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Speaker 1: Welcome back to an episode of Full Circle post All

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Speaker 1: Star Edition, Lexi, how.

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Speaker 2: Are you doing.

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Speaker 3: I'm great, I'm refreshed.

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Speaker 4: I did not make it to Indianapolis, but lucky for us,

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Speaker 4: Mariah did. So She's gonna give us the inside scoop,

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Speaker 4: the tea, everything that y'all may not have seen online,

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Speaker 4: which was basically nothing thanks to the stud buds. Right,

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Speaker 4: it looks like a time. I will say there were moments.

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie.

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Speaker 1: Angel wasn't lying when she said that we turned Indie

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Speaker 1: into Miami for sure.

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Speaker 4: Which is funny, which I'm like, have y'all really actually

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Speaker 4: spent I mean, I guess on Robin's in Miami, but

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Speaker 4: I was like, I don't know. Miami's a different type

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Speaker 4: of beast, but I've heard from multiple people that.

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Speaker 2: Know it's it's so different.

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Speaker 4: Showed up and showed out, so that's good to hear.

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Speaker 4: It's good to hear they did.

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Speaker 1: It was a lot of fun and the game itself

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Speaker 1: was packed.

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Speaker 2: It was absolutely popping.

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Speaker 1: I kept hearing people say when I got back, there

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Speaker 1: was all these misconceptions I felt like when I got

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Speaker 1: back about what the game was actually like. The game

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Speaker 1: was packed, full loud. There were jerseys of every player,

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Speaker 1: any player, players that weren't even playing in the game.

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Speaker 1: People were interested in all kinds of things. People were having.

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Speaker 2: A great time and absolutely loved it.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, there was like some fans that were disappointed about

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Speaker 1: Caitlin not playing. I was a little disappointed because I

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Speaker 1: was an Indian and I did want to see that,

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Speaker 1: but the energy actually there didn't give that. But then

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Speaker 1: when I got home, and I because I was working

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Speaker 1: so hard while I was there, But when I got home,

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Speaker 1: I actually got to check the Internet. I was like, wait,

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Speaker 1: everybody's talking.

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Speaker 3: Like, it's not a real place. No, it's not Internet's

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Speaker 3: not a real place. No, everybody, I don't know how

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Speaker 3: many more ways.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that what this season has shown us

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Speaker 4: is that the Internet is not a real place, which

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Speaker 4: we already knew that. Everybody knows that the Internet is

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Speaker 4: the Internet. Twitter is Twitter, Reddit is red, Instagram, like

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Speaker 4: these are all like little mini universes.

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Speaker 3: But at the end of the day.

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Speaker 4: Real life is what matters and what's important, and that's

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Speaker 4: where the money is, Like, that's where the people are,

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Speaker 4: that's where the interactions are.

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Speaker 3: So I'm glad that.

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Speaker 4: You're saying that, because you are a person that works

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Speaker 4: in the social media space, so you have no choice

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Speaker 4: but to be chronically online. So I'm sure that sometimes

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Speaker 4: you can get a little wrapped up in like, oh

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Speaker 4: my gosh, it is so negative, but it definitely has

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Speaker 4: adjusted my mindset getting off.

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Speaker 3: To learn personally to see like.

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Speaker 4: There's really not that much negativity if you're not.

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Speaker 3: On the internet, so oh.

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Speaker 2: Oh, not at all.

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Speaker 1: The real life is so much more positive. I just

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Speaker 1: got done making a ten minute video about all the

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Speaker 1: details as to YWBA players whoserve to make more money

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Speaker 1: because I was so tired of my comments that I

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Speaker 1: spend all morning researching that because when I say the

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Speaker 1: fans in the arena, I don't know how it sounded

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Speaker 1: on TV or what people really had to say about

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Speaker 1: it online. But the ceremony at the end, as soon

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Speaker 1: as the game ended, the ceremony at the end, the

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Speaker 1: pay them chance.

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Speaker 2: I have a video of it.

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Speaker 3: I need to post it.

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Speaker 1: It was insane. And I didn't see it coming. O

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Speaker 1: don't know if everybody had a meeting without me planning

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Speaker 4: But it's like, you make the best TikTok when you're

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Speaker 4: like when you're doing a job that you've done for

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Speaker 4: a long time, you're doing a good job. You've made

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Speaker 3: As for a race, like that's like simple, like.

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Speaker 2: One hundred percent of life.

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Speaker 4: I hope everybody feels that way about their jobs that

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Speaker 4: for anything outrageous, And I think that's where people get,

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Speaker 3: It's like, oh, well they people.

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Speaker 4: I mean, first of all, they use the same every

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Speaker 3: Oh they lose money, da da da da da.

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Speaker 4: Okay, show me tell me okay, Like we're not asking

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Speaker 3: We're literally asking.

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Speaker 4: For like three more percentage points of a revenue split

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Speaker 4: like minimum.

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Speaker 1: Lexie, I know you love numbers. Can I give you

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Speaker 1: a couple numbers I learned this morning.

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Speaker 2: Do it number one?

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Speaker 1: If at max all one hundred and fifty six WNBA players.

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Speaker 1: We're making the league average one hundred and two thousand

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Speaker 2: The WNBA is.

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Speaker 1: Spending in total sixteen million dollars on player salary. They

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Speaker 1: just signed a two hundred million dollar media right steal, So.

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Speaker 2: That's that's that.

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Speaker 1: Number two, that is an a livable wage in most

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Speaker 1: league minimum okay, And number three the WNBA. While people

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Speaker 1: might not see WNBA players as as valuable as NBA players,

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Speaker 1: I can assure you a WNBA player is just as

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Speaker 2: There is no league without the players, So I.

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Speaker 1: Don't the players asking for more money is like more

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Speaker 1: than valid. And the WNBA compared to what they're bringing in,

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Speaker 1: they just brought in seventy five million dollars from investors.

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Speaker 1: They've got the money to double, triple, quadruple that sixteen

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Speaker 2: They're spending on their most important asset, which is the players.

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Speaker 4: And when you like put it in a perspective like that,

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Speaker 4: the amount of visibility, the amount of endorsements, the amount

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Speaker 3: Like, at least in my experiences.

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Speaker 4: Everything that I do, at least content endorsement, brand, it's

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Speaker 4: If that's a woman versus man thing, if that's like

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Speaker 3: I like my content.

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Speaker 4: I like working with brands out of line with like

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Speaker 3: So I don't know if that's like just a Lexi thing.

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Speaker 4: But y'all know that most WNBA players, most female athletes

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Speaker 4: in general, make more money off of their field, off

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Speaker 4: if we want to get paid a little bit more

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Speaker 1: Because and it would make sense for the WNBA to

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Speaker 1: not having y'all have to do all of this extra

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Speaker 1: WNBA to say, hey, I'm going to pay you all

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Speaker 1: life is WNBA, not going to play overseas in the

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Speaker 1: off season, not going to play in another league.

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Speaker 2: We want to pay you so well that when you wake.

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Speaker 1: Up in the morning, you think about the WNBA, and

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Speaker 1: And imagine with the level of competition we have now

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Speaker 1: skyrocket if.

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Speaker 2: That were the main thing.

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Speaker 1: And it is the main thing for all of y'all,

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Speaker 1: but out of necessity it has to be put on

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Speaker 2: Sometimes that makes no sense.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I mean, it's like it's just like a

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Speaker 4: it's a slippery slope when you get into these especially

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Speaker 4: right now in the CBA negotiations. So okay, so we

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Speaker 4: saw I read an article that there's potential that the

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Speaker 4: WNBA would want all players to prioritize the W, which

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Speaker 4: means no more off season playing. That means overseas, That

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Speaker 4: means athletes unlimited, That means unrivaled any other league that

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Speaker 4: no more of that. You're locked into the W twenty

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Speaker 4: four to seven, three sixty five. They go have to

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Speaker 3: Just agree a lot of money for that too.

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Speaker 4: The WNBA is only responsible technically for us while our

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Speaker 4: not pursue other opportunities in other places all year long,

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Speaker 4: every team is a facility. If you're going to do that,

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Speaker 4: every team needs the resources for it to make sense

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Speaker 4: for players to stay in their markets, which most NBA

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Speaker 4: tapping with their weight training staff, they.

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Speaker 3: Have a place to go do it.

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Speaker 4: We don't have that, well, we do, Seattle does, but

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Speaker 4: not every other team has that luxury. So for you

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Speaker 4: to remove these off court opportunities, to remove these other leagues,

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Speaker 4: to remove these destinations that have gyms, coaching staff, weight training,

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Speaker 4: all these things because you want.

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Speaker 3: Oh, you want us to prioritize. Like, no, they tried

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Speaker 3: the prioritization with the overseas. That did not work, That

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Speaker 3: did not go overwell. I think it backfired. Honestly.

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Speaker 4: You have a lot of players that chose to stay

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Speaker 4: overseas and not come play WNBA because it's not enough money.

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Speaker 4: So that was interesting to hear that.

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Speaker 3: It was. I knew they were.

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Speaker 4: Lying like, oh, we love a rob but we love

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Speaker 4: au No, y'all, don't y'all want us to focus on this,

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Speaker 4: which we want to focus on the W two. But

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Speaker 4: that's not the reality right now, and it doesn't make sense.

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Speaker 4: For a lot of players to do that, So that

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Speaker 4: was very interesting.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna have to give y'all focus on the w

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Speaker 1: money and focus on the w opportunities act. Also not

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Speaker 1: a four hundred and eighty four million dollar loss.

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Speaker 4: Things shit our entire country. Our entire country isn't debt, right, Trillian,

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Speaker 2: Money is not real.

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Speaker 3: Money is not real. The Internet's not real. Are we

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Speaker 1: So we're coming off of the All Star Break. We're

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Speaker 3: Well, we finally beat them, which was nice.

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Speaker 3: It was very nice. It was my first three point

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Speaker 2: To your all stars.

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Speaker 1: I'm just like, this is so outside of basketball. But

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Speaker 3: But yeah, we have a game tonight.

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Speaker 4: go get a bucket at any time. So I'm excited

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Speaker 4: to play them. It's going to be a good matchup.

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Speaker 4: It's going to be a good test for us for sure.

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Speaker 1: Well, the good news is Nakan Skuyler fifty combined points

445
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Speaker 1: across their last two and Gabby Williams flying under the radar.

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Speaker 2: Can you give the audience a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Of a looking to her, Gabby who you wanted to

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Speaker 1: talk a little bit about.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I said when I was campaigning for

450
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Speaker 4: All Star her stats might not like jump out at you.

451
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Speaker 4: I think she's averaging what like thirteen points per game.

452
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Speaker 4: I think she's shooting a career high in three point

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Speaker 4: percentage right now. But it's just her presence defensively for

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Speaker 4: me that is so important to our team. She's someone

455
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Speaker 4: that can definitely heat up offensively, hit some you know,

456
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Speaker 4: very crucial shots. She can you know, play on a

457
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Speaker 4: low shot clock.

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Speaker 3: But it's what she does for.

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Speaker 4: Us on the defensive end that I think sets her

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Speaker 4: apart from other players at her position.

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Speaker 3: She can guard one through four.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I would say Ezie is our anchor, but

463
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Speaker 4: if we have like a mini anchor, it's Gabby. She

464
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Speaker 4: gets the hardest assignment every game and she never backs

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Speaker 4: down from it. And if someone else starts going off,

466
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Speaker 4: she's the first person to be like, put me on

467
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Speaker 4: that person. Like she's that type of intense on defense,

468
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Speaker 4: and her athleticism is insane. Some of the rebounds she grabs,

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Speaker 4: some of the steals she gets, some of the passes

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Speaker 4: she catches are.

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Speaker 3: Just like, what the hell Gabby.

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Speaker 4: So she's a sign assassin though like you might not

473
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Speaker 4: you know, even notice that she's on the court, and

474
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Speaker 4: then she'll do something amazing and you'll be like, oh,

475
00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:11,280
Speaker 4: there's Gabby and then you'll look up and she'll have

476
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Speaker 4: like ten points, seven rebounds, five assists.

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Speaker 3: And you're like, what did she do all of that?

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Speaker 3: So she's what do we call our French army knife.

479
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Speaker 3: You know, it's a Swiss army knife, but she French.

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Speaker 4: I like that, so she's our French army knife. So

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Speaker 4: I mean, I'm so happy that she got that All

482
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Speaker 4: Star nod. She deserved it, and I hope that it's

483
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Speaker 4: given her some more energy going into the second half

484
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Speaker 4: of the season, because the first half was was brutal

485
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Speaker 4: for everybody, so but especially for our team. You know,

486
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Speaker 4: we have a lot of players that log heavy minutes

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Speaker 4: on our team and they've been doing a great job.

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Speaker 4: So I'm excited for her second half. And she's not

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Speaker 4: flying under the radar no more.

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Speaker 3: So that's over. She she can't hide anymore. She's an

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Speaker 3: All Star.

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Speaker 1: Lexi, I want you to explain to me because if

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Speaker 1: a little bt ass. Now I have to give y'all

494
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Speaker 1: too much. But me and Lexi have a note that

495
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Speaker 1: we share to talk about. You know what we're going

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Speaker 1: to talk about in the show x y Z and

497
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Speaker 1: Lexi wanted to talk about.

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Speaker 2: The corner three.

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Speaker 1: Okay, did I did, so, LEXI give us this, give

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Speaker 1: us this myth of the courtner third guys.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I don't think people understand how hard of a

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Speaker 4: shot the corner three is. I don't even have the

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Speaker 4: specific numbers in this note that I'm looking at right now,

504
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Speaker 4: but I remember when I wrote that because this was

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Speaker 4: a personal investigation, because my shooting percentage, even though very

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Speaker 4: limited attempts, it was atrocious, and I was just like,

507
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Speaker 4: I don't understand, like, even in these limited attempts, I

508
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Speaker 4: should be hitting more shots. And then I looked and

509
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Speaker 4: I was seeing how many corner threes.

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Speaker 3: I was shooting.

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Speaker 4: And then I went back because there's a stat thing

512
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Speaker 4: online on the WNBA website and the NBA website where

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Speaker 4: you can see people's like shooting percentages by like zone,

514
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Speaker 4: so you can see.

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Speaker 2: The colors of their dot where they stand.

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Speaker 4: So I went and looked on my little shooting zone

517
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Speaker 4: for the last few seasons, and almost all of my

518
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Speaker 4: shots were from the wing to the top of the key,

519
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Speaker 4: so very few corner threes. Then when I checked other

520
00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:30,359
Speaker 4: players who I consider top shooters in our league, almost

521
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Speaker 4: the same exact thing, wing to top of the key,

522
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Speaker 4: very few corner threes, and then when I went and checked,

523
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Speaker 4: oh who shooting corner threes, it's like post players. So

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Speaker 4: the corner three, not only is it a very difficult shot,

525
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Speaker 4: it's closer than the rest of the threes. So for me,

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Speaker 4: I train on an NBA three point line, so I'm

527
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Speaker 4: already shooting way farther out and it doesn't really affect

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Speaker 4: me as much on the wings. When I get to

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Speaker 4: that corner, you know, it's a little bit harder. And

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Speaker 4: then also because I hit a corner three last game,

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Speaker 4: that's like a three you hit when you like kind

532
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Speaker 4: of feeling yourself, like you've hit a few shots, like

533
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Speaker 4: you feel good.

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Speaker 3: But as far as like.

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Speaker 4: Just running from corner to corner to corner to corner,

536
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Speaker 4: not really touching the ball, not really having any movement

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Speaker 4: at least for a shooter like me, that's like the

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Speaker 4: worst shot, Like that's like the last shot I want

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Speaker 4: to take as my first shot of the game. If

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Speaker 4: I have never if I haven't been involved in the offense,

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Speaker 4: I haven't a shot a free throw, I haven't really

542
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Speaker 4: moved around a lot. So most shooters in the w

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Speaker 4: BAY and the NBA that are like high volume three

544
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Speaker 4: point shooters take one or less three.

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Speaker 3: Corner three's a game. I looked that up. So that's

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Speaker 3: a thing.

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Speaker 1: I actually think that's interesting because watching the three point

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Speaker 1: contest this weekend, I noticed that like Sonia I believe,

549
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Speaker 1: and even Sabrina, even though she didn't miss many, but

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Speaker 1: the ones that she did miss were at the corner,

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Speaker 1: like at the very end, like her very last car

552
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Speaker 1: were shots that she was missing, like she was so hot,

553
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Speaker 1: and then she got there and it was like it

554
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Speaker 1: looks a little bit more difficult. Yeah, so you can

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Speaker 1: see even in an environment like that, it'll be like

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Speaker 1: in the middle it's like hitting hitting hitting storryball hit,

557
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Speaker 1: hitting hit and hitting storyball hit, and then they get

558
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Speaker 1: to get.

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Speaker 3: To the corner.

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Speaker 4: And you're like, yeah, it's a thing, but you I mean,

561
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Speaker 4: you practice corner threes and you shoot corner threes, but

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Speaker 4: there's just not very many offenses and actions that get

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Speaker 4: to those corner three shots. So even when in my workouts,

564
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Speaker 4: I hit corner threes just to get like reps in

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Speaker 4: I'll do like you might get like if someone like

566
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Speaker 4: cheats a downscreen, you can like fade to the corner,

567
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Speaker 4: but like that's still like off the move corner three shot,

568
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Speaker 4: but most offenses don't have many shots geared to getting

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Speaker 4: just a corner three hit, which is funny because most

570
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:51,600
Speaker 4: teams like end a game or game winning plays are

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Speaker 4: drawn up for someone to like shoot a corner three.

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Speaker 4: So it's a shot that you have to practice. But

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Speaker 4: it's definitely for me like a rhythm shot. Like when

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Speaker 4: I made the corner three last game, I had already

575
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Speaker 4: made one and then I had shot two others, so

576
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Speaker 4: I was that felt good and looked good. So like

577
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Speaker 4: at that point, I was like, let me just shoot.

578
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 4: I'm open, let me just shoot it.

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Speaker 3: And it went in.

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Speaker 4: So definitely a mindset reps. But that corner three, like

581
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Speaker 4: we shooters, even Steph Curry, y'all can go look at

582
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Speaker 4: Steph Curry, best shooter ever to play basketball. He don't

583
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Speaker 4: shoot a lot of corner threes. If you watch his highlights,

584
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Speaker 4: you are not going to see that man shooting many

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Speaker 4: corner threes. He's going to maybe start in the corner,

586
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Speaker 4: but he come into that wing.

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Speaker 2: That's a great point.

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Speaker 1: He's like from the corner to the next corner, to

589
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Speaker 1: the back, to the front to the logo.

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Speaker 3: Right, He's all over the place.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, that that's funny that you noticed that in

592
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Speaker 4: the three point contest, because like that's a real thing.

593
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Speaker 4: So if you can hit corner threes, though they say

594
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:55,399
Speaker 4: corner threes get you paid, they absolutely do, but not

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Speaker 4: if you're like a high volume shooter, you don't frequent

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Speaker 4: the corners very much. But yeah, so thanks Mariah for

597
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Speaker 4: letting me have my corner three ted talk.

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Speaker 2: No, I'm glad.

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Speaker 1: I mean some of the most iconic basketball shots I

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Speaker 1: could think of now that you mention it, game winning

601
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Speaker 1: wise or corner like the Kawhi shot against the seven.

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Speaker 2: Seventy six ers. Yeah, exactly.

603
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,280
Speaker 1: Like they're very iconic shots, so I guess you need

604
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Speaker 1: to be able to hit them at the right time.

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Speaker 4: But they're all like but they were all like moving,

606
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Speaker 4: like they weren't just like sitting in the right falling here. Yeah,

607
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:32,439
Speaker 4: Kawhi was falling, Ray Allen was back pedaling, like right.

608
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:34,879
Speaker 4: So yeah, when you when you have those corner threes

609
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Speaker 4: as an elite shoot, they're like hail Mary's. Yeah, they're

610
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Speaker 4: hail Mary's. You're usually moving. So shout out to the

611
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Speaker 4: corner three. We love you but also hate you. That

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Speaker 4: gives me a new appreciation for people who shoot corner threes.

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Speaker 1: Yes, as as a like as someone who loves to

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Speaker 1: watch basketball with a lot of threes. I'm like, you

615
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Speaker 1: could dounk eighty seven times and I'm like, cool, girl,

616
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Speaker 1: Like I love that.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I'm going to go back.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna before we get into, you know, the second

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Speaker 4: half of the season. Since we're talking about threes, I

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Speaker 4: do want to talk a little bit more about All

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Speaker 4: Star real quick. Did you like the four point shot

622
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Speaker 4: or was it too many threes being shot? Because I

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Speaker 4: will tell you exactly how many threes were taken in

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Speaker 4: the All Star Game.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna be real, and I just want the

626
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Speaker 1: audience a full circle to know I'm taking a big

627
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:33,320
Speaker 1: grisk because AT and T signed your girls checks. However, Coba,

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Speaker 1: I will say, not the fault of the four point

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Speaker 1: shot itself, but I do think okay, generally, let me

630
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Speaker 1: let me just keep it a beating above.

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Speaker 2: Would you like see the actual game itself? I was like,

632
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Speaker 2: what what happened on?

633
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Speaker 4: It's okay, we're gonna get it. We're gonna get into that.

634
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Speaker 4: We're gonna get into that in a second. We're gonna

635
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 4: get into that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, but the threes I was not. I was like,

637
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Speaker 2: I think it was more of an effort thing than

638
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,480
Speaker 2: it was just the four point shot existing thing.

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Speaker 1: I was like, ladies, that's be nice. I started watching

640
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:09,240
Speaker 1: Ellie the Elephant.

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00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 4: I actually stopped watching the game, and I'm not even

642
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 4: gonna lie to y'all.

643
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:15,000
Speaker 3: I turned that shit off.

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Speaker 1: Did you see Page Backer's interview, Yeah, you know what

645
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 1: say if he was watching and I'm gino.

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Speaker 3: We were all geno at home. I'm sure in the

647
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Speaker 3: arena it was a blast.

648
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Speaker 4: Everyone was having a great time, good vibes on a couch.

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Speaker 3: Actually, I was watching on my phone.

650
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Speaker 4: I was like, I turned it on like midway through

651
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 4: the first quarter and I saw the score, and I

652
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 4: was like, I knew this was gonna happen with that

653
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 4: damn four point shot. But that wasn't even the problem,

654
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:46,320
Speaker 4: like you said it was. It was the just overall

655
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:50,720
Speaker 4: lack of efforts for the most part. But like, it's

656
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Speaker 4: still an All Star game, So I'm speaking from someone

657
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Speaker 4: who understands what All Star Weekend is. All the obligations,

658
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Speaker 4: all of the events. There's so much going on. By

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00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 4: the time the game comes, these players are ready to

660
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 4: get the fuck like, like this is our last thing.

661
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:10,560
Speaker 4: We're here for the fans. We want to have a

662
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 4: good time. But I think they were too like, let's

663
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 4: have a good time. They shot one hundred and twenty

664
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 4: one hundred and twenty threes were shot Jesus Christ out

665
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 4: of two hundred and eleven total shots.

666
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 3: So for me as a fan spectator.

667
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 4: I want the four point shot gone.

668
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:38,280
Speaker 3: I want it gone.

669
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:41,080
Speaker 4: Nika did give me a cute little fun fact though,

670
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 4: she said that the last time they had the four

671
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 4: point shot, it was farther back, So if y'all keep that,

672
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 4: put it back, put it back to where it was at, because.

673
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 3: I was like, that's why I told me.

674
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 4: I was like, everyone looked way too comfortable shooting that

675
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 4: four point shot, so obviously it wasn't that far.

676
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 3: People were shoot off the bounce.

677
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 1: I think there should just be two. There should be

678
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 1: one right in front of the logo on one side

679
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:08,840
Speaker 1: and one right in front of the and it should

680
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 1: be like a logo shot, and it should be really

681
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 1: hard to do.

682
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 2: It shouldnt be like that easy.

683
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:18,440
Speaker 3: Okay, now that we're here, I have some.

684
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 4: Critiques and improvements that could potentially make both the WNBA

685
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 4: and the NBA All.

686
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 3: Star Game better.

687
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 4: One.

688
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 3: No more of that.

689
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 4: The hockey substitutions. Take that out sub like normal. I

690
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 4: think they did the hockey substitutions because there is like

691
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 4: a lack of stoppage and play because there's like no

692
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 4: fouling or anything like that. So maybe like build in

693
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 4: like just pre have like the substitution stoppage of play,

694
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 4: so be like, oh this this like a media like

695
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 4: when the media's come, like, do something just for the subs.

696
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 4: Because that hockey substitution was crazy.

697
00:32:57,800 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 3: I didn't like that.

698
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 4: I don't like that they didn't have free throws, Like

699
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 4: that didn't really have to be a rule because, like

700
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 4: I said, they don't really foul anyway. But if you

701
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 4: do get foul, like you should go like shoot a

702
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 4: free throw because that's basketball.

703
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 3: I agree with you.

704
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 4: With a four point shot, either take it out, push

705
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 4: it back, or just have one on each side, but

706
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 4: on the same spot on each side. My biggest thing

707
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 4: that I feel like would make the All Star Game

708
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 4: like just next level. And I'm this sounds expensive. I

709
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 4: don't know how much led lights on a court costs,

710
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:36,560
Speaker 4: Oh god, but my idea is to have a court

711
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 4: that lights up and you have different spots on the

712
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 4: court light up and then that's like it has like

713
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 4: a point value on it, but you can only get

714
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 4: that point value when.

715
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 3: It lights up. So for it, and they could do

716
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,959
Speaker 3: that from the top, But then how would the players

717
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 3: see it?

718
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:58,120
Speaker 2: Oh like no, like a spotlight, yeah, kind of like

719
00:33:58,160 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 2: they do with it.

720
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:00,560
Speaker 1: I mean, this is electronic, kind of like they do

721
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 1: with like the skims ad you know, yeah, like they

722
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 1: put it on the side.

723
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 4: I'm like they're just need like this game is going

724
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 4: to continue to be less and less unserious because the

725
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 4: NBA did do this, and it was the they put

726
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 4: the led lights on the court.

727
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:19,520
Speaker 2: It wasn't last year.

728
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:22,279
Speaker 1: It was the year before that, and it was in

729
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:24,880
Speaker 1: a football stadium, I think, And I don't know if

730
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:26,840
Speaker 1: it was for the actual game. I'm pretty sure it

731
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:28,400
Speaker 1: was for the Skill Challenge with three one contacts.

732
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:31,719
Speaker 4: I was there and it was let me see, let

733
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:35,920
Speaker 4: me see, okay, All Star twenty twenty four, So I'm like, oh,

734
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 4: I just opened up an article.

735
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 3: Let me see. It was for the celebrity game and

736
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 3: for the.

737
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 4: Saturday night Yes, yes, okay, that's too much. We don't

738
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:51,440
Speaker 4: want the entire floor to be led. We want, like

739
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:54,839
Speaker 4: because I'm looking at the I'm looking at.

740
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 1: The video Adam Silver here, you too, laud because he'll

741
00:34:57,520 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 1: make it led.

742
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, guys, like this is that's too much. That's too much,

743
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:03,879
Speaker 4: So we don't need all of that.

744
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 1: It was ridiculess. Here's my opinion on All Star Game.

745
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 1: On the All Star Game, on both sides, I think

746
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:15,080
Speaker 1: that what they're missing is what makes sports so great,

747
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:18,880
Speaker 1: and that's the number one, the simplicity of the game

748
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 1: just being what it is. Like they take it way

749
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 1: too far, like no free throws, silly, Like that makes

750
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 1: it not a basketball game already. That's silly to me.

751
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,400
Speaker 1: It needs to be a basketball game. Quit changing the rules,

752
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:33,239
Speaker 1: quit changing the timing basketball game. They need to change

753
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 1: the stakes. I'm sorry, The stakes need to change. The

754
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:38,279
Speaker 1: players need to want to win. If the players don't

755
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 1: want to win, if there's no incentive for them to win,

756
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 1: of course they're not going to care. But I can

757
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 1: guarantee you they'll they'll figure out a way to win

758
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 1: that game.

759
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 4: Cause I'm just like, yeah, money for us, that could

760
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 4: I mean, but we're not really even seeing that in

761
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:55,759
Speaker 4: Commissioner's Cup, Like for us like I feel like some

762
00:35:55,880 --> 00:36:00,239
Speaker 4: teams want to win Commissioner's Cup, but it's like, even

763
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 4: with the money on the line, the league as a

764
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 4: whole has not made the Commissioner's Cup like this insane

765
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 4: high stakes part of our season, like they have done

766
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:12,720
Speaker 4: with the playing tournament, and those guys already are making

767
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 4: millions of dollars, and they've made that little five hundred

768
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:21,560
Speaker 4: thousand Like, mind you each five hundred thousand dollars each

769
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 4: we split, I don't even know how much we split,

770
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:28,400
Speaker 4: but they get five hundred grand each, right, and to

771
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 4: some of those guys. And the thing is, I think

772
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 4: the best thing that they did was they did focus

773
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:37,720
Speaker 4: on like the two way guys or the rookie contract guys,

774
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 4: or that money like still means a lot to them,

775
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:42,879
Speaker 4: Like I still think it means, Like five hundred thousand

776
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 4: means a lot to anybody, but someone who's making thirty

777
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 4: five million dollars a year and you're like, right, you.

778
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 3: Get the five.

779
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 4: They've still made it a way to where like even

780
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 4: that first year when Braun and them won, like the

781
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:56,959
Speaker 4: fact that Braun like acted like that was the NBA

782
00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 4: Finals was like the best shit ever.

783
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:02,000
Speaker 3: Like he doesn't need that five hundred thousand dollars.

784
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 1: Right, and he's and he attributed it to his teammates

785
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:08,359
Speaker 1: that aren't making what he makes and that that money

786
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 1: could literally change their lives.

787
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 2: So I think that financial the.

788
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 1: Biggest things, at least from my minety interviewing athletes, working

789
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 1: with athletes, the biggest thing to get them to care

790
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 1: is number one money and number two you're going to

791
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 1: hate this one, just like every athlete I feel like

792
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:24,879
Speaker 1: hates it.

793
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 2: Is playoff implications.

794
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:28,279
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm sorry, those are the two biggest ways to

795
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 1: get athletes to care.

796
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 4: I just feel like, and I feel like the most

797
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 4: fair implication you could get for playoffs is whoever wins

798
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:43,240
Speaker 4: that team, whoever's representing the East or the West, whatever

799
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:46,279
Speaker 4: team wins East or West gets home court advantage in

800
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:46,880
Speaker 4: the finals.

801
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 3: I don't know, I feel like that's.

802
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 2: That's what That's what the MLB did, That's what MLB day.

803
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like, I feel like that's the best way to

804
00:37:55,680 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 4: fairly have playoff implications. But for us, But like, I'm like,

805
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:02,799
Speaker 4: even the way some players in our league like don't

806
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 4: really bad an eye for the commissioner's cut money.

807
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 3: I wanted that money so bad.

808
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:10,479
Speaker 4: I was so sick when we lost that Goldie State

809
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 4: game because if we won that game, we would have

810
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 4: been in like we would have been in the championship

811
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:17,400
Speaker 4: for the Commissioner's Cup. And I was sick about it.

812
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:20,319
Speaker 4: But everyone kind of was just like whatever, next game,

813
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 4: and I was like, no, like that money, it was

814
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 4: just like right there and even if you know, you

815
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:28,240
Speaker 4: still get you still get a check.

816
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:31,120
Speaker 3: So I don't know what it is what we need

817
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:31,440
Speaker 3: to do.

818
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 2: I'm so competitive. I hate losing anything anything like.

819
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:37,439
Speaker 3: You know what it is.

820
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:40,719
Speaker 4: It's so funny because the money you get for being

821
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 4: an All Star is nothing in the w so they

822
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 4: need to fix that. You get more money for winning

823
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 4: the Skills Contest. In the three point Contest, it's like

824
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 4: thirty times more.

825
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 3: From what I see.

826
00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 2: I didn't know that that.

827
00:38:57,239 --> 00:39:00,160
Speaker 4: Okay, it's not from the league, it's from AFLAC. They

828
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 4: were like, what they just matched what the NBA does

829
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 4: and that the players is the Players Association did that.

830
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 4: That wasn't a WNBA thing, That was a Players Association

831
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 4: thing that got the sponsorship for the skills and the

832
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 4: three point high. I saw this when I was we

833
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:18,359
Speaker 4: did that or they did that, which was amazing. You

834
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:22,440
Speaker 4: saw how competitive it was last year with the USA

835
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:23,760
Speaker 4: team and the All Stars.

836
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:27,239
Speaker 3: Yes, so I don't know for.

837
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:30,120
Speaker 4: Women though, it's like it's more of an ego thing

838
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 4: too than people give us credit for. So it was

839
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:38,960
Speaker 4: funny seeing how competitive those, Like every four years you

840
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 4: were in the WNBA, you're going to get a super

841
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 4: competitive All Star game because every four years is the Olympics,

842
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 4: so you can at least count on that from our league.

843
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 4: But these are some of my other revamp ideas, not

844
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 4: for the game.

845
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:55,279
Speaker 3: Just for the weekend in general. I think they need

846
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 3: to just.

847
00:39:55,640 --> 00:40:00,960
Speaker 4: Include more challenges that will also include more players, so

848
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:04,480
Speaker 4: that would be good for us for as far as visibility,

849
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:06,480
Speaker 4: and then it would be more enjoyable for the fans.

850
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:11,839
Speaker 4: I thought maybe a horse game could be fun. I

851
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:16,319
Speaker 4: love the knockout could be fun. Uh, one on one

852
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 4: obviously everybody wants that now after seeing how dope it

853
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:20,520
Speaker 4: wasn't unrivaled.

854
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:21,920
Speaker 3: And then there's a.

855
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:26,240
Speaker 4: Shooting game that everybody stands around the three point line

856
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:28,279
Speaker 4: and every shot you.

857
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:30,200
Speaker 3: Make points go into a bank.

858
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 4: So say every shot is worth ten points, so I

859
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:35,840
Speaker 4: shoot ten points if I make it. Then if you

860
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 4: shoot and you make it, that's ten more points. So

861
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 4: every time someone makes it, points get added to the bank.

862
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:45,680
Speaker 4: And then if you miss, you get all the points.

863
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:50,279
Speaker 4: So having a game maybe like that. So I don't know,

864
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:55,399
Speaker 4: more maybe more skills challenges, more fun challenges to get

865
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:56,719
Speaker 4: more players involved.

866
00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:57,560
Speaker 1: You know what.

867
00:40:58,719 --> 00:40:59,920
Speaker 2: I don't know. Okay, I don't know.

868
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,960
Speaker 1: Oh, y'all have to play this in basketball, But in volleyball, y'all,

869
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 1: y'ap do y'all play Queen of the court.

870
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:06,799
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, it's like one on one.

871
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:09,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, that would eat to me, like if they

872
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:10,719
Speaker 1: if y'all playing, I don't know if it's one on

873
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 1: one or if it were three on three or whatever

874
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:14,759
Speaker 1: it was, but like I would like for it to

875
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 1: be one on one and like the person who wins

876
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 1: gets to stay and at the end they get some

877
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:21,759
Speaker 1: crazy prize and y'all bring in a brand to pay

878
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:24,360
Speaker 1: for the prize, and it'd be something crazy like imagine

879
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:26,319
Speaker 1: one girl like staying there tearing everybody up.

880
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 3: That would be yeah.

881
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:30,319
Speaker 4: So like it would be different from the unrivaled one

882
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:33,240
Speaker 4: on one. It wouldn't be like bracket style. It would

883
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 4: just be like, yeah, queen a Queen of the court,

884
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 4: so I just continue as one on one against a

885
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 4: bunch of different people. That would yeah, something we got

886
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:45,320
Speaker 4: to do something.

887
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:48,839
Speaker 2: I do like USA versus World. That the men's that's

888
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:49,799
Speaker 2: going to be this year.

889
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 1: That is gonna be good, even though our team USA

890
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 1: All Star representatives will be a little on the elder side.

891
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:58,320
Speaker 1: I don't think Adam thought of that, do you know,

892
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:04,640
Speaker 1: Steph Lebron. But however, I think.

893
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:05,120
Speaker 2: It's gonna be going.

894
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, so shout out to wn BA All Star Weekend.

895
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:12,360
Speaker 4: I might have to go next year as a player

896
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:14,080
Speaker 4: as a spectator. You know where it's going to be,

897
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 4: yet I'm not sure where it is next year. I

898
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:19,040
Speaker 4: know NBA is going to be in La Oh, so

899
00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:22,759
Speaker 4: I'll be. I'll be there for sure. Well, actually I

900
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:27,279
Speaker 4: might not be because I'll you so maybe not. But yeah,

901
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 4: shout out to All Star Weekend. It was a time.

902
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:32,839
Speaker 4: I enjoyed watching it. It was fun from the internet,

903
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:37,879
Speaker 4: and it was definitely the most meme worthy, hilarious All

904
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:39,520
Speaker 4: Star Weekend I've ever seen in my life.

905
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:43,120
Speaker 3: So shout out to the girl pops, shout out.

906
00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:46,080
Speaker 4: Shout out to the stub buds because y'all definitely made

907
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:50,399
Speaker 4: that weekend what it was, So I hope I see

908
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:51,880
Speaker 4: y'all getting all the things already.

909
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:55,360
Speaker 3: That streaming universe is some it's someone else.

910
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:58,719
Speaker 4: So shout out for y'all for taking risks, betting on

911
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 4: yourselves and going to do that stream and shit because

912
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 4: it's paying off, and it paid off big time during

913
00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:06,400
Speaker 4: All Star weekends.

914
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:09,360
Speaker 1: So shout out to the step Buds free promo for

915
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:11,160
Speaker 1: the league another reason pay them.

916
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:14,080
Speaker 3: Exactly.

917
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:24,640
Speaker 1: With the All Star breaks behind us, who do you

918
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:27,640
Speaker 1: think is going to be making that second half leap?

919
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:35,879
Speaker 4: LEXI I'm trying to be unbiased here, but right now

920
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:38,360
Speaker 4: I'm going to be very biased towards my own team.

921
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 3: I think we are going to make a leap.

922
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:46,239
Speaker 4: We've been very like average in our standards for the

923
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 4: first half of the season, but we've set goals for

924
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:52,279
Speaker 4: ourselves for Q one, Q two, Q three, so we

925
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:55,879
Speaker 4: we saw improvement from Q one to Q two, So

926
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:58,799
Speaker 4: we want to improve obviously in this next group of

927
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:03,560
Speaker 4: eleven twelve games of our season. Adding Tiffany Mitchell has

928
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:07,160
Speaker 4: been great for us. Now we have a full roster. Essentially,

929
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:11,560
Speaker 4: I'm excited to see potentially the opportunities that Dom gets

930
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 4: for us, you know, for her. This season has definitely

931
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:17,400
Speaker 4: probably been frustrating up and down for her with her

932
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:21,560
Speaker 4: opportunities and lack of opportunities, but again that's like the

933
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:24,560
Speaker 4: course of a season and a career. But she's been

934
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 4: working really hard and staying really positive. So I'm excited

935
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:31,479
Speaker 4: for her second half. And then, like I said, using

936
00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 4: the All Star weekend, that energy that that weekend to

937
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:37,160
Speaker 4: propel our all stars, you know, for the second half

938
00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:41,440
Speaker 4: of the season, and hopefully they don't crash out because

939
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:43,359
Speaker 4: the wear and tear of a season is a lot.

940
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:46,920
Speaker 4: But we have a very solid team that's ready to

941
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:51,200
Speaker 4: support them and be ready to play all these games

942
00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:55,240
Speaker 4: and win these games. So I'm really excited for our team.

943
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:59,799
Speaker 4: Another team that I'm excited about is the Liberty, who

944
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:04,839
Speaker 4: may a very very impactful move. I think it was

945
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:09,600
Speaker 4: today or yesterday with the signing of Emma Mesaman. There

946
00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:12,319
Speaker 4: were rumblings and grumblings of her return to the w

947
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 4: this summer, but we were not sure where she would land,

948
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:18,320
Speaker 4: and she has landed in New York with the Liberty,

949
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:21,799
Speaker 4: the defending champs. Which how did this happen, I don't know,

950
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 4: but it's always good to have a finals MVP playing

951
00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 4: in this league. So welcome back to Emma. Why did

952
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:34,680
Speaker 4: you go to New York? They don't need they don't.

953
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:35,680
Speaker 3: Need any more freaking out.

954
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:40,239
Speaker 4: But if y'all are not familiar with Emma Mesaman, she's

955
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 4: from Belgium. She's been in the league for quite some time,

956
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:47,239
Speaker 4: has not played officially since twenty twenty two. Helped the

957
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:50,200
Speaker 4: Mystics win a w BA Championship in twenty nineteen, where

958
00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:54,120
Speaker 4: she was named finals MVP. So she has decided to

959
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 4: make her very cute and dramatic return with the defending champs.

960
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:01,919
Speaker 3: And also I.

961
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 2: Love that for her. If I'm returning, I'm returning with.

962
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 4: The returning with the best and more fun stuff for

963
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:11,440
Speaker 4: the liberty. Jo Quel Jones is returning, So a league

964
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:16,239
Speaker 4: MVP at that so and a finals MVP. So if

965
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:19,160
Speaker 4: we now have what three finals.

966
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:25,200
Speaker 3: MVPs, two MVPs on one team who allowed us to

967
00:46:25,239 --> 00:46:27,400
Speaker 3: happen bledgedly she was, does.

968
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 2: That qualify as a super team?

969
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:31,719
Speaker 4: This would be the literal definition of a super team

970
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:32,400
Speaker 4: in my opinion?

971
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 3: Okay, Allegedly she.

972
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:37,960
Speaker 4: Was also looking at Phoenix in the links. So Emma

973
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:40,520
Speaker 4: really said, I'm not coming back here until y'all put

974
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:43,360
Speaker 4: me on a good team, so make it happen, and

975
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:45,120
Speaker 4: they put her on the best team in the league,

976
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:49,400
Speaker 4: which I know the I know the records says otherwise,

977
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:52,279
Speaker 4: I do think the Liberty are the best team in

978
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:53,160
Speaker 4: the league right now.

979
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:57,160
Speaker 3: Over the Minnesota Links. Is that is that? I don't

980
00:46:57,160 --> 00:47:00,400
Speaker 3: think that's a hot take. Is it a hot take or.

981
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:02,120
Speaker 1: I don't think I don't think that's a that's a

982
00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 1: hot take. As Yanna said, you can't say that anybody's

983
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:07,839
Speaker 1: the best. They're not the champs, so that's not hot

984
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:08,799
Speaker 1: it's not a hot take.

985
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 4: They just want the championne Okay, Okay, great, Okay, I

986
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:15,560
Speaker 4: was in China, you know, upset nobody. But I will

987
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:19,239
Speaker 4: say I looked at the Power rankings today and they

988
00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:23,640
Speaker 4: put the Fever above us, And I'm gonna only say

989
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:27,120
Speaker 4: that it's Recncy bias because they smack. They came to

990
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:31,160
Speaker 4: Seattle and smacked us, So I'm gonna only I'm going

991
00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:34,040
Speaker 4: to say that's why they snuck them above us in

992
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:37,840
Speaker 4: the Power rankings. But right now, I think it's Minnesota,

993
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:42,840
Speaker 4: New York, Phoenix, Indiana, US which I'm like, how to

994
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:45,000
Speaker 4: Indiana because they want to I guess because they.

995
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:46,080
Speaker 3: Want yeah very much.

996
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:48,240
Speaker 4: Recncy Bias won the Commissioner's Cup.

997
00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:50,919
Speaker 2: They won the Commissioner's Cup without Ka Lan.

998
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:54,560
Speaker 1: They beat y'all, So they're taking those two things and

999
00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 1: it's the Fever.

1000
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:59,719
Speaker 4: I was reading it and I was like, okay, okay, okay,

1001
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:05,279
Speaker 4: what shit above us and Atlanta and the Mystics and

1002
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:06,440
Speaker 4: the like.

1003
00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:09,280
Speaker 3: They put them above a lot of good teams.

1004
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 4: So I mean shout out to the Fever because because

1005
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:16,920
Speaker 4: they're still five hundred, it's just like like we said before,

1006
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:20,719
Speaker 4: like we're just not used to seeing well, no, we're

1007
00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:22,680
Speaker 4: not used to seeing ACES team like this.

1008
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:25,080
Speaker 3: This is this is not new territory for them though.

1009
00:48:25,160 --> 00:48:28,240
Speaker 3: This is where they quite literally were they started like this.

1010
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 4: Right, so real OG ACES fans know what it's like

1011
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 4: to not win a lot. But like Aga said, she's like,

1012
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:41,000
Speaker 4: we spoiled our fans, like this is not you guys

1013
00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:44,800
Speaker 4: are not going to get this super dominant team every

1014
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:47,120
Speaker 4: single year, like our league is too talented for that.

1015
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:49,240
Speaker 3: But the new.

1016
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 4: ACES fans are probably like, what is this, what is

1017
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 4: going on?

1018
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:54,480
Speaker 3: What is happening?

1019
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:57,120
Speaker 4: But the OG fans who've been with them through the

1020
00:48:57,160 --> 00:48:59,799
Speaker 4: trenches when they first got to Vegas and when they

1021
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:03,239
Speaker 4: would racking up these number one picks, like they know

1022
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:04,120
Speaker 4: what this feels like.

1023
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:08,279
Speaker 1: So it takes the Liberty forever to win a championship.

1024
00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:10,560
Speaker 2: That's sports, it's ebbs and flows.

1025
00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:15,600
Speaker 1: Things happen, and every single league there's dynasties and they

1026
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:18,840
Speaker 1: do incredible and then they have down years like it

1027
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:23,800
Speaker 1: just happens. But I will say that there are certain

1028
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:27,480
Speaker 1: franchises in sports where they do set the standard so

1029
00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:29,640
Speaker 1: high and players like Asia, where they do set the

1030
00:49:29,640 --> 00:49:33,000
Speaker 1: standard so high that the standard then becomes championship and

1031
00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:37,400
Speaker 1: that's just the standard standard, and so their fans aren't spoiled.

1032
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:39,960
Speaker 1: That's what they've seen and that's what they've grown accustomed to,

1033
00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:40,960
Speaker 1: and that's the standard now.

1034
00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:44,960
Speaker 4: And you know what's crazy, I would say Vegas right now,

1035
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:48,960
Speaker 4: like that's the only team in the entire league where

1036
00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:49,920
Speaker 4: it's like.

1037
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:51,360
Speaker 3: Championship or bust.

1038
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:55,440
Speaker 4: I feel like, obviously with the Liberty, you want to

1039
00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:59,000
Speaker 4: repeat you're at the top of the league, but repeating

1040
00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:01,520
Speaker 4: is very hard to do. So if they don't repeat,

1041
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:05,359
Speaker 4: people won't be like, oh they are horrible, like they

1042
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:08,560
Speaker 4: aren't who they say they are, because repeating as a

1043
00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:09,919
Speaker 4: champion is very hard.

1044
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 3: Now.

1045
00:50:10,160 --> 00:50:13,839
Speaker 4: When you do that repeat, which Vegas is the only

1046
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:17,200
Speaker 4: team that's done it in like twenty years or something like,

1047
00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:19,880
Speaker 4: then you become a standard. And then when you start

1048
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:25,000
Speaker 4: racking up championships like the Links did in twenty eleven

1049
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:28,839
Speaker 4: to twenty seventeen, then you become a dynasty. And then

1050
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:32,680
Speaker 4: that's when you get that expectation of we need a championship.

1051
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:35,480
Speaker 4: Because I remember my first year in Minnesota was twenty eighteen,

1052
00:50:35,719 --> 00:50:39,759
Speaker 4: so they were very much still in that championship or

1053
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:42,719
Speaker 4: nothing type energy. But then that was also the year

1054
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:48,520
Speaker 4: that my more pea style, so that mentality has kind

1055
00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:51,520
Speaker 4: of shifted, and now they're starting to get back to that.

1056
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:54,200
Speaker 4: Seattle was that for a little bit when they won

1057
00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:59,279
Speaker 4: their few championships Vegas, like I said, La also when

1058
00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:02,040
Speaker 4: they were in that those battles with the Links, when

1059
00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:04,640
Speaker 4: the Links were winning, it was like it was like

1060
00:51:04,840 --> 00:51:07,680
Speaker 4: the Links, then the Sparks, then the Links, then the Fever,

1061
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:10,160
Speaker 4: then the Links, then the Sparks again. So it was

1062
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:15,280
Speaker 4: like there was a time where championships were the standard

1063
00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:17,719
Speaker 4: for multiple teams, and we're not there yet, and I

1064
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:19,400
Speaker 4: want us to get back there. I want us to

1065
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:21,960
Speaker 4: have multiple teams in our league that are prime to

1066
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:24,440
Speaker 4: win a championship, that are expected to win a championship,

1067
00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 4: because that leads to more investment from your ownership, investment

1068
00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:33,440
Speaker 4: from your city, investment from your fans. Like it's all guys,

1069
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 4: we are in a sports ecosystem. We all need each

1070
00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:41,520
Speaker 4: other to survive and thrive, so everything is important. And

1071
00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:44,840
Speaker 4: I'm really excited for this second half of the season

1072
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:49,239
Speaker 4: because I think the Las Vegas aces are going to

1073
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:52,520
Speaker 4: turn a corner. I think that the top five teams

1074
00:51:52,560 --> 00:51:55,839
Speaker 4: are going to have some separation, and I do think

1075
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:58,960
Speaker 4: that at least one of these bottom teams are going

1076
00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:03,040
Speaker 4: to have like a street of wins that might get

1077
00:52:03,080 --> 00:52:05,520
Speaker 4: them close to the playoffs or even in the playoffs.

1078
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:07,600
Speaker 4: What team it is, I don't know. I'm going to

1079
00:52:07,680 --> 00:52:10,720
Speaker 4: have to I'm going to report back next week after

1080
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:12,920
Speaker 4: we get some of these games, Like we're about to

1081
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:16,759
Speaker 4: see Chicago for the first time this week, We're going

1082
00:52:16,840 --> 00:52:19,640
Speaker 4: back to Connecticut again this week, and we played DC

1083
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:25,000
Speaker 4: again in DC. So those are two out of those

1084
00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:28,840
Speaker 4: three teams are considered bottom of the league teams, but

1085
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 4: very talented, very primed for some wins, and.

1086
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:36,400
Speaker 3: It's hard to play against teams. I don't really have

1087
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:37,280
Speaker 3: anything to lose.

1088
00:52:37,719 --> 00:52:40,719
Speaker 4: You know, you have to come correct against those teams,

1089
00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:44,759
Speaker 4: especially when they're at home, because that's where they that's

1090
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:46,719
Speaker 4: where they'll get you at home when you come in.

1091
00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:49,480
Speaker 4: If you come in sleeping on them or not taking

1092
00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:51,319
Speaker 4: them as serious, they're going to punch you in the mouth.

1093
00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:56,479
Speaker 1: So that well, hopefully y'all take care of business as

1094
00:52:56,520 --> 00:53:00,000
Speaker 1: you should. Rooting for you, guys, this is a great

1095
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:01,920
Speaker 1: We said we're going to keep it short, but we

1096
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Speaker 1: got into the Valkyries in.

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Speaker 2: The storm and everything, and then we.

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Speaker 1: Talked about CBA combos and everything going on. So just

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Speaker 1: make sure you tune into next week's episode of Full Circle.

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Speaker 1: Follow us on social media, and thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for listening.

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Speaker 3: Bye, y'all, thanks for listening to Full Circle.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back next week with more basketball for the Girls.

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Speaker 2: By the girls. We want to hear from you.

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Speaker 1: hosted by Lexi Brown and Mariah Rose. Our executive producer

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Speaker 1: is Jesse Katz, Our supervising producer is Grace Fuse. Our

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Speaker 1: producer is Zoe Danklab listen to Full.

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