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Speaker 1: Full Circle is an iheartwoman's sports production in partnership with

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Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, y'all,

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Speaker 1: welcome back to another episode of Full Circle.

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Speaker 2: LEXI check in with us. You've had quite the week.

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Speaker 3: I know, guys, our season is over due to a

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Speaker 3: Jackie Young offensive rebound put back in Vegas. So yeah, guys,

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Speaker 3: it's so crazy, Like sports are so crazy. It's like

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Speaker 3: you plan, you're locked in for like six seven months.

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Speaker 3: You plan, your whole life is revolving around your practice schedule,

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Speaker 3: your travel schedule, your game schedule, and then boom is over.

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Speaker 4: Just like that, it just ends.

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Speaker 3: And then everyone's just like what now, And then you

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Speaker 3: get the we got our exit meetings, we have media,

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Speaker 3: you have this, and you just kind of have to

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Speaker 3: like it doesn't matter how you're feeling, if you're sad,

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Speaker 3: if you're happy, like you still have like these last

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Speaker 3: publigations to get out of the way, because then you know, life,

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Speaker 3: life moves on. So for me personally, I was sad

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Speaker 3: that we lost. We already know like my situation for

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Speaker 3: the season, So I was just kind of like, Okay,

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Speaker 3: well I don't have to send on the bench anymore.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if y'all any of y'all heard in

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Speaker 3: my exit interview and the statement I made. If you didn't,

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Speaker 3: it's like all over TikTok and X apparently. But I

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Speaker 3: just ensured everybody that I was healthy, and that's the

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Speaker 3: reason why I didn't play this season was because I

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Speaker 3: didn't play. That was the coach's decision for me not

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Speaker 3: to play all those games, not because I was sick.

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Speaker 3: But if you want to hear it all, like y'all

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Speaker 3: can find it, it's easy. But also, if you guys

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Speaker 3: didn't here, our whole coaching stuff was not re signed.

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Speaker 3: So let's she wasn't fired. They weren't fired, They just

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Speaker 3: were all not renewed to continue to coach for the

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Speaker 3: Seattle Storm. So another year for Lexi with a new coach.

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Speaker 3: I think I've had a new coach every year of

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Speaker 3: my career except.

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Speaker 4: For two years.

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Speaker 3: Oh, the two years I was in Minnesota were the

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Speaker 3: only two years that I had the same coach back

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Speaker 3: to back years, so along with also being on different teams,

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Speaker 3: so it's like I just have never found peace. Everything

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Speaker 3: is always like and for me, even like dropping into

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Speaker 3: La like they were already in the middle of a

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Speaker 3: hot ass mess Seattle, they had their hot ass mess

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Speaker 3: from last year.

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Speaker 4: Like, I just keep getting dropped into these.

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Speaker 3: Environments that are like not good environments, and then I'm

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Speaker 3: always like around when everyone's like trying to fix it,

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Speaker 3: which I guess that's good because ultimately, like you can

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Speaker 3: leave places better than when you found them. But it's

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Speaker 3: like kind of like, dang, can I just go into

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Speaker 3: some normal shit like dang? So, yeah, another year of

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Speaker 3: a new coach. I have no idea who they're considering

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Speaker 3: to bring in. I'm sure they probably won't ask me.

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Speaker 3: They might, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: But I'm under contract for next year.

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Speaker 3: Me and Dom Jordan Horsten and Nico Mule I think

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Speaker 3: are the only We're the only four that are like

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Speaker 3: officially like under contract for next year. Everybody is a

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Speaker 3: free agent, guys, the whole team. I'm restricted free agents

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Speaker 3: along with the majority of the w So that's gonna

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Speaker 3: be interesting. But y'all see Mariah well you can't see

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Speaker 3: right now, but she got on a Vegas jersey right now, So.

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Speaker 4: That's like what all? But whatever, whatever, listen.

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Speaker 1: First of all, I am not wearing this Vegas jersey

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Speaker 1: to wrap your ops, LEXI. I'm wearing this Vegas jersey

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Speaker 1: to celebrate miss Asia Wilson, Nike fam That's why I

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Speaker 1: have all of these jerseys. If you always always see

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Speaker 1: me rotate jerseys, they're just Nike athletes because I work

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Speaker 1: with Nike. But I'm wearing the jersey because I was

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Speaker 1: just making a video about all of her insane accolades

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Speaker 1: and her winning and.

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Speaker 2: Again, which is the next thing I want to get

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Speaker 2: into that.

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Speaker 4: Let's get into it.

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Speaker 2: Because we were right. We were right about every right

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Speaker 2: and our prediction.

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Speaker 4: We were right.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think this year was like necessarily

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Speaker 4: We went four for four.

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Speaker 1: No, No, I didn't predict code defensive player of the year.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know.

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Speaker 3: We didn't predict that, but we did say a lot

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Speaker 3: of Smiths had a chance. And then I did say, Agiables,

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Speaker 3: it should be the defensive player of the year. But

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Speaker 3: Like you're the best team in the league and the

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Speaker 3: only individual accolade your team got was a co Defensive

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Speaker 3: Player of the Year, Like, that's so crazy to think about.

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Speaker 1: I will say, I will say with a team that

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Speaker 1: them getting outside of an MVP, which I don't feel

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Speaker 1: like it was deserved this year peak because of fee

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Speaker 1: getting heard and them still going on without her as

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Speaker 1: or maybe sixth Player of the Year. But like, I

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Speaker 1: feel like it's a compliment to how like the award

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Speaker 1: you guys need to be chasing is the championship, not

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Speaker 1: these individual yeah awards.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think the only reason, the only way

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Speaker 3: that they're not going to be like feeling a way

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Speaker 4: Then they'll be like, Okay, well this is better than

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Speaker 3: Accolade is a championship, which the way they've been playing

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Speaker 3: that seems very likely. But we'll get into we'll get

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Speaker 3: into the first round of playoffs in a second, but

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Speaker 3: we do want to give a shout out to Asia

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Speaker 3: Wilson for winning her fourth MVP. Only player in wn

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Speaker 3: WNBA history to do so her resume is insaying I

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Speaker 3: don't have it all written down, but I'm sure you do.

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Speaker 2: I want to get in your I got you. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I got Youah.

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Speaker 4: Let's hear it.

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Speaker 1: Which is exactly why I wanted to celebrate Miss Girl today,

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Speaker 1: because she has officially been named the twenty twenty five

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Speaker 1: WNBA MVP after a turnaround pretty much mid season. This

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Speaker 1: a four way tie with WNBA legends like Sheryl Swoop,

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Speaker 1: Lisa Leslie, and Lauren Jackson, who each have three. At

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Speaker 1: twenty nine years old, Asia Wilson has four MVPs, three

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Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the Year awards, and two back to

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Speaker 3: I mean someone put out I saw some posts and

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Speaker 4: Like if you think about it like.

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Speaker 3: That, like whoy, it's just so crazy, Like the spectrum

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Speaker 3: Like you just have such a broad spectrum of experiences

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Speaker 4: Like so, I mean, shout out to ajio I.

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Speaker 3: We got to watch her whoop our ass the last

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Speaker 4: I think that was like half of their points.

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Speaker 3: Like she quite literally everything we talked about her, what

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Speaker 3: she does as a player, as a leader, literally quite

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Speaker 3: literally put the team on her back game three and

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Speaker 3: said we're not losing this game us. Why we never

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Speaker 4: I have no idea why we didn't do any of

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Speaker 3: I think we were like, well, it's just let Asia

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Speaker 3: not a horrible game plan because we did only lose

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Speaker 3: by one basket, but I wish we made a better

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Speaker 3: adjustments in game three, but we still were one basket

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Speaker 3: into some first round playoff talk. First, the first round

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Speaker 3: of playoffs is completed, so we will start with our

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Speaker 3: series against the Aces.

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Speaker 4: We lost two to one game one.

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Speaker 3: Like I said before, they punched us Game two, we

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Speaker 3: made some adjustments. Skyler and Neka had great games. We

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Speaker 3: like clutch bucket number or something for the season and

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Speaker 3: in postseason, because Erica quite literally saved us in like

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Speaker 3: we lost Game three in Vegas to the Aces on

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Speaker 3: a buzzer beater basically, and it was heartbreaking.

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Speaker 4: Actually, I felt.

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Speaker 3: More there was a moment in that game, like I

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Speaker 3: rarely felt that about our team, considering our meltdowns that

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Speaker 3: I don't even know if I was sad that we lost,

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Speaker 3: I was like shocked that we lost like the way

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Speaker 3: So the fact that finally we were doing it in

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Speaker 3: the playoffs when it mattered was like really exciting. And

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Speaker 3: then for it to just jackie freakin' jackie. But of

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Speaker 3: course it's a rebound. Our biggest struggle all season long

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Speaker 1: I genuinely after Game two thought it could go either way,

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Speaker 1: Like genuinely thought it could go either way, because Game

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Speaker 1: two to be felt very like, Okay, if they win

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Speaker 1: this eighteenth game and they break the record streak, and

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Speaker 1: that would be insane, but y'all being able to stop

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Speaker 1: that momentum was very like.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, shoot, like this could come in either or was crazy.

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Speaker 2: It's unfortunate.

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Speaker 3: The environment was crazy in both places in Vegas and here, Like,

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Speaker 3: playoff basketball is so much fun and I haven't been

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Speaker 3: able to experience it for so many years. So to

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Speaker 3: So I mean I will say this this is I

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Speaker 3: a different outcome for you know, the changes that we're

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Speaker 3: seeing the stormmake as an organization right now. Well, that's

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Speaker 3: not something that you could be like what if because

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Speaker 3: it happened, and you don't want to like throw salt

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Speaker 3: that would just prolong this season and we would have

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I am now going into another season with

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Speaker 4: We have been preaching about Kelsey Mitchell for years.

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Speaker 1: Everybody in the crowd was. The energy was crazy. Everybody

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Speaker 2: It was disappointing. I was so upset.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations to them on an incredible season, but I'm sorry

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Speaker 3: But yeah, even when we were in Vegas, we were

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Speaker 3: So we're watching the score, talk about where are we going.

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Speaker 4: We going to Vegas, were going to Indy. We going

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Speaker 2: You know very how much fun that would have been

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Speaker 3: It was not a perfect game. So I had to

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Speaker 4: But like not many teams are doing that.

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Speaker 3: My hill, guys, going back on my hill, if not

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Speaker 3: playing bench players, it's what happened in the liberty why

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Speaker 3: they lost their series, which we'll get into in a second,

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Speaker 3: But the Dream shot thirty four percent by from three

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Speaker 3: didn't shoot the three ball well. BG probably lowest minutes

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Speaker 4: So I don't know what's going to happen there, but yeah.

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Speaker 1: In those final seconds, let me just say, as somebody

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Speaker 2: She was not happy that she was not.

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Speaker 4: I bet she wasn't was not happy. I bet she wasn't.

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Speaker 4: It was not happy.

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Speaker 2: She was whispering to pow pow.

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Speaker 3: She was not.

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Speaker 4: I mean, this is Brittany Griner.

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Speaker 3: And we said at the beginning of the season, not

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Speaker 3: She just didn't play and it was just not the

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Speaker 3: what happens when you kind of get kicked out your team.

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Speaker 3: Like she didn't want to leave Phoenix. She's made that

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Speaker 3: very she's been vocal about that. She thought she was

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Speaker 3: an ideal situation. Will she's stay in Atlanta?

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Speaker 4: I don't know. Well, a lot of players stay teams.

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Speaker 3: I think you guys are gonna be shocked at how

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna go to another one.

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Speaker 1: Like it's gonna be crazy, y'all know, I love a

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Speaker 2: Watching the game, and everyone around me.

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Speaker 1: Was upset by this, like if you're not making shots

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Speaker 1: it was like miss the shot back on defense, I'm

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Speaker 2: So can somebody? Can somebody get me an offensive rebound?

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Speaker 2: Can somebody get me another opportunity? Can somebody try? We

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Speaker 1: It's the playoffs and Indiana on the flip sid I

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Speaker 2: Perfectly drincked in mind by them, like their energy.

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Speaker 1: The bench mob, as Kaitlin called it, that she got

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Speaker 2: It was pissing me off as a fan dur in

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Speaker 2: can see that? Oh oh oh Lexie Lexie.

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Speaker 1: Kayla Clark got fined two hundred dollars for commenting on

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Speaker 1: for the fever.

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Speaker 4: Oh that's two hundred. That's two hundred dollars, okay and

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Speaker 3: Sutting up like I said, like this group players that

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Speaker 3: like this is a very dangerous mix of a fun

440
00:21:58,800 --> 00:21:59,959
Speaker 3: and unserious news.

441
00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:04,640
Speaker 4: But like they're good. They're a good team. They were good.

442
00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:10,080
Speaker 2: They made playing in an away arena so like beneficial

443
00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:13,479
Speaker 2: to themselves by pissing off the crowd so badly by

444
00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:15,520
Speaker 2: standing literally on our logo.

445
00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:19,400
Speaker 1: Like throughout the game and walking out onto the core

446
00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:22,680
Speaker 1: and like Sophie Cunningham is jumping on her one leg

447
00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:26,840
Speaker 1: and Caitlin is like absolutely screwed. They were insane and

448
00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:29,639
Speaker 1: I hated it every second of it. But I.

449
00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:37,000
Speaker 3: Like Keshy, Natasha and Aaliyah, like they are so quiet,

450
00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:43,200
Speaker 3: so like and Aalia just like this group on the

451
00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:46,600
Speaker 3: bench just being the mouthpiece for the team while their

452
00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:49,200
Speaker 3: team is just like whoop everybody's ass and they're not

453
00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:51,280
Speaker 3: saying nothing, They're just playing. And then you have the

454
00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:54,560
Speaker 3: bench going crazy, Like I think that's so funny, but

455
00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:56,640
Speaker 3: that's a dangerous dynamic.

456
00:22:58,200 --> 00:22:58,960
Speaker 4: I will say, like.

457
00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,040
Speaker 3: If they beat the Aces, it's going to be scary hours,

458
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:06,400
Speaker 3: for sure. For sure scary hours. I don't I mean,

459
00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,800
Speaker 3: I think that both series are going to go to five.

460
00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:13,800
Speaker 4: I think so. I don't like to make predictions because

461
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:15,280
Speaker 4: I don't want people to be like, she hates this

462
00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:17,560
Speaker 4: team or she doesn't think this team is good. I want,

463
00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:18,600
Speaker 4: you know I, you know me.

464
00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 3: I want to max out all the all the games,

465
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,320
Speaker 3: give us all the basketball, give it all to us.

466
00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:25,480
Speaker 3: That's what happened in Round one, and I hope it

467
00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:41,040
Speaker 3: happens in the semi finals. But the next team that

468
00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:46,040
Speaker 3: we're going to talk about is the Liberty Liberty Liberties,

469
00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:50,720
Speaker 3: who were disappointingly booted from the first round of the

470
00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:52,680
Speaker 3: playoffs by the Phoenix Mercury.

471
00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:55,919
Speaker 4: Shout out to Stewie.

472
00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:58,280
Speaker 3: I don't know what's wrong with her knee, but she

473
00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:02,000
Speaker 3: literally left every thing out on that court in Game three.

474
00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:07,359
Speaker 3: But they just they just didn't seem like they were

475
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:11,520
Speaker 3: ever in a rhythm offensive, lead or defensively. They averaged

476
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:14,040
Speaker 3: seventy points per game in that series, after averaging eighty

477
00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:16,439
Speaker 3: four points per game in the regular season.

478
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:19,760
Speaker 4: They had the same defensive.

479
00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:22,680
Speaker 3: Rating as the Liberty, I mean Liberty and the Liberty

480
00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:25,399
Speaker 3: in Phoenix had the same defensive rating basically in the

481
00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:31,080
Speaker 3: regular season, but Phoenix has at Ka and Natasha mac

482
00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:36,000
Speaker 3: who are probably I would consider like top fifteen defenders

483
00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:39,080
Speaker 3: in the league all on one team great. And then

484
00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:43,080
Speaker 3: those liberties shot twenty five percent from three with thirty

485
00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:46,200
Speaker 3: attempts after shooting thirty six percent on twenty seven attempts

486
00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:47,000
Speaker 3: in the regular.

487
00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:47,359
Speaker 4: Season, so.

488
00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:52,000
Speaker 3: That this team, I feel like is gonna go through

489
00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:56,200
Speaker 3: a lot of changes in the offseason. I think they

490
00:24:56,440 --> 00:25:00,479
Speaker 3: had a very similar issue as we did. As far

491
00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:05,520
Speaker 3: as you have your five, you have a grade five,

492
00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:09,840
Speaker 3: but you also have a great bench that you didn't

493
00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:14,000
Speaker 3: really utilize to the full capacity.

494
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:16,800
Speaker 4: And then as a bench player that doesn't.

495
00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:19,520
Speaker 3: Get utilized to a capacity, like even when your team

496
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:22,680
Speaker 3: is struggling or you know your starters are struggling and

497
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:24,280
Speaker 3: you still don't really get an opportunity.

498
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:26,399
Speaker 4: Then that's kind of when you start to lose the

499
00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:27,199
Speaker 4: bench a little bit.

500
00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:30,920
Speaker 3: And then you come into the playoffs where you need

501
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,639
Speaker 3: them to come in and make an impact and do something.

502
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,639
Speaker 3: But like you've been sitting them for a month and

503
00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:39,200
Speaker 3: now you want them to come in go crazy in

504
00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:42,720
Speaker 3: the playoffs, like on the road.

505
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:49,439
Speaker 2: And as a viewer. I'm going to keep a cue.

506
00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:52,440
Speaker 1: I will say I was going to speak to this

507
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,960
Speaker 1: earlier for you, Lexi and for the Storm this season

508
00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:58,720
Speaker 1: and the Liberty, they kind of go hand in hand

509
00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 1: in this that like, it was disappointing because at the

510
00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:03,880
Speaker 1: beginning of the season, when we were talking about every

511
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 1: single team and what we were expecting with the season,

512
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 1: one of the things we talked about with both of

513
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:11,200
Speaker 1: y'all were how deep both of these teams were, and

514
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:14,280
Speaker 1: how much they can do with these rosters, and how

515
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,399
Speaker 1: talented their starting fives are, and how the bench is

516
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:19,680
Speaker 1: also very talented and they're going to get to rest

517
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:22,280
Speaker 1: and it's going to be great and whatever. Whatever. We

518
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:24,080
Speaker 1: saw that play out with the Liberty in a way

519
00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:27,320
Speaker 1: where ever, since they were riddled by injury throughout the

520
00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:29,720
Speaker 1: regular season, they haven't We haven't really seen them be

521
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:31,560
Speaker 1: the same. They let the dream creep in and the

522
00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,560
Speaker 1: standings and things got all over the place for them,

523
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:37,560
Speaker 1: and it just never really.

524
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:38,119
Speaker 2: Came back up.

525
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,240
Speaker 1: I mean, stew we tried with what she had, the

526
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:42,920
Speaker 1: facilities she had as far as injury and whatnot, but

527
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:45,240
Speaker 1: you can only do so much when you have been

528
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:46,399
Speaker 1: giving your all all season.

529
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:47,920
Speaker 2: And have been in and out.

530
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:50,320
Speaker 1: You know, as far as health is concerned, if you

531
00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:53,560
Speaker 1: have a deep team, like that's, what's the point of

532
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:56,720
Speaker 1: gassing out your star players like that, I don't I

533
00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:57,359
Speaker 1: don't get it.

534
00:26:57,720 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 2: And then going back to the fever.

535
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,199
Speaker 1: This is why we're in a situation where they are

536
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 1: so dangerous because everyone is so bought in. Everyone on

537
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 1: the team is so bought in. Everyone feels like they

538
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:11,840
Speaker 1: could go in at any point. Everyone feels like they

539
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 1: have something to win and something to lose, so they're

540
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 1: extra loud. I'm sure their locker room is super fun

541
00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:20,760
Speaker 1: before games. After games, they get super excited, like they.

542
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 2: Have a lot. Everybody feels like they have something to gain,

543
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:25,480
Speaker 2: and so it's like everyone is super bought in.

544
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,879
Speaker 1: And while their star players are hurt, Caitlyn Clark, like

545
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 1: Caitlyn Clark is sitting on the bench, they don't feel

546
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:35,520
Speaker 1: so like, oh what are we gonna do now? Because

547
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:39,200
Speaker 1: everybody's so bought in and the coach is literally like

548
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:42,680
Speaker 1: we talked about her getting I think a flaker inner

549
00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:45,160
Speaker 1: attack or whatever she got in trouble for, like arguing

550
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 1: with the ref on their behalf like they had to

551
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:48,560
Speaker 1: be she had to be held back by Gaitlyn Clark

552
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:52,040
Speaker 1: and like they love that. Like everyone seems to feel

553
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:54,879
Speaker 1: very supportive. Everybody seems to feel like they kind of

554
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 1: know what their role in the roster is. And when

555
00:27:56,640 --> 00:28:01,000
Speaker 1: you have that abstract confusion, you have five players that

556
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:03,920
Speaker 1: are bought in and gassed out and risking injury every game.

557
00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:07,200
Speaker 1: So I don't know what changes are going to be made,

558
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:10,200
Speaker 1: but I'm very disappointed and both of those turnouts because

559
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,159
Speaker 1: it's like you have very deep teams. That was what

560
00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:15,160
Speaker 1: everybody said about going into the season.

561
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 3: Why not use it when people like don't understand, Like

562
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 3: I feel like I am a little vague when I

563
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:23,440
Speaker 3: talk about like utilizing your bench, Like you don't have

564
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,680
Speaker 3: to throw your bench players in and like have one

565
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:30,120
Speaker 3: of them like hit five threes or like score twenty points.

566
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 4: Like, No, they have to come in and do their job.

567
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:35,920
Speaker 3: So if that's getting a stop on defense, knowing the

568
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 3: scouting report, sometimes you get thrown in the game just

569
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:41,360
Speaker 3: to be annoying to somebody that's like going crazy. They're

570
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 3: just got go in there and bother them defensively. But

571
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 3: you got to know the scout you got to be

572
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 3: locked in, you got to understand the flow, the ebbs

573
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 3: and flows of a game, like you really got to

574
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 3: be locked in, and if you don't have a locked

575
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:54,960
Speaker 3: in bench, like I'm sorry, Like so much of basketball

576
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 3: is so mental and if you're mentally checked out as

577
00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 3: a player, like it's very hard to come into this

578
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 3: league find success in any minutes that you're giving an opportunity.

579
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:05,120
Speaker 3: And I know, even for me personally, a lot of

580
00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 3: people were like, well.

581
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 4: She her stats or this or that. If you were

582
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 4: to look at like the actual.

583
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 3: Genuine minutes, I would get playing like the good things

584
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 3: were happening. Like the stats are very skewed because I

585
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:19,959
Speaker 3: didn't play a lot of games. I got a lot

586
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,480
Speaker 3: of DMPs and I got very limited minutes. But when

587
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 3: I was in the game, like very few times that

588
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:27,480
Speaker 3: I come in the game and like, shit hit the wall.

589
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 4: I should hit the fan with like she got in

590
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 4: the game.

591
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 3: So like I when people are like, oh, here's look

592
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 3: at her stats and her shooting percentage and blah blah blah,

593
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 3: like okay, just watch the game and see what happens

594
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:40,920
Speaker 3: when some of us would come in. That's across the

595
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 3: board for benches, Like there are some bench players that

596
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 3: come in and you're like, get her out now, Like

597
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,600
Speaker 3: that is reality too, but that's like there's not very

598
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 3: many of those players in this league.

599
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 4: Honestly.

600
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 1: I also feel like a great example of what you're

601
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 1: referring to in the men's side of things are the

602
00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City thunder Earth. Like as far as laying so

603
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 1: many players different players, having so many different lineups, you

604
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 1: can work with having everybody bought in.

605
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 2: I mean, every single member of.

606
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 1: The team is a part of the postgame interview every time,

607
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 1: Like everybody is super involved in that day championship winning

608
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 1: team and their star player gets to do crazy things

609
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:18,240
Speaker 1: because he knows he can rast if need be.

610
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:20,840
Speaker 2: So I think it's a great example.

611
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 4: What I hope moving forward is what we see.

612
00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:27,600
Speaker 3: For the bench players and the six players, because this

613
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 3: league is just going to keep getting more talented and

614
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 3: the style of play is evolving and we're seeing more

615
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 3: players coming into this league pro ready. But we have

616
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:39,760
Speaker 3: like a lot of veterans in this league that still

617
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 3: have a lot of years left to play. But there's

618
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 3: a lot of talent that is just not being seen

619
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:49,720
Speaker 3: the entire season. My favorite sixth player was paying Pritcher

620
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,480
Speaker 3: for the Celtics because when Paying Pritcher got into the game,

621
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:57,240
Speaker 3: the whole like offense changed when he stepped on the floor,

622
00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:00,040
Speaker 3: Like their whole style of play kind of shifted a

623
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:01,640
Speaker 3: little bit when Paying Pritchell got in the game, Like

624
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 3: you're playing next to Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum.

625
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 4: But when Paying Pritchard touches that floor, he's.

626
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 3: Getting a shot in like the next twenty seconds, like

627
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 3: it's going up, he's getting a play call, he's doing that, like,

628
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 3: but he also knows his role, so like, yeah, one

629
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 3: game he could go for thirty, but like some nights

630
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 3: is it's not your night, Paying Prichard, and that's fine.

631
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 3: I just feel like we are still like losing that

632
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 3: edge in our league of where you like put your

633
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 3: bench players in and it's like it like breathes a

634
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 3: new energy and life into the game. And I think

635
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 3: that's when we get that to that point in the

636
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 3: w like our games are going to be so much

637
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 3: more fun to watch, Like they're already fun to watch.

638
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 4: But that's why I think we a lot of people

639
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 4: like watching the.

640
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:44,000
Speaker 3: Links play because when Natsia gets in the game, when

641
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 3: Jess Shepherd gets in the game, when Djna shot out

642
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 3: to Djna, who's out for the rest of the playoffs.

643
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:51,160
Speaker 3: But when Djna would get into the game, it was

644
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 3: like a new life for the Links when she stepped

645
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 3: on the court, similar to them in Connecticut. Same thing

646
00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 3: like when Dja and Natisha would get on the court

647
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 3: in Connecticut, it was like, Okay, you're coming to benches

648
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 3: like you're coming to bench mob Like it's a whole

649
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 3: new mindset, preparation because they come in the court ready

650
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 3: to contribute and they know their jobs. So I think

651
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 3: that is also what makes the Links so dangerous. Will

652
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 3: actually pivot to their series against the Valkyries. With that

653
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:21,600
Speaker 3: being said, because of how deep they are for Valkyries,

654
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 3: they did almost they almost stole Game two.

655
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 4: But I just feel like they were just Minnesota is

656
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 4: just too much.

657
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 3: They're just too good, Like I'm sorry, they were just

658
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 3: a better team, but like the Valkyrie should be so

659
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 3: happy and proud of the season that they had. I

660
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 3: hate that they had to go to San Jose and

661
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 3: play their first home playoff game, wasn't even in their

662
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 3: home gym. Still had eighteen thousand people pull up though,

663
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:50,239
Speaker 3: eighteen thousand people like, oh my gosh, so shout out

664
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 3: to the Valkyries.

665
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:53,800
Speaker 4: I don't really have much to say about this series.

666
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:56,400
Speaker 3: Like I think we knew that Minnesota was gonna win

667
00:32:56,840 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 3: only series that went to two games, but Courney Williams.

668
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 1: One thing I will say is outside of just like

669
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 1: the Links are what we always say they are.

670
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 2: It's not changing, y'all.

671
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:12,840
Speaker 1: But one thing I will say for on the Valkyrie

672
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 1: side is I mean, congratulations to them, Like they had

673
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 1: a really great season, most improved Player, Coach of the Year,

674
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 1: like they had. They had a lot of success. They

675
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 1: should be proud of themselves. I didn't think they were

676
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 1: going to win this series. I didn't really expect them

677
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:27,240
Speaker 1: to push it to three.

678
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 2: I'm okay with the back that they didn't. It's fine,

679
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 2: you know, like they've got it, Like next year, good luck.

680
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 2: I'm trying to see, I'm trying to see what the

681
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 2: Links have to say for the rest of the playoffs.

682
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,120
Speaker 2: That's what That's what I am very excited.

683
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:43,240
Speaker 3: I mean, and we didn't really talk too much about

684
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 3: Phoenix in their last series with the Liberty, but like

685
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:50,280
Speaker 3: they they have blocked back in defensively. I feel like

686
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 3: I think at saw Too and Ka are there big three.

687
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,000
Speaker 3: I think that they've finished the season playing pretty well.

688
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 3: Even though they're a record, they didn't like winning and

689
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 3: losing games, like they didn't really finish very strong, but

690
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 3: like those three in particular had a pretty strong ending

691
00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 3: to the season. They did lose yesterday to Minnesota, though.

692
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 3: Was I surprised by that? No, I was not, but

693
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 3: at was pissed at the end of the game, like

694
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 3: I like, I don't know if you guys were watching it,

695
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:22,320
Speaker 3: but like, I think their Game two is going to

696
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:22,840
Speaker 3: be crazy.

697
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 4: Five games. A five game series is like insane.

698
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 3: Like even when we were thinking about having to go

699
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 3: to Indiana or Atlanta, we were like, dang, we got

700
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,279
Speaker 3: to be in the city for like a week to

701
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:36,400
Speaker 3: play these two games.

702
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:41,439
Speaker 1: I will say, I really love this about the w NBA,

703
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:44,279
Speaker 1: like the best two out of three and then the

704
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:45,239
Speaker 1: best three out of five.

705
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 2: I do not want them to up it.

706
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:50,720
Speaker 4: Like, you know their final schedules finals is best of seven?

707
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 3: She changed it, Kat, Yes, what our finals are best

708
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 3: to seven this year for the first time ever.

709
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:00,840
Speaker 2: Guys, Wait, I didn't know that.

710
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 1: Yes, Wait, I'm actually sick that I literally just said

711
00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 1: out of my mouth.

712
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:07,760
Speaker 2: I don't want that to happen, and it already happened.

713
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:08,759
Speaker 2: I'm actually.

714
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:13,239
Speaker 4: Like, honestly, I don't know. I mean, I get it.

715
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:15,319
Speaker 2: I don't even like it. I don't like it in the.

716
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:18,839
Speaker 1: Men's either, Like I like the cutey little series where

717
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 1: every game is so like like I don't want there

718
00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 1: to be this feeling.

719
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,399
Speaker 2: Of we could just drop again. Yeah, like we could

720
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 2: just drop it, like oh we lost like next time,

721
00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 2: Like no, I.

722
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 4: Want like seven that's a lot of game. So you

723
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:30,359
Speaker 4: guys have to win.

724
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 2: You have to win four games, and what about your bodies? Like,

725
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:38,800
Speaker 2: what about your bodies?

726
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:40,879
Speaker 1: You you get to the end of the playoffs where

727
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:43,480
Speaker 1: things have already been so high stakes and we're already

728
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 1: complaining about benchminutes.

729
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:50,760
Speaker 3: I'm actually like a little nervous about what the finals

730
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 3: could potentially look like because of what I was just

731
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:59,880
Speaker 3: talking about, Like nobody utilizing their bench for these stretches,

732
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 3: for these tough stretches that you have. That's why low

733
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:06,800
Speaker 3: key in my mind. If if it's Indy many, I

734
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 3: wouldn't be surprised. They're like the only two teams that

735
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 3: have consistently just utilized their bench. I think Vegas does

736
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:15,880
Speaker 3: a good job of utilizing their eventual please now.

737
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:18,879
Speaker 1: But yeah, I would love to see I did Indy

738
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:22,960
Speaker 1: out loved them, was born in Indy, shout out Indy.

739
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,759
Speaker 2: But no, I'm sorry that that made me sick.

740
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 1: And usually I'm the kind of fan that's like, if

741
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 1: you beat me, you need to win the whole thing.

742
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 2: But not in this case, I'm cool.

743
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:33,959
Speaker 3: I kind of feel like the I mean, I would

744
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 3: love to see Ace's many finals. I think a lot

745
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:40,720
Speaker 3: of people would love to see that the two people

746
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:44,239
Speaker 3: who MBA everybody MVPs A head to head defense play

747
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:47,880
Speaker 3: the years head to head. You know you have a

748
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,280
Speaker 3: well did you see the video? I forgot who posted?

749
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:52,279
Speaker 3: You see the video? All like the little the mini

750
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,759
Speaker 3: beefs that the players have in their respective series right now,

751
00:36:56,040 --> 00:37:00,400
Speaker 3: I'm like, ooh, spicy, spicy, but you know, yeah, it

752
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:02,320
Speaker 3: was like everybody getting in each other's face and like

753
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 3: some was from like prior seasons and.

754
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 4: Blah blah blah blah. So I think both of these well.

755
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 2: That's why I was so disappointed with not to bring

756
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 2: it back to us.

757
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:15,200
Speaker 1: We both keep doing that's but like, that's what I

758
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 1: was so disappointed with our performance against the Fever because

759
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 1: when I was there at the beginning of the season,

760
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 1: like we we had beef with them, like they that

761
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:26,720
Speaker 1: was not It wasn't cute, it wasn't fun, it wasn't chummy,

762
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 1: Like I remember Ryan being like like her and Caitlyn

763
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 1: got into and I remember that Ry scared of you. Yeah,

764
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:39,319
Speaker 1: and so I'm thinking, like, get our get back, yes, yes,

765
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 1: eliminate them.

766
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:40,759
Speaker 3: Yes.

767
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:42,959
Speaker 4: So much just happened this year, guys.

768
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 3: This season, it did go by fast, but it felt

769
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 3: like it was like ten years long. I was like,

770
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 3: oh my gosh, wrap this up for me.

771
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:57,360
Speaker 2: Looking back at the beginning, it feels like it was so.

772
00:37:58,200 --> 00:37:59,920
Speaker 3: It does feel so long ago. And can you believe

773
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 3: what episode was in the email? This, guys, is our

774
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 3: thirty fifth episode. That's so crazy, Like, look at us going,

775
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:12,279
Speaker 3: going and going and going and going.

776
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 1: I know you said you don't like making predictions, but

777
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:17,120
Speaker 1: what are you predicting, slash rooting for now that you're

778
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:20,840
Speaker 1: you can you're your personals out of it, not because

779
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 1: we were, because we were rooting for you, but.

780
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:23,880
Speaker 2: Now there is no more you.

781
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:27,799
Speaker 1: So outside of that, what are you expecting, slash Room.

782
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 3: I already said I'm rooting for all of the games

783
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 3: to be maxed out. So I want two game five,

784
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:36,400
Speaker 3: I want a game seven, I want all of that.

785
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:41,759
Speaker 3: You know, this was like breaking news.

786
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:46,440
Speaker 1: You might have known this already, but I just got

787
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:49,399
Speaker 1: a notification that Pagebackers is going to be playing it out.

788
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:50,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, she's saying already didn't.

789
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:54,800
Speaker 2: But she had that. It was like a little like

790
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 2: they just announced that she's playing.

791
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:58,320
Speaker 1: It was like she was like wearing the merch and

792
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:00,920
Speaker 1: taking pictures and that kind of thing before, but now

793
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 1: they're saying she's officially going to Okay, we're going to.

794
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:05,839
Speaker 4: Get into the prediction. I think the Links are gonna win.

795
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:07,840
Speaker 4: I think they should have won last year, so I

796
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 4: would really think that they deserve it. The way that

797
00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:12,439
Speaker 4: they're playing is really good.

798
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:15,880
Speaker 3: I think it sucks that they didn't get any of

799
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:18,400
Speaker 3: the individual awards coach that they didn't get anything. So

800
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:21,360
Speaker 3: I'm like, they should probably just win the finals and

801
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 3: they'll feel a lot better about their season. If there

802
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 3: is a team that won't have a lot of personal

803
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:27,759
Speaker 3: changes from this year to next year, it probably will

804
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:31,279
Speaker 3: be them. So I'm gonna say the Links are gonna win.

805
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:34,560
Speaker 3: Pivoting to what Maria just said about arrival, So we

806
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 3: can talk a little bit about like offseason stuff.

807
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:41,759
Speaker 2: I Alyssa Thomas also, and I just got to are they.

808
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 4: Doing their little rollout right now?

809
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:47,280
Speaker 3: Because I have some I have some inside scoop about

810
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:49,840
Speaker 3: some players that are going, but it's not my business

811
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:51,840
Speaker 3: to tell, so I'm not going to.

812
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 4: Say it. But it seems like.

813
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:02,239
Speaker 3: Almost everybody that played last year will be returning for

814
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:06,319
Speaker 3: the most part. There's a few surprise additions. Like I said,

815
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:08,319
Speaker 3: not my business to tell that. I think people will

816
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:13,799
Speaker 3: be really excited about. So between Unrivaled, who added two

817
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:18,840
Speaker 3: more clubs, and AU, which is forty that will be

818
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:22,240
Speaker 3: because how many do they have an Unrivaled like almost

819
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 3: eighty ish eighty ish and then they have.

820
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 4: Like a pool of injury reserve also in Unrivaled. I

821
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:28,000
Speaker 4: don't know how many that is.

822
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:31,640
Speaker 3: So we'll say like roughly eighty ninety players will be

823
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 3: in the States playing in the off season, which I

824
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:34,760
Speaker 3: think is amazing.

825
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 4: But there's still like a lot lots of temperies. It's

826
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:44,879
Speaker 4: going to be crazy, but not even AU.

827
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:47,880
Speaker 3: So the funny thing about AU versus Unrivaled is like

828
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:50,880
Speaker 3: it's just like you can see the difference of like

829
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:56,040
Speaker 3: quote unquote star power in each league from the outside

830
00:40:56,080 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 3: looking in, but like we still have have like super

831
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:03,359
Speaker 3: solid talented players in AU, and I think a lot

832
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 3: of people are so caught up in the newness, Like Unrivaled,

833
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:09,719
Speaker 3: they're doing their big one. I'm not gonna lie from

834
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:11,680
Speaker 3: day one, they've been doing their big one, and AU

835
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 3: we kind of like have been like chucking along trying

836
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:17,040
Speaker 3: to build brick by brick, and a rival just came in.

837
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:18,399
Speaker 4: It was like boom, we're here.

838
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:21,400
Speaker 3: And it's kind of like made AU step up their

839
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:23,200
Speaker 3: game as well, which I am grateful for you.

840
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 4: It's a nice have a little healthy competition.

841
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 3: You know. Ultimately, we all want to growth women's game

842
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:30,320
Speaker 3: and have more opportunities for everybody in the States. So

843
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:33,959
Speaker 3: ultimate goal is iron is sharpening iron. At this point,

844
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:38,920
Speaker 3: I think that the amount of tampering that is going

845
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,280
Speaker 3: to go on is going to be crazy also because

846
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 3: there's so much turnover year to year, especially the last

847
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:50,120
Speaker 3: few seasons leading up to this new CBA. Guys, just

848
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 3: imagine you're at work, right, you have a philosophy.

849
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:56,200
Speaker 4: You have a thing to do, right, this is your job.

850
00:41:57,239 --> 00:42:01,319
Speaker 3: Everybody goes away for five months does the same job,

851
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 3: but somewhere else and they they're the best at their

852
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 3: job over there. This person's the best at their job here,

853
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:15,120
Speaker 3: and then we all reconvene back five months later to like, Okay, y'all,

854
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 3: it doesn't work. It's not a that's not how you

855
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 3: should do things, that's not how you should play, that's

856
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 3: not how you should be a professional. But like, that's

857
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:27,480
Speaker 3: been the reality of the WNBA for so many years

858
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:30,240
Speaker 3: because we all have had to go do other leagues

859
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 3: and play overseas. But it's like every year you come

860
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:37,880
Speaker 3: back with new philosophies, you come back with a new confidence,

861
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 3: You've learned some new stuff from different coaches and different players,

862
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 3: and you all come back and try to win a

863
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 3: championship in the summertime after I haven't seen none of

864
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 3: y'all since our last game of the year, So I'm

865
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 3: hoping moving forward. Yes, tamper everybody, tamper la la la

866
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 3: la la. Build all the teams you want.

867
00:42:55,840 --> 00:43:00,239
Speaker 4: Love that, but I hope that the whole, the league

868
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:00,920
Speaker 4: as a whole.

869
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:03,840
Speaker 3: Makes an effort to like keep these teams together for

870
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:07,280
Speaker 3: at least a few years. Like that's why the Aces

871
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:10,719
Speaker 3: were so good, That's why who else is that's why

872
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 3: Minnesota has been so good. They've had like this course

873
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:16,759
Speaker 3: five or six for like two three four years, and

874
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:18,640
Speaker 3: you don't really see that that much in the W.

875
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:22,360
Speaker 3: So I'm hoping moving forward that everybody has fun and

876
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 3: they're off season endeavors, unrivaled, au overseas, whatever else. But

877
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:34,920
Speaker 3: I'm like really excited for free agency. Me.

878
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 4: I'm locked in with the Storm as of right now

879
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:40,400
Speaker 4: and for the foreseeable future. Guys.

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00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:43,719
Speaker 3: So I will not be participating in free agency, but

881
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:46,719
Speaker 3: me and Mariah will be spilling tea.

882
00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 4: We will be talking all about it.

883
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:49,239
Speaker 3: You know.

884
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 2: I can't wait.

885
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:57,360
Speaker 1: But I do think that continuity is a huge ingredient

886
00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:01,480
Speaker 1: in the recipe to winning. I I really think that

887
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 1: teams that we've seen have long term success it's because

888
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:08,680
Speaker 1: of things like continuity and organizations being willing to be

889
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:12,319
Speaker 1: patient when things aren't going exactly the way that they

890
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 1: want them to, because it's a little hard to improve

891
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:18,839
Speaker 1: when you're improving somewhere different every single year under someone

892
00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:21,840
Speaker 1: different every single year, with different people and different.

893
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:23,000
Speaker 2: Especially with coaching.

894
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:26,240
Speaker 1: Like the coaches, I mean they set the star players

895
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:27,879
Speaker 1: as well, but like they set such a big part

896
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:29,960
Speaker 1: of the culture and like how.

897
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:32,560
Speaker 2: Things are going to go and what everyone's role is

898
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:34,000
Speaker 2: and for that to continue to.

899
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:35,879
Speaker 1: Be different and different and different and different, and your

900
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:37,759
Speaker 1: star player to be different and different. It's just not

901
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 1: a recipe for winning. And I want to see you win.

902
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 1: I want to see the players win. And I feel

903
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:46,880
Speaker 1: like letting things be as stable as they can, especially

904
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:49,560
Speaker 1: with all the change with the CBA and with new

905
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:53,399
Speaker 1: teams coming in and everything else going on, some sort

906
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 1: of stability. And it also helps on the flip side

907
00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 1: with fans recognizing who plays for who and who's going

908
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:03,839
Speaker 1: to be where and what's going to happen and who

909
00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:05,759
Speaker 1: are the coaches when they fall in love and by

910
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:07,400
Speaker 1: these jerseys and everything changes.

911
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:10,960
Speaker 3: Like honestly, I feel like the CBA, god willing it

912
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 3: gets done, will be like a reset. But I feel

913
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:16,759
Speaker 3: like for the league, like I think this is the

914
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:20,440
Speaker 3: first time we have had this well, along with the

915
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:23,759
Speaker 3: expansion teams coming, we have like there's like three or

916
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:25,160
Speaker 3: four teams that are like.

917
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:28,839
Speaker 4: At a crossroads in their organization right now.

918
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:31,920
Speaker 3: Like so for example, you have a team like Chicago

919
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 3: who is giving we every blowing this.

920
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 4: Whole thing up. That's what it looks like from the outside.

921
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:43,000
Speaker 3: But then you have a Dallas that they didn't have

922
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:48,040
Speaker 3: a great season, but they have a great young pieces,

923
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:50,800
Speaker 3: They have the Rookie of the year, they have great vets,

924
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:54,719
Speaker 3: new coach, So you know, I know everyone's like fire them,

925
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 3: but I'm like, is this first year guys?

926
00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:57,680
Speaker 4: Like you what the hell?

927
00:45:57,840 --> 00:45:59,759
Speaker 3: Like, I don't think that coaches should get fired after

928
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:03,480
Speaker 3: one players, even though that happened, we've.

929
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 4: Seen it half before. I do not think that coaches

930
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:07,920
Speaker 4: should get fired after their first season. Like, I think

931
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:08,879
Speaker 4: that's crazy.

932
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 3: Connecticut, Like what are they going to do? Like so

933
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:17,040
Speaker 3: many things, like they're trying to are they going to

934
00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:18,879
Speaker 3: move to Boston? Are they going to go somewhere else?

935
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:22,080
Speaker 3: Like there's so many question marks in this off season

936
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:26,200
Speaker 3: outside of where players are going to sign, and I

937
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:29,160
Speaker 3: don't know who's going to be responsible to cover this

938
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:30,600
Speaker 3: and make sure everybody's up to date.

939
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:34,360
Speaker 4: So thank goodness y'all have us, because we're going to

940
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:35,160
Speaker 4: keep y' all locked in.

941
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:40,959
Speaker 2: Wait, LEXI, what is the like do date we're working

942
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:44,120
Speaker 2: with with these CBA discussions? Because so I.

943
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:48,160
Speaker 3: Think like it technically like expires like next month, like

944
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:52,160
Speaker 3: our CBA is done. Yeah, so when the last CBA

945
00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:55,800
Speaker 3: like the date passed. But because we're an off season

946
00:46:56,440 --> 00:47:01,759
Speaker 3: during like we have, we're not playing, obviously we can

947
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:03,879
Speaker 3: like technically take as long as we need to until

948
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:08,160
Speaker 3: the next season starts. One of the things that has

949
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:10,800
Speaker 3: been coming up as of late is them not wanting

950
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:16,120
Speaker 3: anybody to do other leagues in the off season. So

951
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:22,320
Speaker 3: that could be, you know, an area of trouble for

952
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 3: us because Okay, you guys are gonna give us more

953
00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:30,839
Speaker 3: money or whatever, but the season is still only five

954
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:33,799
Speaker 3: or six months. They're trying to like change a lot

955
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:37,040
Speaker 3: in the CBA. I mean, it goes much deeper than salary, guys.

956
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 3: I know that's why everybody wants to focus on. But

957
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:42,719
Speaker 3: there's like so many little details and nuances throughout the

958
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:46,120
Speaker 3: CBA that have to be negotiated.

959
00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:48,680
Speaker 4: On, and I don't think we're like anywhere near all

960
00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:49,080
Speaker 4: of them.

961
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:53,080
Speaker 3: So it's gonna be interesting to see, like if they

962
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:55,920
Speaker 3: because they seem to not be budging all the revenue

963
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:59,719
Speaker 3: split thing and now this new development of not wanting

964
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 3: play to do off season leagues and injury and all

965
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:08,439
Speaker 3: this other stuff. So it's going to be interesting, guys.

966
00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:10,400
Speaker 3: It's gonna be this off season is going to be crazy.

967
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:12,399
Speaker 3: I know we still have a few more weeks left

968
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:15,120
Speaker 3: of playoffs to to get into and discuss, and we

969
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 3: will be here to keep y'all updated in the loop

970
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:21,640
Speaker 3: of playoffs, but like keep tapping in with us.

971
00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:25,520
Speaker 4: I appreciate y'all helping me get through my eighth season

972
00:48:25,719 --> 00:48:26,240
Speaker 4: in the league.

973
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:29,640
Speaker 1: Before we love y'all, I was gonna say before we go,

974
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 1: I want to congratulate you on another as I know,

975
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:35,719
Speaker 1: and I wish I had I wish I had an

976
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:39,800
Speaker 1: audience like like applause track, But we're just gonna pretend so,

977
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:44,640
Speaker 1: but congratulations. I know everything wasn't exactly what you wanted,

978
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 1: and I do not mean to be repping your your

979
00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:49,200
Speaker 1: offs as I give your speech. Let's just pretend that

980
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:53,880
Speaker 1: this is Lexi's jersey, like you say you jersey. But

981
00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:58,279
Speaker 1: congratulations still like on a healthy season, you know, like

982
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:01,879
Speaker 1: even though people like to speculate and oh she's sick

983
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:03,879
Speaker 1: or this is that, that's not the case. You moved

984
00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:06,080
Speaker 1: to a new place, you got involved a new system,

985
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:09,600
Speaker 1: You were the best teammate you could possibly be, Like,

986
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:11,600
Speaker 1: you did what you could in the fits A thank

987
00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:13,680
Speaker 1: you like a lot of fun.

988
00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:16,120
Speaker 2: Ever, so congratulations.

989
00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:17,359
Speaker 4: I love y'all.

990
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:20,560
Speaker 3: I hope you have fun listening to us. Yep, yet again,

991
00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:22,719
Speaker 3: but you know where to find us. So thank you

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00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:25,360
Speaker 3: guys for tuning in to another episode of Full Circle.

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00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:27,840
Speaker 3: We will see y'all next week. Bye.

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

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00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:33,440
Speaker 1: week with more basketball for the Girls.

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00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:34,280
Speaker 4: By the girls.

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00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:47,600
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