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Fever Reaction with John & Michelle: Valkyries 80, Fever 61 (Podcast No. 320.3) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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  [SPEAKER_03]: What you are listening to now is the Central Indiana Sports Report podcast number, three hundred and twenty point.
• 0:08
  [SPEAKER_03]: John Garmin's and Michelle Garmin's reaction to the fevers eighty to sixty one loss to the boundaries at home on Wednesday.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You're listening to the central Indiana Sports Report with your host, Greg Menkels.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Welcome, Peverpan, to the Central Indiana Sports Report, following an ugly, ugly, eighty to sixty-one win against the Golden State Valkyries, a team that John keeps placing throughout the year as playing well above their expectations and
• 0:47
  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm joined by John Robertson and Michelle Garman for their reaction to one of the ugliest losses of the year.
• 0:55
  [SPEAKER_03]: And we talked about it this morning when we were talking about the all star rosters, a podcast, it'll be out tomorrow.
• 1:02
  [SPEAKER_03]: Sorry, it will be out Thursday.
• 1:06
  [SPEAKER_03]: Sometimes the first game back, things just don't go right.
• 1:11
  [SPEAKER_03]: And that's what happened today, right, John.
• 1:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think Steph was playing with the line up a little bit, because you know, Miles will try some stuff.
• 1:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: And they were trying to get their fit together.
• 1:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I also, I really, you got to give a lot of credit to Golden State's defense.
• 1:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: They just played incredibly strong defense, making it hard for the fever to shoot today.
• 1:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: So you combine those two factors.
• 1:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: The fever not being completely comfortable and back in rhythm with Caitlin back.
• 1:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then Golden State's defense just shut them down.
• 1:43
  [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know that the fever really ever connective like they, I know maybe early in the game, but outside of that, not really.
• 1:51
  [SPEAKER_04]: I will say this.
• 1:53
  [SPEAKER_04]: I thought ten, tensly probably had the best performance of all tips and yes, sorry.
• 2:02
  [SPEAKER_04]: Had the best performance of all of the of anybody on the fever, right?
• 2:05
  [SPEAKER_04]: I was really impressed with her.
• 2:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I was really happy to see she played twenty minutes and had ten points and six rebounds.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So she's getting confident in her time on the court.
• 2:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's really good to see because we're going to need her to be strong.
• 2:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: Don't this was back?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Don't just had four minutes and four points in her eight minutes.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So I knew they weren't going to play Demaris very much because she played every single minute of the championship game for the for the people challenge she was in.
• 2:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: They got silver.
• 2:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I knew her minutes would be restricted by us, but yes, I agree with you.
• 2:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: One hundred percent of the tips to have a good showing is really good to see what she brought to the court today.
• 2:45
  [SPEAKER_04]: Well, I really think that her development through all of this has been a it's been a good thing because it just you can see her confidence growing.
• 2:54
  [SPEAKER_03]: They could really use one more rotation keys.
• 2:59
  [SPEAKER_04]: Yes.
• 2:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If you look at the starting lineup, they took Lexi out of the starting lineup and put our kept RE in.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So basically, Caitlin just replaced Lexi in the starting lineup today.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So they had Caitlin play in the three and they had both our area and Kelsey play in basically point one to point.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So, I really do think that the Stephanie's just playing with various rotations, playing with the lineups to see what's working and what doesn't.
• 3:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like, I'm not super stressed.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Like it was an ugly loss.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And the team shot the worst they've shot all year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: As a team, they shot under thirty two percent from the field.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: You know, I saw somebody say, well, Stephanie doesn't know how to use Caitlyn Clark right and I you know what I think I think putting her at the three today was not necessarily a bad thing.
• 3:52
  [SPEAKER_04]: You're not looking at her then have to drive or make a lot of different cuts when you're at the point and they're double teaming you people understand she's coming off a growing injury and if you've not had one plus with that left quad.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: your exclusiveness is not there, right?
• 4:08
  [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, it's like anything else, plus she's missed enough that, you know, she's just going to have to get a little bit of that back in basketball condition.
• 4:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I don't think there's anything wrong with using this time before the all-star break to play around and see what works and what doesn't work.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Why don't either?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So people, if people shouldn't be overreacting, they are, but, you know, they shouldn't be.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And let's be honest, Golden State's plan really well.
• 4:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: Golden State's plan incredibly well.
• 4:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: They were down by ten in the first quarter and then they came back and went on like a fifteen to zero run before, before Vary and scored again.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I just think Golden State's a strong defensive team.
• 4:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm really sad that we let Timmy get away.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Timmy is one of my favorite WMBA players.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I just absolutely love her and she had a great game.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Thornton looks great.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Thornton looked really good on which she's on Katelyn's all-star team.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So that's cool.
• 5:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like yeah, it was a really bad loss.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Lexi shot terrible.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Lexi was awful today and you know I'm the biggest Lexi fan in the world.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But like today was not her day.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: She missed.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Let's see.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: She was really bad from three.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: She was one from four for three and two for seven overall.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Not a good day for Lexi.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So I'm gonna leave Boston.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: six point six three bounds not going to get the.
• 5:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, she's two for me.
• 5:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: She was, yeah, minus twenty five on the plus minus.
• 5:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, they all just looked off like a Lea missed a couple of inside layups.
• 5:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: He wouldn't normally see Lexi missed a Lexi airball like a tent footer.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, what's going on?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Like, you know, and you guys, you know, I'm not ripping on them too, aren't I?
• 5:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just saying that's out of character for them.
• 5:53
  [SPEAKER_04]: We know.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: I think Lexi may be hurt.
• 5:56
  [SPEAKER_04]: I or have some kind of nagging injury.
• 5:59
  [SPEAKER_04]: the way her her shooting was today, just the way they put her in and out a lot her not starting today.
• 6:06
  [SPEAKER_04]: I'm you know, it's her not starting today or Caitlin playing three may also be because of Lex.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: He's not a hundred percent, and but they're not going to put that out there.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's fair.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: When's the last time?
• 6:17
  [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, once a year, they play these games on a weekday afternoon.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, it's going to be a different atmosphere.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: It's off your regular game clock that you usually have.
• 6:28
  [SPEAKER_03]: Sometimes things in these situations just go wrong, even with professionals.
• 6:33
  [SPEAKER_03]: Sure.
• 6:33
  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, you just, you just never think up.
• 6:36
  [SPEAKER_03]: And we're just going to chalk this up to that.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: This lost up to that, but I will say this, John.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Things were looking really good after a win over the liberty.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: A couple over the Aces.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: They are beating good teams.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: They are beaten good teams.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: The links in the commissioner's cup without Caitlin Clark.
• 6:55
  [SPEAKER_03]: Everything's looking great.
• 6:56
  [SPEAKER_03]: And now all of the sudden the questions pop up again.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And the overriding theme on Twitter is this team doesn't fit right together all of a sudden.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I disagree.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's just going to take some time for him to play and get in the groove.
• 7:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like when you've got people coming in and out of the line up regularly and you can't really get to know your full squad.
• 7:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's going to take a minute for everybody to just play together.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, look at the Pacers.
• 7:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: They have people in and out all season and then we'll after January or February.
• 7:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: They started to play great.
• 7:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: Right.
• 7:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like I think it's the same type of thing.
• 7:27
  [SPEAKER_04]: I think you're right.
• 7:29
  [SPEAKER_04]: They're they're this team.
• 7:33
  [SPEAKER_04]: is going to find its rhythm, I think after the all start break, I think the big key is to get there, to get the players that can't aren't playing in the game, get some rest, and then you know, turn it up in the second half when you have everybody, and you know, maybe you get to where you have a good nine-person rotation in the second half with U.S.
• 7:58
  [SPEAKER_04]: Simpson in there, you know, it's maybe, you know, that's can be a good thing.
• 8:03
  [SPEAKER_04]: That because I will say this, I think they need that a little bit because Boston has had to play a lot of minutes.
• 8:11
  [SPEAKER_04]: And she's not going to get a break at the all-star thing.
• 8:13
  [SPEAKER_04]: And it's not just the number of minutes because with Caitlyn being out and everything, Boston's also taking on a different role.
• 8:21
  [SPEAKER_04]: So she's got a lot of the mental fatigue, you know, stress involved, not just the physical.
• 8:26
  [SPEAKER_04]: So I think tips and development can be huge in that regard.
• 8:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think they're going to be fine.
• 8:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: I would rather them get all of these quirks and stuff out of the way early in the season and come on strong at the end.
• 8:38
  [SPEAKER_03]: Alright guys, uh, next couple of games, winnable wins, dream at home, wings at home, at Connecticut, heading into the Liberty before the all-star break, Liberty after the break, and then the, then the eighth of the Northeast.
• 8:54
  [SPEAKER_03]: Game starting Friday, Sunday, Tuesday, big wins.
• 8:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think the dream game is going to be a coin flip, toss up, whatever you want to call it.
• 9:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: That was very tough.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We should be the wings.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We should be the son.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But you want to take all three, right?
• 9:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like, you need the momentum going into the All-Star Break to have them all three.
• 9:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: But we'll see how it happens.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: I think the dream is going to be the top one out of that group because they're just playing well.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: fever or favored by two and a half on fan duel, but like I wouldn't take that.
• 9:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: I wouldn't take fever minus anything.
• 9:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: I would take it even money if that's it.
• 9:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway.
• 9:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: Thanks so much, guys.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We'll do it again on Friday.
• 9:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: Appreciate your time as always.
• 9:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: All right.
• 9:40
  [SPEAKER_03]: Hey, everybody, don't forget about our, our all star draft recap with Jonathan Michelle.
• 9:48
  [SPEAKER_03]: We did that this morning.
• 9:49
  [SPEAKER_03]: That'll be out a little later on Thursday.
• 9:52
  [SPEAKER_03]: Thanks so much again, guys.
• 9:56
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