WEBVTT - Best of JMV 8/3/2026 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.000 And with that, welcome to the first of our five 0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:05.840 guests that join us on the Andy Moore Automotive Group Hotline. 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:07.400 That would be Day First. 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:09.880 You know him and love him from his tenure at 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:14.320 Channel six obviously these days in the VP of Communications 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:18.280 role for Indy Car, and he joins us. Now, Dave, Hello, 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:21.560 I hear you have a new car that's worth bragging about. 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:24.919 It sounds like Bob Barker. 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:25.919 Come on down. 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:28.080 That's right, got a new car. 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:31.200 The sticker price a little more, sticker price a little 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:32.160 more than what Bob would. 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:34.320 Talk about on the show back in the day. 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:37.839 I know you could deal with some rain, maybe not 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:41.479 as much rain as you had to. Overall, how the weekend. 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:47.159 Go, I would say it went pretty well. Granted I'm 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:51.479 coming to you from a private pretty much a biased opinion, 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:55.680 but you know, Saturday, I leave it up to the drivers, right. 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:58.800 And then two things when it comes to that, we 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:03.160 could go ask Friday when they first saw the new 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:05.759 NTT Indy Car Series car that will debut in twenty 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:07.720 twenty eight, IR twenty eight, that's what we're calling it, 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:11.360 IR Indie Racing, Mendi Car Racing twenty eight. The first 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:13.199 time a lot of the drivers saw it in person 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:16.560 at the Delara facility in Speedway and you would have 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:20.480 thought that, you know, you literally it was called Christmas morning. 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:24.080 These guys are walking in, could not you know, wait 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:26.280 to get in the car. They were super excited to 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:30.320 see it, impressed with the way it looks. And then 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.399 Saturday Alexander Rossi had a chance to get in it 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:37.520 for a couple hours. We're kind of dodging the rain drops, 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:39.800 but you know, he turned on almost forty laps in 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:43.280 the car and you know, Rake, I know you've been 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:46.319 around Alexander Rossi. How many times have you seen Rossie 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:47.440 smile about right? 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:50.240 He thought exactly a giddy sort of fella, Yeah, I 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:51.480 get that correct? 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:55.080 Correct. So he got out of the car and then 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:57.680 caught up with the media afterwards. I mean, he couldn't 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:02.120 have been more complimentary of the car build obviously, of 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:06.680 the goals that Breay collaboratively speaking, the drivers were all 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:08.560 involved in, so they all knew that, but just to 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:10.760 be able to drive the car for the first time, 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:13.760 to feel it for the first time. He had a 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:16.640 lot of really nice things to say about what the 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:18.640 twenty twenty eight car is going to look like, and 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:24.000 then yesterday Alex Palou had an opportunity to get in 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:26.960 the car again turned about forty laptures so all of 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:29.680 it was in the wet though, so he had set 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:33.560 of Firestone firehawks on burned through those. I mean, those 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:36.120 things basically looked like slicks by the time he was 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:39.320 done with them. But he too, I think he came 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:41.080 out and said, guys, they have an announcement to make. 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:42.880 We're going to be raising the new car next year, 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:48.480 which so I mean, it's very rare when you get 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:52.520 all the drivers to say nice things about anyone or anything. 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:56.920 You know, right now they're in love with the car, 0:02:57.120 --> 0:03:00.000 and for good reason too. It's been a great start 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.160 to this or twenty eighth the era, all. 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:05.760 Right, So with that, obviously, I know the last new 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:09.000 car was twenty twelve. How long has the the R 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:12.280 and D process been going to get us to this 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:14.040 point where at least the car made it's on track 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:17.720 debut this weekend. When did truly this process start to 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:18.360 get us here? 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:21.760 Well, I mean it's been a couple of years really, 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:26.720 from drawings to concept to you know, what do you 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:31.280 hope to accomplish with a new car? What's what's the 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:33.320 next step. You know, then you got to work to 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:36.360 get partners involved and then their supplier partners, some of 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:39.840 which are brand new to IndyCar, that are involved in 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:45.040 this car. So it's not an overnight process whatsoever. You know. 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:47.360 I know fans probably would would have loved to have 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:49.080 seen something new a little bit before. 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:49.320 Now. 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.320 I get that. I think we all get that. But 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:56.800 it is a process and the result of which, again 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.040 to the drivers and a lot of the supplier partners 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:00.600 that have been involved with than a lot of our 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:03.520 aerodynamsis and the engineers on the IndyCar side, on the 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:09.280 Dollara side, everyone's you know, very bullish about what they've created. 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:10.080 All right. 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:14.240 So the next obviously you're a little busy the next 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:17.839 five weekends, uh, six races and five weekends to close 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:20.560 out the schedule with the fort just a tad uh 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:22.839 and the weekend off got canceled for the best reason 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:24.960 possible to race around the streets of our of our 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:29.560 nation's capital. What is likely the next on track activity 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:31.839 for the IR twenty eight Well. 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:35.839 That's a great question. So because all of Palo's running 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:41.760 on Sunday was basically in wet weather, conditions. We've convinced him. 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:44.599 And the nice thing is he lives in Idianapolis. We've 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:48.960 convinced him for a couple of hours tomorrow afternoon in 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.080 the dry so obviously you see the weather forecast, we're 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:52.920 good to go for the next couple of days. And 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:54.880 so he's actually going to be back in the car 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:58.719 from five to seven tomorrow afternoon on the on the 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.520 Indianapolis Motors Feedway road course, and which is going to 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:03.040 be open to the fans. If you get come down 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:05.120 you want to hang out and turn two on the 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:09.479 mounds like May did over the weekend, there's an opportunity 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:11.599 to do that as well. And you don't have to 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:12.280 bring an umbrella. 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.160 Knock on wood, yes, get good to know, all right, 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:18.560 So with that, that's go ahead, go ahead. I was 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:20.960 gonna say, with with the you and I are not 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:24.279 are broadcasters, not engineers, so I understand there might be 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:25.880 a hand raiser an asterisk. 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:26.080 Here. 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:30.480 Explain as best you can the differences in this car 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:33.400 compared to what you are currently racing now and have 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:35.560 been racing for the last decade plus. 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:40.880 Well, I mean, the thing about the DW twelve is 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:46.479 that over the years, you know, the engineers and the 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.960 Arrow guys have just kept adding some things onto the car, 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:53.159 whether it's the aero screen, which you know, Jay Fry, 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:56.240 who was the IndyCar president at the time, decided to 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:59.000 kind of implement that program, and good on him because 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:02.200 it has really made it difference in the safety of 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:05.240 these NDT Intercurse series cars. So you to add the 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:09.000 aero screen, you add some of the side impact structure structures, 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:12.480 you add the hybrid system as well, all that after 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:16.080 a while you keep adding more and more weight. So 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:19.760 what this car has done automatically is and the engineers 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:23.320 have been very thoughtful in all this, is taking weight off. 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:26.960 So the new car weighs approximately one hundred pounds less 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:30.680 than the current car. That's good. The power to weight 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:34.799 ratio is much more in the favor now of drivers, 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:38.520 so they can really push these cars beginning in twenty 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:42.480 twenty eight and beyond. So with the safety aspects as good, 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.080 if not better than the current car. You've got a 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:48.200 different engine, different power train, and two point four liters 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:52.080 so just a little bit more horsepower. Then at that point, 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:53.440 what are you going to be talking about. You're talking 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:57.200 about maybe the opportunity to break some track records at 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:00.920 these including the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. And you know, as 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:03.400 much as I love Ari Leindyke, it's been a few 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.760 years now since Ari broke the track record at Eddie 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:09.600 Applismatters Speedway. So you know, in the coming years, I'm 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:12.760 not promising. No one in this building's promising twenty twenty eight, 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.080 But in the coming years, I think you'll be looking 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:18.480 at an opportunity to break track records at eid Aplismatterspeedway 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:21.160 as well as the other circuits that the series goes on. 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:26.680 So it's it's just there are some other handling characteristics 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:30.120 for the car that the drivers really like. There's a 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:34.280 new damper system, new shock system that all of a sudden, 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:38.120 Rossi and Palo both said it feels smoother in the car, 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:42.400 so that was another goal. The driver ability, the raceability 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:45.640 of these cars are changing a little bit, so you know, 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:49.040 the overall goal is to take what we think is 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:53.000 a really good racing product on the track and try 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:55.520 to make it even better. So far, so good. When 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:56.000 it comes to. 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:57.840 That again, I'm not sure if that voice the int 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:00.600 an introduction day first VP communications of India are obviously 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:04.760 long time sportscaster and television voice of WRTV Channel six 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:07.440 joining us here, It's the ride without JMB Greg Reikshaw 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:09.880 filling in ninety three to five and one seven to 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:13.640 five the fan. Let's now get to the present day again. 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:17.320 Six races, five weeks and I look forward to every 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:18.880 weekend on the Indy Car Circuit. And you know that's 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:22.200 a legitimate statement. I'm not trying to bypass Portland or 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:24.960 you know, a new venue for your guys on the 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:28.160 outskirts of Toronto in Markham. But there is this thing 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:31.160 called racing around our nation's capital that you guys will 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:34.840 be doing in two and a half weeks. Race on 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:38.120 the twenty third. Just your thoughts on the opportunity presented 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:41.319 of the series to race in downtown Washington, d C. 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:44.400 To celebrate America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:48.520 Yeah, and let's let's be upfront about that. The purpose 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:51.360 of Indiecar going to Washington, d C. For the freedom 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.520 to fifty Grand Prio at Washington, d C. Is that 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:57.199 that is what this is all about, is celebrating America 0:08:57.160 --> 0:09:01.440 as a two hundred and fiftieth birthday, and it's going 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:05.040 to be everything I've heard on the planning side it's 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:06.680 going to be nuts. Fox is going to come on. 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:09.000 They're going to do about an hour and a half 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:12.320 long pre race show leading into the broadcast, which will 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:17.120 happen about one o'clock on that Sunday. I've been told 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:20.959 there are more flyovers than any race in the history 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:27.160 of automobile world. So maybe a little hyperbole there, but it's, 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:30.520 you know, it's everything that you think a race like 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:33.080 this in Washington, d C is going to be all about. 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:34.679 I think it's going to be a little bit of 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:37.439 that and more. Again, Fox broadcast is going to be 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:39.280 on top of it, as they've been for the last 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:42.280 year and a half. I think the racing product is 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:43.680 going to be pretty good. I think you're in the 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:47.079 next hour or so you're going to hear about increasing 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:49.320 some of the lap count for the DC race, that 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:51.040 we can hit that two hundred and fifty mile an 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:54.560 hour spot as well. So it's going to be it's 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:57.320 going to be phenomenal and it ends in the heart 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:00.960 of the championship chase right for the twenty twenty six championship, 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:04.080 although Alex Pollow hopes it's not a part of that. 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:06.880 You know it doesn't heat up when it comes to 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:10.160 the championship for him, but it's going to be a 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.160 stretch for sure, and DC is going to be one 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:12.840 of those highlights. 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:14.720 I realized it's a fair statement to say, hey, let's 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:17.040 complete the first one before we talk about a second one. 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:19.959 And this is just nobody's listen. This is two old 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.760 friends talking. What do you think the likely of going 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:24.360 back to d C again next year might be? 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:27.720 Well, we keep calling it at first of its kind 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.240 race in d C, and I think when it comes 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:35.439 to the way it looks this year, certainly it is that. 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:39.200 Now whether or not you know there's an opportunity down 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:42.400 the road to do something more in DC, we're going 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:45.600 to see. I do know the Mayor's office has been 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:49.760 extremely helpful in putting this together. They've fallen in love 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:52.880 with the NTT IndyCar series, So we'll see. I mean, 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:58.200 no promises, but it's been a really good collaborative event 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.599 to put on. Or it's certainly the folks at the 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:06.400 White House or the Mayor's Office, we've all been incredibly 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:08.640 pleased by the way this thing's coming together. So we'll see. 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:10.480 That's that's the honest answer. There Greg. 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:14.080 Now, normally when I see Dave, it's not like the 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:17.040 Motor Speedway because he's like busy and I'm kind of busy. 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:18.840 Hold up of somewhere in the pagoda as well. Our 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:21.360 offices are on different floors. You just had a Carmel 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:24.680 sporting event, so I know you're spoken for the next 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:27.080 five weekends. I assume the next time on Will See 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:30.400 You will be for Pike Carmel week four September the eleventh, 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:31.280 sometime around there. 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:34.160 Correct, there's a Yeah, there's a good champ. I've got 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:37.920 two now at Carmel High School, so and I've got 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:40.920 one that's on the dance team as well. So yes, 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:44.440 it's always funny to see you at Carmel football games 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:46.600 and Krmel basketball games are My question for you is 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:50.679 who's going to be hot right now in six A football? 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:52.120 Keeping an eye on Kyle. 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:52.520 Nett and Ripple. 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:54.880 Join me at four o'clock because today is the first 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:57.440 day of practice. But I will repeat what I said 0:11:57.440 --> 0:11:59.800 to start the show this. I use the word giddy 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:05.679 about Alexander Ross, which doesn't go together. I think there 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:09.439 are six potential state championship teams in six A locally, 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:12.240 this year, Carmel being one of them. That's how good 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:15.679 I think six A football is locally. So I'm fired 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:16.720 up for the start of the season. 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:17.280 How about that. 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:20.319 It's gonna be a good season. It's going to be 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:22.960 a good basketball season. And look forward to seeing you 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:26.520 at the Carmel games and other high school games around 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:28.880 the area as well. The countdown is on. I love 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:30.360 this time of year. Greg, I know you do too. 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.840 You got it, buddy, Thanks the time. I appreciate you anytime. 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:35.320 Man, you sound good. Have a great day. 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:36.040 Thanks brother Dave. 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.680 First again, VP communication VINDI kard again. He just broke 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:40.559 a little news. Maybe he was already out on social 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:43.559 But in case you missed it, and in case you 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.080 don't want to fight the rain showers the last couple 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:49.560 of days, they're going to give Alex Poalow another go 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:55.120 in the IR twenty eight tomorrow from five till seven, 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:59.640 and the same south end spectator mounds, the track that 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:03.720 are normally open are going to be open. IndyCar fans, 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:07.520 gear heads, there's like a Ferris Bueller rant that I 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:10.199 could launch into. Johnny better at that than me. You're 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:11.880 gonna have a chance to see Alex in the New 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:20.000 Car again tomorrow from five until seven. Soccer Saturday this 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:23.520 week had a little bit of tape as like all 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.720 of it the indye eleven and Caleb knows as well. 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:30.000 You know, if Eddie Garrison has got a senior from 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:34.280 his days of hosting Soccer Saturday, maybe it's Caleb. 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:36.400 Zuvert is really really what. 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:39.640 His uh what his name should be as we try 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:42.400 to give everybody a one name, pronounce it. You know, 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:45.000 there was Zada, now there's Zuvert. That's the way this 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:47.720 works from a soccer standpoint. But the India have been 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:51.800 played Friday night nine o'clock in San Antonio. They didn't 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:54.040 play very well. They got beat three to one by 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:56.800 San Antonio. But I gave coach McCauley, who is an 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.199 absolute champ and an absolute pro. Hey, Bud, I can 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:01.360 call you right after them and we'll knock this out 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:02.880 because they're like flying back at nine. 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:04.640 Am from San Antonio. 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:07.760 Said, or I can call you like at seven thirty 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:10.280 in the morning, which I think is like six thirty 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:12.440 Central time. Which one do you want to go is 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:14.600 call me after the match. So literally fifteen minutes after 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:17.400 the match is over, I'm knocking out that interview, and 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:19.520 I'm pointing. So those of you that are watching, Hello, 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:22.960 I'm in a studio that's over there. And as soon 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.320 as I walk in and do I see it's Mick 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:27.840 Tendrow doing Fever coverage because they had the late night 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:29.320 game on Friday night in Portland. 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:30.360 Who joins us? 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:32.960 Now you don't have your fancy reading glasses on for 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.640 the zoom cameras, Mick, I don't. 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:36.000 Greg. 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.200 I appreciate you having me on, but I'm just wondering, 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.320 what would my name be if you're going through these 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:41.120 different names? 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:43.560 How we sizing this one out to Dronius. 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:45.200 They're a little doubt about that. 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:45.600 I like it. 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:48.000 I'll print I'll print the ball State women's soccer jersey 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:51.000 for you with your name on it, the whole nine yards. 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:54.240 How late were you in here Friday night into Saturday morning? 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:58.640 It was probably one thirty by the time we walked out, 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.320 So nothing too late, to be honest, Greg, for a 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:02.400 game that started that late. 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:04.480 That's what we call a cults postgame show. For those 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:06.920 night games, I get to avoid that in the preseason. 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:09.160 We only have a couple of night games this year. 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:13.200 But for the Week two game against the Chiefs, and 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:16.720 for the Thursday night game against the Texans, that is 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:19.360 a two thirty sign off that I get to have 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:20.920 on those nights. 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:22.760 At least it's not three o'clock. 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:25.600 It's true, although I tell you the one time that 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:28.240 I'm like, we're frankly going to completely miss our window 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:33.960 and I don't care was Peyton's comeback game in twenty thirteen, 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:37.720 and we could have taken phone callers. So the morning 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:40.240 Shore started at six am, people would have still called 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:44.240 the show. But that's a different time and a different day, 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:47.320 all right. Fever lose yesterday to the Lanks. Again, there's 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:50.240 no shame in that. Minnesota is clearly the best team 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:53.760 in the league. What do the Fever learn from that 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:56.240 the next time those two teams cross paths? 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:58.920 Yeah, Greg, I think that's a really good question, and 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:02.520 ultimately one if there's a way to slow down on 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:04.880 what the Links are doing offensively, which is really tough 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:07.840 to do, the best way to do it is to 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:09.800 try and score more points than them, it sounds like, 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:12.040 but at the end of the day, with what the 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:15.040 Fevers saw on that first game, I truly think it 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:18.040 comes down to just seeing what they can do to 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:20.960 stop everybody outside of Olivia Miles, because Miles was going 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:23.840 to get her points regardless of what else happened. So 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:27.160 the supporting cast around here her around her also did 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:30.800 really well. So what can everybody else do to slow 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:32.560 the rest of the core down? 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:33.360 For the Links? 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:35.920 And the Links are really just stout offensively and defensively. 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:39.360 Gregar the second best offense and defense, the league best record. 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:42.000 All that indicates that. So I think for the last 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:44.120 two games that they'll play them, which is ironically the 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:46.640 last two games of the regular season in late September, 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:50.400 there's a lot of time to let this marinate. And Briagos, 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:52.760 who's the analyst for the radio network, had said something 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:55.120 I think that will resonate the fever. Who they are 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:57.840 today against Minnesota won't be the same tenate they'll be 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.760 at the end of September against Minnesota. So curious to 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:04.120 see what those adjustments look like. But for me, it's 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:07.119 really just continuing to see how they can try to 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:09.400 slow down that supporting cast of Minnesota and Mick. 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:10.680 Let's be honest what it's worth. 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:13.400 The Links are so far out in front those last 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:15.840 two games, probably you are not going to see their regulars. 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:17.640 Maybe in one of them, but probably not in both 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:19.879 of them, because they already have everything they can have 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:21.760 wrapped up wrapped up at that point in time. So 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:24.000 this may be kind of the only kind of true 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:27.200 game conditions that those two teams see each other. It's 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:30.120 not exactly breaking news that, Hey, the Fever are as 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:33.320 good to a team offensively as they might in the league. Defensively, 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:35.840 they could use some work. I pointed out a couple 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:39.159 of times trade deadlines done. You have who you have 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:42.400 on this team. How does Stephanie White's team get better 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:45.359 on the defensive end with fourteen games in the regular 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:46.200 season left to go. 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:48.960 Greg, I really think some of this comes down to 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:49.720 pace of place. 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:51.760 So when you look at the defensive numbers against the Fever, 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:53.639 some of it has to do with the pace of 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:56.840 which Indiana is playing on offense, or the highest scoring 0:17:56.840 --> 0:17:58.600 team in the league, they have the bickest pace out 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:01.399 of anybody. I think part of it has to do 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:03.520 with the pace of play, But everything else I think 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:05.800 is just continuing to off of made shots. 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:08.879 And Coach White talk about this too. Off of made shots. 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:11.560 Can they go back and get back on defense faster 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:13.399 or trying to slow things down for that, and I 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:16.040 think that's probably the biggest key outside of the pace 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:19.560 of play, because Indiana's not afraid within the first six 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:21.800 seven seconds to go out and get a shot. Kelsey 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:24.239 Mitchell drives down the lane, passes out hit somebody. So 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:26.720 I think the pace has something to do with it. 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:29.879 But at the end of the day, yeah, off of 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:33.520 made shots, what does that defense settle back into You. 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:35.720 Used to seeing athletics at a pretty high level, doing 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:38.000 the ball state games for a variety of sports. You 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:40.080 and I had a version of this conversation right as 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:42.720 you were kind of getting started doing this back in May. 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:45.359 Now that we're three months in, what is it like 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:47.480 to be you don't travel road with the team, but 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:50.560 you're at every home game. What's it like to kind 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:53.159 of have a front row seat to the show that 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:55.200 is Indiana Fever basketball. 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:58.119 Greg gets an honor like, it's so much fun just 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:00.359 to be in the middle of it. Seventeen thousand plus 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:03.320 at game Bridge every home game, and the focus, the 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:07.440 energy that the sound of a game day is remarkable. 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:10.800 So it's been gratifying and it's been it's been really 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:13.479 cool just to meet so many people within the circles 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:16.960 of the Indiana Fever Pacers, Sports Entertainment, the crew with 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:17.800 you at the. 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:20.320