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Speaker 1: All right, y'all, welcome back to Full Circle Playoff Edition.

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Speaker 2: Lexie Brown.

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Speaker 3: How you doing, girl, I'm good. We'll get into our

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Speaker 3: playoff experience in a second.

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Speaker 2: But but before we do that.

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Speaker 4: Oh wait, okay, wait wait wait, no, no, no, okay, guys,

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Speaker 4: I have to reel that in. Okay, I know that

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Speaker 4: I scored in the last game. Oh, because I got

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Speaker 4: in class for Lexi.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we got in. We got into the game.

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Speaker 2: Go Lexi, go Lexi.

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Speaker 4: So, yes, I did score in that game, but because

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Speaker 4: it was the postseason, it doesn't go towards my.

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Speaker 3: Journey to one thousand points.

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Speaker 4: No, I know.

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Speaker 3: So, guys, I'm still four.

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Speaker 4: I have finished this season four points away from a thousand,

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Speaker 4: and that's okay, because we're gonna get that first game

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Speaker 4: of season.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're gonna get that quick.

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Speaker 2: Yeah exactly.

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Speaker 3: But I have seen.

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Speaker 2: So you'll get to start off with a celebration.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So I have seen everyone's comments and kind words about

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Speaker 4: me getting to my one thousand points.

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Speaker 3: So I appreciate y'all.

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Speaker 4: Y'all have really kept me going in these last few

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Speaker 4: weeks of the season. But I have been our best

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Speaker 4: cheerleader and high fiver the last few weeks, So it

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Speaker 4: actually was nice.

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Speaker 3: To get into the game.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if anybody's watching, it probably didn't look

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Speaker 4: like I was happy to be in the game, but

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Speaker 4: I promised I was. I just say it for a

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Speaker 4: long time, guys, I'm old now, like I can't. These

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Speaker 4: legs needed some time to get moving. I was literally

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Speaker 4: on the bench for the entire game, and then you

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Speaker 4: get thrown in at the very end and I'm like, okay,

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Speaker 4: let's get these bones cracking and going. And yeah, so

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Speaker 4: I scored five points. That was nice, But the game

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Speaker 4: wasn't very good. But the best thing about playoffs is

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Speaker 4: if you get to see him again. And we are

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Speaker 4: playing the Aces tonights in Seattle and pivotal moment in

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Speaker 4: of our season, per usual.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I have to give the people a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a recap.

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Speaker 3: So let's start with us. Let's start with us.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Aces beat the Storm one O two seventy

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Speaker 1: seven and their seventeenth consecutive win.

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Speaker 2: They are now one went away from tying.

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Speaker 1: The record set by the Los Angeles Sparks with Lisa Leslie.

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Speaker 2: That won a title.

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Speaker 1: Based on from the outside looking in, it seemed like

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Speaker 1: there was no containing Asia Wilson.

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Speaker 2: She had twenty nine.

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Speaker 1: Listen, Lexi, the question is can the Storm push it

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Speaker 1: to three games? We're gonna find out tonight, So by

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Speaker 1: the time this comes out, we'll already know the answer.

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Speaker 1: I know, But.

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Speaker 2: How's it feeling like? Is there a pressure in the

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Speaker 2: locker room?

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Speaker 4: Like?

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Speaker 3: Honestly?

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Speaker 4: And I'll be able to get more into this when

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Speaker 4: our season ends whenever. That is about like what has

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Speaker 4: been going on for our team in general, but keeping

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Speaker 4: it to the x's and o's of things, they just

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Speaker 4: had overall a better game plan than we did in

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Speaker 4: my opinion, and I'm not disperspecting or throwing shade at anything. Obviously,

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Speaker 4: you guys saw the outcome of the game. They out

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Speaker 4: executed us on both ends of the floor offensively and defensively.

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Speaker 1: People have kind ofly five players and double figures.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, people have figured us out offensively unfortunately, and players

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Speaker 4: have told us this. Analysts have said it like as

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Speaker 4: much as like there's question marks around our team, there

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Speaker 4: are like very there's a lot of things about our

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Speaker 4: are are one two punch, like that's always going to

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Speaker 4: be a thing. We don't shoot a lot of threes.

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Speaker 4: We play extremely well in transition. We're first in the

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Speaker 3: So what teams are doing.

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Speaker 4: To us now is they're taking away our one two

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Speaker 4: and making us run our half core offense, which analytically

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Speaker 3: That's just facts. That's just the facts.

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Speaker 4: And if anybody watches our games, you can see that

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Speaker 4: US in transition, us scoring in like ten seconds or less,

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Speaker 3: It's like night and day.

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Speaker 4: Offensively, the Aces outscored us by twenty one on three pointers.

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Speaker 3: We had twenty turnovers.

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Speaker 4: We were out rebounded, which has been a trend for

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Speaker 3: We have been out rebounded on almost every game.

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Speaker 4: And then they were just really physical from the beginning,

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Speaker 4: like from the start. That's the thing about playoffs, even

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Speaker 4: the all season long, everybody's been talking about like the

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Speaker 4: over physicality the injuries, the reffing, et cetera. But what

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Speaker 4: we've been taught as players growing up, like you gotta

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Speaker 3: You got to set the tone.

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Speaker 4: So if you come out overly physical, the refs are

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Speaker 3: And the Aces just did a better job at that

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Speaker 4: And we just were very reactive and responsive instead of

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Speaker 4: So they punched us in the mouth. They did, they did.

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Speaker 4: We knew that they're the hottest team in the league.

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Speaker 4: We knew that coming in. And I just don't think

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Speaker 3: Film, we were and shoot around.

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Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, like and everybody

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Speaker 4: says defense wins championships, but like, you can't out defense,

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Speaker 3: So, yes, like we hang our hat on.

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Speaker 4: Our defense and defense is important, but at the end

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Speaker 4: season long, is like, yes, like our defense has been

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Speaker 4: we cannot win any type of championship scoring fifty sixty

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Speaker 3: All season long.

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Speaker 4: So you know, tonight it's gonna be a crazy atmosphere

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Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie. I would love to play. I

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Speaker 4: I feel like I've been able to I would have

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Speaker 3: So it's like this my mental game of you know, I.

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Speaker 4: Haven't played for the majority of the season, and then

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Speaker 4: am I gonna Are they gonna throw me in on

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Speaker 4: a muscle win game in the playoffs?

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Speaker 3: Like probably not, but I need to be ready if

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Speaker 4: But then if they don't, I'm gonna be pissed. So

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Speaker 4: it's like this mental cycle that you have to like

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Speaker 3: Ready for anything.

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Speaker 4: So whatever happens tonight, I'm ready to be the best

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Speaker 4: or when my number is called to come in and

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Speaker 4: do whatever I need to do to help our team

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Speaker 4: win and live to fight another day. But winning in

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Speaker 4: Vegas is hard. That's a hard place to win. So

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Speaker 4: hopefully we can pull it out tonight. Everyone is super

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Speaker 4: focused and yeah, y'all see, we'll come back next week

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Speaker 4: in La You.

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Speaker 3: Know, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Well, listen, I have a question as a analyst, student

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Speaker 1: of the game, future general manager, not as a member

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Speaker 1: of the Seattle Storm.

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Speaker 2: Okay, if the Aces do get past.

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Speaker 1: You guys, which we are not crossing our fingers for,

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Speaker 1: but because we've been talking about them in such glowing

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the way they're playing right now, they're just they're

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Speaker 4: like you're rationing outshot attempts or rationing out possessions for

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Speaker 4: Because you're playing so fast, you're creating so many possessions,

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Speaker 4: so everybody gets everybody gets some.

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Speaker 4: How man these five players in double figures, Like when

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Speaker 4: good like it you don't really care who has the

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Speaker 4: little bit, Like everything just feels good. And they look

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Speaker 3: And we can say that because we saw how they

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Speaker 4: They was not vibing at all, and they they have

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Speaker 4: figured it out and they look like a well oiled

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Speaker 4: like it's still crazy, Like she's still she subbed in

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Speaker 4: Like she subbed in at like the eight minute mark

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Speaker 4: of the first quarter, so like she's damn near still

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Speaker 4: a starter. But what that did for her mentally, Like

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Speaker 4: they're absolutely a contender. Like hot, Like I said, I

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Speaker 4: Like quite literally, quite literally the hottest team in the

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Speaker 4: put the hottest team ever Like what yeah, Like and

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Speaker 3: Going to win these games. That's playoff basketball. That's at

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Speaker 4: they have built off the court, pouring into each other constantly,

444
00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:58,440
Speaker 4: has definitely elevated all three of their games, Jordan Canada

445
00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:01,160
Speaker 4: didn't have a great game. She's their leader, she's their

446
00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:01,920
Speaker 4: floor general.

447
00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:04,159
Speaker 3: She keeps their pace.

448
00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:06,760
Speaker 4: Fast, and I think that's I think she's gonna be

449
00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:09,479
Speaker 4: too much of the Fever, and I think whatever happens

450
00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:11,600
Speaker 4: in this series, the Fever should be so happy and

451
00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:16,040
Speaker 4: proud of themselves for getting to the playoffs, for dealing

452
00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:19,639
Speaker 4: with all this adversity. Literally, since what when did all

453
00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:25,280
Speaker 4: the nonsense start? Like the first few weeks of the season. Yeah,

454
00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:28,520
Speaker 4: winning commissioners Cup, Like they have a lot of things

455
00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:31,400
Speaker 4: to be proud of. And I don't want to keep

456
00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,399
Speaker 4: talking about like like they're already lost.

457
00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:35,720
Speaker 3: They haven't lost the series. Yet they can win it.

458
00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:39,840
Speaker 4: But if they don't, they can still be like super

459
00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:43,000
Speaker 4: proud of the season that they put together. Kelsey Mitchell

460
00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:48,800
Speaker 4: having an All WNBA season first team well deserved as

461
00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:50,919
Speaker 4: she should.

462
00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:53,440
Speaker 2: So literally putting that team on her back.

463
00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:54,600
Speaker 3: Literally every night.

464
00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:57,760
Speaker 4: So shout out to the Fever and the Dream. I think,

465
00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:00,639
Speaker 4: I think, I don't know they can go to I

466
00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:02,840
Speaker 4: don't know. I don't like putting like, oh, this is

467
00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:04,280
Speaker 4: gonna go to three, this is gonna go to two,

468
00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:08,000
Speaker 4: because you you never know what can happen in a game.

469
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:10,359
Speaker 4: But you know, as a basketball fan, I want them

470
00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:12,960
Speaker 4: all to go to three. You know, more basketball fan,

471
00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:15,520
Speaker 4: Oh exactlytball, not the Dream in the Fever.

472
00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:18,920
Speaker 1: I'm cool without that, but the other series everyone else.

473
00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:34,480
Speaker 1: Speaking of you never know what can happen, let's talk

474
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:36,160
Speaker 1: about the Liberty beating.

475
00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:37,000
Speaker 2: Phoenix on the road.

476
00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:40,520
Speaker 1: So they had a okay, so there was a thirty

477
00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:45,320
Speaker 1: point second quarter from Phoenix, they went to overtime. Natasha

478
00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:48,360
Speaker 1: Cloud went off on her former team with twenty three

479
00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:52,520
Speaker 1: points period and then the Liberty won seventy six to

480
00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:56,400
Speaker 1: sixty nine and overtime. However, it was a bittersweet win

481
00:23:56,800 --> 00:24:00,360
Speaker 1: because with about three minutes left in overtime, Stu went

482
00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:05,280
Speaker 1: down clutching her left knee and she walked off in tears.

483
00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:05,960
Speaker 3: I O don't know.

484
00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:14,920
Speaker 4: No, stat is bad, very bad, very bad, very bad.

485
00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:18,560
Speaker 3: I think huge win for the Liberty.

486
00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:21,080
Speaker 4: To steal a game on the road like in the

487
00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:23,560
Speaker 4: playoffs is so important.

488
00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:25,560
Speaker 3: It did take over time.

489
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:30,480
Speaker 4: Satu probably played her worst game of her career.

490
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:31,320
Speaker 3: I would say.

491
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:35,880
Speaker 4: Bleach rep Portland Sports put up a very nice graphic

492
00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:39,120
Speaker 4: of second fewest made field goals in a playoff game

493
00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:42,440
Speaker 4: in w BA history, with at least fifteen field goal attempts.

494
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:45,880
Speaker 4: She was two for seventeen, one for ten from three,

495
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,879
Speaker 4: which was her most three point attempts in a game

496
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:53,439
Speaker 4: since June, which was also against Liberty. But in that

497
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:56,840
Speaker 4: game she went seven for ten from three. So these

498
00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:59,760
Speaker 4: are shots that she knows that she can take, that

499
00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 4: she knows that she can make, and sometimes the battle

500
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:02,840
Speaker 4: is to go in.

501
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:04,880
Speaker 3: Lucky for her, she's a great company.

502
00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:11,879
Speaker 4: Also players on this list are Sabrina Ynescu, Diana Tarasi.

503
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,719
Speaker 3: And Lindsay Whalen, amongst others.

504
00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:17,800
Speaker 4: Even though Satu is on this list two times, that's

505
00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:20,760
Speaker 4: not great, But she's a good company. She's up there

506
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:22,719
Speaker 4: with some of the greatest players to ever played, so

507
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:27,280
Speaker 4: I foresee a bounce back game from Satu. She's not

508
00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:29,280
Speaker 4: going to play like that.

509
00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:33,000
Speaker 3: In New York. She cannot. This is a do or

510
00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:33,520
Speaker 3: die game.

511
00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:37,040
Speaker 4: I think that the Liberty's strategy was to allow At

512
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,359
Speaker 4: to take more shots than she probably wanted to. At

513
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 4: is a facilitator, she's a distributor. She wants to be

514
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:46,879
Speaker 4: responsible for all the points, just not her own. So

515
00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:50,000
Speaker 4: I think that the Liberty came out and said, Okay, well,

516
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:53,920
Speaker 4: you generate too much offense, so you generate your own

517
00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:55,680
Speaker 4: offense and we gonna handle everybody else.

518
00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:57,320
Speaker 3: And I think that was a really good game plan.

519
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 4: But things definitely change with Stewie potentially being out. But

520
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 4: this team is very talented and Amisa Men didn't play

521
00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:08,719
Speaker 4: a lot of minutes, so she has to step up

522
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 4: and play some more minutes. She'll probably be pretty well rested,

523
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:14,840
Speaker 4: and they do have a bench full of super talented

524
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:19,760
Speaker 4: players that didn't really get any time at all. So honestly,

525
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:22,080
Speaker 4: I think if the Liberty have to do it without Stuwie,

526
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:25,719
Speaker 4: they are more than capable of it. But we shall see,

527
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,240
Speaker 4: and prayers up to Stuwie. I hope it's nothing serious

528
00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:31,200
Speaker 4: because we love seeing Stuwie in the playoffs.

529
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:36,520
Speaker 1: And nothing's scarier than a knee. Like you don't want

530
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,680
Speaker 1: any injury. That's the part that makes me nervous because

531
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 1: that feels like a.

532
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:41,840
Speaker 2: Long time thing.

533
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,719
Speaker 4: I just hate seeing like all these injuries like there.

534
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:48,680
Speaker 4: I know that people we talked about this with the

535
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:53,440
Speaker 4: long season and the complaining about the wear and tear

536
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:57,560
Speaker 4: of the bodies, but it's just like, yes, the games

537
00:26:57,600 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 4: have to be played, so that's not going to change,

538
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,200
Speaker 4: going to be played, and there's going to be more

539
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 4: games that are going to be played with the new teams,

540
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,879
Speaker 4: so like that's not going to change. I'm still looking

541
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 4: at coaching staffs, training staff, I'm looking at everybody in charge.

542
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:15,720
Speaker 4: You do not have to play your players all of

543
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:16,720
Speaker 4: these damn minutes.

544
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 3: You really don't.

545
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 4: You have a team full of professional basketball players if

546
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:23,159
Speaker 4: you don't trust the players that you put on your roster.

547
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:25,440
Speaker 4: And that's a conversation you got to have with yourself

548
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:28,199
Speaker 4: and your team and your staff around you. Because you

549
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:31,560
Speaker 4: brought these players here to play professional basketball, because you

550
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:33,959
Speaker 4: think they're good enough to play professional basketball. You are

551
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:37,399
Speaker 4: running these players into the ground all season long, and

552
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:42,240
Speaker 4: we are seeing all of these crazy, random injuries happening, and.

553
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 3: It's starting to look bad.

554
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 4: Like from outside looking in, you're probably like, like, what

555
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:49,680
Speaker 4: the hell is going on with all these injuries in

556
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:53,160
Speaker 4: the w especially of the Stars. It's the wear and tear.

557
00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:56,200
Speaker 4: We've never had a forty four game season before. That's

558
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,439
Speaker 4: why all these records are being broken. That's why all

559
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:00,919
Speaker 4: this stuff is happening because we have When I got

560
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 4: into the league, I think we played thirty two games,

561
00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 4: so wow, it's like twelve more games. It doesn't seem

562
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:10,440
Speaker 4: like a lot, but that's a lot of traveling. That's

563
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 4: a lot of being out of your room, out of

564
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:16,400
Speaker 4: your bed, and hotels and different arenas.

565
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:20,880
Speaker 1: Hold on, yes, side note, because you said that.

566
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:22,720
Speaker 2: What year did you get drafted again?

567
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:23,479
Speaker 3: Twenty eighteen?

568
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 2: Okay, I believe if I.

569
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:31,680
Speaker 1: Remember correctly, that the record that the Aces are looking

570
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:35,120
Speaker 1: to break, that the Sparks broke with Lisa Leslie.

571
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:37,119
Speaker 2: They broke that in two thousand and one and won

572
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:37,840
Speaker 2: a championship.

573
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 4: See Okay, I need yeah, I need y'all when all

574
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 4: these records are being broken now because they are all

575
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:48,600
Speaker 4: going to get broken. Now we are playing way more

576
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 4: games than any other team has in the past.

577
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 1: So I need to know how many games the WNBA

578
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 1: played in two thousand and one.

579
00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 2: I don't even have how many did they win in

580
00:28:59,240 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 2: a row?

581
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 3: Right?

582
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 2: Like, damn near all of them?

583
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 4: Rights, So let's see. ESPN only goes back to two

584
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:11,000
Speaker 4: thousand and eight because they played thirty four games in

585
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 4: two thousand and eight, but they had way more teams.

586
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 3: Let's go back to when I got drafted.

587
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 4: Okay, we were at thirty four, so we were in

588
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 4: twenty eighteen, we played thirty four regular season games, and

589
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 4: now we are at forty four. So unfortunately for all

590
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:34,840
Speaker 4: of our great hoopers from the past, y'all's records are

591
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 4: about to be annihilated like.

592
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 3: Swiftly.

593
00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:41,959
Speaker 2: Okay, I found it.

594
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 1: How many games in the two thousand and one WNBA season.

595
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:48,080
Speaker 1: Each team played a thirty two game regular season schedule.

596
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 1: That year, the league had sixteen teams, and it was

597
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:55,400
Speaker 1: the last season before contraction reduced the league to fourteen

598
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 1: in the following year.

599
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 3: Yeah.

600
00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,280
Speaker 4: So, yeah, guys, there was a time where we had

601
00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 4: sixteen in the league. We're down to twelve now, we're thirteen.

602
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 4: Now next year we'll have fifteen, and then we're about

603
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 4: to have eighteen. So the number forty four seems very

604
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:17,600
Speaker 4: small if we're looking ahead. So something has to be done,

605
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 4: and I'm going to continue to die on this hill.

606
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 4: We need longer quarters. We have too many talented players

607
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:30,240
Speaker 4: and not enough time. We need longer quarters. I don't

608
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:32,120
Speaker 4: know what we have to do to make that happen.

609
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 4: It's going to make distributing minutes easier. It's going to

610
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 4: keep all the stars happy because they're going to be

611
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 4: able to get their stats in a reasonable amount of time.

612
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 4: But you're still going to be able to utilize the

613
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 4: team that you built. The people that you are paying

614
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,520
Speaker 4: to play basketball are going to be able to actually

615
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 4: go out and play basketball. Like, there's no reason why

616
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 4: you should have five players on your bench with DMPs

617
00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:57,720
Speaker 4: when you have eleven players on your roster.

618
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 3: That's ridiculous saying it's.

619
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:03,240
Speaker 4: Not like the NBA where they have like twenty guys

620
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 4: on there, Like, yes, there's five of them, six of

621
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 4: them who know they know they're not gonna play. They

622
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 4: even tell probably a few of them to not even

623
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 4: put their uniform on that night. You're not playing today, Bro,

624
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 4: just wear your clothes. That's like conversations that I had

625
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 4: in the NBA. We don't have those roster sizes. There's

626
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 4: no reason why you have ten, eleven, sometimes nine players

627
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 4: and you have four or five DMPs, like over and

628
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:30,000
Speaker 4: over and over.

629
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 1: I'm here for that, Lexi, because you know I'm dying

630
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 1: on the everybody needs a short schedule. Hell, I'm sorry,

631
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 1: I get jumped every time I say it.

632
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 4: But if we gotta do something, yeah, we got to

633
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 4: do something. And I don't know, like what this is

634
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 4: still all in negotiations, like what our season is going

635
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 4: to look like moving forward, because we've already maxed out

636
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:58,479
Speaker 4: our forty four games in this CBA, we're already leaking

637
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 4: into NFL. We're already leaking into NBA going into mid

638
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 4: October if necessary for the finals. Like that means we're

639
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 4: either gonna have to start earlier, or we're gonna have

640
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:12,320
Speaker 4: to extend the season, or like we're gonna have to

641
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 4: just play more and more frequently, which that's only going

642
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 4: to have that's only going to point to the coaches

643
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 4: and all that to utilize their whole rosters. I always

644
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 4: get back to this roster stuff. No matter what because

645
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 4: I hate seeing players go down and you can you

646
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 4: know it's because their bodies are exhausted. The wear and

647
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 4: tear of this season is no joke, and that's why,

648
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 4: I mean, I know everybody hates it. That's why the

649
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 4: guys in their eighty two season they rest because it's

650
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 4: it's too much.

651
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 2: I mean, if I played.

652
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 1: Eighty two anything in a season, I'm sitting and I complain.

653
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 1: I will complain about load management to the death of me.

654
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:51,560
Speaker 1: I'm the most annoying person about load management. It's because

655
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 1: how much money they make that that puts a whole

656
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:59,320
Speaker 1: other like, but they got to protect their money maker exactly.

657
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:03,080
Speaker 4: It's like Catch twenty two and you have to respect

658
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 4: both sides.

659
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 2: Annoying as a fan, though, yeah, But the solution.

660
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 3: To that is what short schedule.

661
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 4: But you can't like be like, Okay, Lebron's not playing

662
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 4: this day, he's not playing this day. You're not playing

663
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:20,480
Speaker 4: this day one, because that's against the rules, I'm pretty sure.

664
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Speaker 3: And two Strategically that just doesn't make sense.

665
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Speaker 4: You don't want the other team to know when your

666
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:27,800
Speaker 4: best player is not playing because you still want to

667
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,480
Speaker 4: win those games, right like you your best player might

668
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:32,720
Speaker 4: not be playing, but you don't go in the game like, oh,

669
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 4: he's not playing, so we're gonna we're gonna lose, Like no,

670
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:36,480
Speaker 4: that's not the mentality.

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00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:38,480
Speaker 3: It's like we're just gonna play without him. I still

672
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 3: try to win.

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Speaker 1: Well Lebron because he's older, they like strategically don't play him.

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Speaker 1: But I will say one more thing on the sixth

675
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Speaker 1: shorten the schedule front.

676
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 2: You never see NFL player like you.

677
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:51,760
Speaker 1: See them get hurt because it's so combative. There's four,

678
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 1: but you never see that.

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00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 2: Players the word I.

680
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 1: Like, I'm gonna I'm gonna sit out the coret You

681
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:00,160
Speaker 1: don't buy tickets to the NFL game and be like

682
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 1: the quarterback is not gonna play.

683
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 4: When they threw in the little Thursday night games and

684
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 4: the guy started playing like Thurs Sunday Thursday, I remember

685
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 4: seeing some guys like absolutely, like this is horrible and like, yes, football,

686
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 4: which I agree football is completely different from basketball.

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00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:22,279
Speaker 3: We both understand that. But like y'all understand, like what

688
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:23,359
Speaker 3: is like to you?

689
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:27,560
Speaker 4: Like are putting your body through the wringer for your joy?

690
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:30,719
Speaker 1: And if there's only one game a week, everybody's gonna play.

691
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:32,840
Speaker 1: Everybody's gonna give their all, everybody, and then you have

692
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 1: a week to practice, prepare.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying that y'all need a week off.

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Speaker 1: Like, yeah, and that's nice.

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00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 4: It is nice, except for you practice all the time.

696
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 4: But it's like you be on your ship when you

697
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:51,920
Speaker 4: overseas because you have seventeen practices for every game you play.

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00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:56,439
Speaker 1: So it's like, and I love the drama of like,

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00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 1: you don't get to see this team seven times, right,

700
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:02,279
Speaker 1: you get to see them tonight, and you better handle

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00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:03,319
Speaker 1: business tonight, you.

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00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:03,879
Speaker 2: Know what I mean.

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00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:07,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm dreaming that that is just not going

704
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:11,799
Speaker 1: to happen. However, before we go, we have to give

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Speaker 1: a huge congratulations to the world's nec page backers.

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00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:22,799
Speaker 3: Yes niece, yes niece. Is anybody shocked? No?

707
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:25,320
Speaker 2: She started in all thirty six games.

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Speaker 1: Averaging my handwriting, it looks like it's a be but

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00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 1: I know it's nineteen point two nineteen point two points,

710
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 1: five four assists, one point six steals. She topped every

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Speaker 1: rookie and every major stat including total points, points per game,

712
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:44,880
Speaker 1: total assists, assists per game. She had an absolute monster

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00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:46,359
Speaker 1: of the season. Well, it might have been a little

714
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:47,880
Speaker 1: bit disappointing for the Dallas Wings.

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Speaker 2: It is expected for.

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Speaker 1: A team that has the number one pick to kind

717
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 1: of have to figure things out for a little bit,

718
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 1: and all that aside, she definitely deserved that rookie of.

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Speaker 3: Ye absolutely in my opinion. And they banded this with

720
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 3: the win, which is nice.

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00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 4: That's always nice to end of season with the win

722
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:06,520
Speaker 4: no matter what your record is.

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00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 1: There was a little bit of controversy because Sonia Sonia

724
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:13,839
Speaker 1: Said You're On was second in voting and Paige had

725
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,840
Speaker 1: seventy votes and Sonya had two votes.

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00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,759
Speaker 2: A lot of fans were really really upset. Fans left

727
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 2: Sonya like I all.

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Speaker 3: Started that way. They were upset that she didn't get

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00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:24,840
Speaker 3: more votes.

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00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,040
Speaker 2: They were upset that, yeah, they felt like she deserved

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00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:29,720
Speaker 2: more attention.

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00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 4: And honestly, I'm surprised Paige didn't win that shit unanimously,

733
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:38,320
Speaker 4: to be honest, Like I think, and I think Sonya

734
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:42,359
Speaker 4: is a great player. I think she's gonna be a

735
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:43,600
Speaker 4: problem in this league.

736
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:47,319
Speaker 3: But come on now, guys, please like.

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00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:51,880
Speaker 4: The fact that she even got two votes as surprising

738
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:54,959
Speaker 4: to me because Page is like Nissiboo, like we said,

739
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 4: she's she's Auntie's baby. So the fact that she didn't

740
00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 4: unaniously win. That is actually quite surprising to me, especially

741
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 4: like the second half of season that she's had. I

742
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:07,919
Speaker 4: think if Dallas won a few more games, it would

743
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 4: have been unanimous. But I think it was nice.

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00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 1: I was about to say I would actually go as

745
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:13,879
Speaker 1: far as to say, if I were Paige, I would

746
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:14,239
Speaker 1: be a.

747
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:16,319
Speaker 2: Littleto bit tight that I did.

748
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,760
Speaker 4: Nanny y'all, Like what two of y'all were like, Nah,

749
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 4: those are the d those are the mystics, media people.

750
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:26,399
Speaker 4: So I'll if that's what the case was, then okay,

751
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 4: I understand because I'm sorry. Like pay the way Page

752
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:35,240
Speaker 4: was playing consistently, Like I think with Sonya and Kiki,

753
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 4: they like came out like really really hot, and then

754
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:40,759
Speaker 4: they kind of hit their rookie wall, and Page kind

755
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:43,239
Speaker 4: of like jumped over her rookie wall.

756
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 3: She didn't really hit one.

757
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 4: She did she was out with the concussion, and I

758
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:48,840
Speaker 4: think that kind of helped as far as like wearing

759
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 4: tearing her body. She did take some games off for Rest,

760
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,759
Speaker 4: et cetera. But I think that the rookies that this

761
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:57,959
Speaker 4: season were so impressive top to bottom. I think even

762
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 4: Dom she if she was able to get playing time

763
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 4: earlier in the year. I think she would have been

764
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 4: in the conversation for Rookie of the Year and it

765
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 4: like and people would not have no problem with that,

766
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:16,400
Speaker 4: Like coming in twenty and ten nineteen years old, first

767
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 4: youngest player to get back to back and ten games.

768
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Speaker 3: Yea, our little baby. So last time we played, last.

769
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Speaker 4: Time we played the Aces was when I was sick,

770
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,879
Speaker 4: So I was watching on TV, not sick. It wasn't

771
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 4: Crauns related, guys. I like literally just got like a

772
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:38,360
Speaker 4: random strip throat, Like it was crazy. It was like

773
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:39,359
Speaker 4: a two day strip throat.

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00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 3: It was nuts.

775
00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:44,320
Speaker 4: Anyway, I was watching on TV and we were down

776
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:48,280
Speaker 4: by twenty ish. We came back and Dom and Asia

777
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:50,359
Speaker 4: were going at it, and I was like, Okay, I

778
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:53,000
Speaker 4: love this, Like this is great for Dom, Like this

779
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,919
Speaker 4: is great for her confidence. She's going up against Melissa Smith,

780
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:57,320
Speaker 4: she's going against Asian Wilson.

781
00:38:57,360 --> 00:38:58,400
Speaker 3: She's having a great game.

782
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 4: But also, like we down like twenty, like it was

783
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 4: kind of like a throwing shit out the wall type moment,

784
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:08,440
Speaker 4: Like Dom, just do your thing, and like that's kind

785
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:11,239
Speaker 4: of what happens sometimes when you're down in a game

786
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:12,800
Speaker 4: that you kind of just get thrown into You're just

787
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 4: kind of like I'm justa do me and that's what

788
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:15,800
Speaker 4: that's the swag.

789
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:18,359
Speaker 3: Dom had that game girl the other day.

790
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 4: They probably maybe replayed her clips on the loop in

791
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:27,000
Speaker 4: the facility or something because they was not messing around

792
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:30,279
Speaker 4: with Dom. Like every time I look at Dom, like

793
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 4: I just I see like a little baby, Like she's

794
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 4: literally just a kid. So it's like Melissa coming up

795
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:39,759
Speaker 4: like throwing her shot.

796
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 3: Like Asia like like.

797
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:44,640
Speaker 4: Doing all the stuff, like just just some competitive like

798
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 4: that shit, and I'm just like, oh, Dom, Like I

799
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:49,959
Speaker 4: want this moment for her, Like this is the moment

800
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:51,839
Speaker 4: that she works her ass off for.

801
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 3: And she didn't play bad. She's just young.

802
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:57,480
Speaker 4: It's her first playoff series and she's playing against the

803
00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:58,799
Speaker 4: best player in the freaking.

804
00:39:58,560 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 3: World right now, and I.

805
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:03,279
Speaker 4: I think she she held her own for the most part.

806
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:05,800
Speaker 3: But it's like it's just a Playoffs is different.

807
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 4: Playoffs Vegas is different, playoff asil Wilson is different.

808
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:11,800
Speaker 3: So I think that.

809
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 4: Dom tonight is going to be more prepared for the physicality,

810
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 4: and I think that she's gonna have a much better game.

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Speaker 3: I think the last game it was just a lot

812
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:21,799
Speaker 3: for her. It was a lot. It was a lot

813
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:23,319
Speaker 3: for everybody clearly, but.

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00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 4: They was not playing around with her because I think

815
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:28,480
Speaker 4: they remember what she did last time we was in

816
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 4: Vegas and it was like not tonight, not tonight, little one.

817
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:34,520
Speaker 4: But she did make All Rookie teams, So shout out

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Speaker 4: to our dom, our little rook making All Rookie team.

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Speaker 3: So really happy for her.

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00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 4: And then shout out to Mekka also for making All

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Speaker 4: the NBA Second Team. I don't know if it was

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00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 4: like the official one, it was like AP or whatever

823
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 4: came out. Whatever list came Outnika was on it, So

824
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:53,720
Speaker 4: shout out to her. And I don't know if Gabby

825
00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:55,319
Speaker 4: going Defensive Player of the Year, but she got a

826
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Speaker 4: strong case too. She definitely will be first team All Defense.

827
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 4: I think these first in the league and steals, so

828
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 4: if she doesn't win Defensive Player of the Year, she

829
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:05,839
Speaker 4: will be first or second team.

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Speaker 3: Same with Ezzie, I think leading the league in blocks.

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Speaker 4: So shout out to my little defensive girly pops, and yeah,

832
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 4: we got to use all of our weapons that we

833
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:22,359
Speaker 4: have two nights to extend our season. Hopefully beat the

834
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Speaker 4: Aces in Seattle, bring it to Game three.

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Speaker 3: Hope y'all watch and hope y'all share it.

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Speaker 2: I can't wait.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Hope this episode age as well, and next week we

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Speaker 4: can We can come back and be celebrating a series win.

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Speaker 3: But if not, you.

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Speaker 4: Know where you can find us regardless here on Full

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Speaker 4: Circle Podcast.

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Speaker 3: We will see y'all next week.

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Speaker 2: Bye. Thanks for listening to Full Circle.

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