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Fever 95, Storm 75: Reaction with John & Michelle (Podcast 2.9.3) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Hey everybody, please check out Central Indiana Sports Central, which we release every morning with news on the Pacers fever cults, IU Purdue, Indie Car, high school sports, basically anything going on around Central Indiana.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Again, every morning, Central Indiana Sports Report.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: With your host, Greg Midgowns.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome back to Central Indiana Sports Report, fever fans, and John and Michelle for
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  [SPEAKER_00]: a reaction to, well, I got to say John and Michelle a stunning, ninety five, seventy five win over the storm.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The night that was Odyssey Sims night, John.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I was a fantastic game.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to tell you that right now, the thing I noticed being at the game and watching it, the passing tonight from multiple players was just unbelievably good.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: The ball movement was incredibly good.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So like that's what they need to focus on.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: You mentioned Odyssey Sims and I was talking with my daughter at the game.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I was like she's coming in and playing really well.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I know the first couple of games were rough, but like she's starting to fit in.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: She's had time to be with the team and we played.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: No, it's good.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: No, I think their defense was with active hands tonight was as impressive as it's been since all of the injuries have happened at the team.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean, I really do think that it's just one of those things that like we have two third, like that was the thing I needed to be reminded we have two thirds of our core with the Lea Boston Kelsey Mitchell there, they're still here and they're still playing great and and that's the way combined for forty eight points tonight.
• 1:41
  [SPEAKER_03]: Unbelievable, like Alia Boston had a fantastic night like I mean Kelsey at a great night, honestly at a great night, but if you made me pick player in the game, I'm going with Alia tonight like Alia played just incredibly well.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: twenty seven point nine rebounds three assists two steels.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She was ten for eighteen from the field six for nine of the line even made a three jump.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, like she played so well.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And it was just nice to see that reminder like we've been thinking about all the people that we've lost and all the injuries because they've been numerous and it's been devastating and incredibly bad for the flow and like just getting into a rhythm.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: But those two are two thirds of our core, but they're just like two thirds of what makes this team what it is.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And the rest of the pieces have just had to move around so much.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Honestly, Sims though, give her credit like she played so well tonight.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: She played incredibly well.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: You're right.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I absolutely, she was a joy to watch on the course.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So as she's starting to fit with the team, I, it's almost kind of like the airy McDonald situation like she's coming in and filling a role so well and making the letting the players around her play their game now.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And John, how about that that banked in three pointer from Caitlin Clark range there in a quarter.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's look on her face.
• 2:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So much fun.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Well, you could tell it was a desperation.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: He that was on our end.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: We were on that end of the court and we were on that side of the court.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So we saw it pretty close.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And my daughter just looked at me, she said, she channeled CC and I'm like, yes, she really did.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: She knew she had to take it because the shot clock was at like two seconds and there was nothing she could do so she heaved it and banked it in and like the place just erupted.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: It was really, really cool.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Big moment.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: By the way, in case you hadn't noticed, John was there tonight.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: John was the atmosphere at the fieldhouse.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: At the beginning of the game,
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  [SPEAKER_03]: It was a little muted.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm just gonna, I don't know.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Like, I'll be real.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I felt kind of like, we've talked.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I felt kind of down about the team was.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So for also, you could kind of feel that in the atmosphere.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Everybody got a Caitlin's Clark Nike shirt for free on their seats.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So that made people a little happy.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: But as the game started to go, the crowd was into it.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: When Kelsey Mitchell broke Caitlin Clark's single season scoring record, the place exploded for Kelsey.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So I think it's really important to note.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: that no matter what people on socials or the internet are saying like the fever fans support Kelsey Mitchell a ton and when they were happy for even though she broke Caitlin's record so I love Caitlin as much as anybody I want Caitlin on the floor I want Caitlin to get all the records she can get I want her to go off for a long time but I'm a fever fan first and foremost I love Kelsey Mitchell too and we have to give her the love because she's been playing incredibly well
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I know we do, but I'm just saying like the crowd that was there was showing Kelsey love.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So my thing is for all the people that think that Kelsey should leave because the fever fans will love her and also fever fans will love her fever fans love a Lea Boston fever fans love Lexi Hall.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: My god, how tough is that woman?
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  [SPEAKER_03]: How tough is she guys?
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Did you see the hint earlier on?
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I thought I was going to have to go fight somebody on the field.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You got to go fight.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Yes, I definitely did and the people around me.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I thought I was crazy, but I was not happy when that happened.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Like I could see that they both went down and I could see that Lex was in pain.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Then she went to the locker room when I was crumbly.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to go get a pretzel in a soda because I'm mad and I need to walk this off.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: and then she came back out and the place just went nuts for and she thought I don't know what happened when she got hit but when she came back in like she was on like another level of like like even higher than her usual hustle and then she drilled a three and I'm like boom so what she have like she was plus thirty one on the plus minus which is absolutely she had nine rebounds five points which isn't a ton of points but like she was making a difference on the court I think that everybody plays their role and let's place her role and even though her role doesn't show up on the stat she she's doing her part
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And she's comfortable with that.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And that's another reason why I think she's one of my favorite players.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Johnny were talking about how fever fans love Kelsey Mitchell.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They do because Kelsey Mitchell has been a fever from the time she's been, you know, she was drafted by the fever.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Has always played here.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So the true fever fans, the ones that have followed the team and stuck with them through thick and thin, they appreciate and love Kelsey Mitchell because she has done that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And she just
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And I will even take it a step further.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I think the fever fans that came, I don't want to discount fever fans that came just because of Caitlyn Clark because they're welcome here.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: If you just started watching the fever because of the heart, I think that has to be stated because the Clarke's and the ones that are all only Caitlyn Clark, they drive me nuts.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: It doesn't mean you're not a bad fan or not a fever fan if you came here because of Caitlyn Clark.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: There's lots of people and welcome.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Welcome to the fever fandom.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I think it's growing the love for everybody.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, true fever fans love Alia, Lexi, Sophie, and Caitlyn all the same.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's how we feel.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The wind tonight makes the fever, twenty and eighteen up to six now in the standings.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But still just a game and a half ahead of sparks, the teens from six to nine are just a game and a half separated.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So big wind tonight.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Huge wind.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: The standings are just so tight.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Six games left.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Next one is Friday at ten in Los Angeles, a team that just cannot beat.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I would like to see them get at least one against Los Angeles, but I think that doesn't seem right.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I think it's going to be rough.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Next three are next three on the road for the last six are on the road.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They don't return home until a week from Friday when they host the Chicago sky.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And I'll be at that game too.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I got tickets to that game from my daughter for my birthday.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Very win by the fever tonight and you know Seattle is a team that I didn't think was going to make very many who didn't think would make a lot of ways.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This year would be interesting.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They're also a team that came out surprisingly and played well, but I think they've kind of their level of play.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: has become so inconsistent.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And I have to then because of McKenzie Holmes, I'm trying to write you an end to games that are all when they're not playing the fever.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But that's what measures me about the fever.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And only they did at night is how they have continued to stay even keel through all of their entries.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I was going to add, I think this dorm has some internal locker rooms stuff going on and they've had some player.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: They've had some stuff that's causing them some struggles to follow at that.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: That's good.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if I mentioned this enough.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I love Skylar digging foot.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Fuck the story.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I mean that from the bottom of my heart.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The entire WNBA has made an enemy of me except for the fever and somehow the team in New York, which I really like as well.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Weird.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much to Jonathan Michelle for joining me once again.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I love Susie.