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Speaker 1: Full Circle is an iheartwoman's sports production and partnership with

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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, Welcome back to another episode of Full Circle.

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Speaker 2: I'm here with Lexi. Lexi, how you doing.

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Speaker 3: I'm good. Good morning, guys. It's eight A right now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's early.

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Speaker 3: Early just for y'all.

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Speaker 4: We're up at the slip at the top of the

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Speaker 4: morning to get this amazing podcast out to y'all.

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Speaker 3: So we appreciate y'all. We love y'all.

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Speaker 4: Thank you guys for tuning in every week, and we're

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Speaker 4: finna get into it. This is gonna be a good episode.

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Speaker 4: I'm excited about this one.

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Speaker 2: I'm excited to Lexi.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna start off with, of course, a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a rain, as we do. But as y'all know,

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Speaker 1: me and Lexi talk of the dms. We send each

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Speaker 1: other stuff that we see online, and this week has just.

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Speaker 4: Been funny funny, not funny ha ha, funny, weird.

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Speaker 2: Let me take it away.

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, I.

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Speaker 4: Actually saw a post yesterday on TikTok because I do

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Speaker 4: still love TikTok and someone was talking about how this

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Speaker 4: season has been like weird vibes, and I kind of agree,

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Speaker 4: and not because of anything that we as players are doing,

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Speaker 4: but it's like the overall coverage of the w has

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Speaker 4: been like odd. So last year it was negative, overwhelmingly crazy,

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Speaker 4: and then this year it's like strange, Like what post

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Speaker 4: did we see yesterday?

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Speaker 1: So the Big Sports network posted a photo on their Instagram.

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Speaker 1: Y'all can go look, it's still up of Angel Reese's

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Speaker 1: dog and it said Angel Reese's dog.

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Speaker 2: I don't remember his name.

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Speaker 1: It was like Toto or something, Toto celebrates his second

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Speaker 1: birthday and it was like a picture of the dog

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Speaker 1: with a little cake in front of it. And I'm

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Speaker 1: bigger to myself. I follow Angel on pretty much Instagram,

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Speaker 1: TikTok whatever. I didn't even see anything she posted about.

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Speaker 1: I don't know where they got that. I don't know

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Speaker 1: why they posted it. But this is not this don't know.

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Speaker 2: To do basketball.

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Speaker 3: This is a sport.

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Speaker 2: She commented on it. She commented on it.

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Speaker 4: This is strange, yeah, because it is a sports platform,

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Speaker 4: and I feel like the sports platforms have already quickly

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Speaker 4: run out of things to report on, which is ridiculous

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Speaker 4: because there there's a plethora of things to report.

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Speaker 3: On and talk about going on in the WNBA season

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Speaker 3: right now. And what it is.

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Speaker 4: Making me realize that a lot of these platforms have

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Speaker 4: people in charge.

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Speaker 3: So these are the admin.

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Speaker 4: You know, last time I was like, not too much

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Speaker 4: on the admin, but like, right now, yes, we going

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Speaker 4: in on the admin. These people do not genuinely enjoy

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Speaker 4: basketball or know anything about basketball, or anything about women's

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Speaker 4: sports in general. They are just trying to clickbait engagement

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Speaker 4: and do weird stuff. And I guess, like, yeah, that's

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Speaker 4: how you get paid engagement clicks, but like, what are

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Speaker 4: you How is that putting? How is that promoting the

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Speaker 4: women's game? How's that promoting women's sports? How is that

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Speaker 4: pushing the game forward? When now the entire this is

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Speaker 4: not like a click baity site, Like this is major

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Speaker 4: sports platforms turning into troll pages. And I'm like, I'm

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Speaker 4: just confused as to why how did we get here?

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Speaker 1: I think that some people might be confused because at

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Speaker 1: the risk of sounding like complaining, which complaining is fine,

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Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with complaining, But my point is it's

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Speaker 2: We don't like the way it's being covered.

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Speaker 1: I feel like with that post in particular, it just

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Speaker 1: felt to me the Chicago's guy aren't in the best

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Speaker 1: place right now, which we'll get into later in the show.

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Speaker 1: But and obviously, when Angel is posted on any big platform,

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Speaker 1: the comments are typically overwhelmingly negative, which is not her fault,

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Speaker 1: but you would think an unnecessary reason opposed her.

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Speaker 2: That's non basketball related.

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Speaker 1: Okay, tunnle fit cool, but her dog celebrating to get

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Speaker 1: second birthday. It's like you're trying to you want engagement,

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Speaker 1: but at the risk of what, at the risk of

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Speaker 1: Like it's dumb, you know what you're getting.

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Speaker 4: Exactly, And that's why I'm just now I'm like, as

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Speaker 4: I look through their pages, I'm like, a lot of

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Speaker 4: these posts don't have anything to do with sports at all,

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Speaker 4: and that's not how women's sports should be covered. We've

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Speaker 3: But I just think that a lot.

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Speaker 4: Of people covering women's basketball do not They don't like basketball,

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Speaker 4: which is why I'm so grateful to have this show

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Speaker 4: and I'm grateful for everybody that tunes into this show

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Speaker 4: because we really just talk about basketball because I love basketball.

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Speaker 4: I don't care who's playing it. I don't care who's

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Speaker 4: it's something that I'm passionate about. And there's a a

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Speaker 4: lot of people in charge of stuff that don't care.

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Speaker 4: All they care about is clicks and comments and likes

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Speaker 1: One thing I will say as somebody who works primarily

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Speaker 1: I work with a lot of these brands like the

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Speaker 1: Big Sports Network and the W and the NBA on

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Speaker 1: the social side of things, and the biggest way to

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Speaker 1: that intersection between sports, pop culture, fashion, lifestyle, those kind

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Speaker 1: of things correct which I am all about and love.

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Speaker 1: That's one of the reasons I love sports. I love basketball,

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Speaker 1: but I do love all that other stuff too. I

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Speaker 1: think that there is a place for a balance of

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Speaker 1: basketball strictly basketball coverage. And yeah, people love Angel Reese.

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Speaker 1: I mean she's like the most falled player on Instagram

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Speaker 1: of the w Obviously people want to see her and

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Speaker 2: But post stuff that is related to the game.

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Speaker 1: You get what I'm saying, Like, you can't just post, Oh,

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Speaker 1: she's at home with her dog, that's weird. That's almost

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Speaker 1: encroaching on her privacy, and like, why is the big

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Speaker 1: sports network posting that? But post carousel of everyone's tunnel

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Speaker 1: want to make Angel to cover, will make Angel to

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Speaker 1: are new fans who are just following these pages? I

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Speaker 2: If they're just.

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Speaker 1: Seeing Angel Reese's dog is celebrating its birthday, it doesn't

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Speaker 1: to take the league as seriously.

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Speaker 2: And I think that's the thing that's frustrating for W players.

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Speaker 1: And w fans Now with the m NBA, the men

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Speaker 1: pageantry of basketball. It is a game that is super

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Speaker 1: ingrained in culture in so many ways, and I love

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Speaker 1: to see players at the Matt Gala and players on

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Speaker 1: But we see just as much of the other stuff

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Speaker 1: with the men too, And that's the frustrating part. It's

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Speaker 2: And it's annoying.

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Speaker 3: It's very annoying.

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Speaker 4: And I hope that as the season goes on it

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Speaker 4: fixes itself. But if it does it, y'all know where

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Speaker 4: to tune in at if y'll want to hear some

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Speaker 4: real hoop talk right here on Full Circle. So, speaking

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Speaker 4: of that, we're gonna get into some hoop talk. Sorry

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Speaker 4: about another rent, Actually no, I'm not sorry. Don't be sorry,

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Speaker 4: but we' finn to get into some basketball talk, and

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Speaker 4: we're gonna start with a little bit of Commissioner's Cup update.

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Speaker 3: So Mariah, do you have an update for us?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So we talked about what the Commissioner Cup is

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Speaker 1: in our last episode. If you weren't tuned in, it's

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Speaker 1: basically just the wnbas N season tournament and the current

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Speaker 1: top teams and cup play are at the Liberty and

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Speaker 1: the Links And this is really exciting because that could

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Speaker 1: be a potential finals rematch in the Cup on July first,

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Speaker 1: So tune in on July first. If you guys don't

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Speaker 1: know about that, already had that marked off in your calendar.

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Speaker 2: And it's great because the stakes are.

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Speaker 1: Feeling really high early, which is exactly what Lexie spoke

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Speaker 1: about last week. I'm curious, Lexi, from your perspective.

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Speaker 2: Are these games?

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Speaker 1: Can these games shift the MVP and the all star

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Speaker 4: I don't think so, because right now Fee is like

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Speaker 4: light years ahead of everybody as far as MVP, and

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Speaker 4: I'm very happy for her. She's playing out a really

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Speaker 4: much farther ahead than everybody else. That she's playing really

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Speaker 4: well and so is her team as far as all Star.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I've always had my gripes about All Star

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Speaker 4: because we have only forty four games, so fifteen games.

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Speaker 3: In we start All Star voting.

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Speaker 4: Like there's players that like might not even find their

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Speaker 4: really you got to come out like really really hot

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Speaker 4: have an idea of who the majority of the All

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Speaker 4: Stars will be based on how people have been playing.

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Speaker 3: I don't think there's gonna be much of a shift.

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Speaker 4: Like I said, there's not really like a huge commotion

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Speaker 4: about the Commissioner's Cup still, Like I was talking to

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Speaker 4: one of my friends yesterday and he was like, I

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Speaker 4: listened to y'all's episode, and I was like, Okay, well

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Speaker 4: that's good. That means we're doing our job, but like

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Speaker 4: also not good because he's someone that actually follows basketball

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Speaker 4: and the WNBA, and he was like, I didn't know

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Speaker 4: like all of these things that were going on within

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Speaker 4: the Commissioner's Cup. So we actually play the Links tomorrow

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Speaker 4: and they are way above everybody in the West as

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Speaker 4: far as points spread, so tomorrow's game for us is

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Speaker 4: like super important if we want a chance to get

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Speaker 4: to that final game. But right now they're like whoop

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Speaker 4: everybody's ass as far as point differential, So we gotta

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Speaker 4: we gotta either blow them out tomorrow or just simply win,

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Speaker 4: but like a blah win with definitely even.

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Speaker 3: The playfield for us quite a bit.

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Speaker 1: I'm written in for you, Lexie, I will say number one,

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Speaker 1: I just just to shift gears just to Tad.

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Speaker 2: I forgot to say this at the top of the show.

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Speaker 1: We're in our ranting era, but I need to mention

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Speaker 1: it now. The Commissioner's Cup praised it. Great idea. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: I think it's so smart of the W to do

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Speaker 1: that in this time where it's like NHL is happening,

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Speaker 4: But I think that the Commissioner's Cup is amazing. I

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like, so hopefully next season they'll do something fun

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Speaker 3: Them on TikTok.

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Speaker 3: Oh that was weak.

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Speaker 5: They can catch us on our other platforms, right, But

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Speaker 3: I love that. I love that shout out to y'all.

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Speaker 4: Even though y'all Sparks fans, It's okay, Well, they.

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Speaker 2: Lexi.

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Speaker 1: One Rookie of the Month Sonya AND's Keiki have both

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 4: Really yes, shout out to Kiki. That's amazing. I think

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Speaker 4: and kind of took a back seat to Juju. But

443
00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:25,639
Speaker 4: obviously she's been putting that work in and she's been

444
00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:29,440
Speaker 4: showing her versatility and her toughness. So I've been really

445
00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:32,399
Speaker 4: impressed with Kiki. The combination of her an Sonia was

446
00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:36,000
Speaker 4: two amazing picks by the Mystics. They're really like, they're

447
00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:38,720
Speaker 4: really buying into their future because both of them have

448
00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:41,159
Speaker 4: started I think, every single game, and then I was

449
00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:43,719
Speaker 4: I also want to give a shout out to Brittany

450
00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:46,560
Speaker 4: Sykes who's averaging twenty points and five assists and she's

451
00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:49,280
Speaker 4: really taking on that veteran leadership role on that on

452
00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:52,400
Speaker 4: that squad, and anybody that's watched Britney Sykes plays knows

453
00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:55,880
Speaker 4: that she's super competitive, wants to win, always, will run

454
00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:58,000
Speaker 4: through a wall for anybody in her teammates.

455
00:20:58,080 --> 00:20:58,720
Speaker 3: And they're headed in.

456
00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:01,600
Speaker 4: The right direction. They're trending up, so that's always a

457
00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:03,960
Speaker 4: good thing. Their record might not show it, but they're

458
00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:07,240
Speaker 4: definitely trending in the right direction. So shout out to

459
00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:09,119
Speaker 4: shout out to the Mystics.

460
00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:12,080
Speaker 2: And I double checked since you said that, and yeah, she.

461
00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:14,000
Speaker 1: Is the first Mystics player to win Rookie of the

462
00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:17,680
Speaker 1: Months and the first Mystics rookie to record four consecutive

463
00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:21,639
Speaker 1: double doubles and just the second rookie in WNBA history

464
00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:24,440
Speaker 1: to achieve four double doubles in her first five games.

465
00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:27,959
Speaker 4: Whoa shout out to Kiki Man. I think that this

466
00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:30,280
Speaker 4: rookie of the Year race is going to be even

467
00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:33,080
Speaker 4: though right now Kiki has now overtaken Paige as the

468
00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:35,680
Speaker 4: favorite of Rookie of the Year because Page has missed

469
00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:38,879
Speaker 4: her last four games. I think there's there's gonna be

470
00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:43,000
Speaker 4: a few more rookies sprinkled into the mix. I want

471
00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:45,280
Speaker 4: to give a shout out to Lexi Held, who plays

472
00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:50,240
Speaker 4: for the Mercury. She currently is leading the rookie class

473
00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:54,960
Speaker 4: in total points so far this season. We just played

474
00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,120
Speaker 4: the Mercury a few days ago and she came in

475
00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:01,160
Speaker 4: and she just looks really comfortable, and I've just been

476
00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:03,439
Speaker 4: ready for her opportunity, her number to be called. She

477
00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:07,440
Speaker 4: was a training camp contract player. She'd been playing overseas

478
00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:09,560
Speaker 4: for a few seasons, and you know, you have two

479
00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:13,159
Speaker 4: players like at and Kyle go down, you got to

480
00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:15,640
Speaker 4: be ready to fill in some some big shoes. And

481
00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:17,919
Speaker 4: she stepped up to the play the last two games,

482
00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:19,640
Speaker 4: averaging twenty eight minutes per game.

483
00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:23,320
Speaker 3: So I want to give a shout out to Lexi

484
00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:25,400
Speaker 3: even though we got the same Yeah, it's not three

485
00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:26,320
Speaker 3: Lexis in the league.

486
00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:28,480
Speaker 4: We got three Lexies in the league now, but she

487
00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:31,720
Speaker 4: really has come in and made her mark. So I

488
00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:34,720
Speaker 4: think if the Mercury, can you know, continue to win.

489
00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:38,480
Speaker 4: She's definitely going to be in the conversation for Rookie

490
00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:39,959
Speaker 4: of the Year as well, for sure.

491
00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:40,600
Speaker 2: Yeah.

492
00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:43,239
Speaker 1: I think New fans haven't gotten the opportunity to hear

493
00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:46,919
Speaker 1: as many of these positive stories of players earning their spot,

494
00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:50,080
Speaker 1: you know, and having a story like Lexi's where she

495
00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:52,119
Speaker 1: went from. It feels so weird calling somebody else, like

496
00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:56,560
Speaker 1: from a training camp contract to scoring her career high

497
00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:59,320
Speaker 1: which was twenty four and the Mercuries went over the Valkyries.

498
00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:01,600
Speaker 2: Is really so shout out to Lexi.

499
00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:04,800
Speaker 3: Shout out to Lexi. Okay, next awards.

500
00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:05,640
Speaker 2: Let's get into player of the month.

501
00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:09,560
Speaker 1: So Player of the Month Alicia Gray from the Dream

502
00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:14,480
Speaker 1: atl period. She has started the season with twenty one

503
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:18,040
Speaker 1: point four points per game average, which has helped boost

504
00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:21,520
Speaker 1: Atlanta to third in the league standings. Jordan Canada is back,

505
00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:23,960
Speaker 1: which we talked about last week a little bit.

506
00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:25,520
Speaker 2: What they're going to look like when she comes back.

507
00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:26,840
Speaker 2: She didn't have the best.

508
00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:30,840
Speaker 1: Debut, didn't score on her debut, however, just coming back,

509
00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:34,920
Speaker 1: so easing into things, Lexi, are the dream looking like

510
00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:36,800
Speaker 1: a dream team or what happened?

511
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:41,040
Speaker 4: I think that they're still figuring out their cadence because

512
00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:44,399
Speaker 4: you do have You've now added a player in Jordan,

513
00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:47,920
Speaker 4: who is the point guard, and so she's running the show.

514
00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:49,359
Speaker 3: The team goes as she goes.

515
00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:53,120
Speaker 4: She typically is not an outside shooter, so that kind

516
00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:55,960
Speaker 4: of is going against everything that they've been doing up

517
00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:58,600
Speaker 4: to this point. So finding the way to acclimate her

518
00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:01,440
Speaker 4: style of play, which is more to the basket, putting

519
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:04,160
Speaker 4: pressure on the rim, to the outside shooting that they've

520
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:09,240
Speaker 4: been living and also dying by this season. Speaking of

521
00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:14,240
Speaker 4: Alisha like she most Improved is such an interesting award

522
00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:19,520
Speaker 4: in the W because so many elite players, like their

523
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:21,880
Speaker 4: opportunities are there and then they're not, and then they're

524
00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:25,280
Speaker 4: there and then they're not. So there's very rarely like

525
00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:29,520
Speaker 4: a situation where you see like a top player like

526
00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:32,560
Speaker 4: make a huge leap because usually that top player like

527
00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:36,960
Speaker 4: has had like a consistent role in consistent numbers over time.

528
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,639
Speaker 4: So it's hard for like top players to make huge

529
00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:43,240
Speaker 4: leaps because they've just been consistently grinding it out. But

530
00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:47,119
Speaker 4: the way Alisha has improved from last season to this season,

531
00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,760
Speaker 4: I think it's like plus seven six or seven points

532
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:53,920
Speaker 4: per game. She definitely is making a case for most improved.

533
00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 4: But then when you look at like she's probably going

534
00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:58,440
Speaker 4: to be an All Star, and you look at that

535
00:24:58,480 --> 00:24:59,840
Speaker 4: and you're like an All Star, Like that can be

536
00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:02,040
Speaker 4: a most improved player, But like, I feel like anybody

537
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:06,080
Speaker 4: who makes a significant leap in their production should be

538
00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:08,400
Speaker 4: in the conversation for most improved. And I think when

539
00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,200
Speaker 4: you hear most improved, they're like, oh, she must have

540
00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:12,440
Speaker 4: been really bad and now she's better. Like no, it's

541
00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 4: just it's all about production and opportunities. So I feel

542
00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:20,520
Speaker 4: like they're still figuring things out playing with the double

543
00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:24,119
Speaker 4: post players three and bgr they like shot threes, but

544
00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 4: like they're still not shooting the outside shots as much

545
00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:29,960
Speaker 4: as maybe we would have expected, playing for a coach

546
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,440
Speaker 4: that typically likes to shoot threes. But I think they're

547
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:33,920
Speaker 4: gonna be fine. Dream Team.

548
00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:34,600
Speaker 3: I don't know.

549
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,320
Speaker 4: Unexpected loss to the Sun kind of put a damper

550
00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:42,000
Speaker 4: into that narrative a little bit. But shout out to

551
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:46,240
Speaker 4: Marina Maybrief with her thirty four point outing in that

552
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:48,760
Speaker 4: win over the dream I know you probably didn't like

553
00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 4: watching that, Mariah, but I enjoy watching.

554
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:55,320
Speaker 3: Marina, I really do. She's she's fun to watch.

555
00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:58,080
Speaker 2: I mean good for her. I mean good for her,

556
00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 2: that's all I'm gonna say. Good for her if they can,

557
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:02,560
Speaker 2: If they can, good for the time.

558
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:04,920
Speaker 4: If they can string some more wins together before All

559
00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:08,680
Speaker 4: Star breaks, she Marina could also be an All Star.

560
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:10,920
Speaker 4: I think the way she scores the ball. But they're

561
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,560
Speaker 4: just the Sunner is just very up and down.

562
00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:15,240
Speaker 3: But that was a big.

563
00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:18,480
Speaker 4: Win for them, like much needed win for them for sure. Sorry,

564
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:19,760
Speaker 4: it had to be against your dream.

565
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:22,880
Speaker 1: Let me just say, I'm I'm an Atlanta sports fan

566
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:24,720
Speaker 1: through and through. I've been here my whole life. I

567
00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:26,720
Speaker 1: know a thing or two about unexpected losses.

568
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:28,760
Speaker 2: We'll be all right, We'll be fine.

569
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 1: Now, Lexi, I'm curious, just as an observer and having

570
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:37,879
Speaker 1: done this show throughout the first month of the season,

571
00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit confused because Fee, she's leading the

572
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:45,840
Speaker 1: league in scoring, the leagues are undefeated.

573
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,560
Speaker 2: She seems to be the favorite for the m v P.

574
00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 2: Why why not?

575
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:58,040
Speaker 4: They have to so they have East and West. Oh,

576
00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 4: so I'll least show one East Fee on West.

577
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:03,160
Speaker 2: Okay, thank god, thank god.

578
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 1: Well, I just gave you your flowers feed leading league

579
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:10,320
Speaker 1: and scoring. The Links are undefeated, obviously, We've already spoken

580
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 1: about it. She's looking like the MVP right now.

581
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:12,440
Speaker 2: I was gonna I.

582
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 4: Feel like, yeah, I feel like this show has turned

583
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 4: into like a Links Liberty hypefest because they're playing. They're

584
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:21,120
Speaker 4: playing so well, you have to you have to mention them,

585
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 4: like the way they're playing is unbelievable.

586
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 1: That's what happens when you have a real basketball show

587
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 1: covering basketball. You know what I'm saying, Like, they're the

588
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 1: best teams right now, and so obviously that's going to

589
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 1: get talked about. You see what happens when you talk

590
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 1: about the teams that.

591
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:39,080
Speaker 4: Are exactly exactly and it's very easy to talk about them.

592
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:42,000
Speaker 4: So we're not going to get into fees MVP stats

593
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 4: because we talk We literally talk about how she's playing

594
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 4: every week. So we're going to use this time to

595
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 4: talk about the Links and then also transition into a

596
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:54,400
Speaker 4: little Storm Links preview opportunity for me to give us

597
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,159
Speaker 4: a little Storm update but also talk a little bit

598
00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 4: about the x's and o's of our up coming game.

599
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:04,439
Speaker 4: So the Links, we played them in Minnesota and we

600
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:06,480
Speaker 4: lost eighty two to seventy seven.

601
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 3: It was a very winnable game for us.

602
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:10,639
Speaker 4: You know, we say that as the losing team, and

603
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:13,880
Speaker 4: then obviously the Links probably went back into their locker.

604
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 3: Room it was like, man, we should have beat them

605
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:17,160
Speaker 3: by way more. Da da da da da.

606
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 4: So I'm sure the energies were very different in our

607
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:24,400
Speaker 4: locker rooms. I mean we obviously there's no participation trophies

608
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:27,440
Speaker 4: and stuff, but like, we actually felt pretty good after

609
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:28,120
Speaker 4: that loss.

610
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,720
Speaker 3: Like I said, it was a winnable game. K mac.

611
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 4: Kayla McBride has officially returned. You know, her first game

612
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:39,160
Speaker 4: back was against US, and since then, she's averaging three

613
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 4: point four yep, seventeen points per game, fifty five percent

614
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 4: from three, making three point.

615
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 3: Four threes per game, which is wow, insane.

616
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 4: Like last game, I think she shot only threes, which

617
00:28:56,320 --> 00:29:00,400
Speaker 4: is like a dream, a dream comes true, able to

618
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 4: go out there and just shoot up all the threes

619
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 4: and stuff like that, and she's making them at a

620
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 4: high level.

621
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 3: So obviously she has earned that.

622
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 4: So fee is number one on our scatting report K

623
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 4: Mack right under her. Can't forget about Courtney Williams. Actually

624
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 4: you really can't forget about anybody on that team. That's

625
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,800
Speaker 4: what makes them so dangerous. They have a super efficient offense,

626
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:24,720
Speaker 4: seventy eight percent of the shots that they make are assisted, which.

627
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:28,040
Speaker 3: Leads the league. We have seventy.

628
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:30,320
Speaker 4: Percent of our shots being assisted, which is third in

629
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 4: the league, and second is the Liberty of course, and

630
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:36,320
Speaker 4: then both of our paces are the lowest in the league.

631
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 4: So when but when people think slow pace, they think like, oh,

632
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 4: you walking the ball up, Oh we're slow, Like no,

633
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:47,000
Speaker 4: it's just we execute a lot in the half court, which,

634
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 4: come playoffs is a very important skill to have.

635
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 3: Obviously, you want to play up and down transition.

636
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 4: Sometimes thinking less is better, but if you can execute

637
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 4: in the half court, that puts you like ahead of

638
00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 4: the game for a lot of others team, so it's

639
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:03,960
Speaker 4: going to be an exciting game. We both play very

640
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 4: similarly outside of the three point shooting, but we're getting there.

641
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 3: We're getting there.

642
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 4: We're still I think last and three point attempts, but creeping.

643
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:14,720
Speaker 4: I think we're going to creep up there, slowly, but surely.

644
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:15,760
Speaker 3: I hope.

645
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:18,960
Speaker 2: Listen, y'all got this.

646
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,720
Speaker 3: Please please let me shoot some threes.

647
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 2: You know, that's my favorite.

648
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 3: Girl me two, it's my favorite.

649
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 2: That's my favorite.

650
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:28,000
Speaker 4: Let mean, let me see, I'm about to check right

651
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 4: now where we are in three point attempts. Okay, we're

652
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 4: not last anymore, we're second to last.

653
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 2: Oh, who's awesome.

654
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:39,800
Speaker 4: The Mystics Okay, seventeen per game. We're at eighteen point

655
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 4: three per game, and the Valkyries are at thirty two

656
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,880
Speaker 4: point one per game. So the Valkyries, and we play

657
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 4: the Valkyries this weekend. So this is why this is important.

658
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 4: We're about to talk about the Valkyries in the second.

659
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:57,120
Speaker 4: They take the most threes in the league and have

660
00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 4: the worst percentage. Wow, so obviously that's a folk. I mean,

661
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 4: I watched their game last night against the Sparks. They

662
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 4: are hunting threes, Like there are players that I've never

663
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 4: seen take more than one three per game, taking multiple

664
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:13,840
Speaker 4: and that's not a bad thing. They won their game

665
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:17,240
Speaker 4: last night in overtime. Like the strategy is working because

666
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 4: at the end of the day, threes are worth more

667
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 4: than two.

668
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 3: So if you make just enough threes.

669
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 2: That's a sand fram mentality.

670
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 4: No, exactly, Like they literally like, you know what we

671
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 4: gonna be like the women Warriors over here, and they're

672
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 4: actually playing like pretty well despite shooting twenty seven percent

673
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 4: from three.

674
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:38,440
Speaker 3: But that's crazy.

675
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 4: So they only make about eight per game, well nine

676
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,000
Speaker 4: since we round up and then New York takes thirty

677
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 4: one per game, Atlanta thirty per game, so and we're

678
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:54,320
Speaker 4: at eighteen. So putting that in perspective for our listeners,

679
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 4: but we are shooting thirty seven percent, which is second,

680
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 4: so that's important.

681
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 3: I will credit Gabby Williams for that because she.

682
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 2: Has been quality of a quantity game.

683
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, she's been shooting her ass off these past few games.

684
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 4: So shout out to Gabby for carrying carrying the three

685
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 4: point load for the Seattle Storm.

686
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:16,320
Speaker 3: But I'm ready when they need me, you know, Okay,

687
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 3: we know you got this. We got it.

688
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 4: Okay, So we play tomorrow night, guys, or well it

689
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 4: will be to night when this episode drops. I don't

690
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 4: think it's on television. Leak pass it up. If y'alln't

691
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 4: have lead pass.

692
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 3: Yet, get it.

693
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 4: Maybe we'll gift one of our listeners leak past if

694
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 4: y'all don't have it.

695
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 3: I love that we have a comment.

696
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 4: Under our YouTube and we'll send y'all some moneies for

697
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 4: leak pass if y'all don't have it, because I think

698
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,480
Speaker 4: that's important because I want everyone to have access to

699
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 4: these WNBA games, so leave a comment under our YouTube video.

700
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 4: Moving on to the Valkyries, let's talk a little bit

701
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:53,720
Speaker 4: about them. We haven't really talked much about them, so

702
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 4: let's talk about them.

703
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:56,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do want to give it. We're gonna move

704
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 1: on to talk out a little bit of news going

705
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 1: on around on the W. But I do want to

706
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 1: give the Valkyries a little bit of a shout out

707
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 1: because they had their fourth sellout eighteen thousand plus fans.

708
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 2: They are selling out.

709
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 1: The arena, which is really really special and really really important,

710
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:13,440
Speaker 1: and I'm hoping that they're enjoying their fan base in

711
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 1: this inaugural season. This is why expansion is so exciting,

712
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 1: because New City is getting to take in the W

713
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 1: see their opponents, see their team become fans. It's really

714
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 1: really special. So shout out to them for that. Just

715
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 1: wanted to give a little positivity. But Lexie, what are

716
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:28,720
Speaker 1: you seeing on the court?

717
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 4: So, like we just mentioned, they're shooting a lot of threes,

718
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 4: it must be I'm like when I watch them play,

719
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 4: it's like it's been like very refreshing to watch a

720
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 4: team just play really hard. Like obviously no one had

721
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 4: much expectations for them, which I thought was odd because

722
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 4: you have a team full of WNBA veterans, high level players,

723
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 4: you have champions on that team, you have a coach

724
00:33:56,000 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 4: with championship experience. Why everybody immediately wrote them up off

725
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:04,560
Speaker 4: was beyond me. I was talking to Skyler the other

726
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:08,120
Speaker 4: day about the Valkyries since we play them soon, and

727
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:10,840
Speaker 4: we were talking about like their fan base. Like I

728
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:13,240
Speaker 4: said that they're gonna win like a bunch of games

729
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 4: off the strength of their home court advantage, like that's

730
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:20,879
Speaker 4: a real thing. And she Skylar had been on the

731
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 4: Dallas expansion team and Tulsa was an expansion team, so

732
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 4: she'd been on two expansion teams. And she was like, yeah,

733
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 4: you go in and like no one thinks, like y'all

734
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:32,360
Speaker 4: gonna do anything because it's an expansion team. And she said,

735
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 4: like she was on teams that made playoffs that probably

736
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 4: shouldn't have because you have this like freedom, and like

737
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 4: you should always have expectations for yourself and for your team,

738
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:48,960
Speaker 4: but sometimes it's okay to just be like, let's just

739
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 4: vibe and play hard. And I think that the Valkyries

740
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 4: are still finding their identity. Obviously, shooting threes is one

741
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:58,799
Speaker 4: of their identities, but also like they play hardest shit,

742
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:00,920
Speaker 4: like and you assume like, oh, you guys all should

743
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:02,879
Speaker 4: play really hard like we do, but like they play

744
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:07,439
Speaker 4: like really really hard, and it's been like really fun

745
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:10,239
Speaker 4: to watch them play. I love watching their games on

746
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 4: TV when they're at home. Their crowd is incredible and

747
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:16,480
Speaker 4: they're four and five right now, so like they're doing

748
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:21,280
Speaker 4: pretty well considering how many new players. They have, new city,

749
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:24,800
Speaker 4: new coach, new everything. But they have everything in place,

750
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:27,440
Speaker 4: you know, they have a facility, they have an amazing

751
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 4: coaching staff, Like they have everything in place for them

752
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:30,480
Speaker 4: to be successful.

753
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 3: And then you have a.

754
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 4: Group of players that got out the mud, been waiting

755
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:36,879
Speaker 4: for their opportunities and they're just taking full advantage of it.

756
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:39,080
Speaker 4: So I want to shout out Kayla Thorton and Veronica

757
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 4: Burton for you know, stepping into those leadership veteran roles.

758
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,320
Speaker 4: You know, Kayla just won a championship with the Liberty,

759
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 4: so she knows what it's like to win a championship.

760
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:51,360
Speaker 4: And I got to know Veronica because she came and

761
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 4: played in Athletes Unlimited two seasons ago, and she was

762
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:58,360
Speaker 4: tough and I was just like, I can't wait for

763
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:00,279
Speaker 4: her to get her opportunity in the league. You know,

764
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:02,759
Speaker 4: she's a great defender, she's a great person, she's a

765
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:03,759
Speaker 4: great leader.

766
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 3: And she's just getting her opportunity as well.

767
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:08,359
Speaker 4: So I want to shout out those two because if

768
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 4: you look at their you know stats, Kyle Thorne was

769
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:12,920
Speaker 4: a dog in Dallas, don't get me wrong, but when

770
00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 4: she was in New York, she played a role to

771
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:17,239
Speaker 4: help them win a championship. And Veronica Burton just hadn't

772
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 4: had an opportunity to show what type of players she

773
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:20,240
Speaker 4: could be in the WS.

774
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 3: So I'm so.

775
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:24,840
Speaker 4: Happy when players get opportunities like that. Their last game

776
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 4: they just won in LA and overtime win. But we

777
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 4: gonna talk about the game before that, which was a

778
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:36,799
Speaker 4: ninety five to sixty eight victory over the Aces, which

779
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 4: was on ABC, I believe. So that was a huge one.

780
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:43,239
Speaker 4: Did you watch that game?

781
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 3: No? Oh, because I was too, because I was just

782
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 3: what is going on? Like that was belt to ask

783
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 3: if I've ever seen it?

784
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:57,760
Speaker 4: Like they came in on some different energy that game,

785
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:00,360
Speaker 4: for sure, and so did the crowd, Like it was

786
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 4: lit in there, like even when they were up by

787
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,879
Speaker 4: a lot, like the crowd did not let ease up.

788
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 3: At all that entire game.

789
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 2: And I love that. Yeah, that sucks for the opposing team,

790
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:11,319
Speaker 2: but it was.

791
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 4: A like you look at the score and you're like,

792
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:15,279
Speaker 4: that must have been a bad game to watch. But

793
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:18,239
Speaker 4: like sometimes when a team is like clicking on all

794
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 4: cylinders like that, even if they're up by a lot

795
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 4: of points, it's still a really enjoyable game to watch.

796
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:27,319
Speaker 4: And I'm not I'm not happy that you know, the

797
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:29,560
Speaker 4: ace is lost or anything like that. I'm just I

798
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 4: always love watching good basketball and you look at the

799
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:34,320
Speaker 4: score and you're probably like, that was a good basketball.

800
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 3: That wasn't good hoop, But like when you see a

801
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 3: team just.

802
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:41,120
Speaker 4: Vibing and everyone's smiling and shots are going in that

803
00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:44,240
Speaker 4: usually don't go in, Like those are fun games to watch.

804
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 3: And that's what the Valkyrie Aces game look like to me.

805
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:50,719
Speaker 4: I don't know if anybody else will agree or not,

806
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 4: but that's what it looked like to me.

807
00:37:52,400 --> 00:38:00,360
Speaker 1: I'm really really confused. I saw Asia's quote. Well I

808
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:02,640
Speaker 1: watched her because I was like, no way she said that,

809
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 1: and then I watched it, but where She's like, we.

810
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 2: Would, But I'm curious.

811
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 1: LEXI watching obviously very exciting for the Valkyries.

812
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 2: But what are you seeing with the Aces?

813
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 4: Well, from what I said last time we talked about

814
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 4: the Aces is Becky is going to her bench very early,

815
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 4: and we typically have not seen that from a Vegas team.

816
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 4: She really usually goes like six seven deep maybe, So

817
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:39,160
Speaker 4: I think that's something that's being getting used to, is

818
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:42,279
Speaker 4: finding a rotation because this league is so talented, Like

819
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:45,760
Speaker 4: you have to use your bench players. It's a long season.

820
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 4: You don't want to run your starters into the ground.

821
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:51,680
Speaker 4: It's important to find a rotation. So I think that's

822
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:52,959
Speaker 4: something that they're dealing with.

823
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 3: Jule being a.

824
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 4: New player who has been a premier scorer in this

825
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:02,319
Speaker 4: league for so many years, sliding into a role that

826
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:04,320
Speaker 4: she's new to. You know, when she was in Seattle,

827
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 4: you know, new players would come and then they would

828
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 4: they would find their role around her. This is her

829
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 4: first time trying to have to find her role around

830
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:14,800
Speaker 4: solidified superstars in this league.

831
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:17,720
Speaker 3: So that's a process as well. And then, like I said.

832
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 4: Before, like people can say whatever they want about Kelsey

833
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 4: Plumb and how she left and I want to get

834
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 4: out of here, but like you cannot take away what

835
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:28,279
Speaker 4: she brings to the table as a player and we're

836
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 4: seeing her do it in Los Angeles right now. She

837
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:34,959
Speaker 4: can handle the ball, she's a three level score, three

838
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 4: point threat. She can finish at the rim, she makes

839
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:41,239
Speaker 4: free throws, she can pass when she feels like it. Like,

840
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:45,319
Speaker 4: that's a player that left a gaping hole in the

841
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:47,680
Speaker 4: Aces offense, and I think they're just figuring out how

842
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:51,280
Speaker 4: to fill it. But I think also in women's sports,

843
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:54,320
Speaker 4: I just feel like every time a player like leaves,

844
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:58,799
Speaker 4: it's like the horrible, awful breakup, Like everyone just kind

845
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 4: of dwells on it, like, oh, oh, we just have

846
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 4: this Kelsey Plumb sized hole. How are we gonna fill it? Like, no,

847
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:06,759
Speaker 4: we don't have a Kelsey Flum sized hole. You now

848
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 4: have a jewel Lloyd, So figure out how to use

849
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:13,719
Speaker 4: your new piece. Like I said, Ruby Q Rubik's Q.

850
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:17,400
Speaker 1: In that game on Saturday, they were outscored by the

851
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 1: Valkyries thirty four to fifteen in the second quarter.

852
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:22,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like.

853
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 4: It was like a wrazy game to watch. And Kayla

854
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 4: Thorin had twenty two and eleven that game. Veronica Burton

855
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:33,880
Speaker 4: had fourteen points, twelve assists, seven rebounds. I thought she

856
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:36,279
Speaker 4: was going to get a triple double, but she wasn't

857
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:38,359
Speaker 4: able to make that happen, but she was very close

858
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:40,920
Speaker 4: three rebounds away. But that was just one of them games,

859
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:44,000
Speaker 4: you know, sometimes that happens. And maybe that's like the

860
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:47,920
Speaker 4: kick and the ass that the Aces needed because they

861
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 4: have had like a somewhat slow start to the season,

862
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 4: so maybe like that was the game and then they

863
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 4: had They've had a few days to marinate in that,

864
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 4: which often in the WNBA. In the NBA, you don't

865
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:01,800
Speaker 4: really have like a few days to think about anything,

866
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 4: right because you have a game like the next day

867
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:05,839
Speaker 4: or in the next day and a half. But this

868
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 4: game was on Saturday, and they their next game is Wednesday.

869
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 2: They gave them some time.

870
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:12,759
Speaker 3: Oh I can't imagine what those practices looked like.

871
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:15,960
Speaker 2: They gave them some time because yeah.

872
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, so their next game is against the Sparks in Vegas.

873
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 4: So that's a game I'm going to be well, I

874
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:26,480
Speaker 4: can't watch it because we'll be playing, But if we

875
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 4: weren't playing, I would absolutely.

876
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:29,399
Speaker 3: Be tuned into that game.

877
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 2: Like that is tea.

878
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:34,840
Speaker 4: How the Aces bounced back from that loss, so especially

879
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:35,920
Speaker 4: with Plump coming back.

880
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 1: Especially whoaying yeah, that.

881
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 2: Is going to be tea.

882
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 4: She already made her return to Vegas, so that raw

883
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 4: Ros Probably, No, it's not, because every time it's not.

884
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:48,759
Speaker 4: Every time we went back to Vegas with Liz, and

885
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:50,799
Speaker 4: every time we went back to Vegas with Deerica, it

886
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 4: was always like it was.

887
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 3: Nuts but they have a crazy but it was still

888
00:41:57,719 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 3: like you.

889
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 6: Could feel that energy, like you left a dare you right?

890
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 1: Well? Getting into some other news, Chicago took a major

891
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 1: head this weekend. Franchise legend and starting point guard Courtney

892
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:20,560
Speaker 1: Vanderslot went down with a knee injury in Chicago's seventy

893
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 1: nine to fifty two loss on Saturday to the fever

894
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:25,120
Speaker 1: and immediately look to be an immense pain. We have

895
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:28,279
Speaker 1: since found out that she suffered from a torn acl

896
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:30,240
Speaker 1: and will miss the remainder of the season.

897
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:37,160
Speaker 4: Slutie, I hate that for her, I really do, especially

898
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 4: her being able to come back to Chicago and play

899
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:42,560
Speaker 4: in front of her her fans that she knows so

900
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 4: well and love so much, and they love her back.

901
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 4: Seeing that happen was heartbreaking. I didn't see it happened.

902
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:51,640
Speaker 4: My parents actually saw it, and they like actually texted

903
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:53,439
Speaker 4: me and they're like, oh my gosh, salute like hurt

904
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 4: herself bad, and I was like, I was praying hard

905
00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:59,320
Speaker 4: that it wasn't an ACL. But when we got that news, dropped,

906
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:00,520
Speaker 4: my heart dropped for her.

907
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:02,319
Speaker 2: So it was like five minutes into the game.

908
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:06,400
Speaker 3: That's so crazy. It's so sad. Just the injuries this

909
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:10,480
Speaker 3: season have been very tough.

910
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:15,320
Speaker 4: Like I feel like there's so many injured players right now, and.

911
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:15,920
Speaker 3: I hate that.

912
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:19,960
Speaker 4: And there's no way, there's nothing to blame to like

913
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:26,319
Speaker 4: freak injuries, Like there's no way, it's yeah, so I hate.

914
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:29,080
Speaker 4: I mean, we're gonna send positive and healing energy to

915
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:31,360
Speaker 4: all the players that are injured right now, but absolutely

916
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:35,239
Speaker 4: to Slute because tearing your knee at this point in

917
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:38,799
Speaker 4: your career, like is definitely something that you hate. I mean,

918
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:40,520
Speaker 4: you hate it at any point in your career, but

919
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:45,719
Speaker 4: this is definitely her you know, victory lap type part

920
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 4: of her career, so for it to get interrupted with

921
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:50,759
Speaker 4: an ACL tear, it is really heartbreaking.

922
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 3: So sending prayers to Slute.

923
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 4: But on the flip side, you know, finding kind of

924
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:59,399
Speaker 4: a positive moment in Salute's life is Ali Quigley, her

925
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:02,320
Speaker 4: wife actually officially announced her retirement today.

926
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:04,359
Speaker 3: Oh, so you.

927
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:07,880
Speaker 4: Know, sending prayers to Sluti, but also congratulations to Ali

928
00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:10,160
Speaker 4: having an amazing career. I was blessed to be able

929
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:12,800
Speaker 4: to be teammates with both of them when I was

930
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 4: with the Chicago Sky, and I've learned I learned so

931
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:18,400
Speaker 4: much from both of them. Slut has such an incredible

932
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:21,480
Speaker 4: basketball mind and just the way Ali is another player

933
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 4: who really got it out in the mud as well,

934
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:25,560
Speaker 4: earned her way to being one of the best players

935
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:28,280
Speaker 4: in the WNBA, one of the best players in Chicago

936
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:29,440
Speaker 4: Sky history, and.

937
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 3: I was able to win a championship with them. So

938
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:33,120
Speaker 3: I love y'all.

939
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 4: I know y'all probably won't even hear this, but if

940
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:38,960
Speaker 4: you happen to, I love y'all. Wishing you well, Sluty

941
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:40,760
Speaker 4: and congrats Ali on an amazing career.

942
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:43,320
Speaker 3: So grateful to be part of both the y'all's journeys.

943
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:46,839
Speaker 1: It looks like Haley van Lyth, well, well she did

944
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:49,879
Speaker 1: in that game, but is stepping into that starting point

945
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:50,439
Speaker 1: guard role.

946
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:59,320
Speaker 4: Opportunities y'all earlier said they come quickly, So like anybody listening.

947
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 3: Whatever roll you're in at your job.

948
00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:03,920
Speaker 4: If you're on a team and you don't think that

949
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:06,320
Speaker 4: you're ever going to get your chance or your opportunity.

950
00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 3: You never know what's going to happen. Stay ready.

951
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:14,120
Speaker 4: Something happens, You've got to be ready, not only physically,

952
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:15,160
Speaker 4: but also mentally.

953
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:17,239
Speaker 3: That the mental part is the hardest thing.

954
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:19,799
Speaker 4: And I think that's just the thing that I have

955
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:23,319
Speaker 4: conquered as a professional athlete, is the mental side of it.

956
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:26,239
Speaker 4: It took a long time, and I finally am at

957
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:28,360
Speaker 4: a great place mentally where I can deal with the

958
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:29,200
Speaker 4: ups and downs of.

959
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:30,760
Speaker 3: Life, the ups and downs of sports.

960
00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:34,920
Speaker 4: But this applies to any any situation, not just being

961
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:38,280
Speaker 4: a professional athlete. But success is when preparation meets.

962
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:42,759
Speaker 3: Opportunity meets opportunity. Yeah. So there's a little gem for

963
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:45,400
Speaker 3: y'all today. Love that flex.

964
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:50,839
Speaker 1: Oh that's trademarking now. So leading into this week as

965
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:53,400
Speaker 1: we close out, I just want to leave the people

966
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 1: with some things to watch, games to watch. I know

967
00:45:56,120 --> 00:46:00,480
Speaker 1: I'm definitely going to be paying attention to Dream Versus Fever. Obviously,

968
00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 1: Kaitlyn Clark will not be returning. I wanted to make

969
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:05,880
Speaker 1: sure I mention that to the audience. The Lynx coming

970
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:10,920
Speaker 1: to visit you, Lexi, which I'm really excited about. Excited

971
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:13,960
Speaker 1: to see if Vegas bounces back from that as well.

972
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:17,800
Speaker 1: This weekend, Lexie, what are you watching and who do

973
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:18,799
Speaker 1: you want to give your flowers to?

974
00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:22,360
Speaker 4: Obviously I said I wish I could watch that Sparks.

975
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:23,040
Speaker 3: And Aces game.

976
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:27,839
Speaker 4: Honestly, hopefully we can be the first team to make

977
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 4: the Links not an undefeated team anymore. But then I'm

978
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 4: also looking at whatever team could make to give the

979
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:37,480
Speaker 4: Liberty their first loss as well, so looking forward to that.

980
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:40,000
Speaker 4: I don't know what the longest undefeated streak in the

981
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:43,320
Speaker 4: WNBA is, but I'm looking at who can give these undefeated.

982
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:43,760
Speaker 3: Teams their first hols.

983
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:46,919
Speaker 4: Hopefully it's us and we will by next week we'll

984
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:50,480
Speaker 4: have that answer. And then for my flowers, I'm giving

985
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:54,480
Speaker 4: my flowers to Ari McDonald, my girl, one of the

986
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:58,279
Speaker 4: most amazing teammates I've ever had, and for her to

987
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:01,120
Speaker 4: get waved from a team that she probably thought she

988
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:03,480
Speaker 4: was gonna be on for this season, and for her

989
00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:07,359
Speaker 4: again being ready, staying ready for her opportunity get picked

990
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 4: up by the Fever and providing the exact spark and

991
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:14,920
Speaker 4: energy that they needed while they were dealing with injuries

992
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:17,319
Speaker 4: and stuff like that. I want to give a shout

993
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 4: out to her and give her some flowers because that

994
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:21,480
Speaker 4: is not an easy thing to do, to get thrown

995
00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:24,879
Speaker 4: in the fire like that, and she was ready and

996
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:28,399
Speaker 4: the Fever are embracing her like crazy as she deserves. Oh,

997
00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:32,880
Speaker 4: Zoe thirteen straight wins for the Links in twenty sixteen.

998
00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 2: And I looked into it as well. That is correct

999
00:47:35,239 --> 00:47:36,920
Speaker 2: and it's crazy.

1000
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:40,319
Speaker 4: Thank you Zoe for that. Okay, So though, do they

1001
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:41,440
Speaker 4: both nine and zero right now?

1002
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:45,560
Speaker 3: Hm? Okay? Well, as a Storm player.

1003
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:47,320
Speaker 4: I'm going to put my money on the Liberty getting

1004
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:51,319
Speaker 4: there before the Links because our plan is to give

1005
00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:52,279
Speaker 4: them their first l.

1006
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:55,200
Speaker 2: Get it done, Lexi.

1007
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 4: I hope this age as well, but I got to

1008
00:47:57,160 --> 00:48:02,920
Speaker 4: be confident in my team. So here I am saying that. Okay,

1009
00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:04,520
Speaker 4: who do you want to give flowers?

1010
00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:06,399
Speaker 2: Anybody say this is a woman's sports show.

1011
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:08,920
Speaker 1: I am going to give my flowers to Cocoa Golf

1012
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:13,360
Speaker 1: today because Coco she won the French Open and I

1013
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:16,920
Speaker 1: think that that's amazing. Her speech afterwards about America and

1014
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:19,520
Speaker 1: everything going on was incredible. I think it's important we

1015
00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:23,320
Speaker 1: remember everything happening around the country as we talk about sports. Obviously,

1016
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:25,240
Speaker 1: there are so many things going on bigger than sports.

1017
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:28,680
Speaker 1: I thought that her opponent did not handle that with grace,

1018
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:31,279
Speaker 1: and I like that Coco. You know, she chopped it

1019
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:32,880
Speaker 1: up like she was like she still talks to her.

1020
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:34,759
Speaker 1: She was like, I want to be her too. How

1021
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:39,719
Speaker 1: to beat anybody? Now? Okay, right here, So congratulations to

1022
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:42,120
Speaker 1: her standing tall in her success.

1023
00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:44,000
Speaker 2: I'm a huge fan and I loved her.

1024
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:46,799
Speaker 4: This, so I'll love me some cocoa golf. We need

1025
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:48,800
Speaker 4: to get her on the show. We got to figure

1026
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:50,799
Speaker 4: that out. I don't know if she's about a fan.

1027
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:53,440
Speaker 4: She has ownership and unrivaled.

1028
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:55,600
Speaker 2: Actually, I was just about to say that, yes, she

1029
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:56,200
Speaker 2: has to be.

1030
00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:58,560
Speaker 4: She definitely tapped in, so we would love to have

1031
00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:00,680
Speaker 4: her as a guest also well, So if you guys

1032
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:04,560
Speaker 4: want any guests, please let us know, because obviously we

1033
00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:07,480
Speaker 4: like to talk basketball. We don't want this to be

1034
00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:10,440
Speaker 4: like a guest centered show, but we love bringing people

1035
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:13,400
Speaker 4: in to talk hoops with us, talk about their journeys,

1036
00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:14,880
Speaker 4: their full Circle moments.

1037
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:17,960
Speaker 3: And next week we actually will have a very special

1038
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:20,600
Speaker 3: guest that I'm very excited about. I hope you guys

1039
00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 3: will be excited as well.

1040
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:25,360
Speaker 4: So thank you guys for tuning in to another episode

1041
00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:26,560
Speaker 4: of Full Circle Podcast.

1042
00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:28,080
Speaker 3: We will see y'all next week.

1043
00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:32,080
Speaker 1: Bye, thanks for listening to Full Circle. We'll be back

1044
00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:35,360
Speaker 1: next week with more basketball for the Girls, by the girls.

1045
00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:37,760
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1046
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1047
00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:42,799
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1048
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:46,239
Speaker 1: and Mariah Rose. Our executive producer is Jesse Katz. Our

1049
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:50,120
Speaker 1: supervising producer is Grace Fuse. Our producer is Zoe Danglab.

1050
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:54,120
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