1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:02,240 Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain. 2 00:00:02,360 --> 00:00:04,240 Speaker 2: Where we thought we belonged to the trash talk Hall 3 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:06,640 Speaker 2: of Fame until we watch today's guest in action. 4 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:10,720 Speaker 1: There are levels to this. It's Friday, May thirtieth, Happy 5 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:11,559 Speaker 1: Friday Slices. 6 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:13,400 Speaker 2: On today we're going to be bringing you my conversation 7 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:17,239 Speaker 2: with Connecticut Sun guard Marina Maybray, recorded on Wednesday. We 8 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 2: talked about the Sun's tough start to the season, finding 9 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 2: her focus and purpose in Connecticut after being denied a 10 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:26,480 Speaker 2: trade out, trash talking, self regulating, and more. 11 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 1: This is a good one, y'all. 12 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:30,720 Speaker 2: Plus a look ahead at another weekend chock full of 13 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:34,800 Speaker 2: WNBA hoops, soccer, friendlies, golf, and a lacrosse What the 14 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 2: fact that'll put toenails in your creamed corn? It's all 15 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:52,160 Speaker 2: coming up right after this. Welcome back, y'all. 16 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 1: Here's what you need to know today in hoops. 17 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 2: Big weekend for the WNBA, starting with five matchups tonight, 18 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 2: two contests at seven thirty pm Eastern. First, the Caitlin 19 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 2: Clarkless Indiana Fever hosts the Connecticut Sun, and then the 20 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 2: Washington Mystics play host to the New York Liberty defending Champs. 21 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 1: New York are on a roll to start this season. 22 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:16,600 Speaker 2: They've got five players averaging double figures, Brianna Stewart, Johnqwell Jones, 23 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:20,479 Speaker 2: Natasha cloud Sabrinia Escu and Kennedy Burke. Then at ten 24 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:23,320 Speaker 2: pm Eastern, three more games the La Sparks at the 25 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 2: Las Vegas Aces, the Seattle Storm at home against the 26 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 2: Atlanta Dream, and the five and zero Minnesota Links visiting 27 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 2: the Phoenix Mercury Links. Undefeated NAFISA Colliers come out of 28 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:36,920 Speaker 2: the gates with a point to prove Kaylea McBride's getting 29 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:39,199 Speaker 2: back to full strength, and the entire team is looking 30 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 2: to avenge last year's finals loss. They have been fun 31 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 2: so far. You can catch all of tonight's games on 32 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 2: League Pass or on Ion. The lone game on Saturday 33 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:51,560 Speaker 2: is at eight pm when the Chicago Sky heads south 34 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 2: to play the Dallas Wings. That'll be the second meeting 35 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 2: between those two teams in three days. Then on Sunday, 36 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 2: Commissioner's Cup play starts quick refresher for so a select 37 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 2: number of games count toward this Commissioner's Cup in season tournament. 38 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:07,279 Speaker 2: This year, it's the thirty six games running from June 39 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 2: first to June seventeenth, Every team will play one game 40 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:13,080 Speaker 2: against each of the other teams in its conference, and 41 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 2: the team from each conference with the best record in 42 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 2: those games will face off for the Commissioner's Cup Championship 43 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 2: on July First. Four games Sunday to kickoff Cup play 44 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:25,000 Speaker 2: this year sun at Liberty, Mercury at Sparks, Aces at Storm, 45 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 2: and Links at Valkyrie's. We'll link to the full WNBA 46 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 2: schedule in our show notes. 47 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:31,240 Speaker 1: More hoops news. 48 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 2: The Chicago Sky have announced that they'll hang Candae Parker's 49 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 2: number three jersey in the wind Trust Arena rafters on 50 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 2: August twenty fifth, when they host the Las Vegas Aces. 51 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:43,200 Speaker 2: Parker only spent two seasons with the Sky, but the 52 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 2: beloved Illinois native helped the team to its first and 53 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:49,919 Speaker 2: only WNBA title in twenty twenty one. The honor from 54 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:51,919 Speaker 2: the Sky will come about a month after the Los 55 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 2: Angeles Sparks retire her jersey. The team Parker spent thirteen 56 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 2: seasons with and helped to a championship in twenty sixteen, 57 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 2: will honor her in their game against the Sky on 58 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:04,960 Speaker 2: June twenty ninth. Golf Don't Forget The US Open continues 59 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:07,359 Speaker 2: today and this weekend as one hundred and fifty six 60 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:08,400 Speaker 2: players compete for a. 61 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 1: Share of the twelve million dollar perse. 62 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 2: You can watch today's action twelve to six Eastern on 63 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 2: USA Network and six to eight Eastern on Peacock. On Saturday, 64 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 2: it'll be one to six Eastern on Peacock and three 65 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 2: to six Eastern on NBC, and Sunday's final round can 66 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 2: be watched from two to seven pm Eastern live on 67 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:29,160 Speaker 2: NBC and Peacock. Also in tennis, the French Open rolls 68 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 2: on at Roland Garros, with live coverage on TNT Sports. 69 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 2: Everyone there vying to make it to the June seventh 70 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 2: championship match and earn the roughly two point nine million 71 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 2: dollar winners. Cut to softball, Remember Jessica Mendoza teasing some 72 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 2: big athletes unlimited softball news on yesterday's show. Well, it's 73 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 2: officially out and it's big big. Major League Baseball has 74 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 2: announced a strategic investment in the AUSL. Per an official release, 75 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:58,160 Speaker 2: the partnership includes quote engagement with the AUSL across many 76 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 2: areas of MLB's business operation, including collaborative sales and marketing efforts, 77 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 2: while AUSL athletes and storylines will be featured across MLB's 78 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 2: digital platforms and incorporated into select MLB events, including the 79 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 2: All Star Game and throughout the MLB postseason end quote. 80 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:18,039 Speaker 2: This is huge news and for the first time a 81 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:21,680 Speaker 2: professional softball league having an affiliation with Major League Baseball 82 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:25,480 Speaker 2: including resources and investment and time and energy and marketing 83 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 2: and all of that is fantastic. In footy news, no 84 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:32,840 Speaker 2: NWSL soccer this weekend. The league is on an international 85 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 2: break so players can compete during the FIFA International Match 86 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,400 Speaker 2: Window ending on June third. NWSL play starts back up 87 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:42,240 Speaker 2: on June sixth. Speaking of the FIFA window, the US 88 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:44,359 Speaker 2: women's national team is using it to play matches against 89 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:47,279 Speaker 2: China on Saturday in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and Jamaica on 90 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 2: Tuesday in Saint Louis. And remember we told you last 91 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 2: week that the second match will also have a pregame 92 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:56,760 Speaker 2: retirement celebration for US women's national team legend Becky Souerbrunn, 93 00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 2: friend of the show, who had a legendary career and 94 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:03,799 Speaker 2: recently announced that she's pregnant. So get your tissues ready. 95 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 2: That's going to be a lovely moment for one of 96 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:08,039 Speaker 2: our best. You can catch both those national team games 97 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:12,040 Speaker 2: on TBS Universo Max Peacock and Westwood One Sports. 98 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 1: More footy. 99 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 2: Our show side, Minnesota Aurora FC plays this weekend as well. 100 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 2: They're two to zero to start the season, continuing their 101 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:23,599 Speaker 2: unbeaten streak. Our girls have been undefeated in the regular 102 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:28,479 Speaker 2: season for three consecutive seasons in the USLW League, and 103 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:31,159 Speaker 2: the streak rolls on. Squad's got a road game against 104 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:34,280 Speaker 2: river Light FC tonight at six pm Eastern and another 105 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:36,960 Speaker 2: road game Sunday at five pm against the Chicago City 106 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 2: Dutch Lions. All right, y'all, we got to take a 107 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 2: quick break when we come back. We aren't cooking with 108 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:48,240 Speaker 2: Marina Maybriy, but things might still get spicy stick around 109 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 2: joining us now. She's a guard for the Connecticut side 110 00:05:57,640 --> 00:05:59,919 Speaker 2: of the WNBA. Drafted by the LA Sparks and the 111 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,320 Speaker 2: second round of the twenty nineteen WNBA draft, she spent 112 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:05,040 Speaker 2: two seasons in LA before being traded to the Dallas Wings, 113 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:07,560 Speaker 2: a couple seasons there before being sent to the Chicago 114 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 2: Sky and just a season and a half here in Chicago, 115 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 2: where we all loved her, before being traded to the 116 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:14,640 Speaker 2: Sun in the middle of last season, she left Notre 117 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 2: Dame of the program's all time leader in made three pointers. 118 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 2: She's famously the only one of the Maybury sisters to 119 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:21,839 Speaker 2: win a title with the Irish. You could check TikTok 120 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 2: to see if her sisters are salty about that. And 121 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:26,279 Speaker 2: she was a member of Phantom BC and unrivaled this season, 122 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:28,479 Speaker 2: but a calf injury limited her play, so she focused 123 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:31,480 Speaker 2: mostly on learning how to use spices. It's Marina Maybury 124 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:32,480 Speaker 2: him Marina. 125 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:35,039 Speaker 3: Hi, thank you. That's a great intro. 126 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 2: Well, I want to hear about the most important thing first, 127 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:40,320 Speaker 2: cooking with Maybury. So have you mastered any new recipes 128 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:42,839 Speaker 2: that the Sun teammates have given the seal of approval? 129 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 3: No, not yet, but I was thinking that since today 130 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:49,520 Speaker 3: with our off day, I was going to make something 131 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 3: with the kitchen aid, maybe like some chocolate chip cookie 132 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:54,880 Speaker 3: so nice. I'm kind of nervous. This is going to 133 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:56,240 Speaker 3: be the first time. I don't know how they're going 134 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 3: to feel about it, but. 135 00:06:58,360 --> 00:06:59,040 Speaker 1: I have faith. 136 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:02,520 Speaker 2: Just read all the ingredients before you start, and all 137 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:05,640 Speaker 2: the instructions. I have problems sometimes where I don't do that, 138 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:08,480 Speaker 2: and then it's like immediately put in that and I'm like, no, 139 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:10,440 Speaker 2: I didn't measure that yet, or then it's like make 140 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 2: sure you don't and I've already done that because I 141 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:15,960 Speaker 2: didn't read down further. So yeah, yeah, especially with baking, 142 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 2: it's it gets really difficult, especially like the temperatures and stuff, 143 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 2: like I didn't realize how important that was. Extremely That's 144 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 2: why I prefer cooking to baking, because cooking you're like, oops, 145 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 2: I screwed that up, Like I had some more of 146 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 2: this and put a little of this, and at baking 147 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 2: it's like that's it, one and done. Speaking of your 148 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 2: son teammates, one of them is one of the all 149 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 2: time greats in Tina Charles, and I'm wondering if she 150 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 2: has practice habits or tendencies that like feel like keys 151 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 2: to her years of success. Because when I see someone 152 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 2: in any professional sport that was born in the nineteen eighties, 153 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 2: first of all, I feel validated, and also I wonder, like, 154 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:51,720 Speaker 2: what are they doing to stick around this long and 155 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 2: be successful? 156 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 1: Yeah? 157 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 3: I mean, Teena just knows her spots, Like she gets 158 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 3: out there and she's going to go to her she's 159 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 3: going to go to her jump shot, and she reads 160 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 3: her defender pretty well when she's in one on one 161 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 3: situations and stuff, so it's just like hard to stop. 162 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 3: And she's powerful and she's been doing it for years, 163 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 3: so like she's not going to get sped up or 164 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 3: like into anything you're trying to stop her from doing. 165 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 3: She's just going to keep doing what she does no 166 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 3: matter what. So that's definitely probably brought her her success 167 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:26,640 Speaker 3: throughout the years in the w just being able to 168 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 3: get to your spots no matter what the scheme is. 169 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:30,920 Speaker 2: A whole lot of new teammates for you this year, 170 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:33,840 Speaker 2: How has it been trying to like just get started 171 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:36,679 Speaker 2: and get going with such a short offseason. Once the 172 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:38,439 Speaker 2: draft happens and everybody's in one place. 173 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:42,679 Speaker 3: I just think it happens a lot faster than everybody thinks. 174 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:44,720 Speaker 3: It's like, oh, we have time, we have time, we 175 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:47,440 Speaker 3: have time, and all of a sudden, we're playing the 176 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 3: Mystics on our first game, and you know, you're trying 177 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 3: to work through things, shoot in practice and shoot around 178 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:58,600 Speaker 3: in training camp, and everybody's young and inexperienced, and you 179 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:01,839 Speaker 3: have to have grace and leadership at the same time, accountability, 180 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 3: but also some type of sympathy in a way, like 181 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 3: I know that this is really hard, this is tough. 182 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:10,320 Speaker 3: You just got from college, and now all of a sudden, 183 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:13,440 Speaker 3: people are screaming, let's go move faster, sense of urgency 184 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:16,960 Speaker 3: this and that, you know. So I try to like 185 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 3: put myself in their shoes and remember what I felt 186 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 3: like as a rookie and like I wanted some comfort. 187 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 3: I wanted somebody to tell me, like, you are doing good, 188 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 3: even though maybe I probably wasn't doing that good. But 189 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:30,080 Speaker 3: so I've been trying to take that and give that 190 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 3: to the rookies and the younger players that we have. 191 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:34,640 Speaker 2: Let's talk about that, you're one of the more experienced 192 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 2: players on this team. What are you telling the rookies 193 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:39,440 Speaker 2: and the youngsters about, like getting off to a tough 194 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 2: start or just being patient through the first couple of games. 195 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 3: I've been trying not to address like little situations rather 196 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 3: than kind of helping them figure out what gives them 197 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:51,160 Speaker 3: the most energy to be able to come out here 198 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:54,680 Speaker 3: for forty four games, Like where can you go to 199 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:56,560 Speaker 3: fill your cup up? Like what do you need to do? 200 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:59,200 Speaker 3: Because those things you have to do to be consistent 201 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:01,839 Speaker 3: in this league to them out and keep playing whether 202 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:05,800 Speaker 3: things are going great or they're not going great. And 203 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:09,839 Speaker 3: then also just like preaching about boundaries, like no matter 204 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:11,960 Speaker 3: how old you are, no matter how long you've been 205 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:13,880 Speaker 3: in this league, you have to have boundaries. You have 206 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:17,960 Speaker 3: to set an intention of not allowing other people's energy 207 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:20,920 Speaker 3: to affect yours. And when you're in a work environment, 208 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:23,200 Speaker 3: there are always there's always going to be somebody that 209 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:27,160 Speaker 3: maybe isn't great energy, or the person the people that 210 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:30,080 Speaker 3: you're playing against next to you, there's not maybe they're 211 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:32,800 Speaker 3: out to make you mad, or they're whatever they're doing, 212 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 3: or the rest are not calling, which you want. Like 213 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:36,840 Speaker 3: you have to have boundaries set in the sense of 214 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:38,680 Speaker 3: I'm not giving my energy to this, I'm not giving 215 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 3: my energy to this, but I am giving my energy 216 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:44,960 Speaker 3: to this, or you know, just like that as an athlete, 217 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,360 Speaker 3: even like brand deals and stuff like you're in the 218 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:49,320 Speaker 3: middle of the season, like you have to be able 219 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 3: to say no, sometimes no, I can't do that, I'm 220 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:53,120 Speaker 3: too tired. I need to do this and to do that, 221 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:58,440 Speaker 3: Like those all go in that boundary category. And then 222 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:02,359 Speaker 3: just confidence, like I think that most things come from confidence, 223 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:05,280 Speaker 3: and so you to go out there and perform in 224 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:07,600 Speaker 3: forty four games in a WNBA season, against the best 225 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:09,880 Speaker 3: players in the world. If you're lacking any type of confidence, 226 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:12,240 Speaker 3: it's going to be really hard. So those, like the 227 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 3: three things that I've been talking to them a lot about. 228 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:17,960 Speaker 2: Those are all really smart, And you know, the first 229 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:19,360 Speaker 2: one you talked about sort of like where do you 230 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 2: give your energy and how do you react to your 231 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:23,440 Speaker 2: teammates and your opponents and everything else. It seems like 232 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 2: that's something you're sort of working on this year. Fans 233 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:28,560 Speaker 2: are loving watching clips of you in games, sort of 234 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:31,840 Speaker 2: reacting to hard fouls or calls you don't like. Someone 235 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:35,000 Speaker 2: said Marina Mabria's first team all reactions, which I loved, 236 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:38,640 Speaker 2: But they also love watching you sort of practice self regulation. 237 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 2: This year, you got caught doing the deep breathing, the 238 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:44,000 Speaker 2: send hands sort of talking to yourself. Is that something 239 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 2: that you've been working on with coaches or just in 240 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 2: the off season being more intentional. 241 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:52,160 Speaker 3: About Yeah, I mean, I think I'll honestly give credit 242 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:57,120 Speaker 3: to like last year's team, like AT and dB and them, 243 00:11:57,760 --> 00:11:59,960 Speaker 3: they were big on me about like keeping my complete, 244 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:03,120 Speaker 3: with keeping my control because they're saying, like you're getting 245 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:05,480 Speaker 3: out of you, no one can stop you when you're 246 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:08,280 Speaker 3: in the zone and no one, and you're not upset 247 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 3: and you're not like losing your focus. So been trying 248 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:13,360 Speaker 3: to have my moment and then get back to it 249 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 3: and go on a run or do something that's going 250 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 3: to help the team win, because you know, when I 251 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:21,400 Speaker 3: get too far one way and I'm too mad, I'm 252 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:25,800 Speaker 3: crashing out, like I can't come back. I'm not good 253 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:27,560 Speaker 3: when I am all the way down, when I go 254 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 3: all the way down there. So I feel like the 255 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:33,079 Speaker 3: first week of the season, I actually did go down 256 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 3: that way a little bit, and I was like, I 257 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 3: got to catch myself. So I feel like this week 258 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:39,360 Speaker 3: I was a lot better with like keeping my controlsure 259 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:41,560 Speaker 3: and keeping my head. And then the numbers said, so. 260 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:44,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, the crash out seems to be the term of 261 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:46,800 Speaker 2: choice specifically to you. Is that something that you came 262 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:49,439 Speaker 2: up with or it is something that like the folks 263 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:51,720 Speaker 2: on TikTok and social unsigned to you and you're like, 264 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:53,680 Speaker 2: all right, that's right, that is what it feels like. 265 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:57,200 Speaker 3: Well, my TikTok friends gave me that one. I learned 266 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:01,440 Speaker 3: it from them. Yeah, they're always like hung crash on stuff. Honestly, 267 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:03,600 Speaker 3: sometimes I get mad at those videos though, because it's 268 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:08,040 Speaker 3: like sometimes they create a narrative that's like, yeah, that's like, oh, 269 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:10,320 Speaker 3: I'm crazy and stuff, and it's like I hear you, 270 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:12,640 Speaker 3: but like if I need to know that if you 271 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:15,480 Speaker 3: got tackled from behind in the back court right and 272 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 3: no one's saying anything in their talking about our marine 273 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:20,880 Speaker 3: or flopping, like and you know you didn't flop, it's 274 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:23,280 Speaker 3: like okay, like at some point you really might crash 275 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:23,679 Speaker 3: out too. 276 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I want you to know that. 277 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:29,560 Speaker 2: I would be absolutely mortified to play basketball on television. 278 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:34,840 Speaker 2: I have a terrible temper. I'm a horrible loser. I 279 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:35,679 Speaker 2: would get so. 280 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:38,679 Speaker 1: Angry during games. I would throw my hands in the air, my. 281 00:13:38,679 --> 00:13:41,000 Speaker 2: Face would get beat red, like I just was like 282 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:43,840 Speaker 2: I wanted it so bad, but I couldn't really control 283 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 2: it sometimes when I was indeed crashing out or when 284 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:46,840 Speaker 2: I didn't think like. 285 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:47,839 Speaker 1: The call went the right way. 286 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:50,480 Speaker 2: So I think people watching, especially people who never played, 287 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:53,160 Speaker 2: just don't get it, Like they just don't understand and 288 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:55,560 Speaker 2: they think you're somehow supposed to like have the best 289 00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:57,120 Speaker 2: energy in the world toward the thing that you want 290 00:13:57,160 --> 00:13:59,360 Speaker 2: to accomplish, and then be able to have no energy 291 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 2: in the moments. 292 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:01,600 Speaker 1: When you're angry or frustrated or whatever. 293 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:04,480 Speaker 2: So I feel, yeah, and I enjoy it, and I 294 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:05,559 Speaker 2: also get that sometimes the. 295 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:07,280 Speaker 1: Narrative is that what you were hoping for? 296 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:08,320 Speaker 3: Right? 297 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:11,880 Speaker 2: Like, sometimes I'm just like whatever, Yeah, you mentioned Alyssa 298 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 2: Thomas and do Wanna Bonnard. Those are two of your 299 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:16,400 Speaker 2: previous teammates that sort of helped talk you through it. 300 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 2: But you're you've been able to figure out how to 301 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 2: better control yourself. But you're also like you're willing to 302 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:24,000 Speaker 2: let opposing players know what's on your mind. You're willing 303 00:14:24,040 --> 00:14:26,120 Speaker 2: to talk, You're willing to like try to get in 304 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:29,040 Speaker 2: their heads and do exactly what you're warning those rooks against, 305 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:30,840 Speaker 2: Like how do you not let the energy of the 306 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:32,920 Speaker 2: opposing players get you? And if you could take advantage 307 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:34,800 Speaker 2: of doing that to someone else, it can really help 308 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:37,320 Speaker 2: your game. Do you remember, Like ever, it's just like 309 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 2: the wildest thing you ever said to someone. 310 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 3: I mean, I've said some wild shit. 311 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:47,080 Speaker 1: I don't know. 312 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:52,440 Speaker 3: I mean I've like told someone their dog is ugly before. No, No, 313 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:56,040 Speaker 3: I've never seen their dogs too far it's too far, right, 314 00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:58,080 Speaker 3: that's wild. And someoney told me that Charlie was ugly. 315 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:01,720 Speaker 3: You might have to scrap right, but. 316 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:04,440 Speaker 1: Uh, that was kind of wild to me. 317 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:05,160 Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie. 318 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 2: Have you run into like an even strength trash talk 319 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:09,840 Speaker 2: or is there anyone who can match your energy? 320 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:14,480 Speaker 3: Nay's pretty good. I think Nay's not bad. Djn A Carrington, Okay, 321 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:18,960 Speaker 3: AT's not bad either, Melyssa Thomas. Yeah, yeah, I mean 322 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:21,120 Speaker 3: there's other people that will like talk and stuff like, 323 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 3: but honestly, I don't really say that much unless you 324 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:30,640 Speaker 3: say something wild. Like usually I hear them say something first, 325 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:35,480 Speaker 3: and I'm like what, Like, like even last night, I 326 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 3: was like, oh, so you wanted me to hear that, 327 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:41,640 Speaker 3: like you know, so like if you wanted me to 328 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:43,840 Speaker 3: hear it, then I'm definitely gonna right right, and then 329 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 3: I'm gonna have something great to say back. And also 330 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 3: I get that from like my I grew up in 331 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 3: a family that was like I mean, it's an aggressive family. 332 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 3: Like whenever we like could have argument or something like 333 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:59,880 Speaker 3: we're arguing to win. We're not effing around with these arguments. 334 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:02,560 Speaker 3: So like our siblings, we used to like unhinged things 335 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 3: to each other like crazy. So sometimes like I get 336 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:08,880 Speaker 3: in that mode and I'm like, oh yeah, all right, 337 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 3: well say something back. Yeah, so it's really like that 338 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:14,040 Speaker 3: that I get it from. 339 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:14,440 Speaker 1: Yeah. 340 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:16,240 Speaker 2: I mean you talk about how like when you're at home, 341 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:18,400 Speaker 2: you're playing one on one with all your sisters who 342 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:21,280 Speaker 2: played college ball at Notre Dame, and like you guys 343 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:22,120 Speaker 2: get after it. 344 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 3: Like when I would lose, like to them, they would 345 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:25,760 Speaker 3: like tell me I'm adopted. 346 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:28,640 Speaker 2: And stuff, like the oldest trick in the book, the 347 00:16:28,680 --> 00:16:29,080 Speaker 2: oldest trick. 348 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:30,920 Speaker 3: You're gonna get kicked off the family because you. 349 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:33,800 Speaker 1: I Meanwhile, you guys look exactly the same. No one's mind. 350 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:37,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, you mentioned talking trash about a dog. 351 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:40,160 Speaker 1: It's actually funny. So you are a certified dog. 352 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 2: We have had conversations on the show trying to talk 353 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:45,280 Speaker 2: and like figure out exactly what constitutes a dog. 354 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 1: What makes a dog? Who's a dog? 355 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 2: Can you be a dog and a glue gal at 356 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:51,080 Speaker 2: the same time. We've had all of those and one 357 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 2: of the things everyone agreed upon was that you are, 358 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:56,640 Speaker 2: in fact a dog. How do you characterize a dog? 359 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:00,800 Speaker 3: I feel like someone that has like toughness on the court, 360 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:04,840 Speaker 3: like not like a punk, gonna get back up and 361 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:11,880 Speaker 3: try again, like play with physicality, like have that mentality 362 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:14,240 Speaker 3: of like we're down but like I'm still gonna come back. 363 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:16,600 Speaker 3: We're still gonna come back. Like we're gonna make a play, 364 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:20,360 Speaker 3: We're gonna get a stop, get a block, do make 365 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:24,480 Speaker 3: do something, make something shake Like I always think about 366 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:30,520 Speaker 3: like Candace Parker when I was on LA I was 367 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:33,399 Speaker 3: only on there for a year, but it was almost 368 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:37,199 Speaker 3: like she never thought she was gonna lose, like and 369 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:39,760 Speaker 3: like as a rookie sometimes I'm like, oh gosh, we're 370 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:41,600 Speaker 3: playing bad. I think we're gonna lose, you know, like 371 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:43,480 Speaker 3: you don't know any better when you're not playing, like 372 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:47,639 Speaker 3: and she's always saying like, okay, just do something for 373 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:50,080 Speaker 3: somebody else. Then just do this. Oh, then just do this. 374 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:53,600 Speaker 3: And it's like she always found a way to to 375 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:55,679 Speaker 3: and we didn't always win every game, but we won 376 00:17:55,760 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 3: a lot of games. And Candace is always saying, do this, 377 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:00,399 Speaker 3: we can just do this. Oh, I'm to take it 378 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:01,840 Speaker 3: upon myself. I'm going to take the ball up the 379 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:04,919 Speaker 3: court injurbble all the way up and score, like just 380 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:07,439 Speaker 3: stuff like that, or time out, we need to reverse 381 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:09,159 Speaker 3: the ball this way. You don't see how she's guarding you, 382 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:13,440 Speaker 3: Just stuff where she's making everyone else around her better 383 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:17,480 Speaker 3: and tougher and like challenging their ceiling. Yeah, and that's 384 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:19,240 Speaker 3: kind of like how I see it. 385 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:21,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, so dogs like what you do, but also how 386 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:24,080 Speaker 2: you make other people do things. I'm putting you on 387 00:18:24,119 --> 00:18:26,800 Speaker 2: the spot here, but I'm gonna need your top five 388 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:29,200 Speaker 2: dogs currently playing in the WNBA. 389 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:34,040 Speaker 3: Oh damn, I only have top five. Yeah, this doesn't 390 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:36,440 Speaker 3: mean best player? What does dog mean? Well? 391 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:39,680 Speaker 2: You just now yeah, see you just defined it though, 392 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:42,000 Speaker 2: Like I'll give you a couple of mine. I'm not 393 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:44,520 Speaker 2: gonna like be held to this because it's off the 394 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:45,240 Speaker 2: top of my head. 395 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:48,720 Speaker 1: But Skyler Diggins. 396 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:54,200 Speaker 2: Kelsey Plum uh, Courtney Williams. 397 00:18:54,400 --> 00:19:01,120 Speaker 3: A shout out, Courtney Colia Copper ha yeah huh yeah, Like. 398 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:06,399 Speaker 2: I think at Alissa Thomas is one. I mean, Angel 399 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:09,000 Speaker 2: Reese is a dog in certain ways for sure. 400 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:11,919 Speaker 3: All Right, so you wouldn't categorize like, so what do 401 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:16,639 Speaker 3: you guys think about like Satu everyque and then like 402 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 3: what is that categorize as I. 403 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:22,359 Speaker 1: Think Satu's a baby dog, She's a pup. 404 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:28,199 Speaker 2: Satu's a puppy an angry pop, but pop I'm not 405 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:29,040 Speaker 2: sure about ari K. 406 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:32,200 Speaker 1: I think like ari Arik is a bucket more than 407 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:32,960 Speaker 1: a dog to me. 408 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:36,200 Speaker 3: I mean I feel like she's like dog. You out, 409 00:19:36,359 --> 00:19:40,240 Speaker 3: like you really out there on the island with her, right, Like, Yeah, 410 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:41,440 Speaker 3: that's not fine. 411 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:44,320 Speaker 1: I feel like Chelsea Gray is a dog. Okay, you 412 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:45,560 Speaker 1: don't agree. 413 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:49,879 Speaker 3: No, I mean she's a four time champion dog. Like. 414 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:52,920 Speaker 3: That's why it's complicated, is the way this conversation is horrid. 415 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,359 Speaker 2: That's what I got in a fight at the Final 416 00:19:55,359 --> 00:19:57,800 Speaker 2: four about whether Page Beckers is a dog. I say dog, 417 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 2: but she just looks like a little kid, Like she's 418 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:02,760 Speaker 2: so cute that people mistake that she's a dog. 419 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:05,560 Speaker 1: Okay, who am I missing? 420 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:08,160 Speaker 3: I'm with Ka for sure. 421 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:12,120 Speaker 1: I'm with Ka at Courtney Williams. 422 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:17,119 Speaker 3: Yeah, I definitely got Courtney in there. Asia like Asia. 423 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:20,040 Speaker 1: It's just it's just a dog. 424 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:23,239 Speaker 2: It's just hard because she's also like the best, So 425 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 2: it's like you don't first think dog, you think MVP 426 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 2: and then later dogs. 427 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:31,480 Speaker 3: Yeah facts, I hear that, But yeah, I mean, yeah, 428 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:33,640 Speaker 3: we got a lot of there's there's a lot. 429 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:37,280 Speaker 2: Tell me about coach Mezzanine does see how does he 430 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:38,280 Speaker 2: handle your temperament? 431 00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:39,439 Speaker 1: How does he get the best at you? 432 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:41,840 Speaker 3: I think right now he's still trying to figure out 433 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 3: what to say to me, which rightfully so I understand 434 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:45,520 Speaker 3: I wouldn't know what to say to me either. Sometimes 435 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:48,879 Speaker 3: I sometimes you just be looking at me like I 436 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:54,879 Speaker 3: need you to calm down together, Are you okay? But 437 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:57,200 Speaker 3: sometimes you just like grab my hand on the way 438 00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:01,439 Speaker 3: out the game and be like, you know, like come 439 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:05,359 Speaker 3: right here, right here, you know, little little little, just 440 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:07,840 Speaker 3: little subtle things like not to try to embarrass me 441 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:11,560 Speaker 3: or anything, you know, like just to reel me back in. 442 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:15,800 Speaker 3: But like Ron really like Ron and Chavante have been 443 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:20,399 Speaker 3: like hands on about it. Like Ron like the other 444 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:22,359 Speaker 3: day we were playing Atlanta and she just got up 445 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:24,360 Speaker 3: and we were like they were shooting a free throw 446 00:21:24,359 --> 00:21:27,440 Speaker 3: and she just gave me a hugs. 447 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 1: Oh that's good. 448 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:30,360 Speaker 3: Let me calm down, yeaheah. 449 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:34,480 Speaker 2: They're like they're figuring out how to regulate you different tactics, 450 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:35,880 Speaker 2: like yeah. 451 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:38,359 Speaker 3: Z sometimes will be like so are you going to 452 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:41,880 Speaker 3: bitch or are you going to play? Are you going 453 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:43,760 Speaker 3: to bitch? Or are you going to have thirty points? 454 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:46,959 Speaker 3: Because you can't wait who says this? And I'm just like, okay, 455 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:49,480 Speaker 3: Chavante is amazing. 456 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:50,320 Speaker 1: I love that. 457 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:54,240 Speaker 3: And like even sometimes like the rookies like they've been 458 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:57,280 Speaker 3: like like I know she just flipped you over, but 459 00:21:57,359 --> 00:22:00,080 Speaker 3: like what are we running? And you know, like what 460 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:02,720 Speaker 3: are we doing? I need you to like or just 461 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:05,080 Speaker 3: like it's okay, like they called the foul. They called it, 462 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 3: you know, so like they see it, like they see 463 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:10,200 Speaker 3: like why they don't they see, like why I get 464 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:13,639 Speaker 3: paid sometimes like this is crazy. She just hate me. 465 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 3: Like yesterday I was driving up the court and she 466 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:17,600 Speaker 3: literally like someone that literally is like this in the 467 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 3: back of my head and straight in the back of 468 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:21,320 Speaker 3: the head. And I'm literally just like I don't know, 469 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:25,080 Speaker 3: I didn't see right, but like I'm standing right in 470 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:26,119 Speaker 3: front of you and I have the ball, so like 471 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:27,080 Speaker 3: I don't know what else you're watching. 472 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:29,600 Speaker 2: To be honest, if I were a therapist, I would 473 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:32,000 Speaker 2: tell you to control what you can control and understand 474 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:33,840 Speaker 2: that they're always going to miss things and that it 475 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:35,600 Speaker 2: takes you out of your game when you get mad. 476 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:37,960 Speaker 1: But like, how do you miss that right? 477 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 3: Like right the head the head knock in the back 478 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:42,200 Speaker 3: of the head, you missed right? 479 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:43,680 Speaker 1: Tell yourself a story in your head. 480 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:46,280 Speaker 2: Oh my god, I can't believe a fly flew directly 481 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:49,040 Speaker 2: into the ref's eye right when that happened and they 482 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:51,760 Speaker 2: were incapable of literally couldn't see it. 483 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:54,359 Speaker 3: Ah, I will not be lying to myself. 484 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:58,200 Speaker 2: Sometimes those stories help us get through those moments, even 485 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:02,359 Speaker 2: if they're blatant lies. You know, you had to adjust 486 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:04,240 Speaker 2: to this new coach and they had to adjust to you. 487 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:06,160 Speaker 2: And this isn't the first time that's happened in your career. 488 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:09,439 Speaker 2: You've been in a bunch of different spots. So I wonder, like, 489 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:12,400 Speaker 2: when you find out you're being traded, do you remember 490 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:16,400 Speaker 2: the moment of each of those teams, like actually hearing 491 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:18,600 Speaker 2: the news and what your immediate reaction was. 492 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:21,479 Speaker 3: I mean, my rookie year, I got traded because they 493 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:25,200 Speaker 3: were trying to win a championship right away. They traded 494 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:28,880 Speaker 3: me for like Simone Augustus and Christy Tolliver decent like that. 495 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:31,200 Speaker 3: So they were trying to they were trying to win 496 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 3: right away, and Dallas was the sign was like I 497 00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:36,439 Speaker 3: was restricted for agent, so I could leave anyway. It 498 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:38,320 Speaker 3: wasn't really like, oh we're getting rid of you or 499 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:43,960 Speaker 3: anything that's part of the deal. I think the first 500 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:47,760 Speaker 3: real trade honestly was Chicago. I mean it was what 501 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:50,359 Speaker 3: it was. I knew it was coming like, you know, 502 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,840 Speaker 3: things weren't working out. It wasn't I came to play 503 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:58,119 Speaker 3: for James Wade. When he left, it just wasn't the 504 00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:00,879 Speaker 3: same for me. I wasn't playing the same POSI I 505 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:03,240 Speaker 3: signed in Chicago for three years to be a point 506 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 3: guard and that just wasn't it. And then we weren't 507 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:12,240 Speaker 3: winning either, and it just wasn't really going that well. 508 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:17,439 Speaker 3: So it was better off to go and try to 509 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:21,439 Speaker 3: win a championship with Connecticut, and obviously, although we fell short, 510 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:24,880 Speaker 3: Like I'm really grateful for my time in both places, honestly, 511 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 3: because like Connecticut showed me how to win, even though 512 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:35,919 Speaker 3: it's not happening right now, Like it showed me what 513 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:38,440 Speaker 3: you have to do to win, and how at had 514 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:43,520 Speaker 3: that team winning for so long at a consistent, really 515 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:46,200 Speaker 3: high level, Like there were so many things that stood 516 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:48,439 Speaker 3: out to me that I was like, oh, Okay, you 517 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:50,239 Speaker 3: have to have that to win. You have to have that. 518 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:54,720 Speaker 3: You can't have this. And then also in Chicago when 519 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:56,960 Speaker 3: we weren't winning, it was like, Okay, I'm the leader 520 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,360 Speaker 3: of his team and I'm not doing a good job 521 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:01,520 Speaker 3: and I don't know, w what is it that I'm 522 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:04,879 Speaker 3: not doing? So once I got to see what I 523 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:07,720 Speaker 3: wasn't doing in Connecticut. Now I feel like I've become 524 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:09,080 Speaker 3: a such a better leader. 525 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:11,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's really interesting. 526 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 2: It does make such a difference too, like the expectations, 527 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:15,439 Speaker 2: Like the same thing with the Sun though, Like you 528 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:19,399 Speaker 2: signed a two year deal after being traded there, but 529 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:22,679 Speaker 2: then they basically traded away all the players and the 530 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,080 Speaker 2: coach left. So now you're in a completely different position 531 00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:27,840 Speaker 2: on a team that's starting more fresh than the one 532 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:29,320 Speaker 2: that you got there, which was like on the verge 533 00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 2: of a championship multiple years in a row. When you 534 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:34,960 Speaker 2: asked them out and you said you wanted out, Like 535 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:36,040 Speaker 2: what was the conversation? 536 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:36,800 Speaker 1: Like how did that go? 537 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 3: You know, I built relationships in Chicago where, you know, 538 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:43,520 Speaker 3: they understood that I wasn't in a good place there, 539 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:47,560 Speaker 3: Like my mind wasn't good. Things were really tough there 540 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:52,240 Speaker 3: for a little while. We weren't winning. You couldn't figure 541 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:56,119 Speaker 3: it out, And they knew I came to play for 542 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,920 Speaker 3: James Wade. So when they figured out that they could 543 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:00,760 Speaker 3: get a couple pieces back, that they'd be able to 544 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:04,080 Speaker 3: get a couple of their picks back, we came to 545 00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:07,639 Speaker 3: an understanding of you know, we want her to be happy. 546 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:09,840 Speaker 3: We've built a really good relationship with her. We don't 547 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:12,679 Speaker 3: want to keep someone here that maybe doesn't belong here 548 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:15,640 Speaker 3: right now, doesn't fit on this team anymore. Where Whereas 549 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:18,480 Speaker 3: when we had me Courtney and Ka I did fit. 550 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 3: I fit perfectly, Like I had my best year in numbers. 551 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,880 Speaker 3: So it was really mutual and like I still talk 552 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:29,320 Speaker 3: with them like all the people there all the time. 553 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 3: So I'm grateful that they did let me go because 554 00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:36,040 Speaker 3: it was just a mutual agreement of like, you know, 555 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,040 Speaker 3: we get it. Obviously, we love you and we want 556 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:41,160 Speaker 3: you to be here, but we do get it. So 557 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:44,080 Speaker 3: I appreciate them a lot for that, for understanding that 558 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:46,560 Speaker 3: when there's a player that doesn't want to be somewhere, 559 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,919 Speaker 3: really isn't happy anymore, you know, you want them to 560 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,000 Speaker 3: go and be be themselves somewhere else. 561 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:55,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, So if that doesn't happen and you end up 562 00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:58,400 Speaker 2: somewhere that maybe the situation is different than what you'd hope. 563 00:26:58,400 --> 00:26:59,120 Speaker 1: What's your approach? 564 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:02,159 Speaker 2: How do you get your self back focused on the 565 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,640 Speaker 2: job at hand, getting the most out of your year 566 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:07,560 Speaker 2: or making it work well. 567 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 3: Obviously you know this wasn't exactly in our plans, Like 568 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:13,680 Speaker 3: you know, I would have thought in twenty six, if 569 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:17,119 Speaker 3: Connecticut didn't win the finals that maybe then at the 570 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:20,280 Speaker 3: new CBA reset, maybe it would you know, the pieces 571 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,399 Speaker 3: would change. I didn't know that it was going to 572 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:28,240 Speaker 3: happen in twenty five right before it. I think I 573 00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:30,560 Speaker 3: just had to come to a realization that Like I 574 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:33,199 Speaker 3: feel like, I know it's cliche, but I feel like 575 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:36,280 Speaker 3: for some reason, I keep getting put in the same position. 576 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:40,800 Speaker 3: And is it because God has a plan for me 577 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:44,000 Speaker 3: to grow into something way bigger than I even thought 578 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:46,679 Speaker 3: I could be. Can I carry a team somewhere that 579 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:49,800 Speaker 3: nobody thinks can go anywhere? Like I feel like the 580 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:52,359 Speaker 3: answer is yes, because why else I keep getting put 581 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,400 Speaker 3: in this position? Like what's the odds that everybody's gone? 582 00:27:55,840 --> 00:28:00,639 Speaker 3: That's insane, Like no one would have guessed that. So 583 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,160 Speaker 3: now I'm just trying to figure out a way to 584 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:05,760 Speaker 3: be that leader that I obviously can be, or else 585 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:11,320 Speaker 3: I wouldn't keep put in this position, and I just 586 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:13,359 Speaker 3: have to work through it instead of trying to trying 587 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,480 Speaker 3: to go somewhere where I think where I think it's 588 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:18,439 Speaker 3: going to be perfect, where I think I can do 589 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,680 Speaker 3: what I want to do, and maybe I need to 590 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:25,920 Speaker 3: just make it work, and that's where and that's where 591 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:31,680 Speaker 3: everything that I think I can become comes. Yeah, because 592 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,840 Speaker 3: I'm not sure anymore. Like it's obviously everybody has a 593 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:41,080 Speaker 3: different journey, but my journey has been insane, So i 594 00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:43,000 Speaker 3: wouldn't trade it for the world because I'm grateful to 595 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:44,720 Speaker 3: be here. I was the nineteenth pick and now I'm 596 00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:47,120 Speaker 3: considered one of the best players in the world, so 597 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:51,440 Speaker 3: I never saw that coming. But I still think I 598 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:53,320 Speaker 3: have so much more to offer. And if I can 599 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,080 Speaker 3: kind of be where my feet are and not always 600 00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:59,040 Speaker 3: think that maybe there's something better, I will get everything 601 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:00,920 Speaker 3: that I think that I can be. 602 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:03,400 Speaker 1: That's such a good perspective. 603 00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:06,200 Speaker 2: It really is like, if I keep getting the same 604 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:08,400 Speaker 2: result when I ask out, maybe I have to go 605 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:11,440 Speaker 2: through exactly and figure out what it means to go 606 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:13,320 Speaker 2: through this thing that I don't know that I want 607 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:14,680 Speaker 2: or I don't know if it's the right fit, and 608 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:16,680 Speaker 2: then make it work well enough to know that anywhere 609 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:18,640 Speaker 2: you go you can make it work. And I love 610 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:21,160 Speaker 2: the perspective of putting that weight on your shoulders because 611 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:23,920 Speaker 2: you are this incredible story of a second round pick 612 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,320 Speaker 2: that's made it great and becomes the centerpiece of a team, 613 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:28,600 Speaker 2: and you have a real opportunity. It's been a tough start, 614 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:31,200 Speaker 2: but you get to help this next generation of players, 615 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:34,120 Speaker 2: and you already are bringing them such good perspective. And 616 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:36,280 Speaker 2: there's so many I mean, next year's the league's in 617 00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:38,400 Speaker 2: a blow up, the Sun might get sold to a 618 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:40,680 Speaker 2: different owner. I mean, there is just so much that 619 00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:43,080 Speaker 2: we don't know and can't control that. All you have 620 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:44,760 Speaker 2: is like, what can I do for this team right 621 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,640 Speaker 2: now in this moment, which is awesome. 622 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:48,440 Speaker 1: I love to hear that. 623 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,800 Speaker 2: Well, hopefully we'll have you back down later in the season. 624 00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:55,120 Speaker 2: We'll ask you how that's going. It sounds like you've 625 00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:56,280 Speaker 2: got a great perspective on it. 626 00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:57,480 Speaker 3: It's going to be going better. 627 00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:00,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's got to be right. I mean, listen, sky fans. 628 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:03,760 Speaker 2: So I'm like, okay, progress. We had a sixteen point lead. 629 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,240 Speaker 2: We blew it and we lost, but at one point 630 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,800 Speaker 2: we were leading a game by a significant number of points. 631 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:11,280 Speaker 1: Maybe next time they'll keep it. 632 00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:13,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, we were beating Minnesota the other day. 633 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:16,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that was baby steps, baby steps. 634 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:18,680 Speaker 2: Well, thanks so much for hopping on with us. Get 635 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:20,520 Speaker 2: some cooking with Maybury going. We want to see those 636 00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:23,640 Speaker 2: cookies and some more. We need more proof that you've 637 00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:25,920 Speaker 2: figured out the spices, if not just for us, but 638 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:29,000 Speaker 2: for DJA. I know that's important to her. So thanks 639 00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:29,840 Speaker 2: so much for the time. 640 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:31,560 Speaker 1: Thank you. 641 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:36,440 Speaker 2: We got to take another quick break when we come 642 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:39,160 Speaker 2: back a lacrosse What the fact that'll make you want 643 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:53,760 Speaker 2: to get called for slashing welcome back slices. It's time 644 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:57,760 Speaker 2: for another What the fact? You might remember earlier in 645 00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:00,280 Speaker 2: the week we told you about UNC winning Sun d's 646 00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:04,560 Speaker 2: Division One College Lacrosse National championship, completing their undefeated season 647 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:07,520 Speaker 2: in front of a record fourteen thousand, four hundred twenty 648 00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:10,720 Speaker 2: three fans, and we mentioned that that tally knocked off 649 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:13,880 Speaker 2: the previous record from twenty seventeen. Well, when you dig 650 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:17,320 Speaker 2: into the history of NCUBLEA lacrosse championships, breaking a twenty 651 00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:20,840 Speaker 2: seventeen record makes sense. First, let's go back to twenty 652 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:23,800 Speaker 2: twenty one. You may recall that the NCAA commissioned a 653 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:28,080 Speaker 2: big investigation into gender equity following outrage over the disparities 654 00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:30,800 Speaker 2: between the men's and women's basketball tournaments. While the law 655 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:34,360 Speaker 2: firm that conducted the investigation, Kaplan, Hecker and Fink, dug 656 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:37,600 Speaker 2: into the NCAA's treatment of lots of other championships too, 657 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:43,160 Speaker 2: including lacrosse, and the findings were very curious. So historically, 658 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:46,360 Speaker 2: men's lacrosse has hosted its D one, D two, and 659 00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:50,360 Speaker 2: D three championships at the same venue, usually using NFL 660 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:54,120 Speaker 2: facilities that can see tens of thousands of fans at 661 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:56,320 Speaker 2: the same time, the D one, D two, and D 662 00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:59,800 Speaker 2: three women's events have been held separately in smaller venues 663 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:04,040 Speaker 2: fewer resources. For example, the KHF report outlines how in 664 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:08,240 Speaker 2: twenty nineteen, quote men's lacrosse sold twenty eighty, one hundred 665 00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:11,320 Speaker 2: and sixty tickets to the Division one men's final in 666 00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:13,920 Speaker 2: a stadium with a capacity for sixty seven thousand and 667 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:18,400 Speaker 2: five ninety four, while women's lacrosse sold nine and seventeen 668 00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:20,840 Speaker 2: tickets to the Division one women's final in a stadium 669 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:24,600 Speaker 2: with a capacity for eighty five hundred end Quote. Yeah, 670 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:27,760 Speaker 2: you heard that right. They sold over nine thousand tickets 671 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:30,080 Speaker 2: for a stadium with a capacity of eighty five hundred. 672 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:32,920 Speaker 2: You got to assume that standing room only. Either way, 673 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:37,040 Speaker 2: Clearly the venue not big enough. So where was that 674 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:42,640 Speaker 2: twenty seventeen championship that had the previous record Gillette Stadium. Yeah, 675 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:45,440 Speaker 2: so it's not like people suddenly became more interested in 676 00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:48,320 Speaker 2: women's across this year than last year or the year before. 677 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:50,640 Speaker 2: It's just that more of them were able to fit 678 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,400 Speaker 2: in the venue again. Now, it's worth noting that the 679 00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:56,280 Speaker 2: women's D one Championship was held at Gillette this year, 680 00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,080 Speaker 2: along with the men's D one, two, and three championships, 681 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:01,840 Speaker 2: but the D two when D three women's Championships were 682 00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:06,040 Speaker 2: all still held elsewhere. Tous lacrosse coach courtney' shoot actually 683 00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:09,200 Speaker 2: called the NCAA out after this year's D three championship game, 684 00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:11,840 Speaker 2: which the Jumbos lost ten to nine to Middlebury. 685 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:12,760 Speaker 1: Take a listen. 686 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:15,840 Speaker 4: You know, Salem does a great job with this championship, 687 00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:17,520 Speaker 4: So I hope anything I'm going to say doesn't come 688 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:20,080 Speaker 4: across offensive. But this is a hard place to get 689 00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:26,280 Speaker 4: to and the NCAA needs to do something about accessibility 690 00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:30,000 Speaker 4: of the championship. We had an incredible crowd, but our 691 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:31,920 Speaker 4: men are playing for a national championship in front of 692 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:38,600 Speaker 4: all there alarms tonight and that's an issue. And I 693 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:40,800 Speaker 4: was hoping to say this when we won. I have 694 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:43,920 Speaker 4: notes prepared because I think it's a real thing we 695 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:47,600 Speaker 4: got to talk about. I promise these girls that if 696 00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:50,000 Speaker 4: we want a national championship, I was going to fight 697 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:57,280 Speaker 4: for equity. I'm going to do it either way. It 698 00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:01,000 Speaker 4: deserves some attention and against Salem Rono College do a 699 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:04,000 Speaker 4: fantastic job once we're here, but this is a hard 700 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,720 Speaker 4: place to get to. We had four A launs here today. 701 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:08,759 Speaker 4: I had one hundreds reach out that would have been 702 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:11,759 Speaker 4: there in a major city. Our men get to do that. 703 00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:16,880 Speaker 4: And there's an accessibility issue for the Division III Lacrosse 704 00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,440 Speaker 4: Championships that is inequitable. 705 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:22,800 Speaker 2: And get this so per the KHF report, multiple sources 706 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,440 Speaker 2: said when planning ahead for the twenty twenty five championships, 707 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:29,200 Speaker 2: Jillette Stadium was willing to host all three women's competitions, 708 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:32,880 Speaker 2: but the D one Men's Lacrosse Committee was concerned about 709 00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:35,720 Speaker 2: hosting too many championships and teams at one venue. 710 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:38,120 Speaker 1: Here's a snippet of the report quote. 711 00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:41,400 Speaker 2: The D one Men's Committee expressed concern about the significant 712 00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,480 Speaker 2: scale of hosting six championships with at least sixteen teams 713 00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:47,040 Speaker 2: over one weekend for an outdoor sport. 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Actually, on 753 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:59,000 Speaker 2: second thought, I think super Slice Amanda Vallo has a 754 00:36:59,040 --> 00:36:59,680 Speaker 2: better idea. 755 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:01,040 Speaker 1: Order two. 756 00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:04,400 Speaker 2: Amanda didn't forget to subscribe, rate and review because she 757 00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:08,800 Speaker 2: wrote this quote pre ordering two copies of Sarah's book, 758 00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:13,000 Speaker 2: rating five out of five stars review. Get the audiobook 759 00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:14,800 Speaker 2: for yourself so you can listen to it as you 760 00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,960 Speaker 2: drive the brand spank and new hardcover to Dad's on 761 00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:21,680 Speaker 2: Father's Day. Runs in the Family and incredible true story 762 00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:25,240 Speaker 2: a football fatherhood in belonging is cheaper than a fancy tie, 763 00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:28,360 Speaker 2: lighter than a grill, and can help elevate the regular 764 00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:32,680 Speaker 2: Sunday phone call conversation about Dad's golf game. Gifting Dad 765 00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:35,719 Speaker 2: guarantees favorite child status as you buck the trend of 766 00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:39,480 Speaker 2: greeting card stereotype pipe Dad, although we never say it 767 00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:42,080 Speaker 2: to the guy who taught me how to fish, and 768 00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:45,160 Speaker 2: instead explore the meaning of family and fatherhood together through 769 00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:48,400 Speaker 2: the lens of football, your new father, daughter book club, 770 00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:51,720 Speaker 2: and love of sports. Order now to avoid last minute, 771 00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:55,320 Speaker 2: over budget guilt purchases and enjoy the peace and contentment 772 00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:57,160 Speaker 2: of knowing you're putting your money where the heart is 773 00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:03,560 Speaker 2: end quote Hell yes, Amanda Vallo, Thank you, truly, thank you. 774 00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:06,080 Speaker 2: We always love to hear from you, especially if it's 775 00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:08,680 Speaker 2: your thoughts about buying my book. Ha ha, just kidding 776 00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:10,880 Speaker 2: sort of, but I'm serious by it. 777 00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:11,879 Speaker 1: Hit us up on. 778 00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:14,400 Speaker 2: Email Good Game at Wondermedia Network dot com or leave 779 00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:16,239 Speaker 2: us a voicemail at eight seven two two O four 780 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:19,200 Speaker 2: fifty seventy and don't forget to review the show like 781 00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:22,560 Speaker 2: Amanda did, but you know, put it on Apple five stars. 782 00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:25,320 Speaker 1: Tell us you love us, it really helps us promise. 783 00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:29,320 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, y'all. See you next week. Good Game, Marina, 784 00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:31,239 Speaker 1: Good Game, ordering. 785 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:40,200 Speaker 2: Two books you technical fouls for harmless shit. Talking Good 786 00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,200 Speaker 2: Game with Sarah Spain is an iheartwomen's sports production in 787 00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:46,080 Speaker 2: partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. You could find 788 00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:49,080 Speaker 2: us on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you 789 00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:53,040 Speaker 2: get your podcasts. Production by Wondermedia Network, our producers are 790 00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:57,280 Speaker 2: Alex Azzie and Misha Jones. Our executive producers are Christina Everett, 791 00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:00,960 Speaker 2: Jesse Katz, Jenny Kaplan and Emily Rudder. Our editors are 792 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:04,640 Speaker 2: Emily Rutter, Britney Martinez, Grace Lynch, and Gianna Palmer. Our 793 00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:08,080 Speaker 2: associate producer is Lucy Jones and I'm your host Sarah 794 00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:08,400 Speaker 2: Spain