WEBVTT - Which Basketball Club is MFU? An Unrivaled Team Draft 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:03.240 Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're very 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:06.240 proud of Connecticut sun guard Marina Maybrey for learning to 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:10.399 season her food and it's her rival turned bestie Dja 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:14.080 Carrington who put her on the right path. That's what 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:18.800 sports are really all about. It's Wednesday, January fifteenth, Draft 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:21.800 Day and on today's show, Alex Mesh and I are 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:25.320 drafting our unrivaled teams ahead of Friday's tip off. We've 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:29.800 got a foolproof system. It's part Hoops Draft, part seventeen 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:32.160 magazine quiz are you his friend. 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:33.120 Or his crush? 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:37.199 And part BuzzFeed personality test? Which Disney Princess are you? 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:40.519 Are you a Carrie, Samantha, Miranda or Charlotte. By the end, 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:45.160 we'll learn the unrivaled basketball club that's m FU made 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:47.120 for us, and we've set it all up for you 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:50.080 to play along and pick your squad. Two plus, it's 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:53.360 woso wedding season. A super slice comes through and a 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:56.480 big opportunity is coming your waist slices. It's all coming 0:00:56.560 --> 0:01:12.200 up right after this welcome back. Here's what you need 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:17.399 to know today in hockey News, We've got PWHL action 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:20.000 tonight as the league leading Minnesota Frost faced the New 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:22.680 York Sirens at seven pm Eastern. This will be a 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:25.759 meeting of the league's best goal scorers. 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Northwestern's game at UCLA this past 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:07.119 Sunday was also postponed. Number one UCLA's matchup with Penn 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:10.160 State is still scheduled to take place tonight nine thirty 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:13.720 Eastern at Walter Pyramid on Long Beach State's campus. Our 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:15.960 hearts really go out to everyone in these programs. It's 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:17.760 got to take us serious amount of guts to put 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:20.280 on a brave face and continue with both school and 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:23.760 the basketball season at a time like this. 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Got to give a quick shout 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:43.400 out to super slice Joey Maldonado, who took some time 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:46.080 during the holiday break to make a calendar of all 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:50.320 the Pro Volleyball Federation, Love Pro Volleyball, AU Basketball and 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:53.920 unrivaled games coming up over the next few months, day time, 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:57.120 where it's happening, how to watch. Joey is a literal 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:59.520 superstar for putting all these together for us. We'll link 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:01.520 to that in show notes so y'all can benefit from 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:04.000 his work too. Thank you, Joey. We got to take 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:07.320 a quick break when we come back. Who's your celebrity soulmate? 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:10.880 What season are you in your soul Which Hogwarts teacher 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:14.080 would give you detention? Are you basic? We don't have 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:15.720 any of those answers, but we will tell you your 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:29.919 unrivaled team Coming up next, Welcome back Slices. Today's the 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:34.240 big day, our unrivaled team draft. Now, if you haven't 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:37.039 picked your unrivaled squad just yet, grab a pen and 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:39.520 some paper and play along with us. By the end 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:42.520 of the show, your squad will be revealed. If you 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:44.359 already have a squad, no worries. This is also a 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:46.280 great way to get familiar with the teams and players 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:49.200 ahead of tip off on Friday. Okay, so this is 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:51.599 how this is gonna work. Grab a piece of paper 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:54.080 and a pen. You can hit pause for a second. 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:56.880 You've got to run into another room to grab them. Okay, 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:59.559 got it? Okay, Now, you can obviously use multiple pieces 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:00.840 of paper, but if you want to have a little 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:03.680 fun with it, let's just split one page into eight boxes. 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.799 So take the page and draw one vertical line down 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:11.960 the middle, splitting the page vertically in half. Now add 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:18.280 three horizontal lines, splitting the page horizontally into four sections. 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:21.839 So now you should have eight boxes of roughly the 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:25.840 same size on your page. If it's not perfect, no worries. Now, 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:30.200 in every single box except for the bottom two, write 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:33.719 the numbers one, two, three, four, five six top to 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:36.679 bottom on the left side of the box. Every box 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.039 except for the bottom two should have one, two, three, four, 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.560 five six going from top to bottom on the left 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:43.840 hand side. Now, it'll definitely help you if you pull 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.560 up the Unrivaled website to see the team logos while 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:48.800 you do this. But if you're driving or walking, or 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:51.520 exercising or otherwise can't look at your screen, don't worry. 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:53.320 We got you for that part. Okay, here's how this 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:56.440 is gonna work. We're gonna rank each Unrivaled club one 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.600 through six in six different categories, and then the final 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:02.440 scores will reveal our preferred squad. Shout out to front 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:04.520 of the show claim Conahan and her crew for this 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:07.040 draft idea. We used most of the categories that they used, 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:08.760 but we came up with a little bit of changes too. 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:10.640 So here's what we're gonna be using to pick our 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:18.120 club team name, color, slash logo slash branding, head coaches, players, chemistry, 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:20.680 and winability of the roster as a whole on the court, 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.960 and duo slash combos we didn't know we needed off 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:27.240 the court. Okay, let's get into it. Top left box 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:31.720 is gonna be team name. Now. You're gonna rank each 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:35.280 of the six clubs one to six based on name only, 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:39.120 just the name, nothing else. Your favorite name will go 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:42.640 in slot one, your second favorite in slot two, and 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:46.760 so on. Here are the club names. Lace's Basketball Club, 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:53.440 Lunar Owls Basketball Club, Missed Basketball Club, Phantom Basketball Club, 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:58.320 Rose Basketball Club, and Vinyl Basketball Club. Okay, I'm gonna 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:05.040 say those one more time. Laces, Lunar Owls, Missed, Phantom, Rose, 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:09.040 and Vinyl. All Right, everybody quickly kind of jot down 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:11.800 what you're thinking first reactions, and then Big Centris I 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:14.000 want to talk through this and figure out you know 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:19.960 what you're thinking. All right, we're just talking names now, 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.640 nothing else. Meish what club stands out to you, what 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:26.320 doesn't do it for you. My first spot has to 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:30.280 go to Vinyl Basketball Club because music. 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:33.880 First of all, we haven't discussed this at length on 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:36.440 the show, but me and music go together real bad. 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:38.360 So the fact that they're called Vinyl, I just think 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:43.720 is so automatically. Yes for me, I really also enjoy laces. 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:46.640 I think that's very unique. I think in basketball lace 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:48.960 them up, you know. I think that's probably what they 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:50.840 were talking about when they're throwing ideas at the wall. 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:55.240 U love that bonus points for that, And then I 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:59.040 don't missed BC. It just it doesn't do it for me. 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.199 It makes me the of medicine immediately, Okay, Like I 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.200 should be watching a commercial and they're like, yeah, it's 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:07.600 a nasal spray. Take this, Yeah, high blood pressure, please 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:11.240 do not like it's just something about that just does 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:12.320 it hit right for me. 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:13.280 Alex's first thought. 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:16.840 I love the lunar owls, although I did just google 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:19.880 to see like what species the lunar owls is and 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:21.640 where you can find them, and I think it's a 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:24.840 made up animal, Like obviously they're owls, and I'm sure 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:27.640 that there are lunar varieties of other creatures, but I thought. 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:28.719 That was so fun. 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:31.679 Vinyl is my last one because vinyl makes me think 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:34.120 of plastic, which makes me think of climate change in 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.719 the world degrading. So even though I'm sure they did 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:40.120 not mean that association, just that's my last one. 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:43.560 I'm a little bit closer to meish for sure. Missed 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:46.880 is my last. I'm glad you said something like nasal 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:48.840 spray or medicine you shouldn't take if you have high 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.079 blood pressure. For me, like I said, it's just one 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:54.600 letter away from moist and it sounds like some sort 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:59.720 of like vaginal douche. Oh like if you're feeling unfresh, 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:04.040 just a seven day treatment with miss BC just not 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:06.760 not my favorite. And lunar owls were my second to last. 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:10.120 I love owls. I don't know why they're lunar, what 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.240 do they have to do with the moon. And also 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:14.520 it just doesn't ring off. It doesn't like roll off 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:19.280 the tongue. Lunar owls. It's just not pretty sounding. Laces 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:22.200 were my second favorite, though. I like the idea of lace's, 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:25.520 I like the connection. I like phantom. I don't know why. 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:27.679 I just like the mystery of it all. And I 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:30.560 feel like I haven't seen a lot of teams. The 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:31.959 only thing that's weird about that for me is I 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:36.280 usually don't like singular things like she's a phantoms, but 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:38.040 I just like I just like the name. 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:39.720 It's spooky, it's great common. 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:42.400 Yeah, it just like I haven't heard anything like it. 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:45.079 You don't usually hear team names that are you know, 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:49.080 ac cult like or spooky or you know, and I 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:52.560 think it's bold to have that. Okay, everyone, make sure 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.400 you've got your names filled out one to six, your 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:57.839 favorite in number one down to your least favorite in 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:02.480 number six. Okay, Next, we're going top right box. This 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:06.240 is color logo and branding. This is kind of tough 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:08.320 for an audio medium. I'm going to describe them to 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:10.200 you a little bit. If you can pull it up 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:12.640 and look at them, that's definitely going to help you. 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:16.080 But if you're driving, exercising, etc. Quick summary of each 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:19.800 is the Laces is an aqua colored circle with the 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:22.520 outline of a basketball inside and a reddish pink l 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:26.720 made out of shoelaces. Lunar owls is a purplish blue 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:30.440 owl in a yellow circle. Mist is a light blue 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:33.760 sky with navy mountains and trees emerging from white clouds. 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:37.240 Phantom is a black basketball with a white ghost over 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:40.920 it and some spooky looking letters saying phantom. Rose is 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:43.600 a forest green circle with a pink rose inside. In 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:46.600 the center of the rose is a basketball, and Vinyl 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:49.760 is a deep magenta kind of burgundy red record, like 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:51.880 a record from a record player with a white and 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:55.920 light blue basketball inside. Now, if you need to pause 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:57.640 and take a little bit of time with this one, 0:11:57.679 --> 0:11:59.920 feel free. Like I said, you could pull up the clubs, 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.600 but list these again, from one to six, your favorite 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:05.480 and number one all the way down to number six. 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:12.000 Let's take a minute and do that. All right, let's 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:14.240 talk through this for a minute here. I'm gonna go first. 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:16.800 This was really hard for me because I actually liked 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:19.160 almost all of them. I think they did a pretty 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:22.720 good job. I gotta go with the laces. I just 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.720 think it's really cool how the l is like weaving 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:27.840 in and out of the rest of the logo. I 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:31.560 love again the reference to shoelaces and the color scheme 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:33.280 is cool and different, something I haven't seen in a 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:36.360 lot of other sports teams. I also was really drawn 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:39.040 to the mist I've talked in the past. There's this 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:41.480 I think I mentioned on the show, although I'm not positive. 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:46.680 There's this new lower level soccer team called Salmon Bay FC, 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:49.840 and I literally want to live in their crest. It 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:52.640 has this like beautiful salmon colored sky and the water 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:54.920 in the mountains and that's what this reminds me of, 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:57.800 is like Lake Tahoe or someplace that I love visiting. 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:00.560 So the mist was a beautiful landscape that made me 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:02.440 want to go there, So that was number two. I 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:05.679 also really love Phantom. It just again was completely different 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:09.480 than anything I've ever seen from a sports logo. Honestly, 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:12.240 the only one I didn't really like was Rose. It 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:13.360 just didn't do it for me. 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:17.840 Vinyl is last for me because who yeah, because I 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:19.400 was expecting so much. 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:22.040 The name is great, but the record doesn't even look 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:22.640 like a record. 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.679 It's like just some random circle with some squiggly lines 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:28.240 in the middle of it somewhere. It just doesn't It's 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:31.800 not giving me record like I needed to. Laces they're 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:35.160 my number two for the same reasons. I also love 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.960 that like is it turquoise? 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:41.559 Is it qua till? Yeah? 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:42.120 Yeah, that color. 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:45.360 If folks go to the Laces Instagram page, they've got 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:47.520 the jerseys in that color sick. 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:49.360 I mean, they're they're gorgeous. 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:54.360 So absolutely my number one in this category is Phantom. Yeah, 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:57.160 because I love I'm a basic bitch. 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:58.439 Maybe maybe that's what it is. 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:03.400 I love basic black and white and the little ghostages. 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:05.240 Look, it's adorable. 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:06.440 How can you not love that? 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:07.800 What you got? Alex? 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:12.240 Okay, so number one, I'm with you. Sarah Laces just 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:15.520 super cool. Love the way that it intersects. Then I 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.120 have the miss because I do like the landscape. My 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:20.040 only other concern with it, apart from the fact that 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:22.640 there appears to be no basketball, which I guess is 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:28.760 a prerequisite for me, the logo has be on one 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:30.840 side see on the other for basketball club. But when 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:32.960 I look at it, I do kind of say, be 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:35.800 missed CE, be missed. 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:36.960 CE like it. 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:39.680 So as I'm saying this, I think I'm gonna move 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:41.360 them down. I'm gonna move them down to number three. 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:43.600 I'm going to put the lunar owls at number two, 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:48.320 with a weird looking owl with its basketball ballet. Phantom 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.360 is number five for me for some reason, Like I 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:54.200 know you were kind of convincing me. I'm second guessing 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:56.120 myself now, but it reminded me a little bit too 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:57.600 much of like Spirit Halloween. 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:01.320 Just quick aside for those who will appreciate this. When 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:04.480 I see ghosts like that. There was this incredible Saturday 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:06.520 Night Live episode with Christopher Walkin where they had a 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:09.280 Christopher Walkin Family renew and every cast member had to 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:12.640 do a Walkin impression to him, and Amy Poehler was 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:15.640 by far the best. She was better than Christopher Walkin, 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:20.040 and her thing just kept being like, I don't like ghosts, 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:23.920 the spooky, and every time I see a ghost down 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:27.800 my brain just goes I don't like ghosts anyway. All right, 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:31.960 moving on second box down on the left. Head coaches. Now, 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:34.880 let me just put this out there. If you don't 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:36.720 know shit about any of these coaches, if you don't 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:39.080 have strong opinions about any of them, you don't have 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:41.520 to rank them. If you're worried that the you know, 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:44.840 protecting the point system and the integrity of your scoring 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:47.440 will be affected by randomly assigning numbers to people who 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:49.800 don't care about, don't do it. But we want to 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:51.480 give you all the information to work with and if 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:54.040 you want to make choices based on coaches, here you go. 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:58.160 The Lace's head coach is Andrew Wade, a player development 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:02.320 assistant coach for the Washington miss shout Out dmvbs a 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:05.840 former college player at the Catholic University of America in DC, 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:07.760 which I knew nothing about, but it turns out is 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:11.880 the National University of the Catholic Church in the United States. Okay, 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:16.000 The Lunar Owls head coach is DJ Sackman, an NBA 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:20.000 and WNBA skills coach, an influencer who founded hoop Study, 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:23.880 an online basketball education company. He's got millions of followers, 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:26.600 so if you like influencers, that's your guy. He played 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:29.600 his college ball at the University of New Haven in Connecticut. 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:33.040 The missed head coach Phil Handy. He played college ball 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:36.480 for the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors, then professional ball overseas for 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:39.320 five years. Longtime assistant coach in the NBA, he's won 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:42.880 three NBA championships as an assistant. For his first three seasons, 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:45.120 he was a player development coach for the Lakers under 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:47.680 Mike Brown. Also served as an assistant under Brown in 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.480 Cleveland for five seasons, then under Nick Nurse for a season, 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:52.720 and most recently back to the Lakers from twenty nineteen 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:55.440 to twenty twenty four. If you're a Lakers fan, maybe 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:59.800 that's your guy. Phantom head coach Adam Harrington previously served 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:02.320 as an assistant coach and the director of player development 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:04.959 for the Brooklyn Nets and as a shooting coach for 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:08.480 the Thunder Oklahoma City Thunder. He played collegiately at Auburn 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:11.520 and North Carolina State and professionally in the NBA Europe 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:16.239 and China Rose head coach Nola Henry just added as 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:19.040 an assistant coach for the Dallas Wings this week, so 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:21.000 if you're a Dallas fan, maybe this year ago. She 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:23.320 was an assistant coach for the Sparks in twenty twenty four, 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:25.440 after being a player development coach during the twenty twenty 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:27.960 three season for them. Also part of Kurtmuller's staff when 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:30.320 he was at the Connecticut Sun. She played college hoops 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:35.200 at UMass and the College of Charleston. Vinyl head coach. 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:39.800 Theresa Weatherspoon, former WNBA and college hoops legend. She played 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:42.520 for Team USA, winning Olympic gold and silver. Played for 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:44.680 the New York Liberty the LA Sparks of the WNBA, 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:47.760 played college ball for Louisiana Tech. She's a Hoops Hall 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:49.840 of Famer. She worked in player development and was an 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:52.080 assistant coach for the New Orleans Pelicans of the MNBA 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:54.040 for three seasons before becoming the head coach of the 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:57.439 Chicago Sky last year. She was let go after just 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:01.679 one season in Chicago. My feelings on that have been made. Okay, 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:06.080 rank your teams by coach one through six, and again, 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:07.639 if you got no thoughts on the coaches, you can 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:10.000 always leave the category blank to protect the integrity of 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:13.919 your point system. Let's talk through this quickly, mish Alex. 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:15.920 Did you have any big takeaways on this? It's hard 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:17.880 because there are a couple that I'm like, oh cool, yeah, 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:19.720 and then there's something I'm like that I don't really care. 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:20.960 Yeah. 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:25.760 My list is pretty simple. After Muffet interview yesterday, I'm like, 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:27.800 you gotta put the women first. So go in with 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:31.800 t Spoon number one, Nola Henry number two, three through six, 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:35.600 the men based on how often they worked with women's 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:38.920 basketball players, judging if they fall three. 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:41.359 Through six, it's very reasonable. 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:46.360 I have got Nola Henry Rose VC head coaches number 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:50.680 one because first of all, Coastal Athletic Association grad shout 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:53.080 out College of Charleston, shout out to Nola. 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:54.920 Congrats to her on the new gig. 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:56.680 Also, I got a chance to chat with her when 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:59.720 I was out in Phoenix and they played the Mercury 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:02.560 played the Sparks, and she was on that Sparks coaching staff. 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:06.119 So shout out to her number two Spoon. It's gotta 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:09.160 be Spoon. She's got to be one or two. I'm 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:11.159 riding or dying with her period. I would love to 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:13.880 have played for her. I would run through a wall 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:14.639 for her right now. 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:15.120 Frankly. 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:19.040 At three, I have Phil Handy because he's one of 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:22.280 those real ogs like I've been following his I believe 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:24.480 his Instagram is like ninety four feet of Game or 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:29.200 something like that, and he's been unlocking the secrets and 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:31.560 throwing out drills and skills and all that kind of 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:34.520 stuff since when I was playing in high school. And 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:36.800 it also is really involved, as you just said, Alex 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:40.320 on the women's side with women's players on purpose and 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:41.400 then the rest. 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:45.840 Are Yeah, so DJ Sackman, I don't think it's had 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:49.119 a lot involvement with the WNBA women's side until this, 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:52.440 but I at least like that he created this big, 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:55.439 like basketball education thing, and so I'm down with that. 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:59.159 And then I will probably get skewered for this and 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:02.280 shouldn't say it aloud, but I just got to drop 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:05.600 the guy from the Catholic Church University to last. I 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:08.000 just I don't want too much of God in my coaching. 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:12.440 Let's just let him her it they if it exists, 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:16.720 take care of more important things than our huddle. Okay, anyway, 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:21.040 rank your coaches, rank your teams, and again you can 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:26.280 leave them blake. Okay, second, box down on the right players. Now, 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:29.439 there are probably some players you just can't imagine rooting against. 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:32.560 Maybe it's someone from your alma mater or your w squad, 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:34.600 someone you wish was on your squad you always want 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:36.440 to rock with, and you're gonna take this chance to 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:39.280 root for. On the other hand, there might be a 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:42.760