WEBVTT - Taking This Dream As Far As We Can with Erin Foley 0:00:01.200 --> 0:00:03.440 Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where it's been 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:06.320 hours and we still haven't reached the bottom of page 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:10.440 Becker's bag. It's Tuesday, April fifteenth, and on today's show, 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:12.520 we're throwing the normal run of show out the window 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.720 and instead a live reaction to the WNBA draft with 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:18.560 friend of the show, comedian and her Light's podcast host 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:21.560 Aaron Foley. Aaron and I jumped on to record just 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:23.720 as the WNBA draft was coming to an end to 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:29.160 talk best fits like clothes, best fits like players to teams, 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:31.400 and a whole lot more. It's all coming up right 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:44.600 after this. Aaron, welcome back. Don't need to give the 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:47.120 full spiel on you. Everybody knows who you are by now. 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:49.239 This is your third time on the show. 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:51.240 I think that's leading the way. 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:54.280 Oh my god, this is the greatest day ever. 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:55.840 Very impressive. 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:59.160 Rebecca Lobo did just request a five timers jacket. 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:02.240 Oh, we're gonna have to get to working on that. 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:04.720 If you're already at three, you're moving a lot faster 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:05.920 than any of us expected. 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:10.000 Aaron, Oh my god, I'm gonna yeah start sewing something 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:11.880 for me. Let's do this. 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:16.119 Speaking of that before we get to the basketball and 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:18.320 where the players went and all the things that are 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:21.039 most important, the real meat of a draft. 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:22.800 Let's start with the obvious. 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:25.880 Because you just talked about sewing and jacket's best fits. 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:28.400 There were a lot to choose from. 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:30.840 There were a lot of looks, and there were some 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:34.839 surprising looks. I did say in my conversation with Jordan 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:37.480 Robinson that I thought that Kiki erie Fen was going 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:38.399 to come with something. 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:39.800 I wasn't sure what. 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:43.399 I don't know that a Nigerian designer mostly known for 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:46.920 bridal gowns was the thing. It was giving a little 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:49.960 Miss Universe pageant. But it was still gorgeous, Like it 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:52.440 was a gorgeous gown. She looked beautiful, her hair looked beautiful. 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:55.240 I just was like, this isn't exactly like a draft look, 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:57.080 but I love that. Her explanation was she wanted to 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:59.160 shout out her Nigerian heritage and she wanted to shout 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:01.040 out that designer, and that's as good a reason as 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:02.960 any to rock a pageant gown. 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:06.360 Yeah, I mean, if she doesn't say that, I'm like, 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:09.640 then she said it, I was like, okay, absolutely, what 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:11.720 am I going to say? Like? Oh, actually, I didn't 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:16.240 think that was a good look. Oh Nigerian designer fantastic. 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:18.359 Exactly exactly how I felt about it. I was like, okay, 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:19.959 you sold me on it. You sold me on it 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:21.280 because you were pulling it off too. 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:24.640 It was so dramatic though, oh my god. 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:26.640 Very dramatic and well. I think what also made it 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:29.880 stand out was Coach is a new sponsor of the WNBA. 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:32.800 They had their logos all over the carpet, the orange carpet, 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:35.280 and a lot of the players were wearing custom Coach 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:38.040 or some spin on Coach that they made their own, 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:42.880 and a lot of it just looked they looked like assassins. 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:47.200 Like it was black, it was leather. It was dramatic. 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:50.440 So I think that's also why Kiki stood out, because 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:53.280 she's got this gold, gorgeous gown on. And then you've 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:57.160 got the two NC State players, Aziah James and Sanaia Rivers, 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:00.880 like look like they were about to make a futuristic 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:04.560 action film, like someone said they came from the Fifth 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:07.360 Element universe. I think that was mostly like Senaia River's 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:10.320 amazing red hair and like the shaved sides, but like 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:12.560 they were two of my best dressed just for like 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:16.200 straight up action hero vibes. Snaia River's jacket was a 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:21.000 little straight jacket with the cutouts and the business. But 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:23.880 her hair and the piercings that did it for me. 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:27.320 Yeah, the Coach I like the Coach Assassins because it 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:31.040 was like Irfin was like the bond girl and then 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:35.000 surrounded by the assassins. I was picking that up. I 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:41.040 gave Senaia Rivers number one look overall vibe and looks vibes. 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:44.480 I thought like, she just absolutely nailed it. It's something 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:48.120 also she can only pull off if she swapped that 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:50.320 out with anybody else, who would be like, what in 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:52.920 that holy hell is filling the blank person? 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:56.640 Right right? They were, So she was up there for 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:57.440 me for sure. 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:03.280 I thought that Sonya Citron had a like weird Caitlin 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:07.320 Clark esque vibe with her hair down and the body 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:10.080 type and everything else. She also had that coach assassin vibe, 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:12.560 the black blazer and the skirch at the White Sox. 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:17.400 And Anissa Moro to me was really giving. She had 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:20.920 the eye sparkles, the little eye gems. She had the 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:26.800 kind of curly middle park hair, going black leather jacket, 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:28.159 and then she took it off when she went on 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:30.640 stage to just have the black leather dress kind of 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:34.080 like her, you know, the musician her. Yeah, it had 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:35.880 those kind of vibes to me. I wanted someone to 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:38.720 throw an electric guitar over her and her to just 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:41.840 like drop a sick, sick bass. 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:45.000 I bet she could. And I think Collie Rose should 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:48.120 be ready next year to throw some guitars at these 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:50.920 women because they don't have enough on their plate. Can 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:54.440 we just go back to Sonya Citron's white socks. 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:56.480 Yeah, it's very in now. 0:04:56.720 --> 0:05:01.480 I know it's in, but I prin it's it's the 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:05.679 sock in a loafer, the Georgia Amore like up top. Great, 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:08.000 but then it panned down and I go, oh god, no, 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:09.840 but I know, young, it's. 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:12.039 Because we're old. I bet you wear an ankle sock, 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:12.440 don't you. 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:15.640 I'm going to stick to the ankle sock till I die. 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:17.520 I'm just telling you, I'm not doing a thick. 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:19.320 Do you want to know the first two signs that 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:21.839 you're an old side part in ankle socks? 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:24.680 I'm rocking both right now exactly. 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:27.400 So we're not allowed to say we didn't like it. 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:30.360 We have to pretend that we understand it. That's how 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:32.680 old we are now we have to be like, yeah, yeah, 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:33.159 we like that. 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:35.039 I thought the sock game was on point. 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:37.719 Sarah, there you go, I there you go. 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:43.520 Okay, let's talk Paige only because she did an outfit 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:47.919 change like this. This woman has changed the game in 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:49.840 so many ways, and then she does it again at 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:52.400 the draft. I don't think I remember an outfit change 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:53.800 ever before. 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:56.960 I well, I mean, I changed my outfit several times 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.920 when I'm watching the draft, but that's just for come 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:01.880 and then some style. 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:04.800 And then the tears start to soap through, and then 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:06.400 from people's parents crying. 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:09.400 I start crying, and then I change my socks. I 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:13.440 go high low, low high. And then as you're crying, 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:17.240 Page's suit, I put number two or no, I put Kiki. 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:20.520 I put Kiki to page three. 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.680 The first suit or the second second suit. Okay, So 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:25.240 one thing I noticed. Page is not used to not 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:28.400 wearing a shirt under her blazer. She was very worried 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:32.359 about the girls. She kept holding the blazer closed, and 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:34.000 I know there was a lot of tape doing work 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:35.240 down there, but I think it might have been the 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:37.080 first time she's ever been out in public, rock in 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.640 that full blazer, nothing underneath vibe. 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:40.480 She seemed worried. 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:44.640 Yeah, I just my like, I get worried for all 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:47.280 of them, just because I put myself in their position 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:49.320 and I can only wear heels if I have like 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:52.359 I'm hammered on Sauvena blanc. So then I look, I'm like, 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.880 oh my god, They're like so awkward, and then they 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:58.880 have the Oh god, it's it's I get so stressed 0:06:58.880 --> 0:06:59.960 out for the fits. 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:00.839 Right. 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.560 I was dressed out for Hailey van Lith, but then 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:10.400 I mean absolutely gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous, her Hollywood hair, her dress, 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.680 that she was, the vibe, she just like looked so glamorous. 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:19.280 I'm constantly thinking like, oh god, what is she going 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:22.600 to say? What's gonna happen? And she just like I 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:25.480 was just like, oh she is she can she pull 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:29.160 off the outfit? She just she just rocked and her 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:32.760 interviews were perfect. And then dating Jalen Suggs, I texted you, 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:34.960 I was like, where have I been? 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:39.120 Not on the internet apparently, because that's been everywhere I've 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:46.320 been at Marshall's buying buying Fox Buy. No, He's been 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:48.840 like holding her bag literally being a good have a 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:52.200 husband and boyfriend standing in the background as she's gotten 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:54.160 all the love this weekend, which has been really cool 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:57.000 to watch. I thought she looked fantastic and no sign 0:07:57.040 --> 0:07:59.600 of casino face, which is what I said with Jordan 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:01.160 Robinson and the other day, like I don't know why. 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:04.080 I just feel like she like could be with the 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:05.440 sun and play in it. 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:06.480 Casino. 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:10.600 Yeah, that's night she Yeah, she looks like a you know, 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.920 a chain smoker, Like there's so much going on, and 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:17.000 then she just starts like tonight she just was like 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:17.640 nailing it. 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:21.320 Yeah, absolute grace and beauty and come into Chicago, which 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:23.040 we're going to get to, so let's talk about this. 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:25.240 We won't get to Chicago first, even though there's a 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:29.280 lot I have to say about that, Let's just start 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:32.760 off the top. Obviously, Paigebeckers goes to the wings. I 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.280 love that she got emotional talking about her teammates. She's 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:38.040 been stoic at almost every turn, except for after they won, 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.960 there was a bit of a breakdown of you know, 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:44.160 just emotion. But for the most part every interview she's like, yep, 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:45.440 I expected this, this is great. 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:47.760 I love my teammates. And then Holly finally got her. 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:50.320 Holly is always given a list of things to make 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.720 people cry, sometimes by the players themselves, so this is 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:54.880 not a shot at Holly. The players ask her to 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:58.640 ask them questions about the most emotional things, somebody who 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:00.920 passed away or a parent who did it. But I 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:03.240 did love that page cry talking about her teammates. We 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:06.160 finally got her. Dominique Belonga to the Storm, No big 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:08.800 surprise there. I did like the comps because when it's 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:10.560 a foreign player like that, you haven't seen as much 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:12.960 if you've seen the highlights, which are incredible. But Cheney 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:15.880 in the pre draft comping her to John Qwell Jones, 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:19.000 and then during the draft the Elena Deladon comp which 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.680 is an interesting one too. Deledon'm not as tall, obviously 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:25.199 got a couple inches on her, but when Deledon came 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:27.600 into the league, there weren't as many Unicorn type players, 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:29.840 and she really helped us see a big who can 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:33.320 stretch the floor, hit threes, even run the point at times. 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:36.760 And looking at Dominique Belonga's skill set, it's terrifying. 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:40.440 I yeah, and I was googling the whole time. Can 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:43.440 she play now? Somebody help me I was like, what 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.000 are the ages because I know it's twenty one doing 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:48.040 the twenty two, but I was like, they must be 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:51.320 drafting her to play right nineteen, they have to turn twenty. 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.839 She is ready, got she's I think I think they 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:57.320 make the international players a little bit yet, like, okay, 0:09:57.360 --> 0:09:59.439 that they're younger because they start you know, because they're 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:00.480 start playing. 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.480 Oh oh, that's why I was not because they start 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:04.640 playing pro young, but because I am allowed to drink. 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:06.319 I think they're allowed to drink. It spoke at like 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:09.360 age nine. So by the time they're nineteen, they're like, 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:10.960 are thirty six their. 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:15.960 Lungs are ready? Yes, the demands of a professional season. No, 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:18.960 she just needs to be twenty by December of the 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.559 calendar year of the draft, December thirty first. 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.400 So so she changed. 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:27.560 It for me. She's ready once I double checked seventeen 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:31.120 times if she was ready. I was like, is there 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:34.080 was there going to be a little like Mulongo one 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:37.800 page two gas. But I did think at the end 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:42.319 of the day, Dallas, with the you know, new stadium 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:44.839 and all the money they're pouring in, I just don't 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:47.560 think you could. I think Maloga in like five years 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:50.000 everyone's just going to be like, holy crafty. I mean, 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:52.840 the dunking with ease is unreal. 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:55.800 I completely agree with you that it might end up 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.040 being like, oh, she was the because in the pre 0:10:58.080 --> 0:10:59.840 show they were like, who's the steal of the draft 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:02.880 and they said the number two pick, which usually isn't 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:05.040 considered a steal unless you think they should be the 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.560 number one pick, which, to your point, in a couple 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:09.400 of years we might be saying that about her. On 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:11.800 the other hand, there's a big difference between a six 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:14.439 to six player that works within a system versus someone 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:17.280 like Page that can create for herself and others and 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:19.400 is as efficient as she is and will be able 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:22.200 to presumably maybe contribute a little faster just because of 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:25.280 her maturity, although again, Dominique's been playing so long pro 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:28.360 but I'm fascinated to see how she develops. And I 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:32.480 do think when you're the Wings just tickets wise, that 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:35.120 team has no right to have already sold out all 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:38.200 of its tickets for next year if it wasn't for Page. 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:42.360 So I think all the state of Texas would be 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:45.320 like set everything on fire if they didn't take Page. 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:48.280 You know, if Texas was like like just picture the 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:52.800 average Texan. I'm just saying, and then they hear Dominique Malonga. 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:56.679 I'm just saying, that's not going to go from France. 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:59.520 The France know about basketball. 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:03.160 By the way, her English impeccable, barely even a trace 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:07.160 of accent, not just like a natural speaker, but like 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:10.199 you couldn't even tell. It was wild, just impressive personal run. 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:12.960 And her dad was an absolute unit. I wanted to 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:14.920 know so many things about that man and what he 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:15.960 did with his size. 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:16.720 I bet a lot. 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:21.520 Okay, the mystics took Sony said, Tron, not surprising this is, 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:24.800 and we talked about fits like outfits. I'm just gonna 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:27.040 say this is one of my best fits as in 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:30.680 person to team. She's a great shooter three, and d 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:34.080 replaces a player in Ariel at Kins that they traded 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:38.160 away to the Sky. They've got two open starting spots. 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:43.400 They've got Shakira Austin, Eliah Edwards, Britney Sykes. That's really it, fun, Yeah, 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:46.880 that's really it for like guaranteed to be starting. So 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:49.520 she has a great opportunity there. She's taller than you 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:52.679 think because of her style of play, and I think 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:55.199 because they've got a little bit of a big surplus. 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:59.960 The next pick of Kiki Eriefen is interesting. I think 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.920 think so many players are going to relocate next year 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:06.320 when the CBA changes. There was this incredible statistic that 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:10.120 one hundred and five of one hundred and thirty two 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:12.880 players in the league will be free agents after this season. 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:14.440 Only two of them are at the end of a 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:15.120 rookie contract. 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:18.360 So it's all other veterans that have timed this out 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:20.520 to be sure they could take advantage of the new CBA. 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:24.040 So with that in mind, the Mystic's already having three 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:26.640 front court players on rookie contracts and then adding Kik 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:29.319 isn't as big of a deal because who knows if 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:31.560 those players are sticking around or going elsewhere. But I 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:35.640 did think Sonia made a ton of sense Kiki. That'll 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:37.319 be interesting to see where they slaughter and how they 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:39.080 mix her in with the rest of the players they've got. 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:42.800 For me, I would have taken Morow. I liked Moorrow 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:45.880 over Kiki the entire season the last couple of years. 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:49.480 I think Kiki's great. I just you know they made it. 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:51.400 I forget who was talking, but they were like, you know, 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:55.720 she shows up in big games and I don't. To me, 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:58.000 I'm not sure she shows up in big games. I 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:00.360 think she's got a ton of upside and in a 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:04.240 couple of years. But Morrow to me is like WNBA 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:06.600 ready get her on the court. I thought that back 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:10.800 to back Connecticut picks were just the steal of the draft. Yeah. 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:13.520 The only thing I'll say about Kiki I agree with you. 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:16.480 Especially the last two games of the tournament I think 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:19.480 really hurt her. After having a really great game in 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:22.240 the game Juju went out, she stepped up and looked fantastic. 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:25.440 But one thing to consider is that's a team who's 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:29.400 been built around Juju for two seasons and then she's out, 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:32.640 and it'd be really hard to reset game plan and 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.880 establish a whole different approach mid tournament. So it'd be 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:37.680 interesting to have seen what would happen if there was 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:41.400 more time for them to plan around Kiki with more 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:44.840 of a season of experience there. So I give her 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:46.640 the benefit of the doubt on that, but I agree 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:49.840 with you. I love Anissa Moro to the Sun. In 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.640 the pregame, she was talking about like when she really 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.040 first started to see double doubles as sort of like 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:57.440 the average for her, and she said, well, I had 0:14:57.440 --> 0:14:59.960 a double double in my second game my freshman year, 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:01.720 So I guess that's when I. 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:07.480 Really like you asked me a question. That's interesting, third and. 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:10.120 D one history and rebounds all time at six to one. 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:12.440 I think that's all you need to know. 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:16.120 Yeah, And when Mochi goes off on someone, you know, 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:19.600 to that extent, she's like, Marrow's the you know, my 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:22.840 my my godmother, the mother to my god Like, she 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:24.960 just was just like Marrow's got you know, she's in 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:27.280 my will. Like she just went off and I was like, 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.360 oh wow, Like I grab Morrow, right. 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:32.800 And I also think the great comp that everyone has 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:35.200 said is you look at Angel Reese and the questions 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:39.680 about Angel going into the draft based on like skill size, 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:42.360 all the other things, and then how she performed at 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:46.120 the pro level, which was so much about heart and effort. 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:48.840 And that dog mentality. That's what Anissa's gonna bring. So 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:51.160 even if she seems a little undersized, I think she's 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:53.640 going to make an impact right away really quick. 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:58.200 At five, the Valkyries took Usta. You stay, I'm gonna 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:01.560 have to learn all these names. The Lithuanian player debuted 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:03.240 for her national team at age thirteen. 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:05.840 That's so, I say, because she started smoking and during 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:09.560 so by age thirteen, yeah, she was she. 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:12.440 Had a perfectly preserved liver and she was ready for play. 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:16.120 Also wild first Lithuanian drafted in twenty five years, which 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.440 is its long gaps in between. 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:21.760 So, but five I thought that. I mean, I guess 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:24.800 maybe I shouldn't be shocked if I lived in Lithuania 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:27.080 and I saw her playing many a time, but I 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:29.000 thought that was early. 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:32.280 But yeah, and also just the Valkyries have such an 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:34.600 international flair, it'll be interesting to see how they put 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:38.000 all those pieces together. The mystics at number six, Georgia Amore. 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:40.920 They did her wrong in that early when they threw 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:43.000 all the sixteen players that showed up to the draft 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:45.040 on stage, and she was between two bigs and she. 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:46.320 Looked like a child. 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:48.960 She looked like someone's child that they had brought on 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:52.840 stage with them. She's only five six, and yet her 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.640 ability to create space is why she got drafted at six. 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:58.280 If she was not able to make room for her 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:01.160 shot at the level she did, they would not be 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:03.400 willing to take a chance on her at a level 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:07.119 that has even more bigger faster, stronger players, but she 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:10.359 joined Caitlin Clark and Sabrina and Escu as the only 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:13.080 Division one players to have twenty three hundred plus points 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:16.040 and eight hundred plus assists in their career. Had a 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:21.040 longer career, but not that many more games. Just a dog, 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:22.160 an absolute dog. 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:25.040 I mean, I love her and I love her socks. 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:28.480 Just for all the young people listening, I it was 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:31.720 funny because they hyped up Amore going potentially to go 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:33.399 to the Valkyries and they're like, if. 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:34.880 You want to face and you want. 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:38.199 The energy, and then they're like and choice it and 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:42.119 I was like what And so then then I was like, Okay, 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:46.640 where's Amore? And so the next pick with Amore that one, 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:49.920 I was just like debating, like do you go Rivers 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:53.040 there or do you go Amore? But Amore just wins 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:55.920 and she's so fun to watch, and I think maybe 0:17:55.960 --> 0:18:00.720 it's it's debatable though, if you could debate that well. 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:02.920 It ended up being the son that took Sanaia Rivers 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:05.000 from mc State at number eight. They went with Anissa 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:09.719 More at seven, Sanaia Rivers at eight, again with some 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:12.720 of those statistics that like you know, NC State didn't 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:14.800 make it as deep into the tournament, and so you 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:17.280 weren't always watching maybe as much of them down the stretch. 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:20.840 But one hundred assists, fifty steels, forty blocks. Only Juju, 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:23.000 Sarah Strong, and Senaia Rivers did that this year. 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:24.480 That's some pretty decent company. 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:29.760 I think Marina Maybray is happy, and I think maybe 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:32.440 she's like now deleting some of the get me out 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:37.000 of Connecticut tweets because I think those two pickups, pickup picks, 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:39.879 up whatever I'm trying to say, those pickups, some slizing picks. 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:41.800 Seems like, Yeah, I mean, they're still all going to 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:43.840 practice in a gym next to a ten year old's birthday, 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:47.040 but you know, make some sacrifices. 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:51.919 Yeah, their new practice facilities at Chuck E Cheese. We 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:54.240 got to take a quick break more on the WNBA 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:55.600 draft with Aaron Foley. 0:18:55.640 --> 0:19:10.639 When we come back. Sarah Ashley Barker to the Sparks 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:11.080 at nine. 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:14.760 Boy, did she help her draft stock with that double 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:19.000 overtime game against Marilyn. If you watch that game, you 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:23.080 know that Sarah Ashley Barker can go the off forty 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:26.680 five points three straight free throws to keep the game 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:30.679 like alive and to keep her team alive. Lobo's come 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:33.560 for her with Sophie Cunningham, I hoped it didn't go 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:38.520 beyond the court. Just about the basketball, yep, and the bond, 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:43.080 but a killer, a killer. She also stole her mom's 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:46.800 whole face, like when they had the when they had 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:50.000 the split screen, I was like, ma'am, it. 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:53.040