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Speaker 1: Welcome back to another episode of the Full Circle Podcast. Y'all,

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Speaker 1: I'm back back everybody.

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Speaker 2: Hey girl, we missed you last week.

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Speaker 3: I missed you guys too. I've had so much to

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Speaker 3: yap about.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, because this, I mean last week and this week.

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Speaker 2: What's today Tuesday?

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Speaker 4: We're not even halfway through the week and it's already

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Speaker 4: been out of freaking control.

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Speaker 1: I get notifications for what's going on around the league,

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Speaker 1: and last night my phone's like ding ding ding ding,

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Speaker 1: like I was on vacation at ding ding ding.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, dang, girl, what's happening exactly? That woke up

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Speaker 2: this morning? What the hell is going on?

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Speaker 1: But well, if you guys don't know what we're talking about,

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Speaker 1: I have a few trending topics that we're going to

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Speaker 1: go through and talk about, starting with the notification from

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Speaker 1: last night I got and a piece of call Year

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Speaker 1: is out for two weeks with a right ankle spring

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Speaker 1: the link star on MVP Contender will miss at least

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Speaker 1: two weeks, which is putting pressure on Minnesota to maintain

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Speaker 1: their top spot without her.

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, we hate seeing people getting insured. But

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Speaker 4: we play Minnesota tonight, So I'm like, you know what

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Speaker 4: time it could have been better for.

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Speaker 3: Us, Give us a break?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, literally, considering you know, what we're dealing with

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Speaker 4: and going through as a team. You know, Minnesota, they're

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Speaker 4: a great team though, Like that's why they're number one,

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Speaker 4: because they have a great team as good as Fia

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Speaker 4: has been playing, you know, averaging twenty four to eight

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Speaker 4: and four shooting fifty four percent. Like the way that

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Speaker 4: team has been playing.

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Speaker 2: Has been out of control.

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Speaker 4: Like even watching film of them the last two days,

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Speaker 4: I'm just like the way they move the ball, the

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Speaker 4: way they find each other, the way they're all just

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Speaker 4: connect it offensively and defensively.

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Speaker 2: It's they're a hard team to play. And Kmeack just

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Speaker 2: one player of the week.

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Speaker 4: She's averaging like twenty seven points shooting over sixty percent

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Speaker 4: from three.

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Speaker 2: So you know, just because fees out, that doesn't that

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Speaker 2: really doesn't mean anything.

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Speaker 4: It's you know, these teams sometimes like you don't want

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Speaker 4: to say they're better without their star, but you really

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Speaker 4: see what their team is made of when they got

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Speaker 4: to make up for their star being out. So I mean,

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Speaker 4: it's going to be a great test for us, but

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Speaker 4: vice versa, it's going to be a great test for them, because, yeah,

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Speaker 4: our record is what it is.

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Speaker 2: But you know, we got we have the pieces and

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Speaker 2: we just added more, which we'll get into. We'll get

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Speaker 2: into that later.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of adding more pieces, Soda Minnesota. Dj Carrington was

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Speaker 1: traded to the Links. Minnesota acquired Carrington from the Wings

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Speaker 1: in exchange for in exchange for Diamond Miller, Carly Samuelson

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Speaker 1: and a twenty twenty seven second round pick. They're clearly

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Speaker 1: in a win now type of mode in Minnesota, whereas

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Speaker 1: Dallas seems to be focusing on long term development. But

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Speaker 1: shout out Page, she lost both of her parents.

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Speaker 2: Gone Page is an orphan.

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Speaker 3: But what was your reaction to this trade?

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Speaker 2: Well, great move for Minnie.

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Speaker 4: As amazing as their bench is, they definitely could have

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Speaker 4: they could use a spark and that's exactly what Djna

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Speaker 2: Her role as a starting scoring.

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Speaker 4: Player, but we saw what she did in Connecticut, what

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Speaker 4: she did for that team almost helped them win a championship.

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Speaker 4: She's just like really good at coming off the bench

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Speaker 4: providing energy, especially on the defensive ends. She won Most

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Speaker 4: Improved last year, I mean the season. She wasn't having

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Speaker 2: So she was having a decent season in Dallas.

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Speaker 4: But like you said, it looks like they're locking in

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Speaker 4: to the development and with the WNBA, it's like crazy,

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Speaker 4: It's like you either are all in with veterans to

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Speaker 4: a that's a WNBA league problem, it's a CBA problem.

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Speaker 4: Like there's a lot of things that go into that.

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Speaker 4: That's like a very layered issue that we have in

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Speaker 4: to be a way where we find a happy medium

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Speaker 4: because there's too many young players losing their jobs, especially

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Speaker 4: big advocate for not liking that, like I think, you know,

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Speaker 4: I was, I was one of those players at one point.

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Speaker 4: But thankfully, you know, things worked out the way that

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Speaker 4: they did. But I've been a victim of teams, you know,

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Speaker 4: thinking that the young player, oh they're young, they'll be fine,

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Speaker 4: like they'll be able to you know, find their footing later.

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Speaker 4: But that's like, that's not fair, and that's not a

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Speaker 4: it's not good business and it and these are still

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Speaker 2: So great move.

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Speaker 4: I mean, Diamond Miller is not a bad addition to

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Speaker 4: waved Carly Samuelson she's dealing with an injury, and then

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Speaker 4: they also wave Tiera McCowan, which was shocking to me.

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Speaker 4: But I told y'all, just because your your contract is protected.

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Speaker 2: That does not mean that you were gonna have a

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Speaker 4: No, you meant that because I've been like, Wow, she's

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Speaker 4: gonna get her money, which is great, but she was

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Speaker 4: on a pretexted deal and got waived, So don't know,

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Speaker 4: what Dallas is doing. Uh, obviously youth movement, but Minnesota

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Speaker 4: is just got better. And again, like you're just gonna

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Speaker 2: You're gonna help them like that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what they've got going on either. Let's

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Speaker 1: just say to keep things positive and not name names.

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Speaker 1: I'll be watching them like something. Somebody there's some confusion happening.

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Speaker 1: But who is not confused? His page backers who has

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Speaker 1: repeated asbroki of the Month the Dallas Wings. Brookie continues

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Speaker 1: back to back Rookie the Month honors, which is impressive

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Speaker 4: Yeah, she's she will be Rookie of the Year. It

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Speaker 4: all anymore. She's averaging nineteen four and six, which puts

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Speaker 4: which is so impressive. And despite them not winning a

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Speaker 4: side as far as postseason awards and stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: So Rookie of the Year is hers.

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Speaker 4: I mean, last time we played Dallas, they built to

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Speaker 4: ask us, So you know, I can't have I don't

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Speaker 4: have anything crazy to say about the way they play.

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Speaker 4: Because they're young, They're going to be up and down,

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Speaker 4: up and down. A Rique's finding her footing. You know,

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Speaker 4: we say that oh Rique's having a down year. She's

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Speaker 4: averaging sixteen points. Like that's like top scores for almost

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Speaker 2: So I'll take it arik down year any day. But

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Speaker 2: I think she's.

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Speaker 4: Figuring out how to play, especially with this young core,

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Speaker 4: because she really is like the only veteran on that

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Speaker 4: I mean, Lee's age is what it is, but this

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Speaker 2: So I'm excited.

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Speaker 4: I've been saying it all year to see Arik's leadership

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Speaker 4: have the pieces out that obviously didn't want to be

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Speaker 4: there or they just needed a change, I think Arik

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Speaker 4: So I do Predictalls could turn a corner, but who knows.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what their schedule looks like, what their

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Speaker 4: like difficulty straight the schedule is or not.

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Speaker 2: That makes the difference.

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Speaker 4: About how people's trajectories are.

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Speaker 3: When you say turn a corner, what do you mean.

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Speaker 4: Win?

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Speaker 2: Win some games?

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you're not talking the big p right, we're

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Speaker 1: not talking playoffs, but making sure they are currently eleventh.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I feel like a team right now

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Speaker 4: you have twenty plus losses, your playoff.

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Speaker 2: Hopes are kind of like not there.

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Speaker 4: But again, because they're so young, you have to like

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Speaker 4: all right, were thrown in the towel DA DA D

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Speaker 4: Like this is a time where they can you know,

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Speaker 4: all these young players are locked in. Still, So if

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Speaker 4: I'm Dallas, I'm just going all into this young group

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Speaker 4: that we have. They have one, two three, four, five, six, seven,

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Speaker 4: eight players technically can be under contract next year, so

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Speaker 4: I know if y'all ain't tapped in all the time,

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Speaker 4: and we talk about the CBA stuff with the new

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Speaker 4: CBA kick in next season. And because of that, almost

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Speaker 4: the entire league.

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Speaker 2: Signed one year.

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Speaker 4: Contracts last year in free agency, which makes them unrestricted

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Speaker 4: free agents next season. So like, for example, the Valkyries,

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Speaker 4: have zero players signed for next year.

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Speaker 2: They have oh no, they have like five or six.

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Speaker 4: But you have a reserved Okay, we're not gonna get

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Speaker 4: to this, but you have reserve contracts, you have people

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Speaker 4: every under contract, and you have restricted free agents unrestricted

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Speaker 4: free agents, so everybody's going to be able to move

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Speaker 4: next year anyway. And there's a few teams that will

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Speaker 4: have a good amount of their players still under contract

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Speaker 4: or that can only negotiate with their current.

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Speaker 2: Teams, and Dallas is one of them.

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Speaker 4: So if I'm Dallas, I'm throwing the season away as

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Speaker 4: far as championship obviously, but I'm gonna try and build

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Speaker 4: attractive place for free agents. That's like the next layer

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Speaker 4: then the next layer is make it a place that

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Speaker 4: other players want to like. Other players are like, oh,

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Speaker 4: Dallas looks kind of cool. I want to go try

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Speaker 4: and help them win, And a lot of teams don't

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Speaker 4: do that. So again, Dallas Youth Movement shout out to

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Speaker 4: Page that.

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Speaker 3: It feels a little bit like what Indiana was going for.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and we saw that worked out. But they actually

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Speaker 1: On a five game winning streak even without Caitlin Clark,

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Speaker 4: You know, they just play they like fast as hell, like.

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Speaker 2: Most underrated player in the entire league.

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Speaker 1: It's very dangerous when a team that has a start

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Speaker 1: Them still holding down the fort makes all of those

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Speaker 3: That makes them terrifying.

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Speaker 4: No, absolutely, you just have you have a player like

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Speaker 1: You mentioned the Valkyries when we were talking a couple

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Speaker 4: I was really bummed out because she was having an

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Speaker 2: She was an All Star, which was amazing.

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Speaker 4: And the Valkyries were absolutely overachieving at the moment. I

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Speaker 4: great opportunity for tiff Hayes to step up. Xanda Lessini

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Speaker 4: And I think that their strength has just been how

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Speaker 2: Season for them has been an absolute success.

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Speaker 4: So if they get to the playoffs, that will just

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Speaker 1: Also, they spent the whole season channeling the sixth woman.

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Speaker 1: Nobody's the head of the snake kind of thing, as

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Speaker 2: Not one person is going to come in and be like, Okay,

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Speaker 4: You know, they have Monique Billings who's out right now

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Speaker 4: So they're right behind Vegas who's fifteen and fourteen, and

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Speaker 4: They're in eighth place right now, ninth seventh place one

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Speaker 2: So again, they've had a successful year for.

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Speaker 1: Sure, of successful teams, but a little bit of confusion

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Speaker 3: The New York Liberty. Okay, so obviously.

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Speaker 1: They have some missing pieces, but they have been dropping

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Speaker 4: I think you just you said it, the injuries. Stewie

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Speaker 2: I think they actually might. I mean, obviously they're.

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Speaker 4: The vishue has been their defense, like we all know

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Speaker 4: So they've been catching some teams slipping only five of them,

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Speaker 4: So I think again, they're another team that just needs

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the dream. So Alicia Gray, oh no,

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Speaker 3: You're back.

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Speaker 2: Happy about this dream now?

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Speaker 1: Welcome back everybody. Alijah Gray and Nas Helman have led

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Speaker 3: Is supposed to be supposed to sit. But it seems

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Speaker 2: I don't. I look through all of the other.

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Speaker 4: flows of their offense and their season with how many

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00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:36,800
Speaker 4: outside shots they want to take. And then you have

440
00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:41,840
Speaker 4: Bree Jones and Brittany Grinder in the paint. Brian Howard

441
00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:45,400
Speaker 4: is a great player, all Star level player, but her

442
00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:49,959
Speaker 4: injury has given more shots to Bree and Brittany Griner.

443
00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:54,760
Speaker 2: She despite having not a great shooting.

444
00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:56,920
Speaker 4: Three point shooting percentage for the season, she was still

445
00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:59,960
Speaker 4: getting up like almost eleven per game, which was a lot.

446
00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:01,400
Speaker 3: That's a lot of threes per game.

447
00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:04,960
Speaker 4: So you take that away and those shots have gone

448
00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:07,199
Speaker 4: to pretty Grinder and pre Jones and they found like

449
00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:10,240
Speaker 4: a nice balance between outside playing.

450
00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:10,800
Speaker 2: And side play.

451
00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:14,960
Speaker 4: Leisha is averaging nineteen six and four. You know, I'm

452
00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:17,880
Speaker 4: throwing her an MVP conversation. You know, like we said,

453
00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:21,199
Speaker 4: it's Fees MVP award to lose at the moment, but

454
00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:23,920
Speaker 4: if I had to put more players into that, which

455
00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:27,520
Speaker 4: we'll also talk about later, Leisha's absolutely in that conversation,

456
00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:31,840
Speaker 4: and they're playing well and Jordan Canada being healthy and

457
00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:34,240
Speaker 4: back has definitely helped them. She's a great point guard,

458
00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:37,239
Speaker 4: she's a great floor general, making sure everybody gets their

459
00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:40,480
Speaker 4: shots where they need them. So, yeah, they're another team

460
00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:44,239
Speaker 4: trending absolutely in the right direction. And I don't know

461
00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:47,560
Speaker 4: what do we know what Ryan's timetable for I feel

462
00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:49,840
Speaker 4: like everybody's out and there's no timetable for return.

463
00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:51,919
Speaker 2: Everyone's just kind of like, you know what, we'll just see.

464
00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:57,480
Speaker 1: All we know is that the FISA Collier is going

465
00:22:57,560 --> 00:22:59,760
Speaker 1: to be out for two weeks. Well that's what they're

466
00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:02,520
Speaker 1: saying with the Spring, but I mean, I guess it

467
00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:03,160
Speaker 1: could be longer.

468
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:04,160
Speaker 3: But right now they're saying.

469
00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:06,280
Speaker 1: Two weeks, but it feels like a lot everybody else

470
00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:07,280
Speaker 1: is kind of up in the air.

471
00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:10,280
Speaker 2: Everyone's like, we'll let y'all know when we feel like it.

472
00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:14,040
Speaker 1: And these are big, big pieces that are hurt, like

473
00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:18,880
Speaker 1: the FISA Collier, Brianna Store, Caitlin Clark, Ryan.

474
00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:21,359
Speaker 3: Howard, these are these are really impactful players.

475
00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:25,280
Speaker 4: To these teams, right exactly. So everyone's just being like, okay,

476
00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:28,120
Speaker 4: we'll let y'all know. I'm like, okay, Like that's not

477
00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:29,120
Speaker 4: what we want to hear.

478
00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:31,520
Speaker 3: Kayla Thorton, Sorry I forgot about her.

479
00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:35,439
Speaker 4: Yeah, Kayla Thorn, statu I think is out Like I

480
00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:39,160
Speaker 4: don't know, like what's going on, And it's as long

481
00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:39,719
Speaker 4: as everybody.

482
00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:41,360
Speaker 2: Everyone just needs to get healthy for playoffs.

483
00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:43,360
Speaker 4: So we got five more weeks left of the season,

484
00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:47,600
Speaker 4: so everyone just needs to make sure that they're healthy.

485
00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:51,359
Speaker 1: It is that doomsday part of the season, you know,

486
00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:55,080
Speaker 1: post All Star break, things are taking a toll the

487
00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:57,320
Speaker 1: lotusing a toll deadline.

488
00:23:57,960 --> 00:23:59,720
Speaker 3: Yes, everybody having.

489
00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:03,720
Speaker 1: Which is saying people saying I need to stop buying

490
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:05,720
Speaker 1: my favorite players jersey. I have a friend that has

491
00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:07,640
Speaker 1: that's same different.

492
00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:09,200
Speaker 2: To buy jerseys.

493
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:12,720
Speaker 3: Don't say that. Don't say that.

494
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:17,440
Speaker 4: The fact the fact I don't buy I don't buy jerseys.

495
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:19,840
Speaker 2: And if I do buy a jersey, it's like a.

496
00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:24,080
Speaker 4: Throwback, just timeless jersey, Like that's gonna be whoever, whatever

497
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:26,880
Speaker 4: team this person's on, it doesn't matter because this jersey

498
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,960
Speaker 4: was like one of them one. But like as far

499
00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:31,600
Speaker 4: as like, oh I like this player, I will get

500
00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:33,920
Speaker 4: to jersey never because you never know.

501
00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:34,880
Speaker 2: What happens in sports.

502
00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:39,560
Speaker 3: You know, it's funny what a jersey a jersey that

503
00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:40,800
Speaker 3: I feel like you.

504
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:42,560
Speaker 1: You would like to, you know, purchase at some point

505
00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:45,240
Speaker 1: in the future or whatever. A jersey I feel like

506
00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:47,960
Speaker 1: you will have some respect for. Is the possible new

507
00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:49,320
Speaker 1: Boston teams jersey.

508
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:51,240
Speaker 3: I don't know. The Connecticut Sun were.

509
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:56,560
Speaker 1: Sold and possibly relocating to Boston, and Lexi loves the Celtics.

510
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:59,840
Speaker 4: So I love the Celtics, and I wonder, even though

511
00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:03,639
Speaker 4: the sale hasn't officially gone through yet, man if I

512
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 4: could play in Boston, that would I mean, that would

513
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,600
Speaker 4: be like the craziest thing ever. And then last year

514
00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:12,119
Speaker 4: when the Sparks played in Boston, I didn't get to

515
00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:14,680
Speaker 4: go because I wasn't traveling, so I was sick about that,

516
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,399
Speaker 4: Like I had that game circled on the calendar, and

517
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:20,399
Speaker 4: the fact that I didn't even get to go, Like whatever,

518
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:22,000
Speaker 4: I didn't play, but I didn't even get to go

519
00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,119
Speaker 4: and experience it. So that was a bummer for me.

520
00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 4: But having a team in Boston would be so fire.

521
00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:30,960
Speaker 4: That they had a game last year, like I just said,

522
00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,040
Speaker 4: with the Sparks. This year, the Connecticut Son had a

523
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:36,240
Speaker 4: game there as well, and the vibes were high though

524
00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:39,280
Speaker 4: the arena was full. I think Boston really wants a

525
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,920
Speaker 4: WNBA team and Boston has such a rich basketball culture,

526
00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:46,919
Speaker 4: and I think, I mean, I think it's time. I

527
00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:50,199
Speaker 4: think it's time. Connecticut has been there for a while.

528
00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 4: They weren't able to win the championships when they were

529
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:57,080
Speaker 4: supposed to quote unquote, so it's like sometimes you just

530
00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,080
Speaker 4: need to like rip the band aid off.

531
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:03,040
Speaker 1: And the speculation is that if the sale does go

532
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:07,360
Speaker 1: through to the Boston Celtics minority owner, that the Sun

533
00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 1: will be moving to Boston after the season, so they're

534
00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:11,560
Speaker 1: moving very quickly.

535
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:13,520
Speaker 3: So I'm looking forward.

536
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:14,399
Speaker 2: Very quickly.

537
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:20,320
Speaker 4: Me too, because that would be so fire And respectfully,

538
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 4: traveling to Connecticut is horrible.

539
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 3: No real.

540
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:29,080
Speaker 1: I hate Connecticut, no shade, And I'm talking about the

541
00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:33,640
Speaker 1: team with Connecticut the place. Hey, Connecticut, I ain't none there.

542
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:37,280
Speaker 4: It's tough and being there's nothing there when you play

543
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:41,800
Speaker 4: in Mohegan like you're stuck in the casino. Like at

544
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,280
Speaker 4: least in Vegas there's still like you can leave the

545
00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:46,159
Speaker 4: casino and there's a bunch of stuff to do, you

546
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:49,720
Speaker 4: can leave the strip and go do stuff. In Connecticut

547
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 4: like you're stuck in there, in that dark.

548
00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:58,040
Speaker 1: Casino, and it's hard to make that a free agency destination.

549
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:00,320
Speaker 1: You talked about when a team goes younger teams in

550
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:01,320
Speaker 1: a rebuilding phase.

551
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:02,560
Speaker 3: You start with that.

552
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 1: And then you start trying to accumulate some wins here

553
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:07,119
Speaker 1: and there where you can, and then you start trying

554
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:09,120
Speaker 1: to make it more of a free agency destination.

555
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:10,679
Speaker 3: So people will want to come, more.

556
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 1: Stars will want to come, and it's going to be

557
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:17,200
Speaker 1: really hard for them to do that in Connecticut, especially

558
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:20,159
Speaker 1: now with these new expansion teams as well, Like, they

559
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 1: don't always stand a chance. In my opinion, I don't

560
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:24,679
Speaker 1: care how much money you guys have.

561
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:27,400
Speaker 2: Times is different. Times are different now.

562
00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 4: I think when I said that front offices were being

563
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:34,680
Speaker 4: more intentional about putting teams together, I did think that.

564
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 4: I did not think that about all of the teams.

565
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,160
Speaker 4: As we're seeing now, a lot of front offices are

566
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:42,560
Speaker 4: like undoing things that they did in free agency that

567
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,480
Speaker 4: they thought maybe were going to work. I think players

568
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 4: now are more intentional with where they want to go

569
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 4: play because of the opportunities off the court, because of

570
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:54,399
Speaker 4: the brands people are building. You can't you're not going

571
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 4: to bring a star to Connecticut, like You're just not.

572
00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:03,040
Speaker 4: So I feel like the more like the more they

573
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:05,520
Speaker 4: look at it, in that perspective, like I think Connecticut

574
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:08,639
Speaker 4: they're historic, They've been there for a while. You know,

575
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,440
Speaker 4: they had that really great window of time of getting

576
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:13,959
Speaker 4: to the playoffs, getting to the finals, and all this

577
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 4: other amazing things that they accomplished.

578
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 2: But sometimes you just have to pivot.

579
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 4: And just the way sports and women's sports is going,

580
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:24,919
Speaker 4: like you have to have attractive cities, you have to

581
00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:28,679
Speaker 4: have attractive facilities, you have to have attractive social media,

582
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,720
Speaker 4: all that stuff. It's like so many layers to everything now.

583
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 4: So I think them going to Boston would be such

584
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 4: a good move.

585
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 2: So we're going to keep our eye on that.

586
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 4: Because it's not official yet, so we're going to keep

587
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 4: our eye on it.

588
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:46,240
Speaker 1: Staying on the East Coast, the New York Liberty have

589
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:50,840
Speaker 1: signed twenty nineteen Finals MVP Emma and Wave second year

590
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:53,720
Speaker 1: guard jaylencher Rod to create a roster spot.

591
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 3: LEXI, I know you had thoughts about this.

592
00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 4: So upset me that Emma's back in the league. Don't

593
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 4: get me wrong, Emma me some men. But like when

594
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:08,400
Speaker 4: Emma mesa men is playing, that's good. But for a

595
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:12,360
Speaker 4: player like Jalen helped them win the championship last year,

596
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 4: great person.

597
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 2: She played in AU.

598
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 4: She was incredible, was getting better, was actually getting a

599
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 4: little bit of burn this season with the Liberty for

600
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 4: her to just have to get waived because of a

601
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:30,240
Speaker 4: roster spot being needed over halfway through the season.

602
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 2: Like I hate that, Like I don't.

603
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:36,120
Speaker 4: You can't point your fingers at anybody because you don't

604
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:40,000
Speaker 4: know what goes on in these front offices and the conversations.

605
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 2: That are had.

606
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 4: But the fact that you can do everything that a

607
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 4: team asked you to do, show up as a professional,

608
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 4: do your job, and they can just be like, you

609
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 4: know what, we want this player instead.

610
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:53,480
Speaker 2: Bye hate that.

611
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,760
Speaker 4: And I just read a quote from the coach from

612
00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 4: the Liberty and she didn't like she was hurt that

613
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 4: she had to waive Jalen. But again she's like, we

614
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:07,840
Speaker 4: just don't have the spots to focus on player development

615
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 4: for young players, and that's something that will I feel

616
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:13,320
Speaker 4: like every every episode we circle back to the CBA

617
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 4: some way shape.

618
00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 1: It's important. It's the guiding force to the entire league.

619
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 4: It's like these young players like you either have like

620
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 4: I said, you're either all into the youth or you're

621
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:28,040
Speaker 4: all out, Like there's no one between, and we don't

622
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 4: have enough spots to prioritize player development because also we

623
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 4: don't even have enough time, and then in the off

624
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:37,720
Speaker 4: season you're not even around your team or your coaches.

625
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 4: So really it's like there really is no point to

626
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 4: keep young players around to develop them because outside of

627
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 4: our training camp to the season, that's the only time

628
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 4: you see them.

629
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:47,640
Speaker 2: So again, like I said last.

630
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:50,479
Speaker 4: Week, when the CBA negotiations, they're if they're like, if

631
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 4: you guys pay you more money, you're not able to

632
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:56,400
Speaker 4: play in the other leagues anymore, because then we want

633
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 4: you to.

634
00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 2: Prioritize the w.

635
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:01,960
Speaker 4: But if I don't have a gym or facility or

636
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:06,360
Speaker 4: staff to work with, he's three sixty five, why would.

637
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 2: I do that.

638
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 1: I also want to add job security, because yes, if

639
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 1: you don't have the facility and all of those things,

640
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 1: it's impossible for you to commit to the WNBA full time.

641
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 3: However, it does seem like there's.

642
00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 1: A job security sort of issue as well, with people

643
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 1: having these contracts that are seemingly locked in. And when

644
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 1: the New York Liberty have an opportunity to go get

645
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 1: a former Finals MVP and a player that they really.

646
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 3: Want an mm's men and they.

647
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 1: Have a player that does really contribute and is doing

648
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:39,200
Speaker 1: her job, they have to let her go, and so

649
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 1: it puts you in a position where they can't really

650
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 1: take away that right from all of the players to

651
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 1: participate in out of the season leagues and different things

652
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:51,960
Speaker 1: off the core and commit solely to the w when

653
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 1: there's still this job security issue, they have to something.

654
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 3: Has to change with that.

655
00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 4: It's so crazy because it's like you have the deadline

656
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 4: kind of being able to wave players, and we have

657
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 4: now seen multiple players get waives that have protected contracts

658
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 4: because these teams have cap space to do it. So

659
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 4: instead of building a team or making a trade that

660
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 4: makes sense because the money matches up, which is very.

661
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 2: Hard to do by the way, they just bring in.

662
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 4: A player and then they're like, oh, we have cap space,

663
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 4: so we're just gonna wave that player because we can

664
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 4: afford it.

665
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 2: Like, yes, they're.

666
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 4: Getting their money, good for them, but now you're out

667
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:29,440
Speaker 4: of the league, you're out of a job, maybe missed

668
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:31,120
Speaker 4: out on an opportunity elsewhere.

669
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 2: Like it's bad.

670
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 4: And yeah you're like, hey, like the liberty got better,

671
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 4: they got me some it, But really that happened because

672
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 4: she ain't pick Minnesota. She ain't pick Phoenix. So you

673
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 4: have a bunch of players whose careers are in the

674
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 4: balance of one person's decision of where they want to

675
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 4: go play for half the year. And again, this is

676
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 4: no shade to anybody, but this, Like I said, I've

677
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 4: been the victim of this type of business practices in

678
00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:02,040
Speaker 4: the WNBA. So Emma was between Minnesota, Phoenix and the Liberty,

679
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 4: and she picked the Liberty. So now you have a

680
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 4: domino effect. So okay, oh Dan, we ain't gonna get Emma,

681
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:13,840
Speaker 4: We're gonna get Djna. Then okay, Now now Carly and

682
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 4: Diamond get traded.

683
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:20,960
Speaker 2: Now Carly's waived like domino effect.

684
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 4: And I feel like I just have empathy for these situations.

685
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 4: One because that's how I was raised. I'm a very

686
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:30,960
Speaker 4: empathetic person. Unfortunately, I feel like I'm in the wrong

687
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 4: career sometimes met with how deeply I feel, how deeply

688
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 4: I feel for other people's situations, even though sometimes they

689
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 4: don't have anything to do with me. I just don't

690
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 4: like seeing people dealing with shitty situations because I've been

691
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 4: in a plethora of shitty situations, but a bandage to

692
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 4: make my way out of them. Despite what's going on

693
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 4: around me. But I mean, I hate it for Jalen.

694
00:33:56,520 --> 00:34:00,080
Speaker 2: I really do. And I think a lot of people felt.

695
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 4: The same way, honestly, even her own coaches in front

696
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 4: office like her. She didn't just get a thank you post.

697
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 4: She got a few posts like her being a champion.

698
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 4: She got a little highlight like.

699
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,280
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I hate those thank you posts, Mariah.

700
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:18,240
Speaker 2: I know I hate them. I know I hate them.

701
00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:21,960
Speaker 4: I don't think I've ever reposted one either.

702
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:28,239
Speaker 3: I thought about athletes must feel about those, like they

703
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 3: are horrible.

704
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 1: Don't thank me bro And being on the Atlanta Hawk

705
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 1: social team, I've had to make those a few times.

706
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:39,880
Speaker 1: And it's funny because it's a it's a template in

707
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,840
Speaker 1: photoshop that they have that said, just say thanks Tom

708
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 1: and you insert and I don't even have to go

709
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:48,760
Speaker 1: pick the picture of you. I have the whole roster

710
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:50,960
Speaker 1: right here, and I click, Oh, let's get rid of

711
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:51,959
Speaker 1: this person.

712
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 4: Like.

713
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:55,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like Survivor.

714
00:34:56,560 --> 00:35:00,799
Speaker 1: It's horrible, and World Office, Oh do you Carrington's gone

715
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:02,880
Speaker 1: to Jake Carrington's gone, get to thank you graphic up a.

716
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 3: App as app.

717
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 5: It's ridiculous.

718
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,560
Speaker 4: Okay, I mean we're on the subject of trades, right, now,

719
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:27,440
Speaker 4: So we're just going to address the elephant in the

720
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:31,040
Speaker 4: room of Lexi Brown's life right now that we just

721
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:34,360
Speaker 4: traded Alicia Clark and Ziah for Britney Sykes.

722
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 3: Which.

723
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 2: Let me tread lightley here. Very excited that Sykes is coming.

724
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 2: She's a great player.

725
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 4: I play with her in LA All Star averaging fifteen

726
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 4: three and four right now.

727
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:48,399
Speaker 2: Great defender, but.

728
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:51,160
Speaker 4: Doesn't shoot a lot of threes, which I mean, if

729
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:54,279
Speaker 4: y'all been watching us, that tracks with the way we

730
00:35:54,320 --> 00:36:00,160
Speaker 4: play basketball. For a player like me in the situation

731
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:03,760
Speaker 4: I'm currently in, I'm I just have like more question

732
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:07,280
Speaker 4: marks about what I need to bring.

733
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 2: To the team as a player.

734
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:10,440
Speaker 4: I know what I need to bring as a teammate,

735
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:15,319
Speaker 4: Like that's that's the easy part. They've now brought in

736
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:19,960
Speaker 4: two more guards on our team, so me being a

737
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,919
Speaker 4: guard that really hasn't gotten much opportunity, I'm just kind

738
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:24,280
Speaker 4: of like, Okay, well.

739
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:27,879
Speaker 2: What now, Like what do y'all want me to do?

740
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:31,839
Speaker 4: So as excited as I am always excited to add

741
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 4: like a veteran piece, especially someone that I know and

742
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 4: care about a lot, that's great, but like from a

743
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 4: personnel point of view, like I've now been like leap

744
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 4: frogged by now two players that they've brought in late.

745
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 2: So for me, I'm like, okay.

746
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 4: Well, I'm just going to show up and be a professional,

747
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:54,239
Speaker 4: and I'm going to show up and and produce when

748
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:56,880
Speaker 4: I get the opportunities. I mean, y'all have seen, like

749
00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:00,880
Speaker 4: my opportunities are all over the place. But I just

750
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:03,319
Speaker 4: come in and do my job and don't fuck up.

751
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 4: That's really what I That's really all I can do

752
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 4: at the moment. Really sad about ac leaving, like that

753
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 4: was someone I was really close with. She played an

754
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 4: AU last year, she's gonna play again this year, so

755
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:17,399
Speaker 4: we built a relationship then.

756
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 2: And I'm super sad about Zaia.

757
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 4: I felt like she was finally finding her footing, getting comfortable,

758
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:32,239
Speaker 4: and unfortunately she got waived by the mystics. So this

759
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 4: is another example of collateral damage in this league of

760
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 4: someone that does everything you ask, you know, shows up,

761
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 4: does their job, and some things don't work out and

762
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:45,919
Speaker 4: you kind of just get thrown into the mix. And

763
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:52,279
Speaker 4: now she doesn't have a job, so I don't I

764
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 4: don't know.

765
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:53,800
Speaker 2: It's it's been it's.

766
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 4: Been an interesting few days, honestly, and for me, I

767
00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:01,400
Speaker 4: just I just want to show up and be the

768
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:02,480
Speaker 4: best team that I can be.

769
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 2: But it's been like a lot going on.

770
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:13,879
Speaker 1: Honestly, Yeah, I treading lightly with this topic. I do

771
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:17,320
Speaker 1: want to say that I feel as though a professional sports,

772
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 1: not just in your situation, but generally, especially in the WNBA,

773
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:24,040
Speaker 1: As I grow more in covering the league and talking

774
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 1: to players and being around these situations, I feel like

775
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:30,799
Speaker 1: there can be this aspect of which when you first

776
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 1: got to Seattle, I feel like that was.

777
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 3: Very much there. You spoke about your very specific role.

778
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:37,280
Speaker 3: Everyone had a very specific role that they were told.

779
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:43,960
Speaker 3: But it feels like, especially this WNBA season, that across.

780
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:46,800
Speaker 1: The board that has been kind of all over players

781
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:49,720
Speaker 1: who fought their role was secure on their team getting

782
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 1: waved or traded and then waved and room being made

783
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 1: for pieces that they When the season started and we

784
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 1: were making our plan for the season, how we're going

785
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 1: to go about things weren't even a thought for our

786
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 1: roster and things becoming very okay, it's the middle of

787
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:07,719
Speaker 1: the season, but it feels very like frazzled.

788
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 3: I don't know if.

789
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:11,440
Speaker 1: There's some way that players could be protected in that

790
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:14,040
Speaker 1: way during in the CBA or if it's a coaching thing,

791
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:16,760
Speaker 1: like coaches taking the time to make sure every player

792
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:18,920
Speaker 1: knows what their role is when they come into work

793
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:20,759
Speaker 1: every day, putting y'all in a position to succeed so

794
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:22,600
Speaker 1: that those things don't happen, or you could do what

795
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 1: you can to avoid those situations where you're out of

796
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:29,240
Speaker 1: a job or confused or like unhappy in your situation.

797
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:32,879
Speaker 1: But it's just it feels like number one, that there's

798
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:34,360
Speaker 1: a lack of opportunity because.

799
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 3: Of roster spots.

800
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:39,400
Speaker 1: Hopefully that improves with the added teams expansion teams, but

801
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,440
Speaker 1: I don't know. In high school sports, you know, or

802
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 1: college sports, it feels like, at least back in the

803
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 1: day when they couldn't just like trade college players and

804
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:50,720
Speaker 1: players can just leave, they kind of had to foster

805
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 1: and develop you because they're stuck with you for a while.

806
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 1: But I've got professional sports could use a little more

807
00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:56,799
Speaker 1: of that.

808
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,320
Speaker 4: So on that note, when you say there's with you

809
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 4: for a little while, the last like two or three years,

810
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:06,680
Speaker 4: players have been signing like one year contracts, So once

811
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 4: that gets out of the way, like we're not going

812
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:10,040
Speaker 4: to see that.

813
00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:11,200
Speaker 2: Again for a while.

814
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:11,960
Speaker 3: Hopefully.

815
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:15,120
Speaker 4: The only reason why all this random movement is happening

816
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:18,680
Speaker 4: is because players are not locked in for the following season,

817
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:21,799
Speaker 4: which is why I always am saying these teams, y'all

818
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:24,320
Speaker 4: think this is crazy. Your favorite team is going to

819
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:28,399
Speaker 4: be broken up next year, probably too new CBA. So

820
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:31,319
Speaker 4: we got to bring back these two three four year

821
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:34,840
Speaker 4: contracts because that's going to prevent a lot of this

822
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 4: random moving around and last minute moving around kind of stuff,

823
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:40,400
Speaker 4: because yeah, you're going to be locked in with this

824
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 4: player for multiple years. Like me, for example, I'm stuck

825
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:45,920
Speaker 4: with a two year contract on a team that I

826
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 4: didn't sign the two year contract for, so I'm probably

827
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:51,440
Speaker 4: not considered a movable piece.

828
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:53,320
Speaker 2: Even on the back of my mind.

829
00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:56,359
Speaker 4: Ever since you know, things have gotten a little shaky here,

830
00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 4: I've always am I getting moved. That's something that I

831
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:02,799
Speaker 4: constant we think about, just because of my past experiences

832
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:05,800
Speaker 4: in the league. So even when all this started going

833
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:10,719
Speaker 4: down with AC, I'm just like, okay, Acs, like GM me,

834
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:16,279
Speaker 4: I know what AC's contract is. They gonna have to

835
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:18,840
Speaker 4: ask someone else in that is it gonna be me.

836
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:21,919
Speaker 4: That's why us where my mind was at the last

837
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 4: two days. So I'm just like, like you said, it's

838
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:28,719
Speaker 4: a lack of job security. And how can you come

839
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 4: into your job every day and you do what they

840
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:32,480
Speaker 4: ask you to do and they're still like, Okay, you

841
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 4: can go. How do you expect people to want to

842
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 4: show up and govern to work there, I'm saying, I'm

843
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 4: not doing that. I'm coming to work every day and

844
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 4: doing what I need to do. But yeah, I think

845
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:47,320
Speaker 4: that it's going to be a lot easier to protect

846
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 4: players with these multi year contracts that hopefully will be

847
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:52,880
Speaker 4: coming with the next CBA. But like I said, like

848
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:56,239
Speaker 4: you technically can't wave players after a certain date, but

849
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:58,920
Speaker 4: if teams have cap space and they want to waste

850
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:01,640
Speaker 4: the money, they can no one can stop them from

851
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:04,239
Speaker 4: doing that. So some teams have the power to do

852
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 4: that and some teams don't. But you just have to

853
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:11,360
Speaker 4: figure it out unfortunately. But I mean, like I said,

854
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 4: new CBA a lot of work to do that is

855
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 4: so beyond salaries, Like salaries is like the most obvious,

856
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:22,359
Speaker 4: glaring issue, but there's so many other things that I

857
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 4: hope that we're able to address with these negotiations because

858
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:29,279
Speaker 4: this season has been ridiculous in my opinion, I know

859
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:31,440
Speaker 4: our fans, all the fans are like, what is going on?

860
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:36,440
Speaker 4: And I understand. I understand y'all because what is going on.

861
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:38,480
Speaker 1: It has been has been a lot, and the off

862
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 1: season is going to be even more so, y'all better

863
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:44,360
Speaker 1: get ready, get ready, buckle up. Oh yeah, speaking a

864
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:47,520
Speaker 1: buckling up, Let's talk playoff picture. This is our final

865
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:50,040
Speaker 1: segment of the day, but we have to talk about.

866
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 3: A little playoff update.

867
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:55,720
Speaker 1: How are the current standings comparing to your preseason expectations, Lexi,

868
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:57,440
Speaker 1: I know the Valkyries have a shot at being the

869
00:42:57,440 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 1: first expansion team to ever make the playoffs. Lots of

870
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 1: things are awry, but.

871
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 3: What are your thoughts?

872
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:07,360
Speaker 4: I mean, I think outside of Golden State overachieving in Vegas,

873
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:13,480
Speaker 4: underachieving to most people's expectations. This is basically what I

874
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:16,120
Speaker 4: thought the playoff picture would look like. Minnesota, New York

875
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:20,160
Speaker 4: on the top. Atlanta has kind of been a pleasant surprise.

876
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:22,600
Speaker 4: We said Phoenix was gonna be really good when we

877
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:26,319
Speaker 4: did our preseason show. Our team has a question mark

878
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:28,880
Speaker 4: next to it, but we still are sixteen and thirteen

879
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:31,160
Speaker 4: and have a lot of games to play, and we're

880
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:34,560
Speaker 4: only a few games away from second place, but we're

881
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:34,920
Speaker 4: also a.

882
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 2: Few games away from out the playoffs.

883
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 4: So it's like I keep saying that we're having pivotal

884
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:43,919
Speaker 4: moments of our season, and it's like, because so many

885
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:47,920
Speaker 4: other teams are slowly like crashing out, it seems like

886
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:50,840
Speaker 4: we're not there yet.

887
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:52,799
Speaker 2: I hope we never get there. I don't think we're

888
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:53,520
Speaker 2: gonna get there.

889
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:57,520
Speaker 4: But again, like tonight against Many is a huge opportunity

890
00:43:57,560 --> 00:44:00,279
Speaker 4: for us. We have Phoenix, I think I think we

891
00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:02,480
Speaker 4: have Phoenix next. I think they said we have the

892
00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:06,920
Speaker 4: hardest schedule from now to the end of the season,

893
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 4: So it's going to a great time for us to

894
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 4: get prepared for the playoffs, and it's a great time

895
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 4: for us to finally solidify our identity, which for us

896
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:22,800
Speaker 4: right now, our identity is inconsistency. Unfortunately, Like we're number

897
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 4: two in defense, but we're last and rebounding, so like

898
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 4: that's like kind of counterintuitive to how you play, Like

899
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:32,480
Speaker 4: you're getting stops, well, you don't get rebounds.

900
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 2: You're getting stops, you don't finish plays.

901
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:37,759
Speaker 4: We're also like at the bottom of offensive rebounds, so

902
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:41,840
Speaker 4: we don't provide extra possessions for our team, So that

903
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:44,800
Speaker 4: puts a lot of pressure on our half court offense.

904
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:47,279
Speaker 4: And when we have a pace that we have, which

905
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:49,600
Speaker 4: I said is at the bottom of the league, which

906
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:51,719
Speaker 4: is a lot of pressure on scoring the ball at

907
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:54,240
Speaker 4: a high level, and some nights that's not going to happen.

908
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:56,400
Speaker 4: So we have been able to hang our hat on defense.

909
00:44:56,760 --> 00:45:01,080
Speaker 4: But we have to like marry the two together. You know,

910
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:03,440
Speaker 4: We'll have sixty points one game, then we'll have one hundred,

911
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:05,719
Speaker 4: and we'll have fifty five, then we'll have ninety five.

912
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:08,160
Speaker 2: Like it doesn't make.

913
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:12,600
Speaker 1: Sense, which is really interesting because I feel like offensively,

914
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 1: you hear about that a lot with as we talk

915
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:16,680
Speaker 1: about all the time, to live by the three died

916
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:19,440
Speaker 1: by the three teams, and y'all aren't that No.

917
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:23,320
Speaker 4: I'm like, yah, know me upset. I'm sitting on a bench,

918
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 4: like what is going on? Like yesterday, two days ago,

919
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:28,799
Speaker 4: we scored ninety five points. I look up, we have

920
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:32,319
Speaker 4: fifteen points in the second quarter. I'm like, Okay, we

921
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:35,240
Speaker 4: need to figure that out because we have enough scoring

922
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:38,160
Speaker 4: and talent on our team for us to not consistently

923
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:42,799
Speaker 4: be scoring under seventy points per game. But I will

924
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:46,960
Speaker 4: say like Neca has played out of her freaking mind.

925
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:48,480
Speaker 2: Since thirty points.

926
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:50,840
Speaker 3: She doublet game yeah.

927
00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, so she's just been our everything and honestly, you know,

928
00:45:57,320 --> 00:45:59,560
Speaker 4: Skyler is going to do her thing. She's our you know,

929
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:03,440
Speaker 4: emotion a leader, but we all collectively got to pick

930
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:06,560
Speaker 4: it up and match their energy because like the time

931
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:10,040
Speaker 4: to win is now. And I think even adding Psykes,

932
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:12,880
Speaker 4: like if y'all have watched Psychs at all, like she

933
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:17,239
Speaker 4: is passionate, she plays hardest shit like she's someone who's

934
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 4: absolutely gonna match that energy. So, you know, despite of

935
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:22,919
Speaker 4: what her coming to the team does for my role,

936
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 4: I'm still excited for her to be here because I

937
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 4: want to go to the playoffs. So whatever that, whatever

938
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 4: we gotta do to get to the playoffs, I'm for it.

939
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:33,399
Speaker 4: And I'm just gonna show up in whatever way they

940
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:33,880
Speaker 4: need me to.

941
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:35,680
Speaker 3: You're a professional, and you want to win.

942
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:36,480
Speaker 2: I want to win.

943
00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:39,200
Speaker 4: I want to win another championship because winning one was

944
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:40,239
Speaker 4: so much fun.

945
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:40,960
Speaker 2: It was great.

946
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:44,239
Speaker 4: And yeah, so I think the standings are not really

947
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:47,200
Speaker 4: a shock to anybody that has been paying close attention

948
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:47,840
Speaker 4: to the league.

949
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:50,920
Speaker 2: I will say, like, la, I feel like.

950
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:54,240
Speaker 4: Could sneak in and get that eighth seven or eight spot,

951
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:57,319
Speaker 4: And I feel like whoever matches.

952
00:46:57,080 --> 00:47:00,960
Speaker 2: Up with Vegas or LA first round. That's going to

953
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:02,239
Speaker 2: be a tough series.

954
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 3: That's sant dress.

955
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:07,200
Speaker 1: I also feel like, as far as I'm looking at

956
00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:10,319
Speaker 1: when it comes to the playoff picture, I just want

957
00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:12,840
Speaker 1: to note the fact that a lot of the best

958
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:17,279
Speaker 1: teams are without their best player right now. That is,

959
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:19,799
Speaker 1: I mean, to the top two teams that we were

960
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 1: talking about being contenders before the season even started are

961
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:23,320
Speaker 1: both without their best player.

962
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 4: That is, almost every team is without their best players

963
00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 4: except for us well, I mean we're not considered a

964
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 4: top team right now. Yeah, So like Mini's out, New

965
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:38,239
Speaker 4: York got the one of the top players out, the

966
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 4: dream got the one of their best players out Phoenix.

967
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:44,360
Speaker 4: I think I don't know what Satu's status is. And

968
00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:46,320
Speaker 4: then the fever because you never.

969
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:51,480
Speaker 1: Know how injuries I got so grown. Injuries are very strange. Sprains,

970
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:54,160
Speaker 1: ankle sprains very strange. You never know how those things

971
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:56,719
Speaker 1: are gonna heal when you're in a playoff sort of situation.

972
00:47:57,560 --> 00:47:59,800
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that that's something to be paying attention

973
00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:02,480
Speaker 1: to because we might think we know exactly what the

974
00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:04,560
Speaker 1: playoffs are gonna look like. We might know what the

975
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:06,879
Speaker 1: playoffs like, who's gonna be in them. But when we're

976
00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:11,080
Speaker 1: actually in them, I feel like it's gonna be you're gonna.

977
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:12,239
Speaker 3: Have to watch every night to know what's going on.

978
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:14,399
Speaker 2: You're gonna have to watch every night.

979
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:18,080
Speaker 4: I think this is gonna be such a good playoffs. Again,

980
00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:21,560
Speaker 4: we stive five weeks left of our regular season. I

981
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:23,440
Speaker 4: think y'all gotta look, we gotta we gotta keep it

982
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:27,120
Speaker 4: out on everybody. I think there's ten teams that can

983
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 4: make the playoffs. Like you have Dallas, Chicago, and Connecticut

984
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 4: who are pretty much like out of the picture for

985
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:37,680
Speaker 4: the most part. But everybody else is like has a three.

986
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 2: Four games within each other.

987
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:44,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's like Minnesota everybody else for the most part.

988
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:47,920
Speaker 4: So it's gonna be an exciting last month. There's some

989
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:51,279
Speaker 4: change of a season. So y'all stay tapped.

990
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:54,640
Speaker 2: In with us. Oh my gosh, wait, one more thing

991
00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:55,000
Speaker 2: to say.

992
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:57,439
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I got one more thing to say before

993
00:48:57,440 --> 00:48:57,719
Speaker 4: we go.

994
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:00,560
Speaker 2: Guys. I'm eleven points away from a thousand in career.

995
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:02,479
Speaker 3: Oh my god.

996
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:06,360
Speaker 4: So if I have if I have anything to try

997
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:09,080
Speaker 4: and strive for for this season, it's to get these

998
00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:11,000
Speaker 4: last eleven points.

999
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:12,640
Speaker 3: Brouh coach.

1000
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 4: All I want is eleven more coach, I just need eleven.

1001
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:18,319
Speaker 3: Give my girl a shot so.

1002
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:19,920
Speaker 4: I could be like, hey, guys, I scored a thousand

1003
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:22,160
Speaker 4: points to the w n B A like cool.

1004
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:22,800
Speaker 3: You're gonna get a graphic.

1005
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:26,439
Speaker 2: All I need is eleven. At the beginning, I might

1006
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:33,000
Speaker 2: because fun, thank you graft. That is like what do

1007
00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:36,319
Speaker 2: y'all want us to say? You're welcome? Like what?

1008
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:37,080
Speaker 3: No?

1009
00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:38,719
Speaker 2: I hate Oh? I hate them.

1010
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:43,080
Speaker 4: I hate them, especially after like they did some bullshit

1011
00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:44,759
Speaker 4: and for them to be like I know it's not

1012
00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:48,440
Speaker 4: Admin's fault, but like when I got away from Minnesota,

1013
00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:50,560
Speaker 4: like and they said thank you, I wanted.

1014
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:54,200
Speaker 2: To be like, bright, stop it, y'all could have y'all

1015
00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:55,000
Speaker 2: could have kept that.

1016
00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:56,279
Speaker 3: What am I supposed to do?

1017
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:59,759
Speaker 1: Repost this to my story, keep it right and be

1018
00:49:59,840 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 1: like you're welcome, guys.

1019
00:50:02,719 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 2: Please goodbye.

1020
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:06,320
Speaker 4: Okay, sorry I had to get that off, but okay,

1021
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:08,760
Speaker 4: everybody pray for me to get to my eleven points.

1022
00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:10,759
Speaker 4: We have for five weeks left for me to get

1023
00:50:10,760 --> 00:50:13,360
Speaker 4: eleven points. So thank you guys for tuning in for

1024
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:15,360
Speaker 4: another episode of Full Circle Podcast.

1025
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:16,880
Speaker 2: We will see y'all next week.

1026
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:17,799
Speaker 4: Bye.

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00:50:18,560 --> 00:50:19,960
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