WEBVTT - Sophie Cunningham gets REAL about Indiana Fever STRUGGLES with Bravo's West Wilson 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:00.960 Once you get them going. 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:02.440 I'm telling you because I've been on the other end 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:04.440 of it, it is so hard, and like our fans 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:07.600 are just as like fired up, dialed in focus, feisty 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:09.799 as we are, and so if you get them into it, 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:11.280 it's just like it's like that extra. 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:28.639 So our fans are great. I love our fans truly. Well, 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:29.760 what episode is this? 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:32.720 Forty? 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:37.440 The Big or Baby We're Bad? 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:40.360 It's been a minute. Yeah, hey, hey guys, sorry, it's 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:45.800 been a sec. Show me something Podcasts Episode forty. I 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:49.720 think we start off with good news. Oh yeah about 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:51.960 our nomination or whatever that you and I had no 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:53.320 idea was even happening. 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:57.400 Badass, but like thinking for the listeners, Like to the listeners, 0:00:57.400 --> 0:00:58.800 you guys are what makes this thing go. 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:00.440 And I'm not kidding. 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:02.480 Everywhere we go it's I was like, oh, we love 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:04.520 your pie, we love your pie, we love the tea. 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:06.880 Like that's good stuff. I love hearing it. 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:07.640 Yeah. 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:10.040 Wait, so let's read this real quick. 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:17.880 Uh. 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:23.240 The Hashtag Sports Awards nominated for Best Women's Sport Sports 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:27.920 Content and Sports Podcast. So we're gonna give ourselves a 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:29.880 round of applause if that's okay with you. Guys. 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:34.319 That's right, that's right. I like it. 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:35.119 That feels good. 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:36.640 Wait, so when does it come out? If we want 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:36.880 or not. 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:40.720 Yeah, we're gonna to We're gonna to tap in cav here. 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:43.520 June Sottle. 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:45.800 Okay, wait, who's our competition. 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:49.560 I'll have to figure out the other dominees. They're not 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:51.520 important because we're the best a thousand. 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:53.200 I want to shoot on them real quick. So come on, 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:54.080 tell us who they are. 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:57.920 Uh, I'll find those up in effect. So we're so 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:01.160 the critics nominated for this award also a fan vote 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:04.960 for most Entertaining Podcasts, and that's against every podcast up there. 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:06.880 So if you guys see us and then still hit 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:08.960 the vote, poker votes because. 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:16.040 If you guys won't vote, we can spill mores me. 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:20.560 I love it. That's a big deal though, Like that's fun. 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:23.200 Yeah, no, it's cool. I also liked the picture that 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:25.720 they used. I've never seen that one of us before. 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:28.720 I like, I think, I don't I look bad in 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:30.680 a lot of pictures. This one's not horrible and you 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:31.640 look silly and like. 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:36.960 It's like, like that's just that's just good clean fun. 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:41.000 That's us, good clean fund so us that is us. Okay, 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.680 I so much shit has happened since we last talked 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:49.639 and a week Yeah, do you want to start basketball 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:50.480 or do you want to spark? 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:52.200 Spark? Boobs on the beach? 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:54.560 What what's that? 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:56.720 Your s I pick st. 0:02:58.240 --> 0:02:59.400 Everyone's like, yeah, what is that? 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:01.600 Because I saw no boobs on the beach, we saw 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:03.040 straight sternum and skin. 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:08.400 I thought something happened with you. I was like, what 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:10.000 the boobs on the beach you're talking about? 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:13.240 Oh no, not me. I' mean no, no beaches for me. 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.160 Fever two and two. Yeah, but we haven't we haven't 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:19.360 talked since the season, like regular season started. 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:19.560 Ye. 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:22.400 Yeah, so you're in the thick of it now, guys. 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:26.320 We are fucking w n B, a full head of steam, 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:30.040 pedal to the metal, no breaks. Here we go. Yeah. 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:34.040 The one clip I would like to flag first before 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:37.840 we talk about how many points you had, uh CC 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:42.040 getting crunk like injuries whatever. It was your your block 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:47.360 down low. So those of you don't know that's not 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:53.680 Sophie's not chasing blocks every game, but that you were. 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:55.920 You looked excited, but you it was so like it 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:58.040 was so your celebration was so cute and other people 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:00.640 were like act like you've been there before. But that 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:02.720 was funny because it was such a girl it was 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:03.920 such a girl celebration. 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:07.400 Okay, here's what happened. Is like I I am not 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:10.160 a shot blocker. Everyone knows that I'm more of a 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.200 shot hacker, Like I will foul the shit out of 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:15.080 you before I even touched, Like that's what I'm known for. 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:18.119 So when I blocked it, and I've been really trying 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.200 just to like place all it even straight up, Like 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:22.200 fouls are up a lot already, but they always are 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:23.839 at the beginning of the season, so like there's no 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:24.600 surprise there. 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:28.480 Ress are actually doing a good job this year so far, Like. 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:36.000 Whoa weird reverse fine reversee right. 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:41.159 But I went and like kind of helped to like 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:42.920 help site. So I'm putting my mic up so you 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:43.960 guys can hear me clearly. 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:46.599 That needs to be a quote card on Bleacher Report, 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:50.599 Complex Sports, Yahoo Sports Sports Center, Sophie Cunningham says, refs 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:52.160 are doing a good job this year, and then I 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:53.200 get just a picture. 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:54.039 Thank you, thank you. 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:57.279 But I went over there and like I just like 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:59.320 went straight up and I did time it kind of well, 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:03.000 and I was so shocked I was so shocked. 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:05.520 I got the block and I was like, and everyone's like, 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:08.080 act like you've been there. I was like, honestly, never 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:11.040 been there. That is my first rodeo. Haven't done it. 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:14.280 The only time I did that was against Lindsay's little kid, Noah, 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:16.680 Like when we play out like swattershit you know. 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:18.800 Yeaheah, she's two, she's too. 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:20.560 I gotta get my confidence up somewhere. 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:25.560 But I would like to say too, I thought that 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:29.320 we have the potential to be a very good defensive. 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:32.400 Team, especially when you're getting blocks. I want to go 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:34.760 look at what your block blocks averages. 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:37.440 Right, probably like negative point seven. 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:39.040 Can't be negative. 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:40.320 I don't get them. 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:47.240 I have to find this. But anyways, continue, Well. 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.000 I was just saying that I said earlier before season 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:52.120 started that we're going to be a good defensive team 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:53.320 because I think we have the potential. 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:56.080 We're like sitting at twelfth right now. 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:02.279 Not good. We're in and there's a lot we'll be fine. 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:04.640 Like we just we just got to figure out what 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:07.120 coverage really works for us and like what suits our team, 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:09.920 and once we do, I think we really will be good. 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:11.520 But we just have to get in our flow. It's 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:12.000 the beginning. 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:17.440 What you're averaging a half block of game right now? What? Oh, 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:21.320 excuse me? Point three half steal? You're point three? 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:22.080 Wait a Steeler. 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.360 You're averaging half a steel game and one point three 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:28.160 blocks per year? 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:30.440 Yes, that has to be wrong. I have not gotten 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:31.480 a block in years. 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:38.480 And then career is point two, which is that. Yeah, yeah, 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:42.640 don't bring don't bring that fucking ball down low. That's right. 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:49.520 Kick that ship back out on there, bitch, Sophie over there. 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:51.479 That's what I'm saying, did you Sophie women? 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:53.320 Did you see his Did you see his three pointer 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:53.840 last night? 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:56.960 Dude, I've watched the whole game that I honestly think 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:00.000 that this is going to be almost like the chamber 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.720 Ship game. This should probably be the championship game. This 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:04.520 is gonna be an elite series. 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:08.200 I usually am like, if you're that big, like, what 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:10.080 else would you be doing in life? You should be 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:12.120 good at basketball, Like, if you're seven to five, you 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:13.040 should be geod at basketball. 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:13.120 Like it. 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:15.360 That's kind of how I feel about Giannis. However, he 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:20.000 like it is weird that someone that big can move 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.680 their body dude like that, like that would be impossible. 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:26.200 But that fucking three pointer when he shot it where 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:29.560 he shot it from and the and his position and 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:32.840 body type is like, it's pretty fucking crazy. I love it. 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:35.920 He that's like I think they said it even on 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:37.280 the broadcast like a couple of years ago. 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:40.080 That's exactly where Steph hit it. And like it's like, 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:42.440 I mean, Wimby. 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:44.920 Is in stuff that nine real old times. 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:49.000 Yeah, yeah, Weimby's not real weird, He's not real. I 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:49.440 love it. 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:53.360 I also saw CC hit that corner three and then 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:56.640 they posted, Uh, does Tyree's Haliburton go to all of 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:57.160 your games? 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.280 He goes to a lot of them. He's a big fan. 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:03.559 I feel like he's really good, like ambassador for you guys. 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:06.080 It is he is, and like he's he's just a good, 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:08.200 solid human to him and his fiance. 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:11.000 Day they're just good people and like they just love basketball. 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:13.640 I don't know if Jade does, but Tyree's definitely does, 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:15.520 and so he's like always there when he can. Actually 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.760 a lot of the Pracers coaching staff because they're starting 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:20.440 to like start training and stuff like that, so they're 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:21.640 all just starting to come to our games. 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:23.880 It's nice. I just think it's cool, Like I love 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:27.320 if you watch like a baseball game and there's NFL 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:29.480 players behind home, played like a hockey game and there's 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:31.960 NBA guys, Like, I think it's really cool to see 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:35.800 pro athletes from the same city like be at each 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:38.920 other's stadiums and arenas supporting each other. I think that's 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:41.360 like a really fucking cool thing. And so shout out 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:42.000 to dude. 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:44.440 I do too for some reason, Like I don't know 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:46.520 what it is, but it feels good when you have 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:49.240 other pro athletes there. So like George Kittle was there 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:51.839 last night for the for the game, and like it's 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:55.199 just it's just cool for okay see and yeah Santonio, 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:58.160 Yeah yeah, but it really is cool to just see 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:02.800 like other crazy elite athletes come in like supporting other athletes. 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:04.880 Like that's fun. They're a fan for once. I like it. 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:11.040 Yeah, No, it's dope. Yeah. How how is the body good? 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:12.520 Are we feel fresh? 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:13.240 Feel fresh? 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:13.439 Well? 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:16.560 I mean yeah, I mean we're everyone's already tired, but 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:18.600 like that's what season's all about, is just being in 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:19.840 a constant state of exhaustion. 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:22.080 But I do really do my knees holding up. 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:23.960 I feel good. Our team is feeling good. I know 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:27.640 i'd be miss last game. Uh, but you know she 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:30.680 should be fine, like rather now than later in the season. 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:33.880 So I feel like we're solid. We had a good 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:35.280 practice today, we play tomorrow. 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:38.200 I also, you probably won't bring it up, but so 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:40.640 I will. I mean, seventeen points off the bench is 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:42.600 fuck it. Look that's gonna be a third round of applause. 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:46.040 You thank you, keV hop In and give me something, dude. 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:52.480 Come on, we're feeling positive today, everybody. Yeah, hey watch 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:53.320 the finger guns. 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:56.920 Oh oh, I absolutely I have learned a learn of 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:58.920 new fun facts. They not make the headlines of the 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:03.120 cutting room floor. But apparently peace signs people are now 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:06.079 on the internet are using your fingerprints to steal your identity. 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:08.920 So maybe peace on the other way you get your fingernails. 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:09.960 Can they identify this? 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:16.720 Oh wait? So someone added us on Twitter and said 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:19.600 did you see that? Now there's crazy peeps going around 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.320 impersonating you and emailing people, especially those that leave comments 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:27.520 or applies. And then they tagged you and myself and 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:30.640 it's a fake email for me that says, hey, amazing fan, 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:32.280 I just want to take a moment to say thank you. 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:33.920 I saw your comment on my recent post, and it 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:35.720 honestly meant a lot to me. The love, support and 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:37.840 kind words you show me never go unnoticed. On the 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:39.640 hard days and the good ones, Having people in my 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:41.920 corner like you mean more than ever. Thank you for 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:44.560 showing up and cheering me on. So someone is out there, 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:51.360 maybe not stealing your identity, but sending fake encouragement emails. 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:53.440 To random people. That's how it starts. And then they 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:55.800 ask for thirty thousand dollars. So this is a great thing, 0:10:55.920 --> 0:11:01.160 yes today, real quick, I do you think that I'm 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:07.400 ever asking for money or pictures of your feet or anything. 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:09.599 It is not me. It is not me. 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:12.240 If I'm if I'm asking for money, it is me. 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:14.360 It is me this summer, it's me. 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:18.080 I'm telling you that the amount of Like I had 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:20.240 an old friend from a zoo, he's like a doctor. 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:23.360 Now his freaking eighty year old client try to wire 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:26.080 me thirty thousand dollars or wire someone thirty thousand dollars 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:28.960 thinking they were talking to me, and I'm like, this 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.440 is not me, Like I feel so bad, and like 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:34.640 security is trying to like get to these people because 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.320 it has truly become a problem. Like there has been 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:39.680 two or three people leave there, like leaving their families 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:40.880 thinking they're about to marry me. 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:42.240 It is bad. 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:43.600 Yeah, so like that, I. 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:46.480 Will say, and if we can cut this, if Sophie 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:47.839 wants me to. But when we were in Indy for 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:50.800 the final four, we all like we like finished the 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:53.199 day and we were at the hotel bar like getting beers, 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:56.640 and I was like, where's Sophie And someone was like, oh, 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:58.800 she's she's talking to the FBI in one of the 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:01.040 one of the meeting rooms. It's real. I was like, 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:03.280 what the fuck. Yeah, And it's just because all these 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:04.440 people do weird shit. 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:06.520 I guess, well it makes me feel bad because like 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:08.880 I do, I am thankful for my fans and I 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:11.120 do I love them and this is like what makes 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:14.880 it so fun. But I would never ask anything from people, 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:16.640 like I just want to pull out a good time 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:18.520 and a good vibe, like, but I'm never gonna ask 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:20.800 for stuff. So I'm glad you couldn't brought that up. 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:25.000 Yeah yeah, guys, stop wiring money, okay. 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:26.360 And if you and make san to. 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:30.040 My account and and tell your grandparents next time you 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:32.200 see him. It really is the old people makes me 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:34.120 wire young people money. 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:39.320 Ever, yeah, yeah, whatever, but you know there's that so okay, 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:41.760 not to be dramatic, but my Jay Love headphones have 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:45.000 basically become my personality trait at this point. Airport on 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:48.640 Jim on coffee run definitely on. If you see me 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:51.600 on public odds are I've got something Jaylab in my ears. 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:53.840 And somehow the battery just refuses to quit, Like I 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:55.800 keep waiting for mine to die, and they're just like, no, 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:58.760 we're good. That's actually very true. These have I don't 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:01.679 think I've charged these more than one like these are 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:03.640 just sports for eternity. 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:07.000 And let's talk about sound, because bad audio can ruin 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:10.000 my whole mood. These are super crisp and plenty loud. 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:12.079 I've been using the overyear pair on flights and I'm 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:15.200 telling you, game changer, noise canceling, elite, super comfortable, too 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:17.680 great for listening to your favorite podcast. 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:18.319 That should be us. 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:20.679 So whether you're locked out the gym or out rocking 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:23.280 to your favorite song, they've got something for whatever mood. 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:26.160 You're in headphones, earbuds, wireless speakers, and more. You get 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:28.240 premium features without paying premium prices. 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:30.679 So look for the blue box at Walmart, Target Best 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:33.679 buy and more or use code something on j loob 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:36.880 dot com for twenty percent off your order. So tomorrow 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:38.319 we played the Portland Fire. 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:41.560 They are a new franchise, so they were actually a 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:43.800 part of the W a long time ago. For three years, 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:47.439 stuff happened, But now they're back and so they're still 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:49.959 trying to find out who they are. They're young, they 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:53.000 are good. Everyone in our league this year is good, 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:55.520 and so we definitely have another test coming in. But 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:57.280 I feel like our team we just have to focus 0:13:57.360 --> 0:13:58.720 more on, like protecting home court. 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:00.200 Like it is so hard to win on the road. 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:02.320 It's hard to win in general. 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:05.559 But there has to be there has to be a 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:09.160 certain level of upping your anti even more when you're 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:10.839 at home because your fans are there. 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:12.880 They're coming now, they're spending a lot of money, they're 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:13.559 excited to be there. 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:16.280 They're a great six man for us, and so I 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:19.800 feel I'm someone who's very passionate about protecting home court advantage. 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:25.000 What to you makes away games in the W harder? 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:27.920 Is it crowd noise? Is it sleeping in a hotel 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:29.760 before the game, Is it a flight before the game? 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:34.440 Is it not knowing like being in a new environment 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:37.200 like new Court. What to you makes it hardest? 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:41.720 Honestly, I don't even know if it makes it hard 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:44.840 because being with the fever, everywhere we go we have 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.440 just as many fans as where we're going. But it's 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:51.000 also just like you know, the mental like you were 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:54.680 at another person's home arena, and it's like kind of 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:56.840 the game favors them, Like I don't know if the 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.160 refs think it kind of favors them, like the flow 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:01.520 always favors And yeah. 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:02.440 Sometimes it is the arena. 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:05.440 Sometimes it is the environment of just not being used 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:07.640 to playing there a lot, and so I think there's 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:08.800 a lot of different factors. 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:09.800 But I just. 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.680 Want Gamebridge to be one of the hardest places to 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:15.560 play when people have to come to Indianapolis. 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:21.120 Fuck yeah, yeah, yeah, what's your go to get the 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:23.120 crowd height? Move? Are you one of the East? I 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:26.400 feel like I feel like kayln oh yeah, I Kaylin 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:28.680 I Owe. Any clip of her is always. 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.400 Dude, because if they if they once you get them going. 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:32.880 I'm telling you because I've been on the other end 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:34.880 of it. It is so hard and like our fans 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:38.040 are just as like fired up, dialed in focus, feisty 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:40.240 as we are, and so if you get them into it, 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:43.240 it's just like it's like that extram So our fans 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:43.640 are great. 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.480 I love our fans truly, dude. 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:51.280 Hell yeah, Uh Where I wonder where this Portland team plays. 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:53.560 I guess probably where the Blazers play, right. 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:55.840 Honestly, I don't know because we haven't been up there yet. 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:58.240 That's our next like road trip. It's like sanfran and Portland. 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:01.280 So oh they play in the little at a center, Portland, Oregon, 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:02.600 same as the Trail Builders. 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:03.160 Good. 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:07.040 Yeah, Well, it seems like a lot of a lot 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:11.200 of WNBA. I would say games have been sold out, 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:14.320 like it doesn't matter who's playing, especially these new franchises, 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:17.240 like they're excited for a new team. They're a supportive community, 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.120 and I think that's why the WBA brought them to 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:20.880 these cities, because they knew that they would have a 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:21.560 lot of support. 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:24.760 But I know Toronto has been absolutely rocking for games. 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:29.280 Portland and then everyone else like it's just now it's 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:31.840 you already kind of have an established base of of 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:34.200 fans anyway, and so I don't know, I'm proud of 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:36.960 the WNBA, like I think we're we're we're doing good. 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:37.360 As a whole. 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:38.200 So that's nice. 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:42.200 We have come a long way from where we were 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:44.880 last year when you were recording this podcast because I 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:50.240 hated everything and you hated everyone everything. Wait can I 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:51.960 but you said the rest are doing a good job 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:54.800 this year. I'm curious what in game four, what that 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:56.960 looks like to you? Consistency. 0:16:57.600 --> 0:17:00.480 It is all about consistency, And I think they're actually 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:02.680 doing a good job because right now, I know it's 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:05.320 annoying and it kind of sucks maybe as fans because 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:09.159 like you're there longer. As players, it kind of sucks 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:12.040 because when they're blowing the whistle every single day, every 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:14.040 single time down the court, it's hard to get into 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:17.840 a rhythm or a flow. But I hope people quote 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:20.760 me on this, but I think that is a good 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:23.280 thing that they are calling everything because it is making 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:25.159 us players and teams be like, Okay, we need to 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:27.960 stop foiling or we need to be better because it's 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:29.879 always tight in the beginning of seasons, like they're going 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:33.320 to call everything, and they should and then let playoff basketball, 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:34.919 and like towards the end of the season, let that 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:38.040 be a little bit more physical and playoff basketball. But 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:41.200 I think last year is just so physical and too 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:42.760 much from the jump, and so I think the rest 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:44.720 are doing a fantastic job so far this year. 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:48.360 Let's go, let's go. 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:50.639 That deserves another one. 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:52.919 Every team is championship or busts. So it's like a 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:55.879 cliche question, but like, who do you guys want to be? 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:59.240 Yeah, I think that's a good question. I think right now. 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:02.640 The positive is we're not gonna peak too soon. We 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:05.560 have a lot to work on, so that's great. Yeah, 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:08.320 I think we just have so much potential and once 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:10.840 we can really click offensively and get in the rhythm 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:13.159 because we do have a lot of people returning, but 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:16.240 we also have so many new players that are that 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:18.640 are playing big minutes that no one's ever played with 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:20.359 or we haven't played as a unit together, and that 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:23.040