Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we've officially
Speaker 1: entered basque soccery season, hawk, socket ball, sock baskiddy, whatever,
Speaker 1: whatever you call it. It's the magical week long period
Speaker 1: when the WNBA and WSL and PWHL are all in action.
Speaker 2: What a time to be alive.
Speaker 1: It's Monday, May nineteenth, and on today's show we'll be
Speaker 1: getting into all of that action with Big Citrus joining
Speaker 1: me to discuss everything from the WNBA's season opening weekend,
Speaker 1: including my adventures at the Valkyrie debut to the PWHL
Speaker 1: playoffs and the final two facing off in the Walter
Speaker 1: Cup Finals, plus celebrating with banners and rings, an Italian sweep,
Speaker 1: and some unanswered questions. It's all coming up right after
Speaker 1: this happy Monday slices. Welcome back.
Speaker 2: Here's what you need to know today.
Speaker 1: Let's start with the PWHL where the Walter Cup Finals
Speaker 1: are set with the Ottawa Charge preparing to take on
Speaker 1: the defending champs, the Minnesota Frost. Ottawa clinched a spot
Speaker 1: in the best of five finals with a two to
Speaker 1: one win over Montreal on Friday, winning that semi final
Speaker 1: series three to one. You remember earlier last week, the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Frost upended the Toronto Scepters for a second straight year,
Speaker 1: bouncing them and finding their way back to the finals.
Speaker 1: Finals get underway with Game one on Tuesday night in Ottawa.
Speaker 1: The Charge will host Games one and two at TD
Speaker 1: Place before the series heads to Minnesota for Game three.
Speaker 1: More on the PWHL a little later in the show
Speaker 1: to the WNBA, where the twenty twenty five season tipped
Speaker 1: off this weekend with a couple close games, a few blowouts,
Speaker 1: and lots of exciting storylines.
Speaker 2: Let's start with the game.
Speaker 1: I was at the Golden State Valkyries franchise opener on Friday,
Speaker 1: which the Valks lost eighty four to sixty seven to
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Sparks. Yeah, they lost the game, but
Speaker 1: I have to say the night was a success. So
Speaker 1: shout out to President Jess Smith and the whole Valkyrie's team,
Speaker 1: not just for the incredible hospitality, but the absolutely killer
Speaker 1: opening night, the videos on the JumboTron, the sponsor activations,
Speaker 1: the dance team that was everyone from ages ten to
Speaker 1: fifty seven, the ties to Bay Area hoops of the
Speaker 1: past e forty. It was a scene, and even though
Speaker 1: they lost, I think it's clear that the fan base
Speaker 1: are super excited to have women's hoops in the Bay
Speaker 1: and that they're going to be patient, get excited about
Speaker 1: the bright spots on the roster, and be ready for
Speaker 1: the team to get better as the franchise grows. There
Speaker 1: was one tough moment on Friday night, though. Sparks guard
Speaker 1: Ray Burrell went down in the first quarter after an
Speaker 1: awkward collision on a foul, and after the game it
Speaker 1: was announced that she'll miss six to eight weeks with
Speaker 1: a right leg injury. It was honestly super sad watching
Speaker 1: her get carried off the court just minutes into a fresh,
Speaker 1: exciting season when everyone was so pumped to be back
Speaker 1: out there. So we're wishing Ray the best in her recovery.
Speaker 1: Let's add east to New York, where the Liberty got
Speaker 1: their season started in style, handing out rings and raising
Speaker 1: last year's championship banner into the rafters at Barclays. Did
Speaker 1: y'all see these rings? These rings are huge and beautiful,
Speaker 1: and of course even Ellie got a ring, which we love.
Speaker 1: This team was fresh off the franchise's first ever WNBA
Speaker 1: title and proved they still got it. They defeated the
Speaker 1: Las Vegas Aces ninety two seventy eight, with Brianna Stewart
Speaker 1: recording twenty five points and Natasha Cloud putting on a
Speaker 1: show in her Liberty debut, contributing twenty two points, nine assists,
Speaker 1: three steals, and two blocks. Asia Wilson had thirty one
Speaker 1: points in the loss, all while rocking her new signature
Speaker 1: A one shoes.
Speaker 2: Of course, let's head to Dallas.
Speaker 1: Where Paige Becker's Welcome to the WNBA party was spoiled
Speaker 1: by fellow Yukon grad Nofisa Collier, who scored thirty four
Speaker 1: points to lead the Minnesota Links to a ninety nine
Speaker 1: eighty four win. Beckers finished the night with ten points,
Speaker 1: shooting three for ten from the field. Ari k Agunbawallee
Speaker 1: led the way for the Wings with sixteen points, while
Speaker 1: DJ Carrington looked strong in her Dallas debut, adding fifteen.
Speaker 1: There was also allegedly a little bit of drama in
Speaker 1: this game, as Tara McCown left the game before the
Speaker 1: clock hit.
Speaker 2: All zeros with her team still in the huddle.
Speaker 1: She only played five minutes in that one, and if
Speaker 1: social media accounts are to be believed, she did not
Speaker 1: look happy when she was heading out.
Speaker 2: We'll keep you updated on that story.
Speaker 1: To the Midwest, where the Indiana Fever opened their season
Speaker 1: with a ninety three fifty eight blowout win over My
Speaker 1: Chicago Sky. Caitlyn Clark a triple double in the first
Speaker 1: game of the season. The thirty five point win is
Speaker 1: tied for the second largest Fever win in franchise history,
Speaker 1: but lots of attention after the game was focused on
Speaker 1: a chippy moment that happened between Caitlin and Angel Reese.
Speaker 2: We all love this rivalry.
Speaker 1: We are looking for this rivalry to grow, but sometimes
Speaker 1: maybe we're getting a little too excited about what happens
Speaker 1: between these two players. This wasn't that big of a deal.
Speaker 1: Reese was going for a layup. Clark committed a hard
Speaker 1: foul and then pushed her, causing her to fall. Reese
Speaker 1: got quickly to her feet and yelled at Clark and
Speaker 1: then Aleah Boston tried to keep the two players apart.
Speaker 1: Clark's initial foul was upgraded to a flagrant one. It
Speaker 1: was a good take fowl to prevent a wide open
Speaker 1: bucket for Reese, but she had a little shove at
Speaker 1: the end with her left hand, and that's what made
Speaker 1: it quote unquote excessive, and it made it a good
Speaker 1: call to make it a flagrant one. Boston and Reese
Speaker 1: picked up offsetting technical fouls for the little RGI bargie afterward,
Speaker 1: but after the game, both Clark and Reese were quick
Speaker 1: to note it was just part of the game of basketball,
Speaker 1: said Reese, quote, basketball play.
Speaker 2: Ref's got it right. Move on.
Speaker 1: Honestly, I think it's as simple as that. Things get
Speaker 1: heated in the moment, they get sorted. Real competitors, keep
Speaker 1: it pushing, keep it moving. I have already seen way
Speaker 1: too many fans making a big deal out of this
Speaker 1: and making it fit the narrative of whichever quote unquote
Speaker 1: side they're on. We're not doing this this year. Okay,
Speaker 1: We're not doing it. It was a hard foul, it
Speaker 1: was a good call. We're all set. Meantime, on Sunday,
Speaker 1: the WNBA announced that it was investigating some hateful comments
Speaker 1: from a fan during that game. Now, the league hasn't
Speaker 1: publicly said the context of the comments, but multiple media
Speaker 1: outlets have reported that they were racist comments directed at
Speaker 1: Angel Reese. In a statement, the league said, quote, the
Speaker 1: WNBA strongly condemns racism, hate and discrimination in all forms.
Speaker 1: They have no place in our league or in society.
Speaker 1: We are aware of the allegations and are looking into
Speaker 1: the matter. The Indiana Fever also issued a statement saying
Speaker 1: the team was working with the league to investigate the
Speaker 1: matter and was committed to providing a safe environment for
Speaker 1: all players. Good to know both the league and teams
Speaker 1: are responding immediately and with intention to this kind of thing.
Speaker 1: We'll have tons more on WNBA opening weekend in segment
Speaker 1: two of today's show when Alex and Meish join me.
Speaker 2: For a good old fashioned, big Citrus chat.
Speaker 1: Moving on to the NWSL, the Utah Royals and Washington
Speaker 1: Spirit competed in a classic NWSL chaos match on Saturday
Speaker 1: at Audiefield in DC. The game opened with a league
Speaker 1: record four goals in the first twenty two minutes, with
Speaker 1: each team scoring a pair.
Speaker 2: Utah then added a third.
Speaker 1: And hung on to a three to two lead for
Speaker 1: most of the game until the very end of the
Speaker 1: second half, when Spirit defender Casey Krueger found an equalizer
Speaker 1: in the thirteenth minute of thirteen minutes of stoppage time.
Speaker 2: You can't do it any later.
Speaker 1: The game ended in a three to three draw, with
Speaker 1: both teams picking up one point. More NWSL angels sit
Speaker 1: DA defender Savvy King was discharged from the hospital on
Speaker 1: Saturday after she collapsed in a game just over a
Speaker 1: week earlier and underwent.
Speaker 2: Subsequent heart surgery.
Speaker 1: On Saturday, as Angel City returned to competition for a
Speaker 1: match against AFC, players from both teams took the field
Speaker 1: wearing black shirts with King's initials and number SK three.
Speaker 1: King posted an update to Instagram on Sunday, writing quote,
Speaker 1: I'm still finding the words to express just how much
Speaker 1: your love and support have meant to me over these.
Speaker 2: Past few days.
Speaker 1: What I do know is that I wouldn't be getting
Speaker 1: through this without my incredible family by my side, my
Speaker 1: amazing teammates who have shown up for me and prayed
Speaker 1: for me, the fans, the entire soccer community, and the
Speaker 1: outstanding medical team here at ACFC who saved my life
Speaker 1: and cared for me every step of the way. I
Speaker 1: know God's got me, and I'm looking forward to recovering
Speaker 1: and getting back out.
Speaker 2: On the field. End quote.
Speaker 1: We also have an update on how the NWSL plans
Speaker 1: to address similar situations moving forward. We mentioned last week
Speaker 1: that the NWSL Players Association issued a statement saying that
Speaker 1: the game between Angel City and Utah should not have
Speaker 1: been allowed to continue following King's collapse on the field.
Speaker 2: On Friday, the league issued its.
Speaker 1: Own statement, saying it regretted that the game had been
Speaker 1: allowed to continue and vowing that any future game involving
Speaker 1: a similar situation would be abandoned. Speaking to reporters on Saturday,
Speaker 1: League Commissioner Jessica Berman was asked about the incident, and
Speaker 1: while she committed to ensuring the league was better prepared
Speaker 1: moving forward, she offered very little insight on why the
Speaker 1: match involving King was allowed to continue in the first place.
Speaker 1: On Friday, she didn't provide an answer to a question
Speaker 1: from the athletics to Maria Griffin about whether she was
Speaker 1: awake at the time of the incident, which was after
Speaker 1: eleven pm Eastern, nor did she have an answer to
Speaker 1: whether the league had a replacement ambulance in place when
Speaker 1: the game resumed. Now, listen, I don't expect a commissioner
Speaker 1: to have the answer to every single thing or know
Speaker 1: exactly what to do in every tricky situation, but she
Speaker 1: does have to answer those questions to the best of
Speaker 1: her ability, and it stood out that she didn't more NWSL.
Speaker 1: Kansas City center back Kayla Sharples joined the NWSL's five
Speaker 1: thousand club on Friday, playing her five thousandth minute in
Speaker 1: a one to zero win over the Orlando Prize Sharp Bulls,
Speaker 1: who joined the league in twenty nineteen, has played for
Speaker 1: Kansas City for just under a year. She was traded
Speaker 1: to the Current from BFC last August. Prior to joining Bay,
Speaker 1: she was a member of the Chicago Stars Slash Red
Speaker 1: Stars Slash Color Neutral Stars. To Tennis, where some cool
Speaker 1: history was made at the Italian Open this weekend. Italy's
Speaker 1: owned Jasmin Pallini won the singles tournament, defeating Coco Goff
Speaker 1: in two sets on Saturday to become the first home
Speaker 1: player to win an Italian Open singles title in forty years.
Speaker 1: After the win, Paulini said, it didn't feel real. Quote
Speaker 1: I came here as a kid to see this tournament,
Speaker 1: but winning it and holding up this trophy wasn't even
Speaker 1: in my dreams end quote. Then on Sunday, Paulini won
Speaker 1: the doubles title two competing alongside partner Sarah Irani. That
Speaker 1: final was a nail bier with Paulini and Irani needing
Speaker 1: to mount comebacks after starting each.
Speaker 2: Set with a four to zero deficit.
Speaker 1: With her second win of the tournament, Paulini became the
Speaker 1: first player to win both the singles and doubles titles
Speaker 1: at a WTA one thousand tournament since two thousand and nine. Also,
Speaker 1: we had tons of NCAA SOPT action going on this weekend.
Speaker 1: We'll have your update on that and tomorrow show. All right, y'all,
Speaker 1: we got to take a quick break. When we come back.
Speaker 2: Big Citrus jumps on to discuss the opening weekend of
Speaker 2: the WNBA season. Welcome back, y'all.
Speaker 1: Hope you had as much fun as we did watching
Speaker 1: all of the WNBA action this weekend.
Speaker 2: It's kind of hard to.
Speaker 1: Believe that it's already back, like it felt like a
Speaker 1: long break before we got our WNBA hoops. But also
Speaker 1: between Unrivaled and March Madness that everything else, it just
Speaker 1: never stops.
Speaker 2: There's always some good hoops to be talking about.
Speaker 1: And I have to say my trip to the Bay
Speaker 1: Area for the Valkyries opening night was so awesome. Not
Speaker 1: only did I get there for the game, but there
Speaker 1: was a dinner the night before a JP Morgan Chase
Speaker 1: Dinner with Deep Blue, and it was in this beautiful
Speaker 1: room in the Chase Center with views across the Bay
Speaker 1: and some really awesome partners and women in investment and
Speaker 1: lots of There was a panel with Jess Smith among others,
Speaker 1: and a gorgeous dinner of course Bay Area, so it
Speaker 1: was all real fancy with silver Oak and Toomey wines
Speaker 1: and oysters and gorgeous soured oat bread and this amazing
Speaker 1: female chef. I just love how the Bay does their
Speaker 1: food and drink right because I'm.
Speaker 2: Super into that stuff.
Speaker 1: So that was super fun and great to talk to
Speaker 1: so many people that were really interested in the investment side.
Speaker 1: And there was something I heard in the panel from
Speaker 1: Jess that I thought was worth sharing. And I think
Speaker 1: she's mentioned this potential on the show before, but it
Speaker 1: really stood out to me the way she talked about
Speaker 1: how they recognized it in.
Speaker 2: The Bay Area.
Speaker 1: There are so many basketball fans, but they are really
Speaker 1: distinct fans who are looking for an experience that's different
Speaker 1: from what they get from the Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 2: So ten thousand season ticket.
Speaker 1: Holders for both the Warriors and the Valkyries, and there's
Speaker 1: only ten percent crossover between the two. So only ten
Speaker 1: percent of those ten thousand are folks who have season
Speaker 1: tickets to both teams. That means that they're serving a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of people that didn't.
Speaker 2: Feel like they were served by the Warriors.
Speaker 1: Maybe they still root for them, maybe they still want
Speaker 1: to go, but especially with ticket prices the way they
Speaker 1: are for the Warriors at this point, it is frankly
Speaker 1: untenable to expect to go for anything less than five
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. And that's even if you already have paid
Speaker 1: for the right to have season tickets and everything else.
Speaker 1: So for there to be an option for fans who
Speaker 1: are in the Bay who want to catch them good
Speaker 1: basketball and maybe fans who don't feel served by the
Speaker 1: NBA or men's sports, that's really cool and I think
Speaker 1: it's something we probably haven't talked about as much in
Speaker 1: this is how much you are potentially reaching a fan
Speaker 1: base that feels like they haven't been thought of. And
Speaker 1: that was what was noticeable on opening night was it was,
Speaker 1: of course similar in a lot of other ways to
Speaker 1: a basketball game.
Speaker 2: Right there was.
Speaker 1: Intros with a really elaborate video, There was a merch
Speaker 1: on the seats for everybody that was the intendance for
Speaker 1: the very first game, but it also felt very specific
Speaker 1: and special to women's basketball. For instance, they have this
Speaker 1: opening drum, giant drum that someone hits to kind of
Speaker 1: get the game going, and they had Anna Johnson, who
Speaker 1: was from the San Francisco Pioneers, the very first professional
Speaker 1: women's basketball team in the Bay Area, be the first
Speaker 1: person to bang that drum. It felt very intentional, It
Speaker 1: felt very specific for them to acknowledge the history of
Speaker 1: women's basketball in the area. And then there were a
Speaker 1: lot of Bay Area touches during the opening intros. It
Speaker 1: was too short from the Bay blow the whistle, which
Speaker 1: was pretty rad. During halftime, of course, E forty came
Speaker 1: out and did a live performance, and it just really
Speaker 1: felt like they tied in the elements of what makes
Speaker 1: the Bay special with this brand new opportunity to touch
Speaker 1: fans and as far as the basketball man, there's some
Speaker 1: work to be done, let's just say that, but still
Speaker 1: a good effort from the team, and it seems like
Speaker 1: a fan base that's going to be really excited about
Speaker 1: watching them develop.
Speaker 2: Let's get to the basketball of this weekend, not.
Speaker 1: Just that game, but all the other games that we
Speaker 1: got to watch the first looks at players on new teams,
Speaker 1: players who came back and reasserted themselves from day one.
Speaker 1: So I want to bring in producer Alex and producer
Speaker 1: Meiche for this.
Speaker 2: This is a big Citrus.
Speaker 1: Chat about all the games that we got to see
Speaker 1: this weekend. Let's get a couple of takeaways from each person. Alex,
Speaker 1: Let's start with you, what's something that stood out to
Speaker 1: from this weekend?
Speaker 3: Man, I think the number one thing that stood out
Speaker 3: to me is this is Nafisa Collier's season and her
Speaker 3: MVP race is truly already on, both in her performance
Speaker 3: but also I think in the way that she is
Speaker 3: treating the season. After that win against Dallas, she was like, yep,
Speaker 3: forty three more games and explicitly said, we are here
Speaker 3: to win a championship this season. And you know, it's
Speaker 3: one thing to internally believe, hey, it's our here to
Speaker 3: win a championship, and it's another thing to be gutsy
Speaker 3: enough after game one to say we are.
Speaker 4: Here to win a championship.
Speaker 3: And so I think her teammates are also very much
Speaker 3: on the Nafisa Collier MVP train and are going to
Speaker 3: do whatever it takes to make sure that happens.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is something I talked about during our previews
Speaker 1: of the Links and said, listen and Fee was second
Speaker 1: only to Asia Wilson last year, and Asia had the
Speaker 1: greatest season in the history of women's basketball. That was
Speaker 1: not a debate. She deserved that MVP last year, but
Speaker 1: Fee was close. And then Fee comes up just short
Speaker 1: in the finals, starts unrivaled, wins unrivaled MVP, wins unrivaled
Speaker 1: one v one, has a postseason with the most points
Speaker 1: ever in the history of the WNBA postseason, leads her
Speaker 1: team in every single category, like she is putting up
Speaker 1: a case for being the MVP. And if you're gonna
Speaker 1: argue with me about Asia deserving it again, if she
Speaker 1: has another season like that, she probably will deserve it again.
Speaker 2: Will they give it to her again?
Speaker 1: Is my argument, because you saw back in the day
Speaker 1: in the NBA the Jordan years, he should have won
Speaker 1: the MVP every single year. They started to spread it around,
Speaker 1: and so if they decided somebody else's turn, I think
Speaker 1: it's the feasier.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I hate the fact that that's even a thing. Also, Yeah,
Speaker 5: because that should have not anything to do with the decision,
Speaker 5: but you know, inevitably it does.
Speaker 2: Every year we're proven that it does.
Speaker 5: And Fee she is she to me, is paralleling Asia
Speaker 5: because Asia is coming off and off season where all
Speaker 5: these things are going right for her. She's in the spotlight,
Speaker 5: she's on commercials. Fee you might not have seen her
Speaker 5: in as many commercials, but just signed with Jordan Brand, right,
Speaker 5: so she's got her own stuff popping off. And when
Speaker 5: the thing I love about, when you get more publicity,
Speaker 5: more exposure, it's time to put up her shut up, right,
Speaker 5: And so the both of them are just really showing
Speaker 5: the evidence as to why we need to be treating
Speaker 5: in like stars.
Speaker 1: And by the way, the other person in the top
Speaker 1: three odds for the MVP is Caitlin Clark. And I
Speaker 1: know we're going to get to the fever, but starting
Speaker 1: off your season with a triple double and becoming the
Speaker 1: fastest player in WNB history to three triple doubles is
Speaker 1: a pretty good way to say, excuse me. I've got
Speaker 1: a lot of talent around me in another season under
Speaker 1: my belt coming here, so I think you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to be paying attention to me too. And I very
Speaker 1: much agree with that. Mesh, what's one of the things
Speaker 1: that stood out to you.
Speaker 5: I mean, let's stick with Indy, right. I think Caitlyn
Speaker 5: Clark put on a masterclass of how to fill your
Speaker 5: teammates out. I think she could have had fifteen assists
Speaker 5: right at the end of that game had there not
Speaker 5: been a couple blown bunnies, but ending that game with
Speaker 5: twenty points, ten rebounds tennisists in the way that they
Speaker 5: put her back in the game to make sure she
Speaker 5: got that last rebound, I was like, yeah, Steph White, Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's how you build the.
Speaker 3: Did Steph put her back in the game or did
Speaker 3: she ask to go in?
Speaker 1: Do you think, oh, she asked to go in, but
Speaker 1: that still had to put her back in.
Speaker 2: She had to agree.
Speaker 1: And a lot of coaches might say, listen, man, we're
Speaker 1: up by x amount. It's a long season, you're gonna
Speaker 1: get yours. But I think it's knowing your personnel kyp
Speaker 1: and Caitlyn is the kind of personnel that's going to
Speaker 1: be pretty fiery if you don't put her back in.
Speaker 1: And that's going to probably and hopefully be smart about
Speaker 1: going back in, getting the board and then being okay
Speaker 1: with coming back out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and appreciate you that much more for caring about
Speaker 5: what she wanted to do, and not just that, but
Speaker 5: getting to want Bonner in that game so she could
Speaker 5: secure the sole possession of third overall or third leading
Speaker 5: scorer in WNBA history. Like those are little things that
Speaker 5: just build culture, that build chemistry, that build connection within
Speaker 5: a team. So Steph White, she's doing it right. From
Speaker 5: the first weekend all, she's doing it right. And based
Speaker 5: on the way they played on the court, Sarah, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna go ahead and say it now. I'm gonna go
Speaker 5: ahead and say it. They've got a championship caliber team.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they have a.
Speaker 5: Championship I was reluctant to say it at first because again,
Speaker 5: and we'll get to the aces in a second. And
Speaker 5: how having all the pieces and all the tools in
Speaker 5: your arsenal doesn't necessarily mean you know it's gonna come together.
Speaker 5: It's already coming together. It's already looking beautiful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for for the first game with that new roster.
Speaker 1: First of all, Natasha Howard, she gonna be real happy there.
Speaker 1: She and they're gonna be really happy to have her
Speaker 1: to want to bond her to your point, love getting
Speaker 1: to see that milestone passed, but she just needs to
Speaker 1: kind of find her space and her place there. I
Speaker 1: think she's a vet who understands, like let me see,
Speaker 1: I think Mitchell listen, Kelsy.
Speaker 2: Mitchell's amazing.
Speaker 1: But she's gonna have to figure out when it's her
Speaker 1: time to take the shot and when not. She got
Speaker 1: a little bit she went a little bit of rogue
Speaker 1: a couple times where it wasn't probably the right move
Speaker 1: for her to take the shot or to make the move.
Speaker 1: But I think we've talked about this all off season.
Speaker 1: A lot of mouths to feed, and so it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a matter of figuring out how to balance all
Speaker 1: the different talented players that they have there. And to
Speaker 1: your point about Caitlyn and the assists, Eliah Boston is
Speaker 1: so effective points, blocks, defense, everything, but there are moments
Speaker 1: where she just isn't quite ready for those passes from Caitlyn,
Speaker 1: and I would love to see her develop her hands
Speaker 1: to be able to get those feeds because Caitlyn set
Speaker 1: her up a couple of times and it didn't work out.
Speaker 5: And it was it was the long distance throw. The
Speaker 5: long distance passes. Those yes, I need those to connect.
Speaker 5: I need those because there's so much fun to watch,
Speaker 5: my goodness.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, before we move on from that, Meche, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: build on your take with If the Fever win the
Speaker 3: title this year, it is because of the off season
Speaker 3: move that was signing to Wanna Honor. I think that
Speaker 3: she is the glue and the veteran presence that that
Speaker 3: team needed last year, especially with so many youngsters, and
Speaker 3: it was fascinating. In the postgame press conference, both Caitlyn
Speaker 3: and Aliyah were just so effusive in their praise of her,
Speaker 3: Caitlyn saying that she has the strongest voice in our
Speaker 3: locker room, which that's a big statement for somebody that
Speaker 3: literally just came into this locker room a few weeks ago.
Speaker 3: So I'm really curious to kind of see how her
Speaker 3: role evolves over the course of the season, but to
Speaker 3: know that she already has that trust from her teammates
Speaker 3: is huge.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think Caitlyn pointed out after the game,
Speaker 1: when Holly Row was interviewing them both together, how much
Speaker 1: she's already learned from Dowana. And it's not that Caitlyn
Speaker 1: isn't willing to say those things, but when she says it, she.
Speaker 2: Means it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Like, Caitlyn is a very prideful player and she's very
Speaker 1: certain of herself. So to talk about this player that
Speaker 1: she's already learned so much from in a short time,
Speaker 1: I think really says a lot. And to your point
Speaker 1: about being the loudest voice in the lone that veteran
Speaker 1: presence between her and Natasha Howard.
Speaker 2: It's going to going to make a huge difference.
Speaker 1: I'm going to stick in that game for my first takeaway,
Speaker 1: and it's about pace for both teams in that game.
Speaker 1: For the Fever, pace is going to be huge. And
Speaker 1: also they need to pick their moments because there were
Speaker 1: still a lot of turnovers, not just Caitlin but some
Speaker 1: other players Lexi Hall and others trying to make these great,
Speaker 1: spicy long distance passes and really push the ball.
Speaker 2: They'll just have to find the balance.
Speaker 1: It'll be worth it a lot of the time, even
Speaker 1: if there are turnovers to push it like that. And
Speaker 1: then there's times where they're going to have to be
Speaker 1: willing to settle into a half court because they aren't
Speaker 1: able to finish enough, and it does cause problems against
Speaker 1: a more talented team on the other side. My Chicago
Speaker 1: Sky are going to be more fun to watch. I
Speaker 1: know they got the break speed off them, and it
Speaker 1: wasn't super fun by the end. But what I saw
Speaker 1: with having Courtney van Derslute out there, Kia Nurse, Ariel Atkins,
Speaker 1: having these new players, it changed the dynamic of the
Speaker 1: inside outside game. I still think there was stuff to
Speaker 1: work on that I was surprised didn't look right in
Speaker 1: this first game, particularly getting Angel and Camila Cardoso set
Speaker 1: up on the block to do more damage. It felt
Speaker 1: like Angel's points mostly came from drives. They really couldn't
Speaker 1: get her to set up on the block, take a
Speaker 1: post feed and make a move.
Speaker 2: And same with Kamila.
Speaker 1: It was very rare to see and usually then she
Speaker 1: had to follow up for a rebound and get a
Speaker 1: second chance. Camila just didn't quite look sharp enough yet,
Speaker 1: and I'm hoping, I don't know, I have high expectations
Speaker 1: for her, and I'm starting to wonder if maybe they're too.
Speaker 5: High mm spicy, I don't know. I think it's another
Speaker 5: one of those things. It's the first game. Some of
Speaker 5: these players are gonna have jitters like it's a but
Speaker 5: in terms of not hitting the paint, and posting up.
Speaker 5: That's something you can control. It don't matter if you
Speaker 5: got jitners or not. You know, if you have a
Speaker 5: mismatched in the post, you know, if you know you
Speaker 5: have a seal opportunity down there. But as we know,
Speaker 5: it takes two to tango, right, it takes two to tango.
Speaker 5: You gotta have folks who can get you the ball.
Speaker 5: You gotta have a team in the half court on
Speaker 5: one accord with that mission. So I have I have
Speaker 5: confidence in this group though, I really do. They've got
Speaker 5: really strong pieces an angel. I mean watching that first quarter,
Speaker 5: she came out like a blaze of fire.
Speaker 2: Right she was.
Speaker 5: She was aggressive, rebound special, a rebounding. I remember one
Speaker 5: play in particular, she attacked Natasha Howard directly in the
Speaker 5: chest and put a put a bucket on her head.
Speaker 5: Hit a three like So there's a lot to look
Speaker 5: forward to as well. I think, you know, all these
Speaker 5: teams won two games in it's not it's not yet
Speaker 5: time to hit the panic button.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think there'll be more fun. I just
Speaker 1: want to see better finishes and a little bit more
Speaker 1: intention on the offense. It didn't seem like they were
Speaker 1: running stuff so much as like.
Speaker 2: If they got an open three, they let it fly.
Speaker 1: Like coach Tyler Marsh said, they just didn't let it
Speaker 1: sink very often when they.
Speaker 2: Did let it fly. What else did you see?
Speaker 5: You know what I saw, Sarah. I saw my Mystics
Speaker 5: go to it out, tue it out after starting oh
Speaker 5: and twelve last season. But what I really saw is
Speaker 5: that Britney Sykes. I can say this with my whole chest.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 5: She is a bona fide franchise player.
Speaker 2: She is the.
Speaker 5: Player that the Mystics need to continue to build around
Speaker 5: because she has proven herself since coming over from the
Speaker 5: Sparks in twenty twenty three that she cannot only defend
Speaker 5: and lead on that end. She cannot only take care
Speaker 5: of the ball and handle it, even though that's not
Speaker 5: her primary position. She naturally wants to play off the basketball.
Speaker 5: But she can do both those things, and she can
Speaker 5: get it done. In the score and column, she averages
Speaker 5: twelve points for her entire career, Sir, she had twenty
Speaker 5: two points in that first game against Atlanta, twenty seven points.
Speaker 2: She said, you saw that game.
Speaker 5: I could do a little bit better against Connecticut on Sunday.
Speaker 5: I mean, she is just evolving exponentially season overseason, and
Speaker 5: I'm so excited to see what else she does. She
Speaker 5: stresses me out.
Speaker 2: She stresses me out.
Speaker 5: Because she uses her body and she's all over the place.
Speaker 5: She's putting her body on the line, and so that
Speaker 5: is a little bit concerning. You want to make sure
Speaker 5: she stays healthy, but I mean.
Speaker 2: Slim into it. I'm happy for you.
Speaker 1: I doubted them, and I'm not gonna say I don't
Speaker 1: still have doubts. Like you said, first couple of games
Speaker 1: of the season, Remind me, Remind me who they are playing.
Speaker 5: Atlanta and Connecticut. They're not necessarily the best.
Speaker 2: I believe.
Speaker 1: Again, I'm excited for you, and I hope it continues.
Speaker 1: We'll just keep our expectations to yeah, certain minimum.
Speaker 5: But but even more than that, and just want to
Speaker 5: sneak this in quickly. Five different players hit double figures
Speaker 5: in that game, four in that Connecticut game. So that
Speaker 5: just proves to me and the rookies. Right, you're your fan,
Speaker 5: cit Tron Lucy Olsen. That was gonna be my next takeaway.
Speaker 1: I am excited that appears to be for a second
Speaker 1: straight year that we are having some rooks that are
Speaker 1: really going to make a difference right away. We spend
Speaker 1: so much time, rightfully so, talking about how hard it
Speaker 1: is to make a w roster, talking about how many
Speaker 1: folks don't even make the cut and see any play time.
Speaker 1: So to have a couple players last year in Angel
Speaker 1: and Caitlin in particular, who broke records in their first season,
Speaker 1: and then this year to have excitement around Paige Beckers,
Speaker 1: who was fine in her first game, you know, nothing
Speaker 1: to write home about but good solid effort. But Keiki
Speaker 1: and Sonya Citron looking like they did in that very
Speaker 1: first game, in that very first weekend, and already hearing
Speaker 1: debates about which one of them might be trying to
Speaker 1: take home Rookie of the Year awards this early on.
Speaker 1: I know it's early, but did we talk about this
Speaker 1: on Monday?
Speaker 5: You talked about this last Monday Sonia.
Speaker 1: From my fantasy team, because I'm like, I think she's
Speaker 1: going to contribute right away, and of the same mind, yes,
Speaker 1: and I just I think it's exciting to have that
Speaker 1: next guard a player, to have that next generation not
Speaker 1: just get on a roster, but start playing it and
Speaker 1: play well right away.
Speaker 2: That was something I noticed, all right, Meish, what's the
Speaker 2: last thing it took away from this weekend.
Speaker 5: The aces, Sarah, the aces, the aces. They simply need
Speaker 5: more cards in the deck.
Speaker 2: I don't know how well played. You know, we try to.
Speaker 5: Get a little fancy with the lingo with the language.
Speaker 5: If I'm gonna be on good game with Sarah's.
Speaker 2: Face your best, bring your medal.
Speaker 5: But Asia Wilson had to go into that mode just
Speaker 5: to keep that game respectable and granted, right, this is
Speaker 5: against the Liberty team and New York Liberty team that
Speaker 5: came out real strong, shot forty eight percent from the field.
Speaker 5: They played amazing. I'm not gonna act like they weren't
Speaker 5: a juggernaut in that game. But defensively, more than anything,
Speaker 5: I was very surprised at all the breakdowns. There's a
Speaker 5: lot of holes that are going to need to be
Speaker 5: patched in their connectivity on that end of the ball.
Speaker 5: You saw, if you watch that game, Chelsea Gray getting
Speaker 5: really visibly irritated with that because there's a standard that
Speaker 5: that franchise has set and it felt like everybody wasn't
Speaker 5: on the same page there. Juel Lloyd only five points
Speaker 5: in that game. That's gonna change, That's not going to
Speaker 5: stay the same right. They talked a lot on the
Speaker 5: broadcast about her and that mentality, recognizing that she is
Speaker 5: a killer and that she has to be that in
Speaker 5: the WNBA because she's She's Julouis. She already has a
Speaker 5: reputation for herself. She has to bring that every She'll
Speaker 5: get better, so she's yeah, she'll get better. I'm not
Speaker 5: worried about that, but you know, it was just the
Speaker 5: It was hard to watch.
Speaker 2: It was a little bit hard to watch. First game.
Speaker 1: Tough opponent. We'll give them some time. And we know
Speaker 1: the Aces took a little while to get going last year.
Speaker 1: We attributed that mostly to Chelsea Gray not being healthy,
Speaker 1: but maybe it is just a matter too of you
Speaker 1: have a team that's won a handful of titles lately,
Speaker 1: and so getting up for it, getting fired up, maybe
Speaker 1: takes a little bit longer.
Speaker 2: That brings me, actually, though, to.
Speaker 1: My final takeaway, which has to do with a former
Speaker 1: Aces player, Kelsey Plum. We're all talking Caitlin and Asia
Speaker 1: and Fee, but Kelsey Plumb was like, oh, thank you.
Speaker 1: I would like to be the dominant player on my team.
Speaker 1: I would like room to grow, I would like to
Speaker 1: prove myself. I would like to give myself a challenge.
Speaker 1: I would like to go to the worst team in
Speaker 1: the league and set a record for the most points
Speaker 1: by a player in their Sparks debut and the most
Speaker 1: points by a player in the first game of a
Speaker 1: w season thirty seven. For Kelsey Plumb, she is a
Speaker 1: problem and will continue to be a problem. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure what to expect from this Sparks team. Cameron Brink
Speaker 1: wasn't there yet. Obviously, the Ray Burrell injury hurts. It
Speaker 1: took a little while for Deerica Hamby to heat up
Speaker 1: on Friday night. She looked a little slow on the
Speaker 1: early going, obviously, a lot of pieces to try to
Speaker 1: put together. But when you've got Kelsey Plum leading the
Speaker 1: way and she decides, let me get hot.
Speaker 2: Because there was a.
Speaker 1: Moment that was really fun where Julie Van lu got
Speaker 1: real hot three triples in a very short time. The
Speaker 1: crowd's going crazy. She's hyping everyone up, screaming at the
Speaker 1: camera like hey, Kelsey's like, well that's cute. Let me
Speaker 1: go ahead and shut everyone up. Boot boop boop, just
Speaker 1: training her own threes, looking mugging at everyone.
Speaker 2: I'm excited to see Kelsey just lead this team. It
Speaker 2: feels like a natural move for her at this point.
Speaker 1: It's tough to leave a successful team like the Asist,
Speaker 1: but to go there and be like, let me start
Speaker 1: something fresh, and that's cool, It's very cool.
Speaker 5: I will say, I think cam Brink completely changes that
Speaker 5: dynamic of that team. I think she opens up space
Speaker 5: for KP, especially because cam Brink is a tall post
Speaker 5: player who can stretch the floor and knock down the three.
Speaker 5: So I think she completely changes the dynamic of their
Speaker 5: offense when she's on the court when she gets back.
Speaker 5: But I'll also say KP going for thirty seven is
Speaker 5: not gonna be thirty seven every night, so I'm gonna
Speaker 5: need other people to step up. Rakiya, I don't think
Speaker 5: Rakia Jackson had the best night she could have had.
Speaker 5: I think Odyssey sim still has plenty left in the tank.
Speaker 5: A player who kind of had to prove herself yet
Speaker 5: again last season, but has been solid in all the
Speaker 5: years of her WNBA career. So there's a few things
Speaker 5: I'm waiting to come together for them as well.
Speaker 1: As Ray was more quiet Asray Stevens was more quiet
Speaker 1: than I expected her to be. Yeah, And like I said,
Speaker 1: Dereka Hanby was slow. I also have identified in that
Speaker 1: game my least favorite player in the WNBA, but I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna say who she is.
Speaker 2: I don't want to be mean.
Speaker 1: This is a nice show, this is a friendly show.
Speaker 1: But I just want to say there was somebody out
Speaker 1: there in a valkyrie's jersey that is not ready for
Speaker 1: prime time.
Speaker 2: She looked so nervous, so awkward.
Speaker 1: I told my husband, I'm like, this is the this
Speaker 1: is the fastest I've disliked a player in the history
Speaker 1: of the w I don't know why she hadn maayded
Speaker 1: me so much, but I'm like, get her out of
Speaker 1: there and sign one of the players that were super
Speaker 1: bummed didn't make a roster because there's no way she
Speaker 1: could be worse than that.
Speaker 2: Again, I'm not gonna say any names. I don't want
Speaker 2: to be a mean person.
Speaker 4: I'm like, looking through the roster right now, speculated.
Speaker 1: I felt bad having the thought, But every time she
Speaker 1: went out there, I'm like.
Speaker 2: No, get her out of there.
Speaker 4: Oh now, I've given us clues. So she went out
Speaker 4: multiple times.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna We're not gonna, all right, Alex, what
Speaker 1: was your final takeaway?
Speaker 3: My final takeaway is not about the basketball. It is
Speaker 3: about the league and how the WNBA has seemingly evolved
Speaker 3: since last year. You know, at the end of last season,
Speaker 3: I think one of the jokes that we made was
Speaker 3: even during our slices, how the Welcome to the w
Speaker 3: commercials when they started last season seemed super original, and
Speaker 3: by the end of the season it seemed like the
Speaker 3: only thing that the league had done to try to
Speaker 3: welcome new fans. And it feels like the WNBA has
Speaker 3: actually taken some strides. So that starts with last week
Speaker 3: they announced this new plan, No Space for Hate, which
Speaker 3: has everything from technological innovations that are helping scan player
Speaker 3: social media, a new fan code of conduct, and then
Speaker 3: I think we even saw it with the very quick
Speaker 3: response to the alleged hateful comments that were made during
Speaker 3: that Indiana Chicago game. There were a lot of times
Speaker 3: last year where stuff like that was kind of in
Speaker 3: the news and it was like.
Speaker 4: Where's the WNBA.
Speaker 3: So the fact that they have listened to players saying hey,
Speaker 3: this is a problem, Hey the league was not prepared
Speaker 3: and taken that feels significant and.
Speaker 4: It makes me hopeful for what the rest of the
Speaker 4: season will look.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, I totally agree, and I wish there wasn't
Speaker 1: a need for it, but since there very clearly is,
Speaker 1: I'm glad the league seems like they're they're addressing so
Speaker 1: much we could say about this opening weekend. Lots of
Speaker 1: really interesting storylines, and you could tell it was really cool.
Speaker 2: At the end of that Fever Sky game, it.
Speaker 1: Was a blow out, and they were like, Okay, but
Speaker 1: we get to see Haley Vanlists first minutes. Hey, we
Speaker 1: get to see ju Wanna Bonner try to set the record.
Speaker 1: We get to see Kaitlin going for triple double. So
Speaker 1: we I think also as a fan base, the more
Speaker 1: people know about the stories of the players, the more
Speaker 1: exciting every game is. And so I'm excited for anybody
Speaker 1: who showed up last year for the first time to
Speaker 1: now get to build on the rivalries they learned about
Speaker 1: last year, to know which players are coming back with
Speaker 1: some revenge on the brain, and which ones are trying
Speaker 1: to defend their title and all that other good stuff.
Speaker 2: All Right, we got to take a quick break.
Speaker 1: When we come back, it's time to talk PWHL finals.
Speaker 2: That's next. Welcome back, everybody, Let's do that hockey.
Speaker 1: As I mentioned, earlier finals for the Professional Women's Hockey
Speaker 1: League the PWHL are set with the Ottawa Charge in
Speaker 1: their first postseason appearance, taking on last year's Walter Cup champs,
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Frost. The pair of teams were actually seated
Speaker 1: third and fourth respectively heading into the playoffs, so they
Speaker 1: upset the top seeds to.
Speaker 2: Make it here.
Speaker 1: And you might remember that we mentioned that the number
Speaker 1: one seed Montreal Victoire actually got to select their opponent
Speaker 1: in the semi finals and they picked the three seed
Speaker 1: Charge instead of the four seed Frost. So on Tuesday night,
Speaker 1: there were seven thousand, two hundred and eighty two fans
Speaker 1: in Ottawa chanting you picked us as Ottawa got the
Speaker 1: win and moved within one win of going to the finals.
Speaker 1: Of course, the series shifted to Montreal where the number
Speaker 1: one seed got bounced, so Alex, let's start there. The
Speaker 1: Charge finished off the Victoire, making them pay for their selection,
Speaker 1: and we saw that bulletin board material pinterest board eaten
Speaker 1: good shit working out well for the Outawa Charge.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, I just want to point out that we don't
Speaker 3: have very much data at this point in the PWHL, right,
Speaker 3: only two seasons, but both seasons. It is the number
Speaker 3: three and number four seeded teams that have made it
Speaker 3: to the p WHL finals, and looking ahead, I'm really
Speaker 3: excited for this final series and to see how these
Speaker 3: two teams match up. They've played each other six times
Speaker 3: in the regular season so far, Minnesota winning three, Ottawa
Speaker 3: winning three. But they weren't super close games. There were
Speaker 3: some real blowouts in there. I think Minnesota won one
Speaker 3: five zero, Ottawa one another eight to three. So are
Speaker 3: they going to be tighter now that they're playing each
Speaker 3: other back to back and each team is at the
Speaker 3: high point of their season.
Speaker 4: Hard to say, but super excited to see it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And we talk about the Minnesota Frost making it back.
Speaker 1: This was a team that struggled in the regular season
Speaker 1: last year in the opening season of the PWHL, but
Speaker 1: found their way, squeezed their way into the postseason, and
Speaker 1: then won it all from the four spot. They're going
Speaker 1: to try to do that again this year, and they
Speaker 1: bounced the Toronto Scepters in the semi finals to make
Speaker 1: it to their second straight postseason and go for a
Speaker 1: defense of their title.
Speaker 2: Al This is a very.
Speaker 1: Authentic rivalry to me, even though we're only two seasons in.
Speaker 1: If your team gets bounced from the postseason two seasons
Speaker 1: in a row by the same team.
Speaker 2: You hate them.
Speaker 1: So I feel like, if I feel like you're a
Speaker 1: Toronto Scepters fan, that's it. The Minnesota froster and are
Speaker 1: like they're the sworn enemy.
Speaker 4: And you know, it's interesting.
Speaker 3: Last year Toronto was the number one seed and they
Speaker 3: picked Minnesota the number four seed.
Speaker 4: I guess technically they just went.
Speaker 1: With the with what it would have been, but they
Speaker 1: still got to pick. They could have changed it up
Speaker 1: and gone with the three like we saw this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah, maybe Minnesota should have been having a
Speaker 3: you picked us chan at some point.
Speaker 4: Too fun, Too fun.
Speaker 1: Best of five final series begins Tuesday and Autowa. We're
Speaker 1: gonna have lots more p WHL conversation as we get
Speaker 1: ready for that.
Speaker 2: If you haven't been watching, it's been real fun.
Speaker 1: The barns have been wild, the fans have gone crazy,
Speaker 1: So get in before it's over, Get in and start watching.
Speaker 2: These finals start on Tuesday.
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Speaker 1: Watch the rollout of the NWSL times UNWELLFC partnership rating
Speaker 1: dozens and dozens of deleted comments review. This weekend, at
Speaker 1: the Angel City versus BFC game, the NWSL welcomed Alex
Speaker 1: Cooper of Call Her Daddy and her UNWELLFC Hydration Drink
Speaker 1: to PayPal Park in the Bay Area. It's the first
Speaker 1: of several games schedule to host the UNWELLFC Experience, promising
Speaker 1: quote Alex Cooper on the move during pre match taking
Speaker 1: in the BFC spirit and atmosphere throughout PayPal Park, a
Speaker 1: dedicated UNWELLFC table and FanFest with photo opportunities, brand activations,
Speaker 1: and unwell Hydration sampling, meet and greet moments with Alex
Speaker 1: for BAFC fans, Unwell merch for those who purchase tickets
Speaker 1: through the special UNWELLFC link end quote. So I was
Speaker 1: not there for this game. I had to fly back
Speaker 1: to Chicago and unfortunately couldn't stick around for it.
Speaker 2: But based on the social media posts.
Speaker 1: I would say that fans were uninterested in and unenthused
Speaker 1: about the Unwell partnership. On the Instagram posts about the activation,
Speaker 1: several users mentioned that the admin was deleting comments and
Speaker 1: if you pointed out that Cooper was wearing an LA
Speaker 1: Dodgers hat at a women's sporting event in San Francisco,
Speaker 1: so the fit seemed to miss the mark a little,
Speaker 1: and more importantly, so did the activation. If you want
Speaker 1: to read a good summation of why fans are rightfully
Speaker 1: frustrated by the choice of Cooper for the league and
Speaker 1: the idea of an unwell FC supporters group as opposed
Speaker 1: to organic supporters groups of the team, you can read
Speaker 1: the newsletter of friend of the show Frankie de la
Speaker 1: Creta called out of your League.
Speaker 2: They wrote a piece for it about it. We'll link
Speaker 2: to it in our show notes.
Speaker 1: Again, this is a nice show, and I want to
Speaker 1: commend the League on trying something new and different, but
Speaker 1: it feels like not properly vetting the kind of partners
Speaker 1: you want to bring into a space and immediately hearing
Speaker 1: from your supporters that this is not what they want
Speaker 1: is a very bad sign.
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