Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're very
Speaker 1: proud of Connecticut sun guard Marina Maybrey for learning to
Speaker 1: season her food and it's her rival turned bestie Dja
Speaker 1: Carrington who put her on the right path. That's what
Speaker 1: sports are really all about. It's Wednesday, January fifteenth, Draft
Speaker 1: Day and on today's show, Alex Mesh and I are
Speaker 1: drafting our unrivaled teams ahead of Friday's tip off. We've
Speaker 1: got a foolproof system. It's part Hoops Draft, part seventeen
Speaker 1: magazine quiz are you his friend.
Speaker 2: Or his crush?
Speaker 1: And part BuzzFeed personality test? Which Disney Princess are you?
Speaker 1: Are you a Carrie, Samantha, Miranda or Charlotte. By the end,
Speaker 1: we'll learn the unrivaled basketball club that's m FU made
Speaker 1: for us, and we've set it all up for you
Speaker 1: to play along and pick your squad. Two plus, it's
Speaker 1: woso wedding season. A super slice comes through and a
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Speaker 1: up right after this welcome back. Here's what you need
Speaker 1: to know today in hockey News, We've got PWHL action
Speaker 1: tonight as the league leading Minnesota Frost faced the New
Speaker 1: York Sirens at seven pm Eastern. This will be a
Speaker 1: meeting of the league's best goal scorers. Sirens forward Alex
Speaker 1: Carpenter and frost ford Britta Curl are at the top
Speaker 1: of the ranks with five goals apiece, followed closely by
Speaker 1: New York Sarah Filier, who's put in four so far.
Speaker 1: You can catch that matchup on MSG Networks, FanDuel Sports
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Speaker 1: More good news. The WNBA's Toronto Tempo just launched its
Speaker 1: first merch drop. The items are produced by brands out
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Speaker 1: SAMONWSL News free agent defender Tatum Mulazo, who spent her
Speaker 1: entire pro career with the Chicago Red Stars has signed
Speaker 1: a two year deal with the Utah Royals. Malaso has
Speaker 1: seventy career NWSL appearances in her four seasons in the league.
Speaker 1: Some more soccer news. It's the off season for the Girlies,
Speaker 1: which means weddings. Lots of weddings. Congrats to Lynn Williams,
Speaker 1: Lindsay Horan, Tierna Davidson, Emily Sam's, Ali Riley, Kerrie Roccaro,
Speaker 1: Copriest did Asco, and Natalie Jacobs, who all tied the
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Speaker 1: not learning your new last names.
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Speaker 1: upcoming season. At least. I'm still working on remembering mause Wanson.
Speaker 1: Y'all to college hoops. Tonight's matchup between Northwestern and number
Speaker 1: four ranked USC has been postponed. It was scheduled for
Speaker 1: USC's Galen Center, but the Wildcats decided not to travel
Speaker 1: because of the fires. Northwestern's game at UCLA this past
Speaker 1: Sunday was also postponed. Number one UCLA's matchup with Penn
Speaker 1: State is still scheduled to take place tonight nine thirty
Speaker 1: Eastern at Walter Pyramid on Long Beach State's campus. Our
Speaker 1: hearts really go out to everyone in these programs. It's
Speaker 1: got to take us serious amount of guts to put
Speaker 1: on a brave face and continue with both school and
Speaker 1: the basketball season at a time like this. Speaking of
Speaker 1: the fires, the WNBA's La Sparks and NWSL's Angel City
Speaker 1: FC have joined with the other Southern California sports teams
Speaker 1: in the MLB, NFL, NHL, and MLS to pledge a
Speaker 1: donation of more than eight million dollars to support victims
Speaker 1: of the LA fires and those who are fighting them.
Speaker 1: The team's community partners are also going to distribute thousands
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Speaker 1: more at Dodger, SOFI and BEMO Stadiums on Friday, January seventeenth,
Speaker 1: from ten am to two pm Pacific. Any Angelinos with
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Speaker 1: individuals who attend will also be given lunch at the stadiums.
Speaker 1: Also want to let you know our friends and partners
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Speaker 1: You can get more info on where you can drop
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Speaker 1: in our show notes. Got to give a quick shout
Speaker 1: out to super slice Joey Maldonado, who took some time
Speaker 1: during the holiday break to make a calendar of all
Speaker 1: the Pro Volleyball Federation, Love Pro Volleyball, AU Basketball and
Speaker 1: unrivaled games coming up over the next few months, day time,
Speaker 1: where it's happening, how to watch. Joey is a literal
Speaker 1: superstar for putting all these together for us. We'll link
Speaker 1: to that in show notes so y'all can benefit from
Speaker 1: his work too. Thank you, Joey. We got to take
Speaker 1: a quick break when we come back. Who's your celebrity soulmate?
Speaker 1: What season are you in your soul Which Hogwarts teacher
Speaker 1: would give you detention? Are you basic? We don't have
Speaker 1: any of those answers, but we will tell you your
Speaker 1: unrivaled team Coming up next, Welcome back Slices. Today's the
Speaker 1: big day, our unrivaled team draft. Now, if you haven't
Speaker 1: picked your unrivaled squad just yet, grab a pen and
Speaker 1: some paper and play along with us. By the end
Speaker 1: of the show, your squad will be revealed. If you
Speaker 1: already have a squad, no worries. This is also a
Speaker 1: great way to get familiar with the teams and players
Speaker 1: ahead of tip off on Friday. Okay, so this is
Speaker 1: how this is gonna work. Grab a piece of paper
Speaker 1: and a pen. You can hit pause for a second.
Speaker 1: You've got to run into another room to grab them. Okay,
Speaker 1: got it? Okay, Now, you can obviously use multiple pieces
Speaker 1: of paper, but if you want to have a little
Speaker 1: fun with it, let's just split one page into eight boxes.
Speaker 1: So take the page and draw one vertical line down
Speaker 1: the middle, splitting the page vertically in half. Now add
Speaker 1: three horizontal lines, splitting the page horizontally into four sections.
Speaker 1: So now you should have eight boxes of roughly the
Speaker 1: same size on your page. If it's not perfect, no worries. Now,
Speaker 1: in every single box except for the bottom two, write
Speaker 1: the numbers one, two, three, four, five six top to
Speaker 1: bottom on the left side of the box. Every box
Speaker 1: except for the bottom two should have one, two, three, four,
Speaker 1: five six going from top to bottom on the left
Speaker 1: hand side. Now, it'll definitely help you if you pull
Speaker 1: up the Unrivaled website to see the team logos while
Speaker 1: you do this. But if you're driving or walking, or
Speaker 1: exercising or otherwise can't look at your screen, don't worry.
Speaker 1: We got you for that part. Okay, here's how this
Speaker 1: is gonna work. We're gonna rank each Unrivaled club one
Speaker 1: through six in six different categories, and then the final
Speaker 1: scores will reveal our preferred squad. Shout out to front
Speaker 1: of the show claim Conahan and her crew for this
Speaker 1: draft idea. We used most of the categories that they used,
Speaker 1: but we came up with a little bit of changes too.
Speaker 1: So here's what we're gonna be using to pick our
Speaker 1: club team name, color, slash logo slash branding, head coaches, players, chemistry,
Speaker 1: and winability of the roster as a whole on the court,
Speaker 1: and duo slash combos we didn't know we needed off
Speaker 1: the court. Okay, let's get into it. Top left box
Speaker 1: is gonna be team name. Now. You're gonna rank each
Speaker 1: of the six clubs one to six based on name only,
Speaker 1: just the name, nothing else. Your favorite name will go
Speaker 1: in slot one, your second favorite in slot two, and
Speaker 1: so on. Here are the club names. Lace's Basketball Club,
Speaker 1: Lunar Owls Basketball Club, Missed Basketball Club, Phantom Basketball Club,
Speaker 1: Rose Basketball Club, and Vinyl Basketball Club. Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say those one more time. Laces, Lunar Owls, Missed, Phantom, Rose,
Speaker 1: and Vinyl. All Right, everybody quickly kind of jot down
Speaker 1: what you're thinking first reactions, and then Big Centris I
Speaker 1: want to talk through this and figure out you know
Speaker 1: what you're thinking. All right, we're just talking names now,
Speaker 1: nothing else. Meish what club stands out to you, what
Speaker 1: doesn't do it for you. My first spot has to
Speaker 1: go to Vinyl Basketball Club because music.
Speaker 4: First of all, we haven't discussed this at length on
Speaker 4: the show, but me and music go together real bad.
Speaker 4: So the fact that they're called Vinyl, I just think
Speaker 4: is so automatically. Yes for me, I really also enjoy laces.
Speaker 4: I think that's very unique. I think in basketball lace
Speaker 4: them up, you know. I think that's probably what they
Speaker 4: were talking about when they're throwing ideas at the wall.
Speaker 4: U love that bonus points for that, And then I
Speaker 4: don't missed BC. It just it doesn't do it for me.
Speaker 4: It makes me the of medicine immediately, Okay, Like I
Speaker 4: should be watching a commercial and they're like, yeah, it's
Speaker 4: a nasal spray. Take this, Yeah, high blood pressure, please
Speaker 4: do not like it's just something about that just does
Speaker 4: it hit right for me.
Speaker 1: Alex's first thought.
Speaker 5: I love the lunar owls, although I did just google
Speaker 5: to see like what species the lunar owls is and
Speaker 5: where you can find them, and I think it's a
Speaker 5: made up animal, Like obviously they're owls, and I'm sure
Speaker 5: that there are lunar varieties of other creatures, but I thought.
Speaker 2: That was so fun.
Speaker 5: Vinyl is my last one because vinyl makes me think
Speaker 5: of plastic, which makes me think of climate change in
Speaker 5: the world degrading. So even though I'm sure they did
Speaker 5: not mean that association, just that's my last one.
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit closer to meish for sure. Missed
Speaker 1: is my last. I'm glad you said something like nasal
Speaker 1: spray or medicine you shouldn't take if you have high
Speaker 1: blood pressure. For me, like I said, it's just one
Speaker 1: letter away from moist and it sounds like some sort
Speaker 1: of like vaginal douche. Oh like if you're feeling unfresh,
Speaker 1: just a seven day treatment with miss BC just not
Speaker 1: not my favorite. And lunar owls were my second to last.
Speaker 1: I love owls. I don't know why they're lunar, what
Speaker 1: do they have to do with the moon. And also
Speaker 1: it just doesn't ring off. It doesn't like roll off
Speaker 1: the tongue. Lunar owls. It's just not pretty sounding. Laces
Speaker 1: were my second favorite, though. I like the idea of lace's,
Speaker 1: I like the connection. I like phantom. I don't know why.
Speaker 1: I just like the mystery of it all. And I
Speaker 1: feel like I haven't seen a lot of teams. The
Speaker 1: only thing that's weird about that for me is I
Speaker 1: usually don't like singular things like she's a phantoms, but
Speaker 1: I just like I just like the name.
Speaker 2: It's spooky, it's great common.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it just like I haven't heard anything like it.
Speaker 1: You don't usually hear team names that are you know,
Speaker 1: ac cult like or spooky or you know, and I
Speaker 1: think it's bold to have that. Okay, everyone, make sure
Speaker 1: you've got your names filled out one to six, your
Speaker 1: favorite in number one down to your least favorite in
Speaker 1: number six. Okay, Next, we're going top right box. This
Speaker 1: is color logo and branding. This is kind of tough
Speaker 1: for an audio medium. I'm going to describe them to
Speaker 1: you a little bit. If you can pull it up
Speaker 1: and look at them, that's definitely going to help you.
Speaker 1: But if you're driving, exercising, etc. Quick summary of each
Speaker 1: is the Laces is an aqua colored circle with the
Speaker 1: outline of a basketball inside and a reddish pink l
Speaker 1: made out of shoelaces. Lunar owls is a purplish blue
Speaker 1: owl in a yellow circle. Mist is a light blue
Speaker 1: sky with navy mountains and trees emerging from white clouds.
Speaker 1: Phantom is a black basketball with a white ghost over
Speaker 1: it and some spooky looking letters saying phantom. Rose is
Speaker 1: a forest green circle with a pink rose inside. In
Speaker 1: the center of the rose is a basketball, and Vinyl
Speaker 1: is a deep magenta kind of burgundy red record, like
Speaker 1: a record from a record player with a white and
Speaker 1: light blue basketball inside. Now, if you need to pause
Speaker 1: and take a little bit of time with this one,
Speaker 1: feel free. Like I said, you could pull up the clubs,
Speaker 1: but list these again, from one to six, your favorite
Speaker 1: and number one all the way down to number six.
Speaker 1: Let's take a minute and do that. All right, let's
Speaker 1: talk through this for a minute here. I'm gonna go first.
Speaker 1: This was really hard for me because I actually liked
Speaker 1: almost all of them. I think they did a pretty
Speaker 1: good job. I gotta go with the laces. I just
Speaker 1: think it's really cool how the l is like weaving
Speaker 1: in and out of the rest of the logo. I
Speaker 1: love again the reference to shoelaces and the color scheme
Speaker 1: is cool and different, something I haven't seen in a
Speaker 1: lot of other sports teams. I also was really drawn
Speaker 1: to the mist I've talked in the past. There's this
Speaker 1: I think I mentioned on the show, although I'm not positive.
Speaker 1: There's this new lower level soccer team called Salmon Bay FC,
Speaker 1: and I literally want to live in their crest. It
Speaker 1: has this like beautiful salmon colored sky and the water
Speaker 1: in the mountains and that's what this reminds me of,
Speaker 1: is like Lake Tahoe or someplace that I love visiting.
Speaker 1: So the mist was a beautiful landscape that made me
Speaker 1: want to go there, So that was number two. I
Speaker 1: also really love Phantom. It just again was completely different
Speaker 1: than anything I've ever seen from a sports logo. Honestly,
Speaker 1: the only one I didn't really like was Rose. It
Speaker 1: just didn't do it for me.
Speaker 4: Vinyl is last for me because who yeah, because I
Speaker 4: was expecting so much.
Speaker 3: The name is great, but the record doesn't even look
Speaker 3: like a record.
Speaker 4: It's like just some random circle with some squiggly lines
Speaker 4: in the middle of it somewhere. It just doesn't It's
Speaker 4: not giving me record like I needed to. Laces they're
Speaker 4: my number two for the same reasons. I also love
Speaker 4: that like is it turquoise?
Speaker 1: Is it qua till? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that color.
Speaker 4: If folks go to the Laces Instagram page, they've got
Speaker 4: the jerseys in that color sick.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're they're gorgeous.
Speaker 4: So absolutely my number one in this category is Phantom. Yeah,
Speaker 4: because I love I'm a basic bitch.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe that's what it is.
Speaker 4: I love basic black and white and the little ghostages.
Speaker 1: Look, it's adorable.
Speaker 2: How can you not love that?
Speaker 1: What you got? Alex?
Speaker 5: Okay, so number one, I'm with you. Sarah Laces just
Speaker 5: super cool. Love the way that it intersects. Then I
Speaker 5: have the miss because I do like the landscape. My
Speaker 5: only other concern with it, apart from the fact that
Speaker 5: there appears to be no basketball, which I guess is
Speaker 5: a prerequisite for me, the logo has be on one
Speaker 5: side see on the other for basketball club. But when
Speaker 5: I look at it, I do kind of say, be
Speaker 5: missed CE, be missed.
Speaker 3: CE like it.
Speaker 5: So as I'm saying this, I think I'm gonna move
Speaker 5: them down. I'm gonna move them down to number three.
Speaker 5: I'm going to put the lunar owls at number two,
Speaker 5: with a weird looking owl with its basketball ballet. Phantom
Speaker 5: is number five for me for some reason, Like I
Speaker 5: know you were kind of convincing me. I'm second guessing
Speaker 5: myself now, but it reminded me a little bit too
Speaker 5: much of like Spirit Halloween.
Speaker 1: Just quick aside for those who will appreciate this. When
Speaker 1: I see ghosts like that. There was this incredible Saturday
Speaker 1: Night Live episode with Christopher Walkin where they had a
Speaker 1: Christopher Walkin Family renew and every cast member had to
Speaker 1: do a Walkin impression to him, and Amy Poehler was
Speaker 1: by far the best. She was better than Christopher Walkin,
Speaker 1: and her thing just kept being like, I don't like ghosts,
Speaker 1: the spooky, and every time I see a ghost down
Speaker 1: my brain just goes I don't like ghosts anyway. All right,
Speaker 1: moving on second box down on the left. Head coaches. Now,
Speaker 1: let me just put this out there. If you don't
Speaker 1: know shit about any of these coaches, if you don't
Speaker 1: have strong opinions about any of them, you don't have
Speaker 1: to rank them. If you're worried that the you know,
Speaker 1: protecting the point system and the integrity of your scoring
Speaker 1: will be affected by randomly assigning numbers to people who
Speaker 1: don't care about, don't do it. But we want to
Speaker 1: give you all the information to work with and if
Speaker 1: you want to make choices based on coaches, here you go.
Speaker 1: The Lace's head coach is Andrew Wade, a player development
Speaker 1: assistant coach for the Washington miss shout Out dmvbs a
Speaker 1: former college player at the Catholic University of America in DC,
Speaker 1: which I knew nothing about, but it turns out is
Speaker 1: the National University of the Catholic Church in the United States. Okay,
Speaker 1: The Lunar Owls head coach is DJ Sackman, an NBA
Speaker 1: and WNBA skills coach, an influencer who founded hoop Study,
Speaker 1: an online basketball education company. He's got millions of followers,
Speaker 1: so if you like influencers, that's your guy. He played
Speaker 1: his college ball at the University of New Haven in Connecticut.
Speaker 1: The missed head coach Phil Handy. He played college ball
Speaker 1: for the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors, then professional ball overseas for
Speaker 1: five years. Longtime assistant coach in the NBA, he's won
Speaker 1: three NBA championships as an assistant. For his first three seasons,
Speaker 1: he was a player development coach for the Lakers under
Speaker 1: Mike Brown. Also served as an assistant under Brown in
Speaker 1: Cleveland for five seasons, then under Nick Nurse for a season,
Speaker 1: and most recently back to the Lakers from twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: to twenty twenty four. If you're a Lakers fan, maybe
Speaker 1: that's your guy. Phantom head coach Adam Harrington previously served
Speaker 1: as an assistant coach and the director of player development
Speaker 1: for the Brooklyn Nets and as a shooting coach for
Speaker 1: the Thunder Oklahoma City Thunder. He played collegiately at Auburn
Speaker 1: and North Carolina State and professionally in the NBA Europe
Speaker 1: and China Rose head coach Nola Henry just added as
Speaker 1: an assistant coach for the Dallas Wings this week, so
Speaker 1: if you're a Dallas fan, maybe this year ago. She
Speaker 1: was an assistant coach for the Sparks in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: after being a player development coach during the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: three season for them. Also part of Kurtmuller's staff when
Speaker 1: he was at the Connecticut Sun. She played college hoops
Speaker 1: at UMass and the College of Charleston. Vinyl head coach.
Speaker 1: Theresa Weatherspoon, former WNBA and college hoops legend. She played
Speaker 1: for Team USA, winning Olympic gold and silver. Played for
Speaker 1: the New York Liberty the LA Sparks of the WNBA,
Speaker 1: played college ball for Louisiana Tech. She's a Hoops Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer. She worked in player development and was an
Speaker 1: assistant coach for the New Orleans Pelicans of the MNBA
Speaker 1: for three seasons before becoming the head coach of the
Speaker 1: Chicago Sky last year. She was let go after just
Speaker 1: one season in Chicago. My feelings on that have been made. Okay,
Speaker 1: rank your teams by coach one through six, and again,
Speaker 1: if you got no thoughts on the coaches, you can
Speaker 1: always leave the category blank to protect the integrity of
Speaker 1: your point system. Let's talk through this quickly, mish Alex.
Speaker 1: Did you have any big takeaways on this? It's hard
Speaker 1: because there are a couple that I'm like, oh cool, yeah,
Speaker 1: and then there's something I'm like that I don't really care.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: My list is pretty simple. After Muffet interview yesterday, I'm like,
Speaker 5: you gotta put the women first. So go in with
Speaker 5: t Spoon number one, Nola Henry number two, three through six,
Speaker 5: the men based on how often they worked with women's
Speaker 5: basketball players, judging if they fall three.
Speaker 1: Through six, it's very reasonable.
Speaker 4: I have got Nola Henry Rose VC head coaches number
Speaker 4: one because first of all, Coastal Athletic Association grad shout
Speaker 4: out College of Charleston, shout out to Nola.
Speaker 2: Congrats to her on the new gig.
Speaker 4: Also, I got a chance to chat with her when
Speaker 4: I was out in Phoenix and they played the Mercury
Speaker 4: played the Sparks, and she was on that Sparks coaching staff.
Speaker 4: So shout out to her number two Spoon. It's gotta
Speaker 4: be Spoon. She's got to be one or two. I'm
Speaker 4: riding or dying with her period. I would love to
Speaker 4: have played for her. I would run through a wall
Speaker 4: for her right now.
Speaker 2: Frankly.
Speaker 4: At three, I have Phil Handy because he's one of
Speaker 4: those real ogs like I've been following his I believe
Speaker 4: his Instagram is like ninety four feet of Game or
Speaker 4: something like that, and he's been unlocking the secrets and
Speaker 4: throwing out drills and skills and all that kind of
Speaker 4: stuff since when I was playing in high school. And
Speaker 4: it also is really involved, as you just said, Alex
Speaker 4: on the women's side with women's players on purpose and
Speaker 4: then the rest.
Speaker 1: Are Yeah, so DJ Sackman, I don't think it's had
Speaker 1: a lot involvement with the WNBA women's side until this,
Speaker 1: but I at least like that he created this big,
Speaker 1: like basketball education thing, and so I'm down with that.
Speaker 1: And then I will probably get skewered for this and
Speaker 1: shouldn't say it aloud, but I just got to drop
Speaker 1: the guy from the Catholic Church University to last. I
Speaker 1: just I don't want too much of God in my coaching.
Speaker 1: Let's just let him her it they if it exists,
Speaker 1: take care of more important things than our huddle. Okay, anyway,
Speaker 1: rank your coaches, rank your teams, and again you can
Speaker 1: leave them blake. Okay, second, box down on the right players. Now,
Speaker 1: there are probably some players you just can't imagine rooting against.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's someone from your alma mater or your w squad,
Speaker 1: someone you wish was on your squad you always want
Speaker 1: to rock with, and you're gonna take this chance to
Speaker 1: root for. On the other hand, there might be a
Speaker 1: player you just can't imagine yourself rooting for. They played
Speaker 1: for your college rival, they're on your w rival, they
Speaker 1: date the chick you like, they date the dude you like.
Speaker 1: They're messy on social they're messy in life, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: This is your opportunity to ding a team for carrying
Speaker 1: a player you just cannot imagine rooting for. Now. This
Speaker 1: was going to be two separate categories, and then I
Speaker 1: realized it's impossible to elevate the players you like without
Speaker 1: being affected by the players that you don't. So it's
Speaker 1: just one category. This is less about how they play together.
Speaker 1: This is less about whether they're gonna win as a
Speaker 1: result of chemistry or how good they are at basketball.
Speaker 1: This is just who you like and who you don't like.
Speaker 1: Here are the rosters for each club, and I'll give
Speaker 1: you each player's current or most recent W squad in
Speaker 1: case that's helpful to So. The Laces have the Aces
Speaker 1: Jackie Young, Aces, Tiffany Hayes, Lynx, Kaylea McBride, Sons Alyssa Thomas,
Speaker 1: Valkyrie's Kate Martin, and Mystix Stephanie Dolson. The Lunar Owls
Speaker 1: have the Lynx Nefisa Kllier, the Lynx Courtney Williams, The
Speaker 1: Storms Skyler Diggan Smith, the Dreams Alicia Gray, Mystic Shakira
Speaker 1: Austin and Sparks Cameron Brink. The myst have the Liberties
Speaker 1: Brianna Stewart, the Sons dj A Carrington, The Liberties Courtney Vanderslute,
Speaker 1: the Storm for Now, Jewel Lloyd, the Mystics Aliah Edwards
Speaker 1: and the Sparks Rakia Jackson. The Phantom are the Wings
Speaker 1: for Now Sattoo Soabily, the Suns Marina Maybury, the Mercury's
Speaker 1: Britney Griner, the Mercury's Natasha Cloud, the Fevers, Katie lu
Speaker 1: Samuelson and the Liberties Sabrina and Escu. The Rose are
Speaker 1: the Sky's Angel Rees, the Aces Chelsea Gray, the Mystics
Speaker 1: Britney Sykes, the Mercury's Kalia Copper, the Sparks, Azrey Stevens
Speaker 1: and the Fevers Lexi Hall. Finally, the Vinyl are the
Speaker 1: Wings Ari Kea Gumbuale, The Sparks, Ray Burrell, the Dreams,
Speaker 1: Ryan Howard, Fevers, Eliah Boston, the Dreams Jordan Canada and
Speaker 1: the Sparks Deerica Hanby. I hope you wrote every single
Speaker 1: one of those down. If not, you probably need to pause,
Speaker 1: take a look and be reminded. Just a note here
Speaker 1: there's a couple squads with two or more players from
Speaker 1: one WNBA team. So if you want to keep rooting
Speaker 1: for your w squad via Unrivaled, or if you want
Speaker 1: to totally change things up, just note. There's a couple
Speaker 1: of aces on the Laces, there's a couple of links
Speaker 1: on the Lunar Owls congregating on the Mist, Mercury gathering
Speaker 1: together on the Phantom, and there are two dream players
Speaker 1: on Vinyl. Let's pause and take a minute and write
Speaker 1: our thoughts down.
Speaker 5: I have answers and I'm not sure if I like them.
Speaker 1: I also came up with some answers that I am
Speaker 1: sure to want to change later. I was also thinking
Speaker 1: and yell weigh in on this big citrus. If people
Speaker 1: want should they consider counting this category?
Speaker 5: Twice I was wondering the same thing. I was like,
Speaker 5: how can we rank players with the same.
Speaker 1: As Nates like, we don't want to get too complicated
Speaker 1: on this, we don't want to make it really tricky.
Speaker 1: But in this case, I feel like, if you feel
Speaker 1: very strongly about players, you could decide to give extra
Speaker 1: weight to this category and we'll tell you how to
Speaker 1: do that at the end. So think to yourself if
Speaker 1: you want to double up on this category of players,
Speaker 1: or if, like me, this was impossible because you like
Speaker 1: all of them, maybe it doesn't matter as much, and
Speaker 1: the point is to let the chips fall where they may.
Speaker 5: See Sarah, this is what I love about the show.
Speaker 5: Back when I was taking seventeen quizzes as a fourteen
Speaker 5: year old, they never gave me the flexibility to take
Speaker 5: things into account as they applied to me. It was
Speaker 5: just all in.
Speaker 1: By the end, they were just like you're a terrible kisser,
Speaker 1: and if you don't eat enough pineapple, your vagina's gonna
Speaker 1: taste like shit.
Speaker 5: That was literally takeaways.
Speaker 1: By the time you were done reading the magazine, that
Speaker 1: was the two things you were left with. And also,
Speaker 1: you're not a lesbian, Misha, it's just a face.
Speaker 4: I will say I never took any of those quizzes
Speaker 4: because I knew I was.
Speaker 2: Gay at like three.
Speaker 1: So good for you. Get us started since you did
Speaker 1: yours in advance. Oh my gosh, don't do me.
Speaker 4: Okay, So first up ROSEBC because Britney Sykes, because the
Speaker 4: season that would have been for the Mystics had she
Speaker 4: not been injured in dealing with all of that.
Speaker 2: Also, I just love her as a human.
Speaker 4: I feel like she's one of the most down to
Speaker 4: earth folks I've ever had the chance to speak with
Speaker 4: across sports. Frankly, she's hilarious. So she puts Rose at
Speaker 4: the top for me. Phantom has multiple players that I love,
Speaker 4: but mostly I am enjoying the Oregon reup with with
Speaker 4: Sabrina and Satu. I think they were robbed. In twenty twenty,
Speaker 4: A lot of people gave Sabrina flack for that, you
Speaker 4: know the last few seasons saying oh, would you have.
Speaker 1: Even won a championship?
Speaker 4: I think, actually yes, and I'm very excited to see
Speaker 4: them play together again.
Speaker 2: And then the lunar owls.
Speaker 4: I gotta give a shout out to Courtney Williams, who
Speaker 4: I put as my Fit of the Year award winner
Speaker 4: in our slices because I thought that chaft fit was nuts,
Speaker 4: but also because Skyler digg and Smith is a Leo queen.
Speaker 4: You know, to some she may be problematic. To me,
Speaker 4: it's just the cost of admission, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: And yeah, the rest laces I gave a little shout
Speaker 4: out to there at fourth because Tip Hays, if folks
Speaker 4: remember her playing three v three for Azerbaijan and the Olympics,
Speaker 4: was just incredible, pulled off some upsets.
Speaker 1: So uh yeah, that's where I say with that, Okay, Alex,
Speaker 1: what you got? Yeah?
Speaker 5: For me, the top two were super clear. I went
Speaker 5: with Roseen Vinyl in that order, and the reason I
Speaker 5: did that was I feel like, for the most part,
Speaker 5: the players on these teams are from WNBA teams that
Speaker 5: have not had success in the last couple of years,
Speaker 5: and so these players have been underrated and not able
Speaker 5: to perform to the degree that they would be able
Speaker 5: to with better players on their team, and so I'm
Speaker 5: super curious to see what these teams are able to
Speaker 5: do together and if it helps these players shine a
Speaker 5: little bit more.
Speaker 1: Gosh, I love Alex's brain. It always works so differently
Speaker 1: from mine, and it's such a fascinating exercise to do
Speaker 1: the same thing and end up in different places and
Speaker 1: for different reasons. Yeah, because Rosenviinel are both pretty low
Speaker 1: for me, I'm not going to get into any details,
Speaker 1: but my number one is the missed. It's just no
Speaker 1: skips on that one for me. I'm a huge Branda
Speaker 1: Stewart fan. I'm a huge Jewel Lloyd fan. I love
Speaker 1: watching Jewel play. And then Sludy, my girl from This
Speaker 1: from the Sky, I like watching her handles and Djena
Speaker 1: just adds a little spice. So yeah, this was number one,
Speaker 1: followed very closely by the Lunar Owls because Nafisa Collier
Speaker 1: is very quickly becoming one of my favorite players. And
Speaker 1: Courtney Williams. I love watching Courtney Williams. Yeah, and Skyler
Speaker 1: digg and Smith is always going to bring you just
Speaker 1: something it could be drama, it could be a fight
Speaker 1: on the bench, or it could be some great play.
Speaker 1: I want to watch it either way, and right will never, ever,
Speaker 1: ever not be glad that she gave us that incredible
Speaker 1: sound bite when she didn't know she was miked up
Speaker 1: when she said that her pussy was old because she
Speaker 1: had babies like that. The rest of her felt okay,
Speaker 1: but she had old pussy. I don't know if we're
Speaker 1: gonna bleep that, and if we do, just know that
Speaker 1: I'm saying the P word and maybe forever for that.
Speaker 1: Phantom and Laces, it was kind of like a one
Speaker 1: or the other. There's so many people on both of
Speaker 1: those squads, so this was really really tough for me,
Speaker 1: and I imagine it was tough for everybody. Which is
Speaker 1: congrats to unrivaled on making really cool squads, really interesting squads,
Speaker 1: and making that a really tough exercise. Okay, make your
Speaker 1: rankings one through six, all right, moving on third box
Speaker 1: down the left side. This is chemistry and winnability of
Speaker 1: the roster on the court. So think back to the
Speaker 1: rosters we just listed. Which squad feels like a winner,
Speaker 1: Which club has the best balance of bigs and guards?
Speaker 1: Speed and size, handles and skill sets. Are their players
Speaker 1: you think will play really well together? Maybe not. I'm
Speaker 1: going to read them for you one more time. Start
Speaker 1: thinking about how they might fit together on the court.
Speaker 1: The laces are Jackie Young, Tip Hayes, Kayla McBride, Alissa Thomas,
Speaker 1: Kate Martin and Stephanie Dolson. The lunar owls are Nafisa Collier,
Speaker 1: Courtney Williams, Skyler Digg and Smith, Ali Shah Gray, Shakira
Speaker 1: Austin and Cameron Brink.
Speaker 2: The myst are Brianna Stewart, djon A.
Speaker 1: Carrington, Courtney Vanderslute Jewel Lloyd, Aliah Edwards and Rakia Jackson,
Speaker 1: Phantom Satusabele, Marina Maybray, Britney Griner, Natasha Cloud, Katie lu
Speaker 1: Samuelson and Sabrinia Escu Rose Are, Angel Reyes, Chelsea Gray,
Speaker 1: Britney Sykes, Kalia Copper, Azare Stevens and Lexie Hall. And
Speaker 1: the vinyl are Arikee Gumbuwallee, Ray Burrell, Ryan Howard, Aliah Boston,
Speaker 1: Jordan Canada and Dierica Hanby. This is chemistry on the court.
Speaker 1: Take a moment and make your rankings.
Speaker 5: I feel like, I'm just writing words on a page.
Speaker 5: Should they don't have any meaning attached to them. Yeah.
Speaker 1: At this point, I'm like, I could spend hours, so
Speaker 1: instead I'm just gonna go with my gut. This one
Speaker 1: was probably the hardest. It's hard to imagine some of them,
Speaker 1: and especially with this style of three on three, which
Speaker 1: we haven't watched a lot. It's not half court, so
Speaker 1: you do have to get up and back, but it's
Speaker 1: a shorter court than a standard. How much are the
Speaker 1: bigs going to be able to handle defending people with
Speaker 1: like great handles? How much are the shorter, smaller players
Speaker 1: going to be able to actually make great plays in space?
Speaker 1: Like this is? This is really hard. I'm going to
Speaker 1: start so that later when you say stuff, I don't
Speaker 1: change my answers because I realized how wrong I was.
Speaker 1: I just want my gut, as wrong as it may be,
Speaker 1: to be what I stick with. Again, do not know
Speaker 1: why I answer these things. I said the mist as
Speaker 1: number one, I just for some reason, Briana Stewart seems
Speaker 1: just so perfect for this particular style of play, and
Speaker 1: with jewel and slute feeding her, and just like the
Speaker 1: that makeup of that squad to me, is like a
Speaker 1: really good mix of bigs and guards. Then I went Vinyl,
Speaker 1: I'm really thrilled and excited to see Ari Gay in
Speaker 1: this space. After that, again, don't ask me why I
Speaker 1: got the phantom, I think it's because I'm really fired
Speaker 1: up to see Sabrina feeding Britney Griner and Marina maybriy
Speaker 1: when she gets hot. And then the unicorn s too sable,
Speaker 1: I think, again, another player who's going to be just
Speaker 1: really well suited to this style of play. And then
Speaker 1: after that I randomly chose the lunar owls. Again, I
Speaker 1: think Fee is a great fit for this. I think
Speaker 1: Skyler and Court like I just yeah, again, who the knows?
Speaker 1: And I'm already I'm already really questioning my answers, But
Speaker 1: that's what I went with. How about you, al.
Speaker 5: I was thinking of chemistry a little bit differently, thinking
Speaker 5: about where are we going to have the fewest clashes
Speaker 5: of personality, And to me, that is the laces that team.
Speaker 5: I think, especially you know Kate Martin, I think you
Speaker 5: could throw her anywhere and she's going to bring the
Speaker 5: people together. You also then have Steph Dolson and Jackie Young,
Speaker 5: who both won gold with the US in twenty twenty
Speaker 5: technically twenty twenty one with that first three on three
Speaker 5: gold medal three x three, I guess in that case, Yeah,
Speaker 5: I just don't see that team having a lot of
Speaker 5: intrapersonal problems, and so I think that's going to lead
Speaker 5: to good chemistry. Then I have the missed because I
Speaker 5: just I think, similar to what you said Sarah before,
Speaker 5: it's just Darntony misses on that roster. And then I
Speaker 5: have Vinyl Phantom, lunar owls, and Rose and I didn't
Speaker 5: read that much into any of those, and so you
Speaker 5: shouldn't either.
Speaker 1: Okay, pressures on me are hoop head the expert. Let's
Speaker 1: hear it all right.
Speaker 4: Well, if you're disappointed by any of these explanations, chalk
Speaker 4: it up to the game, because it's a lot going
Speaker 4: on in here. But first for me is actually the
Speaker 4: lunar owls. I think they have got all the goods
Speaker 4: on offense and on defense. I think you started off
Speaker 4: strong with Fee who was easily the best two way
Speaker 4: player in the WNBA this season. Skyler, who I've just mentioned.
Speaker 4: I think she gets a lot of props for her
Speaker 4: offensive you know, ability to distribute and run offense. I
Speaker 4: think in three on three that's especially important. But I
Speaker 4: also think her defense is very underrated. Ali Sha Gray,
Speaker 4: we already know she can hit a three ball if
Speaker 4: you leave her open. Also an excellent defender. Cam brink
Speaker 4: led the league in blocks despite Yeah, but she doesn't
Speaker 4: count because she's not playing this year. Well, she doesn't,
Speaker 4: but I still want to give them the benefit of
Speaker 4: the doubt for having her on the roster and then
Speaker 4: having Shakira Austin there to learn from. Like Kira, I
Speaker 4: think is the next iteration of where we want Cam
Speaker 4: to go in terms of versatility, in terms of mindset
Speaker 4: on the court. So I just think they've got a
Speaker 4: great mix of stuff going on. And then second for
Speaker 4: me was ROSEBC because any team with Chelsea Gray on.
Speaker 5: It, yeah, any team.
Speaker 1: Are Yes.
Speaker 4: The fact that she is gonna be playing with Ka
Speaker 4: who was as explosive as she is getting her open
Speaker 4: in her spots. Britney Sykes, you want to talk about
Speaker 4: two way players, she might have been the second best
Speaker 4: in my opinion, even though again she didn't play a
Speaker 4: full season.
Speaker 1: Yeah. My thought with that team though, and now, similar
Speaker 1: to Alex Hadden, pretty low is I'm not huge on
Speaker 1: the bigs as far as mobility, really, Azare as a right,
Speaker 1: she's a little stiff. I love Azare, I love Azrae.
Speaker 1: She's a little stiff for me for this kind of game.
Speaker 1: She's not gonna be able to stay in the paint
Speaker 1: the same way. She's gonna have to spread the court more,
Speaker 1: get back and forth. And same with Angel. Angel, you
Speaker 1: put her in the paint, she's gonna put in work
Speaker 1: on the She's gonna get those inside buckets. She's not
Speaker 1: a huge threat outside, even though she's been working on it,
Speaker 1: and I don't think of her as like having that
Speaker 1: quick reaction making a play on her own kind of
Speaker 1: style of play. Yet maybe that's something she'll develop into.
Speaker 1: And to me, the bigs on that team are what
Speaker 1: took it out for me. Even though I love the
Speaker 1: idea of Chelsea and k I respect that.
Speaker 4: Angel is the one of those two that I think
Speaker 4: I kind of agree with you, moron.
Speaker 2: I think she might surprise us though.
Speaker 1: Her rookie season yep.
Speaker 4: And then as Aray Stevens, she's she's a sneaky good
Speaker 4: three point shooter. She's a sneaky good, you know, stressed
Speaker 4: to floor kind of player.
Speaker 1: It's just more deliberate. It's a deliberate style of play
Speaker 1: to me, and the kind of players I want in
Speaker 1: this are moving before they're even having a second of think.
Speaker 4: I hear you, I hear you, Yeah, and then I
Speaker 4: won't give you my full because some of them I
Speaker 4: just kind of woul like, we're gonna put you all
Speaker 4: in here because we have to. But third, for me
Speaker 4: are the laces I think you know in my top
Speaker 4: three is so tight, y'all, it's so tight. It was
Speaker 4: so hard to decide between these three teams. But I
Speaker 4: think again, any team with at on it Alyssa Thomas
Speaker 4: is going to be fantastic. Tip Hays, as I mentioned,
Speaker 4: we already know she's great three on three. Wise, Jackie
Speaker 4: Young is going to shine in this format and put
Speaker 4: her in Kaylea McBride together, please back back again, notre
Speaker 4: dame back again.
Speaker 1: And I'm interested to see Steph Dolson because obviously olympian
Speaker 1: in three x three, but different style with a full court. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, make your rankings, make sure you got your
Speaker 1: teams one through six, all right. Finally, third box down
Speaker 1: on the right side, duos slash combos. We didn't even
Speaker 1: know we needed off the court. This is just for
Speaker 1: social Who do you want to watch make behind the
Speaker 1: scenes videos? Who do you think it'll be fun to watch?
Speaker 1: You know, dicking around on the bench, which we need
Speaker 1: a new term for dicking around for ladies, booming around,
Speaker 1: titting around, racking around.
Speaker 2: You don't want to help me out here, you don't
Speaker 2: want to hear my.
Speaker 1: Sing around. You're going to have to put a warning
Speaker 1: on this episode.
Speaker 5: I was in One of the categories was rock paper scissors,
Speaker 5: meaning the answer had to have the word rock paper
Speaker 5: or scissors in it, and I was like, lesbian round,
Speaker 5: lesbian round.
Speaker 2: We got a couple in there. We did, we did.
Speaker 5: Those were the only scissor related terms.
Speaker 1: My best friend and I have a joke that will
Speaker 1: get us every time we see scissors, because we were
Speaker 1: playing whatever that game is, like heads up or whatever.
Speaker 1: You have the phone on your forehead and you're trying
Speaker 1: to guess what it says, and everybody's giving you clues,
Speaker 1: and then if you get it right, you get to
Speaker 1: like put your head down and it refreshes. So she
Speaker 1: was the one holding the phone. She didn't know what
Speaker 1: it says, and one of us said, women do this
Speaker 1: and she goes scissoring and me immediately refreshed, like I
Speaker 1: know that's right, and we're like, what not the answer?
Speaker 1: And so now whenever we hear scissors or scissoring, that's
Speaker 1: that's all right. We've really taken a detour here. Anyway,
Speaker 1: this is a question about duos and commos. We didn't
Speaker 1: know we needed off the court. So if you've been
Speaker 1: following the social accounts, and if you haven't, get on
Speaker 1: it me she's just doing those deep dives for us.
Speaker 1: We got to catch up. But there's been a lot
Speaker 1: of cool behind the scenes pictures and videos from the arrivals,
Speaker 1: from the media day, photo shoots from practice. So what
Speaker 1: vibes are you getting from the teams from the teammates.
Speaker 1: Are you maybe hoping there might be some collusion with
Speaker 1: your favorite w player recruiting a new teammate to your
Speaker 1: city now that they've got to got them on their
Speaker 1: same unrivaled team. Do you like watching folks with similar
Speaker 1: fashion vibes or personality maybe some odd couples, mesh, I
Speaker 1: know you've done a deep dive into this. We're gonna
Speaker 1: take a second to do this and rank ours, So
Speaker 1: hit pause, will rank these and then we're gonna hop
Speaker 1: back in. All right, This was another tough one, especially
Speaker 1: because you've only gotten a little taste of what these
Speaker 1: players look like playing together, hanging out together. So this
Speaker 1: is kind of a guest for some of these mish
Speaker 1: what you got.
Speaker 4: Well to start things off, it's got to be ROSEBC
Speaker 4: because the Angel Times Ca Times Britney Sykes trio is
Speaker 4: just bursting with personality. I don't know if folks have
Speaker 4: seen yet the Angel and Cop tiktoks. Some of them
Speaker 4: go on the actual team page and some of them
Speaker 4: just go on their own personal pages. But calling Coy Grandma,
Speaker 4: because believe it or not, she's getting up there.
Speaker 2: I think that's hilarious.
Speaker 4: Britney Sykes in anybody, frankly, in a pairing or a
Speaker 4: trio is hilarious.
Speaker 3: They posted a video the other day of her.
Speaker 4: It's just a super cut of her dancing at media
Speaker 4: day to there she go by Big Lotto and I've
Speaker 4: never related to somebody more than when I saw that video,
Speaker 4: because there's nothing wrong with breaking out in a little
Speaker 4: random dance and making people around you feel a little
Speaker 4: bit better.
Speaker 1: After rope.
Speaker 4: It's gotta be the Lunar owls because any team with
Speaker 4: Ali Chagray, the content they post with her in it,
Speaker 4: it's an immediate like she's one of the most lovable
Speaker 4: players out here. And also we got to wish her
Speaker 4: a happy belated birthday. Her birthday it was a couple
Speaker 4: of days ago. So anything with her is gonna make
Speaker 4: me extremely happy because she seems like the kind that's
Speaker 4: camera shot. But once you get her out of her shell,
Speaker 4: and hopefully they can over the course of the Unrivaled season,
Speaker 4: we can get some cool behind the scenes stuff from
Speaker 4: her and then the Vinyl. I think the practice content
Speaker 4: from them has been fire. I love Jordan Canada as
Speaker 4: a leader, her voice, the way that she kind of.
Speaker 2: Brings energy to a practice.
Speaker 4: We're gonna get a lot more of that, I'm assuming
Speaker 4: as the season goes on, and I just I'm a
Speaker 4: nerd about that kind of shit.
Speaker 2: I kind of just love hearing people talk to her
Speaker 2: in practice.
Speaker 5: Yea.
Speaker 4: The last place team for me in this category was
Speaker 4: the Laces, not because I don't like the players on
Speaker 4: the team, but those are just our mild mannered batties,
Speaker 4: you know, like we're not gonna get I don't.
Speaker 3: Know that we're gonna get a lot out of them,
Speaker 3: which is fine.
Speaker 1: Steph brings it like fashion and stuff, but she's not
Speaker 1: like super over the top personality wise. Yeah, I had
Speaker 1: some similar ones to you. I started off with Phantom.
Speaker 1: I just Marina Maybury's terrible cooking that she thinks looks
Speaker 1: decent has just got me already. I just want to
Speaker 1: see where this goes. The fact that she needed to
Speaker 1: be told to use spices, and then she made a
Speaker 1: cooking video that she's like, Oh, this is gonna be busting,
Speaker 1: and then it was not. And then she gave her
Speaker 1: homemade pasta to Dja Carrington, the one who had given
Speaker 1: her all the spices, and Dja said she left it
Speaker 1: in her locker by mistake and didn't get a chance
Speaker 1: to try it. And then angel Re said about it,
Speaker 1: which is exactly what I thought. Why I think that
Speaker 1: was frosted flakes. And if you want to know why
Speaker 1: this pasta looked bad, it's because it looked like frosted flakes.
Speaker 1: I just need more cooking with Marina Maybury. That's just it.
Speaker 1: And then I don't know, BG is sneaky funny at times,
Speaker 1: and just the vibes from BG are just fun at
Speaker 1: all times. They just did a social video about like
Speaker 1: who's your lookalike? And PG was like, no, not playing
Speaker 1: this game.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 1: My second place was Rose too. Like you said, there's
Speaker 1: just a lot of personality there, and you know, Angel
Speaker 1: Reese is always gonna bring a whole production to everything
Speaker 1: good or bad, and it's gonna be a fashion show
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be like, what's the next thing She's like,
Speaker 1: you know, she just did vogue for Pete's sake, Like
Speaker 1: it's always something with Angel. And then I had the
Speaker 1: lunar owls that they're just because I feel like there's
Speaker 1: this like Skyler plus Cam, like just like fashion thing
Speaker 1: that could be going on there, and same with like
Speaker 1: Court is more mask presenting, but also it's like very
Speaker 1: fashion forward. But I feel like Skyler and Cam are
Speaker 1: full on like models, so to see what they bring
Speaker 1: to the pregame fits and maybe you know, and then
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just find Fees so likable. She's
Speaker 1: not super outgoing, but like her vibes are just chill,
Speaker 1: So I'll leave it there. There's a bunch of good
Speaker 1: ones that I'm sure are gonna come out after that
Speaker 1: it'll be like Oh damn. I didn't even know that
Speaker 1: person was so funny. But that's part of the fun here,
Speaker 1: what about you, al.
Speaker 5: I just want y'all to know that as part of
Speaker 5: this exercise, I tried to calculate the gayest team important.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So I think as of right now it is missed
Speaker 5: uh with at least four players who are publicly out,
Speaker 5: and so that's great. I just want that to be
Speaker 5: on the record of people knowing that. In terms of
Speaker 5: the actual duos, though, I would love to have somebody
Speaker 5: film a shopping trip with Court Williams and Cam Briank
Speaker 5: throw Skyler, Digg and Smith in two Like would love
Speaker 5: to just see them like trying on outfits for each
Speaker 5: other in the dressing room, mayor ye see what comes out,
Speaker 5: just because the sense of fashion style is so different.
Speaker 5: But I think it could be really fun. Kate Martin
Speaker 5: has such sidekick energy, and I would love to see
Speaker 5: her as Alyssa Thomas's sidekick pump up woman. All of
Speaker 5: that maybe help Alyssa come out of her shell a
Speaker 5: little bit more, because I think she's been such an
Speaker 5: underrated player for so long and often doesn't get the
Speaker 5: shine that she needs and deserves. So I want to
Speaker 5: see if we can have that happen on the laces.
Speaker 5: Love it then, Phantom. Okay, this one's a little bit deeper.
Speaker 5: But Natasha Cloud's always been somebody that has been so
Speaker 5: good at using her platform speaking out about social justice,
Speaker 5: racial justice, things that matter to her. Sabrina Unescu not
Speaker 5: so much. And so I'm curious to see if maybe
Speaker 5: there's something that develops there in terms of the two
Speaker 5: of them have an interesting and important conversations off the court.
Speaker 1: All right, get your chemistry, your duo's, combos, trios, the
Speaker 1: people that you most want to see hang off the
Speaker 1: court written down one through six and again. If you're
Speaker 1: not super up to date on these players, you don't
Speaker 1: know them well enough, you don't have strong opinions, you
Speaker 1: could skip it and keep the integrity of your rankings. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're going to give you a minute here. Double check,
Speaker 1: make sure you've got each club ranked at least once
Speaker 1: in each category. Enjoy this very brief musical interlude. Okay,
Speaker 1: here it is the moment of truth. In the bottom
Speaker 1: left box. For each club, you're going to write down
Speaker 1: the name followed by the ranking that they earned in
Speaker 1: each box. So For instance, the first spot in the
Speaker 1: first box top left for me is Phantom, So I'm
Speaker 1: writing down Phantom with a one. Then I'm going to
Speaker 1: the second box and I'm seeing that I had Phantom
Speaker 1: at three, I'm writing down a three. Then I've got
Speaker 1: them at three again, and so on. Then you're going
Speaker 1: to add up the points from each box for each club.
Speaker 1: The team with the lowest total points is your unrivaled squad.
Speaker 1: And then when you get to that, you'll jot down
Speaker 1: the name in the bottom right box. Give it a
Speaker 1: big old circle, and start telling the world who your
Speaker 1: team is. Make it your whole personality. All right, hit pause,
Speaker 1: do some math. Okay, I'm excited about what I got
Speaker 1: for a number of reasons. One because I'm a basic
Speaker 1: bitch who likes logos and colors, and it was one
Speaker 1: of my favorite logos in colors. And also because ultimately
Speaker 1: it was never my least favorite in anything. This team
Speaker 1: got two ones and four threes, so it's kind of
Speaker 1: middle of the road and a bunch, and then it
Speaker 1: was my favorite in a couple and it never dropped,
Speaker 1: you know, into the fives and sixes. So y'all, but
Speaker 1: I'm Team Phantom, oh okay, okayissing. It was a two
Speaker 1: team race and Phantom is my club, all right? Which
Speaker 1: you got me?
Speaker 2: Coming in first? For me is ROSEBC.
Speaker 4: Whoa I had three ones for Rose, so three top choices,
Speaker 4: two fours in one to three.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was not expecting this. I had an idea in
Speaker 4: the back of my head of what my team was
Speaker 4: gonna be. But I'm not mad at it. I'm not
Speaker 4: mad at it.
Speaker 1: Okay, al who you got?
Speaker 5: Okay? My number one team is the Laces Best, which
Speaker 5: I think is so funny because I realized that I
Speaker 5: ranked them last in terms of players, but then first
Speaker 5: in terms of chemistry and duos, which gives you a
Speaker 5: sense of how much they picture thought I put into that.
Speaker 1: Not scientific, No.
Speaker 5: No, I think maybe some of those quizzes that we
Speaker 5: took in old magazines for a little bit more scientific,
Speaker 5: at least the attentions to detail that I put into them.
Speaker 5: But I'm Team Laces from here on out.
Speaker 1: I'm Jellyfish on that logo to be honest, because the
Speaker 1: Lace's logo is fire. But I love that we all
Speaker 1: ended up with different teams. Let the ship talk and
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