WEBVTT - Hoops and Gay Shit 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:02.800 Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're looking 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.360 for two more friends to help us recreate the Indiana 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:09.959 Fever's team handshake, a five way DApp innovation at its finest. 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:13.200 How did we not think of that before? On today's show, 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:15.480 we'll talk about the historic performance we just saw at 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:18.040 the Paralympics, check in on your faith in the Las 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:21.920 Vegas Aces, ask if you ever think about dying at 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:24.840 a basketball game, and dive deep into the special Rookie 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:27.440 Season's Angel recent Kaitlin Clarker have it. It's all coming 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:39.440 up right after this Welcome back slices, Happy Friday. Here's 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:43.680 what you need to know today. Some really awesome news 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:47.120 out of the Paralympics. As Zakiya Kudu Dotti, who you 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:50.320 heard Alex mention a couple episodes ago. That's the taekwond 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:54.600 athlete that the International Paralympic Committee helped escape from the Taliban. Well, 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:57.440 she just won the first ever Paralympic medal for the 0:00:57.480 --> 0:01:01.000 refugee Paralympic team, despite the ban on women in sports 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:04.399 in her country, in the first race of their first 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:08.479 Paralympic Games. On Thursday, American swimmer Christy Rolly Crossley, who 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:11.920 uses they, them and she her pronouns, broke a world record. 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:15.679 The thirty seven year old single mother of three posted 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:17.920 a world record time of twenty seven point two eight 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:21.280 seconds in the fifty meter freestyle for the S nine class, 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:25.120 which includes athletes with weakness, limb loss or coordination difficulties. 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:28.559 A few hours later, Raleigh Crossley won silver in the final, 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:31.760 finishing point two eight seconds behind China's Chen Yee, who 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:35.240 set her own world record for her classification. Athletes classified 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:37.320 as both S nine and S ten compete against each 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:40.280 other in this event. Raley Crossley is expected to contend 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:42.959 for a medal in three more individual events, plus one 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:45.440 or two relays ahead of the Paralympics. The New York 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:48.040 Times profile Rally Crossley. We'll link to it in our 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:51.040 show notes. Because their disability isn't always as obvious as 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:53.720 some of their competitors, she's had to face accusations of 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:57.320 gaming the classification system. Quote. I've become a lightning rod 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:59.720 of sorts where people are like, she's so fast, and 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:02.600 they I don't see the disability all the time. End quote. 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:06.200 Remember Sarah Adam, the American wheelchair rugby player Alex told 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.560 you about earlier this week. While she's the first woman 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:10.560 to represent the US in the mixed gender sport of 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:14.280 wheelchair rugby, and she scored six tries in Team USA's 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.239 fifty one forty eight win over rival Canada on Thursday. 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:19.880 Plenty more Paralympic events to look forward to this weekend. 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:21.560 We'll let you know what's on deck in our show 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:25.800 notes to Hoops. There are four WNBA games today, all 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.720 with playoff implications. We'll give you the full schedule in 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:31.600 our notes, but we've got a spotlight one matchup in particular. 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:35.359 It's the Indiana Fever at the Chicago Sky seven thirty 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:39.760 Eastern on Ion and League Pass Caitlin Clark versus Angel 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.760 Reese for the last time in the regular season, Number 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:46.239 seven versus Number eight. It's a duel between two squads 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:50.160 with playoff hopes that are trending in sort of opposite directions. 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:52.880 This one's going to have some fireworks, and if Clark 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:55.080 and Reeser involved, probably some records are going to get broken. 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:57.519 To something else to note, this game is going to 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:01.800 be the Sky's first ever Barbie theme game. Chicago became 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:05.480 the first WNBA franchise to partner with Mattel's Barbie this week, 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:08.280 and per a team press release, the partnership is meant 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:11.000 to celebrate women athletes, with the goal of championing women 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:14.280 in sports and encouraging girls to pursue their athletic passions. 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:18.519 Smart move when you got Shytown Barbie aka Bayou Barbie 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:22.560 aka Podcast Barbie aka Angel Reese on the roster. Also 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.360 some more news out of Chicago. Point guard Dana Evans 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.160 is looking to leave the franchise. Evans first drived in 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:30.720 twenty twenty one in a trade orchestrated by then head 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:33.760 coach and GM James Wade. After Wade's departure, as well 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:36.880 as that a veteran point guard, Courtney Vanderslute, many anticipated 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.760 it would be evans time to shine this season. With 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:42.560 the emergence of Kennedy Carter and Lindsay Allen, her minutes 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.320 have dwindled, but there's been some conflicting messages in the 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:48.000 last couple of days. Here's how it unfolded. So during 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:51.480 media availability on Wednesday, Evans told reporters that she wasn't 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:53.160 happy with her role on the team, but said she 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:56.760 had not requested a trade. But on Thursday, She took 0:03:56.800 --> 0:04:00.000 to Twitter to clarify, writing, quote, I initiated trade talk 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:02.440 a couple months ago, but after the Olympic break, I 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:04.360 said I would go ahead and finish the season strong 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:07.520 with Chicago end quote. So it seems like Evan's sustaining 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:11.000 put for now, all right. So we've got those four 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:14.440 games tonight, and then there are six WNBA games this weekend, 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:17.440 including two big ones on Sunday, a three to four 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:19.840 matchup between the Seattle Storm and the Connecticut Sun at 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.719 one pm Eastern, and then at four pm Eastern, a 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:25.120 five to six matchup between the Las Vegas Aces and 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:28.919 the Phoenix Mercury to the NWSL. The Case Current have 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:32.120 acquired defender Kayla Sharples in a trade with BAFC in 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:35.440 exchange for keeper Jordan Silkowitz and fifteen thousand dollars in 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:38.560 allocation funds. With the move, BAFC get to shore up 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:42.400 their depleted goalkeeper position and eliminate the position redundancy created 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:46.920 when they acquired defender Abby Dalkemper via a trade on Monday. Sharples, 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:48.760 who spent most of her career with the Chicago Red 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:51.279 Stars before leaving a free agency to launch the expansion 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:54.600 BAFC team heads back to the Midwest and joins a 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:58.200 third place KC squad. BFC are in action tonight, actually 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:01.000 against the fifth seed Portland Thorns at ten pm Eastern. 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:04.840 That's streaming on Prime Video. There are six more NWSL 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:07.320 games over the weekend, including the top of the table 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:10.640 Orlando Pride hosting number four seeded New York New Jersey 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:14.719 Gotham f s Orlando's riding an eighteen game unbeaten regular 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.480 season streak dating back to last year. That game is 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:21.000 at six pm Eastern on Sunday, streaming on Paramount Plus. 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:25.160 In USL Super League news, Brooklyn's home opener on Saturday 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:29.240 against the Carolina Ascent has been postponed. So during installation 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:31.479 of the soccer turf, the league and the team identified 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:34.760 that there were deficiencies making the field surface unplayable and 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:37.280 had to postpone the game. No makeup date has yet 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:39.479 been announced, and there are no other USL games on 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:41.520 the schedule for this weekend. They'll get back an action 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:45.160 next week. Finally, one last piece of soccer news, so, 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:48.080 speaking of the USL Super League, there's a league below 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:51.720 that the USLW a pre professional league and the Minnesota 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:55.400 Aurora is in that league. They're the largest independent, community 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:58.320 owned women's soccer team in the US, and they're doing 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:01.800 another round of selling community shares. So if you've ever 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:04.520 wanted to own a soccer team, for one hundred bucks, 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:06.520 you can be an investor and part of that club. 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:08.320 We'll throw a link in our show notes if you 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:11.520 want to get involved. In volleyball news, Nebraska's berg and 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:14.760 Riley has signed an NIL deal with Red Bull, joining 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.880 Texas superstar Madison Skinner and pitt National Freshman of the 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:22.800 Year Olivia Babcock, who also have been given wings. In tennis. 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.039 The US Open rolls on this weekend. Results are coming 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:28.200 too fast and too furious to update here, but we'll 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:29.680 be sure to link to a schedule in our show 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.360 notes so you can keep up. The opens b Open 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:35.920 campaign continues this weekend, too. Started in twenty twenty, it's 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:40.360 a social responsibility campaign that amplifies the voices of underrepresented communities. 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:44.520 So the HBCU and LGBTQIA plus communities have already been honored, 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:47.320 and this weekend's events include celebrations of the Hispanic and 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:53.360 Latin American communities and Asian American Pacific Islander culture. We're 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:55.120 going to take a quick break on a scale of 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:57.839 ted Lasso to the nineteen eighty miracle on ice. What's 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:06.200 your level of belief? We'll find out next Welcome back 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:08.960 my little slices. Yesterday we asked y'all to weigh in 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:11.200 on the state of the Las Vegas Aces and while 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:14.640 some of you have lost all altogether at a three pet, 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:18.120 others refused to stop believing. We asked, if you had 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:19.840 to put a percentage on it, what odds do you 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:21.960 give in the aces to win it all again? We 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:24.880 got everything from zero percent all the way up to 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:29.520 seventy five percent. At Clean forty five said twenty three percent. 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:32.320 Three peten ain't easy and had a gift of my 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:36.440 beloved Michael Jordan love that at Coorea, Cubs fans said 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.640 seventy five percent because they have the MVP of the 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:43.040 w at jd Man didn't give a percentage, but did 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:46.400 give some solid analysis saying they're doing the classic post 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.239 title hangover team that flips the switch at the right time, 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:52.280 so it sounds like he still believes. And finally at 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.760 our d Mansini came through with the gold quote twenty 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:58.720 two percent because three peating is hard and twenty two 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:00.400 is the one you can count on for sure when 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:02.880 it comes to this team. End quote. Ain't that the 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.960 damn truth? Asia Wilson right now trying to put this 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:08.040 whole team on her back, which is what led us 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:10.040 to this conversation in the first place. Forty two points 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:12.200 the other night and an Aces loss that dropped them 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:14.640 down to fifth at the time, and they got to 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:16.400 battle their way back if they want to get a 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:19.160 three peat. Now, before we even get into three peats, 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:21.400 let's do a quick refresher on the history of just 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:24.280 back to back titles in the WNBA. So when the 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:26.960 Aces won last year, they became the first team to 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:29.200 go back to back since the Sparks did it in 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:32.400 one and o two, And the only team in WNBA 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:35.160 history to three peat has been the Houston Comets. They 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.079 won the first four titles in league history ninety seven 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.760 to two thousand. So this is an enormous feat that 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:43.440 they're trying. But they certainly have the talent for it. 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:45.280 It's just a matter of whether they can put it 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:48.640 all together. So, Mesh, can they do it? What's your 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:51.800 percentage of belief right now? Sarah I've got to go 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:53.240 a little bit lower than everybody else. 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:55.880 I gotta give them a fifteen percent chance, and I'm 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:56.480 gonna tell you. 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:59.559 I'm gonna tell you why. Okay. I've considered a lot 0:08:59.559 --> 0:08:59.920 of things. 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.600 First and foremost, how many other teams I think actually 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:05.040 have a shot at winning a title, And in my opinion, 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.679 there's five. I agree with Tarika Foster Rasby. If you 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:09.560 haven't listened to that episode, go back and listen to 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:13.080 that episode. But I think the Liberty, the Links, the Sun, 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:15.720 and the Fever have a chance. And of those teams, 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:18.000 I put them in there because I think they got 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:20.160 a little bit the magic going on. I'm starting to 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:23.520 believe in the Fever, Okay, but I think of those 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.720 five teams, Vegas has like the fourth best chance, So 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:29.520 I'm putting them at fifteen. Fever probably a like ten. 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:31.840 Honestly, by the way, I mean, the Fever also just 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:35.720 got the goat bump of Simone Biles right and Gabby 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:37.800 Thomas showing up at their game, and like I think 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:40.199 touching them they might have rubbed off like an extra 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:42.600 couple percentage points ye of likelihood of winning. 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:45.360 It's like the cheese touch, but for greatness. People my 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:46.360 age will know what that is. 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:53.320 Sorry, what wait? Hold on? What's the cheese touch? Oh? 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:57.040 If I'm not mistaken, is that Captain underpants? Y'all tweet 0:09:57.040 --> 0:09:57.360 at us? 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:00.880 Okay, I've actually seen half of a cap underpants with 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:04.720 my nephew, and I've touched a lot of cheese. I 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:06.880 think it's actually diary but wimpy kid though, Diary of 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:09.839 a wimpy kid yep. Based on my immediate Google search, 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:14.200 I'm now going to look into cheese touching a carry on. 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:16.080 The other thing for me that I had to consider 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:19.400 is we keep comparing this ACES team to the Aces 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:22.720 team of last year, and they're just not the same team. 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:25.280 The circumstances are not the same. And if you look 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:27.800 at the numbers, last year, they averaged like almost ninety 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:30.240 three points a game, held opponents to eighty ish. 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:31.680 This year they're averaging eighty. 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:34.120 Seven, so not bad, but opponents are like right at 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:37.400 their heels averaging like eighty three, so you know, the 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:39.960 margin for error is a lot smaller. And last year 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:42.280 we have four players averaging double figures. This year they 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:44.840 don't have that. So you know, Becky said it herself, 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:46.600 she doesn't think this team's played its best ball. I 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:48.800 don't think they have either, But I don't know if 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:50.880 their best basketball is going to be enough because other 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:54.239 teams have also added some pieces. You look at Minnesota, 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:57.800 They've got a lot of Smith, Courtney Williams, Indy Caitlin Clark. Obviously, 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:00.719 I'm a big fan of Temmy fag Benle Connecticut with 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:03.840 Rena Maybrie New York, their whole bench is better. So 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:06.400 I think Vegas might still have that same depth problem 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:08.160 we talked about a lot last year. 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:10.440 But end of the day, they did come away with 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:12.839 the title. So what do I know? I want to 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:15.520 ask you real quick about the four players in double digits. 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:19.680 Chelsea Gray last year was sitting solidly at fifteen a game, 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:22.880 and this year she's just not on that same pace. 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:26.240 She's She's actually sixth on the team and scoring at 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:28.680 just eight a game. Do you think that's entirely about 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:30.800 her injury or you're seeing something different in this team 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:34.319 in terms of style strategy. You know, the way the 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:36.160 players are getting set up where they're just not going 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:38.679 to her as much. I think she's still settling in. 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:40.880 I mean, if you even look at how she performed 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:43.120 during the Olympics, she was still Chelsea Gray, but she 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:46.520 wasn't point guard level Chelsea Gray. And so I still 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:50.199 think again, because there's so many situational things that have changed. 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.760 Asia Wilson is still doing Agie Wilson things, but you're 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.079 not getting the production from Kelsey. You're not getting the 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:57.440 same production from Jackie. Even though you get it in moments, 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:00.320 it's not as consistent as it was. And for Chelsea Great, 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:02.880 you know, she's the point God, she can dish that thing. 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:05.600 That's her number one, A one in her game. And 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:07.640 I mean as far as the scoring goes, I think 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:09.720 that happens once she's able to open up the floor 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:11.439 for the rest of her teammates. And because that's been 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:14.320 so hard right now, we're also seeing her numbers in 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:15.120 the points for a game. 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:17.520 Call them struggle a little bit. But I haven't lost 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.839 all faith. Haven't lost all faith. Yeah, she's about to 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:23.920 assists down from last year's average as well, which might 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:26.600 just be about other teammates finishing or like you said, 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:28.559 just getting in a rhythm. Also worth doting that this 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:31.360 is a team that had a lot of Olympians on it. 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:36.240 They're so they're tired they're so tired. The little ice 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:39.840 bath a little They're like mesh in college. They just 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:42.760 want to rest on defense instead of showing up. Oh, 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:45.800 that's when they're That's when they're getting their legs. They're 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:50.000 getting their legs back. You know. They They might be 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:54.000 exactly what our one listener said, which is hangover title 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:55.760 team that comes back and turns it on right when 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:57.880 it matters most. I would not be surprised at all. 0:12:58.200 --> 0:12:59.920 But I also I'm looking around the league and seeing 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:03.320 other teams that just look better right now, Al, what's 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:05.680 your take? What's your percentage of belief in the Aces? 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:07.240 Nine five percent? 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:13.040 Wow? Oh is she coming here to take? Al? Do 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:15.480 we get an analysis or you just gonna drop that 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:16.240 and walk away. 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:22.000 I think that this Ace's team loves nothing more than 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:27.160 people underestimating them. I think it fuels them. I always 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.920 go back. There was this great headline, a nineteen ninety 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:34.320 nine Denver Post story, Your Girl Loves the Archives. The 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:39.600 headline was Becky Hammond, Everybody's all American. No one will 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:45.360 ever underestimate Colorado State's Becky Hammond ever again. Oh a 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:48.240 few weeks after that, she went undrafted, And I think 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:51.600 that energy is just something in the locker room that 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.920 fourth place vote Asia Wilson always has. They just want 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:57.240 people to count them out so they can come back 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:58.480 and prove everyone wrong. 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:00.920 Okay, some of the twer just to our questions is 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:06.160 going to end up on their pinterests Eaten good Forward, 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:10.320 which we established on the show, might replace the bulletin 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:13.840 board at the very least screenshots. The screenshots of those 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.920 zero percentage points are going up in the Ace's locker 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:19.200 room for sure. I like that analysis, Alex. We got 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:21.440 to take another break when we come back the return 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:32.280 of No Dumb Questions. Welcome back, Slices. It's time once 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:39.720 again for no dumb questions, and we got a couple 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:42.680 of not dumb questions from you, slices. Let's start with 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:46.640 certified slice Alyssa Obradovich, who's back with another one. She wrote, 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:49.560 I've got a burning question after Tonight's huge Fever win 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:52.800 over the Sun, the real fans want to know, assuming 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:56.040 the Sun spends the night in Indianapolis, does Carrington stay 0:14:56.080 --> 0:15:00.840 at the team hotel or with Smith Alyssa from Champagne, Illinois. Okay, 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:03.640 this is a juicy wanta lessa. Let's dive in for context, 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:07.240 Dja Carrington at the Connecticut Sun is dating Indiana Fever 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:10.680 forward Melissa Smith. Their relationship dates back to their college 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.680 days playing together at Baylor. They were on a break 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:16.000 at one point last year and they were like off, 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:18.440 but they're back together now. They're posting supportive messages on 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:21.720 Insta about each other, and they're making little cutesy videos together, 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:24.880 so they seem quite happy. So your question is, did 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:28.360 Djna skip the team hotel with the fever and crash 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:33.000 at Smith's house in Indy? Meish? This topic is hoops 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:35.480 and gay shit both of your accounts. What say you? 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:37.440 That's a mess? 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:41.760 Oh, so per Djna's TikTok if you haven't already looked. 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:44.800 Oh, we did some research. Yeah, we did some research. 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:47.960 Okay, we can't prepared today at DJA Carrington, she's not 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.000 very hard to find on there. But she stayed with 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:52.920 Melissa the night before the game, and did it get 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:58.280 ready with me from Melyssa's house. So i'd rephrase your questions. 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:00.640 Did Carrington stay at the team hote to or spent 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:01.560 another night? 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:07.200 Oh that is some good research. Also, I am way 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:08.680 too competitive for that shit. 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:10.840 Yeah, that's literally what I was about to say, I'm like, 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:13.120 kudos to y'all, because if I'm planning against my girl 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:13.880 the next day. 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:17.240 We're not together. No, I had the tiger all night. 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:20.080 I'm thinking about ways to destroy you. Mm hmm, I'm 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:23.080 tearing you apart. I'm sorry. But also, yeah, they don't 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.320 see each other that much, so I guess, like, does 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:29.280 your horniness override your competitiveness? And I don't know. I 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:31.320 do have to say in college occasionally, if I was 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:33.600 like in the mood to get some action, I would 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:36.480 have to like tamper down my tendency to get a 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:39.480 little aggressive at things like beer pong and try to 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:41.640 be a little more lady like. So I might seem 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:43.600 like someone someone would want to take back to their 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:44.760 dorm slash frat. 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:49.640 This TMI is that over. 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:51.720 Here you ain't even got to worry about that, That's right. 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:53.720 I mean, listen, I would make a great lesbian. I 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:56.960 think my competitiveness would just add to my attractiveness, not 0:16:57.200 --> 0:17:02.920 as much with the dudes I've found. Goodness gracious. Yeah, 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:04.760 I'm going to say that she stayed there both nights 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:07.119 because you know what, if you're always traveling in different places, 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:08.560 you just want to you just want to hang and 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:10.720 spend some special time. It's like on The Bachelor of 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:12.480 the Bachelorette when they get to go to the fantasy 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:14.359 suite and it's like, even if they're not going to bone, 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:15.919 you still need to take that time to just like 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:18.800 hang and like catch up. I'm sure that that's exactly 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:19.359 what happens. 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:20.760 I don't know nothing about the batch. 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:26.600 That's all right, Moving on, here's our not dumb question 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:30.000 number two at Aaron Underscore raw tagus on X and 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:32.680 asked for no dumb questions. Now that Caitlin Clark holds 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:34.960 the most threes by a rook and Angelica has a 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:38.160 consecutive double double streak record, how many records do these 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:41.240 rooks have? Well, listen, we actually have a whole list 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:43.560 of their records courtesy of the good folks at across 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:46.400 the timeline. You can follow them and should follow them 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:50.840 on X at WBB timeline. And I hope you're ready, Aaron, 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:53.919 because to be honest, if we listed all of their accomplishments, 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:57.400 we would be here for hours like marathon tantric stingstyle. 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:00.680 If you know, you know, and by the I want 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:02.840 you all to know that Misha didn't know because she 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:06.040 interrupted our recording to be like stingstyle, is that like 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:10.920 bullet points in the list, No mesh. Sting, the musician, 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:14.000 frontman for the Police and excellent solo artists as well, 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:17.720 is known for publicly discussing his marathon sex sessions that 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:22.280 go on for hours. They are called tantric sex. And 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:24.840 now you know as well, and now we all know. Okay, 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:27.399 let me give you the highlights from these records and 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:29.760 we'll put the full list in our show notes. Here 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:32.879 we go. Angel Reese rookie record for the most games 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:35.480 with fifteen plus rebounds, the first double double by a 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:38.720 rookie in a WNBA All Star Game, WNBA record for 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:41.399 consecutive games with a double double in a single season, 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:44.880 first player in WNBA history to post twenty plus rebounds 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:48.560 in three consecutive games. Caitlin Clark rookie record for most 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:52.560 assists in a season, Indiana Fever single game assist record. 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:55.520 As you mentioned, Aaron the rookie record for mad threes. 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:58.239 Also the fastest player to four hundred points and two 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:03.520 hundred assists, faster than tier Sabrina Enescu, Don Staley. 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