Speaker 1: When they go low, we go high.
Speaker 2: Love will win, grace will win, humility will win, and
Speaker 2: kindness will win.
Speaker 3: I stand by them.
Speaker 1: I will always stand by them. Everybody else can go
Speaker 1: to hell. That's Stephanie White from last night before the
Speaker 1: game and then firing up the troops for the game
Speaker 1: as they went last night over New York one O
Speaker 1: six ninety two, twenty one to twelve of the season
Speaker 1: the fever. If you were to tell me, hell, I
Speaker 1: don't know three years ago, four years ago, that I
Speaker 1: was going to lead off shows with the fever, I
Speaker 1: thought you're crazy. Now it's a little bit different for
Speaker 1: us because we talk about and care about what matters
Speaker 1: to you. Honestly, for the rest of the world, it's
Speaker 1: just about fanning the flames, getting clicks and likes and
Speaker 1: the dorky algorithms and whatever the nerds are talking about.
Speaker 1: That's what it's all about. For everybody else, seriously, across
Speaker 1: the board, that's all it's about. They don't give two
Speaker 1: craps about the basketball. They feel about the basketball right
Speaker 1: now with the fever or the WNBA, how we felt
Speaker 1: about the fever and the WNBA about four years ago.
Speaker 1: Didn't care, didn't even notice. They didn't even cross our minds,
Speaker 1: but now it does because you have Kaitlin Clark, and
Speaker 1: because everybody realized that with Kaitlin Clark comes a great
Speaker 1: deal of notoriety. I said this when she first came
Speaker 1: into the WNBA, and really prior to it, all you
Speaker 1: had to do was hit hashtag Kaitlin Clark, and your
Speaker 1: timeline on x or on Instagram would go crazy. It
Speaker 1: would be rotten. Now, back then, it didn't go crazy
Speaker 1: with crazy. Now it goes crazy with crazy or those
Speaker 1: with agendas. Let me tell you a little bit about
Speaker 1: yesterday with Stephanie White and then the team's performance. Stephanie
Speaker 1: White was making up for the swing and the miss
Speaker 1: on Saturday where it was obvious in this case that
Speaker 1: Sophie Cunningham got tackled by the neck, got clotheslined. It
Speaker 1: was a reckless close out by Carrington, and all that
Speaker 1: transpired during that moment was accurate. But what Stephanie Watt
Speaker 1: has been about is not Fenn in the flames and
Speaker 1: in that process it was just a bad look. So
Speaker 1: honestly with what she did before the game, which also
Speaker 1: could be pointed at me because I led on Monday
Speaker 1: with how she did on Saturday and has prior, you know,
Speaker 1: with the fist to the neck of Thomas in that
Speaker 1: game with Caitlin Clark. You have to make sure you
Speaker 1: galvanize your group. You have to be tight. That was
Speaker 1: making up for what did not happen on Saturday. Now
Speaker 1: there are other aspects that maybe it's you, maybe it's me,
Speaker 1: it's probably all of us, where she just felt the
Speaker 1: need to let it out. You ever follow what anybody
Speaker 1: ever writes about her on social media. I know you
Speaker 1: guys out there too, because I'd probably feel the same way.
Speaker 1: We're all in the same gang on this. We would
Speaker 1: be so incredibly soft. There's zero way, zero way we
Speaker 1: could deal with it. It is every single day. So she
Speaker 1: was also letting out a great deal of anger and frustration.
Speaker 1: And because I know me, I don't know you. I
Speaker 1: know some of you out there. I feel I know
Speaker 1: most of you out there. But for me, I'm not soft,
Speaker 1: And it didn't bother me in the least. In fact,
Speaker 1: I thought it was incredibly necessary and I thought it
Speaker 1: was well past time. Yeah, get up and shake your fist,
Speaker 1: tell everybody to go to hell. If that's how you feel, really,
Speaker 1: the only thing that should matter is the twenty one
Speaker 1: to twelve aspect of it. See, this is what's funny,
Speaker 1: and especially around here, and there are a lot of
Speaker 1: you out there, a lot of you out there. I
Speaker 1: could charge with this. You end up telling me all
Speaker 1: that matters is winning. But in this case, that's not
Speaker 1: all that matters at all, and in fact, it's kind
Speaker 1: of buried in all this other bull crap. You guys
Speaker 1: get all wound up about stuff that doesn't matter, stuff
Speaker 1: that shouldn't matter. Winning is all that matters. I've said
Speaker 1: this all along. She's going to be judged by what
Speaker 1: happens with this team. Do they reach expectations? Are they
Speaker 1: who they're supposed to be? Were one of the most
Speaker 1: noted professional athletes on the globe. That's how she's gonna
Speaker 1: be judged. She's not gonna be judged by that press conference.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming somebody over there. And by the way, it's
Speaker 1: not like that she or they have had incredible guidance
Speaker 1: or leadership in this category. I know we always make
Speaker 1: fun of pr but I don't know with the WNBA
Speaker 1: or the fever, I don't know who's been in charge
Speaker 1: of that. I don't know who runs it, but whoever
Speaker 1: does probably needs to take a class on it. But
Speaker 1: yesterday was not a shortcoming. Yesterday was not an issue
Speaker 1: unless you're sold, unless you got offended by it. You know,
Speaker 1: those that are are saying or telling you that they're
Speaker 1: the least offended of the groups out there are on
Speaker 1: always the most offended. That's what had to happen. Let
Speaker 1: off steam at those out there that constantly come at them,
Speaker 1: come at her, and at the same time, help again,
Speaker 1: keep wound tight the group and bear in mind what
Speaker 1: matters the most. God, that's easy. That's like basketball one
Speaker 1: on one out there. Any coach would tell you that,
Speaker 1: or any smart coach, I mean dumbasses out there wouldn't
Speaker 1: tell you that, but any smart coach would tell you that.
Speaker 1: Gonna make sure you keep your group wound as tight
Speaker 1: with you as possible. And not a lot of coaches,
Speaker 1: not a lot of people have ever had to deal
Speaker 1: with the absolute fou bar that they have to deal with.
Speaker 1: And I loved Kaylin Clark and Sophie Cunningham agreeing and
Speaker 1: then defending her after the game. That was great. What's
Speaker 1: going to be funny is when a lot of you
Speaker 1: zelots out there for Kaitlyn Clark. You know a lot
Speaker 1: of you zelots that only care about Kaitlyn Clark when
Speaker 1: you run her out of town because of all this,
Speaker 1: That's what's going to be pretty funny. I'll laugh at that.
Speaker 1: I will laugh. I go, oh yeah, way to go.
Speaker 1: We're not talking about savvy basketball folks either. We're talking
Speaker 1: about people that just jumped in on a bandwagon of love.
Speaker 1: You love the way that she plays. I love the
Speaker 1: way that they play. I want to see success. And
Speaker 1: in fact, I will tell you this, I mentioned this
Speaker 1: to Jake a little bit earlier. There is to me
Speaker 1: a very common thread between the Pacers that I love,
Speaker 1: not last year's nineteen win disaster of injuries, but the
Speaker 1: prior two years the Tyrese Haliburton led Pacers. Because they push,
Speaker 1: they score, they put offensive pressure on you. That's exactly
Speaker 1: what this Fever team does. So what's wrong with the coach?
Speaker 1: You gotta want to fire Rick Carlisle? Who wants to
Speaker 1: fire Rick Carley? You don't like it? That's exactly how
Speaker 1: the Fever play. And you know what, they have some
Speaker 1: of the similar issues as the Pacers had, especially in
Speaker 1: that first year. You go back three years and they
Speaker 1: would score in bunches, yet they couldn't guard Caleb. I
Speaker 1: mean that was problematic, No or I think oftentimes did
Speaker 1: they want to try to achieve the guarding of Caleb?
Speaker 1: You get that strained out and who knows because they're
Speaker 1: not anybody out there that can really stop them. I
Speaker 1: mean at Links they have some players, including Olivia Miles,
Speaker 1: that can match up really well, but not a lot
Speaker 1: out there that can start that. I in fact, I
Speaker 1: would not have paid attention. It was kicking and screaming
Speaker 1: for me. But when you score as they score at will,
Speaker 1: and you push the tempo, you push the pace up
Speaker 1: and down the floor, you know how fun of basketball.
Speaker 1: That's my favorite brand of basketball. By god, I'll watch that.
Speaker 1: And if it ends up being twenty one and twelve, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're not blaming the coach. You're not firing the coach
Speaker 1: on twenty one and twelve. I don't care what all
Speaker 1: these clowns end up saying. Maybe you ought to look
Speaker 1: in the mirror and understand what you really want about it.
Speaker 1: Do you want winning a winning team or do you
Speaker 1: want to jump on the bandwagon with the posse out
Speaker 1: there with the lynch Bob that always wants to be
Speaker 1: angry about something, always wants to be pissed off about something.
Speaker 1: That was a person letting off steam, and it was
Speaker 1: a person that was showing her team, Hey, what was
Speaker 1: this to me on Saturday? And listen, I'm in that
Speaker 1: category too. There's a video of me that has hell.
Speaker 1: I don't know how many it's on Facebook or Instagram,
Speaker 1: but it's up there for Monday where I took offense
Speaker 1: to that. I thought, you can't do that. I don't
Speaker 1: even care if it was a lightweight call or if
Speaker 1: it wasn't exactly an egregious foul, you go with it.
Speaker 1: I mentioned Galvani as your team, keep it tight. What
Speaker 1: she did last night was necessary and honestly, if you're
Speaker 1: offended by your you're way too soft. I'm offended by this.
Speaker 1: I can't believe. I can't believe. She said love and
Speaker 1: then she said go to hell. Well, because some of
Speaker 1: you out there are tremendous jackasses. I mean, hell, I
Speaker 1: can be a jackass too. I will be before the
Speaker 1: end of the show, I promise you. But I absolutely
Speaker 1: loved it, and if it were directed at me, I'm
Speaker 1: not suggesting at all that it was. But as an
Speaker 1: outsider and somebody that was highly critical of what took
Speaker 1: place after the game on Saturday in Chicago. Let's just say,
Speaker 1: for example, I am yeah, I'm not soft enough to
Speaker 1: let that outweigh the fact that this team looks really good,
Speaker 1: and it is playing well, and it plays a style
Speaker 1: of basketball, women, men, whatever, that is incredibly enjoyable. Hey,
Speaker 1: numb nuts, get on board. Stop worried about the stuff
Speaker 1: that doesn't matter. Stop letting people dictate what matters to you.
Speaker 1: You always tell me how much you want to see
Speaker 1: teams win and how well you want to see teams
Speaker 1: around here play, and then what they do. You want
Speaker 1: to fire the coach for what because you don't like
Speaker 1: what she said. Believe me, they all have to get
Speaker 1: in line on this. I also know this to be true.
Speaker 1: I don't think that there is on any level the
Speaker 1: leadership that is necessary. They had no idea what they
Speaker 1: were getting into. But better late than never to realize
Speaker 1: what you're getting into and do something about it. And
Speaker 1: that starts at the commissioner's level. But that's not a
Speaker 1: discussion for us. I'm just talking about a team right now.
Speaker 1: They believe me, if they don't live up to the expectations.
Speaker 1: There are gonna be consequences for that. That's just sports
Speaker 1: in general. But it's not going to be about what
Speaker 1: you were offended about last night in what she said
Speaker 1: prior to with game, and then go out and you're
Speaker 1: gonna boo aye, you booed last night. I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: I don't know the folks that go to this game, Caleb,
Speaker 1: they have any basketball brains at all. Seriously, I couldn't
Speaker 1: believe that there were boos personally. Well, I can now
Speaker 1: if Kaylyn Clark, if Kaitlyn Clark, and if Sophie cunninghad
Speaker 1: would have backed her, if that would have been the
Speaker 1: pregame and not the post game, there'd been no boos, none, none.
Speaker 1: Do you guys realize that use zelots out there. I'm
Speaker 1: not talking to everybody, I realize that, But do you
Speaker 1: zelots out there realize that who you bow to the
Speaker 1: altar to just wants to play basketball and she wants
Speaker 1: to do what she did last night and will be
Speaker 1: critical when things don't go well, and we'll prop when
Speaker 1: things do go well. But that's what she wants to do. Bunch,
Speaker 1: you guys helping the process, don't be a fly on
Speaker 1: the ointment, there'll be a pain in the ass booing. Seriously,
Speaker 1: I didn't think that there were a lot of basketball
Speaker 1: brains in that place anyway in general, but I sure
Speaker 1: as hell didn't think after last night. This team is
Speaker 1: twenty one and they're fun as hell to watch. And normally,
Speaker 1: let's face it, normally, when can you watch the WNBA
Speaker 1: It can be boring, It can be a snoozefest. That
Speaker 1: is not They are doing their best to not only win,
Speaker 1: but to entertain. And you're mad about him. Man, here's
Speaker 1: what the coach said. How soft can you be? Please
Speaker 1: don't tell me you're that soft. I didn't rear you
Speaker 1: to be that soft. Come on, now, I thought that
Speaker 1: was exactly what was necessary. Then listen. Maybe some of
Speaker 1: this stuff missed the mark. I mean you had to
Speaker 1: see the replay about a billion times. What you did
Speaker 1: is you said the wrong thing. Somebody, if you didn't
Speaker 1: see the replay, like somebody from your staff who has
Speaker 1: your back, who knows something and doesn't have their head
Speaker 1: up their rare end, should have said, hey, you know what,
Speaker 1: she was clothes lined? So it's okay to go off
Speaker 1: on this. Hell, I'll be honest with you. I felt
Speaker 1: good about it. You want to know why I felt
Speaker 1: good because this was like a call that the WNBA
Speaker 1: officials got accurately. It was it was right. I like
Speaker 1: that because most of the time it's fo bar I
Speaker 1: like that. Please do not tell me you are this soft.
Speaker 1: Don't You can't have it both ways. You can't and
Speaker 1: all I wants winning And then whine about the dialogue
Speaker 1: of the coach, especially knowing what you know, I gather
Speaker 1: that the rest of the world doesn't really know when
Speaker 1: they're just swooping in to claim they're pound of flesh.
Speaker 1: That's all they're really doing. But you're supposed to be better.
Speaker 1: You gotta be better. You got to understand this a
Speaker 1: little bit. And hey, I'll be right there with you.
Speaker 1: This team doesn't live up to expectations if they fail,
Speaker 1: if they don't learn to guard just a little bit better.
Speaker 1: And believe me, the bar is set a championship. If
Speaker 1: they don't do that, let's just all go off. We'll
Speaker 1: have a going off party. But I'm not going to
Speaker 1: sit here and go off, and I'm not going to
Speaker 1: jump on everybody else that has decided to be angry
Speaker 1: about what was said last night. She said all the
Speaker 1: wrong things. Yeah, you know what she was doing. She
Speaker 1: was doing something with a purpose, and it was for
Speaker 1: her team, and it was also to tell us a
Speaker 1: lot of us out there that have been highly critical
Speaker 1: to blank off. The funny thing about it is, we
Speaker 1: would all do the same thing given her situation. You
Speaker 1: would do it after two people made fun of you
Speaker 1: on Facebook. You put your yearbook photo up there and
Speaker 1: they make fun of you, you'd go off just like that,
Speaker 1: after two people were marked about it. We'd all do
Speaker 1: the same thing. Now, there's zero way that any of
Speaker 1: us in a moment of anger and we're just all
Speaker 1: letting it out. Hell, we're not going to say the
Speaker 1: right thing. I'm never going to say the right thing
Speaker 1: because frankly, I'm not smart enough to say the right thing.
Speaker 1: But I certainly understand. I have been dealt the cards
Speaker 1: of wisdom in understanding, and I understand what the hell
Speaker 1: was going on last night. The thing about this is,
Speaker 1: you got like all these political clowns in our state
Speaker 1: are remarking on this. You should be offended because they
Speaker 1: need to pay attention to what matters to you as
Speaker 1: to why you voted them in. I'm gonna tell you, yeah,
Speaker 1: if you ever decide to take basketball advice from Micah
Speaker 1: beck With, I can't hang with you. Serious, I can't
Speaker 1: hang with you because you know there's zero way you're
Speaker 1: gonna take basketball advice. What is he the associate governor
Speaker 1: of lieutenant Lieutenant? Please, you don't need basketball advice from
Speaker 1: Micah Beckwi or Jim Banks. These guys don't know squat
Speaker 1: and in fact, they should be concentrating on the jobs
Speaker 1: and the reasons why you voted them in. Just take
Speaker 1: them out of the equation. You latch onto people that
Speaker 1: know basketball. Maybe some of you folks that go to
Speaker 1: these games will react a little bit different and understand
Speaker 1: a little bit different. Now, you guys can all cry
Speaker 1: about it if you want. It was pure theatrics. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if it was theatrics, it was for her team,
Speaker 1: it was for what she didn't do on Saturday, doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: And you're not allowed to tell me that you're all
Speaker 1: about winning and when a team wins you want to
Speaker 1: fire the coach. That makes you a dumbass, and that
Speaker 1: makes you about theatrics too. Can't tell me that I've
Speaker 1: been around here long enough. I've been through all this losing,
Speaker 1: we will gauge what happens to the coach and this
Speaker 1: team at the end of the year. Who cares what
Speaker 1: was said last night? Just don't be that soft. I
Speaker 1: feel like Forrest Gump. I think that's all I have
Speaker 1: to say about that. And he also authored the greatest
Speaker 1: play in the history of the Colts. He's our friend,
Speaker 1: Marlon Jackson. Hello, Marlon, how.
Speaker 4: Are you, jam b I'm good, I'm good man.
Speaker 1: How you doing fantastic? So tomorrow night is going to
Speaker 1: be a hell of a deal, is it not.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's gonna be. It's gonna be a good time.
Speaker 4: We all know that.
Speaker 5: It's you know, preseason. Preseason football for the coaches is
Speaker 5: gonna kick off with the Colts versus Patriots. But we're
Speaker 5: also having an event kind of tied to that with
Speaker 5: our Coats Trivia Night at the Skyline Club in Indianapolis,
Speaker 5: an evening for people to come out and enjoy some
Speaker 5: coachs trivia, learn a little bit about more organization, Fight
Speaker 5: for Life being on some silent auction items. Hear about
Speaker 5: something special that we're releasing at the Fight for Life Foundation.
Speaker 5: As well, support a great cause, but have fun as well,
Speaker 5: and possibly win six coach tickets to the Coats VERSUS
Speaker 5: Falcons preseason game.
Speaker 1: So Marlin Jackson with US Fight for Life Foundations got
Speaker 1: at the Skyline Club a big deal with coach trivia
Speaker 1: tomorrow night and you could win big More on that
Speaker 1: in a second. Since one of the Mets right now,
Speaker 1: training camp preseason game number one. As a veteran player,
Speaker 1: I know it's probably different for you in the early
Speaker 1: stages as a rookie. As a veteran player, what was
Speaker 1: your approach to camp and then to preseason games?
Speaker 5: I mean camp, you want you want to get get
Speaker 5: off to a fast start. You know, you put in
Speaker 5: all the work in the off season. Now you're getting
Speaker 5: back into things with all the guys, and you're getting
Speaker 5: the pads on and getting ready to really lace them
Speaker 5: up and get things going to try to go after
Speaker 5: those goals that you will set in training camp, but
Speaker 5: trying to get into your your rhythm, trying to get
Speaker 5: into your your routines, get yourself established and ready to
Speaker 5: go mentally and physically, and get your timing down with
Speaker 5: everything as well, because it's no longer you know, no
Speaker 5: pads on air. Now is full contact, it's live, which
Speaker 5: I'm sure is probably much different now in training camp
Speaker 5: versus when I was in training camp. A lot more
Speaker 5: physicality throughout training camp. And I know it's kind of
Speaker 5: spotty when it comes to the physicality in training camp now,
Speaker 5: but I think these guys really want to get settled in,
Speaker 5: get their timing with all the concepts that I've been taught,
Speaker 5: the defenses on offense, the offensive schemes, get everybody on
Speaker 5: the same page.
Speaker 1: So Maul and Jackson with us, what did you know
Speaker 1: that you accomplished in trending camp what you needed to
Speaker 1: At what point was there a signature, you know, each season,
Speaker 1: so to speak, moment where you said, all right, so
Speaker 1: I got everything I needed to do done here.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, I think that that varies for guys.
Speaker 5: I think in terms of like all dependent upon your
Speaker 5: level of experience. You know that that may be you
Speaker 5: need you need one game, you need a couple of quarters.
Speaker 5: You know, if you're a younger guy or guy just
Speaker 5: you know, second or third year, maybe maybe it's the
Speaker 5: you know, the second week, and it's getting that getting
Speaker 5: that first half under under your belt. In my time,
Speaker 5: you know, there were four there were four games. That
Speaker 5: third game is when the starters went went the longest.
Speaker 5: So you know, by by that point in time, for sure,
Speaker 5: is when you feel like, all right, I'm I'm fully
Speaker 5: ready to go for this season. But that's one of
Speaker 5: those things, Jay, that I would say that varies dependent
Speaker 5: upon on the level of experience that the player has.
Speaker 1: I can remember if I asked you this last week,
Speaker 1: this is Marla Jackson on the Andy Moore Automotive Group
Speaker 1: hoot line. You played defensively with two guys that were
Speaker 1: absolute havocs coming off the edge, and Dwight Freeney and
Speaker 1: Robert Mathis, and in this group at least Eyeball wise
Speaker 1: right now is going to be a lot different. You're
Speaker 1: you're hoping, you're crossing your fingers and hoping that you know,
Speaker 1: with layout two Latu and arden Key, you're going to
Speaker 1: get a little bit something. And and this I think defensively,
Speaker 1: you're hoping for more from the secondary without what is
Speaker 1: the normal defensive pressure up front. How difficult might that
Speaker 1: proposition be when you have a lot of your playmakers
Speaker 1: in that secondary more than up front. In this era
Speaker 1: of the NFL.
Speaker 5: Oh, it makes sense, extremely difficult because I mean, you
Speaker 5: know everything in football starts starts up front offensively and defensively,
Speaker 5: and you know the high flying offenses that we see
Speaker 5: now in the National Football League. You have to be
Speaker 5: able to create pressure, and it's easiest if you can
Speaker 5: create pressure with four guys up front. This is something
Speaker 5: that the coach have struggle with, which is which brought
Speaker 5: about the change and coordinator, so you can blitz more.
Speaker 5: When you have a secondary like the secondary that we have,
Speaker 5: those guys can be on an island. It gives you
Speaker 5: more of the ability to blitz and bring a fifth
Speaker 5: guy in a linebacker or at times of safety. But
Speaker 5: in my opinion, I think you would rather have two
Speaker 5: edge rushers at least one guy that you know they
Speaker 5: can get home. They can create pressure at will. You
Speaker 5: have some more sustainable defense when you have the ability
Speaker 5: to have a dominant defensive end or two that can
Speaker 5: generate press. Sure, and you're not as reliant upon the
Speaker 5: blenets to generate pressure.
Speaker 1: So Marlin Jackson with us, what are your thoughts on
Speaker 1: what the Colts are going to be able to do?
Speaker 1: I mentioned two of the options there with key and
Speaker 1: lay out two A lot two. Do you have a
Speaker 1: belief and they're going to be able to provide what
Speaker 1: is necessary and consistent quarterback pressure coming off the edge.
Speaker 5: For me, it's a question that's a question mark, and
Speaker 5: I don't know how we could have anything else but
Speaker 5: a question mark there. There's nothing against those two guys.
Speaker 5: Lat of two has been good, but in my opinion,
Speaker 5: not great. I would like to see him make a
Speaker 5: junk too great this season. You know you mentioned guys
Speaker 5: like the White Premium Robert Mathis. The thing is that
Speaker 5: you knew if they had a single matchup that they
Speaker 5: were going to get home and generate pressure. I have
Speaker 5: not seen that from a Cole's defensive lineman in years, right,
Speaker 5: But if Lat two can be that guy. I'm not
Speaker 5: as familiar with arden Key, but if Lat two or
Speaker 5: arden Key, if they can be those guys, at least
Speaker 5: one of them, it puts us in a better position.
Speaker 5: But you know, it puts more stress on the coordinator
Speaker 5: to get creative if you cannot generate pressure with just
Speaker 5: those four guys.
Speaker 4: We know that our guys.
Speaker 5: On the interior, Grover you know, and others can generate pressure,
Speaker 5: but we need it on the edge most of all.
Speaker 4: And if Lat.
Speaker 5: Two steps up and he takes his game to another
Speaker 5: another level and Arden is reliable as well. That will
Speaker 5: make this a very very strong possibly for sure top
Speaker 5: ten defense, possibly top five defense with the secondary you have,
Speaker 5: but you also have question marks at linebacker with this
Speaker 5: group as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, those are questions well answer on a the
Speaker 1: day as well, actually across the board, and I mean, hell, Marlin,
Speaker 1: we're just talking about the the defensive aspect of it.
Speaker 1: Right here. That's Marla Jackson on the Andy More Automotive
Speaker 1: Group Potline again. Fight for Life Foundation dot org is
Speaker 1: where you can go to learn more. But tomorrow night
Speaker 1: at the Skyline Club, it is going to be spectacular.
Speaker 1: This is not gonna be your average preseason game viewing
Speaker 1: party slash trivia contest, is it.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 5: I mean, we have we have a we have a
Speaker 5: DJ lined up that's gonna be there as well. It's
Speaker 5: gonna be foods. We're gonna have a special cocktail there
Speaker 5: for the evening. You know, it's a special release of
Speaker 5: something that we've been working on, that Fight for Life opportunity.
Speaker 5: First place team will win six tickets to a Coats
Speaker 5: preseason game Coats versus Falcon, and then we'll also have
Speaker 5: second and third place winning teams as well. Really will
Speaker 5: love to get all these Colts fans signed up. You know,
Speaker 5: you got the great views at the Skyline Club. You
Speaker 5: know you'll be able to partake and enjoy that and
Speaker 5: then watch the game as well, because Trivia Knight is
Speaker 5: going to lead right into this preseason game that we
Speaker 5: are all excited for if it's against our arch nemesis,
Speaker 5: the New England Patriots as well, which adds a little
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Speaker 1: Most kids, I understand it. You gotta keep in mind,
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, have a great night tomorrow night, and
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Speaker 4: No, I appreciate you and look forward to connecting some more.
Speaker 1: That is our good friend, Marlon Jackson, the orchestrator, the
Speaker 1: greatest play in the history of the Colts. Like you
Speaker 1: guys want to debate everything, there's no debate right there.
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Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts. That is an easy call. Man, get
Speaker 1: me in the Skyline Club tomorrow. You may not get
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Speaker 2: He's already got the season tickets.
Speaker 1: John Nolan's the voice of the Fever. He joins us
Speaker 1: and they any more Automotive Group hotline. Hey, how, I
Speaker 1: don't know how much you watched the Pacers. Let's go
Speaker 1: back to not last year because that was a mess,
Speaker 1: but you go back to two. Let's see three years
Speaker 1: ago like this be now the first where we really
Speaker 1: saw the pace and the tempo and you kind of
Speaker 1: fell in love with the Pacers team and how they played,
Speaker 1: and it was so effective against teams, and you could
Speaker 1: tell how similar are the pushing of the pace offenses
Speaker 1: with the Pacers that we love and the Fever that
Speaker 1: we see going on right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great point, Jambe. I think there definitely
Speaker 2: is a similarity there. And for example, last night, a
Speaker 2: team like the New York Liberty, one of the better
Speaker 2: teams in the WNBA, they simply could not keep up.
Speaker 2: They actually did a decent job the Liberty, that is
Speaker 2: in the first quarter, as the Fever were up by
Speaker 2: six at the end of one.
Speaker 3: But then it's funny.
Speaker 2: Because after the game last night, I listened to the
Speaker 2: New York Liberty postgame press conference and a reporter asked
Speaker 2: a question.
Speaker 3: I didn't think it was the smartest question in the world.
Speaker 2: But she basically asked the head coach, Hey, you know,
Speaker 2: the Fever had some runs in the second quarter and
Speaker 2: second half when Brianna Stewart was out of the game.
Speaker 3: What was your philosophy with that?
Speaker 2: And he was like, well, she's not going to play
Speaker 2: four minutes, so we got to take it on at
Speaker 2: some point. And to the credit of the Fever, they
Speaker 2: made the Liberty pay.
Speaker 3: In those windows when Stuart was out of the game.
Speaker 2: But yeah, basically that goes kind of to show you
Speaker 2: that the Liberty needed all hands on deck just to
Speaker 2: be able to keep up with what the Fever were
Speaker 2: doing last night.
Speaker 1: So with the high volume of scoring in the back court,
Speaker 1: how difficult is that you think? We see it now
Speaker 1: coming together with Kelsey Mitchell and Kaitlyn Clark, without question,
Speaker 1: but you know, having two high level scores like that
Speaker 1: in the same backcourt, how long might that take to
Speaker 1: come together? And have we seen I mentioned turning the
Speaker 1: corners or signature moments? Have we seen that now? Is
Speaker 1: that where they are the backcourt with those two?
Speaker 2: On one hand, I would say it probably would not
Speaker 2: be fair for anyone to think that they could be
Speaker 2: any better than they are, Like Kelsey and Kaitlin have
Speaker 2: both been fairly close to floor of late. That said,
Speaker 2: I actually do think that their potentially is still a
Speaker 2: ceiling for them to grow, especially like Caitlin by her
Speaker 2: own admission, and like our friend who had texted in
Speaker 2: there a little while ago. I mean, she can still
Speaker 2: bring her turnovers down, So.
Speaker 3: That's an area where they can get better. And all
Speaker 3: of a.
Speaker 2: Sudden, now this is two games in a row with
Speaker 2: KK Timpson in the starting lineup and Monique Billings coming
Speaker 2: off the bench, and I think it looks like this
Speaker 2: is the starting group now going forward, and with Timpson's
Speaker 2: speed as a post player getting down the floor, that
Speaker 2: kind of just again makes the Fever all the more
Speaker 2: threatening with their ability to get in transition. I mean,
Speaker 2: one thing that's been pretty pretty fun and exciting to
Speaker 2: see is that there have been a lot of times
Speaker 2: lately where if the Fever give up a shot, they
Speaker 2: are inbounding the ball and pushing so quickly that it
Speaker 2: looks like it's a fast break situation, but it's coming
Speaker 2: after the other team just scored. Yeah, they have a level,
Speaker 2: They have a gear of speed that we haven't really
Speaker 2: seen anyone else in the league, not only this season,
Speaker 2: but basically ever be able to match.
Speaker 1: Well and John. That was the edge the Pacers had too.
Speaker 1: And I've always said this, everybody wants to play, Everybody
Speaker 1: dreams of playing basketball and playing at that pace, but
Speaker 1: not everybody is built to play basketball at that pace.
Speaker 1: And then you find out, and I think we've seen
Speaker 1: most recently, especially when the offense is clicking that other
Speaker 1: teams they struggle doing just that, the outliers obviously the
Speaker 1: Vegas game that was complete end of game fubar, But
Speaker 1: I mean otherwise, you're going over a hundie and you're
Speaker 1: scoring at will, and you consistently put the pressure on
Speaker 1: the opposition from an offensive angle, which is very much
Speaker 1: like what we have witnessed with the Pacers over the
Speaker 1: past couple of years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a couple of aughtor that one. Again, how it's
Speaker 2: like team wide. So we probably are underappreciating the evolution
Speaker 2: of a Leah Boston. And now there is more talk
Speaker 2: and highlighting her three point shooting, literally leading the league
Speaker 2: in three point shooting around forty five percent, which is incredible,
Speaker 2: but also the fact that she can bring the ball
Speaker 2: down the court and now Not only that, but she's
Speaker 2: showing off a handle and ball handling ability to change
Speaker 2: speeds and change directions. She's sometimes even in the half
Speaker 2: court now we're seeing her like a guard kind of
Speaker 2: angle herself one way, bait the defender all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: make a quick crossover, pivot and get downhill, driving and
Speaker 2: attacking and scoring. So again, that just makes them all
Speaker 2: the more dynamic, and was building off of what you
Speaker 2: were saying there with the comparison to the Pacers. In
Speaker 2: addition to the pace, another similarity I would see though,
Speaker 2: is that it's a team that's well connected, that tighten
Speaker 2: it getting along, And I think what's really valuable is
Speaker 2: that the role players have good heads on their shoulders.
Speaker 2: They have an understanding that they are role players, and
Speaker 2: so you're not seeing anyone putting their head down, sulking
Speaker 2: that they're not leading the squad in scoring, or really
Speaker 2: overly concerned if their minutes fluctuate one game to the next.
Speaker 2: So there's that unselfish, unselfishness aspect.
Speaker 3: That I think is really vital to what they're doing.
Speaker 1: So John John Nolan here the voice of the Fever
Speaker 1: Fever and Dallas is coming up on Friday night will
Speaker 1: be at the Pivot Balcony bar with Hurst and le Montes.
Speaker 1: Before that with Boiling and Debbie Antonelli. That should be
Speaker 1: a fun time as well. John, I did want to
Speaker 1: ask you this, and I don't know how deeply you
Speaker 1: want to get into it. Obviously you weren't privy to
Speaker 1: it because you're in preparation for the game. But with
Speaker 1: what took place in the aftermath with Stephanie White before
Speaker 1: the game and then the dialogue and commentary from the
Speaker 1: players Sophie Cunningham and Caitlyn Clark after the game, what'd
Speaker 1: you think about the pre and the postgame pressers in
Speaker 1: general terms from the Fever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I feel similarly to you in terms
Speaker 2: of not quite understanding those who have come out against
Speaker 2: Stephanie and all that. And I appreciate all fans and
Speaker 2: maybe I'm weird nowadays, but I'm somebody whether we're talking
Speaker 2: about basketball or Unfortunately now sometimes this crosses over into politics.
Speaker 2: But I'm okay with differing opinions, and I'm not going
Speaker 2: to hate someone or shut someone out if we don't
Speaker 2: view things the same way. That said, you know, I'm
Speaker 2: thinking about a past failed relationship I had in which
Speaker 2: I was told the issue was that I was approaching
Speaker 2: things logically and she wanted to act out of emotion.
Speaker 2: And so I don't know, I'm having some flag to
Speaker 2: that because I just don't really understand what some fans
Speaker 2: right now might be thinking, if they've got any issues
Speaker 2: with Steph and all that. Let me just say, let
Speaker 2: me just say all that all that matters is what
Speaker 2: we heard from players like Caitlin and Sophie, that they
Speaker 2: have love for Steph, that inside the locker room they're
Speaker 2: more than good, they're really close.
Speaker 3: With each other.
Speaker 2: And I mean, I thought it was I'm really glad
Speaker 2: that Caitlyn spoke up and said that last night as
Speaker 2: a group.
Speaker 1: I wish you would do. I think if she did
Speaker 1: that more, it would squash a lot of the dialogue
Speaker 1: that's out there that's anti I wish it would. That's
Speaker 1: not that's not really her job. It's not her job
Speaker 1: John to do that. It's not her job to do that.
Speaker 1: But if if she would have said that prior to
Speaker 1: the game, let's just say, well flip it. Not that
Speaker 1: she had the opportunity, but if that were said prior
Speaker 1: to the game, you wouldn't have a similar crowd reaction
Speaker 1: during intros during the game, not that that really matters,
Speaker 1: but I love the commentary after. Had she said that,
Speaker 1: then you wouldn't have it, and maybe if she is
Speaker 1: a little bit more outspoken in defense. And I think
Speaker 1: we've learned one thing from the WNBA is. I don't
Speaker 1: know at times who leads them in pr but it
Speaker 1: seems like they're learning on the fly with a lot
Speaker 1: of things. And I think Stephanie White learned from Saturday
Speaker 1: in the postgame presser what needed to be done to
Speaker 1: try to galvanize her team. And then I think those
Speaker 1: two players after the game last night understood what needed
Speaker 1: to be done after hearing the mooing and going out
Speaker 1: and winning and knowing what has taken place, especially over
Speaker 1: the past three days. I think that you kind of
Speaker 1: learn from experiences and negativity, and I think those things
Speaker 1: had to occur along with the winning aspect of it
Speaker 1: as well, which ultimately should squash everything.
Speaker 2: Right as the team is twenty one and twelve, top
Speaker 2: four in the league, on track to have potentially the
Speaker 2: best season in regular season at least in franchise history.
Speaker 3: And yet to your point, I think there are growing
Speaker 3: pains around the league.
Speaker 2: To say the least, I am maybe naively but optimistic
Speaker 2: in my thinking that while and some have to feel
Speaker 2: this a lot more than others as far as these
Speaker 2: growing pains can personally affect them, but I do think
Speaker 2: in the end, you know what, the level of basketball,
Speaker 2: the entertainment that is out there on the court, is
Speaker 2: going to continue to be what really grows the popularity
Speaker 2: of the w NBA, of the Fever, specifically in their players,
Speaker 2: and over the course of time this stuff will well
Speaker 2: will fade away.
Speaker 1: I can. I can say this, and you can, and
Speaker 1: I respect that. But there are really about three teams
Speaker 1: that I can stand to watch and not be bored
Speaker 1: to tears, and certainly the Fever at the top of
Speaker 1: that list.
Speaker 3: Who else is on that list?
Speaker 1: For you? Minnesota Olivia Miles watching her play because she
Speaker 1: does some incredibly high level, athletically gifted things that I
Speaker 1: dig watching with the basketball.
Speaker 3: No, I'm totally with you there, and I admit some
Speaker 3: of this other.
Speaker 1: Some of this other stuff is like leading me to
Speaker 1: want to sleep for forever. But yeah, the Fever and
Speaker 1: those two things stand out to me as things I
Speaker 1: can get down with in basketball a.
Speaker 3: Couple of things.
Speaker 2: One, I would admit I have a pro Caitlin bias,
Speaker 2: and so I probably was reluctant to give Olivia Miles
Speaker 2: some of the praise understand credit that she has.
Speaker 3: Deserved as a rookie.
Speaker 2: But then when the Fever played in Minnesota a couple
Speaker 2: of weekends ago, the show that she put on, I
Speaker 2: mean that was really spectacular, and so yeah, overall, again
Speaker 2: that's a positive for the league that there are more
Speaker 2: and more players entering the w NBA who are.
Speaker 3: Just fun to watch.
Speaker 2: And I would say, now, I guess there could be
Speaker 2: subjectivity in terms of what's really as a as a
Speaker 2: team fund to watch, but I mean scoring is up
Speaker 2: around league. The only team that's up there towards the
Speaker 2: top that isn't a ton of fun would be the
Speaker 2: Golden Saint Valkyrie because they play a real slow.
Speaker 3: Grinded out, defensive oriented style.
Speaker 2: But I mean there's like the New York Liberty, last
Speaker 2: night's opponent, who are missing a couple of all star
Speaker 2: caliber players in their defense. I mean, they're only seventh
Speaker 2: in the standings right now, but I mean they've they've
Speaker 2: got some players like Sabrini and Escu, Brandon Stewart, who were.
Speaker 3: A lot of fun to watch it.
Speaker 2: I think there's just more and more talent being spread
Speaker 2: out across the league and again, over.
Speaker 3: Time, I think that's what's gonna gonna win people over well.
Speaker 1: And that's why you got to take advantage of this moment.
Speaker 1: And again that's why I felt for the sake of
Speaker 1: I think to me, I'll use this as a side note.
Speaker 1: I thought Stephanie White obviously let off some steam, but
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are missing the mark
Speaker 1: on what needed to be said, and that was for
Speaker 1: her team that had to have happened after the past
Speaker 1: three or so days here, and that's why I had
Speaker 1: zero issue with it. And and honestly, John, I took
Speaker 1: issue with her, you know, not directly going to bet
Speaker 1: after that game on that foul from Carrington, which was
Speaker 1: a reckless foul. But she did what she had to do,
Speaker 1: and then at the same time, she wanted to let
Speaker 1: off some steam to clowns like me or maybe other
Speaker 1: people out there. I completely get it, completely understand it.
Speaker 2: Did you hear after the game on Saturday? I'm just curious,
Speaker 2: did you? Because the clip that went viral did not
Speaker 2: include this. Did you hear after the game on Saturday
Speaker 2: when she said that she thought the flagrant too was
Speaker 2: the correct call.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just I think that what she did last
Speaker 1: night was to be more vehement about backing it up.
Speaker 1: I do, yeah, And I and see, that's that's the problem.
Speaker 1: We live in a world job, we live in a
Speaker 1: world where everything is lost in translation because we have
Speaker 1: the attention span of a gnat. So you've got to
Speaker 1: leave no doubt. And there's already been doubt that has
Speaker 1: been pressed upon, you know, the fans or the non
Speaker 1: fans out there, those that just want to have an
Speaker 1: opinion on it. So I think you've got to go
Speaker 1: like she did last night. That's why I completely understood
Speaker 1: why she felt she needed to go the extra mile,
Speaker 1: and I thought measured message to our team delivered. And
Speaker 1: at the same time, she's putting up with a lot
Speaker 1: of crap and she wanted to get back and tell
Speaker 1: people out there how she felt. I have no problem
Speaker 1: with it. You have to be the softest of the
Speaker 1: soft to have a significant issue with that.
Speaker 3: Yep, no disagreement.
Speaker 2: And I would just say, and I know this is
Speaker 2: a losing cause for me to maybe try to reason
Speaker 2: with anyone who's is not seeing things this way.
Speaker 3: But I just one thing that I found.
Speaker 2: Ironic about the push against Steph after Saturday, with the
Speaker 2: claim that she didn't support her player in that case,
Speaker 2: Sophie Enough. On Saturday she got a technical foul immediately
Speaker 2: after Caitlin got that erroneous technical foul, the one that
Speaker 2: was later rescinded. That's just a small example of how
Speaker 2: she does back her players. But it's just a no
Speaker 2: win situation, I think, because and unfortunately it's just's I
Speaker 2: want to say, it is what it.
Speaker 4: Is, what it is.
Speaker 1: No and these are my words and not yours, because
Speaker 1: you're in a different situation than I. But it is
Speaker 1: always going to be with this group, They're going to
Speaker 1: win not because of her, but lose because of her.
Speaker 1: But what ultimately matters, what the cure all is is
Speaker 1: twenty one and twelve and reaching expectations and exactly what
Speaker 1: Caitlin Clark mentioned after the game, where there are moments
Speaker 1: in this season where you just have to do and
Speaker 1: that's what they did last night, and that's what is
Speaker 1: going to be the ultimate decider as you go into
Speaker 1: the future, is the outcome and the results of this
Speaker 1: year on the floor, that's what matters the most.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hopefully.
Speaker 2: I mean, let's just say though this is still kind
Speaker 2: of the only team I've ever followed, or even when
Speaker 2: they win it, some people are.
Speaker 1: And because it's also followed by a loss for words
Speaker 1: sometimes no yeahah, And that's okay because there are a
Speaker 1: lot of nut jobs that are involved in this too.
Speaker 1: So you know that muddies the water when you end
Speaker 1: up getting you know, the verbal drifting that goes on
Speaker 1: and and things like that, when when you keep it
Speaker 1: in basketball in team terms, is easier to do that.
Speaker 1: So you know, as you know your situation, you're able
Speaker 1: to do that. Here, you've got to sift through so
Speaker 1: much stupidity that it drives you nuts when all you
Speaker 1: really want to do is evaluate the situation via coaching
Speaker 1: decisions or what takes place on the basketball floor, which
Speaker 1: is the right way to do it and is the
Speaker 1: way that Caitlin Clark talks about doing it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so just off of that, I would say,
Speaker 2: you know, credit to the fever, they have gotten better
Speaker 2: over the course of the season. Now, two consecutive wins
Speaker 2: Friday nights would be an awesome game because you got
Speaker 2: a Dallas team that beat them, remember opening Day in
Speaker 2: a shootout. That Dallas team had I think by most
Speaker 2: analyst expectations been ahead of schedule in the early part
Speaker 2: of the season with their young core of Page Beckers
Speaker 2: and then Easy Fudd is the top pick this year.
Speaker 2: They had been in the top four of the standings
Speaker 2: going into the All Star break.
Speaker 3: All of a sudden, they're on a skid.
Speaker 2: So they're going to be coming into the Fieldhouse on
Speaker 2: Friday night playing with an edge, playing with urgency. Pretty
Speaker 2: sure the game will wind up being sold out. It's
Speaker 2: getting close to it already, so it should be a
Speaker 2: fantastic environment. And again I appreciate all Fever fans and
Speaker 2: all WNBA fans. I mean, there's probably gonna be some
Speaker 2: fans coming out because Page Beckers might be their favorite
Speaker 2: player or Easy Fud, and so just looking forward to
Speaker 2: to a fun atmosphere on Friday. And it's also making
Speaker 2: it all the more important for the Fevers. You got
Speaker 2: pretty audacious five game road trip on Yck after that,
Speaker 2: starting on Sunday out Atlanta, They're going to be crisscrossing
Speaker 2: the country, even going north into Canada for the first
Speaker 2: time against Toronto, so all the more reason to get
Speaker 2: it done on Friday at home.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, basketball wise and John to close out
Speaker 1: with the voice of the Fever, John Nolan on the
Speaker 1: Andy Moore Automotive Group potline is the one thing that
Speaker 1: I can't get beyond. And it looks like defensively and
Speaker 1: rebounding and turnovers and fouling, they're all improving in those categories,
Speaker 1: but there's still that one thing. And I know that
Speaker 1: every team that gets down makes a run, but they
Speaker 1: always seem to leave that door open, and we saw
Speaker 1: that cost them against Vegas, and that's the Loane thing
Speaker 1: that really worries me about everything that's going on is
Speaker 1: the consistency of going through long stretches to where you
Speaker 1: look like the superior team, but you let an inferior
Speaker 1: team hang around and hang around way too long. That
Speaker 1: is a concern of mine.
Speaker 2: No, that's very valid because it's and it's something the
Speaker 2: team has acknowledged, because yeah, that's been an issue out
Speaker 2: there out the year. Hopefully from a Fever point of view,
Speaker 2: some progress made there. Last night they got off by
Speaker 2: twenty one.
Speaker 3: It sort of felt a little bit like deja vous again.
Speaker 2: Liberty made it a single digit game, but once they
Speaker 2: got it to nine, then the Fever responded with another
Speaker 2: run themselves and really did put them away and they
Speaker 2: were never actually threatened in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3: So I hope they can build off of that going forward.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that I've joked that while it's not ideal
Speaker 2: for the team, it has made for more dramatic and
Speaker 2: fun broadcasts on our side of things, and probably, you know,
Speaker 2: for better or worse, makes it more fun for any
Speaker 2: listeners or viewers with these games.
Speaker 3: In a lot of cases coming down to the last.
Speaker 1: Possession, I want to I just don't want to see
Speaker 1: him whip ass consistently. Oh that's just me, So I
Speaker 1: know what you're looking for, but I just want to
Speaker 1: entertaining me. Yeah, is putting a team down and keeping
Speaker 1: the team down. So hopefully hopefully they can learn for that.
Speaker 1: Twenty one to twelve in the season, the Fever get
Speaker 1: Dallas coming up on Friday night at Gamebridge Field House,
Speaker 1: and you can listen right here the voice of the Fever,
Speaker 1: John Nolan, on the Andy Moore Auto Montive Group Potline. John,
Speaker 1: I appreciate your pal, No, thank you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's.
Speaker 2: In the end, Like I said, I think a lot
Speaker 2: of growing pains around the league, but optimistic for the
Speaker 2: future and in the shorter term here. Definitely optimistic about
Speaker 2: the fever peaking, going down the stretch here of the
Speaker 2: season and having a fun finish in the regular season
Speaker 2: and the playoffs. And yeah, thanks to all the fans
Speaker 2: out there, regardless of point of view. Awesome to see
Speaker 2: close to a salad again at the field House last night, even.
Speaker 3: With school back.
Speaker 1: Thanks brother, I appreciate you, all right, Yes, do.
Speaker 3: I get an invite to crash with Debian?
Speaker 1: What are you too? You know I am. I am
Speaker 1: the self proclaimed biggest fan of Debbie Antonelli. I'm a
Speaker 1: big fan, so I'm gonna be like I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: like a giddy little school girl on Friday, although I'll
Speaker 1: probably be a drinking I'll be a drinking, giddy little
Speaker 1: school girl, but yeah, I'll be. I'll be because I
Speaker 1: like her. I like her and her breakdown. I like
Speaker 1: Bria too, Don't get me wrong, but I've always been
Speaker 1: a big fan of Debbie Antonelle. I like listening to
Speaker 1: what she has to say, and I think she breaks
Speaker 1: it down and explains it as well as anybody. Anybody,
Speaker 1: certainly in that league and much better than Miaka Mcnuttbie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well no, in all seriousness, Debbie is underappreciated
Speaker 2: from a national perspective, one of the first UH women's
Speaker 2: basketball analysts who then has been a basketball analyst for
Speaker 2: the men's March Madness and regular season men's games over
Speaker 2: the years as well. So she's one of the best
Speaker 2: in the business, I mean, and she has been recognized
Speaker 2: being on national TV for a few decades with the
Speaker 2: Fever now for more than a.
Speaker 3: Couple of decades.
Speaker 2: So yeah, whenever you get a chance to catch Debbie
Speaker 2: and Pat and Kelsey on a broadcast, that's tremendous, And
Speaker 2: we appreciate anyone.
Speaker 1: Well, you slide by to you're more than you're Hey,
Speaker 1: We'll get hey. We'll get you all looped up and
Speaker 1: ready to go for that broadcast.
Speaker 2: Pal, come on, Yeah, that'll make it more fun for sure.
Speaker 2: But will I got you for a postgame postgame mix?
Speaker 1: I appreciate you, pal, John Nolan on the anymore on
Speaker 1: a moniproop potline,