, right?

17:05 So my amount of work that I need to catch up on is a lot.

17:11 But I do like that pressure and I believe I need that pressure, that kind of pressure

17:15 again to push myself and to be in that environment also.

17:19 So really, I'm coming into here to learn from all of them because they're a champion team.

17:23 They're the veterans, not me.

17:25 So really, I just want to take all of it in the system, them, all of what they can teach

17:31 me, how I can grow even more.

17:33 Yeah, so these expectations are very much outside for me.

17:41 I have my own and I believe my teammates are aware of that also.

17:45 So yeah, I'm really excited.

17:47 Hopefully, you know, I catch on really quick.

17:50 Obviously, I do want to see myself in a certain level and I do hope I get to bring that here

17:57 and hopefully be a bonus to meet my expectations and everybody else's expectations.

18:03 It's a plus for me.

18:04 Knowing you since college, I know you will bring it and you have that winning attitude

18:08 in you and I like that sponge mentality.

18:10 Then quickly, Ikaw, same question.

18:16 Just really same with Bea.

18:18 Coming into Creamline, it's not really like, oh, I'm going to be a big impact to the team

18:24 or I need to change something for the team.

18:26 It's not like that.

18:28 Unlike with Choco Mucho, I need to guide the kids.

18:33 Not really me, but then like guide.

18:37 But when it comes to Creamline, they're already established.

18:41 They have that culture already, that winning culture.

18:45 So coming into the team, I don't feel any pressure that I have to do a lot of work.

18:53 It's more of what I do every day in practice and whatever role they give me, I'll give

19:02 my 100% effort in it, whatever they need me to be.

19:06 And it's just really learning, relearning.

19:14 A lot of things, actually.

19:16 Parang ganun naman sa akin now in my career na parang it's not the amount of playing time

19:24 or the amount of wins that matters to me.

19:26 Of course, syempre, malaking bagay na makapag-championship, especially with Creamline.

19:30 Ayaw naman natin maputol yung championship run ng Creamline.

19:34 May balat tayo sa puwede.

19:36 Yung gusto ko for myself is yung matututunan ikaw every day from my teammates and from

19:43 my coaches.

19:44 So ayan, mataas yun ang expectations ko for myself in terms of learning from the team.

19:51 Tama.

19:51 Maganda yan.

19:52 Learning, relearning.

19:53 I like that.

19:53 Well, stay where you are.

19:54 We'll take another quick break.

19:55 But when we return, we'll try to fit in some questions kasi ang dami nagpadala ng mga

19:59 questions from the fans.

20:00 Stay tuned to Sports Desk only here on CNN Philippines.

20:02 We'll be right back with Beda Leon and Denden Lazaro-Revilla.

20:05 Welcome back.

20:05 Thank you for joining us.

20:06 Beda Leon and Denden Lazaro-Revilla are here to answer your questions in a segment we call

20:10 Fans Want to Know.

20:13 Okay, quickly.

20:14 We don't have enough time.

20:15 So one question na lang from, eto well, yung Jerry, eto ba?

20:20 Eto, excited na po ba kayo makatapat ang Chocomucho Flying Titans this coming conference?

20:28 Galing kay Jeyron Karl Ramos.

20:30 He wants to know.

20:31 Denden, sige.

20:34 Yes, excited ako makatapat ang Chocomucho and all the other teams in the PBL.

20:41 Sino pinaka-excited na makamatch mo?

20:43 Yung tipong makaswag o maka ano mo?

20:47 Yung fun fun banter.

20:48 Choco, Choco.

20:50 Ah, si Maddie.

20:52 Si Maddie, si Maddie.

20:53 Okay.

20:54 Natawa si Bea.

20:55 How about you, Bea?

20:56 Sorry, what?

20:57 Are you, how excited are you facing Choco and sino naman yung excited ka makaharap?

21:03 Very excited.

21:06 Honestly, I don't know.

21:07 It's gonna be tough.

21:09 I don't know how it's gonna be the day that it comes, but.

21:12 Sinong gusto mo mablock sa Choco?

21:17 Mablock?

21:18 Kat.

21:20 Si Kat, okay.

21:21 Mga good friends.

21:23 Again, thank you for sending all your questions.

21:25 Thank you for fans who want to know and maraming maraming salamat.

21:28 Sorry we don't have enough time.

21:29 Thank you once again to the new Creamline Cool Smashers here live inside the studio.

21:34 It's Bea De Leon and joining us via Zoom is Denden Lazaro-Revilla.

21:38 Stay safe there and we'll see you again.

21:40 We'll see you again when you return.

21:42 Have a safe flight.

21:43 Regards to LA.

21:44 Thank you so much.

21:45 Again, Denden Lazaro-Revilla and Bea De Leon of the Creamline Cool Smashers team.

21:50 Good vibes.

21:51 And we've reached today's finish line.

21:52 Join us again live at 8 30 p.m. tomorrow for today's top sports stories.

21:55 I'm Andre Felix.

21:56 She's Bea De Leon and we saw Denden Lazaro-Revilla.

21:59 Thank you for watching Sports Test only here on CNN Philippines.

22:01 Stay safe.

22:01 Good night.

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