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Speaker 2: Hey yo, welcome back.

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Speaker 1: To another episode of the Full Circle Podcast. We are

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Speaker 1: so excitedly yapp today.

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Speaker 3: Hey.

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Speaker 4: Yes, hey girl, fresh off WMFA draft night.

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Speaker 3: You look so cute. Yes, you looked good.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you. I had an amazing time. I

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Speaker 2: had a time, girl, It was so much fun.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, Well that's how we're going to start

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Speaker 3: the episode.

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Speaker 4: You have to give us the recap because I was

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Speaker 4: traveling home from Mexico for the weekend, so I wasn't

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Speaker 4: able to go to New York and experience the draft.

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Speaker 3: But you were there to experience for the both of us.

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Speaker 4: So I would love to hear about your weekend in

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Speaker 4: New York.

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Speaker 1: Okay, recapping the draft. It was so much fun. I

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Speaker 1: feel like I went to the draft in twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: two and just to see how much it's changed. I

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Speaker 1: know we talk about this with every event, but the

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Speaker 1: draft of Particul it was at this place called the Shed.

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Speaker 2: My brother told me it was a super bougie venue.

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Speaker 1: They host really boogie events there, and it very much

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Speaker 1: gave that security was on ten. Okay, you could moved

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Speaker 1: nowhere without your wristband, your credential.

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Speaker 4: This.

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Speaker 1: That third, they were not playing at all and the

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Speaker 1: fans were loud like it was a lot of fun.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I'm glad you said that, because on TV it

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Speaker 4: was not giving that it was giving, it was giving dead.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's because they had the fans. Basically, all the

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Speaker 1: influencers and athletes and stuff were in the front closest

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Speaker 1: to the stage, and then Taylor Rooks was right behind

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Speaker 1: us where the influencers were sitting, and then the desk was.

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Speaker 2: Right by where the players were sitting.

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Speaker 1: But I thought it was a miss because they put

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Speaker 2: Where you couldn't really hear them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they were going together up top. Couldn't hear them

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Speaker 3: at all. On TV, even when Page got drafted, it

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Speaker 4: But I'm glad you were there to like set it

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Speaker 4: straight that it was popping in there and it was

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Speaker 1: I will say it was a little bit awkward in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two draft, and that was very intimate. That

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Speaker 2: That was weird.

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Speaker 3: That was weird, so weird.

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Speaker 4: And then they would pan to the players that they

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Speaker 4: were talking about, Yeah, I agree with you, that was

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Speaker 4: a miss because why would you do that? They're talking

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Speaker 4: about how we're just gonna get right into this. The

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Speaker 4: way the draft was covered was odd to me. It

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Speaker 4: was very like weird. They obviously everyone knew page was

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Speaker 4: going number one. Okay, that gets ruined. For every draft,

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Speaker 4: the number one pick gets ruined. So it's up to

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Speaker 4: the people covering the draft to like leave some mystery

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Speaker 4: and excitement and ooh could they They could go this direction,

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Speaker 4: they could go this direction, they could go this direction. Basically,

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Speaker 4: what they were doing at the desk was telling us

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Speaker 4: who was about to get picked before the pick happened,

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Speaker 4: and then in the few occasions where that didn't happened,

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Speaker 3: That we didn't know about that much.

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Speaker 4: So, speaking from the Seattle Storm player, our pick was amazing, incredible.

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Speaker 4: I think in any other draft, Dominique would have went one.

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Speaker 4: But I'm glad she slid to two and came to Seattle.

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Speaker 4: But I will say they were talking about her and

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Speaker 4: how the needs of Seattle were outside shooting, which we

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Speaker 4: Dominique's like, Olivia Miles isn't here. Why are we even

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Speaker 4: talking about Olivia Miles? And then you panned in my face.

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Speaker 3: She was like the fuck, Like and I missed that.

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Speaker 1: In the crowd, I couldn't hear them because we had

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Speaker 1: Their social circuit started, and so after the first pick,

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Speaker 3: We weren't even down there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was like very awkward because like you were

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Speaker 5: It was so because to do Yeah, I mean in

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Speaker 4: They're these like larger than live girls and players. They

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Speaker 4: always love seeing that in big moments like that because

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Speaker 4: it happens to everybody, not just them. But the way

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Speaker 4: that they covered the picks were a little strange to me.

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Speaker 1: It's cute seeing them all get all dressed up because

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Speaker 2: We're used to seeing them.

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Speaker 1: Even when they're in commercials they put them in their

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Speaker 2: Outside of Page Who's.

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Speaker 1: Like on GQ, we don't really get to see them

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it just it a.

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Speaker 1: And it's so cute because everybody's like showing off their

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Speaker 2: Everybody out of their zone.

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Speaker 4: And everybody gets to show off their like personal style.

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Speaker 4: Now like when we were drafted, and even definitely before

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Speaker 4: I was drafted, it was like business casual, like be

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Speaker 4: very oh very playing Jane now like Kiky's outfit was gorgeous.

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Speaker 1: I need you to clarify before back when you got drafted,

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Speaker 1: they were telling you what to wear.

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Speaker 4: They didn't tell us what to wear, but you just

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Speaker 4: saw what they were wearing before you got there. So

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Speaker 4: I remember, like for my draft day. First of all,

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Speaker 4: I didn't get invited to the draft until mind you,

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Speaker 4: I'm a top ten player, top fifteen player in the country,

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Speaker 3: I gonna get invited to the draft?

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Speaker 4: Like that was my mindset going into my c your year,

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Speaker 4: like yeah, I'm all American, but am I actually going

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: So they officially invited me, like I would say, not

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Speaker 4: the conversation with my mom like Okay, what do I wear?

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Speaker 4: Like I don't want something too short, I don't want

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Speaker 4: most like but I was, I was.

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Speaker 3: I was twenty three, twenty twenty three years old.

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Speaker 4: I was like trying to still finding my personal style

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Speaker 4: because looking back at my draft pictures, the dress was cute.

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Speaker 3: I would still wear the dress today, but like.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, cute, but I'm like, that's not giving draft night,

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Speaker 4: Like I should have like went crazier. I have my

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Speaker 4: little lubatons on, Like that was what I was most

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Speaker 4: excited about. I got my first pair of red bottom

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Speaker 3: But my hair and makeup looked a mess. But I

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Speaker 4: You know. So seeing the girls every year now, like

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Speaker 4: they're like what, I don't care about no rules, no

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Speaker 4: their own style. Yeah, so I'm like, Kiki looks like

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Speaker 3: So where are they all going? But they all looked

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Speaker 4: But it was nice to see everybody having their like

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Speaker 1: Speaking of awkward interactions from the draft and the way

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Speaker 1: that it was covered, I feel like I'd never get

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Speaker 1: off Holly Roe's neck.

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Speaker 2: But when Paige got off the.

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Speaker 1: Stage and Holly said, you just had your hand on

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Speaker 1: your heart because you were so emotional, I was like, Holly,

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Speaker 1: I think she's trying to stop her titty from popping out.

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Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't think her hand is on

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Speaker 6: Or how about when she said, Georgia, I'm taller than you.

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Speaker 6: I've never been taller than a draft pick before. Like, hi, Okay,

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Speaker 6: biggest matter of her life, all her whole life, being

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Speaker 6: And this is the first thing you say to her

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Speaker 3: It's oh, I'm nigger than you. Girl.

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Speaker 2: Also, it is not about you. It's not about you.

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Speaker 2: You really shouldn't be mentioned. Not about you.

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Speaker 3: Oh Holly, I thought we was gonna let her chill today.

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Speaker 3: But I should have known better than that.

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Speaker 1: No, this is the first person who we get to

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Speaker 1: hear ask them a question after the biggest moment of

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Speaker 2: I don't want to hear about you.

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Speaker 3: No. You would think she would know that though, right girl.

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Speaker 4: Anyways, let's talk about some of the picks. So obviously

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Speaker 4: page one, number one, we knew that Dominique is a gem.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to hear about how you feel.

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Speaker 4: It's funny because I've been seeing people call her a

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Speaker 4: steal and I'm just like, she's number two, that's you're

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Speaker 4: not a steel number steal. But like I said, people

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Speaker 4: think she's a steal because she could one hundred percent

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Speaker 4: have been the number one pick in any in other drafts.

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Speaker 4: So I think she is very versatile, obviously athletic, super tall.

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Speaker 4: She's a baby though, so I'm very interested to see

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Speaker 4: how that transition works. She has been playing pro overseas

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Speaker 4: in France already, so obviously she has a pro game,

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Speaker 4: she has a pro mindset.

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Speaker 3: I might be able to throw my.

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Speaker 4: First lob in a game, which I don't think there's

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Speaker 4: ever been a lob thrown in a game in a

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Speaker 4: WNBA game, like there have been dunks.

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Speaker 2: But I don't know this has to happen.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if there's been a lob, so if

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Speaker 3: it ain't, mean.

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Speaker 4: It's gonna be Skyler and I said on Gills today

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Speaker 4: that I worked out with Javelle McGee before I went

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Speaker 4: to Nashville, and they had me throwing him lobs in

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Speaker 3: And it's not as easy as y'all think.

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Speaker 4: Throwing lobs is kind of hard, yeah, because the timing

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Speaker 4: has to be perfect. Yes, the timing has to be perfect.

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Speaker 4: And I'm talking like this like this is definitely gonna happen.

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Speaker 3: Guys. This is just me being very optimistic here.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I'm not saying that a lob is gonna happen,

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Speaker 4: Who else was I intrigued by? I think Dallas did

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Speaker 3: Excited for her.

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Speaker 4: I think this is a really great, well rounded class.

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Speaker 4: There's not really a need for anybody to come in

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Speaker 4: I think I'm like very excited just to see how

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Speaker 2: Change to bring them up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so I mean, new coach, new GM, new practice

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Speaker 3: To be like, what the hell, that's exactly what.

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Speaker 1: Well, the beautiful thing about that is that she's going

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Speaker 2: Number two.

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Speaker 1: Listening to Paige talk to Taylor Rolks about how her

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Speaker 4: I Mean, it's funny talking about other teams that I'm

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Speaker 4: So I'm just like, I'm ready to go I'm ready

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Speaker 3: This summer is going to be lit. So the changes

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Speaker 4: Mentioning prior is that we've never seen a team like

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Speaker 2: That was going to be my question to you.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it looks like Natalie over there building the

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Speaker 4: And it's just been for so long, it just has

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Speaker 4: It's just like a lot of hoops you got to

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Speaker 4: So we always have this conversation and now everybody's talking

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Speaker 3: They're going to have to have to So I don't

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Speaker 4: But that's a draft spot that you use on a

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Speaker 1: It's because they are coming from a background of playing

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Speaker 1: You're around women who you're competing with for a spot

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Speaker 3: They're gonna start picking them.

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00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:13,159
Speaker 1: Oh hold on, I just got to ask you this

445
00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:17,239
Speaker 1: real quick, boy, because everyone's raving about it. Why did

446
00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:19,639
Speaker 1: do you think Sadona Prince didn't get drafted?

447
00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:26,040
Speaker 4: Oh gosh, see, I wasn't trying to get into that

448
00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:27,640
Speaker 4: no details.

449
00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:30,440
Speaker 3: If you know, you know why Sedona didn't get drafted.

450
00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:35,720
Speaker 4: But also as the basketball mind in me, you are

451
00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:41,360
Speaker 4: twenty four, twenty five and six, however tall she is,

452
00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:44,440
Speaker 4: and you're not dominant as dominant as you.

453
00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:46,160
Speaker 3: Should be at that age in size.

454
00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:49,879
Speaker 4: So again going back to the conversation of picking the

455
00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:53,399
Speaker 4: younger European players versus the older college players, it's the

456
00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:57,480
Speaker 4: same thing. They gonna pick the younger, more dominant players

457
00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:01,480
Speaker 4: in college over you, and then you have a lot

458
00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:05,440
Speaker 4: of outside things affecting your life and that could potentially

459
00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:07,520
Speaker 4: affect the league as well.

460
00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:10,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I wanted you to speak too, because

461
00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:13,960
Speaker 1: I feel like that Obviously, everybody knows the chatter that's

462
00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:17,119
Speaker 1: happening on social and whatever the other stuff, but I

463
00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:20,240
Speaker 1: feel like there is a really big basketball aspect to this,

464
00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:23,000
Speaker 1: and I think a lot of people ignored that because

465
00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:26,000
Speaker 1: her name was such a hot button topic, But there

466
00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:29,639
Speaker 1: are a lot of reasons on the court why it

467
00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:31,000
Speaker 1: didn't make as much sense.

468
00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:33,720
Speaker 2: I do hope that people who have a dream.

469
00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:35,840
Speaker 1: And want opportunity to get their opportunity, and there there

470
00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:39,320
Speaker 1: are opportunities, I suppose, But I wanted you to speak

471
00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:41,200
Speaker 1: to the basketball aspect, because I feel like a lot

472
00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:43,880
Speaker 1: of people who just tune in don't know about that.

473
00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:45,800
Speaker 3: I'm abo's a look up her stats right now.

474
00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:50,480
Speaker 4: I think seventeen and nine because yes, we don't know allegations,

475
00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:53,840
Speaker 4: all that other stuff going on. Okay, like that is

476
00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:58,359
Speaker 4: obviously extremely problematic, especially coming out of college and coming

477
00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:01,359
Speaker 4: into a league that is now on the up and

478
00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:05,000
Speaker 4: up for the first time and like forever. So that's

479
00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:07,840
Speaker 4: a very unfortunate situation for all parties involved.

480
00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:09,560
Speaker 3: But it's a business at the end of the day.

481
00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:15,240
Speaker 4: So this year she averaged seventeen points nine rebounds, which

482
00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:21,280
Speaker 4: was a wait, I know, look at you, which was

483
00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:25,119
Speaker 4: actually a decline from last season. And you can blame

484
00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:28,400
Speaker 4: that they brought in Hailey Vanlyt, But Hailey vanleft did not.

485
00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:30,240
Speaker 3: Take away any of sit downa princess shots.

486
00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:35,080
Speaker 4: She doesn't shoot any threes and she blocks she blocks shots.

487
00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:39,200
Speaker 4: So yes, herr her numbers at her age weren't super

488
00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:42,199
Speaker 4: stellar at her size, she's six seven, and then her

489
00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:45,719
Speaker 4: body of work is like average for someone that's six

490
00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:47,800
Speaker 4: to seven. I did think maybe a team would be like,

491
00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:50,199
Speaker 4: you know what, We're gonna take a chance on her

492
00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:51,840
Speaker 4: da da da da. But I also was like, no,

493
00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:53,520
Speaker 4: there could be like teams would be like, no, we're

494
00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:56,360
Speaker 4: not doing that, and that's what they decided. So if

495
00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:59,960
Speaker 4: if she doesn't even get a training camp deal, then

496
00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:02,520
Speaker 4: and I know for a fact it's because of the

497
00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:04,920
Speaker 4: off court stuff for them to not even like break

498
00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:07,960
Speaker 4: their in and give her an opportunity, I'm going to

499
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:09,719
Speaker 4: say it's because of the off court stuff.

500
00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:13,360
Speaker 1: So if there's anything if there's anything I've learned about sports,

501
00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:15,920
Speaker 1: it's that the higher the talent is, the.

502
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:20,360
Speaker 2: Higher the toleration is okay for different kind of bullshit.

503
00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:21,600
Speaker 3: Yes, it's just the truth.

504
00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:24,199
Speaker 1: I'm not condoning it, but it's the truth. And so

505
00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:27,000
Speaker 1: I feel like it's a mixture and a melting pot

506
00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:30,960
Speaker 1: of things. But I do wonder how things will be

507
00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:33,760
Speaker 1: different if the talent, if this were a top talent,

508
00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:34,399
Speaker 1: you know what I'm.

509
00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:34,919
Speaker 2: Saying, We don't know.

510
00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:37,439
Speaker 3: She also gets injured a lot, yes, which is.

511
00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:39,240
Speaker 1: Why the body of work, which is why the body

512
00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:43,040
Speaker 1: of work is in great three different schools, two big injuries,

513
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:45,520
Speaker 1: long time in college or one of the oldest players

514
00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:46,040
Speaker 1: in the draft.

515
00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:46,840
Speaker 2: It's risky.

516
00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:50,199
Speaker 3: Yeah. So yeah, So I mean I feel like a

517
00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:53,520
Speaker 3: lot of people are like, ha, like it's not there's

518
00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:56,840
Speaker 3: nothing funny about this situation. It's kind of sad actually,

519
00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:58,359
Speaker 3: but hah.

520
00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:01,960
Speaker 1: In favor of those people alleged victims of that situation,

521
00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 1: isn't it's not funny.

522
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:05,080
Speaker 2: It doesn't do anything for women's basketball.

523
00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:06,560
Speaker 1: It doesn't do anything for the league, it doesn't do

524
00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:09,840
Speaker 1: anything for those victims, it doesn't do anything for anyone.

525
00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:12,920
Speaker 1: If anything, it's a sad situation for all involved, and

526
00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:16,040
Speaker 1: not what the light we want to put on women's

527
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,840
Speaker 1: basketball right now. I just wanted to make sure that

528
00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:22,280
Speaker 1: we shed light on the basketball aspect of things, because

529
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,159
Speaker 1: it was such a hot button issue and everybody was

530
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:26,600
Speaker 1: talking about it and it was such a trending thing,

531
00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:29,960
Speaker 1: all of them really like huge videos that I saw

532
00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:32,520
Speaker 1: today that were commentary about it. We're talking about that,

533
00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,439
Speaker 1: and I felt like they didn't really have context.

534
00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:37,199
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I thought it was important for.

535
00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:38,040
Speaker 3: Us at context.

536
00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:40,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, at the end of the day, this

537
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:45,040
Speaker 4: is a basketball draft for a basketball league. So but

538
00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:47,280
Speaker 4: it didn't surprise me. I wasn't surprised when her name

539
00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:51,280
Speaker 4: and they get called. But you were not, No, I wasn't.

540
00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:56,080
Speaker 4: I was surprised. Really, Yeah, I was really surprised.

541
00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:57,880
Speaker 1: Just because I don't know, maybe it's because just.

542
00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:01,080
Speaker 2: With sports, that's how it usually is, Like it's morets.

543
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 4: It's like I also kind of saw the writing on

544
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:06,400
Speaker 4: the wall with all the attention TC was getting in HVO,

545
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 4: and they kind of just weren't mentioning Sedona at all.

546
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:13,840
Speaker 3: And then when the season ended, it just was like all.

547
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 1: HVO like, but she dropped like four points in their loss.

548
00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:19,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, she went out on a bad note.

549
00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:22,159
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's like every opportunity she had to like

550
00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:25,359
Speaker 4: get herself back in the door, she didn't. So like

551
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:28,200
Speaker 4: you already was on the outside, Like, let's you already

552
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:31,879
Speaker 4: were not in the door, so you had opportunities to

553
00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:33,520
Speaker 4: get back in and you didn't.

554
00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:37,160
Speaker 3: So and then not everybody deserves the benefit of the doubt.

555
00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:38,720
Speaker 4: And that's just the way it is sometimes, and I

556
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:40,720
Speaker 4: think that's the way the WNBA was looking at it.

557
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 4: But I mean it's not a forever thing, you know,

558
00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:46,400
Speaker 4: all this thing, all this stuff could get cleared up

559
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:49,920
Speaker 4: and whatever, and then she could get signed another another time.

560
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,199
Speaker 4: She can go over season play like her career is

561
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:55,480
Speaker 4: not over. So no, you know, if she really does

562
00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:57,840
Speaker 4: want to play. She will be able to play somewhere.

563
00:25:57,880 --> 00:25:58,600
Speaker 4: She's six seven.

564
00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:02,160
Speaker 3: Sorry, it's just not right now.

565
00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:04,679
Speaker 1: I really wanted to talk to you about the gap

566
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:09,000
Speaker 1: between college season and the WNBA season and what could

567
00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:12,240
Speaker 1: be done about that, because even as somebody covering the sport,

568
00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:16,160
Speaker 1: this is my first year going from covering the WNBA

569
00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:19,320
Speaker 1: last year into covering the college season, into covering the

570
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:23,560
Speaker 1: WNBA again, like that trifecta, and so experiencing that break

571
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:26,000
Speaker 1: as a person who's just covering the sport, like, oh,

572
00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:28,760
Speaker 1: let me get my draft content out by Wednesday.

573
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:31,520
Speaker 2: Because the season's going to start. It stressing me out.

574
00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:33,600
Speaker 2: I could only imagine.

575
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:35,240
Speaker 1: Being a player moving to a new city that you

576
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 1: don't even know where you're moving yet yep until draft night.

577
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:40,719
Speaker 2: Ye is crazy. What could be done about that?

578
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:42,680
Speaker 3: The season would have to get pushed back.

579
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,679
Speaker 4: I mean, I think that's the only solution, and I

580
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:49,240
Speaker 4: just don't know if that's possible, because then it would

581
00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:52,760
Speaker 4: I mean, we're already overlapping with the playoffs, So I'm like,

582
00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:56,119
Speaker 4: would we rather not overlap with the playoffs and overlap

583
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:58,360
Speaker 4: with the beginning of the season, And to me, that

584
00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:01,040
Speaker 4: makes a little bit more sense. But then we're gonna

585
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:05,040
Speaker 4: be overlapping with the NBA and NFL. So I don't

586
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 4: know if that the timing of it would ever work

587
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:09,919
Speaker 4: in our favor.

588
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 1: Overlapping with the NBA's beginning of the season. Honestly, I

589
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:17,160
Speaker 1: feel like works in the w's favor because nobody really

590
00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:20,159
Speaker 1: watches that shit the MNBA at the beginning of the season.

591
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 2: But it's the NFL that's scary. But at the same time,

592
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:24,040
Speaker 2: the NFL only comes.

593
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 3: On once a week.

594
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:27,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's win a game game week. So just we

595
00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:28,560
Speaker 2: went Sundays.

596
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:31,520
Speaker 4: I mean, Sundays are a big day for us for games,

597
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,680
Speaker 4: that's true. So I feel like the timing they would

598
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,359
Speaker 4: have to like really look into, like the TV slots

599
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,200
Speaker 4: and all that kind of stuff as far as the timing,

600
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean they just gotta suck it up

601
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:44,840
Speaker 4: like the rest of us did.

602
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 1: And the TV contracts are a big thing.

603
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, and everything is already like set in stone, like

604
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:52,199
Speaker 4: it's very it would be very hard for us to

605
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 4: like change the time of our season, but I still,

606
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,480
Speaker 4: I mean, yes it is. It's a very violent jump

607
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 4: and change. So yeah, I go to Seattle on Sunday.

608
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 4: I'm sure that most of them won't come into market

609
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:08,440
Speaker 4: until a few days before camp. I had to take

610
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:11,639
Speaker 4: my finals two weeks early. I couldn't even move out

611
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 4: of my apartment. My mom and friends how to move

612
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,440
Speaker 4: my stuff out of my college apartment for me because

613
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:19,199
Speaker 4: I didn't have time to. So, yeah, there is a

614
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:22,879
Speaker 4: level of planning that like optimistic planning, because you're like,

615
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 4: all right, I'm gonna get drafted, so let me start

616
00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 4: preparing for my finals a little bit early.

617
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:28,920
Speaker 3: Let me start packing some of my stuff up.

618
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:30,400
Speaker 2: That in il money.

619
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 1: Different for those that it applies to that must real help.

620
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, like y'all, y'all good now, Like I don't really want.

621
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:36,679
Speaker 1: To hear it.

622
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:38,000
Speaker 2: They got assistance doing that.

623
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:41,959
Speaker 4: I'll y'all are paying movers to move from your fully

624
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,680
Speaker 4: furnished three bedroom apartment that you have.

625
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:48,000
Speaker 2: They're like, shout out to the Peach Moving company.

626
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 4: Exactly, we gonna see it what We're gonna see it

627
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 4: very soon. The last thing about the draft is I

628
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 4: do want to shout out Haley vandlydth. Her redemption arc

629
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 4: was completed, so I'm very happy for her. Like same

630
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 4: her face when her name was called, it was just.

631
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 3: Like relief, like that was beautiful. It was so nice

632
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:11,560
Speaker 3: to see.

633
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 2: And I like that she's going to Chicago.

634
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean she's going somewhere where she's needed. So

635
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 4: they need a backup point guard and they need a

636
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:24,280
Speaker 4: score another scoring guard. So she's going to learn a

637
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 4: lot from Courtney Vander salute.

638
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:27,160
Speaker 2: If you haven't noticed that.

639
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:30,680
Speaker 1: In the WNBA and other sports, I feel differently about

640
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 1: where players I'm a fan of getting draped where I

641
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 1: would prefer.

642
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 2: Them getting drafted.

643
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:38,479
Speaker 1: In the w I feel like it's beneficial as far

644
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 1: as what I've learned from you to get drafted into

645
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 1: a situation where you're really needed, because then that allows

646
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 1: you to have more space to learn and to grow,

647
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 1: and to get playing time and to get one on

648
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:50,600
Speaker 1: one time with the coaches and the players to value

649
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 1: you more.

650
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:52,640
Speaker 2: So I would prefer that.

651
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 4: I feel like, if I was a player, this is

652
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 4: like the first draft that I've seen. I'm looking at

653
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 4: the drafts right now, one through twelve, first round where

654
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 4: I feel like every player is exactly where they should

655
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 4: be as far as environment, fit and what they're going

656
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:09,960
Speaker 4: to be able to learn and do in their rookie year.

657
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:13,440
Speaker 4: And you don't typically see that sometimes you see a

658
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:16,240
Speaker 4: player get drafted and you're like they're never going to

659
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:19,560
Speaker 4: play or yeah, that's not going to work, And I

660
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 4: don't feel that way about this draft, and like that's

661
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 4: really that's really positive, that's really good.

662
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 1: That's something that we've talked about a bunch is in

663
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 1: this new era of the WNBA and moving into this

664
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 1: higher viewership, whatever situation that they're in, it is important

665
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:40,360
Speaker 1: to allow these rookies to have an opportunity to actually

666
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,760
Speaker 1: be successful. And like you said, you were in a

667
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:46,160
Speaker 1: situation where your vets didn't even really fuck with you

668
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 1: like that, Like that's how that doesn't allow any sort

669
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 1: of growth. And that's thank god you overcame that and

670
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 1: you're still thriving.

671
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 2: But not everybody has that grit or that level of competition,

672
00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:57,920
Speaker 2: you know what I mean.

673
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 1: So it's good to see that they are trying to

674
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:02,560
Speaker 1: put them in the right situations to succeed.

675
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,239
Speaker 4: I mean, it's necessary because everyone always complains about that

676
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 4: gap between like why is there a drop off of

677
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 4: retention between college and WNBA. It's because the college players

678
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 4: get drafted and then you don't see them again for

679
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 4: two years because they can't get on the court. So

680
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:20,440
Speaker 4: I think it's a good thing that these rookies are

681
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 4: gonna be able to come in, and the rookies from

682
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 4: last year even were able to come in and make

683
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 4: their impact early and keep their fans engaged and bring

684
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 4: more fans to the w which is also why I

685
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:35,160
Speaker 4: think it's a good thing that W players are at

686
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 4: the Draft too. Like, I feel like the WNBA the

687
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 4: last love that three years have like really gone into

688
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 4: overdrive of bridging the gap of college and W players,

689
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 4: because I don't remember even speaking to a single W

690
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 4: player until I got to training.

691
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 2: Camp and they were all interacting.

692
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:55,160
Speaker 1: It was super cute doing the little photo things together.

693
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 4: And yeah, like I think it's so important that there's

694
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:03,160
Speaker 4: a relationship build between pro players and college players.

695
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 3: Whether the college players are.

696
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 4: Going to be in the WNBA or not, there's still

697
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 4: basketball players and we're still one giant family. So I

698
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 4: think it's really good that the gap is lessening, and

699
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 4: it's been good to see and there's that there's been

700
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 4: like an effort put behind that of putting these W

701
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:21,600
Speaker 4: players in these spaces at the Final Four and at

702
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 4: the Draft and at All Star. You know, I had

703
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 4: there was college players at All Star, Like I when

704
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:29,959
Speaker 4: I was in college, that was not even on my radar, like, oh,

705
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 4: let's go to w NBA All Star.

706
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 3: I was like, they don't want me. Why Why what

707
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 3: am I going to?

708
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 4: Why am I gonna go to w BA All Star?

709
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 4: But like, why wouldn't we go to w NBA All

710
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 4: Star in college like that? If that's your goal, like

711
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 4: you should want to be immersed and surrounded by that

712
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 4: kind of stuff. So it's been really nice seeing the

713
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:50,640
Speaker 4: w NBA like embrace the college players, and then the

714
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 4: NCAA and college like embracing the w players more and

715
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 4: building that relationship and report earlier because I think that's

716
00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 4: very important.

717
00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 1: And one thing I really learned doing this show with

718
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 1: you and learning more about the real issues that WNBA

719
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 1: players face and not the fake ones like oh y'all

720
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 1: are broke and a shot changee like now. But I've

721
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 1: learned about having opportunities when you retire as well, because

722
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 1: you put all this time and this effort into being

723
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 1: a WNBA player and being the best basketball player you

724
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 1: can be, and it's not like the league can just

725
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 1: throw you away when you retire. And that being said,

726
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 1: seeing for example, Rikia was hosting the red carpet. I

727
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 1: believe things like that putting WNBA players in those roles.

728
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 1: I some media people get mad at that stuff and

729
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 1: they're like, that should be a journalist.

730
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:38,240
Speaker 2: I love the idea.

731
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 1: Of WNBA players being in those roles because number one,

732
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:44,120
Speaker 1: y'all speak each other's language. Number two, that gives you

733
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 1: media experience to do the Chiney pipeline sort of situation

734
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 1: or do what you're doing.

735
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 2: So I think it's good.

736
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:52,280
Speaker 3: I mean, no disrespect.

737
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 4: I'd rather have players doing that than random influencers that

738
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 4: don't know anything.

739
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:56,880
Speaker 3: About basketball or.

740
00:33:58,560 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 2: Agreed one percent.

741
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I think the pairing of the media members

742
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 4: and the athlete and then ultimately the athlete becoming a

743
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 4: media member and then they can get paired with, you know,

744
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:10,880
Speaker 4: a player, a current player, Like I just feel like

745
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:13,920
Speaker 4: it could be like a really cute little cycle that

746
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:14,759
Speaker 4: we got going on.

747
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 1: So, speaking of the media and that, because you you

748
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:21,239
Speaker 1: basically are you're a player, but you kind of are

749
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:21,799
Speaker 1: a media member.

750
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 2: You toll on that line.

751
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:26,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, but but me and my brother said this to me,

752
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 1: shout out to my brother a man with a brain,

753
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:31,400
Speaker 1: and it really.

754
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:32,840
Speaker 2: It really blew my mind.

755
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 1: So he said if there are so many men that

756
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 1: cover women's sports like the WNBA. Obviously we have that

757
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:47,239
Speaker 1: desk of the Big three, but outside of that, it's

758
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:48,359
Speaker 1: a lot of men.

759
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:49,759
Speaker 2: There's an overwheming amount of men.

760
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:54,920
Speaker 1: Why aren't there more women in those spaces with men's sports?

761
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 2: You get what I'm saying, Yeah.

762
00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 1: Why is there that disconnect where it's like, Okay, they

763
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:01,400
Speaker 1: can come in and they can coach our sports, and they

764
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 1: can be our GMS, and they can be our media,

765
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 1: And it's why can't that?

766
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think there's been a lot more women in

767
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 4: these spaces since I've been there before. Football is probably

768
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:16,319
Speaker 4: the only sport where I'm just like, women who cover

769
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 4: football are They've impressed me very much because women don't

770
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:21,799
Speaker 4: they know they yeah, and they have to know it

771
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:24,879
Speaker 4: because they literally we don't literally play football like that.

772
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:29,319
Speaker 4: I mean they have like lingerie league, flag football, they

773
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 4: have that, but like they can't like professionally play.

774
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 3: Like in the NFL.

775
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:37,759
Speaker 4: But women at times that didn't play women can play football,

776
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 4: so let me start there. But like they don't have

777
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,719
Speaker 4: the accolades of like being in the NFL kind of

778
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 4: like how we have WNBA NBA. Honestly, I think that

779
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,239
Speaker 4: it just takes time. Yeah.

780
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:51,160
Speaker 1: The reason why my brother said maybe think about that

781
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:54,319
Speaker 1: is because if any women make the most sense, even

782
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 1: more since than somebody like me to be in those spaces,

783
00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:02,040
Speaker 1: it is other professional basketball players that have that IQ

784
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 1: and know their shit. So I think Candice is more

785
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 1: than qualified to be in that qualified.

786
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 3: Yeah.

787
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 1: That being said, I like seeing those opportunities happen for

788
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 1: the w players at the draft early in their careers

789
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 1: so that they can build that repertoire and there is

790
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 1: more of y'all in those roles.

791
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:19,919
Speaker 3: Yah.

792
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:22,320
Speaker 4: I don't want to talk too much about college today

793
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:25,680
Speaker 4: because of the WNBA Draft, but there's some like big trend.

794
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 4: There is like some big transfer news that happened between

795
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 4: our last episode and now, so we gotta get into

796
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 4: some more of these transfer things. So since last week,

797
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 4: had Olivia or Olivia had already.

798
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:39,880
Speaker 2: I don't know if we spoke about the fact that

799
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 2: she chose to.

800
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:45,000
Speaker 4: She chows TCU, and obviously we know why she chose TCU,

801
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:47,080
Speaker 4: But if we're going to take the money off the table.

802
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,439
Speaker 2: I'm just like, there is a hole for her there.

803
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I'm like, why, Like, obviously money, yes, we

804
00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 4: get that, but I'm like, you went down is one

805
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:02,799
Speaker 4: of the greatest to ever play a Notre Dame.

806
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 1: I'm not going to no school that was hosting open

807
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:07,919
Speaker 1: trials last year. I'm sorry you saw I can find

808
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:08,239
Speaker 1: the money.

809
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 4: So I honestly did not even peep the entire season

810
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 4: until the tournament how many players they had on that bench.

811
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:19,839
Speaker 4: And those players obviously were told by that coach for that.

812
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:22,280
Speaker 3: Year, we bringing in these older girls.

813
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:24,920
Speaker 4: They're gonna get their last year in and y'all can

814
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 4: just sit and cheer and clap for the year, and

815
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:30,399
Speaker 4: then next year, y'all can get your spots back. That's

816
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 4: what it looked like from the outside. Look again, because

817
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:34,840
Speaker 4: they had like twenty girls on that bench. To now

818
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 4: Lat's into South Carolina. I was not surprised by that

819
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 4: at all. She wants a chance to win a championship.

820
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 4: So now now we're ring chasing in college, like now

821
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:45,680
Speaker 4: that's where we are.

822
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 2: That is so crazy.

823
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:50,239
Speaker 1: I never even thought I've complained about it a lot.

824
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 4: We're at ring chasing like we're getting the back, like

825
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:56,320
Speaker 4: we're gonna have players in college now that are gonna

826
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:58,919
Speaker 4: get the bag and then ring chase or ring chase

827
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 4: and then get the bag. So now we have Latson

828
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:05,920
Speaker 4: to South Carolina. When that happened, I knew Malaysia was

829
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:08,239
Speaker 4: out of there. Now you have the one with the

830
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 4: ring already. Now she's trying to go get a bag.

831
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:14,120
Speaker 4: So when Latson decided to go to South Carolina, I said, oh,

832
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 4: Malaysia for Wiley is out of there. And I personally

833
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:21,759
Speaker 4: am very happy that she's out of there because I

834
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:24,280
Speaker 4: was tired of seeing watching her sit on that damn bench.

835
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:27,359
Speaker 1: I'd about to say she didn't get she didn't get

836
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 1: the playing time she deserved in the championship, for sure.

837
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 4: She didn't get the playing time she deserved her whole

838
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:38,319
Speaker 4: entire two years of being there. Like, she's so talented,

839
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:45,000
Speaker 4: And yes, I understand Team Sport South Carolina. They play

840
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,360
Speaker 4: a certain way, they play a certain style, and it's

841
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 4: one game. So I understand that nineteen minutes per game

842
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:53,399
Speaker 4: that was what she was playing this year, not even

843
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 4: eighteen point nine minutes, eighteen point four minutes last year.

844
00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 2: No, yeah, it's time.

845
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 4: I thought she was going to leave after last season. Honestly,

846
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:03,719
Speaker 4: I was very surprised that she stayed. They want to

847
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:06,160
Speaker 4: try to run it back. I get it, trust me.

848
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:10,760
Speaker 4: But you have your two leading scores coming off the bench.

849
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:13,360
Speaker 3: I've never seen that before.

850
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 2: I was gonna ask.

851
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 1: You where you think would be a good fit for her,

852
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 1: But she probably gonna be at Biyu or some shit

853
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 1: like that because they gonna give her a million dollars.

854
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:23,719
Speaker 4: I mean, for me, she's under so she's one of

855
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:26,880
Speaker 4: Steph's girls. So I'm like, I try to narrow it

856
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:28,320
Speaker 4: down to under armour schools.

857
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 2: Oh you're so smart.

858
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:32,840
Speaker 3: So Maryland is at the top of my list for her,

859
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:35,240
Speaker 3: Notre Dame Auburn.

860
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 4: But we'll see where she goes. She literally can probably

861
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 4: go anywhere she wants. Who else transferred? Almost UCLA's entire

862
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:47,439
Speaker 4: team is leaving well.

863
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:50,959
Speaker 1: I think part of that is the lifestyle of playing there,

864
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,319
Speaker 1: with all that travel and bullshit, and like they then,

865
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 1: when I was on Tampa, I was like, this is

866
00:39:56,600 --> 00:40:00,960
Speaker 1: a fucking mess, Like I feel like a California Oh yeah.

867
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 4: Me getting to Tampa was annoying from La M so

868
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:07,799
Speaker 4: I can. Even when I was at Maryland when we

869
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:10,960
Speaker 4: were doing our big ten flights, they weren't that long,

870
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 4: but they were too long for me.

871
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:13,760
Speaker 3: I was like, I don't like this.

872
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:17,279
Speaker 4: This is four hour, three hour, four hour flights. Sometimes

873
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 4: you don't want that.

874
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:20,799
Speaker 1: And the way they crumbled, I will be out of there.

875
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 3: Too, crumbled. They got their whooked.

876
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:29,719
Speaker 4: Cody McMahon from Ohio State was another surprising transfer, but

877
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:32,520
Speaker 4: not so surprising because I remember her freshman year she

878
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:34,799
Speaker 4: was like next up, and then last year she kind

879
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:38,319
Speaker 4: of her numbers were still impressive, but like no one

880
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 4: was really talking about her because Big Juju came into

881
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:44,799
Speaker 4: the Big ten and yeah, and UCLA kind of ran

882
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:45,320
Speaker 4: the table.

883
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 3: So she's at ole miss now. So like I said,

884
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 3: everybody go and flock to the SEC.

885
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:54,840
Speaker 1: I'm telling you that the SEC is about to be

886
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:56,000
Speaker 1: a month.

887
00:40:56,480 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 4: It's gonna be ACC team's gonna be looking like Juco teams.

888
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 4: They gonna have to probably go in and start getting

889
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:08,719
Speaker 4: more Juco players now. And like these poor high school kids,

890
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 4: like the real losers and all this are the high

891
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:12,920
Speaker 4: school kids.

892
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:15,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, that it does suck, but as I mentioned before

893
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:18,480
Speaker 1: that CEC is also the only conference I feel like,

894
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:21,120
Speaker 1: correct me if I'm wrong that isn't really impacted by

895
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:23,440
Speaker 1: shitty travel at all as of right now.

896
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's true, they're like the only ones that like

897
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 4: have their shit together.

898
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:29,800
Speaker 2: And all the money.

899
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:31,919
Speaker 3: Yeah, so why would you not try to go there?

900
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:35,399
Speaker 4: So, I mean, I guess money wise, it would make

901
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:38,800
Speaker 4: sense for Malaysia to stay in the SEC. And so,

902
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 4: I mean, she plays well in it. It suits her

903
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 4: style of play. So I'm very excited to see where

904
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:47,840
Speaker 4: she ends up. Who else transferred? First of all, the

905
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:50,640
Speaker 4: announcements of not transferring are sending me.

906
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:56,840
Speaker 3: Girl, we didn't know. The announcements of not declaring for

907
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 3: the draft.

908
00:41:57,440 --> 00:42:00,319
Speaker 4: When we didn't think he was declaring anyway are sending me.

909
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:04,000
Speaker 4: But okay, I guess that's what we do now. Flage

910
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:06,680
Speaker 4: had to say that well because everyone else but like

911
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:09,840
Speaker 4: not a single soul on earth thought that she was

912
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:14,759
Speaker 4: leaving college or no that knows anything about Nil and

913
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:18,759
Speaker 4: wnba in anything like. When she made that announcement, Yes,

914
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 4: I think it was to appease the rumors because they

915
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 4: were weird, because y'all see, like what she's doing in college,

916
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:27,040
Speaker 4: and all y'all preaches, oh, Stan, it's cool, stay in school,

917
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 4: make money, and then the most money making player, y'all

918
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 4: are like, oh, she's gonna leave, Like what what are

919
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:38,239
Speaker 4: we talking about? Y'all are contradicting yourselves. No, she's not

920
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:38,839
Speaker 4: gonna leave.

921
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:41,400
Speaker 1: But do you think with the nil situation going back

922
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:46,759
Speaker 1: to Olivia, so with her being injured hannah On come up,

923
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:50,040
Speaker 1: do you think that that played a role possibly in

924
00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:53,399
Speaker 1: her wanting to leave Because in the Nil era, as

925
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:56,280
Speaker 1: we've talked about before, it does pay to be that girl,

926
00:42:56,960 --> 00:43:00,160
Speaker 1: and I would assume it could help your draft. Me

927
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:02,920
Speaker 1: look at HVL, it does help you in the draft

928
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:05,360
Speaker 1: as far as going somewhere and making a name for

929
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:08,399
Speaker 1: yourself and getting your numbers up and filling a hole.

930
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 2: So I could see why she would want to do that.

931
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it was weird because they played very well

932
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:19,320
Speaker 4: together and then suddenly it did not look good anymore.

933
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:24,400
Speaker 4: So something there's something that happened with that Notre Dame team,

934
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 4: and it'd be like that. Sometimes that's sports. That's someone

935
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:31,720
Speaker 4: getting hurt, someone being ready for their opportunity, and dynamic

936
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,920
Speaker 4: shift and dynamics change, and like that's not anything abnormal.

937
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 4: It could have one hundred percent be like a non

938
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 4: malicious thing. Sometimes like things that team dynamics just change.

939
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 4: They've lost Sonya Citron and Mattie Westpell, who are like

940
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:47,239
Speaker 4: pillars of that Notre Dame team and those are those

941
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:49,359
Speaker 4: are Olivia's girls, Like those are who she came in

942
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:52,920
Speaker 4: with and stuff. So she probably was like, let me

943
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:55,080
Speaker 4: get out of here because I'm going to be by

944
00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 4: myself here, so.

945
00:43:57,280 --> 00:43:59,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, let me go get a bag real quick.

946
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:01,680
Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean not noteday team that they're gonna

947
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 4: look very different this year. And yeah, and now it's

948
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 4: Hannah Hildogo's team. It's her shit now officially, So in

949
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:13,799
Speaker 4: that aspect, I'm excited for her because she has a

950
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:15,880
Speaker 4: lot to prove because the end of their season was

951
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:19,560
Speaker 4: not very good in our expectations. Like I think in

952
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 4: the grand scheme of a season, they had a very

953
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:25,560
Speaker 4: successful they had a very successful season, but based on

954
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:27,240
Speaker 4: the expectations that were set.

955
00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:29,040
Speaker 2: The way they were hyped out up until like.

956
00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:41,279
Speaker 3: A month before the tournament started. Guys, we're about to

957
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 3: get into the w season.

958
00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:47,000
Speaker 4: Like in it, y'all are going to be inside of

959
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:49,840
Speaker 4: the WWA season that's never been a thing before.

960
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 2: I'm so excited.

961
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 3: I'm excited to I'm like going into this situation. Erica

962
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 3: Wheeler also has a podcast.

963
00:44:58,120 --> 00:44:59,879
Speaker 4: So like, I don't feel like I'm just the only

964
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 4: one yaping away on the team, which is good.

965
00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:04,360
Speaker 3: We have like a lot of.

966
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 4: Mature veterans that you know, know how to handle themselves,

967
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:12,359
Speaker 4: and I'm excited to learn and just be led.

968
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:14,719
Speaker 3: Not saying I'm not a leader, but it's gonna be

969
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:16,880
Speaker 3: a nice change to just be like, la la la

970
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,239
Speaker 3: la la. What do y'all need me to do, I'm

971
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:21,360
Speaker 3: gonna do it. So yeah, I'm excited.

972
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 4: I think this was a great week for women's basketball,

973
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:27,279
Speaker 4: great week for the WNBA, A great weekend. I think

974
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 4: the Final four Draft, it's all been like really good

975
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 4: and the momentum is still going.

976
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:35,280
Speaker 3: It's still momentum.

977
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:38,080
Speaker 2: Well, I hope our momentuming.

978
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:42,280
Speaker 1: I hope that our Yukon girls get some rest because

979
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:44,479
Speaker 1: they've been on a press tour because I didn't really

980
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:45,440
Speaker 1: think about the fact.

981
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:48,439
Speaker 2: That Kaitlin lost so she didn't have to go.

982
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 1: Do Good Morning America and all that extra shit. I mean,

983
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:56,000
Speaker 1: obviously she had to like really speak for herself and

984
00:45:56,120 --> 00:46:00,160
Speaker 1: whatever and do interviews or whatever, but and still does.

985
00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:01,920
Speaker 2: But it's not on the same level as you have.

986
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:03,399
Speaker 1: To do a parade and you have to do Good

987
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:05,399
Speaker 1: Morning America and you have to do Jimmy Fallen and.

988
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:07,799
Speaker 3: Did any of the did South Carolina get on any

989
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:09,919
Speaker 3: of these things. Last year. I know we keep going

990
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 3: back to this, but it like hurts my soul.

991
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 1: I remember seeing Camilla do she did the drive through

992
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:19,200
Speaker 1: like the Canes drive through shit.

993
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:21,840
Speaker 2: But that's I remember seeing her a lot.

994
00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:26,279
Speaker 4: Yeah, but not Jimmy fallon Good Morning America. Right, No,

995
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 4: because even Kaitlin gone on Jimmy Fallon.

996
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:30,960
Speaker 2: No, I don't think that any of them are.

997
00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:32,440
Speaker 1: Oh Don.

998
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:36,720
Speaker 3: That the press too was done done?

999
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:41,839
Speaker 4: Like I told you, everybody, everybody in Tampa, who are

1000
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:43,319
Speaker 4: room for South Carolina?

1001
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:46,040
Speaker 2: Why I love Don? I love Don?

1002
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:48,920
Speaker 3: Yes, I love Don too, But can we love the girls?

1003
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:49,520
Speaker 2: Please?

1004
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:52,279
Speaker 3: We love Don? We get it, everybody loves Don.

1005
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:55,960
Speaker 4: She's just such a lovable, amazing person. But damn, can

1006
00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:59,319
Speaker 4: we love on the girls please? They deserve it. They

1007
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:02,480
Speaker 4: deserve it anyway. Oh yeah, shout out to Briha and

1008
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:07,319
Speaker 4: Pow Pow and Fagan Sonya three game cocks drafted last

1009
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:10,359
Speaker 4: night or yeah, last night, so shout out to Shout

1010
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:13,640
Speaker 4: out to Calculations, showing them love that we always say

1011
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:15,719
Speaker 4: that they don't get shown, so we must show them

1012
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:16,399
Speaker 4: the love here.

1013
00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 3: But flowers, we haven't been giving flowers.

1014
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:21,839
Speaker 4: We've been forgetting so flowers for the day are going

1015
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:24,120
Speaker 4: to go to all players that were drafted last night.

1016
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:26,880
Speaker 3: It's a beautiful moment. You should all should be very proud.

1017
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:28,719
Speaker 4: I know you probably won't even hear this, but if

1018
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:31,279
Speaker 4: you do, I'm proud of you. I know Mariah's proud

1019
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 4: of you, and you deserve all the flowers. And Welcome

1020
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:38,120
Speaker 4: to the w And this has been another episode of

1021
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:41,560
Speaker 4: the Full Circle Podcast. We will see you next week

1022
00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:43,080
Speaker 4: when I will be in Seattle.

1023
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:46,480
Speaker 2: Bye.

1024
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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to Full Circle. We'll be back next

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00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:52,600
Speaker 1: week with more basketball for the girls, by the girls.

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00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:55,000
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1029
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:03,480
Speaker 1: and Mariah Rose. Our executive producer is Jesse Katz. Our

1030
00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:07,360
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1031
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:12,040
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