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The Fever Report with John Robertson & Michelle Garmon: Second Half Preview (2.315.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: You are listening to the favorite report with John Robertson and Michelle Garmin every week only on the Central Indian sports report.
• 0:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome, Fever fans of the Central Indiana Sports Report for this week's Fever Report with John Robertson and Michelle Garmin here to look ahead to the second half of the season.
• 0:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: John, Michelle, before we do that, my quick thoughts on the All-Star game is honestly.
• 0:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: It might be the most entertaining I've been by an All-Star game in a long time.
• 0:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: It was at least a competitive game.
• 0:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: I shoot.
• 0:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: I laughed.
• 0:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: I snooze.
• 0:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't like all star games.
• 0:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: I thought it was a little bit of entertainment.
• 0:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: But there were moments of competitiveness and fun.
• 0:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: But overall, I thought it was pretty bad.
• 0:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I agree.
• 0:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: You've seen the all star games of late.
• 0:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: I agree with you.
• 0:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: Like they're all bad.
• 0:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: Like all star games are pretty terrible.
• 0:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: The NBA all star game was so bad the last three years.
• 1:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh.
• 1:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: Unwatchable.
• 1:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: But I thought this was kind of fun.
• 1:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: I will say that I enjoyed the interactions between Caitlin and Kelsey a ton that I found entertaining.
• 1:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: I thought the stud buds for like I'm kind of torn on them because like I enjoyed them for the most part, but there were parts that were definitely not appropriate for younger fans.
• 1:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: And that's fine.
• 1:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's not everything has to be for younger fans.
• 1:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not trying to squash all that or anything but like that.
• 1:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: As a parent, I was like, not, not all that was great.
• 1:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: But the interactions with them with Caitlyn and some other people were good.
• 1:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: There were moments I liked.
• 1:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: The game itself was fine.
• 1:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: It was funny to watch Angel Reese fall on her own.
• 1:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: Those shoes, well, can we just say that her re-box happened?
• 1:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm not even trying to be a hater.
• 1:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: I swear I'm not, but her shoes have to be so bad because everyone that's worn them as tripped on their own.
• 2:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: Someone's gonna get a broken ankle wearing those things.
• 2:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: All right.
• 2:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, we still have not talked about the Connecticut game and the end of the first half when to start there heading into the second half and it's fair to say The Caitlin Clark played probably our best three games as a pro the last three games and the fever looked like the team we expected to see early in the season.
• 2:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of what we all predicted a slow start and then A big build toward the playoffs and it seems like that's the way it's headed
• 2:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I really do understand on what I said several weeks ago that it feels like 24 where, you know, they just had a lot of, not on the same page necessarily, but they're starting to find each other's groove and like work together.
• 2:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: The passes are getting dropped less the cuts are happening where they're supposed to and like when when those when the top three are working together like.
• 3:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: their unstoppable got honestly believe our top three when they're firing on all cylinders and they're all on the same page and connected.
• 3:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know who's going to stop them.
• 3:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: The defense is still suspect it's gotten better.
• 3:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: The defense is still going to be the weak link.
• 3:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: But if they're they're scored 110, 120 per game, they're just going to boat race everybody.
• 3:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: I like where they're at
• 3:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: After the mini break, their defense is getting better.
• 3:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: I want it to become consistent night after night, only because
• 3:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's going to be nights or always are, especially when you get to the end of the season that you just shots don't fall.
• 3:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: So you have to tough it out on that end to that to that.
• 3:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: They are getting better.
• 3:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I think what I will say is I am so pleased with the continual positive progression of Timson.
• 4:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm telling you, I think she's getting better every game.
• 4:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: She's getting more comfortable on the floor on both ends of the floor every game.
• 4:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, you know, I like her something.
• 4:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's date, there's funny.
• 4:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: There are games that I get frustrated with Monique Billings at times and then I look at the box score after it's over and I'm like, okay, she plays better than what I thought when I saw her at times.
• 4:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: But she, I think she's been a really good presence too.
• 4:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, on the floor.
• 4:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: Ah, it's just, I like this favorite team.
• 4:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: They like each other.
• 4:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: These kids are fun.
• 4:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, John, do you see that picture while
• 4:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: Kelsey you're all in the off-steer games.
• 4:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: So if you're cutting him and Lexi Haller, we're cutting her taste.
• 4:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I mean, they were hanging out together.
• 4:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's good for them.
• 4:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: Good for them.
• 4:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: They need a break.
• 4:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I know.
• 4:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: No one's happy.
• 5:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's what I was getting at though.
• 5:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: You can tell this team they're connected.
• 5:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: Those three like each other.
• 5:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: They like each other.
• 5:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: They like each other.
• 5:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: They do things together when they're not.
• 5:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: traveling.
• 5:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: I just think they are becoming a really connected group.
• 5:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: I have to give a shout out to because Ty Harris is finally I think starting to really get her group back to from, you know, she missed last year because of an injury.
• 5:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I think she's really starting to feel comfortable too on the team and with her role.
• 5:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to touch back to the all star thing.
• 5:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think my favorite
• 5:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: One of my favorite parts of the All-Star game was listening to Caitlin and the Lee at talk about Kelsey Mitchell and her writing her papers well there in the locker room at free game for her doctor.
• 5:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I just think it's pretty cool that not riff will be much longer and she'll be doctor Mitchell.
• 5:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's I just think what I have a lot of experience for her tons of respect for Kelsey Mitchell for that.
• 5:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think I saw a report today that she wasn't as practice.
• 6:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: was not at practice and everybody was worried about her being heard.
• 6:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think she's probably trying to catch up on some of her schoolwork.
• 6:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: Like, and in good for her on that, you will not catch me.
• 6:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: I hope that her professors are cutting her a little slack because she's trying to do two things at once, but when you're going through your doctorate, there's no guarantee that they will.
• 6:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: Nope, nope.
• 6:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, real quick.
• 6:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, we're on that too.
• 6:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: I,
• 6:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: I just wanted to say that I was happy that Boston didn't play much in the All-Star game.
• 6:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: She chose to rest up and I thought that she's getting some flag from that online, but I think that was a good call on her, because she's saying like the All-Star game's great and everything, but I don't actually care that much about I care more about winning in the season.
• 6:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that's part of maybe Kelsey also I think probably school work and let's give her a day off because she really didn't get it during the all-star break.
• 7:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: And what she had that compression leg thing last year in the playoffs, that's serious business.
• 7:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, she can have a damn rest and, you know, take off for legs.
• 7:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's not going to be out of shape.
• 7:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, I, I like given her an app, the players that have been or are injured battling.
• 7:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't mind with him getting days off practice every so often, mental, physical health days.
• 7:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that's wonderful.
• 7:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: Michelle brought up Timson.
• 7:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: I was going to bring up Timson as well, like her game of late.
• 7:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: She's become a significant presence inside.
• 7:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: Also, when I bring up, I think Harris and Heinz Allen, both have really incorporated themselves, not in just into the play of the team, but just the family atmosphere that we think the fever are, I think they've really added to that.
• 7:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't really have a lot to add, but I agree with everything you said.
• 7:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: The team looks like they're starting to really jail together and just be it.
• 8:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: You could tell that they all like each other.
• 8:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: And that's good.
• 8:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: So John, when are you headed back to game bridge for the Furious First Home Game Coats?
• 8:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'll start right.
• 8:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, five away games until the next home game.
• 8:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: So August 11th is the next home game.
• 8:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: Wow.
• 8:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's like three weeks.
• 8:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
• 8:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: And it's not like, well, so they got Seattle on Tuesday, which they're record six and 23, but lots of teams have had trouble with them.
• 8:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: They're closer than they're record would show, right?
• 8:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: Like Seattle's not awful.
• 8:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: No doubt.
• 8:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: So, should win that game, but,
• 8:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: They played us close in Indy at Portland Fire on the 31st, which they're 11 and 16.
• 8:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, they're an expansion team.
• 8:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: They just lost one of their stars for the season though, so that is going to, I don't know.
• 9:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
• 9:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe they'll rally, but I would say we should win that one.
• 9:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: The big test is going to be on August 2nd against the links.
• 9:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: and then followed up four days later against the aces in Las Vegas.
• 9:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: Those two games are going to be very important.
• 9:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: The aces are going to want some get back.
• 9:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: We beat them twice the season so far.
• 9:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: And beaver going to be tired on a longer road trip.
• 9:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, and the links are post straight call your fee had a great.
• 9:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: first game back.
• 9:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: And they've done well without her.
• 9:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: They just become better with her.
• 9:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I think those are two great tests for the fever.
• 9:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: They'll be glad to get home after those two games.
• 9:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
• 9:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: And they really let's talk about the links for a second.
• 9:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: If we're going to talk about the league is the whole because you've got Courtney Williams, the Fisa Collier, Olivia Miles, who's playing outstanding in her rookie season.
• 9:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: And Natasha Howard, who's been playing incredibly well.
• 9:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: So like
• 9:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: uh... famous being just rated fever as the number was as the favorites i must say it's a coin flip between the fever in the links if i had to pick a favorite right now with the fever playing as well as they are i know they're in like six or seven depending on the stand let me look at the stand they're in fever in fifth i forgot that we moved up okay worth it just two games out of second but
• 10:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, like the top eight is tight, right?
• 10:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, top five is closed, top two through eight's close.
• 10:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so anyway, the point being, I think the links are going to be
• 10:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: playing really well.
• 10:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I honestly think that they're going to be tough.
• 10:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: Golden State is playing strong.
• 10:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: Dallas has played really strong.
• 10:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know how long they're going to be able to sustain what they've been doing.
• 10:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not trying to take away from page and the other players on that team.
• 10:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: But I think they're playing above their talent level.
• 10:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: First half of the season.
• 11:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: John, the links in fever one and two in point differential this season.
• 11:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: I just think with a full strength team with Tosh, Courtney, Olivia Miles and Fee, that is a strong top four.
• 11:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: I will go back to all star game for one other thing.
• 11:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: I always haven't enjoyed watching Olivia Miles play and I put much to play since our college days.
• 11:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: I thought she did a wonderful job in the first all star game and having fun.
• 11:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was kind of fun.
• 11:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: see that so i was like it when she's kind of a quiet i'm sure i thought the blue team was a lot of fun in the red team was really lousy to watch no fence Kelsey there's a lot of one isolation i think Kelsey was second for uh MVP i think if the red team wins Kelsey's clearly the MVP of the game no doubt no doubt
• 12:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: How about this?
• 12:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: Rebecca Lobo, I loved it.
• 12:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: Finally, she was talking about when they were talking about MVP.
• 12:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: And she said, well,
• 12:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Kelsey Mitchell, there's somebody who should be considered for MVP and the guy, so we're saying, well, yeah, if they wish, he goes, no, I mean MVP for the league, she needs to be talked about as a legitimate contender for MVP of the league and she is so right.
• 12:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I know John, I agree, Greg, we've talked about this before.
• 12:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: She needs to be in that conversation.
• 12:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: The thing about Kelsey is she's not so flashy necessarily, but she is just automatic.
• 12:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know what you're going to get every single night, and she does it every single night.
• 12:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I think that as much as I love Caitlyn and a bunch of other people, Kelsey's been there the whole season doing what she does every day.
• 12:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: And defenses have to pay so much attention to her, it helps everybody else.
• 12:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's so fast.
• 12:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: All right, John, thank you so much, Michelle.
• 12:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you so much as always before we go.
• 13:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: Let's get our predictions for the five-game road trip, John.
• 13:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, okay, I was wrong when I said five-game road trip earlier.
• 13:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's three on the road, one at home, and then one away.
• 13:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to say three and two.
• 13:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: My heart wants to go with four and one.
• 13:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: I really do.
• 13:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: But I feel like the ACEs have to be able to get one back, even though it's going to be an A++.
• 13:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I think the links are going to be tough.
• 13:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: So, I'm gonna save three into you.
• 13:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: But since the boundaries aren't one of the five, I'm gonna actually go four and one.
• 13:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: The boundaries aren't one of the five.
• 13:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: I might say three and two, but that's right.
• 13:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
• 13:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
• 13:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: We're all picking the boundaries against the fever from now on, right?
• 13:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think that's kind of a deal.
• 13:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: I just think, yeah, because I think they're a bad matchup for us on a slate, yeah.
• 13:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: John pointed out last time and then we watched it happen.
• 13:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna say five and a half.
• 13:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
• 13:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'll take the under.
• 13:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks again, guys.
• 14:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks so much to John and Michelle, thanks so much to you for listening.
• 14:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: We'll be back next week, probably back on our normal day of Sunday.
• 14:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: And if anything happens, special during a game during the week.
• 14:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: John Michelle and I will call a podcast together and react to it.
• 14:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: Of course, we also docked Pacers, Colts, IU, Purdue, and Indie Car, plus Major League Baseball and Greg versus Will versus the World on the Simphal Indian Sports Report Network.
• 14:39
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• 14:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks again.
• 14:51
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