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DREAM 80, FEVER 62: Reaction with John & Michelle (2.29.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:00
  [SPEAKER_03]: Welcome to the Fever Report, John Robertson's and Michelle Garman's reaction to the Fever's 80 to 68 loss in Atlanta and game one of the WNBA playoffs.
• 0:12
  [SPEAKER_03]: Sorry, there's no music or fanfare, I'm still trying to figure all that out, but once I do, I promise it's going to be very cool.
• 0:19
  [SPEAKER_03]: Also, we will be back on Tuesday night with a recap of game two, please join us for that one, straight to the podcast.
• 0:28
  [SPEAKER_03]: Welcome, favorite fans in WNB, and to the Central Indiana Sports Report for our fever dream reaction in the first round of the WNB playoffs.
• 0:41
  [SPEAKER_03]: Dream 80 fever 68 in game one of their quarter final.
• 0:46
  [SPEAKER_03]: I am going on Riverside by our fever guy, John Robertson, and Tipton Tribune and Elwood Colleter, sports editor Michelle Garman, who asked me not to call it the fever dream, but as John knows, I've been saying it from the start.
• 0:59
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's one of my favorite things of the year.
• 1:01
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's the fever dream.
• 1:03
  [SPEAKER_03]: It did not turn out well.
• 1:05
  [SPEAKER_03]: We kind of predicted the fever wind and I, and it did not go well.
• 1:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: the game started out pretty okay honestly like the first I was the first quarter fever did great second quarter started drop off third quarter not good not great fourth quarter bad the people are going to complain about the officiating officiating is definitely a problem but I don't think it's the biggest story to talk about.
• 1:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: I just think that it just today's game demonstrated the biggest problem the fever are going to have in the playoffs which is lack of depth the girls get winded you can't play that many minutes with the and your
• 1:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: they can't hang to the end and it's stressful or it's frustrating for them.
• 1:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure just as much as us as fans, all the injuries have caught up to them.
• 1:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: Odyssey Sims was had to sit up for a minute because she got the way she landed was funny on her knee and her knee kind of buckled.
• 1:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: They just they can't handle, it's just going to be too tough with the lack of depth.
• 2:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: I guess it's the easiest way to do that.
• 2:03
  [SPEAKER_03]: Not going to survive a three for nine night from Malia Boston.
• 2:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: She wasn't shooting well necessarily.
• 2:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: She saw again.
• 2:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: She started the game really well, but then it just got tough on her inside.
• 2:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: And land is good and so.
• 2:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: Fow calls did not.
• 2:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: Did not help.
• 2:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: She had to sit on.
• 2:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: She was in foul trouble.
• 2:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: So it changes the way you have changes the way you play.
• 2:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: You can't necessarily go as aggressively on the offensive glass when you're battling foul trouble.
• 2:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: get to be careful even on the defensive end.
• 2:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to blame the officiating for a loss because I don't like to do that.
• 2:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: But.
• 2:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think this was one of the worst officiated WNBA games I have ever seen.
• 2:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: Stephanie White had to waste two challenges, two challenge calls that should have were the whistle should have never been blown.
• 2:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: It was obvious there was no fouls.
• 2:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then that hurt her in the second half.
• 2:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then it just it was just not good.
• 3:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: I saw somebody
• 3:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: that charts at WNBA thing I was talking about how they thought that was one of the worst officiated games overall and they weren't saying by team, but they said like, oh, I forget how many missed calls and or wrong calls and then some missed calls, but I just thought they let it get way out.
• 3:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: I thought they let it get out of hand and I
• 3:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: WNBA needs to take a good look again because you cannot play in a arena that sells out with over 3,000 fans when it's still kind of hot and humid out there because that and that floor, it got slippery.
• 3:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'll tell you what, Kelsey Mitchell slipped a couple times and I was scared because I was certain going she goes down with an injury because of the humidity on that floor.
• 3:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: WNBA has got to do better from the top down but we've been saying that so other than that,
• 3:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: I thought the fever.
• 3:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: I liked the way they didn't necessarily shoot well, but I just liked the way they just continue to play hard in your right, John.
• 4:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: They're just that lack of depth is just wearing them down.
• 4:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and to your point, like we said, honestly, Sims did go down with.
• 4:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: Because it's so, I just, I don't know, I feel like they can't hang with the lack of, you know, because how many do we really have?
• 4:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: We've got our starting five and then like what three to three or four that we can count on, kind of, so, count on.
• 4:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: So like you're asking an extended minutes in the playoffs after the season from Kelsey,
• 4:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: And Odyssey and Lexi and Natasha Howard, right?
• 4:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: They've got to play extra minutes.
• 4:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: And like you said, when they get in foul trouble, it just makes it even harder.
• 4:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: And Timson's going to be great, eventually.
• 4:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: I really like her as a talent, but she's not ready yet.
• 4:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: And we can't depend on her to get big minutes and they'll play off.
• 4:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: So it's just going to be tough.
• 5:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'd like to see them get into W and be in any napless, but I.
• 5:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
• 5:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: I just don't know if they can go to the distance.
• 5:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: Like I think they can hold their own early in a game, but then they're just going to be winded.
• 5:17
  [SPEAKER_03]: Tuesday night at 7.30 by the way, everyone.
• 5:20
  [SPEAKER_03]: Games on ESPN.
• 5:21
  [SPEAKER_03]: Games at the fieldhouse get there.
• 5:23
  [SPEAKER_03]: Let's have a sold out crowd.
• 5:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: uh... but it's not looking good now i was going to say playing at home to his day is probably maybe if the crowd shows up in the bring energy that might help the fever beat to be able to pull that out but you know i would love to see him win and i know said they could you know picked him in three but after i don't know that they can do it i don't know that they can be the dream in three i do think they can win Tuesday especially if they if there is some energy in that building
• 5:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think there's potential, but I think they're going to have to stay out of foul trouble and avoid getting just decimated by thousands.
• 6:06
  [SPEAKER_03]: I guess how about them putting the fever game at the same time as the cult?
• 6:10
  [SPEAKER_03]: Where you thoughts on that?
• 6:13
  [SPEAKER_03]: I've got to think these things through.
• 6:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, who's going to make that choice though?
• 6:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: Who's going to think to make that call?
• 6:18
  [SPEAKER_03]: Because I mean, who's thinking things through?
• 6:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, no, I agree, but like we've proven that the WMBA doesn't think things through on anything.
• 6:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then the NFL's not going to acquiesce to the WBA.
• 6:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: So, no, no.
• 6:34
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so, yeah, here.
• 6:35
  [SPEAKER_03]: Look at the schedule and say, huh?
• 6:37
  [SPEAKER_03]: Well, we've all of one team's fans will be watching
• 6:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: there's multiple directions you could take that one though one the W&B doesn't want fever fans watching the game they've proven that and to the rest of the W&B is delusional about how much people actually want to watch of it's just no one's going to make that choice
• 7:00
  [SPEAKER_03]: As John said, that's probably enough about the fever today.
• 7:04
  [SPEAKER_03]: We will talk more after Tuesday, nice game hopefully a win and it'll be a little better tone.
• 7:09
  [SPEAKER_03]: John was talking a little bit about the other games that have been played on Sunday, putting day on of the WNBA playoffs.
• 7:18
  [SPEAKER_03]: And so you and I picked the links to win it all in man.
• 7:22
  [SPEAKER_03]: Did they look good?
• 7:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: They looked solid today.
• 7:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: They looked about how you would expect them to look.
• 7:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: And you know,
• 7:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: Good on Golden State for making the playoffs on their first year of existence, but like they are severely outgunned.
• 7:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't see that game going past, or a series going past two games.
• 7:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I think you have to think Minnesota is one of the strongest singers at this point.
• 7:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: First playoff game ever in San Francisco who knows.
• 7:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: It was cool to see him.
• 7:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: is in San Francisco like you're right.
• 7:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: They've had their their attendance has been really good and the crowd's been really good.
• 7:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: The atmosphere is really good.
• 7:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: So they may they may come out high and they may get one, but I really I don't know.
• 8:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know unless you'd happen.
• 8:05
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think the Valkyries are one of three teams that have given me no reason to hate them.
• 8:10
  [SPEAKER_03]: He's like, he's like the fever of course.
• 8:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: Of course.
• 8:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: Their fan base has a couple of tools in it.
• 8:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, of course.
• 8:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: I can't hold that against
• 8:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if I hear right.
• 8:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm just saying I can't let that against the team.
• 8:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: No, exactly.
• 8:24
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's San Francisco.
• 8:26
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's the capital of Panheads.
• 8:30
  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm sorry.
• 8:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry.
• 8:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: I said that.
• 8:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: I was waiting for Michelle to jump in with something.
• 8:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: I was getting ready to say, the links were impressive today.
• 8:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: The crowds that they are, the Golden State has put together are impressive and so if they're, I don't know, I think the links will probably sweep them, but at the same time, they're gonna have 18,000 there to cheer on the Valkyries.
• 8:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: The next time they play, so that crowd could play a factor and maybe Golden State's got a chance to get one at home.
• 9:10
  [SPEAKER_03]: Big win for the liberty today.
• 9:12
  [SPEAKER_03]: Natasha Cloud, my favorite player, not on the fever 23.63 bounds four steals.
• 9:17
  [SPEAKER_03]: Big win for the liberty, but it wasn't all good news, right?
• 9:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: No, it was, we honestly went down with something on a knee.
• 9:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: It looked like knee to knee contact, but it looked really bad.
• 9:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: She was seen on the sidelines pretty much in tears.
• 9:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: Kind of, it was reminiscent of Kate LeClarke right before the All-Star game.
• 9:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: So,
• 9:38
  [SPEAKER_03]: Maybe it's just, you know, PTSD or whatever, but it feels like she's going to be out for me to need to contact, if someone goes down with a knee injury, the best case scenario is needed in the contact, which you can, but you have deep bruise and something that you can get over pretty quickly, but if it's a broken, if it's a shattered knee cap or something like that, it can be really bad.
• 10:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: she looks like she's in a lot of pain that i'm not a doctor so i don't really want to comment any more than she's looking better better probably than twisting any
• 10:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, I will just say this.
• 10:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: I literally fell down bleachers once when I was now you're in band my kneecap and I did not record or I did not break it or dislocate it but it was welled up and I had a big deep knee bruise there and I mean it was very painful for the first 40-eight hours and then it would only be
• 10:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: down on you know putting pressure on it direct pressure on the knee cap.
• 10:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I'm hoping for herf sake that that's what it is.
• 10:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's something that was because that can be very painful as someone who has done that.
• 10:49
  [SPEAKER_03]: And I can do a lot of it actually is where as an MCL spraying maybe doesn't feel that bad but it's in a long term worse when it comes to knees you don't want to
• 11:02
  [SPEAKER_03]: It could be a 48 hour thing or it could be long term.
• 11:06
  [SPEAKER_03]: So let's hope this side of the delivery.
• 11:09
  [SPEAKER_03]: Another one of the teams.
• 11:10
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, another one of the teams like him stand Michelle.
• 11:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: I know, there's a team I think to repeat.
• 11:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: So if everybody stayed healthy on the liberty, I thought they could repeat.
• 11:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: I would back off from from a, I just, I hate to see that because, you know, I think they,
• 11:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: first you got the fever and then I think you've got the liberty two teams that have battled some key injuries.
• 11:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: Liberty has been as decimated as the fever, but two teams that you like, they battled through, they never used their injuries as excuses or anything.
• 11:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: And you know, they went out there and got into the playoffs and with that, I will wish I'd be on the store to, you know, the best.
• 11:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: I want everything good for New York because
• 11:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: The fever can't win at all.
• 11:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: I would like as much as I hate to say this with a New York team.
• 12:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: I would want to see the liberty do it there.
• 12:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: They're my choice for likable team.
• 12:05
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yes, me too.
• 12:08
  [SPEAKER_03]: When like I said, I love Natasha Cloud's game.
• 12:10
  [SPEAKER_03]: She's a fun player to watch.
• 12:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: I do hope that Stewart's okay.
• 12:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: I do think that if Stewart and the links are both out of the playoffs, we have a collective bargaining strike.
• 12:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think that happens.
• 12:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: I know you said that all long.
• 12:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think you could be right.
• 12:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but I think the links are going to, I think the links are going to lead it all.
• 12:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: So the Seattle Las Vegas game hasn't happened.
• 12:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: So we don't know what's going to go on there.
• 12:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think Las Vegas is probably going to win it too.
• 12:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: I want Phoenix out.
• 12:41
  [SPEAKER_03]: Phoenix, Minnesota, Seattle, and Atlanta.
• 12:45
  [SPEAKER_03]: I just really, I want to see him lose as much as I want to see the other team win, except for the fever.
• 12:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't like, like, Phoenix, I definitely just don't like as a team.
• 12:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't like anything about them, honestly, and I feel that completely.
• 13:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: The rest of them, I don't have super strong feelings about, like, I don't particularly have any bad feelings about Minnesota.
• 13:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't like the coach, I don't like the coach.
• 13:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, for starters, Atlanta doesn't, other than they were overly political several years ago, I don't particularly think about it.
• 13:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but that whatever, I agree with you Greg.
• 13:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: I've never been able to bring from Brittany Griner.
• 13:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: Sorry.
• 13:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: I was going to go back to when she played at Baylor.
• 13:30
  [SPEAKER_03]: And Seattle's the worst of all of them.
• 13:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: I like I would root for Seattle over Las Vegas just because I like air co-wheeler.
• 13:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: I really like air co-wheeler a lot.
• 13:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: I like the bones a lot.
• 13:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: She's a tall chair.
• 13:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: I really like their co-cheater.
• 13:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: So.
• 13:46
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's a divided guys and it's pretty easy to find teams to cheer for and against and I guess that's a pretty good thing for the WMB.
• 13:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, if they can and market it, if they can find a way to market it, that'd be a lovely wouldn't it?
• 13:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: They'd made me find a way to hate watch them.
• 14:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: Now, once the playoffs are over, we can have a postseason discussion about the state of the WMB.
• 14:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think there's a lot to discuss there.
• 14:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think you're right.
• 14:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think you're right.
• 14:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think you're right.
• 14:13
  [SPEAKER_03]: John Michelle, thanks.
• 14:19
  [SPEAKER_03]: Thanks so much to John and Michelle for joining the podcast and coming on as always to talk about the fever and thank you for listening.
• 14:28
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• 14:35
  [SPEAKER_03]: Thank you
• 14:56
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