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Fever Reaction with John & Michelle (Commissioners Cup Champions!, Podcast 312.3) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: What you are listening to now is the central Indiana Sports Report podcast number three hundred and twelve point three John Robertson's and Michelle Garmin's reaction to the fevers Commissioners kept championship win over the Minnesota wins
• 0:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: You're listening to the central Indiana Sports Report with your host, Greg Midgales.
• 0:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: Welcome, fever fans to the Central Indiana Sports Report and John Robertson and Michelle Garman's reaction to the fevers.
• 0:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: Seventy-four, fifty-nine win over the Minnesota Lynx to win the commissioner's cup and guys balance performance.
• 0:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: overcame kind of a floppy offensive night with some really good defense John take it away.
• 1:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm really happy.
• 1:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: I was excited.
• 1:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to be honest with you.
• 1:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: I was not thrilled the first quarter.
• 1:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: I was kind of grumbling and muttering and yelling at the TV, but they turned it around and they played really well a very balanced game and
• 1:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: just happy to see him get the cup.
• 1:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's even more important that they got the cup with Caitlyn sitting out because like with that I don't always want to make everything about Caitlyn Clark and tonight we don't need to make it about Caitlyn Clark but like I'm glad they sat her and I'm glad that they were able to prove to themselves they can beat one of the best teams in the league with her on the bench.
• 1:37
  [SPEAKER_03]: And well, not only her John, but just being short handed over all with Sabot, you know, with her being done.
• 1:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, her being done to us.
• 1:46
  [SPEAKER_03]: Don't just, I don't know why.
• 1:47
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think it's because they had I always do that.
• 1:50
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think to get Sabot said to it, oh, I get all confused.
• 1:53
  [SPEAKER_03]: So, but don't just with her being gone missing that.
• 1:56
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think so I think it's great for the fever.
• 1:59
  [SPEAKER_03]: And it looks like, I mean, tonight.
• 2:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: Here's the question.
• 2:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: Here's the question.
• 2:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: Do they give Dante's a portion of the money they want tonight?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Do they give her some of it?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Or do they give her a smaller portion?
• 2:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I- That's a good question, don't you think?
• 2:15
  [SPEAKER_03]: Well, if you give her a smaller portion, do you have to give Caitlyn Clark a smaller portion?
• 2:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
• 2:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just saying like, Caitlyn was at least there.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Caitlyn was at least there.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Caitlyn was at least the money.
• 2:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: Let's be honest, Caitlyn doesn't need that money.
• 2:28
  [SPEAKER_03]: No, she doesn't need the money.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: But what I'm getting out with Dante's is, I mean, that what the NBA has always done is they've always
• 2:35
  [SPEAKER_03]: been lenient or worked with.
• 2:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: After a short technical difficulty.
• 2:43
  [SPEAKER_03]: Well, I'm going to guess is this is this part of like is she gone because they have to are they playing an tournament that qualifies them helps them get into the Olympics.
• 2:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, they're playing on the national tournament right now.
• 2:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: And she's doing really well.
• 2:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: She's playing really well.
• 2:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: We can we can talk about that later if you want, but like she's doing a good job.
• 3:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: I just wanted to wait for them for the long term.
• 3:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and I think honestly, you bring up a really good point.
• 3:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: I've said for the last couple of things, the de Maristantes being gone is actually a bigger hit than most people probably realize for the fever.
• 3:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it puts them shorthanded in the big position, but my goodness did Natasha Howard come through tonight.
• 3:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: I will be very honest.
• 3:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: I was sitting there saying like she was playing terrible the first cut quarter.
• 3:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: She missed a couple of layups like multiple layups that she should have had.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But did she ever make up for it in the third second through fourth quarters?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, her defense was unbelievably good and she scored so well after that.
• 3:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: So shout out to Natasha.
• 3:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't believe in you at the beginning of the game, but I believe in you so much now.
• 3:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: And Alia Boston, she was great and she was great against Collins and
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  [SPEAKER_02]: a fantastic.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So Boston and Nefisa Collier got into a little bit of a shouting match there in the fourth quarter.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Yes, they did.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Love it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Which I know is competitive.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to sit here and say that it's bad, but it's probably good for the love it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I do.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I like it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think that's going to play into where Alie gets drafted for the Allstar game.
• 4:17
  [SPEAKER_03]: Well, here's where I think though.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I think it's, I like it because it's too highly competitive players.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And they both had a little bit of a beef.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, call your takes the, you know, to the push off to the sternum, but that they were allowing that.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And I don't have a problem with that.
• 4:36
  [SPEAKER_03]: The Boston was upset because when call your came in to get her on the follow-through and hit her in the face, but you could tell, I mean, she wasn't going for her face.
• 4:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't take any like stuff like that I don't take too seriously like when you're a competitive person and you're in the middle of a match and you're playing for a lot of money and like in on top of that Boston is widely known that she takes her money seriously like she is super fickle and like really cares about her money so you know you're competitive here in the heat of the moment I don't think they're gonna have any like hatred towards each other moving forward I think it's just in the moment and which you want to see you want to see and be like that exactly
• 5:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: How about Sophie for thirteen points, second highest score on the fever tonight three for five again plus eighteen three for five from three really good really good night for for cutting him.
• 5:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: Everybody was come from.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: She was huge for them to closing out that game.
• 5:33
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, John.
• 5:33
  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to get that big three.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, she made well, first before she hit the big three, she made the great big baseline drive to blew by.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Call your
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  [SPEAKER_03]: for the baseline drive layup and then he hit that big three that put him back up to double digit lead and you know and then I thought that was huge and then of course Mitchell had the dagger three followed by Lexi Hall having a nice three her second three just a few seconds later
• 6:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think the biggest takeaway other than like they were able to do it without Caitlin which I think that they have the like I think they should take that as a confidence boost right like so maybe like the the media and the like some of the fans are going to focus on Caitlin all the time regardless like that's just going to happen but as a team I think it was good for them.
• 6:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like ego and confidence and McDonald has been a fine.
• 6:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
• 6:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I was getting ready to talk about her point.
• 6:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: She, she had twelve points and only won a sister night, but like, she definitely was playing well and rebounding well.
• 6:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: I first thick.
• 6:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 6:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: She's great.
• 6:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: And she honestly plays a lot, I mean, obviously she's not taking the logo at threes, but she plays the same tempo and I've seen surpasses that are reminiscent of Caitlyn, like they play the same style of, of playguard.
• 6:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: I thought Thibney Colson did some good things too at the point.
• 6:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Sydney was great on the fact that she had a lot of passes that led to points when we need them to stop momentum for the links.
• 7:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like she didn't have a lot of points tonight.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: She only had three points, but like she had timely assists that really helped with momentum.
• 7:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: I just wanted to point out like how balanced the attack was.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So Howard was sixteen, accounting him with thirteen, and then twelve, twelve, each for Boston, Mitchell, and Ari.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Boston's classic.
• 7:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think that's fantastic.
• 7:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: Of course, yes, she was twelve points, eleven rebounds and six assists, so she needed four assists, but that's still incredibly good statline.
• 7:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then Howard had sixteen twelve and four, so I mean, that's a good statline.
• 7:39
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
• 7:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: Earlier with, earlier with, she was five from fifteen from the field, but five offense of boards is a big deal.
• 7:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it was just a really balanced game once they got in their groove.
• 7:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think they I think they were tight early on I think they were a little nervous and in their own heads, but then once they started playing well, it was just they took it and ran Did you guys have the same feeling as I had though like I never felt like any lead was safe the way they've been playing lately Up until about three minutes left in the game I was like, well, okay, I was starting to feel comfortable
• 8:13
  [SPEAKER_03]: I thought it was safe, but then I thought back to what the Pacers did.
• 8:18
  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, in their playoff stretch, and I thought, oh, maybe this isn't so safe yet.
• 8:22
  [SPEAKER_03]: Then Mitchell hit the dagger three, and that's when I felt the gate was over.
• 8:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, that's for sure, but I kept thinking the links are playing so poorly.
• 8:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: They're not there.
• 8:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: Their offense is going to have to completely flip a switch to get back in this game.
• 8:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: I felt pretty comfortable.
• 8:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: The almost the entire force quarter.
• 8:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I just, I felt like, I don't know, I've seen too many fourth quarters in the last four or five games where we've had a ten point lead and then lost it.
• 8:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, like I said in the group text, it's kind of like the opposite of how I feel about the Pacers, right?
• 8:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like the Pacers I always felt like no matter how far they were down, they could make a run to come back with this team.
• 9:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: I kind of, as of right now, I'm nervous that no lead is safe if they're, if they're not careful, but they're looking like they're starting to put the killer instinct in.
• 9:09
  [SPEAKER_03]: Hey John, talk about that eight zero run that they had to close out the first half.
• 9:13
  [SPEAKER_03]: That was huge.
• 9:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, KC even noticed she's like the links didn't even score for most of the second quarter.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That eight minute run where they didn't score is literally two minutes when they scored with two minutes into the second quarter.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And that was the last time they scored.
• 9:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's a long time to go with no points.
• 9:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: They did not look good offensively at all the time.
• 9:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: I do think that like this this game was not representative of how good the links are like it would be silly of us to say like oh yeah the fever is obviously the best team now because I think if you ran that game ten times the links probably win it six if not seven times but luckily luckily it was the fever's nice so let's be proud of them and celebrate the great thing about a single elimination tournament right John
• 10:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Anybody can win the one game they need.
• 10:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm really happy about it.
• 10:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how much people sports fans in India are going to be excited about a commissioner's cup, but I think it's symbolically.
• 10:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's a big deal.
• 10:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think for the players, it's a big deal.
• 10:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I'm I'm really happy about it.
• 10:15
  [SPEAKER_03]: Well, it should be.
• 10:16
  [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, when the pace was made, it's in the final of
• 10:19
  [SPEAKER_03]: Their midseason tournament a year ago.
• 10:22
  [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, everybody and then he was excited.
• 10:25
  [SPEAKER_03]: They should be excited that the fever won the commissioners cup and they shouldn't be excited because they got a lot of these wins are few of these wins with.
• 10:33
  [SPEAKER_03]: out Caitlyn Clark on the court and you know that's I just think this team I think they're becoming a better team and the one thing I do think it does do with the way they're developing and going and getting this depth on the perimeter is I think they won't Caitlyn won't have to come back and be playing thirty five
• 10:57
  [SPEAKER_03]: the thirty seven minutes a game when she comes back at like I said I think anytime you're talking quads and groins.
• 11:05
  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, your best bet is.
• 11:08
  [SPEAKER_03]: To ease try to ease her back into it.
• 11:10
  [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, you don't want her to play till she's like a hundred percent, but if she's not, she's still not going to be, she's going to set out enough that she's not necessarily going to be in game shape.
• 11:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: And well, well, I said, I said multiple times in the last week, but I didn't want her to play.
• 11:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: I did not want to play the commissioner's cup, I wanted her to say out.
• 11:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I was happy to see that they didn't.
• 11:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: Also, and I stand on, I do think that it's better for the team as a whole, as much as I think Caitlyn's the best player on the team and they need her and she's the engine that makes it run.
• 11:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like, learning to win without her is ultimately going to be good for them long term.
• 11:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's going to make them better.
• 11:46
  [SPEAKER_03]: Well, you know, you wonder too how much sitting on the on the sidelines, how much of a help that's going to be to Caitlin when she comes back because you can learn a lot and she's somebody who does that.
• 12:00
  [SPEAKER_03]: You can learn a lot just sitting on the sidelines and watching and I think she's very involved in the game planning and what they want and then the coaching thing and it can make her and even better player too when she comes back.
• 12:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe it'll it'll help her with her mental game.
• 12:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: We'll see what happens.
• 12:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: Guys, five straight games at home coming up.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Vegas on Thursday the third the sparks on Saturday the fifth the Valkyries on Wednesday the ninth the dream on Friday the eleventh and then the wings on Sunday the thirteenth.
• 12:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then you go to Connecticut before a couple of games against the Liberty on the road, sandwiching the All-Star game.
• 12:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: Guys, Jan, forget the moment of the home.
• 12:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, absolutely.
• 12:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think they need to win against the the Valkyrie for sure.
• 12:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think they need to win that one just to prove something because they lost in.
• 12:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think California.
• 12:59
  [SPEAKER_03]: They could beat the ACEs on Thursday.
• 13:01
  [SPEAKER_03]: That would be huge too because they've lost fifteen, sixteen straight games to the ACEs.
• 13:06
  [SPEAKER_03]: And I think that's a team that
• 13:08
  [SPEAKER_03]: for them.
• 13:09
  [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, if, you know, they've been close and they let it.
• 13:11
  [SPEAKER_03]: He had a couple summers ago and I was watching when the aces came to town.
• 13:15
  [SPEAKER_03]: Sorry.
• 13:16
  [SPEAKER_03]: I got to go watch grace and I was there to see Candice Parker too when she was with the aces and Jackie Young.
• 13:23
  [SPEAKER_03]: But I mean, the fever had a big lead in that game and the aces came back.
• 13:29
  [SPEAKER_03]: And I know it's a different team, but that's just kind of what the aces have done to the fever.
• 13:33
  [SPEAKER_03]: The fever can get the last time we've played.
• 13:35
  [SPEAKER_03]: I've not been able to hold them off.
• 13:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's the same thing last time we played him.
• 13:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: We had a ten point lead last time we played the aces.
• 13:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think it was a week or two ago and then we just gave it back in the fourth quarter.
• 13:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
• 13:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'd love to see him get the win.
• 13:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't like the aces anyway.
• 13:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: But which is sad because I love Las Vegas.
• 13:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yes you do.
• 13:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yes you do.
• 13:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: All right guys.
• 13:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: Game on Thursday.
• 14:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: We will talk after the game between Saturday and Wednesday next week.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: There are no games.
• 14:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's their next time they have a couple of days off.
• 14:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: We will do a fever report and then we'll do a fever report at the all-star break as well.
• 14:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: Thanks so much guys.
• 14:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: I appreciate your time as always.
• 14:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: Congratulations again to the Indiana fever and once again, Susie.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, recording.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I am.
• 14:37
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• 14:41
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• 14:43
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