Chasing Free Agency

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Welcome back to another episode of Chasing the W.
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I'm Amanda.
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And I'm Bonnie.
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Yeah, and that's Bonnie whose voice went down like seven octaves.
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Did it?
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I sounded you were like, and I'm Bonnie.
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Going through puberty.
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Again.
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That's how I sound when I'm sick.
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How are you?
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I'm good.
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Not much is new.
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Yeah, literally nothing is new.
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There's been so much basketball.
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Yeah.
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I mean our cat's in a cast.
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Still.
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Yeah.
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So it's been a little stressful at our house because we're like not trying to keep her from jumping and running around, but she does not stop.
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Yeah.
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So, you know, a cat in a cast.
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Sucks.
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Yeah.
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I feel like nothing's really new here either.
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I don't even know what I've done since the last time I saw you.
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Yeah, when when did I see you?
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Oh, I literally saw you on Sunday.
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Was it Sunday?
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Yeah, it was for the championship.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Well, it feels like so much time has passed since Newsfest.
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It was this newsfest.
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Honestly, embarrassing.
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But we'll get to that.
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We'll get to that.
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Um, yeah, but then when did we see each other before that?
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I think just to record the pa I don't know.
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It's we went from like seeing each other all the time.
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And not that we don't all the time, now it's just like not all the time, I guess.
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I don't know.
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There's a few days in between.
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It's not enough.
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It's not enough.
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Bonnie and I often talk about how we wish we lived just a little bit closer.
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Yeah, I mean, so we can do nothing together.
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It would be nice to be in the same neighborhood, like walkable.
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Yeah.
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Cause like sometimes I don't want to go out and have a drink.
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A lot of times I don't want to go.
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Yeah, actually, yeah, that's true.
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A lot of times, more often than not, I don't want to.
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Yeah.
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But I would love to sit here and do nothing and like geek over Pocopia.
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You know?
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Pocopia?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I'd be the whole plot.
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You'd have to, I guess I would just watch you geek over Kopopia.
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No, you would have to start your own story.
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Okay.
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And you'd have to you literally have to revitalize your own environment.
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You're not reaping the benefits of all my work.
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I mean, I used to play Pokemon on my Game Boy.
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And I used to wake up early and watch it before school every day.
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Just because it was peak anime.
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Honestly, I'm a little embarrassed to say that I've put in over 150 plus hours into this game.
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And have you reached a certain level?
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Yeah, actually, I beat the main story and it's pretty dark.
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No spoil.
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It was like dark but also hopeful.
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I don't know.
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Yesterday I was explaining to Brenda the end of the story and I literally started crying.
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I was like, just imagine.
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Imagine if Banks and Layla were on the plant.
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Well, I'm not gonna it's I'm not gonna spoil it.
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Essentially, like Yeah, don't spoil it because I gotta start my own thing.
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It's just that the humans are gone and the Pokemon are trying to restore the land so that they come back because they miss their owners.
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I mean, that's pretty sweet.
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Right?
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If Flo and Penny, like you just disappeared and they were just like, well, maybe if I if I clean the house and grow the grass, mom and mom will come back home.
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Do you think they would clean the house?
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They would.
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They would.
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They would destroy it and then clean it.
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Layla.
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So that's that's what's going on there.
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No, yeah, I was like 100% mid-sob.
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I don't know, guys.
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I'm just like on the brink of a crash.
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Sometimes you gotta do it.
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Yeah.
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If we don't get Alana Smith to the Liberty movie, I will do it.
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I mean, it's all hinging on Alana Smith's.
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It's literally that's what my mental health is hinging on.
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Same.
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Yeah.
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Nothing else.
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Uh okay.
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Well, we can get right into it.
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We kind of get right into it.
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We alluded to this earlier, but we're gonna cover a lot today, including just wrapping up March Madness.
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Yep.
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We're gonna talk about free agency and the W.
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We'll talk about the WNBA draft, which by the time this is out, it should be like a day later or something.
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Something like the 13th.
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Maybe day of.
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Yeah.
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It comes, it's happening on Monday.
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We're recording Friday, and this episode should be out before then.
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So we're gonna cover a lot today, and I know that's only like three things, but if you know, you know, there's a lot of shit happening.
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If you know, you know.
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So let's start with March Badness, just because that's kind of like the past is in the past, you know what I mean?
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Yeah.
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I mean it just wrapped up.
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I don't know about you, but I just felt like overall it was a little disappointing in terms of a tournament.
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Overall?
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Yeah.
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Like in the early rounds, it was like blowout after blowout after blowout, and like the games weren't super fun to watch.
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Like, no offense to any of the players.
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No, I mean because you kinda help you help.
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You kinda hope for a Cinderella story at some point.
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Yeah.
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And we just didn't get one, and so And it was just like I don't know, it was just like boring basketball.
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I hate to say it.
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And it was but it was only boring, I think, because it it just wasn't as competitive, not because the teams weren't because I I stand by my opinion that women's basketball is more entertaining than men's because men's men's is like a one-man show.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And actually Raven uh Raven Johnson said this same thing recently about how yeah, she thinks that like men's basketball is or women's basketball is more skilled than men's basketball.
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And if you're a man listening to this podcast, I just know that you agree with that take because we don't I don't think hater men listen to this podcast.
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Everyone says that.
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I feel like, yeah, she's right, you're right.
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Yeah, I mean it's team it's team ball versus ISO ball.
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It's just not fun to watch.
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There's movement, there's actual plays.
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Yeah, it's just like, and then imagine too, like you go to an NBA game or a men's basketball game, and the star player, which is like the whole personality of the team, isn't playing.
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It's like load management or they're in like anyway.
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Yeah, so like not to I would never say that women's basketball was not entertaining, but overall I just was like not enough competition.
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Like, I don't know, it wasn't the best tournament.
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It also didn't feel like consistent in terms of like each team's performance respect respectively, like I guess we should talk about I guess we should talk about like the biggest like most recent moments, so Yukon versus South Carolina.
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Yeah, when Gene Gino fucked everything out.
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That and also South Carolina, like just meeting the moment.
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Like, I feel like Yukon had their number last year, and they came back and said, I don't think so.
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Yeah.
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Yukon played like shit against South Carolina.
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It was so bad.
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I actually didn't watch that game because we were at a play, but um It was it was pretty bad.
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They couldn't make a shot.
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It was a shot.
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No, it was it was so bad.
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Like I remember we were sitting here watching, and smoke layup after smoke layup.
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Yeah, I expected more from Aisy.
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She was kind of just like standing around, and I'd like was like, Oh my god, do something.
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I wonder what was going on.
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It was like so strange.
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Also, like it was really sad.
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They really could not, like, they couldn't buy a bucket.
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Yeah, it was it was bad, and I mean South Carolina defensively just man, they just outperformed because it really wasn't even a high-scoring game, but it got to a point where Yukon was down like 20, and I was like, okay, there's still time, like, yeah, I'm not gonna be sad if Yukon loses, but a little bit more, like, give me something.
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Right.
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It's South Carolina just I would wanted it more.
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I definitely expected that game to end within like five points of, you know, like up or down.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah, not 20.
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I yeah, I remember you you came out of wherever you you were with all these texts, and you were like, What the fuck happened?
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All these texts, and I was like, wow, I just wasn't expecting that.
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Um but good for South Carolina, like they're a solid team.
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Obviously, Don Saly's the best one of the best coaches, probably the best coach in the uh in CAA, so good for them.
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I'm glad.
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Yeah, honestly, it was it was a masterclass in coaching, which with class, with class, yeah, which leads us to our next thing.
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I'm sure at this point everyone's talked about it, and both Don and Gino have come out and said things, but essentially what happened, it's so interesting.
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It's almost like I feel like I jinxed it, me personally, because I was watching the game and I don't know, like I just thought to myself, do they have beef?
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And so I texted actually Megan and I was like, hey, like, I feel like you would know, like, are do they have beef?
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Are they friends?
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And she was just like, No, like I think that they're fine with each other, like they're cool, blah blah blah.
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No bullshit.
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Like 10 minutes later.
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Yeah, 10 minutes later, game's not over.
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Gino walks towards the South Carolina bench, starts running his mouth at Don about so I don't know.
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I was just like, is this motherfucker senile?
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Like, I don't even know what's going on right now.
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And then Don was just like, don't fucking do that, you can't fucking do that.
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I was just like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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Turns out Gino's just a sore loser.
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Yeah, that was surprising to see.
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Um, especially because his reasons for like getting mad were like she didn't shake his hand in the beginning, but there's like proof of her shaking everybody's fucking hand before the game started.
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Yeah, and also if she did it, grow up.
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Seriously, and then nobody ripped Sarah Strong's jersey.
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Sarah ripped it.
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Yeah.
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Like, no, like he's he's the Lulu.
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He was just like, You I got I got kids with ripped jerseys.
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Camera cuts to Sarah Strong ripping.
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And then she like I feel like her reaction afterwards was like, Oh shit, I didn't mean to like do that.
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Yeah, it was you could just tell it was like a frustration move.
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Like, I mean, they completely shut Sarah down.
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Like, I feel like she hit her first couple of shots, and then it was brick after brick after brick.
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That was it wasn't it was pretty good defense.
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They studied the film, it was good defense, and they they went after the boards, like they were on those fucking boards, they just played with more energy.
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But anyway, this interaction with Don and Gino, it was just like weird to me because it's like genuinely I don't think that I don't think he would have done that if she was a man.
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Oh, of course not.
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Like, I genuinely don't also like not an appropriate time, first of all, for you to try to address something that didn't happen.
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Right, but it also didn't happen, and then he doubled down on it in his press conference after the game.
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Yeah, he also had this weird interview with Holly Rowe, yeah, with Holly Rowe.
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He was just like complaining about the refs, and to be fair, it was a pretty big imbalance of foul calls between the city.
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They weren't getting any calls, right?
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No, it was like that fine, fair.
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I myself have been in such a predicament where I'm complaining and be mad about that, yeah.
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But uh speaking of Holly Rowe, what'd she do?
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I just we were watching the game and it was like there was a game stoppage.
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I don't know if it was at the end or like I don't know, bro, but like the camera like almost like zoomed out a little bit, and you just saw someone in like a pencil skirt sprinting across the court, and I was just like, Did you fucking see Holly Roe running across the court?
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Where'd you going?
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And then camera cuts to her.
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Camera, Brun just showing Bonnie right now.
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So good.
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And I'm putting the speakers on for the cards.
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I just happened to be looking and I was just like, is that Holly Rowe running across the court?
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And then they cut to her and she's like, Yeah, it's Dogino.
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And I was just like, Oh shit, that's crazy.
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Because I've never seen her run like that at Barclays.
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I've never seen her run, no.
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I was just I was just impressed.
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I was just impressed because she was like she was in a skirt.
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Hey, Holly Rowe, I know we have our opinions, but like she takes some shit.
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Remember when she got fucking knocked out of the sidelines of that college football game?
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And she like sprung back up and was like, I'm fine.
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And she's 59.
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And she's 59.
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Oh, also.
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Oh, she went to VYU.
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Sorry.
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Holly went to VYU?
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Yeah.
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Is she Mormon?
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Is Holly Rowe Mormon?
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Is Holly Rowe Mormon?
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We'll have to invite Megan onto the podcast.
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She's our Mormon expert in how is Megan Mormon?
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No.
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Oh, she's just an expert.
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Yeah.
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Consumes.
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Love it.
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Consumes everything.
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I love when people get into like niche stuff.
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It is great though because she just like she should be knowing everything.
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Yeah.
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And so we got questions and she got answers.
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She does always come with the facts.
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Yeah.
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In the group chat.
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Yeah.
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I mean, former teacher.
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She be knowing.
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Well, that's it.
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I read Is Holly and it filled out Is Holly Red Moment.
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People be wondering.
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People be asking.
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People be wondering, people will be asking.
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Yes.
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So Don ended up releasing a statement after the game and was just like, Gino has done a lot to grow the women's basketball game.
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We gotta move on.
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Stop giving him hate.
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No, how about he stopped disrespecting you?
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And how crazy is it that she had to come out?
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I was just gonna say something when she didn't fucking do nothing.
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It's a woman's job to like fucking fix everything and be like, no, actually, let's all move on.
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I will say though, like, he fucking torpedoed his reputation.
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I feel 100% in that moment.
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And then also, like, made it look made women's basketball look bad.
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It just like wasn't just it just wasn't great.
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And some people were actually speculating that maybe he caused such a fuss to not have to answer questions about why UConn that was previously 54-0 before they lost to South Carolina to take the heat off of them for explaining why his team couldn't score.
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I feel like that's it's crazy.
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Yeah.
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That's conspiracy theory.
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Either way, it's a crazy thing for him to do.
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It is really crazy, honestly.
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Um, should we talk about our bracket really quick?
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Yeah, of course.
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Okay.
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Um, so for a while I was number one in the bracket, and then Oh wait, we should talk about the finals game.
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The final game before we do that.
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Yeah, okay.
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So, yeah, South Carolina beat UConn in the semifinals.
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So they played UCLA, UCLA's first time.
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Who did UCL UCLA beat uh Texas?
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Yep.
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And Maddie Booker really could not be able to get the game.
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That was a shit game, too.
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I turned it off games.
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We turned it off.
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Brenda and I chose Grey's Anatomy, which is notably also a terrible show over the terrible basketball game.
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So ask me in about 2000 when I was, you know, well that's what I mean.
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It used to be good.
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It used to be good, and now we just hate watching.
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I hate the main characters, but that's not what we're gonna talk about.
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We can talk about that off the air.
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Okay.
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Anyway, yeah, the game's gonna be.
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Anyway, so UCLA made it to the title game for the first time ever.
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Um, they played South Carolina, and again, like we kind of mentioned at top, the game was just a little like lackluster.
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South Carolina ran out of gas.
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What happened?
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They ran out of gas.
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I blame it on Gino.
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He killed the vibe for the rest of the tournament.
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But I am happy that UCLA got their first number win.
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Like that's pretty good.
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Like, I'm not necessarily sad that South Carolina lost.
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I'm just like, damn, why y'all had to go out like that?
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I know.
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And again, like by 20, 30 points.
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Like it was a blowout.
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And you could tell that game too that they were really missing Chloe Kitts, their starting center.
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She got fucked over at like the beginning of the season or before it even started.
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Yeah, it was pretty terrible.
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Senior year too.
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I wonder I know.
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She'll do a fifth year.
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I feel like she should.
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I feel like she should.
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I feel like she should.
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I mean, just look at how like the March Madness impacts the draft.
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Like now the draft order is like AZ's like three or four when she was one of the things.
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Um, yeah, the mock draft.
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But what I what is cool about UCLA also is that six of their seniors are are headed to the draft that played in the in the title game.
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So good on them.
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I mean, honestly, how do you fucking guard Lauren Bet or she's six seven?
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I was just like she's six seven.
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Six seven?
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Oh my god.
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I don't think the kids do that anymore, do they?
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I don't know.
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Who knows?
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Who cares?
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I'm not a kid.
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But that's perfect though.
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Six seven.
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That was I mean, that's I didn't even force that one.
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She is six foot seven.
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I don't know.
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You know that originated in Philly, too?
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Oh my god.
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Shout out to us.
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Anyway, so our bracket, thanks for joining everybody.
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It was a fun one.
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Choo C L A won the bracket in the end.
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So shout out to Shout out.
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I think that was Cassara too.
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Shout out.
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So CJ, you'll be getting some merch.
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Soon.
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Soon.
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We can discuss what it is you would like and what it is we're willing to make for you.
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Yeah, I was gonna say based on our budget.
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Yeah, based on our budget, you'll be getting a prize.
00:17:38.799 --> 00:17:48.319
Yeah, as of right now, Switchhouse is still not a sponsor, which is really so that was March Madness.
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Thanks.
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Next.
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Not thanks.
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Wait, actually, one thing I wanted to talk about as it relates to college basketball is that the transfer portal is going crazy.
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Oh, yeah.
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It's going crazy.
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We talked about Kim Caldwell earlier in the season, the head coach for the Tennessee Lady Vols, which they are all gone.
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All eligible Lady Vol players have left Tennessee.
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Most have entered the transfer portal.
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Did you also see that the high school recruits the number two player in the 2026 Sports Center Next 100 requested to be released from her commitment to Tennessee?
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I mean, how do you tank an entire program?
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How long she got left?
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Not long.
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She's probably fired right today.
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Like, honestly, they've got to find a new coach.
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And I was okay, and I was speculating that you know Audi Crooks also entered the transfer portal, and I was just like, could they pay her a shit ton of money to go to Tennessee and then they use her as a marketing ploy for other players?
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But breaking news I saw today, Audi Crooks now follows Notre Dame.
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Yeah.
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And Neil Harvey or Ivy, rather.
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Yeah.
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Which I could see her there.
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I could see her there, but I've decided that I'm not a fan of Coach Ivy because I'm speculating, you know, the Hannah Hadalgo stuff and then the Jaden Ivy stuff, and I'm just like, it's giving Coach Ivy is pro homophobia.
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Yeah, is a homophobia.
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Is pro hate, is really what it comes down to.
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Which is interesting.
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You know coaching at a Christian school, you know, love thy neighbor, whatever the fuck.
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Not a friend of the show.
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Yeah.
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Not a friend of the show.
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Not a friend of the pod.
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But no, I mean, super interesting.
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I think um but like my other thing is like I don't know all the like restrictions and stuff on the transfer portal, but are the kids abusing it a little bit?
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Like, I feel like they have one bad season and they're like, I'm out.
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Oh, a thousand percent.
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Ever since every since NIL?
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A hundred percent.
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It's happening a lot in college football as well.
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There was notably like a uh quarterback that I believe played at Tennessee and he had the starting job, left, went somewhere else, and I can't remember where, to make more money, and then something happened where he ended up not getting all the money.
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It was like something crazy.
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So, like, yeah, ever since NIL they have been abusing it.
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That's also seeing in college football, Nick Sabin, who's the coach of Alabama, which is you know like a super fucking team in college football, he talked about how kids used to want to go play for a program that was decorated that they knew they would grow and win and get them to the NFL, and now it's just about the money.
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Yeah.
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So that's when he kind of bowed out of college football.
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But I think that's definitely something we're seeing everywhere, yeah, for sure.
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Like, I don't blame any of the Tennessee players at all.
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Like, if you have a coach that are that's like constantly calling you a loser, like get the fuck out.
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Yeah.
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I mean, she's definitely gotta go.
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100%.
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I just like I cannot imagine they keep her for any longer.
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Like, and like I'm thinking about Pat Summit.
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She's probably spinning her grave being like, what the fuck are you doing?
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Literally.
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To my program.
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Literally.
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Because I mean, Tennessee is like, yeah.
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It's one of the schools.
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It's one of the schools.
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It's one of the schools.
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Awesome.
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Candace Parker.
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Well, she's not a friend of the show.
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Good player.
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Not a friend of the show.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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That's crazy.
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Not that this is the same, but my mom and aunt went to Oklahoma State University, and they also told me that the entire team is in the transfer portal.
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I mean, they're not like a huge school or whatever, but Jan told you that?
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Yeah, Jan told me.
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Jan the night.
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Shout out to her! She's a hoop set.
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That's crazy.
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She's a hoops head.
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I mean, they made it to the tournament this year and it doesn't always happen, and then they all were like, I'm out.
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Yeah, wow, Jan, I was unfamiliar with your game.
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I know.
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She knows.
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She pays attention.
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She'd be knowing.
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Man, okay.
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Okay.
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That's that's that on college basketball.
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Y'all they gonna have to take a back seat now.
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Gonna say they're going night night.
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Yeah, they are going night night because now it's time for the big girls, it's time for the big girls.
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Let the big girls play, you guys.
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So incredible.
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Okay, I think we should start with all of the free agency stuff that's happening just because that's already started, and then we can talk about these the WNBA draft projections because I have thoughts on it.
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But okay, okay.
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Let's start with the biggest news.
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Yup.
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Andrew Reese was traded to Atlanta.
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So insane.
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Bruh.
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It really kicked things off.
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Like what a fucking with the fucking bang.
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Yeah.
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That's crazy.
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It's like she took those big scissors and like cut a ribbon and was like, okay, it's open season.
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That was so fucking crit.
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Like, I remember, I don't remember who shared it.
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If I saw it, and then we all shared it.
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I I literally just kept saying, Oh my god, wow.
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Wow.
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Wow.
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Because I'm so happy for her because Chicago's a poverty franchise.
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Yeah.
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Like it is.
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And it's not even just the women's team, it's also the men's team.
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They are not managing things well over there in Chicago.
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There's something going on with like the front office, right?
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Like something just like it's something going on.
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Rebecca Allen came out and talked about too like all the team she's played on and how Chicago was the first time she shared a locker room with the public, which is fucking crazy.
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It's that's insane that is that they were like practicing at a fucking local rec center.
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No, that's it's it's wild.
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And what's really, really sick about Angel Reese being traded to Atlanta is first of all, they were doing all this marketing around Caitlin, right?
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Like the league and stuff, and everyone's like, oh, like Caitlin brought all this, Caitlin did all this.
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Right.
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The Sky immediately lost 13,000 followers when the news was announced.
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Atlanta gained 10,000 followers, and her Atlanta Dream jersey sold out.
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Yeah, talk about impact.
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Amazing.
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That is the Angel Reese effect.
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Let's talk about that.
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Like, that is crazy.
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She's that girl.
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Also, I'm thinking like Angel Dream, you know, just goes together.
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A dream angel.
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And also, she's also Victoria's Secret Angel.
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Did you know?
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Oh, yeah, I did see that.
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She is the Victoria's Secret Angel.
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I know we've talked about it before, but outside of basketball, she's just running her business like a bro.
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She's literally a hustler.
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I I'm so impressed by a hustler.
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And also, like, if we talk about the Angel Reese effect, also as it um, as it relates to unrivaled and not even the WNBA, she came back and had an immediate impact on the Rose.
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Yeah.
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Like she came back, the the rating defensive player of the year.
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Like, bruh, I couldn't be I couldn't be happier for her because I'm really happy for her.
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I think Chicago's ghetto.
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I also just feel like that was a perfect team for her to go to.
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Yeah, like it's it is perfect.
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ATL Barbie.
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Yep.
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And like crazy.
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She can really like she's gonna slot in the starting five so easily.
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Yeah, it will be interesting to see what they do with the rest of the roster now that they have her.
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Because who's so big?
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Breonna Jones.
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Oh, right, right, right.
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But I'm not sure I don't think she's re-signed anything yet, but I do know that Nas Hillman is signing a three-year deal with Atlanta.
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Uh Alicia Gray is signing a three-year supermax with Atlanta.
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Well deserved.
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Well deserved.
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I think I think that their starters could look like Nas Hillman, Angel.
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And actually, I could see them still keeping Breonna Jones.
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Yeah, Angel should be a four.
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Atlanta Drave is signing Brianna Jones.
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Okay.
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Okay, reported that Breonna Jones is staying with Atlanta because I think actually Angel plays better as a four.
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I don't think she's meant to be a center, even though she could be on those boards.
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But as playing as a power forward, you still gotta be on the boards.
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You gotta help out with the rebound.
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So I feel like that could be something really interesting.
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We see Ryan, Alicia Gray, Nas Hillman, Brianna Jones, and Angel Reese.
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Oh my god, I'd be scared.
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And wasn't and and Brittany Greiner was there too, but they don't need Brittany Greiner, I don't think.
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I don't think they don't think they need her.
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I don't think they need her.
00:26:13.599 --> 00:26:17.279
Although she probably will still be there.
00:26:17.279 --> 00:26:17.920
I don't know.
00:26:17.920 --> 00:26:20.720
Seattle needs somebody, so maybe she'll go to Seattle.
00:26:21.119 --> 00:26:26.319
Yeah, Seattle does need somebody because neither Skylar nor NECA are expected to return.
00:26:26.319 --> 00:26:31.920
In fact, we can confirm that NECA is returning to the LA Sparks after playing 12 seasons there.
00:26:31.920 --> 00:26:33.599
She says she finna go home.
00:26:33.599 --> 00:26:42.319
And this was right after, right after a balloon company we thought spoiled the fact that NECA was going to Minnesota.
00:26:43.599 --> 00:26:45.200
Like, did they not have an NDA?
00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:49.440
On my whole, like, I'm just like, why the fuck would they post anything?
00:26:49.440 --> 00:26:51.839
This is like top secret shit.
00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:55.680
But no, like it's it's it's actually crazy.
00:26:55.839 --> 00:27:01.279
Like so like they were like, look at this amazing job we did on the balloons, and then like didn't know what they were posting.
00:27:01.519 --> 00:27:15.839
Yeah, they like posted how they put together a welcome NECA sign for the links, and it was just so crazy because yeah, I don't like what would possess you to post that.
00:27:15.839 --> 00:27:18.720
Like, I understand really cool opportunity.
00:27:18.720 --> 00:27:24.160
That's the last really cool opportunity you're gonna get, respectfully, because that's crazy.
00:27:24.400 --> 00:27:29.119
Or they did like or they got a huge um, I mean, uh uh, what am I trying to say?
00:27:29.119 --> 00:27:32.720
A lot of uh brand what am I trying to say?
00:27:32.720 --> 00:27:33.519
Awareness.
00:27:33.759 --> 00:27:44.960
Yeah, or to be honest too, like maybe they were allowed to post it because it was, I think, just like uh they were trying to woo NECA, but that was absolutely clear.
00:27:44.960 --> 00:27:47.599
That was absolutely not clear.
00:27:47.839 --> 00:27:50.640
It wasn't like welcome NECA for a visit.
00:27:50.640 --> 00:27:52.880
Welcome to Minnesota.
00:27:53.119 --> 00:28:03.200
Yeah, it was like very much like you're one of us, which honestly, like I'm really happy that NECA didn't go there just because I'm like respectfully, who the fuck wanna be in the cold access?
00:28:03.519 --> 00:28:06.319
Again, I think like such a good move for her to go back to LA.
00:28:06.640 --> 00:28:07.759
Yeah, I think so too.
00:28:07.759 --> 00:28:12.880
She went home in 2016, that was the year she won MVP, and that was also the same year she led them to their chip.
00:28:12.880 --> 00:28:16.720
So I think it's a good move for her.
00:28:16.720 --> 00:28:26.000
Actually, though, while we're talking about the Sparks and also having just talked about Chicago, one thing I want to just be absolutely clear on the LA Sparks have zero fucking business trading Rakia Jackson.
00:28:26.319 --> 00:28:27.680
I really hope they don't.
00:28:27.680 --> 00:28:29.920
They better not do my girl like this.
00:28:29.920 --> 00:28:31.920
Don't do her like that.
00:28:31.920 --> 00:28:33.599
She does not deserve that.
00:28:33.599 --> 00:28:34.880
She's been through too much.
00:28:35.279 --> 00:28:36.720
She has been through too much here.
00:28:36.720 --> 00:28:41.200
Uh also and I would like to see her and NECA play together.
00:28:41.200 --> 00:28:42.640
I want to see her and NECA.
00:28:42.799 --> 00:28:44.160
I want to see Cam Brink.
00:28:44.160 --> 00:28:49.599
Like, I just feel like I just feel like the Sparks really has something special going.
00:28:49.599 --> 00:28:50.559
Yeah, I agree.
00:28:50.559 --> 00:28:54.079
They just weren't all healthy at the same time for long enough.
00:28:54.079 --> 00:29:11.920
But we do know that since NECA's coming back, there's been some speculation that Derrica Hamby will not be back because she removed the sparks from her Instagram bio and also on Twitter she posted a gif of like that yellow chicken cartoon smoking a cigarette.
00:29:11.920 --> 00:29:12.880
Like, hmm.
00:29:12.880 --> 00:29:13.599
Alright.
00:29:13.599 --> 00:29:14.559
Let me look at this.
00:29:14.559 --> 00:29:16.319
Yeah, go just go look at her Twitter.
00:29:16.319 --> 00:29:19.680
She's she was subtweeting the shit out of the LA Sparks.
00:29:19.680 --> 00:29:20.799
It's tough.
00:29:20.799 --> 00:29:23.599
Which is also tough too because she was good for LA.
00:29:23.599 --> 00:29:25.279
But I love her.
00:29:25.279 --> 00:29:26.880
I know.
00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:32.079
The way you love her is the way I think I love Rakia because I just I feel like I see her potential.
00:29:32.079 --> 00:29:34.000
Like every game she plays, she gets better.
00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:36.079
I think the same thing with Hambi though.
00:29:36.079 --> 00:29:44.720
I don't know, but maybe Hambi could go somewhere and be a core player, like for the tempo or for Portland, but probably not though, because they spending money in Toronto.
00:29:44.720 --> 00:29:47.039
They just signed for like Sice and Marina.
00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:48.640
Give me this one, give me this one.
00:29:49.200 --> 00:29:49.440
Yes.
00:29:49.440 --> 00:29:53.599
There's no news on Sweet Baby Ray.
00:29:53.599 --> 00:29:56.559
On Sweet Baby Ray, but I don't even know if she's eligible for a deal yet.
00:29:56.559 --> 00:29:57.039
I don't know.
00:29:57.039 --> 00:29:58.240
I don't know where she is.
00:29:58.240 --> 00:30:00.960
She might be like on the last year of her rookie contract.
00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:05.119
So she might be one of those players that isn't going anywhere, but she still is getting a pay raise.
00:30:05.119 --> 00:30:09.440
But it would make sense for the I mean I I don't know.
00:30:09.440 --> 00:30:12.400
If you had to guess, if you had to guess where she is.
00:30:12.400 --> 00:30:21.200
She's a restricted free agent, so that means that LA has the first rights to negotiate with her, should they want to do that.
00:30:21.200 --> 00:30:24.319
If you had to predict though, who do you think has a higher ceiling?
00:30:24.319 --> 00:30:27.440
So you may be Ray or Rikia Jackson.
00:30:27.839 --> 00:30:29.279
Higher ceiling in terms of money?
00:30:29.279 --> 00:30:31.759
In terms of skill development.
00:30:31.759 --> 00:30:33.200
Rakia for sure.
00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:35.119
Okay, and that's why they shouldn't let her go.
00:30:35.119 --> 00:30:42.160
I mean, I also feel like Rikia is like further along that development road.
00:30:42.160 --> 00:30:43.359
I would agree with that.
00:30:43.359 --> 00:30:46.240
But I I do feel like Ray is a good player.
00:30:46.240 --> 00:30:47.279
He has like a lot of heart.
00:30:47.279 --> 00:30:48.720
Yeah.
00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:51.440
You need a hustle, you need a hustle player on your team.
00:30:51.440 --> 00:30:53.039
It's like Lexi Hull.
00:30:53.039 --> 00:30:53.359
Yeah.
00:30:53.359 --> 00:30:57.680
She's not always scoring points, but she will die for every single fucking ball.
00:30:57.680 --> 00:30:59.200
Yeah.
00:30:59.440 --> 00:31:00.640
I like Lexi Hall.
00:31:00.640 --> 00:31:02.000
I hope she leaves Indiana.
00:31:02.240 --> 00:31:03.359
God, I hope you leave it.
00:31:03.359 --> 00:31:05.359
She should go to like Toronto or something.
00:31:05.359 --> 00:31:07.680
Sandy would really do well for her.
00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:08.319
I agree.
00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:09.519
I agree with that.
00:31:09.519 --> 00:31:10.240
Okay.
00:31:10.240 --> 00:31:12.240
I wish we had all of the info right now.
00:31:12.240 --> 00:31:12.880
I know.
00:31:13.039 --> 00:31:27.279
Other but other notable signings include Arique signing a multi-year deal to stay with Dallas, but she's not taking the Supermax so that they can still fit under the cap space so they can build like a decent team, which is really cool.
00:31:27.839 --> 00:31:28.880
Yeah, I agree.
00:31:28.880 --> 00:31:31.440
I feel like she we were talking about it on the way over here.
00:31:31.440 --> 00:31:34.319
Like, I feel like I wasn't so surprised by that.
00:31:34.319 --> 00:31:37.920
I feel like she wants to win stay and build something.
00:31:38.160 --> 00:31:38.799
She's a winner.
00:31:38.799 --> 00:31:39.680
She wanna win.
00:31:39.680 --> 00:31:40.079
Yeah.
00:31:40.079 --> 00:31:41.759
Like you, and you can see it too.
00:31:41.759 --> 00:31:43.440
Is Mand still their coach?
00:31:43.839 --> 00:31:45.759
No, he was let go forever ago.
00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:46.319
That's right.
00:31:46.319 --> 00:31:47.359
At the end of last season.
00:31:47.599 --> 00:31:47.759
Yeah.
00:31:47.759 --> 00:31:49.839
So Arique staying there.
00:31:49.839 --> 00:31:52.880
Dallas also has the first pick in the draft.
00:31:52.880 --> 00:31:55.119
So, and we'll get to that.
00:31:55.119 --> 00:31:58.240
I just, yeah, I have thoughts on that, but we'll we'll get to that.
00:31:58.240 --> 00:32:01.200
Um, uh, lots of signings for Vegas.
00:32:01.200 --> 00:32:07.440
Asia's expected to return no confirmation yet on what that deal looks like, but I mean, that's a given.
00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:07.839
Yeah.
00:32:07.839 --> 00:32:09.119
Kristen Bell.
00:32:09.119 --> 00:32:12.880
Which which I'm kind of like respectfully, why?
00:32:12.880 --> 00:32:13.920
No, I thought that was kind of random.
00:32:13.920 --> 00:32:15.519
Yeah.
00:32:15.519 --> 00:32:17.920
No, yeah, Kristen Bell definitely is not getting a shortcut.
00:32:17.920 --> 00:32:19.279
Like, why are we trying to save her?
00:32:19.279 --> 00:32:20.480
Yeah, I don't know, yeah.
00:32:20.480 --> 00:32:24.319
Chelsea Gray, point guard, also re-signed with Vegas.
00:32:24.319 --> 00:32:28.880
Jackie Young was actually the first player to be a super max player.
00:32:28.880 --> 00:32:33.440
Or sorry, she's not a super max player, she's just a regular max player, so she's not getting the first one before.
00:32:33.680 --> 00:32:34.720
The first one to get over a million.
00:32:35.039 --> 00:32:36.240
Yes, correct, correct.
00:32:36.240 --> 00:32:44.559
And then Jewel Lloyd also staying with Vegas, which I don't know if you're asking me, she didn't show me enough to remain an ace.
00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:47.599
I feel like she's gotta come back this season.
00:32:47.599 --> 00:32:48.960
She wasn't playing like an ace.
00:32:48.960 --> 00:32:49.920
She was playing like a three.
00:32:49.920 --> 00:32:53.440
What did you say?
00:32:53.440 --> 00:32:54.160
Playing like a what?
00:32:54.240 --> 00:32:55.200
Like a three, not an ace.
00:32:55.200 --> 00:32:56.480
Not an ace of spades.
00:32:56.480 --> 00:32:57.279
Okay.
00:32:58.079 --> 00:32:59.119
Just the three of clubs.
00:32:59.359 --> 00:33:02.799
Like, you know, like a like a random, like a random number that I'm just like, what am I gonna do with that?
00:33:02.799 --> 00:33:03.680
An eight of hearts.
00:33:03.680 --> 00:33:04.640
That's that's what you were doing.
00:33:04.640 --> 00:33:05.519
Yeah.
00:33:05.759 --> 00:33:06.960
Eight of hearts, yeah.
00:33:06.960 --> 00:33:07.839
That's good.
00:33:07.839 --> 00:33:11.039
It's hard to hear you because we're in these mics.
00:33:11.039 --> 00:33:12.559
I mean these uh headphones.
00:33:13.359 --> 00:33:16.720
Yeah, guys, we're wearing we're wearing headphones this time so we can hear ourselves.
00:33:17.279 --> 00:33:18.960
And I'm but we can't hear each other.
00:33:19.200 --> 00:33:19.759
I can hear you.
00:33:19.759 --> 00:33:20.960
I don't know what you're talking about.
00:33:21.119 --> 00:33:24.000
I mean I can hear you, but like sometimes I can't.
00:33:24.319 --> 00:33:26.240
I think she can hear me for a that's crazy.
00:33:26.240 --> 00:33:26.720
What do you mean?
00:33:27.039 --> 00:33:27.759
Liberating out of that?
00:33:27.759 --> 00:33:28.720
Yeah, turn the volume.
00:33:28.720 --> 00:33:32.559
Well, like I didn't I couldn't hear you just then when you said like a three.
00:33:33.279 --> 00:33:36.000
Yeah, like okay, well, like a three.
00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:36.880
Like thank you.
00:33:36.880 --> 00:33:40.640
Like a three okay, who else is notable?
00:33:40.720 --> 00:33:41.039
Who else?
00:33:41.039 --> 00:33:43.759
Oh, Kelsey Mitchell signed a one-year super max with Indiana.
00:33:46.960 --> 00:33:48.480
But she really likes Stephanie White.
00:33:48.880 --> 00:33:54.319
Did you say that like how much she's getting paid this year is more than what she got paid the last eight years?
00:33:54.319 --> 00:33:54.799
No.
00:33:55.200 --> 00:33:55.759
Together?
00:33:56.160 --> 00:33:56.640
Together.
00:33:56.640 --> 00:33:58.319
Cumulative.
00:33:58.319 --> 00:34:00.640
She's making I heard the people heard that.
00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:00.799
Yeah.
00:34:00.799 --> 00:34:01.680
Hold on, producer.
00:34:01.680 --> 00:34:02.160
Say that one.
00:34:02.160 --> 00:34:03.359
Eliza needs to say this.
00:34:03.759 --> 00:34:10.880
Kelsey Mitchell is earning more in uh the 2026 upcoming season than she has for the last eight uh seasons combined.
00:34:10.880 --> 00:34:16.639
So yeah, I think it's like 1.2 and she's made like 1.1 for the last eight seasons combined.
00:34:16.639 --> 00:34:18.000
Something like that.
00:34:18.559 --> 00:34:23.199
That's actually crazy considering she was an MVP candidate last season.
00:34:23.840 --> 00:34:24.159
Agree.
00:34:25.199 --> 00:34:25.519
Wow.
00:34:25.519 --> 00:34:31.360
And it's it's crazy when you think about it too, because like on the court, like she is one of those players that is like untouchable.
00:34:31.360 --> 00:34:36.559
And I don't know, I just isn't that crazy.
00:34:36.559 --> 00:34:39.440
I it's crazy.
00:34:39.440 --> 00:34:41.840
Um wow, yeah.
00:34:41.840 --> 00:34:49.599
I think as notable signings go, oh, Alyssa Thomas is looking to re-sign with Phoenix, which means that Dwana Bonner probably will be re-signing with Phoenix.
00:34:49.599 --> 00:34:50.000
Yeah.
00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:52.159
The wives gotta stay together.
00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:55.679
Honestly, it's just efficient and good for them that they're both good players, you know what I mean?
00:34:55.679 --> 00:34:57.760
So that's good.
00:34:57.760 --> 00:35:04.880
Oh, Natisha Heideman is leaving Minnesota, which is so interesting because stud buds.
00:35:04.880 --> 00:35:10.800
Well, maybe they're gonna need some time apart because they be doing too much.
00:35:10.800 --> 00:35:13.679
So maybe they need a little break, a little time out, you know.
00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:14.960
Seattle's stone, right?
00:35:15.119 --> 00:35:19.280
Yeah, she's going to well, it's expected to sign with that she'll sign with Seattle.
00:35:19.280 --> 00:35:19.920
Seattle.
00:35:20.079 --> 00:35:21.760
But I don't think Skylar's going back to Seattle.
00:35:21.760 --> 00:35:22.400
I was telling Grandma.
00:35:22.559 --> 00:35:23.360
Well, that's what I'm saying.
00:35:23.360 --> 00:35:24.960
Like, who's even left on Seattle?
00:35:25.119 --> 00:35:31.199
Well, I'm just curious because I'm just like Oh, yes, Ezzy MacBooker got a core qualifying offer from Seattle.
00:35:31.199 --> 00:35:43.840
There's no confirmation on whether or not uh she signed it, but also if Skylar Diggins isn't expected to stay and NECA's gone, like I think Gabby's gonna be on her way out too.
00:35:44.239 --> 00:35:45.840
I think she said she's leaving.
00:35:46.079 --> 00:35:49.199
Yeah, so Gabby could come on over to Nueva York.
00:35:49.199 --> 00:35:51.679
We got something for her over here.
00:35:51.679 --> 00:35:52.719
Marine.
00:35:52.719 --> 00:35:55.760
You mean like I mean, who knows?
00:35:55.760 --> 00:35:56.800
Anything's possible.
00:35:56.800 --> 00:35:57.920
My dream, my dream.
00:35:58.559 --> 00:36:00.079
Speaking of uh the liberte.
00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:08.480
Um I hate myself.
00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:14.719
Um I haven't heard much about what we're doing besides that like Sab, Stewie, and JJ all said they want to stay.
00:36:14.880 --> 00:36:16.559
I've Stewie not going nowhere.
00:36:16.559 --> 00:36:17.760
Sab's not going anywhere.
00:36:17.760 --> 00:36:19.280
Sab not going nowhere.
00:36:19.280 --> 00:36:22.719
I'm still on offense about JJ.
00:36:23.119 --> 00:36:24.320
But like, where's she gonna be able to do?
00:36:24.880 --> 00:36:26.719
How do I finna afford JJ though?
00:36:27.119 --> 00:36:27.599
I know.
00:36:27.840 --> 00:36:31.440
Because respectfully, how are we gonna pay Alana Smith?
00:36:31.440 --> 00:36:32.480
True.
00:36:32.480 --> 00:36:33.679
How how are we gonna pay?
00:36:33.840 --> 00:36:35.679
We gotta save some money for Alana Smith.
00:36:35.679 --> 00:36:41.119
Oh my god, if we get Alana Smith, I can't, I can't, I can't manifest it.
00:36:41.440 --> 00:36:43.360
We are manifesting it.
00:36:43.360 --> 00:36:44.559
I'm gonna be at every game.
00:36:44.559 --> 00:36:49.679
Um, and then we're gonna do shoeies on Flap Bush.
00:36:49.679 --> 00:36:51.679
I'll do a shoey at a regular season game.
00:36:51.760 --> 00:36:53.599
Yeah, I'll take my shoe off right the fuck there.
00:36:53.599 --> 00:36:58.079
Every time she comes on the court, a shoey.
00:36:58.079 --> 00:36:58.559
Yeah.
00:36:58.719 --> 00:37:00.400
As she runs into the tunnel, we'll show her.
00:37:00.400 --> 00:37:00.639
Yeah.
00:37:00.639 --> 00:37:01.360
Oh my god.
00:37:01.360 --> 00:37:02.559
Look at this shoey we're doing it.
00:37:02.639 --> 00:37:06.159
I'm gonna fill my sneaker with beer and give it to her after the game.
00:37:06.159 --> 00:37:06.559
Yeah.
00:37:06.559 --> 00:37:07.920
Yeah, she probably won't drink that.
00:37:07.920 --> 00:37:08.480
No, she won't.
00:37:08.480 --> 00:37:09.280
She don't want my shoe.
00:37:09.280 --> 00:37:10.960
She doesn't know who I am.
00:37:10.960 --> 00:37:11.280
Yes.
00:37:11.280 --> 00:37:11.840
Yes.
00:37:11.840 --> 00:37:14.320
We she's a friend of the pod.
00:37:14.320 --> 00:37:16.800
So, do you know come on over?
00:37:17.039 --> 00:37:18.000
Lots of manifesting.
00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:19.599
Yes, lots of manifesting.
00:37:19.599 --> 00:37:20.559
Alana Smiths.
00:37:20.559 --> 00:37:21.280
Love her in the pod.
00:37:21.519 --> 00:37:27.360
I want I want a New York Liberty branded montage video of her saying, hello, hello.
00:37:27.360 --> 00:37:28.480
Like that.
00:37:28.639 --> 00:37:30.880
And now that we've lost Sandy, we needed on C back.
00:37:31.119 --> 00:37:31.840
I know, because that was.
00:37:31.840 --> 00:37:44.480
You remember her?
00:37:44.639 --> 00:37:45.440
You remember her, Brenda?
00:37:46.159 --> 00:37:47.519
Brenda was calling her tablet.
00:37:48.000 --> 00:37:48.800
All season.
00:37:49.039 --> 00:37:49.679
Yeah.
00:37:49.679 --> 00:37:51.039
That's crazy.
00:37:51.280 --> 00:37:52.880
You know Brit from the chat?
00:37:52.880 --> 00:37:57.760
She hates Stephanie Talbot so much, and it's so funny to hear it go off in the chat.
00:37:58.079 --> 00:37:59.840
Not Britt from the chat.
00:37:59.840 --> 00:38:04.239
And and uh Brit is the who's the oh my god, who's the girl?
00:38:04.239 --> 00:38:05.760
Who's the girl I got beef with?
00:38:05.760 --> 00:38:10.400
Every time she every time she would check in, I used to say, Don't fucking piss me off.
00:38:11.920 --> 00:38:12.719
I want a dungeon.
00:38:13.199 --> 00:38:13.519
Dok it?
00:38:15.360 --> 00:38:16.159
They let her go.
00:38:16.400 --> 00:38:16.960
They did?
00:38:17.119 --> 00:38:17.440
Yeah.
00:38:23.760 --> 00:38:26.079
No, she would just piss me off so bad, y'all.
00:38:26.079 --> 00:38:26.719
She was on a court.
00:38:28.159 --> 00:38:31.039
No, they just like they renounced their rights to her.
00:38:31.280 --> 00:38:32.639
They said, you know what?
00:38:32.639 --> 00:38:33.519
I'm good.
00:38:33.679 --> 00:38:33.840
Yeah.
00:38:34.400 --> 00:38:38.159
Because she would get on a court and then and then she would start acting like Sabrina.
00:38:38.320 --> 00:38:39.440
It's if she's not Sabrina.
00:38:39.760 --> 00:38:40.480
She did look like her.
00:38:40.719 --> 00:38:42.400
She did look like her from our seats.
00:38:42.400 --> 00:38:43.679
But she was not Sabrina.
00:38:43.679 --> 00:38:47.599
Like respectfully, only Sabrina in my eyes can be chucking shots like that.
00:38:47.760 --> 00:38:50.000
Speaking of Sabrina, I want those fours.
00:38:50.159 --> 00:38:52.480
I want the fours so bad, and I want them in the New York Liberty.
00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:53.039
Me too.
00:38:53.039 --> 00:38:54.000
I was just about to say that.
00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:54.880
Those are sick.
00:38:54.880 --> 00:38:57.679
Oh, hell yeah, brother, with the Chinese written on it.
00:38:57.679 --> 00:38:58.320
Hell yeah.
00:38:58.320 --> 00:38:58.960
Yeah, brother.
00:38:58.960 --> 00:38:59.280
We need to.
00:38:59.280 --> 00:39:02.000
Yeah, because she dropped them in in China first.
00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:04.880
She did the Tai Chi.
00:39:04.880 --> 00:39:11.599
I'll tell you what, Sabrina, you better, you better not embarrass me this season because I'm not gonna hear the end of your Tai Chi session.
00:39:11.599 --> 00:39:12.400
She won't.
00:39:12.400 --> 00:39:13.119
She won't.
00:39:13.119 --> 00:39:14.880
And she and she hasn't.
00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:21.360
And I have been on her side this whole time while other people have been like, I don't know.
00:39:21.360 --> 00:39:22.239
She's not doing enough.
00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:25.760
Yeah, the original Liberty colorway.
00:39:26.000 --> 00:39:26.639
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:39:26.639 --> 00:39:27.760
The OG.
00:39:28.880 --> 00:39:29.840
I like these ones though.
00:39:29.840 --> 00:39:30.639
These are nice.
00:39:30.960 --> 00:39:36.719
I think I think the best Sabrinas have been the ones.
00:39:36.719 --> 00:39:38.079
The twos are okay.
00:39:38.079 --> 00:39:40.239
The threes look too similar to the twos.
00:39:40.239 --> 00:39:47.440
And so I almost got a pair of threes, and I'm happy I didn't settle because these are dropping in July.
00:39:47.760 --> 00:39:51.119
It's kind of crazy that she already has the fours out.
00:39:51.119 --> 00:39:51.760
You know what I mean?
00:39:51.760 --> 00:39:52.960
It feels like just yesterday.
00:39:53.199 --> 00:39:59.599
I mean, well, to be to be honest, like I think Nike is really fumbling, fumbling the bag here with these shoe releases.
00:39:59.599 --> 00:40:01.599
Like, we don't need a new fucking sneaker every year.
00:40:01.599 --> 00:40:02.800
Let it breathe a little.
00:40:02.800 --> 00:40:03.519
Yeah, let it breathe.
00:40:03.519 --> 00:40:04.079
Let it breathe.
00:40:04.079 --> 00:40:06.239
We got to girlies catch the sneaker once a year.
00:40:06.239 --> 00:40:07.519
We gotta get the shoes.
00:40:07.519 --> 00:40:11.679
Because then the older sneakers are no longer available once the new one drops.
00:40:11.679 --> 00:40:14.320
Like they'll put the threes on sale, but they don't make the ones anymore.
00:40:14.559 --> 00:40:15.760
They don't make the ones anymore.
00:40:15.920 --> 00:40:19.119
And the ones, in my opinion, are better than the twos and the threes.
00:40:19.119 --> 00:40:19.760
Yeah.
00:40:19.760 --> 00:40:29.920
And sure, they keep upgrading the shoe, but it's just like we really need a new sneaker every year because now it's making me not want to spend money because I think hopefully after this fourth one, she'll slow down.
00:40:29.920 --> 00:40:35.280
It's just like there's just like no strategy, and this is something that they do even with Kevin Durant and LeBron.
00:40:35.280 --> 00:40:37.679
Why does Kevin Durant have 18 fucking sneakers?
00:40:37.679 --> 00:40:38.719
That's that's too much.
00:40:38.719 --> 00:40:40.079
Retire it excessive.
00:40:40.079 --> 00:40:40.800
Enough.
00:40:40.800 --> 00:40:41.599
Too much.
00:40:41.599 --> 00:40:42.400
Retire.
00:40:42.400 --> 00:40:47.280
Wait, wait, wait, Brenda, wait.
00:40:47.599 --> 00:40:47.760
Sorry.
00:40:48.239 --> 00:40:49.440
My gain is low.
00:40:50.079 --> 00:41:13.920
I was saying it really goes um against their philosophy with sneakers, because remember we watched the um the Nike movie and when they were gonna release the Jordan 1s, they wanted to like show that like this was gonna be a big shoe, and they wanted to get Michael Jordan on board, and in the like back office they were talking about like doing multiple versions of the shoe.
00:41:13.920 --> 00:41:14.159
Yeah.
00:41:14.159 --> 00:41:24.320
But then they showed that like no Adidas is gonna show multiple versions of the shoe, and when you have multiple versions, then you make all of them un like unwantable.
00:41:24.320 --> 00:41:26.079
It makes it less.
00:41:26.880 --> 00:41:28.800
I was gonna say you devalue the other.
00:41:29.360 --> 00:41:38.639
Yeah, it's like it's like um you're diminishing like the the um like the exclusivity of it and the demand.
00:41:38.639 --> 00:41:40.559
Yes, supply and demand, you know?
00:41:40.559 --> 00:41:41.679
It's just not a good strategy.
00:41:41.679 --> 00:41:46.559
Yeah, it's just not a good strategy, and it sounds like they need a new strategist on their team.
00:41:46.559 --> 00:41:48.400
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
00:41:48.400 --> 00:41:49.519
Anyway.
00:41:49.519 --> 00:41:49.920
Yeah.
00:41:50.719 --> 00:41:52.719
Would you move to Portland to work at Nike?
00:41:53.280 --> 00:41:53.760
Would I?
00:41:53.760 --> 00:41:57.360
Unfortunately, I would.
00:41:59.599 --> 00:42:00.960
I don't think unfortunately.
00:42:01.199 --> 00:42:04.800
I think unfortunately because I have no desire to live in the Pacific Northwest.
00:42:05.360 --> 00:42:07.039
I just hear it's beautiful.
00:42:07.039 --> 00:42:08.960
I would be depressed though, I feel like the whole thing.
00:42:09.119 --> 00:42:10.639
Yeah, it's always a little wet, right?
00:42:10.800 --> 00:42:11.440
I would be depressed.
00:42:11.440 --> 00:42:12.960
Are there Hispanic people over there?
00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:14.559
Probably.
00:42:14.559 --> 00:42:16.079
Brenda's nodding her head.
00:42:16.400 --> 00:42:17.119
She's saying yes.
00:42:17.119 --> 00:42:20.400
Also, our friend Julia's from Oregon.
00:42:20.400 --> 00:42:21.039
I think.
00:42:21.039 --> 00:42:22.079
Julia.
00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:23.679
Sorry, I again I can't hear.
00:42:23.840 --> 00:42:25.440
I'm sorry, Bonnie can't hear Bonnie's.
00:42:26.960 --> 00:42:27.280
Yeah.
00:42:27.280 --> 00:42:27.920
Yeah, Julia.
00:42:27.920 --> 00:42:28.800
I know Jay.
00:42:29.039 --> 00:42:31.840
Gia I know Jay.
00:42:31.840 --> 00:42:35.519
Also, don't let this go to your head, Julia.
00:42:35.519 --> 00:42:36.159
Just relax.
00:42:36.159 --> 00:42:36.400
Okay.
00:42:36.559 --> 00:42:43.679
It's so funny because like when I first met Julia, I put her in as Jay in parentheses three by three in my phone.
00:42:43.679 --> 00:42:47.360
And now whenever I go to text her, I type in Julia and nothing comes up.
00:42:47.360 --> 00:42:48.320
But I'm like, wait, what?
00:42:48.480 --> 00:42:53.599
Oh no, the second I got her digits, I was just like, hey, like, I'm gonna need your full government for my contact book.
00:42:53.599 --> 00:42:59.440
I don't do nicknames because if I need to contact someone and I can't fucking find them, it really pisses me off.
00:42:59.519 --> 00:43:01.440
Yeah, no, I usually do first and last.
00:43:01.440 --> 00:43:05.840
Okay, so back to free agency just for a moment.
00:43:05.840 --> 00:43:11.119
The other thing I haven't heard any or the other team I haven't heard anything about is the Valkyries.
00:43:11.119 --> 00:43:12.480
Actually, yeah.
00:43:12.480 --> 00:43:14.079
Have they like cored anybody?
00:43:14.079 --> 00:43:16.639
Kayla, Kayla Thornton better be fucking cored.
00:43:16.800 --> 00:43:18.480
Oh no, she's they're not letting her go.
00:43:18.480 --> 00:43:19.519
Also, wait, hold on.
00:43:19.519 --> 00:43:23.679
Actually, as we're talking about the Valkyries, can we talk about the expansion draft?
00:43:23.679 --> 00:43:25.199
Because I don't think that we talked about it.
00:43:25.199 --> 00:43:26.800
That shit was so fucking ghetto.
00:43:26.800 --> 00:43:28.960
A 30-minute TV segment.
00:43:29.280 --> 00:43:34.000
And I'm thinking I'm literally thinking that it's gonna be like end with the first pick.
00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:34.480
Me too.
00:43:34.800 --> 00:43:38.079
2026 expansion draft.
00:43:38.400 --> 00:43:38.880
Good.
00:43:38.880 --> 00:43:41.920
Like Veronica Burton extended.
00:43:41.920 --> 00:43:44.800
QO qualifying qualifying offer extended.
00:43:44.800 --> 00:43:45.360
Right?
00:43:45.360 --> 00:43:46.880
Yeah, dang, yeah.
00:43:46.880 --> 00:43:47.440
So that's good.
00:43:47.599 --> 00:43:48.559
That was quick thinking.
00:43:49.519 --> 00:43:52.320
Um but yeah, this this meeting could have been an email.
00:43:52.320 --> 00:43:53.199
I mean, yeah.
00:43:53.360 --> 00:43:54.559
Yeah, no, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:43:54.559 --> 00:43:59.679
This meeting could have been an email because it was like it was like, yeah, and the Toronto Tempo.
00:43:59.679 --> 00:44:01.280
Marina Mabry.
00:44:01.280 --> 00:44:02.320
And then who did they say?
00:44:02.320 --> 00:44:03.440
Oh, Bridget Carlton?
00:44:03.599 --> 00:44:03.840
Yeah.
00:44:04.000 --> 00:44:05.760
Which was an interesting pick, in my opinion.
00:44:05.760 --> 00:44:06.159
Ida.
00:44:06.719 --> 00:44:08.480
I was kind of interested in that too.
00:44:08.480 --> 00:44:14.079
I mean, she is like when she's hot, she can Brenda got beef with Bridget Carlton.
00:44:14.639 --> 00:44:16.320
Brenda, do not fuck with Bridget Carlton.
00:44:16.320 --> 00:44:17.519
I want to hear.
00:44:17.519 --> 00:44:18.639
Hold on, Brenda.
00:44:18.639 --> 00:44:19.920
Tell the tell the pod.
00:44:20.559 --> 00:44:24.400
I just she got one too many blocks on Stewie from her liking.
00:44:24.400 --> 00:44:26.000
During the finals.
00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:30.239
Stewie, yeah, Stewie kind of like got heated up by that.
00:44:30.239 --> 00:44:36.079
So I I I guess I appreciate her for that, but I just she got too one too many blocks that I was like, no, get her out.
00:44:36.079 --> 00:44:36.400
Yeah.
00:44:36.400 --> 00:44:38.000
See, but she's never let it go.
00:44:38.320 --> 00:44:39.039
She's never let it go.
00:44:39.039 --> 00:44:40.239
She's literally never let it go.
00:44:40.320 --> 00:44:43.920
Every time Bridge Carlton comes, she's like, you know, a true fan, never lets that shit go.
00:44:43.920 --> 00:44:50.079
She's a player that they put on the court when they need to like um really like kind of get the momentum up again.
00:44:50.079 --> 00:44:53.440
And she is really good at that, so I'm like, no, stay down.
00:44:53.440 --> 00:44:53.679
Yeah.
00:44:53.679 --> 00:44:55.920
That's that's my role on the team too.
00:44:56.320 --> 00:44:57.039
Stay on the bench.
00:44:57.039 --> 00:44:59.280
But as a first pick, I was like, oh, okay.
00:44:59.280 --> 00:45:00.079
That's what I mean.
00:45:00.079 --> 00:45:00.480
Interesting.
00:45:00.719 --> 00:45:07.440
Well, I figured that like she's a sixth man, and I feel like they have to just Valkyrie's model.
00:45:07.679 --> 00:45:10.239
Although Marina Mabrie was definitely not the sixth man.
00:45:11.760 --> 00:45:20.320
Yeah, I think allegedly sh well Marina had requested the trade in the beginning of last season after Tosh ended up being sent to New York.
00:45:20.559 --> 00:45:21.199
Yeah.
00:45:22.480 --> 00:45:26.159
Allegedly, though, I saw this online and forgive me because I don't remember the source.
00:45:26.159 --> 00:45:34.559
You know, we all think we know what the fuck is going on in the W, but allegedly she did still want to leave Connecticut.
00:45:34.559 --> 00:45:35.679
But I don't know.
00:45:35.679 --> 00:45:40.159
I think Toronto could be a really good opportunity for her.
00:45:40.159 --> 00:45:41.440
She'll be under Sandy.
00:45:41.599 --> 00:45:42.960
I think she it's gonna be a great opportunity.
00:45:43.199 --> 00:45:44.239
It's a bigger market.
00:45:44.239 --> 00:45:48.159
Also, Connecticut not uh not even finna exist after this season.
00:45:48.639 --> 00:45:49.039
Yeah.
00:45:49.039 --> 00:45:50.320
Going to Houston.
00:45:50.320 --> 00:45:56.320
So um I did want to see her and Leah Edwards play together, though, especially after Unrivaled.
00:45:56.320 --> 00:45:56.800
Yeah.
00:45:56.800 --> 00:45:58.480
They had a magic connection.
00:45:58.800 --> 00:45:59.440
They did.
00:45:59.440 --> 00:46:02.960
But I wonder if they're like about to go into rebuild mode.
00:46:03.119 --> 00:46:03.440
Yeah.
00:46:03.599 --> 00:46:05.440
Just because they've got a lot of young talent.
00:46:05.440 --> 00:46:07.519
They have Sanaya.
00:46:07.519 --> 00:46:13.840
Yeah, they've got Sanaya, they've got Aaliyah, they've got Oh my gosh, her name is escaping me.
00:46:13.840 --> 00:46:14.800
She played at LSU.
00:46:14.800 --> 00:46:15.280
J.C.
00:46:15.280 --> 00:46:15.760
Sheldon?
00:46:15.760 --> 00:46:16.079
No.
00:46:16.239 --> 00:46:17.840
Oh, they do have JC Sheldon, too.
00:46:17.840 --> 00:46:19.280
She played at LSU.
00:46:19.280 --> 00:46:22.000
Uh Haley.
00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:22.559
No.
00:46:22.559 --> 00:46:24.400
Haley Van Lutha's in Chicago.
00:46:24.400 --> 00:46:25.840
She played for LSU.
00:46:25.840 --> 00:46:26.320
She's black.
00:46:26.320 --> 00:46:27.519
She's got big ass hair.
00:46:27.679 --> 00:46:28.639
Oh, oh, oh.
00:46:28.880 --> 00:46:29.519
Yes.
00:46:29.840 --> 00:46:32.559
Um starts with an M, I think.
00:46:32.559 --> 00:46:33.599
Oh my god.
00:46:33.599 --> 00:46:35.840
She's like crazy abs.
00:46:35.840 --> 00:46:37.440
No, she's a guard.
00:46:37.440 --> 00:46:38.320
Anisa Marvel.
00:46:38.320 --> 00:46:38.559
Yes.
00:46:38.559 --> 00:46:39.280
Anisa Marrow.
00:46:39.280 --> 00:46:39.760
Anisa.
00:46:39.760 --> 00:46:41.199
Good job.
00:46:41.199 --> 00:46:41.679
Let's go.
00:46:42.639 --> 00:46:43.199
Wow.
00:46:43.199 --> 00:46:45.039
Power of the gays.
00:46:45.039 --> 00:46:45.760
One of us would be.
00:46:46.159 --> 00:46:46.400
She is.
00:46:46.400 --> 00:46:47.440
She's a full.
00:46:47.440 --> 00:46:48.960
You say she's a taller, though.
00:46:50.400 --> 00:46:51.280
She's a fellow tall girl.
00:46:51.280 --> 00:46:51.519
I know.
00:46:51.679 --> 00:46:54.480
She's like kind of a short tall though, I feel like.
00:46:55.440 --> 00:46:56.719
She's a short tall.
00:46:57.679 --> 00:46:59.440
Well, you know what I mean.
00:46:59.760 --> 00:47:01.199
Is are you a short tall?
00:47:01.360 --> 00:47:03.360
I mean, you are kind of a I'm a tiny tall.
00:47:03.519 --> 00:47:04.159
You're a t oh.
00:47:04.159 --> 00:47:05.440
She's a tiny tall tall.
00:47:05.440 --> 00:47:07.519
She's not even a she's not even a short tall.
00:47:07.519 --> 00:47:08.639
She's a tiny tall.
00:47:09.039 --> 00:47:09.440
I love that.
00:47:09.440 --> 00:47:10.480
A tiny tall.
00:47:10.480 --> 00:47:11.599
She's 6'1.
00:47:11.599 --> 00:47:12.480
Yeah, okay.
00:47:12.480 --> 00:47:13.519
Okay, so like it from the couple.
00:47:13.760 --> 00:47:17.760
But yeah, like Sabrina's Sabrina, Sabrina is actually 5'11.
00:47:17.760 --> 00:47:18.079
Oh.
00:47:18.079 --> 00:47:18.559
Yeah.
00:47:18.559 --> 00:47:28.000
I only know this because well, no, I just only know this because, again, we were watching the game and I was like, Sabrina not that tall.
00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:28.800
And I looked it up.
00:47:28.880 --> 00:47:30.800
I was Sabrina tall as shit.
00:47:30.800 --> 00:47:32.800
She would swallow me up.
00:47:33.039 --> 00:47:33.440
Yeah.
00:47:33.440 --> 00:47:34.079
Dang.
00:47:34.320 --> 00:47:35.119
I could go hurt.
00:47:35.119 --> 00:47:35.599
She's beautiful.
00:47:35.760 --> 00:47:36.400
She's psycho.
00:47:36.400 --> 00:47:37.519
Psych.
00:47:37.760 --> 00:47:38.079
Psyche.
00:47:38.079 --> 00:47:38.880
Card for it.
00:47:38.880 --> 00:47:40.800
Yeah, I was gonna say, she's not a sinner.
00:47:40.800 --> 00:47:44.320
I think that pretty much covers free agency.
00:47:44.320 --> 00:47:46.800
I think we can talk about what we know as of right now.
00:47:46.960 --> 00:47:49.840
Yes, that is what we know as of right now because shit is breaking every five seconds.
00:47:49.840 --> 00:47:53.519
In fact, our producers are scrolling the internet right now as we speed.
00:47:53.519 --> 00:47:55.039
It's crazy, it's crazy, it's crazy.
00:47:55.039 --> 00:47:56.079
It is crazy.
00:47:56.079 --> 00:48:10.480
And first, before I go through like the projections and what the latest say as of you know the March Madness tournament, whatever, I do want to talk about the order of the draft picks as of right now, because anything is possible.
00:48:10.480 --> 00:48:31.360
Dallas has the first pick, Minnesota has the second pick, Seattle has the third, Washington four, Chicago five, Toronto six, Portland seven, Golden State eight, Washington again at number nine, and then Indiana has the tenth.
00:48:31.360 --> 00:48:37.119
So the mock draft has been updated since the March Madness tournament.
00:48:37.119 --> 00:48:48.480
And I have some really interesting information about all of the players that are projected to go with each pick, including their height, age, position, and then who their pro um comparison is.
00:48:48.480 --> 00:48:56.800
So shockingly, Awa Fam, which babe, I'm sorry if I'm saying your name right or wrong.
00:48:56.800 --> 00:48:58.480
Sorry, I'm sorry if I'm saying it wrong.
00:48:58.480 --> 00:49:03.519
But she's from Spain, she plays for Valencia, she is 6'4, only 19 years old.
00:49:03.679 --> 00:49:04.000
Yeah.
00:49:04.400 --> 00:49:10.000
She is kind of like a power forward center, and her pro comparison is Neka Ogumake.
00:49:10.000 --> 00:49:12.880
That's like crazy.
00:49:12.880 --> 00:49:22.960
And I've been reading a lot of stuff about her and saying that while she's not she's not at the top of her game yet, but she is being considered as a diamond in the rough.
00:49:23.119 --> 00:49:23.519
Yeah.
00:49:23.519 --> 00:49:25.119
Like Aladdin.
00:49:25.119 --> 00:49:29.840
I did a bit of uh a deep dive on her just because I was like, who is she?
00:49:29.840 --> 00:49:33.519
Um I can give you some some quick hits.
00:49:33.519 --> 00:49:34.800
Yeah, tell me everything right now.
00:49:35.119 --> 00:49:35.679
Tell me everything.
00:49:35.840 --> 00:49:39.679
Um, like you said, she's 6'4, but with a 6'8 wingspan.
00:49:39.679 --> 00:49:41.199
She's 19.
00:49:41.199 --> 00:49:46.960
She joined uh the Valencia basketball club at 15, becoming the youngest player to be.
00:49:48.320 --> 00:49:48.800
They don't care.
00:49:48.800 --> 00:49:50.800
They'd be having 13-year-olds on the team.
00:49:50.880 --> 00:49:51.840
Like Yeah, I know.
00:49:51.840 --> 00:49:53.360
She was really, really young.
00:49:53.360 --> 00:49:58.320
In 2024, she became the youngest MVP of Eurobasket the tournament.
00:49:58.320 --> 00:49:58.800
Mm-hmm.
00:49:59.280 --> 00:50:00.320
She was 17.
00:50:00.559 --> 00:50:00.880
Yep.
00:50:00.880 --> 00:50:01.119
Right?
00:50:01.119 --> 00:50:02.159
Two years ago, yeah.
00:50:02.159 --> 00:50:02.719
Wow.
00:50:02.719 --> 00:50:12.880
And key things that she has in her bag that I think like the all the recruits are looking at is that she's like this incredible passer, um, especially from the post.
00:50:12.880 --> 00:50:15.440
Like she throws like skip passes from the post.
00:50:15.440 --> 00:50:22.719
Um, and she has like all these she reads the court really well, reads the offense really well.
00:50:22.719 --> 00:50:27.760
Um, and you can see why that would like excite a coach and want to work with and develop her.
00:50:27.760 --> 00:50:33.519
She's a killer in the paint, she does like a uh joke joke, is that how I say it?
00:50:33.519 --> 00:50:35.280
Style spin cycle.
00:50:35.280 --> 00:50:37.760
Um, and can she can shoot the three.
00:50:37.760 --> 00:50:46.159
So her three-point percentage is 30.8, which you know isn't like crazy, but it rose 12.5% over the last year.
00:50:46.800 --> 00:50:47.599
Decent first center.
00:50:47.599 --> 00:50:48.000
That's the thing.
00:50:48.000 --> 00:50:50.239
She's young, she's a diamond in the road, she can be molded.
00:50:50.480 --> 00:50:50.960
Exactly.
00:50:50.960 --> 00:50:54.559
Apparently, things that she needs to work on is that she's not the best screener.
00:50:54.559 --> 00:50:56.159
She gets caught moving a lot.
00:50:56.159 --> 00:50:57.760
Um and she's awesome.
00:50:57.760 --> 00:50:58.559
Yeah.
00:50:58.559 --> 00:50:59.599
Shut up.
00:50:59.599 --> 00:51:01.119
Um shut out.
00:51:01.119 --> 00:51:06.719
She's not super confident with her left hand, which like um as anybody if you're on the left.
00:51:06.719 --> 00:51:09.280
I feel like if you're a post, you gotta be able to shoot with both.
00:51:09.280 --> 00:51:14.320
You know, like if you're down there on the left side, you can't, like, sometimes you can't spin out of it.
00:51:14.320 --> 00:51:18.639
And this was a weird one, but people were talking about how she has small hands.
00:51:18.639 --> 00:51:19.440
Lol.
00:51:19.440 --> 00:51:23.760
Um, and this causes her to be like inconsistent when catching the ball.
00:51:24.000 --> 00:51:33.360
I'm gonna be honest, if I really committed and tried to go pro, they would definitely say that about me too, and that would really hurt my feelings because what the fuck am I supposed to do about that?
00:51:33.360 --> 00:51:39.440
I know, you can't like get extend my fingers to be like the men and get surgery to extend the length of my fingers.
00:51:39.840 --> 00:51:40.800
Yeah, yeah.
00:51:40.800 --> 00:51:47.280
Um, she's currently playing as center at on Valencia, but they do see her as like a dynamic power forward.
00:51:47.519 --> 00:51:49.440
Um maybe like Ezy.
00:51:49.440 --> 00:51:50.960
She might be like Ezzy.
00:51:51.199 --> 00:51:52.480
I can see her being like Ezzy.
00:51:52.480 --> 00:51:59.039
And she did an interview with Slam magazine, and this is what she said about the WNBA.
00:51:59.039 --> 00:52:01.119
She said, It was always my dream.
00:52:01.119 --> 00:52:03.039
If I'm there, I will keep improving.
00:52:03.039 --> 00:52:08.719
It's gonna be nice for me seeing the best players in the world, seeing what they're doing each day, how they approach the game, and competing.
00:52:08.719 --> 00:52:10.159
I know.
00:52:10.159 --> 00:52:11.599
I feel like she's got like such a good thing.
00:52:11.760 --> 00:52:13.760
She's like, I just want to I just wanna be like them.
00:52:14.000 --> 00:52:19.920
I want to grow and so I'm kind of excited, knew nothing about her until yeah, like a month ago.
00:52:20.239 --> 00:52:20.639
Me either.
00:52:20.639 --> 00:52:22.159
Are we about to start watching your own?
00:52:22.239 --> 00:52:24.400
I know, I was like, dude, I gotta tune in.
00:52:24.800 --> 00:52:27.679
Yeah, she honestly, shout out to her.
00:52:27.920 --> 00:52:29.679
She yeah, like she's really a good passer.
00:52:29.679 --> 00:52:35.119
Everyone was talking about how she can read the read the um offense really well.
00:52:35.599 --> 00:52:45.039
So she was projected to be the first pick for Dallas, which is interesting because I think we talked about this last episode where AZ was projected to be the number one pick.
00:52:45.039 --> 00:52:45.920
Yeah.
00:52:45.920 --> 00:52:54.960
And I'm just so curious if Dallas will take fam over AZ.
00:52:54.960 --> 00:52:56.400
Just because I don't know.
00:52:57.039 --> 00:53:02.159
I just feel like Dallas needs height.
00:53:02.639 --> 00:53:18.719
I think I think Dallas does need height, but I'm also just like, if we have to play the politics game right now, are they gonna draft AZ to keep Paige happy, but also not just to keep Paige happy because Azer AZ is also a great player in her own right?
00:53:18.719 --> 00:53:27.760
But is that what they need right now, especially after finding out that they are signing Arike to another like three-year deal?
00:53:27.760 --> 00:53:35.519
Also, if you think about it, I mean, and you could disagree with me, because I'm not sure that I 100% believe what I'm about to say.
00:53:35.519 --> 00:53:36.400
So say it.
00:53:36.400 --> 00:53:38.400
Can AZ create her own shot?
00:53:38.400 --> 00:53:39.760
Or is she a catch and shoot?
00:53:39.760 --> 00:53:47.519
I feel like she's more of a shooting guard, but but like, but like, but like, for example, Arique could catch and shoot, but Arique has handles.
00:53:47.519 --> 00:53:51.519
Arique can get herself open, Arique can create the shot for herself.
00:53:51.519 --> 00:53:53.440
Do we know if Aisy can do that?
00:53:53.440 --> 00:53:57.360
Or is she just like an off-the-screen shooter?
00:53:58.000 --> 00:53:59.440
I'm not saying you're wrong.
00:53:59.599 --> 00:54:00.320
I mean, I don't know.
00:54:00.320 --> 00:54:01.360
I don't know if I'm right.
00:54:01.519 --> 00:54:02.079
Yeah.
00:54:02.079 --> 00:54:08.559
But I do think like I don't know, like, would she even play in Dallas?
00:54:08.559 --> 00:54:09.599
You know what I mean?
00:54:09.599 --> 00:54:11.280
Like, would she get playing time?
00:54:11.280 --> 00:54:13.840
Like, on this projected, you think?
00:54:14.159 --> 00:54:21.599
I think I think she would I think she would get yeah, because she's she's still like in this new draft projection.
00:54:21.599 --> 00:54:23.519
She went from one to three, I think.
00:54:23.519 --> 00:54:24.000
Yeah.
00:54:24.000 --> 00:54:27.679
And that's I mean, that's still pretty high, especially you think about so okay.
00:54:27.679 --> 00:54:29.599
But she could be a star in Seattle.
00:54:29.599 --> 00:54:36.079
She could be a star in Seattle because right now, so with Minnesota, the second pick is projected that they'll take Olivia Miles, which will be interesting.
00:54:36.079 --> 00:54:38.239
She's 5'10, 23 guard.
00:54:38.239 --> 00:54:40.880
She's been compared to Lindsay Whalen.
00:54:40.880 --> 00:54:49.920
I I guess I don't know enough about who's left in Minnesota because we're still kind of waiting for these deals to roll out.
00:54:49.920 --> 00:54:51.360
They'll definitely keep Fee.
00:54:51.360 --> 00:54:53.440
It sounds like they'll keep Courtney.
00:54:53.440 --> 00:54:55.760
Courtney is their point guard right now.
00:54:55.760 --> 00:54:59.360
I could see them taking Olivia and having her learn from Courtney too.
00:54:59.599 --> 00:55:00.239
Yeah.
00:55:00.239 --> 00:55:01.599
But I could see them all.
00:55:01.599 --> 00:55:03.840
You know what I mean?
00:55:04.000 --> 00:55:05.760
They're not gonna keep Alana Smith.
00:55:05.760 --> 00:55:07.519
Because she's already spoken for.
00:55:07.519 --> 00:55:10.320
There are actually rumors that she is in conversations with New York, you guys.
00:55:10.320 --> 00:55:11.280
We're not Delulu.
00:55:11.360 --> 00:55:12.079
We're not Delulu.
00:55:12.079 --> 00:55:12.639
Only a little.
00:55:13.519 --> 00:55:14.320
She called it home.
00:55:14.639 --> 00:55:15.440
She called it home.
00:55:15.440 --> 00:55:17.440
Alana Smith called New York home?
00:55:17.840 --> 00:55:18.159
Am I?
00:55:18.480 --> 00:55:19.360
No, that's the other rumor.
00:55:19.360 --> 00:55:21.119
Beck Allen.
00:55:22.480 --> 00:55:23.039
Rumors.
00:55:23.039 --> 00:55:26.320
She, I mean, she might she will call it home soon.
00:55:27.599 --> 00:55:28.480
Oh, yeah, Alana.
00:55:28.480 --> 00:55:29.039
Oh yeah.
00:55:29.039 --> 00:55:30.239
And it's just like, hold on.
00:55:30.239 --> 00:55:34.960
Like, I know we want our Aussie swag back, but I don't know if it needs to come through Rebecca Allen, respectfully.
00:55:34.960 --> 00:55:35.519
Respectfully.
00:55:35.519 --> 00:55:37.119
I already have my eyes set on one.
00:55:37.119 --> 00:55:38.159
Yeah, sorry, girl.
00:55:38.159 --> 00:55:40.000
On one, Alana Smith.
00:55:40.000 --> 00:55:45.440
So I don't even know where this came from, this desire to have Alana Smith on the team.
00:55:45.440 --> 00:55:47.760
It just like I feel like you said it.
00:55:47.760 --> 00:55:52.719
Okay, yeah, Eliza said it, and then when I started to think about it, I was just like, wait a minute.
00:55:52.960 --> 00:55:54.559
I really feel like she would do well on our team.
00:55:54.559 --> 00:55:55.599
But anyway, back to Minnesota.
00:55:55.840 --> 00:55:58.000
Oh my god, can you imagine rolling up the sorry?
00:55:58.000 --> 00:55:59.760
Sorry, rolling us up at Barclays.
00:55:59.760 --> 00:56:01.440
It's exciting.
00:56:01.440 --> 00:56:02.480
It's exciting.
00:56:02.480 --> 00:56:04.079
Okay, anyway, anyway.
00:56:04.079 --> 00:56:09.199
So Minnesota is projected to take Olivia Miles at the with the second pick.
00:56:09.199 --> 00:56:13.280
Seattle is projected currently to take AZ Fudd at the three.
00:56:13.280 --> 00:56:15.039
What could also happen?
00:56:15.039 --> 00:56:20.800
What could also happen is there could be trades day of the draft.
00:56:20.800 --> 00:56:21.679
That happens.
00:56:21.679 --> 00:56:22.079
True.
00:56:22.079 --> 00:56:25.760
I don't know that I don't know that that would happen, but I am I'm like dying.
00:56:25.760 --> 00:56:26.880
I'm I mean not dying.
00:56:26.880 --> 00:56:29.039
It's like in two days, maybe this draft.
00:56:29.039 --> 00:56:31.199
But like I just want to see where AZ's gonna go.
00:56:31.199 --> 00:56:31.599
I know.
00:56:31.599 --> 00:56:33.119
Because I love tea.
00:56:33.119 --> 00:56:34.559
I love tea.
00:56:34.559 --> 00:56:36.639
And by tea I mean the relationship tea.
00:56:36.639 --> 00:56:37.679
I'm just like, what's going on?
00:56:37.760 --> 00:56:38.480
What's happening?
00:56:38.480 --> 00:56:39.440
Anyway.
00:56:39.440 --> 00:56:41.760
No, I'm excited to see where she goes.
00:56:41.760 --> 00:56:44.559
I'm excited to see where they all all these go.
00:56:44.960 --> 00:56:50.639
Lauren Betts is is projected to go to Washington, which I think could be so interesting because you've got Lauren Betts.
00:56:50.639 --> 00:56:52.480
Is Shakira Austin staying there?
00:56:52.480 --> 00:56:53.760
Like, who fucking knows?
00:56:53.760 --> 00:56:55.760
And Kiki Irifan.
00:56:55.760 --> 00:56:56.960
Oh my god, that's right.
00:56:56.960 --> 00:56:57.280
Yeah.
00:56:57.280 --> 00:56:58.480
Steph Dawson.
00:56:58.480 --> 00:56:59.679
And Steph Dawson.
00:56:59.679 --> 00:57:00.960
That's a lot of bigs, though.
00:57:01.199 --> 00:57:02.239
That is a lot of bigs.
00:57:02.559 --> 00:57:04.159
They don't need Lauren Betts.
00:57:04.320 --> 00:57:06.559
But she's Seattle needs Lauren Betts.
00:57:06.559 --> 00:57:07.840
Fuck.
00:57:07.840 --> 00:57:10.239
Seattle needs a team.
00:57:10.239 --> 00:57:11.679
Yeah, Seattle.
00:57:11.679 --> 00:57:13.920
Do they still need a coach?
00:57:13.920 --> 00:57:14.719
No.
00:57:14.719 --> 00:57:16.159
They fired their coach too.
00:57:16.159 --> 00:57:17.440
I think they have a coach.
00:57:17.440 --> 00:57:20.159
They must at this point.
00:57:20.159 --> 00:57:21.119
God damn.
00:57:21.119 --> 00:57:22.639
I think they have a coach.
00:57:23.039 --> 00:57:23.679
Okay, okay, okay.
00:57:23.679 --> 00:57:25.599
Kiki Rice, UCLA.
00:57:25.599 --> 00:57:26.079
Yep.
00:57:26.079 --> 00:57:27.599
Been compared to Tosh?
00:57:27.599 --> 00:57:27.920
Okay.
00:57:27.920 --> 00:57:29.519
Projected for her to go to Chicago.
00:57:29.519 --> 00:57:30.400
Oh my gosh.
00:57:30.400 --> 00:57:31.199
I'm sorry, girl.
00:57:31.199 --> 00:57:31.840
I'm sorry.
00:57:31.840 --> 00:57:32.960
Because I'm just like, I know.
00:57:32.960 --> 00:57:34.079
I'm thinking about this.
00:57:34.079 --> 00:57:39.599
This is why I also feel like it's so dumb to send Rakia to Chicago because they have Haley Van Lith.
00:57:39.599 --> 00:57:45.760
They they offered like a core qualifying contract to Ariel Atkins, another guard.
00:57:45.760 --> 00:57:53.760
If they take Kiki Rice in the draft, that is another guard, and then add Rakia to that, another guard.
00:57:53.760 --> 00:57:55.119
Why are you why do you need four guards?
00:57:55.119 --> 00:57:56.000
You don't need four guards.
00:57:56.159 --> 00:57:57.679
Especially now that they lost their big.
00:57:57.679 --> 00:57:58.719
Well, they have Camilla.
00:57:58.960 --> 00:58:01.039
They got Camilla, but who else they got?
00:58:01.280 --> 00:58:03.840
I think they still got they still got what's her name?
00:58:03.840 --> 00:58:06.079
Oh, Elizabeth Williams.
00:58:06.079 --> 00:58:06.800
Williams.
00:58:07.039 --> 00:58:08.079
I wasn't even talking about her.
00:58:08.079 --> 00:58:09.440
Rachel, Rachel Banham.
00:58:09.440 --> 00:58:10.800
Yeah, but she's not a guard.
00:58:10.800 --> 00:58:11.920
She's a guard too, though, isn't she?
00:58:11.920 --> 00:58:12.400
She's a guard.
00:58:12.400 --> 00:58:13.840
How many fucking cars they got?
00:58:13.840 --> 00:58:17.440
They're drunk driving in Chicago.
00:58:17.840 --> 00:58:18.880
Somebody take their keys.
00:58:18.880 --> 00:58:19.840
Somebody take the keys.
00:58:20.639 --> 00:58:22.000
Do you just take the wheel, please?
00:58:22.000 --> 00:58:22.800
No, literally.
00:58:22.800 --> 00:58:26.320
Toronto?
00:58:26.320 --> 00:58:28.800
You just say Holly.
00:58:28.800 --> 00:58:32.239
Holly, save them.
00:58:32.800 --> 00:58:33.679
Holly, take the wheel.
00:58:33.679 --> 00:58:34.880
Holly, you need to step in.
00:58:35.199 --> 00:58:36.800
You need to run over there.
00:58:36.800 --> 00:58:37.840
Okay.
00:58:37.840 --> 00:58:40.320
Toronto is projected to take Flager.
00:58:40.320 --> 00:58:41.840
Which I think that would be fun.
00:58:41.840 --> 00:58:43.119
I think that would be fun.
00:58:43.119 --> 00:58:44.480
I'm gonna be honest with you though.
00:58:44.559 --> 00:58:47.599
I don't think we think they compared her to Bridget Carleton.
00:58:47.840 --> 00:58:53.760
I agree, and I don't and I don't think that because she's she could play shooting guard or small forward.
00:58:53.760 --> 00:58:56.639
I just I don't know.
00:58:56.639 --> 00:59:00.559
I and I say this respectfully, I don't think Flager is a lottery pick.
00:59:00.559 --> 00:59:01.760
That's just my opinion.
00:59:01.840 --> 00:59:03.679
I feel like you pick my lottery pick.
00:59:03.840 --> 00:59:04.639
Like a top ten.
00:59:04.639 --> 00:59:05.360
Oh.
00:59:05.360 --> 00:59:07.840
Just because Yeah.
00:59:07.840 --> 00:59:08.880
I can see that.
00:59:08.880 --> 00:59:18.800
I feel like what she's a good player, but what makes her, in my opinion, a lottery pick is the the brand name.
00:59:18.800 --> 00:59:20.480
You know what I mean?
00:59:20.480 --> 00:59:20.880
Yeah.
00:59:20.880 --> 00:59:35.760
Because she's like a pretty popular name outside of women's basket, you know, so then uh not really anything else notable to call out except Gabriela Jaquez.
00:59:35.760 --> 00:59:37.039
Yeah, who I like her.
00:59:37.039 --> 00:59:38.960
Yeah, she played for UCLA.
00:59:38.960 --> 00:59:43.119
She honestly, I don't want to say she carried, but she carried.
00:59:43.119 --> 00:59:43.920
She carried.
00:59:43.920 --> 00:59:49.119
Uh and so she's projected to go to Indiana, which I hate for her, also.
00:59:49.119 --> 00:59:52.159
She needed to go somewhere where there's other Hispanics.
00:59:52.800 --> 00:59:54.159
Where is she gonna fit there?
00:59:54.159 --> 00:59:56.239
I feel like she won't play at Indiana.
00:59:56.400 --> 00:59:57.039
No, probably not.
00:59:57.119 --> 00:59:57.679
But that's the thing.
00:59:57.760 --> 01:00:02.719
This is all projections, like we don't actually know who's worked out with who, who's had conversations with who.
01:00:02.719 --> 01:00:09.599
Oh, and Raven Johnson of South Carolina is projected to go to Washington, which could be really fun.
01:00:09.840 --> 01:00:10.320
Yeah.
01:00:10.559 --> 01:00:11.760
That could be really fun.
01:00:12.000 --> 01:00:13.679
That could be a good, good move for her.
01:00:13.840 --> 01:00:15.519
Yeah, she's an incredible defender.
01:00:15.519 --> 01:00:17.280
She improved her three-point shooting attack.
01:00:17.280 --> 01:00:18.639
Yeah.
01:00:18.639 --> 01:00:27.840
So Medina O'Cott, she also was uh South Carolina, but she interestingly only played for like two years in college.
01:00:27.840 --> 01:00:31.599
She came from abroad, but it was because her visa was like kind of in limbo.
01:00:31.679 --> 01:00:31.920
Oh, okay.
01:00:32.159 --> 01:00:40.400
And she tried to like renew her eligibility since she only, I think, played for two years, and NCAA said, nah, because you wasted those.
01:00:40.400 --> 01:00:47.599
She she played two years, I think, abroad, and they're saying that that counted as her college eligibility, which is bullshit.
01:00:47.599 --> 01:00:48.880
Interesting.
01:00:48.880 --> 01:00:50.559
So whatever.
01:00:50.559 --> 01:00:54.639
That's yeah, that's kind of Lonnie White.
01:00:54.639 --> 01:00:55.840
I've never heard of.
01:00:55.840 --> 01:01:01.519
Me either, but also like how much how much attention do you give to Utah?
01:01:02.239 --> 01:01:03.440
Not a lot, respectfully.
01:01:03.440 --> 01:01:06.079
But I'm happy that she's in the draft.
01:01:06.079 --> 01:01:14.320
There's actually like there's four UCLA seniors who are projected to get drafted.
01:01:14.320 --> 01:01:16.960
I think I heard that there was gonna be six.
01:01:17.840 --> 01:01:23.360
Well, yeah, and what I only have here is just like first and like start of the second.
01:01:23.360 --> 01:01:23.760
Yeah.
01:01:23.760 --> 01:01:27.119
I kind of I stopped at 15 because I was like, okay, we can't go through everything.
01:01:27.360 --> 01:01:28.079
Right, right, right, right.
01:01:28.239 --> 01:01:29.679
Just the big just the biggies.
01:01:30.400 --> 01:01:31.679
It's pretty cool for them.
01:01:31.679 --> 01:01:32.880
I mean, not cool.
01:01:32.880 --> 01:01:38.800
It's cool that they won, but then not cool because then they lost all their seniors and they're gonna have to rebuild their team.
01:01:39.119 --> 01:01:40.239
Yeah, agree.
01:01:41.199 --> 01:01:41.519
Okay.
01:01:41.519 --> 01:01:43.599
Well, that's the draft.
01:01:43.599 --> 01:01:46.480
We'll find out more in just three days' time.
01:01:46.480 --> 01:01:47.280
On Monday.
01:01:47.280 --> 01:01:48.400
I'm really excited.
01:01:48.719 --> 01:01:49.119
Me too.
01:01:49.119 --> 01:01:50.480
Have you ever been to the draft?
01:01:50.719 --> 01:01:52.079
No, I haven't.
01:01:52.400 --> 01:01:53.840
I went one year.
01:01:53.840 --> 01:01:54.800
Did you like it?
01:01:54.800 --> 01:01:55.840
It was really fun.
01:01:56.079 --> 01:01:58.239
I yeah, I just I guess I'm just curious.
01:01:58.480 --> 01:01:59.519
And then it got expensive, yeah.
01:01:59.599 --> 01:02:00.400
Oh, it got expensive.
01:02:00.400 --> 01:02:09.679
I just I'm curious about what the fan experience is like and how it differs from like watching on TV.
01:02:09.679 --> 01:02:12.480
Yeah, is it just that you're sharing space with these people?
01:02:12.480 --> 01:02:13.119
Yeah.
01:02:13.119 --> 01:02:15.360
I mean, it's like cool, but yeah.
01:02:15.519 --> 01:02:20.960
I mean, I think the coolest thing that happened when we were there is that Kate Martin got drafted from the crowd.
01:02:21.039 --> 01:02:21.280
Yeah.
01:02:21.519 --> 01:02:22.079
That was fun.
01:02:22.320 --> 01:02:22.880
That was pretty cool.
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But obviously that doesn't happen every time.
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Um yeah, I think like uh there wasn't really like any experience besides just kind of like watching it and being there.
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Yeah.
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And then like after the the first round goes, it's like real, real quick.
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And they like showed up on a screen.
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Right, because it's all the pomp and circumstance for the first round, which also is what I expected for the expansion draft.
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What the fuck?
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No.
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At that point, don't even put that shit on TV.
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Literally, just send me a few.
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Send me an email.
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Like that was crazy.
01:02:57.519 --> 01:02:59.119
No, that was that was crazy.
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Yeah, we got like a even tune into this, and then to hear other people's opinions.
01:03:03.119 --> 01:03:06.320
As soon as I seen the shit flash on the TV, I said, okay, so we could change this?
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Yeah.
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But also, I think we also put Grays on.
01:03:12.480 --> 01:03:15.840
Listen, the season is out, and so every week a new episode drops.
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Have you um watched The Pit?
01:03:18.480 --> 01:03:20.000
Brenda watches The Pit.
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Is it similar to Grace?
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Um, but kind of.
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I feel like I tried to watch the first episode and I was like, this is too much.
01:03:32.239 --> 01:03:43.039
It's similar in that you are in the hospital with them and you like see the different things that come into the hospital, but then you get the little side plots of like the little love stories.
01:03:43.360 --> 01:03:43.760
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Okay, cool.
01:03:47.920 --> 01:03:50.400
Well, yeah.
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So more to come, more crazy free agencies shiz.
01:03:54.480 --> 01:03:56.960
That's that on that.
01:03:56.960 --> 01:03:59.840
But that was episode 11.
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Thanks, Bonnie, because I didn't remember.
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Lucky number 11.
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Number 11.
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Do we have an 11 on our team?
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Alana Smith.
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I think number eight.
01:04:10.960 --> 01:04:12.800
I think she's gonna go unless we have number eight.
01:04:12.800 --> 01:04:15.360
Wait, Niara was number eight, I think it should have been.
01:04:15.519 --> 01:04:16.480
Oh, that is sad.
01:04:16.480 --> 01:04:17.519
Maybe is that a sad one?
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Goodbye, Niara.
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We lost a number eight and we gained a number eight.
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Rip.
01:04:22.800 --> 01:04:24.159
Okay, so you're ready to hear first.
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Alana Smith to the New York Liberty.
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Boom, chakalaka.
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Period.
01:04:29.920 --> 01:04:32.320
Okay, well, like I said, that was episode what?
01:04:32.719 --> 01:04:36.000
Eleven of Chasing the W.