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Speaker 2: I'm Georgie Tune and I'm Abby Jelmy George. How are you?

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Speaker 3: I am thriving. Sorry we've laughed a little bit too

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we are, And we have an incredibly exciting announcement

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Speaker 1: because our times, our lives are set to get slightly busier.

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Speaker 4: Slightly busier, and starting the twenty ninth of July, will

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Speaker 4: Tracksuits that we have to wear for two weeks straight,

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Speaker 3: May you may be aware that we have a little

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Speaker 4: But what we have realized is it's a terrible, terrible

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Paris is not going to be kind to anyone

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Speaker 1: So Gelmine producer James and I thought, hang on a second,

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Speaker 1: you know who could possibly help with that, too, Good Sports.

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Speaker 4: So they're going to be shorter episodes, yes, less of

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Speaker 4: a deep dive, more of a skim across the top

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Speaker 1: I think the best way to sum up what we're

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Speaker 4: Still going to talk rubbish, but in a more truncated version.

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Speaker 4: So when you're driving to work thinking, oh I wish

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Speaker 4: what happened overnight, I'm not going to wait for the

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Speaker 2: We're coming in hot. Yeah, we're coming in hot. So

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Speaker 1: That Also, this lovely announcement of ours ties in very

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Speaker 1: how I would say two of our most iconic teams

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Speaker 1: Good sport, bassport, Oh, good sport, badsport. Well, Jellmy and

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Speaker 1: And remember, remember, remember, remember, remember my crystal ball amazing

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Speaker 1: Dare I suggest she may be an athlete that we

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Speaker 2: They may make all right, deep dive next Jaelmy.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that there have been too many other

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Speaker 4: Like when you say Jordan, you think of Luke Longley

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Speaker 2: And if you like basketball, there is a lot of it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they genuinely love it and I think that there's

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Speaker 2: And has just been selected for his fifth Olympics.

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Speaker 3: Not five Olympic games.

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Speaker 3: This is the thing.

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Speaker 4: They're ninety one to fifty eight. But caveat there. China

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Speaker 1: Yes, I don't want to skip ahead, but Gorge, that's rubbish.

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Speaker 4: Well, let's get let's go to the selections, because seventeen

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Speaker 2: But there was eight NBA players that made the roster.

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Speaker 3: If you don't, where have you've been here?

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Speaker 1: You don't even know where basketball is because he has

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Speaker 2: He's having a time.

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Speaker 2: I love this. I just loved that.

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Speaker 3: Getting cut small understandably.

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Speaker 4: You want to hear the emotion when he was told

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Speaker 2: It just makes your heart seeing. Let's have a listen.

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Speaker 4: It's not actually great audio except for that one tiny

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Speaker 1: What I loved about that no preamble there from Gorge

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Speaker 4: God love it. The term group of death gets thrown

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Speaker 1: They're not playing scratches against China, no, their match fit.

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Speaker 2: Well, welcome to the Olympics, my friend, because this is

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Speaker 4: The best two placed third place teams from all the groups.

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Speaker 2: So percentage is really important.

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Speaker 3: Right, So you and if you're gonna win, you have

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Speaker 2: And our group doesn't have a whipping boy.

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Speaker 1: You can't have both necessarily. So that is what they're

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Speaker 4: Quite hard done by be cool, honey, But a lot

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Speaker 4: end of the day, you just have to trust that

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00:19:56,359 --> 00:19:58,880
Speaker 4: they know what they're doing and what we're going to see.

449
00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:02,120
Speaker 4: But it is something that we are just so so

450
00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:03,080
Speaker 4: excited about the games.

451
00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:05,280
Speaker 2: Josh Giddy the new face, let's be honest.

452
00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:09,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I was listening to Andrew Bogan some of

453
00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:12,600
Speaker 1: his reflections about the analysis of this team and who

454
00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:15,440
Speaker 1: was chosen, and he reminded me that Josh Giddy is

455
00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:18,000
Speaker 1: like a million feet tall, Like, because when you look

456
00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:20,159
Speaker 1: at Josh Giddy, you think I think of him as

457
00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:22,960
Speaker 1: being quite slight. Does that make sense, like he's such

458
00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:24,840
Speaker 1: he's such a string bean, and I'm like, oh yeah,

459
00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:27,239
Speaker 1: I'm like, how does he going to compete against all

460
00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:28,560
Speaker 1: these huge players in the NBA.

461
00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:29,800
Speaker 3: He'll just get thrown around.

462
00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:32,240
Speaker 1: But then Andrew Boger's like, no, no, he's genuinely like a

463
00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:33,280
Speaker 1: six seven six eight.

464
00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:36,720
Speaker 3: He's he's tall, he's tall, but in my mind.

465
00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:40,960
Speaker 2: He's until you stand next to them, Oh, it's very

466
00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:44,639
Speaker 2: hard to understand. Oh my god, it's rumbling. It's so humbling,

467
00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:45,320
Speaker 2: so humbling.

468
00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:47,280
Speaker 1: Josh Green the other day was in the studio and

469
00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:49,639
Speaker 1: he walked in with Lauren Jackson, who we will get to.

470
00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:51,520
Speaker 1: We're going to get to the opals, right, We're going

471
00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:54,119
Speaker 1: to get there. But him and Lauren Jackson appeared on

472
00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:56,280
Speaker 1: the project and they were both so divine.

473
00:20:56,600 --> 00:21:01,480
Speaker 3: But also have I ever felt shorter in my life? No? No,

474
00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:01,920
Speaker 3: I haven't.

475
00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:02,560
Speaker 2: Try.

476
00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:05,240
Speaker 4: Last Olympics when I was on the panel with Bogie

477
00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:09,040
Speaker 4: and his chair couldn't go down lower and mine couldn't

478
00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:12,359
Speaker 4: go down higher, I'm like, is there room enough for

479
00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:14,879
Speaker 4: you to put your legs straight under the desk? And

480
00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:16,919
Speaker 4: he's poor torso you can barely see the top of

481
00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:20,080
Speaker 4: his tie and I'm there. I like this, so you

482
00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:22,359
Speaker 4: can't see me straightening up in my chair and we

483
00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:22,920
Speaker 4: were still.

484
00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:23,399
Speaker 2: At eye level.

485
00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:26,520
Speaker 4: They bring in the cushions, so it was just anyway,

486
00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:31,200
Speaker 4: we are understandably pumped. But you will remember the catchphrase

487
00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:33,080
Speaker 4: and they put it out publicly.

488
00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:36,160
Speaker 2: It was gold vibes only.

489
00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:38,679
Speaker 4: And the talk again when you hear these players that

490
00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:41,760
Speaker 4: are doing bits of radio little bits, they're talking about

491
00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:45,879
Speaker 4: winning gold. We loved Rose Gold. I also loved it.

492
00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:47,560
Speaker 4: The blokes knew what rose Gold was.

493
00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:49,200
Speaker 2: But they pivoted. They pivoted.

494
00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:53,360
Speaker 4: But the question is do we expect, given the strength

495
00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:56,320
Speaker 4: of this squad, to gold or Rose gold or hell

496
00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:58,800
Speaker 4: will take a silver? Are we going to be on

497
00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:01,040
Speaker 4: the podium again? And I think Brad Newly has a

498
00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:02,080
Speaker 4: good take. Let's have a listen.

499
00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:05,000
Speaker 5: I think now, like with the group we've got and

500
00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:07,080
Speaker 5: where we've come to as a country, in basketball, it's

501
00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:10,919
Speaker 5: it's always it's gold medal or podium stuff. That's what

502
00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:14,479
Speaker 5: we talk about probably the last three four campaigns. It's

503
00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:17,360
Speaker 5: always been it's always been the goal, but now it's

504
00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:20,680
Speaker 5: realistically it can be achieved. So I think that that'll

505
00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:22,399
Speaker 5: be definitely the expectation of the group.

506
00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:25,120
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think we all want to see them. We're

507
00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:28,320
Speaker 6: a medal I think realistically talking, I think the podium

508
00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:30,399
Speaker 6: is going to be very hard. For being honest, I

509
00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:33,280
Speaker 6: think they need a really good run and some lucky bounces.

510
00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:35,159
Speaker 6: In these tournaments, you need a lucky bounce every now

511
00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:38,639
Speaker 6: and then. You need something a lucky quarter, or someone

512
00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:40,879
Speaker 6: fouls out, someone gets hurt, whatever it is and out

513
00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:42,680
Speaker 6: of the team and you have a good little run there.

514
00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:44,520
Speaker 6: But we've got the poor death.

515
00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:48,040
Speaker 1: Andrew Bogan, with your honesty, it's going to say you also, Andrew,

516
00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:51,520
Speaker 1: need a healthy sense, a healthy dose of delusion.

517
00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:52,359
Speaker 4: Let me be.

518
00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:58,720
Speaker 2: Let me think that goal is possible. Brad Newly and

519
00:22:58,720 --> 00:22:59,359
Speaker 2: Andrew Bogert.

520
00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:01,600
Speaker 4: They're going to be doing a podcast analyzing the Boomers

521
00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:03,159
Speaker 4: through the games as well. So if you want a

522
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:08,240
Speaker 4: deeper dive, deeper, deeper, much more so more technical into basketball.

523
00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:09,600
Speaker 2: They are great and they're great talent doing it via

524
00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:10,119
Speaker 2: the NBL.

525
00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:13,119
Speaker 3: Yes, I do think that we may surprise some people.

526
00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:13,919
Speaker 3: I don't.

527
00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:16,120
Speaker 1: My head is telling me we're not going to pull

528
00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:19,000
Speaker 1: off a replica of what we saw in Tokyo. Like,

529
00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:22,480
Speaker 1: I don't think we're going to have the same results.

530
00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:23,920
Speaker 1: I don't think we're going to see that level of

531
00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:27,360
Speaker 1: a cheap I know, but that's my head, my heart.

532
00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:29,920
Speaker 1: We're winning, We're winning the whole thing.

533
00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:32,400
Speaker 4: Two Good Sports Green and Gold edition will not cop

534
00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:35,760
Speaker 4: that attitude. I'm not sitting opposite realism for.

535
00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:37,919
Speaker 2: Two weeks, Charlie. Absolutely not.

536
00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:41,720
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, let me let me now, absolutely,

537
00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:48,840
Speaker 1: just counter that realism with a healthy dose of realistic optimism.

538
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,280
Speaker 3: And that is the Opals chances.

539
00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:55,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, forget about the precious metals. We're on to precious gems.

540
00:23:55,880 --> 00:24:00,160
Speaker 1: Bring out the Opals and this is what I think

541
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:03,880
Speaker 1: that the Opals are going to do something big in Paris.

542
00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:06,720
Speaker 1: They didn't have their best campaign in Tokyo. They'd be

543
00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:09,919
Speaker 1: the first ones to admit that they were disappointed in

544
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:13,439
Speaker 1: their own performance. And I think that the squad that

545
00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:17,159
Speaker 1: Sandy Brondelo, the coach, has been able to assemble, including

546
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:22,000
Speaker 1: five time Olympian this will be her fifth games. Lauren Jackson,

547
00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:24,760
Speaker 1: she's in the squad. She is there as a beacon

548
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:30,119
Speaker 1: of experience, of hope, of just all possibility.

549
00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:31,200
Speaker 3: She's a god, this woman.

550
00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:33,800
Speaker 4: As a sports journalist, there are some athletes that make

551
00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:38,000
Speaker 4: a mockery of you, because occasionally, like in May of

552
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:40,680
Speaker 4: this year, Yeah, you read a story that's like Lauren

553
00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:43,800
Speaker 4: Jackson has opted out of the Paris Olympics. Yep, I'm

554
00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,760
Speaker 4: not reading it, but that's essentially what I said on air, saying,

555
00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:49,199
Speaker 4: she genuinely said down the barrel.

556
00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:51,760
Speaker 2: Look, I won't be going. It's too hard to be

557
00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:54,760
Speaker 2: away from my kids. I'm getting old. Lo lo lo

558
00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:55,760
Speaker 2: lo lo lo lo lo.

559
00:24:56,119 --> 00:25:00,520
Speaker 4: A name is but a number because she is forty three,

560
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:02,760
Speaker 4: forty three years old. And when you think about some

561
00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:06,000
Speaker 4: of the stories we've seen internationally around basketball, people losing

562
00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:08,520
Speaker 4: their mind that Lebron is playing with Bronnie.

563
00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:09,920
Speaker 2: Yes, he's thirty nine.

564
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:11,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so she's.

565
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:13,639
Speaker 2: That's the whole Olympic cycle differences. So true.

566
00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:16,360
Speaker 1: There are players, and she says said this herself, there

567
00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:18,720
Speaker 1: are players that she will be playing with on her team.

568
00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:22,200
Speaker 1: Ople's players who've just been announced that Lauren Jackson feasibly

569
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:24,920
Speaker 1: could be their mum, is old enough to have been

570
00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:25,280
Speaker 1: their mum.

571
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:28,080
Speaker 4: She's our greatest basketballer of all time and also one

572
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:30,840
Speaker 4: of the greatest figures in basketball in the world.

573
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:32,720
Speaker 3: Yes, one thousand percent, And so those.

574
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:34,960
Speaker 2: Girls would have grown up dreaming of playing with Lauren

575
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:35,480
Speaker 2: Jackson and.

576
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 1: To imagine, imagine that, and not only that, she would

577
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,880
Speaker 1: have been the first name chosen by Sandy Rondello for

578
00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:44,439
Speaker 1: this think yeah, I do, I do because of what

579
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:46,640
Speaker 1: she can offer in terms of her experience out there,

580
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:50,400
Speaker 1: and dare I say gold Vibes only, Like she would

581
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 1: be able to bring that enthusiasm, She's able to bring

582
00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:56,600
Speaker 1: the energy, and she's able to bring probably the calm

583
00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,480
Speaker 1: head right because there is a lot of youth mixed

584
00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:03,400
Speaker 1: in with her experience in this squad, and I think

585
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:05,359
Speaker 1: that in the key clashes that's going.

586
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:06,000
Speaker 3: To be paramount.

587
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:08,879
Speaker 4: And we talk about Rose goldge Vibes only for the

588
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,240
Speaker 4: men because that was our first ever medal and it

589
00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 4: was such an emotional experience. Our girls are like, we've

590
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:16,240
Speaker 4: got three silver to bronze. Yeah, not our first time.

591
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 3: And they've done that.

592
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:20,399
Speaker 1: They had this incredible run from the mid nineties, so

593
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:23,040
Speaker 1: it was ninety six to twenty twelve where they won

594
00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:26,639
Speaker 1: a medal in five consecutive games, and what started that

595
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,720
Speaker 1: streak was this ninety six team and who happened to

596
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 1: be playing for that ninety ninety sixteen for the Opals.

597
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,880
Speaker 3: Sandy Brondello, the current coach, which is.

598
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:38,080
Speaker 1: Just you know, that kind of history I think is

599
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:41,240
Speaker 1: so important when you are building a story. You know,

600
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:43,919
Speaker 1: you're building a story for your players to believe in,

601
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:46,160
Speaker 1: and she can do that easily and be like, guys,

602
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:48,240
Speaker 1: remember that we can totally do this because remember the

603
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:48,840
Speaker 1: time I did.

604
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:50,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's amazing.

605
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 4: And the other challenge that the Opens faced, similar to

606
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:56,760
Speaker 4: the Boomers, is that they have not played together very often.

607
00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:57,600
Speaker 2: Like we're talking.

608
00:26:57,600 --> 00:26:59,720
Speaker 4: I think they came together as a squad last week

609
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 4: for the first time. Because they're all playing around the

610
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,200
Speaker 4: world and more so players that are in Europe or

611
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:08,800
Speaker 4: in the domestic league, they're less all at WNBA level

612
00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:11,240
Speaker 4: that it is going to be a lot for them

613
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 4: to come together and understand each other's games.

614
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,240
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, but there is still no denying the talent

615
00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:19,920
Speaker 1: of this team that's there even I mean, you look

616
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 1: at someone like Jade Melbourne who's absolutely killing it over

617
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:27,320
Speaker 1: in the WNBA, and I think that twenty one yes.

618
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 2: I love it. Lock her in for campaigns.

619
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:33,760
Speaker 1: I just think that she is so so brilliant. She

620
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:38,160
Speaker 1: has such command when she's on that court, well beyond

621
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 1: her years. Like I would not want to be on

622
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:41,919
Speaker 1: a one on one with her, she would absolutely annihilate me.

623
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:45,600
Speaker 1: Now I want to double check my pronunciation of this,

624
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:49,720
Speaker 1: but in everything that I've heard commentary analysis, it's one

625
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 1: of those names which is just made for the sport.

626
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:54,439
Speaker 1: It is not spelt this way. But every time I

627
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:57,760
Speaker 1: hear someone talk about Isabelle Bullace, I just think she

628
00:27:57,880 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 1: is an ace with that ball.

629
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 2: Oh my god, don't get there. It does your head go,

630
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:02,639
Speaker 2: that's where it is.

631
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:05,560
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh my god, she's made for basketball. Then

632
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,119
Speaker 3: I look at actually how it's actually spelt, and I'm like,

633
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:10,600
Speaker 3: bo Lac, that's not ball Ace.

634
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:14,119
Speaker 2: Your brain is different from mine.

635
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:16,400
Speaker 4: And that's why this works so well because I've never

636
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 4: thought that. But she is a star. And again we're talking,

637
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 4: she's night, she's a teenager.

638
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, And this is what I mean by why Lauren

639
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:24,120
Speaker 1: Jackson would have been the first name.

640
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:26,280
Speaker 3: I think, because imagine.

641
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 4: Lauren Jackson, You're forty three, and you're like, you're nineteen.

642
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:32,520
Speaker 4: You know when I started playing, there was no mobile phones,

643
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:33,040
Speaker 4: are you well?

644
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:35,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, like it is true. And I did ask her

645
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:36,439
Speaker 3: about that on the show.

646
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 2: And because she was on the Protect, she was on

647
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:39,160
Speaker 2: the protest.

648
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Lauren, we were like it was a genuine question.

649
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:45,240
Speaker 1: I think it was from Queen Liz lizz Ellis, who

650
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 1: was like, what on earth do you talk to these

651
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 1: girls about? Like it's such an age gap.

652
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:52,920
Speaker 2: Because in Nepple it wouldn't be that divert.

653
00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,959
Speaker 1: No, no, And Lauren was just like, yeah, there's some

654
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 1: things that I just have no idea what they're saying.

655
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 3: No and no. She's like, I just own it. I'm

656
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 3: just the on the elder statesman of the team.

657
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 1: And I'm like, okay, cool, cool, that's not meant for

658
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:07,840
Speaker 1: me to know, you know. But I think that that

659
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:11,000
Speaker 1: is just such a wonderful energy. And I truly think.

660
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 1: I mean, the Opals have had a tumultuous time in

661
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 1: recent history with the Liz Cambaige drama. They've had this

662
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:21,040
Speaker 1: big rejuvenation and revamp of this squad.

663
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:23,240
Speaker 4: They've had to rebuild it. They made a statement for

664
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 4: what they wanted to stand for. Yes, yeah, yeah, and

665
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 4: I think sometimes that can actually galvanoze yes.

666
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 1: And I think that that's what we're going to see

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Speaker 1: in Paris. So I am betting everything this isn't a

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Speaker 1: binding contract on the Opals being on that podium. I

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Speaker 1: think they're going to do very, very well.

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Speaker 4: I love the idea of their success at the Olympics

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Speaker 4: then funneling into young girls continuing to play basketball and

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Speaker 4: what that can be for the WNBL and the competition,

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Speaker 4: because we've seen the men's competition in particular go from

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Speaker 4: strength to strength, and I know that there's been so

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Speaker 4: much of a revamp of our local competition and it's

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Speaker 4: exciting to see what those prospects are. And also, you've

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Speaker 4: got to mention her, we're under obligation if we're talking

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Speaker 4: about basketball, Caitlyn class and the fact that that's now

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Speaker 4: a household name and that women's basketball is on a podium,

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Speaker 4: although she is not going to be.

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Speaker 1: She was not selected for the Team USA, and I

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Speaker 1: just feel like, Caitlyn, maybe look into your heritage.

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Speaker 3: Any Aussie there, come on, babe. We've got a real

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Speaker 3: strong squad, but we'll take you.

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Speaker 2: But come on. I just love that everyone's like, what

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Speaker 2: do you mean she's not playing, and they're like, she's

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Speaker 2: a rookie. She's a rookie rookie, but there will be time.

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Speaker 2: And that terrifies me for the depth of talent on

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Speaker 2: the American squad because if you're leaving that not even

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Speaker 2: on the bench, on the bench for the bench's It's

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Speaker 2: definitely a really exciting time for basketball.

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Speaker 1: And I think you can only get more and more exciting.

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Speaker 1: Like it's I don't see it. I don't see it dipping.

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Speaker 2: Expect to see a lot more physicality. They're shorter games.

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Speaker 2: Every game means something.

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Speaker 4: It's not like it's not like the NBA or so

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Speaker 4: you can lose something, you can win something at all.

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Speaker 4: Every single game at the Olympics counts and that's why

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Speaker 4: it's just the greatest competition on earth.

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Speaker 3: Tell me it's our favorite time. It's fun fact time.

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Speaker 2: It is time for a fun fact.

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Speaker 4: And if you're listening to the Green and Gold edition,

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Speaker 4: believe me, these are going to still make your Birthday're

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Speaker 4: going to get them in there. But this absolutely blew

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Speaker 4: my mind. We love a Wimbledon fun fact, Oh we

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Speaker 4: love it. And in twenty twenty four, it is the

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Speaker 4: first time since nineteen ninety six that a William's sister will.

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Speaker 2: Not be on court. Nineteen ninety six.

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Speaker 3: I can't I was five.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you want to play that game? I was six.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, but isn't that just unbelievable?

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Speaker 4: They've wont to combine twelve titles. They both ages now

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Speaker 4: just for relevance. Serena is forty two venus forty four

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Speaker 4: and they both turned pro at fourteen.

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Speaker 1: My god, So three decades of competing at the highest level.

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Speaker 4: Of TN you and achieve it. Set yourself back to

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Speaker 4: two thousand and eight. Imagine going out for the highest

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Speaker 4: prize in your sport. Because we'd love to think it's gold,

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Speaker 4: it's not. They want to win, win, They want to win.

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Speaker 4: With them, you're versing your sister. I wonder what side

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Speaker 4: King Richard was sitting on. And if you haven't seen King.

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Speaker 2: Richard, I actually haven't. It's stunning will Smith at his.

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Speaker 3: Best, well he did win an oscar famously, it's.

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Speaker 4: He'll slash you for it, worry about it. But it

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Speaker 4: is incredible to watch their journey.

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Speaker 6: Really.

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Speaker 1: Also, just as another fun fact, just to adding onto yours, jelly,

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Speaker 1: is that in terms of their doubles, because like, the

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Speaker 1: only thing I think more terrifying than facing one Williams

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Speaker 1: sister across the net is two of them, two of them,

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Speaker 1: and in the early two thousands they just absolutely dominated.

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Speaker 1: So this is at Wimbledon, the doubles titles that they

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Speaker 1: won over the course of their career two thousand, two

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Speaker 1: thousand and two, two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine,

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Speaker 1: twenty twelve.

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Speaker 4: Excuse me, so in two thousand and eight they won

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Speaker 4: the doubles together, then had to go to other sides

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Speaker 4: of the nets and play off for the women's title.

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Speaker 2: Yes, what the heck we bowed out? Not worthy?

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Speaker 4: They should just rename Wimbled and the Williams and call

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Speaker 4: it today. Call it today, And I wonder if there's

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Speaker 4: a pineapple on the women's trophy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if that sounds strange to you, listen to our

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Speaker 2: last step.

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Speaker 4: Thank you for joining us on two Good Sports Podcasts.

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Speaker 4: It is sports newstp Differently, George was so excited for

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Speaker 4: our Olympic editions, so we're going to be coming your

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Speaker 4: way a lot more. But thank you so much for

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Speaker 4: joining us. Please do hit us up with your fun facts,

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Speaker 4: follow us online at two Good Sports Podcasts until next week.

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Speaker 3: George should be a good sport

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Speaker 6: Y