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Speaker 1: Levels to This is an iHeart women's sports production in

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Speaker 1: partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. You can find

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Speaker 1: us on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you

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Speaker 1: get your podcasts. Hey, what's up, everybody, it's your girls,

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Speaker 1: Herica Foster Brasby.

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Speaker 2: Y'all know what time it is.

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Speaker 3: This is your girl Cheryl swoops Hey, and this is

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Speaker 3: the levels to this podcast. This is the show where

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Speaker 3: we share that it is levels to the ship that

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Speaker 3: women go through and we really do have a fun show.

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Speaker 4: Today.

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Speaker 3: We got an incredible special guest. I'm gonna be bringing

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Speaker 3: in somebody that's gonna give me all the tea on

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Speaker 3: Cheryl back in a day not possible.

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Speaker 4: I can't listen.

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Speaker 3: I am determined to get a guest on here that's

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Speaker 3: gonna be like, listen, I ain't really fuck with Schoel

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Speaker 3: for real. I'm gonna be like, yes, yes, give me

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Speaker 3: that tea, give me that you.

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Speaker 5: Know what, That guess is never coming on here.

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Speaker 4: It's never coming ever, ever ever ever. Oh my god.

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Speaker 1: That is. See everybody left playing with me though, clearly

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Speaker 1: because I can't find a single person.

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Speaker 4: It's like I hated playing with Trill, Like they don't exist.

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Speaker 4: Well they don't, they do.

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Speaker 5: I'm just not gonna tell you.

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Speaker 4: Who they are.

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Speaker 3: I'm just not gonna tell me because she knows, she knew.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna be like, let me go up here make

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Speaker 3: a phone. Gosh, so messy for no reason. But anyway,

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Speaker 3: how was your week?

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Speaker 1: So listen, I'm at home for a while, right, So

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Speaker 1: the things that I need to get done that I

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Speaker 1: never have time to do. I've scheduled eye doctor, dentist doctor.

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Speaker 1: So just trying to get all the things done before

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Speaker 1: I get back on the road.

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Speaker 5: Okay, trying to stay cool in this heat because it's

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Speaker 5: hot in Houston.

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Speaker 4: How is yours? Well? I graduations? I did.

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Speaker 3: My My bonus daughter graduated from high school. So I

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Speaker 3: took a trip to Boca Raton to to see her graduate.

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Speaker 3: It was literally like a twenty four hour like we

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Speaker 3: got there and literally just the next day left out

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Speaker 3: the same day.

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Speaker 4: So it was really good.

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Speaker 3: And it makes you feel so old because I'm like,

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Speaker 3: first of all, she's got.

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Speaker 4: A boyfriend, and her boyfriend was like, oh, it's so

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Speaker 4: nice to meet you, ma'am.

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Speaker 1: And I was like, ma'am, yes, ma'am, yes, that's what

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Speaker 1: say that, and so I was not upset. I was like, hey,

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Speaker 1: she don't have to mam me because ma'am makes me

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Speaker 1: feel like I'm sixty, Like I say ma'am to my mama, Like,

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Speaker 3: So it was cool. It was very It was very cool.

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Speaker 3: It was great to see her in her elements. So

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Speaker 3: she's going to college this fall, so I'm excited for her.

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Speaker 3: She's going to be majoring in nursing. So yeah, it

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Speaker 3: was a good week.

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Speaker 1: Quick question for you before we take it to the

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Speaker 1: next level. Quick thoughts on the start of the WNBA

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Speaker 4: Let me tell you, girl, tell me help me.

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Speaker 5: Y'all can't see t but you know anytime a woman puts.

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Speaker 1: Her head down and this the eyebrowser raised and she's

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Speaker 1: scratching a heel, that's it means there's a lot in

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Speaker 3: We on week two shot and they already got me

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Speaker 3: stressed the hell out? Do you hear me stressed out

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Speaker 3: on week two? Like and it's more ship off the

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Speaker 3: court and own it like what, it's just too much.

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Speaker 3: So it's too much because I feel.

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Speaker 1: I feel like I feel like the media and fans,

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Speaker 1: certain fans are making shit bigger than it really is

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Speaker 3: I am starting and I never thought I would get

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Speaker 3: me going back and forth. Cool, I got time. But

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Speaker 4: They started off to and oher.

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Speaker 3: I mean, Washington's gonna be good. They're fine and had

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Speaker 3: I like what I'm seeing from Washington. I knew that

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Speaker 3: But okay, we're gonna move on. We'll have a whole

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Speaker 3: episode about it. Let's just we're gonna have to have

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Speaker 3: a whole episode. But speaking of WNBA, we do have

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Speaker 3: a WNBA guest today.

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Speaker 4: We are bringing on the.

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Speaker 3: President of the Connecticut Sun Organization, technically my boss, so

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Speaker 3: I'm had to be on my best behavior because I

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Speaker 3: am trying to get fired today.

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Speaker 4: I like I like being on the sideline for the Sun.

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Speaker 4: I like to continue to do that. Keep it cute,

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Speaker 4: keep it cute, keep it cute. Gotta keep it cute.

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Speaker 3: But we will be Avia gen Rizzotti join us today,

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Speaker 3: and I just know she about to give me something

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Speaker 3: So with that, let's go ahead and take this thing

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Speaker 3: and like, I'm here for all of that, right.

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Speaker 1: I was just like, only because you think you gonna

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Speaker 4: I didn't see.

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Speaker 6: I didn't see any Venmo payments from Cheryl before we

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Speaker 4: I don't have them.

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Speaker 3: Jan Yeah, no blackmail payments.

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Speaker 3: We are excited to have a Connecticut Son team president

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Speaker 3: Jennifer Rizzotti basketball Hall of Famer champion with the Houston comments.

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Speaker 4: I mean, the.

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Speaker 3: List goes on and on about all the amazing things

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Speaker 4: I ain't trying to get fired on my day.

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Speaker 2: Okay, at least one of you, one of you.

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Speaker 1: You guys, you got fired on your day off, trying

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Speaker 3: But no, First off, thank you Jim for coming for

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Speaker 3: hanging out with us. We definitely appreciate it in advance.

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Speaker 3: But first and foremost, you know, you can start wherever

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Speaker 3: you'd like to start about how mean Cheryl was in

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Speaker 3: the locker room, how much of a competiti like, you

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Speaker 3: everyone who comes in the show, it's like, Cheryl is

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Speaker 3: and I'm like, there's got to be that one person.

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Speaker 4: There's got to be that one person.

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Speaker 1: Who were like, you haven't found her and Jen and

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Speaker 1: her either Jenn Nope, but go ahead, Jim.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well let me just say this. Okay.

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Speaker 6: So I've been a part of three WNBA teams, the

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Speaker 6: Houston Comments, Cleveland Rockers, and now the Connecticut Sums, and

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Speaker 6: I will say I have had my share of dysfunctionally

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Speaker 6: It wasn't always pretty. You know, there was definitely arguments.

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Speaker 6: I remember I got like elbowed in the face one

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Speaker 5: It was not me, I see that look on your face.

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Speaker 2: It was not Ryl.

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Speaker 6: But what I will say is that that we all

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Speaker 2: And I was fortunate to.

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Speaker 6: not gonna lie. Like there was arguments in the locker room,

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Speaker 2: They were going to win. They were going to find

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Speaker 6: And if you watched us on the court, and you

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Speaker 6: Connecticut for a long time, right, Like wasn't always like

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Speaker 6: you know, it's kind of like fun to think about

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Speaker 6: all of my experiences between college and WNBA and how

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Speaker 6: different they were. And I know I was Cheryl's favorite teammate.

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Speaker 6: I will say that.

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Speaker 2: I went shopping with her. I went out to the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like, damn, Jim, that's enough, that's enough, that's enough.

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Speaker 4: No, No, don't be everything.

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Speaker 6: I don't think I've ever seen someone spend that much

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Speaker 6: road we were I don't even remember what store was, and.

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Speaker 1: She came out sure, probably because you can get everything

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Speaker 6: I just know you came out with clothes, bags and

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Speaker 6: bags of clothes. And I don't think I bought one thing,

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Speaker 6: but I was there. I was a good teammate and friend. No,

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Speaker 6: we had we had some good times.

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Speaker 3: First of all, you real raggedy shirl, How you gonna

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Speaker 3: make gin go shopping with you?

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Speaker 4: When you ain't it. You ain't get this a bag.

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Speaker 2: No, did not give me anything.

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Speaker 6: I probably didn't want anything because the clothes she was

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Speaker 6: buying like barely covered anything.

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Speaker 2: So that was not my.

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Speaker 1: Wait, can I get to work, because tie, you're being

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Speaker 5: Me, so no, Jinn got nothing nothing.

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Speaker 6: was an honor to be on that team, to be

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 1: But you know nowadays, people, I'll say, the new fans

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Speaker 1: Can you let the people know that this is not new,

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Speaker 6: Yes, I mean our practices were like that. Our shoot

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Speaker 6: We used to play five on five, make it take

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Speaker 2: So it's basically just make it, make it for red.

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Speaker 6: Yes, we went at it, and like now I watched

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Speaker 2: Nobody's even going game speed?

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Speaker 6: But our games now now are competitive and.

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Speaker 6: That's because these players grew up watching the physicality of

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Speaker 6: I mean, my goodness, period Eveland, So that was our

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Speaker 3: Bring that up all the time, Like folks don't know

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Speaker 3: Yeah right, right, So, but you know what else you

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Speaker 4: We all have to love each other.

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Speaker 3: It's cool to be competitive, but afterwards, there's no way

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Speaker 3: And I don't know why people think that is about women.

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Speaker 4: Off and I like each other, right, But that's just general.

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Speaker 4: Let's just generally speak.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, right, but there is this no shit, And I

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Speaker 4: But if she did, so what ya? I don't like

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Speaker 3: Like I don't see anybody talking about, Oh, Michael Jordan

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Speaker 4: I think there's mutual respect there. But if they did, like.

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Speaker 6: And it's honestly more about the player's personal than anything, right,

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Speaker 6: They hated, they hated each other, and then guess what

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Speaker 6: Now it's like the respect they have for each other

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Speaker 6: and you're a trash talker or you're just aggressive, you're

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Speaker 2: I hated them when I was in court.

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Speaker 2: Nicer than I thought you were. We you know, we're

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Speaker 4: Listen.

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Speaker 1: I heard I heard Sue Bird on her podcast with

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Speaker 1: I can't tell you how many times I wanted to

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Speaker 5: But I wanted to punch the shit out of her

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Speaker 4: And my right and my.

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Speaker 1: Thing is it's so normal and t to your point,

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Speaker 5: I hate him, I hate him.

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Speaker 1: I hate him, and it's no big deal, no conversation.

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Speaker 5: But I want to say this.

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Speaker 1: I think both Angel and Caitlin have both said they

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Speaker 1: more about the media, right, because that's a great storyline

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Speaker 1: to talk about, Well, these two do not like each other.

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Speaker 1: Well did they tell you that? Did Caitlyn say to

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Speaker 1: I don't like her like I just think here's my

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Speaker 5: It's a different viewpoint.

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Speaker 4: I'm going with.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it was a flagrant foul from Caitlin on Angel

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Speaker 4: They called it.

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Speaker 5: We move off.

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Speaker 1: Angel's reaction to jump up like she did is a

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Speaker 1: She's like, Okay, it's a hard foul.

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Speaker 5: I'm walking off. And Angel's reaction is normal.

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Speaker 1: You take the same type of a play, right, Djana

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Speaker 4: It's the same thing, Jeff Shepherd, she gets up right.

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Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, fact.

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Speaker 1: So my thing is this, right, So look at it.

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Speaker 1: First of all, Angel and Caitlyn. You got a black

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Speaker 4: Why.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because Djona's flagrant, and it was absolutely a flagrant,

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Speaker 1: no one's talking.

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Speaker 5: No one's talking about that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, nope, nope, and they won't and they won't.

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Speaker 2: It's not really fair. What Caitlyn's not allowed to have

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Speaker 6: She's competitive, and why can't Angel react the way she

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Speaker 2: I mean, Cheryl, you did that. I did that.

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Speaker 6: I remember, like someone found me hard. In college there

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Speaker 4: Him, but normal reaction.

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Speaker 2: You want to be a tough guy.

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Speaker 6: You don't want to like take a hard foul and

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Speaker 3: What would Gino's respond had been had you actually got

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Speaker 6: Know because none of I mean honestly, none of his

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Speaker 2: Yeah, actually right, throw a punch or something.

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Speaker 6: But we, you know, we also like valued the competitiveness

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Speaker 6: know we could, you know, you know whatever, bump chests.

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Speaker 6: But we're not gonna take the next step.

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Speaker 1: Jane is sitting here talking about I wasn't really gonna fight.

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Speaker 1: Let let me, let me just go back for a

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Speaker 4: Because the stories are interchangeable.

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Speaker 1: You know, Jennifer Risotti, she was a little feisty something.

444
00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:04,560
Speaker 4: I ain't gonna lie to you.

445
00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:08,480
Speaker 1: There were absolutely days in practice because sometimes you get.

446
00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:10,520
Speaker 4: Switched off and she would come guard me or whatever.

447
00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:13,199
Speaker 1: There were sometimes in practice I was like, if this

448
00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:17,640
Speaker 1: little bit, don't move out the way. First of all,

449
00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:22,159
Speaker 1: was gonna talk shit, was gonna play hard, be physical,

450
00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:25,800
Speaker 1: had some dirty fouls. I'm just all the things happen.

451
00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:27,639
Speaker 1: So for her to sit and be like, I mean,

452
00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:30,680
Speaker 1: I wasn't really gonna fight. Don't let besides for you though,

453
00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:36,679
Speaker 1: But now, tim, but you know what, like those are

454
00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:39,960
Speaker 1: the types of teammates you want, now know how I

455
00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:41,840
Speaker 1: if she was on another team, it'd be different. But

456
00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:45,640
Speaker 1: knowing this is my teammate, and we went at each

457
00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:47,600
Speaker 1: other in practice, I don't care if you on red

458
00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:52,159
Speaker 1: or white. We went at each other and that's just

459
00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:55,200
Speaker 1: what it was. Yes, it's practice. We're trying to make

460
00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:57,000
Speaker 1: each other better, but at the end of the day,

461
00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:00,159
Speaker 1: we're trying to win another championship. And if you you

462
00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:02,280
Speaker 1: don't bring it to help us get there, then you're

463
00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:02,920
Speaker 1: hurting us.

464
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Speaker 4: Absolutely.

465
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Speaker 3: I mean I think that's exactly what Like to your point, Jen,

466
00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:09,720
Speaker 3: about Djna and Marina as an example, I think that's

467
00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:13,280
Speaker 3: what helped to make them great teammates because they knew

468
00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:16,320
Speaker 3: what they were going to expect from each other, just

469
00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:19,960
Speaker 3: based off the experience that they had before they were teammates.

470
00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:22,080
Speaker 3: So I already know this one right here is gonna

471
00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:24,399
Speaker 3: ride for me. She was she was riding on Sunday.

472
00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:26,480
Speaker 3: I was like, wait a minute, now, a little bigger

473
00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:33,160
Speaker 3: than a no that I love it.

474
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Speaker 4: I do.

475
00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:36,399
Speaker 3: I ain't got no problem with it me either. I

476
00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:38,560
Speaker 3: love the way the game is going, the way the

477
00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,399
Speaker 3: game is growing, and there's just I mean, there's just

478
00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:44,840
Speaker 3: so much buzz around the w You talk about ratings

479
00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:47,240
Speaker 3: being up, we talk about merch selling out, we talk

480
00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:50,040
Speaker 3: about college college players are becoming household names.

481
00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:51,200
Speaker 4: We still haven't.

482
00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:53,040
Speaker 3: Seen Juju Watkins get in the league yet, so that's

483
00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:55,879
Speaker 3: a whole other monster that we're going to be excited about.

484
00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:59,800
Speaker 3: But like, what's been the biggest change that you've seen, Jen,

485
00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:02,600
Speaker 3: not just on the court, but also because you serve

486
00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:04,960
Speaker 3: as team president, like maybe from behind the scenes too,

487
00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:07,040
Speaker 3: Like some of the biggest changes you've seen.

488
00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:10,399
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean Essentially, we're talking about this being a

489
00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:14,399
Speaker 6: big business, right. You know, you saw the news about

490
00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:18,000
Speaker 6: New York's Capital Rays and their team being valued at

491
00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:20,919
Speaker 6: four hundred and fifty million dollars. Like you've seen the

492
00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:26,680
Speaker 6: news about our owners exploring opportunities for investment. Because everybody knows,

493
00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,040
Speaker 6: now this isn't just about like having fun and owning

494
00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:32,840
Speaker 6: a basketball team. This is like investing in the WNBA,

495
00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:36,960
Speaker 6: investing in women. And the access to consume our game

496
00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:39,760
Speaker 6: is finally getting to where it needs to be because

497
00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:42,240
Speaker 6: all of our games are now accessible to our fans.

498
00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:46,879
Speaker 6: The consumption that people are able to have on social

499
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,200
Speaker 6: media right or through sports betting is at an all

500
00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:50,960
Speaker 6: time high.

501
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:51,400
Speaker 2: Right.

502
00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:54,520
Speaker 6: And then you're talking about player expectations, you know, like

503
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:56,800
Speaker 6: I think I made like twenty five thousand dollars my

504
00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:58,720
Speaker 6: first year in Houston, Right, you can't you can bear

505
00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,679
Speaker 6: like I can bury a shop with Cheryl because I

506
00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:04,159
Speaker 6: was making that little thing, right, But it was like

507
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:06,479
Speaker 6: they were just on to be in the league. And

508
00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:09,919
Speaker 6: now these players are there's an expectation and they're coming

509
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:13,240
Speaker 6: out with brands. These college players are coming out with

510
00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:16,960
Speaker 6: their own individual brands. They've learned how to market themselves.

511
00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:20,480
Speaker 6: They've learned how to create a business for themselves, and

512
00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:23,240
Speaker 6: they're bringing their fans with them, and so there's just

513
00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:27,680
Speaker 6: higher expectations across the board for what the WNBA needs

514
00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:29,800
Speaker 6: to mean to everybody. And I think that's why there's

515
00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,119
Speaker 6: so much discourse. And I don't know that it's like

516
00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:35,560
Speaker 6: always bad, that it's negative, because everybody wants to be

517
00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:38,040
Speaker 6: talking about the w's so they're just trying to find

518
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:41,480
Speaker 6: an avenue, and whether it's talking about DJNA and Jeff

519
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,160
Speaker 6: Shepherd's fight versus Caitlin and Angels Fighter, but it's talking

520
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,680
Speaker 6: about I can't find the game on TV easy enough,

521
00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:50,080
Speaker 6: or these ticket prices are too high, or you know,

522
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,000
Speaker 6: I'm an OG fan. That you can see the discourse

523
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:58,680
Speaker 6: being very consistent, and it feels like, although the fandom

524
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:03,359
Speaker 6: was there back in two thousand and two thousand and three,

525
00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:11,280
Speaker 6: the exposure to the mainstream, you know, consumers is finally

526
00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:12,119
Speaker 6: where it needs to be.

527
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:17,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I totally agree, Jan I want to

528
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:23,520
Speaker 1: switch subjects for one second. As team president, how involved

529
00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:27,680
Speaker 1: are you on roster decisions.

530
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:31,440
Speaker 2: In Connecticut? I'm very involved.

531
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:37,880
Speaker 6: So it varies per organization some about probably about half

532
00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:38,760
Speaker 6: the organizations.

533
00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:40,400
Speaker 2: It's completely separate.

534
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:43,760
Speaker 6: So you have like a president of basketball operations and

535
00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:47,199
Speaker 6: a president of business operations. Here in Connecticut, I actually

536
00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:50,119
Speaker 6: oversee both, and it's my preference because it's where my

537
00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:52,159
Speaker 6: background is, right. I don't want to give up my

538
00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:55,040
Speaker 6: tie to the basketball side, you know. Plus, I was

539
00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:57,560
Speaker 6: able to work really hard to get Morgan Tough ready

540
00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:59,800
Speaker 6: to be our general manager, and I want to make

541
00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:02,960
Speaker 6: sure I'm continuing to support her as she grows in.

542
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:05,679
Speaker 6: She's a rising star, but I want to continue to

543
00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 6: be able to support her with my expertise in the

544
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 6: game throughout the next few years. So in this organization,

545
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:15,920
Speaker 6: I actually I don't micromanage Morgan's decisions, but we talk

546
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:19,160
Speaker 6: regularly and we make decisions together with our coach.

547
00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:23,520
Speaker 1: Okay, so, and so here's why I asked that. So

548
00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:25,399
Speaker 1: if you go on social media, because you know that's

549
00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:28,159
Speaker 1: where everything is. Yeah, and I just want you to

550
00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 1: kind of explain how this works because a lot of

551
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:35,359
Speaker 1: people don't truly understand it. So, right, Diamond to Shield

552
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,720
Speaker 1: when she got waved, So she went on social media

553
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:41,560
Speaker 1: and posted, you know, she got waved, and she's trying

554
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:43,520
Speaker 1: to get a rental card to get her stuff home.

555
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:46,800
Speaker 1: And you know, she was very honest at the end

556
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:48,520
Speaker 1: when she was like, what do you do when you

557
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:52,920
Speaker 1: get waved? Because I've never been here, so of course

558
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 1: you go. Everybody has something to say, and people are like,

559
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, how they are Connecticut not so much

560
00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:00,320
Speaker 1: that they wave her, but how can Connecticut not help

561
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:01,840
Speaker 1: her get her stuff back home?

562
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:02,400
Speaker 4: Right?

563
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 1: How when when you wave a player, what happens? And

564
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:09,960
Speaker 1: what what is Connecticut responsible for?

565
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 4: What? What is the.

566
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:14,160
Speaker 2: Player responsible for? Yeah?

567
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,399
Speaker 6: So, I mean I think any every organization is going

568
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 6: to want to help any player.

569
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,960
Speaker 2: They wave to every extent that we can. Right.

570
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:26,680
Speaker 6: So the difference is sometimes player reactions are different than others, Right,

571
00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 6: So some people are surprised, some people are angry, some

572
00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 6: people are expecting it. Some people want to leave right away,

573
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 6: and other people want they want to stay as long

574
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:36,120
Speaker 6: as you'll let them. Right.

575
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 2: So, I think it's it's it's a case.

576
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:42,239
Speaker 6: By case scenario, but essentially, and I'm going to make

577
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 6: fun of Diamond for this, and I'll do this to

578
00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 6: her face. She uber to a rental car plays without

579
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:49,480
Speaker 6: knowing that they had a rental car available, so.

580
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:53,640
Speaker 5: She didn't do you have a rental car.

581
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so like you know, she she wanted to leave.

582
00:27:57,760 --> 00:27:59,640
Speaker 6: You know, I would have wanted the same thing, right,

583
00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:01,640
Speaker 6: I want to I wanted to get out as fast

584
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:05,760
Speaker 6: as possible. So instead of waiting for us to book

585
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:09,440
Speaker 6: a flight or get her a car or make she

586
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:11,040
Speaker 6: she went to go take care of it herself.

587
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:14,359
Speaker 2: And there was no cars. So you know, we're always

588
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 2: going to take care of our players.

589
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:19,040
Speaker 6: Like it's sometimes hard because you don't want to react,

590
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 6: you know, as an organization, and she did. Actually, I

591
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:24,440
Speaker 6: think go on and say, of course Connecticut helped because

592
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 6: she's smart and she knows like you got to do

593
00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:30,679
Speaker 6: and say the right thing. But yeah, our responsibility is

594
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,040
Speaker 6: to you know, they have to you know, leave the

595
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:35,440
Speaker 6: apartment that we got for them.

596
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 2: So we give them usually a few days.

597
00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 6: We talked to them about like where would you like

598
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:41,360
Speaker 6: to go, how would you like to get there? If

599
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:44,480
Speaker 6: they have a car, we reimburse them for their mileage,

600
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:47,880
Speaker 6: or we may shift their car back home. We could

601
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 6: fly them. We're going to shift their boxes to them.

602
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 6: In her case, she had brought all of her stuff

603
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 6: in a car, so she was trying to figure out

604
00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:00,000
Speaker 6: how to get it back. So we would have obvious

605
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 6: taking care of all that within the confines of the CBA.

606
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 6: So we're not an organization that's going to throw somebody

607
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 6: out on the curb the three hours after we wave them.

608
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:14,480
Speaker 4: And that everybody's different, right, I know that.

609
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 1: But I think it's great for those out there who

610
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 1: don't understand how it works, right for you to get

611
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 1: an opportunity to explain, this is what happened, and this

612
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 1: is how it works.

613
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it makes tons of sense. And let the

614
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 3: record show I inbox Diamond. I said, Diamond, First of all,

615
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 3: you up there and I don't know where Connecticut, Like,

616
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:37,360
Speaker 3: second of ball is graduation week.

617
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 4: Everybody these cars this is But to your point.

618
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,840
Speaker 1: Why would you ober to a rental car place without calling?

619
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:48,560
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's why I'm making I had So I had

620
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:52,959
Speaker 6: Diamond when I first was my first head coaching position

621
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 6: for USA basketball was a U eighteen team. So she

622
00:29:57,560 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 6: came and played on that team and then she was

623
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 6: the youngest player. She was fifteen years old. And that's

624
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 6: how good she was as a young player. And she's

625
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 6: been through a lot, you know, Like I don't know

626
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 6: that people really know the story of what she's battled, right,

627
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:14,800
Speaker 6: from and been able to be successful, and so we

628
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 6: wish nothing but good.

629
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 2: Health and good wishes for her.

630
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 6: And you know, in a different year thing, you know,

631
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 6: it's so hard, like these roster spots are so valuable.

632
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 6: We're in a kind of a reset year. We're trying

633
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 6: to recreate our identity. We need players on the floor

634
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 6: and we need to kind of figure out our rotation,

635
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 6: and so some of these decisions are really hard, and

636
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:39,800
Speaker 6: you look forward to the day where there's enough roster

637
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 6: spots for these vets to get taken care of and

638
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 6: you know, like to be able to provide the leadership

639
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 6: that I think some of these young players need coming

640
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 6: into this league. So I wish nothing but the best.

641
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 6: I've always loved Diamond. I'm always rooting for her and

642
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:55,720
Speaker 6: who I always say to players like who knows our

643
00:30:55,760 --> 00:31:00,840
Speaker 6: paths may cross again, sometimes sooner, sometimes later, but I'll

644
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 6: look forward to that because we've known each other for

645
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 6: a long time.

646
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, love that, love that.

647
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:14,880
Speaker 3: I want to come back to rosters, but I want

648
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 3: to go back to something that you said, because if

649
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 3: I don't ask this question, if I don't bring this up,

650
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:23,240
Speaker 3: fans are going to have my neck.

651
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 4: They're gonna say, Tarika, how dare you be on a

652
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 4: podcast and not ask her about So I'm gonna go

653
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 4: ahead and do it.

654
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 3: There's been so much conversation and discussion when the news

655
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 3: was released that the team was exploring investment opportunities, and

656
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 3: I know that you've kind of been.

657
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 4: Very clear about what the team means with that.

658
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 3: But what I think is interesting is that immediately after

659
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:50,600
Speaker 3: that news was released, all of the season tickets for

660
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 3: the Sun sold out, and so I got the press

661
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 3: release that was like, well, wait a minute. I guess

662
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 3: fans feel like, if this is going to be last,

663
00:31:58,200 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 3: I got to go and see them now.

664
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 6: No, No, the season tickets was they were like pretty

665
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 6: much already sold out. So it wasn't like it wasn't

666
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 6: like we had one thousand season tickets left and they

667
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 6: all got bought up. I mean, it was like that

668
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 6: release was planned to go out regardless of.

669
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 4: That news get ready already.

670
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 6: But what I will say is that, like you know, immediately,

671
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 6: as Cheryl mentioned, social media can be a cesspool.

672
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 2: It's like this.

673
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:29,840
Speaker 6: Negative discourse, right versus like this is a good thing. Right.

674
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 6: We have an ownership group that is recognizing where the

675
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 6: league is going, and they need to make a decision

676
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:38,920
Speaker 6: on like how they're going to figure out how to

677
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 6: invest in it, because you can't survive in this.

678
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 2: League without a practice facility.

679
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 6: You can't survive in this league without a certain level

680
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:51,280
Speaker 6: of organizational structure to support basketball and business anymore. So

681
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 6: that has been recognized over the past year by our

682
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 6: ownership group, Like this is discussions that are being had.

683
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:00,240
Speaker 6: We're not like out in the media patting our back

684
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 6: all the time about what we're doing. It was just

685
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 6: not the time to talk about it. And so now

686
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 6: that it's out, it's kind of like, Okay, well, now

687
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:10,440
Speaker 6: you can see that our owners actually do care, because

688
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 6: they wouldn't be exploring this, this option to take on

689
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:17,360
Speaker 6: new investors or potentially sell the team if they didn't

690
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 6: know that it's what the players needed, right. I think

691
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:23,600
Speaker 6: it's a real positive for the future of our organization,

692
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 6: whether we stay in Connecticut or not, that we have

693
00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:29,840
Speaker 6: committed owners that not only invested for twenty plus years,

694
00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 6: but now they're investing in a way that's like makes

695
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 6: business sense for both them and both and for the WNBA.

696
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 6: And so you know, for me, it's just like business

697
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 6: as usual. Let's get through the season. Whatever happens happens.

698
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 6: But you know, I'm proud to work here and be

699
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 6: a part of the organization, and I'm excited for what's

700
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 6: to come, if I'm being honest.

701
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:52,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I guess my whole point is just like

702
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 3: and you kind of touched on it, which is just like,

703
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 3: how do you keep fans and even you know, players

704
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 3: and staff focused on being in a present? I know

705
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 3: there are people that I've spoken to that I've been like, hey, listen,

706
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:05,000
Speaker 3: like you gotta be you gotta be where you are,

707
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 3: be where your feet are, handle what's in front of you, right,

708
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 3: and like, this is an incredible season and I think

709
00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:13,880
Speaker 3: that every body that enjoys and watches the w can

710
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 3: look forward to seeing because there are so many different

711
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:19,200
Speaker 3: people in so many different places. Like I'm not worried

712
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 3: about what's going to happen at this point or that point,

713
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 3: Like I'm just kind of trying to be here.

714
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 4: So I guess, like that's my question.

715
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:28,359
Speaker 3: Also, it's just like, what's the message to fans who

716
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:31,359
Speaker 3: may be concerned, Like, don't be concerned, right, Like.

717
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,239
Speaker 6: Yeah, well that message It's funny because remember remember at

718
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 6: the end of last year, when Phoenix did the whole

719
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:38,439
Speaker 6: if it's her last, what.

720
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 4: Was the last?

721
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 2: This is the last?

722
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:42,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was like, we.

723
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 6: Can, we can play off of Phoenix's Diana Tarazi retirement

724
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:49,440
Speaker 6: and put out a campaign saying, well, if this is

725
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:54,239
Speaker 6: the last season. But I joke about it because I don't.

726
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 6: I really don't know what's going to happen, right, But

727
00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 6: what I will say is that whether it's outrage or

728
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 6: from fans or excitement for from fans, the fact that

729
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,799
Speaker 6: there's that many people that want to have access to

730
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 6: a WNBA team, it's it's pretty remarkable. And we've had

731
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:14,359
Speaker 6: a lot of loyal fans for a long time, and

732
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 6: what I would say to them is like, enjoy it

733
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 6: if for however long this team is here, enjoy it right,

734
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 6: like cherish it. We've got new stars and new faces

735
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 6: and new personalities, like a new identity.

736
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:27,759
Speaker 2: Enjoy it.

737
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,240
Speaker 6: And whatever whatever happens at the end of the season,

738
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:33,400
Speaker 6: we'll all deal with it together. But we're all going

739
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:35,719
Speaker 6: to be like a part of this history being made, right,

740
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,400
Speaker 6: Like whether it was the last six years of making

741
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 6: consecutive you know, semi finals six straight times, or it's

742
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:45,160
Speaker 6: a rebrand and a reidentity for the team and a

743
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:47,560
Speaker 6: bunch of young underdogs, Let's see what we can do.

744
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 6: It's exciting to have an opportunity to just be a

745
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 6: part of the fandom of the WNBA. And it's out

746
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:56,880
Speaker 6: of our control, right, That's what I said to my

747
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,360
Speaker 6: staff and my players. This is not in our control.

748
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,759
Speaker 6: This isn't our control. Is how we show up every day.

749
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:04,879
Speaker 6: So as if we're a player, how do we show

750
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:07,720
Speaker 6: up and compete for our fans? If we're a coaching staff,

751
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:09,800
Speaker 6: how do we prepare our team? If we're a ticket

752
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 6: sales staff member, how am I showing up on the phone?

753
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:13,400
Speaker 3: Like?

754
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 6: So, my job is to equip all of them with

755
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:18,760
Speaker 6: the tools to be successful, but to keep their focus

756
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 6: on the main thing, which right now, the main thing

757
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 6: is a twenty twenty five season and we're going to

758
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:24,719
Speaker 6: go out and have the best season that we can.

759
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:27,799
Speaker 1: So jenn In saying that, I want to talk a

760
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 1: bit about the team, the roster, the construction, all of

761
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:32,880
Speaker 1: the things.

762
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:35,720
Speaker 5: What are the main goals?

763
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 1: I know it's always to win a championship. I know

764
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:40,439
Speaker 1: that what are the main goals for the Connecticut Sun

765
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 1: this season?

766
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 6: Well, I'll be honest, like our goal this year isn't

767
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 6: to win a WNBA championship, right, Like that's New York's goal,

768
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 6: and that's Minnesota's goal. And you know Vegas and the

769
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 6: they have the roster to make that their goal. Not

770
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:56,719
Speaker 6: all thirteen of us can have that be our goal. Right,

771
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:58,920
Speaker 6: it has been our goal. We went we kind of

772
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 6: went all in bus last year when we traded for Marina,

773
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 6: and so, you know, once we knew that Alyssa wouldn't

774
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:07,880
Speaker 6: be coming back, I know, it was kind of like

775
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,720
Speaker 6: timed and we we kind of had assumed that would happen.

776
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 6: You know, she gave us eleven great years, but it

777
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 6: was time. You know, we had tried different combinations around

778
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 6: her for six years, didn't work. She was ready for

779
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 6: something new. We were ready for something new, So it

780
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:24,280
Speaker 6: was all good. So once we knew that, it was like, okay,

781
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:26,759
Speaker 6: let's be creative and let's also have an eye to

782
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 6: twenty twenty six free agency.

783
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 2: So what I'm not sure all.

784
00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:33,719
Speaker 6: The fans realize is how many players are going to

785
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 6: be free agents in four months, right, So you're going

786
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 6: to have full rosters that have nobody under contract. You know,

787
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 6: we're going to have Snaya Anissa Raya Marshall, J. C. Sheldon, Olivia, Like,

788
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 6: we're going to have five or six players under contract

789
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:56,360
Speaker 6: when everybody else in the league is available.

790
00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 4: So we just.

791
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 6: Didn't want to have two consecutive free agencies where we

792
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 6: would have to reimagine our entire roster. So we prioritize

793
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 6: draft picks right and players under contract in twenty five,

794
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:13,840
Speaker 6: with sprinkling in a few veterans like Tina and keeping

795
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:18,360
Speaker 6: Marina to so that in twenty six, you know, we

796
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:21,799
Speaker 6: would not only have a bunch of younger, cheaper contracts

797
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,439
Speaker 6: regardless of what happens with the CBA, but we would

798
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 6: have cap room to go out and attract some bigger

799
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:32,319
Speaker 6: free agents when the salary cap potentially could you know,

800
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:35,120
Speaker 6: again I can't talk about the CBA, but could potentially

801
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 6: be bigger.

802
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 2: So we really were strategic.

803
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:40,400
Speaker 6: We knew that this would not be a year that

804
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 6: we would be competing for a championship, but we also

805
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 6: knew that we wouldn't be able to put a roster

806
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:48,440
Speaker 6: together that could beat some of the teams that are

807
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 6: ready to win. So what we'd think about is like,

808
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:54,720
Speaker 6: all right, when their cycle is over, right, because everything

809
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 6: goes in cycles. The comments went in cycles, and then

810
00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:00,440
Speaker 6: LA and Minnesota had their cycle, and then it's Vegas

811
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 6: and now it's like New York and Minnesota. When those

812
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 6: cycles are winding down, who are the next organizations that

813
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 6: are ready and poised to take that top spot? And

814
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 6: so you have to do that. You have to build

815
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:14,120
Speaker 6: that through the draft, and you have to build that

816
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:18,239
Speaker 6: through strategic offseason moves. And so I thought Morgan did

817
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 6: a tremendous job of setting us up and having honest

818
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:25,880
Speaker 6: conversations and giving Rashid a roster that although we'll be

819
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 6: young and inexperienced and probably lose quite a bit of games,

820
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 6: we're gonna be We're gonna get better as the season

821
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:33,840
Speaker 6: goes on, and we're gonna be better for it in

822
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:35,839
Speaker 6: the future because we built it this way.

823
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:41,239
Speaker 3: I love the alignment because it's speaking to Rashid. He

824
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:43,959
Speaker 3: also is like, hey, you know, we're a young team.

825
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:47,799
Speaker 3: We're figuring it out. Like there does not always have

826
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:51,080
Speaker 3: to be this you know light at the end of

827
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:53,279
Speaker 3: the tunnel that says if we don't do this, then

828
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 3: we've done nothing. Like essentially, it is all about ensuring

829
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 3: that we are building a culture here, that we are

830
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:04,000
Speaker 3: we building trust with each other that we're starting to

831
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:06,319
Speaker 3: put some things in place, and it seems as if

832
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,440
Speaker 3: the players respond well to like what it is that

833
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:12,680
Speaker 3: he's bringing there. Yes, just kind of talk to me

834
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:15,880
Speaker 3: a little bit about what the decision was in Rashid

835
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 3: and like what you've liked from what you've seen from

836
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 3: him so far.

837
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:20,920
Speaker 4: And I know it's still an early sample size.

838
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:23,440
Speaker 6: But yeah, you know, we we kind of wanted to

839
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:26,200
Speaker 6: make sure we cast a wide net in the coaching search.

840
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 4: You know.

841
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:28,719
Speaker 2: You know, there's always like.

842
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:31,799
Speaker 6: The pool of coaches that have put coached in the

843
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 6: league before, there's a pool of assistant coaches that may

844
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:38,000
Speaker 6: or may not be ready right and then and then

845
00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:41,200
Speaker 6: there's like the you know, non traditional pool. And so

846
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:44,600
Speaker 6: we explored all three of those pools and we we

847
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 6: let we leaned towards finding someone that had head coaching

848
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:51,719
Speaker 6: experience already, you know, based on kind of what we

849
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 6: knew from the last few years, but also somebody that

850
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 6: was maybe going to be able to bring something a

851
00:40:56,600 --> 00:41:00,200
Speaker 6: little different because we need a differentiator in Connecticut. It

852
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,000
Speaker 6: like we're not you know, we're not necessarily getting Asia

853
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 6: Wilson or Brown of Stewart to sign here, right, So

854
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:11,560
Speaker 6: we need to have an advantage based on a creative roster, right,

855
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:14,279
Speaker 6: and then also a coach that's going to maybe be

856
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:17,320
Speaker 6: different than the coaches that are running all the same stuff.

857
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:21,160
Speaker 6: And so what I've liked from him so far is

858
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:24,120
Speaker 6: that he is holding the players accountable.

859
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:26,919
Speaker 2: Right. You know again, Tarika, you've been here.

860
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:29,880
Speaker 6: So for my four years here, we basically had the

861
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:33,480
Speaker 6: same core playing like you, our coaches were afraid to

862
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 6: take them out, right, and so we never tried anything different,

863
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 6: and it was hard. How do you take Alyssa Thomas

864
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:42,440
Speaker 6: out of the game, right if she's missing shots?

865
00:41:43,719 --> 00:41:46,279
Speaker 2: No, but or even like if Dowana is having a

866
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 2: tough shooting.

867
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:48,719
Speaker 6: Night, you just think she's going to make the next one, right,

868
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:51,439
Speaker 6: So yeah, you always I think our coach is felt

869
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:54,319
Speaker 6: a little handcuff that, like, Okay, I can't really have

870
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 6: a lot of flexibility, Rashid.

871
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:58,480
Speaker 2: He can do whatever he wants right now, like our

872
00:41:58,560 --> 00:41:59,880
Speaker 2: roster is totally different.

873
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 6: He can bench Marina if he wants to, he can

874
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:05,520
Speaker 6: bench Tina if he wants to. He can put the

875
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,279
Speaker 6: three rookies out there together if he wants to. So

876
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 6: I like that he's not afraid to just kind of

877
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:15,359
Speaker 6: experiment until he figures it out. And he makes them

878
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 6: practice right and we practice hard, which I like because

879
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:20,560
Speaker 6: not all teams can do that. If you have veterans

880
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:23,399
Speaker 6: that don't want to practice, it's hard to get work

881
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:25,360
Speaker 6: done in practice in between games.

882
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 4: And I know we.

883
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:28,680
Speaker 6: Can't do that all season, but I just like that

884
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 6: his focus is on everybody has an opportunity here. If

885
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:35,480
Speaker 6: you're playing good, you get to play. If you're not

886
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:37,920
Speaker 6: doing what I'm asking you to do, you're coming.

887
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:39,520
Speaker 2: Out no matter who you are, no matter how.

888
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:42,320
Speaker 6: Many years of experience you have. If you don't defend

889
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 6: the way and I'm asking you to defend, if you

890
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:46,479
Speaker 6: don't take the right shots, you equally have a chance.

891
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:48,319
Speaker 6: What he said to me once was they can come

892
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 6: sit next to me on my friend the bench. You

893
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:56,680
Speaker 6: knows he has that freedom now because there's a lot

894
00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 6: less pressure on him than there was on Stephanie and

895
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:02,239
Speaker 6: Kurt win a championship, and so I think in the

896
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:04,759
Speaker 6: long run it will help him just be able to

897
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:08,759
Speaker 6: be himself instead of coming in with an expectation that

898
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:11,240
Speaker 6: you got to get to the w NBA Finals or bust.

899
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:11,560
Speaker 3: Right.

900
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:13,920
Speaker 6: So yeah, we just have to be patient with this,

901
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 6: with this group and with this coaching staff.

902
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 2: But I really like what I see so far.

903
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:20,920
Speaker 1: I love that tell us something about these rookies that

904
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 1: we may not know and the reason why you were like,

905
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:25,919
Speaker 1: oh no, we got to go get them.

906
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:29,200
Speaker 6: Okay, Well I didn't know this before we drafted her,

907
00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:33,080
Speaker 6: But Sanaia Rivers is the best hugger I have ever met.

908
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:38,240
Speaker 4: I agree, I mean right, I mean.

909
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 6: She just like wraps you up with like the right

910
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:47,880
Speaker 6: amount of like force that like makes it's so genuine.

911
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:51,360
Speaker 6: Because of that, I will say, but I'm one of

912
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:54,399
Speaker 6: those you know, I you know, we kind of knew

913
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:56,600
Speaker 6: who would go one, two, three, four ish, you know,

914
00:43:56,680 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 6: in the draft. Once you got past those guys, Anissa

915
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:02,240
Speaker 6: and Sanaia were.

916
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:03,640
Speaker 2: Our top two targets.

917
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:06,880
Speaker 6: Like, I can't imagine how often that it happens that

918
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 6: at seven and eight you get exactly who you want.

919
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:11,120
Speaker 6: And you know, who was our number one target in

920
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 6: the second round, Raya Marshall. So like, we got exactly

921
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 6: who we wanted in the draft, and part of it

922
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:20,080
Speaker 6: with Anissa, I mean, she speaks for itself, right, like

923
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 6: her tenacity, her competitiveness, her rebounding, her versatility. You know,

924
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:30,399
Speaker 6: everyone wants to talk about how she's undersized, so what right,

925
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:33,319
Speaker 6: Like she gets it done regardless.

926
00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:33,400
Speaker 2: Of her size.

927
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:37,400
Speaker 6: Yeah, and then you know Snaia talk about versatility. I

928
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:40,200
Speaker 6: mean she can play one through four and she showed

929
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 6: in her debut the other night she can guard anyone

930
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:45,280
Speaker 6: as a twenty two year old, she can guard anyone

931
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:48,200
Speaker 6: in this league. I've never seen anyone block Chelsea Gray's

932
00:44:48,239 --> 00:44:53,359
Speaker 6: fade away ever, So they picked her, yes, and then

933
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:55,959
Speaker 6: Raya just had They all just have this energy.

934
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:57,880
Speaker 2: About them, like, let alone, they know how to do

935
00:44:57,920 --> 00:44:58,560
Speaker 2: the TikTok.

936
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:01,800
Speaker 6: Our TikTok following has like exponentially grown because of the

937
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:02,399
Speaker 6: three of them.

938
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:07,840
Speaker 2: But they're just questionable. You know, they are are appreciative.

939
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:12,160
Speaker 6: So when you talk about resetting the culture from you know,

940
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:17,240
Speaker 6: veterans with certain expectations to young players and free agents

941
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 6: that are just looking for a great opportunity to be

942
00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:22,880
Speaker 6: who they need to be and have a chance to play.

943
00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:26,440
Speaker 6: Like we have really kind of flipped the script. So

944
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 6: although we may lose some games, it's going to be

945
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:33,200
Speaker 6: a very easy team to root for because they're all

946
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:35,480
Speaker 6: for each other. I mean, nobody was cheering on that

947
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:38,400
Speaker 6: bench harder than Anissa Morrow the other day when Snaya

948
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:41,319
Speaker 6: and Reya had success. So all these teams that have

949
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:44,040
Speaker 6: been successful in the league have had these cores that

950
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:47,319
Speaker 6: have grown up together, right, and we were trying to

951
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:50,239
Speaker 6: establish that core here that can grow up.

952
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:51,000
Speaker 2: And you throw J. C.

953
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:54,040
Speaker 6: Sheldon in that mix talk about what the h being

954
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:58,080
Speaker 6: she is. I mean, we have the last young people

955
00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:01,480
Speaker 6: in this league and so just excited when they all

956
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:03,719
Speaker 6: start to maximize what they can do on the court

957
00:46:03,719 --> 00:46:07,880
Speaker 6: as players. But the fact that they already have, like

958
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:10,680
Speaker 6: our fans have noticed it, like how nice they are

959
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:13,600
Speaker 6: and how engaging they are and how appreciative they are.

960
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 6: We have gotten more comments about how great our players

961
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 6: are in the last four weeks.

962
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 2: Than we have gotten in four years.

963
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:25,359
Speaker 6: So it's just it's nice and it's exciting, and it's

964
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:27,680
Speaker 6: easy to root for and it's easy to be patient with.

965
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:30,759
Speaker 3: It's honestly really dope to see because for both of

966
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:33,160
Speaker 3: the home games, as soon as the game is over

967
00:46:33,239 --> 00:46:36,080
Speaker 3: and everybody goes in the back, I'm getting my stuff

968
00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:38,399
Speaker 3: and the next thing I see Israya coming back out

969
00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:42,200
Speaker 3: and she's and she's running and she's and she's training

970
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:45,200
Speaker 3: and she's like she's focused, right, and I'm just like

971
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:49,480
Speaker 3: that is really how you continue to establish like building

972
00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:52,160
Speaker 3: the discipline and like honing in on your craft to

973
00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:54,359
Speaker 3: make sure that you can be really good and you

974
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:56,439
Speaker 3: can and you can see it, like you can see

975
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:57,400
Speaker 3: it each and every time.

976
00:46:57,520 --> 00:47:01,280
Speaker 4: So I love that. I mean, I've again I'm biased.

977
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:04,680
Speaker 3: I love this team and like it's just always a

978
00:47:04,719 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 3: good atmosphere. The fans are good, the players are always

979
00:47:08,160 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 3: very personable, and like they want they want success and

980
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 3: they want success for each other, and that's just so

981
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:14,920
Speaker 3: important when you're trying to build a good culture with

982
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 3: this ad is.

983
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:17,960
Speaker 6: And I would also be remiss to say that we

984
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:20,720
Speaker 6: don't you know, we have great veterans, right, So yeah,

985
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:22,840
Speaker 6: you know we brought Ria Hartley in for a reason.

986
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:26,120
Speaker 6: I've always loved Lindsay Allen's game. And you know, like

987
00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:27,880
Speaker 6: I know, everybody wants to wanted to talk about me

988
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 6: and Marino for a while, but we're best friends.

989
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:31,080
Speaker 2: So don't worry about that either.

990
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 6: You know, like you have somebody talk about competitive, right,

991
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:38,319
Speaker 6: you need these rookies to see what being competitive is.

992
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:40,480
Speaker 6: And I've never seen anyone more mad than Marina after

993
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:42,239
Speaker 6: the way she played the last two games. She is

994
00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:44,880
Speaker 6: ready to go off on somebody.

995
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 2: And you need that. You need a player that can

996
00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:48,239
Speaker 2: just you know, put the team on their back. And

997
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:49,399
Speaker 2: then I mean, you can't.

998
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 6: I can't say enough about Tina Charles, like she's just

999
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:55,799
Speaker 6: been what a joy. The way she's infused confidence into

1000
00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:59,040
Speaker 6: Olivia Nelson Adota, the way that she's embraced a role

1001
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:01,520
Speaker 6: where yeah, I need to be a score, but I'm

1002
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:04,520
Speaker 6: not going to take bad shots to do it. It's

1003
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:06,879
Speaker 6: just been a It's like they've all have these things

1004
00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 6: that are so easy to root for, and like I said,

1005
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:12,200
Speaker 6: you can tell I'm excited about this season and this team,

1006
00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 6: and it's it's easy to be excited and genuine because

1007
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:18,120
Speaker 6: they're just good people and they're really pulling for each

1008
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:20,439
Speaker 6: other right now. So when we get that first win,

1009
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 6: I will be celebrating.

1010
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 4: I know.

1011
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:26,120
Speaker 1: That's why you will never hear me coming.

1012
00:48:26,200 --> 00:48:29,320
Speaker 3: You will never hear me say anything negative about Olivia Nedoda.

1013
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:32,879
Speaker 3: That is my birthday, twin, and we are always gone,

1014
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:34,600
Speaker 3: and we have a game this year on our birthday.

1015
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:39,000
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, okay, So on August seventeenth, Olivia's gonna drop twenty.

1016
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:42,000
Speaker 6: Five all right, and she's capable, so you see her

1017
00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:45,160
Speaker 6: growth already, just the opportunity she hasn't had an opportunity

1018
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:47,759
Speaker 6: now and she's out there now doing her thing. Just

1019
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 6: really proud of her for the patients, right, Like, not

1020
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:53,000
Speaker 6: everybody comes in the league and it's Cheryl swoops, right,

1021
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:56,160
Speaker 6: So sometimes you got to come in and earn your way.

1022
00:48:56,200 --> 00:49:01,280
Speaker 5: And Loria, yeah, no doubt, no doubt, for sure, for sure.

1023
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:03,879
Speaker 3: Before we get you out of here, Gym, we need

1024
00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:06,239
Speaker 3: the audience to just know that, like, you are a

1025
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:09,120
Speaker 3: human being outside of Connecticut and outside of basketball.

1026
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:11,480
Speaker 4: So just like let the people know, like what are

1027
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:12,920
Speaker 4: you what are you doing?

1028
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:15,239
Speaker 3: Like what is your free time when you are not

1029
00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:16,719
Speaker 3: surrounded by basketball?

1030
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:18,880
Speaker 4: Like what are what are you watching?

1031
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:20,319
Speaker 2: What's on the playlist?

1032
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:21,880
Speaker 4: Like what's going on?

1033
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:21,960
Speaker 6: All?

1034
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:22,239
Speaker 2: Right?

1035
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:26,160
Speaker 6: Well, the problem is I can't get away way from basketball.

1036
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:29,480
Speaker 6: So four years ago, when I moved back here to Connecticut,

1037
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:32,879
Speaker 6: Rebecca Lobo said, oh, hey, does your son Connor want

1038
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:33,960
Speaker 6: to play on my AAA team?

1039
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:36,360
Speaker 2: And I said sure. So we go to practice.

1040
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:38,920
Speaker 6: First game we play, she hands me the clipboard and

1041
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:41,040
Speaker 6: she goes, oh, by the way, you're also going to

1042
00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:41,720
Speaker 6: coach the team.

1043
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:45,799
Speaker 4: So I'm going on set you up.

1044
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:49,680
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, now I have to runes.

1045
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:51,000
Speaker 2: I got to coach all the games.

1046
00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:53,760
Speaker 6: So but it's been you know when you think about

1047
00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:56,880
Speaker 6: like these college friends you have where you are with

1048
00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:59,399
Speaker 6: them all the time, and then life happens and she's

1049
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:01,759
Speaker 6: got four kid kids, I got two kids. We're all

1050
00:50:01,760 --> 00:50:04,319
Speaker 6: over the place, and then we come together to coach

1051
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:07,200
Speaker 6: our Sun's AAU team, which by it by itself is

1052
00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:09,560
Speaker 6: a trip. When you watch us walk into a gym

1053
00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:13,640
Speaker 6: full of men, right it is, like it's been. It's

1054
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:15,359
Speaker 6: been one of my most favorite things over the last

1055
00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:17,279
Speaker 6: few years, just being able to spend that time with her,

1056
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:19,719
Speaker 6: connect with her and pour into our kids the way

1057
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:22,600
Speaker 6: people pour it into us and not to mention kick

1058
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:25,040
Speaker 6: everybody's ass on the on the kay.

1059
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:29,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, So that's every weekend right now.

1060
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:31,160
Speaker 6: I'm coaching my son's A team, so I can't even

1061
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 6: get away from basketball when I'm not here. So when

1062
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:37,760
Speaker 6: I'm not doing that, I do like love to binge watch.

1063
00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:41,279
Speaker 6: I don't care if it's Netflix or Amazon Prime. I

1064
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:44,160
Speaker 6: will find a show and I will watch like the

1065
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:46,400
Speaker 6: whole thing through the weekend if I have time to

1066
00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:46,799
Speaker 6: do it.

1067
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:48,080
Speaker 2: Whenever I get a free day.

1068
00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:51,080
Speaker 6: I'm usually either you know, with my kids or with

1069
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:53,400
Speaker 6: somebody in my family. So I'm really fortunate to have

1070
00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:54,640
Speaker 6: such a great support group.

1071
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:55,879
Speaker 4: I love that so much.

1072
00:50:55,880 --> 00:50:57,600
Speaker 1: I love that too, But I need to know when

1073
00:50:57,640 --> 00:50:59,960
Speaker 1: you feel in like, you know, showing a few damn

1074
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:01,400
Speaker 1: it's moves and all the things.

1075
00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:02,600
Speaker 4: What's your go to song?

1076
00:51:03,040 --> 00:51:04,840
Speaker 2: I don't have a go to song, Cheryl?

1077
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:09,280
Speaker 5: Come on, Jan, you got something karaoke?

1078
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:10,920
Speaker 4: What's your karaoke go to?

1079
00:51:11,239 --> 00:51:14,279
Speaker 6: Oh, You've got to have a karaoke So I'm like

1080
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:16,239
Speaker 6: an Indigo Girls karaoke girl.

1081
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:20,040
Speaker 2: That's that's my go to That or a like Pearl

1082
00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:20,840
Speaker 2: Jam or something.

1083
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:22,879
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'm about to hit up Tom's right now

1084
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:24,759
Speaker 3: and be like, yeah.

1085
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:25,759
Speaker 4: We need a karaoke night.

1086
00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:28,959
Speaker 2: I gotta have a lot of drinks in me before

1087
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:29,880
Speaker 2: I'm ready to do that.

1088
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:33,680
Speaker 4: Ka immediately tee.

1089
00:51:33,719 --> 00:51:35,959
Speaker 1: I have one question before you let Jan go, because

1090
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:38,440
Speaker 1: I know we're about to go and Jin. Because of

1091
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:42,560
Speaker 1: your heavy involvement with USA basketball, what are your thoughts

1092
00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:46,120
Speaker 1: on Suebert's new position with USA Basketball.

1093
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:47,920
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I think it's great. You know, I

1094
00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:50,680
Speaker 6: know the men went to a managing director. I think

1095
00:51:50,719 --> 00:51:52,719
Speaker 6: prior to the last Olympics with Grant Hill.

1096
00:51:53,320 --> 00:51:54,279
Speaker 2: You know, it's a hard job.

1097
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Speaker 4: I was.

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Speaker 2: I was actually the chair of the last Olympic committee.

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Speaker 2: It's hard. It's a big commitment. It's a lot of

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Speaker 2: her decisions.

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Speaker 6: You know, there's a lot of different people with a

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Speaker 6: lot of different agendas.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 6: I think Sue's separation from her Olympic experience, coupled with

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Speaker 6: her long, extensive career, gives her a little bit better

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Speaker 6: lens than most people when it comes to how to

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Speaker 6: create the right makeup, right and the right kind of team.

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Speaker 6: As you know, it's not just about the best players,

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Speaker 6: it's positionally specialist. I think she's going to know that,

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Speaker 6: and she's not associated with the team, so there's no

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Speaker 6: agenda on her part, right, She's just gonna do and

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Speaker 6: she knows what it means to be contending for gold medal,

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Speaker 6: So she's gonna and now that it's on her right,

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Speaker 6: like this is her responsibility, she's going to do a

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Speaker 6: fantastic job of really doing it the right way, picking

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Speaker 6: the right people, talking to the right people, evaluating the

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Speaker 6: right way.

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Speaker 2: So I think as a home run higher for USA basketball.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought it was great when I saw it.

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Speaker 1: I thought she was the absolute perfect candidate for that position.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely same.

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Speaker 3: All right, well, thank you so much for your time, Jin,

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Speaker 3: Thank you guys, thank you fun as to.

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Speaker 2: Take it offline for the next part of the conversation, right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and drinks drinks on gin all right, fair,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you.

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Speaker 5: Good black the season and stay healthy.

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Speaker 2: We'll do.

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Speaker 4: You're welcome, Thank you, appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: Well, that was great having a chance to chat with Jennifer.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I always love when people are able to

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Speaker 3: come on and just kind of say things in their

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00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:45,239
Speaker 3: own words and get things out in their own words

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00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:46,240
Speaker 3: so you can hear straight.

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Speaker 4: From the horse's mouth.

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Speaker 3: And there's just been a lot of conversation around a

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Speaker 3: lot of different things around in Connecticut.

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Speaker 4: Why people were waved? Are they selling the team all

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Speaker 4: those good things?

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Speaker 3: And so it was great to have an opportunity to

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Speaker 3: just kind of ask her directly about those things and

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Speaker 3: get her to weigh in on that. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I just I enjoyed the whole conversation.

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Speaker 1: And you're a hater by the way you are, But listen,

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Speaker 1: Jen ain't got no juicy gossip for you about me.

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Speaker 4: But I listen.

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00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:16,120
Speaker 1: But I do feel some type of way about her

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00:54:16,239 --> 00:54:18,400
Speaker 1: and you talking about, oh, she went shopping with you

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00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:19,640
Speaker 1: and you ain't get nothing.

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Speaker 5: It wasn't about that, I know, it wasn't about that.

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00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:25,240
Speaker 5: It was about I need to shop.

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Speaker 3: If I'm in the store with you, you better give me

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Speaker 3: a pair of ear rings or something.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure, I'm sure I bought her, like

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Speaker 1: something to drink or something.

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Speaker 4: Something like that. Here's an ice cream bar for your time.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you, thank you, Jen.

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Speaker 1: But such a great conversation. I'm also happy for her

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Speaker 1: in this role. And Jen is so good for our

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Speaker 1: game and just so grateful that she had some time

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Speaker 1: to come on the show today. Absolutely absolutely, So before

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00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:54,840
Speaker 1: we get out of here, we want you to go

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Speaker 1: ahead and level us up.

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Speaker 4: So what you got for us today's share?

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Speaker 1: Well, okay, last time I said it, it wasn't long,

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Speaker 1: and then it ended up being long. You know, you

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Speaker 1: felt some type of way. I don't think this one's long.

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Speaker 1: It's a little longer, but you know, tease. Sometimes when

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Speaker 1: I find motivational quotes or inspirational quotes, whatever, it's not

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Speaker 1: always for the people. Sometimes it's for me, and this

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Speaker 1: one today is for me and probably maybe someone else.

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Speaker 1: All right, Never forget how far you have come, everything

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Speaker 1: you have gotten through, all the times you have pushed

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Speaker 1: on even when you felt you couldn't, all the mornings

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Speaker 1: you got out of bed no matter how hard it was,

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Speaker 1: all the times you wanted to give up but you

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Speaker 1: got through another day. Never forget how much strength you

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Speaker 1: have learned and developed along the way.

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Speaker 4: I like that, That's all it says.

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Speaker 1: But you know, there are some days that I need

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Speaker 1: to remind myself of, like the shit that I've been

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Speaker 1: through and I've gotten through, and today's one of those days.

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Speaker 1: So hopefully this lifts up someone because I needed it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, No, that was really good.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't that long, but it was really good because

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00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:07,719
Speaker 3: sometimes you just have to be reminded that you can

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Speaker 3: get through anything because you've already done it. You've already

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Speaker 3: gotten through everything, so you can get through anything.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely love that.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I love that, And we love that you

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Speaker 3: guys keep listening to our show. We are going to

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Speaker 3: continue to come back next week with more Next Level Conversation,

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Speaker 3: and honestly, I just want to give a shout out

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Speaker 3: for all of the love that we've gotten, all the

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Speaker 3: episodes that we've gotten through so far. I mean we've

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Speaker 3: been we've got to be coming up on like some

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Speaker 3: type of milestone episodes like very soon.

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Speaker 4: But the love that.

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Speaker 3: We've gotten has just been really it's been really appreciative

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Speaker 3: on our end. Just you know, we love that y'all

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