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ATLANTA DREAM FORCE GAME 7! | WNBA FINALS · Hoops for Hotties

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: Hi, hot girls.
• 0:01
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to another episode of the Hoops for Hotties live show.
• 0:04
  SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Mariah Rose, and this is the one and only sports show for the girls, the gays of the days, and the straight men who don't admit they're not into sports.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome back, hotties.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: The Atlanta Dream said, not today.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: And we are going to a game seven on Halloween, and I need to talk about everything that just happened.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: I was in the building in Atlanta at Staff Farm Arena, and let me just tell you one thing from somebody who was there, bitch.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_00: That shit was fucking packed.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: Packed to the brim.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every seat full.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_00: And it was so loud.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: I've said this on multiple occasions.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_00: I've never been to an MNBA game in Atlanta though that was that loud.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_00: Granted, I've never been to an MNBA game in Atlanta that had that high of stakes, but I've never been a one that was that loud.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_00: I could you not.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: These dream games and the finals have been the most fun I've had at sporting events in my life.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_00: And listen, I'm a girl who gets lit at a sporting event.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_00: I was just off the ginger rail and I was having a time, bitch, off the gingy, having the time of my life.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_00: Okay?
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I'm not even gonna like lie because if you see photos of me at the game or anything like that, I do look stressed the hell out.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_00: Like I don't look like I'm having a good time.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_00: I promise I'm having a good time on the inside.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_00: It's just I was stressed from tip-off to the final whistle, okay?
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_00: To the final bell, to the fat lady saying.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_00: I was stressed out the whole time.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_00: I never felt comfortable, and neither did the Atlanta Dream.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_00: Let's talk about it.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_00: Atlanta said, nobody is celebrating a championship in our house.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_00: I am not about to see no fuck ass purple confetti up in Atlanta, bitch.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_00: Get that shit the fuck out of here.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_00: Not at 12:30 in my city during my lunch break.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_00: Hell nah.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_00: The dream beat Golden State 80 to 69 and tied the finals 3-3 and forced the first game seven and WNBA finals history.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_00: Making history this finals again.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_00: I love how everybody assumed that because the teams we aren't accustomed to hearing about 24-7 when we talk about the WNBA, be it the Aces, the Fever, because those teams aren't present in the finals, people had this assumption that people weren't gonna watch or people weren't gonna turn out.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, even the WNBA and the Atlanta, or well, the Atlanta Dream said, not us.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_00: But even the WNBA didn't assume Atlanta would make it to the finals, didn't have that sort of faith.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_00: And look how that turned out.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_00: This has been incredible.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_00: The whole city shown out.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_00: There were celebrities in the in the crowd today.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_00: Usher was there, Gunna was there hiding.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_00: I'm pretty sure that was Gunna sitting next to Usher hiding.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_00: They didn't put him up on the Jumbotron, but I was like, is that Gunna?
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_00: And that was so young ho of me that they put Usher up on the screen and I looked up and I said, Gunna, girl, like lock in.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_00: But it was absolutely incredible.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_00: So many performances, the vibes were incredible, it was so loud.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_00: I had a great time.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_00: Atlanta came out hot.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_00: A 13-0 run helped the dream uh get ahead 32 to 15 after the first quarter.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_00: They led 46 to 26 at halftime and pushed the advantage to as many as 25 points.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_00: Golden State spent the entire game trying to recover from being in a deficit.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_00: And the problem was after halftime, and this is just the eye test, like this is just what I saw.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_00: After halftime, it appeared that Golden State came out with a vengeance.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_00: And because their identity is in defense, they played better defense, right?
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, if that's what you want to call it, they were beating each other up.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_00: It was WWE and that.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_00: They took bodies flying everywhere.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if y'all could tell on TV quite how violent that game felt, but wow, bodies hitting the floor, left, right, center.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_00: I was shocked, shocked.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_00: But they came out of the half, obviously did what they know how to do and played defense extra, extra hard.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_00: The problem is they couldn't make shots.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_00: So they were stopping us from scoring, but they weren't scoring.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_00: So the score was just sitting at the same like 50 to 26 or some shit like that for two, three minutes.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm thinking, okay, we need to make a shot because this is making me nervous.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_00: This is making me nervous.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_00: They could not make shots.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_00: And at one point, I I won't name any names.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_00: At one point, one of the players, because y'all, they had me sitting right behind the scores table.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm all in everybody's business.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_00: I'm all in everybody's business.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_00: The refs, when they're reviewing shit, when they're doing a challenge, I'm thinking, no, Smash! Don't challenge that.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_00: No, because I can hear them.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_00: I can see them.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_00: I'm right behind the scores table.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_00: I know exactly what the fuck going on.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_00: I can see the replay slow as hell.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, oh fuck, you wasted your challenge.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_00: Oh fuck.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_00: And then that rhyme file they called didn't touch her.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_00: Didn't touch her.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_00: Didn't touch her.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_00: Didn't touch her.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_00: Didn't touch her.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_00: Y'all want to force a close game so fucking bad.
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  SPEAKER_00: Didn't touch her.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_00: See how I'm getting off topic?
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_00: Anyways, I was all in everybody's business because I was sitting behind the scores table.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_00: And I saw one of the Valkyrie's players tell, Miss Nat, she said, I'm just throwing things up.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_00: Like I'm just throwing shit up.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_00: Like because they were trying to draw fouls, right?
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_00: They they couldn't make a shot.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_00: The offense was not in the building.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_00: Not in the building.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_00: Anyhoosal.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_00: Alicia Gray and Ryan Howard absolutely delivered.
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_00: First of all, some of those threes Alicia was hitting had the crowd.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, my eardrums were about to burst.
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_00: How loud it was in that arena.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some of those threes she was knocking down.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_00: And Angel was trying to get Angel was trying to get in there with the threes.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_00: As soon as Angel did hit a three, though, I was like, okay, we're gonna win because I believe we're undefeated when Angel hits a three, right?
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_00: In the playoffs.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_00: So as soon as Angel hit a three, I was like, oh, we good.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_00: But Alicia went off, absolutely off.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_00: Ryan delivered, Alicia Gray scored 23 points.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_00: Howard added 21, and Angel Reese contributed 15 points, and of course a double double.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_00: Those rebounds are so important.
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_00: When you're watching the game, like those rebounds, because both of these teams, I don't want to say struggle offensively because Atlanta doesn't.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_00: They're just kind of struggling offensively at points because Golden State's defense is so good, and it really is good.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_00: They can't score worth of nothing.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_00: Like they could not score worth of nothing.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_00: And if they are scoring, it's scary, right?
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_00: If they are having a good scoring game, are spooky, but then that's not their identity, right?
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_00: And Atlanta, we do have a good offense.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_00: It can be inconsistent at times, okay?
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_00: But we have enough talented players that somebody usually shows up.
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_00: But those rebounds, and it's so funny that Angel was made fun of for the whole me bounds situation and for stat padding.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_00: But when you're watching, especially in these finals, those rebounds are so important.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_00: Getting those second chances to make shots are so important.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_00: Every possession in the finals matters, and you can just tell Atlanta has such an identity and fighting for every single possession to the point where I was watching this game and we are winning by 25 points, and Atlanta is acting like we're losing.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_00: Their whole energy is giving, like, oh no, no, no, like we're not at the doghouse yet.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like their whole energy was as if they were losing.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_00: Like it was scary.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_00: I I just got a text from my girl Wilgory, and she she's gonna say, Sister, we gotta pull up to San Francisco.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, um Gabby Williams led Golden State with 26 points while Tiffany Hayes added 15.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_00: The shooting was the difference.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, I literally wrote a note in my notes app.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_00: I have to pull it up because I was gagged down.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_00: The Valks were shooting 24% from the field at halftime.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_00: And I believe it was like 23% from three.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_00: Meanwhile, the dream were shooting 53% from three.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, like the Valkyries 24% at halftime from the field.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_00: Girl, like, are y'all like what are what guys?
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_00: Guys, guys, guys, let's be serious.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_00: It was really bad.
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_00: And honestly, it scares me because had the Valkyries been shooting better, we would have lost that game.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_00: They they they closed the lead to about 10, 12 in the fourth quarter, and it was getting scary there for a minute.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, please make a shot, please make a shot, and thank God Alicia Gray made a three and like saved us.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_00: The city showed up.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_00: Uh despite a 12:30 p.m.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_00: Thursday tip-off, Atlanta announced a sellout.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_00: I am so, so, so happy to have been there and felt the energy in there.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_00: And it was just one of those beautiful moments in women's sports that even though there were obstacles in our path and making the WNBA finals feel as big as they deserve for it to feel, we knocked those fucking obstacles down.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_00: That is my summary of game six.
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, but to understand how we got here, we have to go back because this series has more plot twists than a damn reality show reunion.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, here's what happened.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_00: In game one, Golden State won 68-64, a close one at Chase Center.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_00: Seven lead changes and six ties.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_00: Then Golden State closed on a 17-6 run.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_00: Gabby Williams led with 26 points.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_00: And this was the franchise's first ever finals win.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_00: Angel finished with 14-12, and this was the game where she said that she was embarrassed about their performance.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_00: So we move on to game two, where Angel said, not today.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_00: This was the game that if they win the finals, Angel Reese can really hang her hat on.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_00: The Dream won 79 to 65 to tie the series 1-1.
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_00: Angel had 30 and 16.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_00: Alicia Gray added 18 points.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_00: Ryan Howard set a finals record with six steals.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_00: Jordan Canada had 13 points.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody showed up.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, Jordan Canada had 13 and 10.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_00: This was Atlanta's first finals win ever.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_00: After going 0 and 10 in three previous trips to the finals, this was a huge game.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_00: Got Atlanta back into the series.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_00: Then in game three, Atlanta absolutely took over.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_00: Won 97 to 71 to take a 2-1 series lead.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_00: I was also at that game.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_00: The Dreamer Undefeated when I'm there.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_00: So I just want to like point out that the Dreamer Undefeated when I'm there.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_00: Um, anyways, wait, but I won't be at game seven.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't matter.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_00: Who am I?
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_00: Anyways, um, game three, Atlanta took over.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_00: We won 97 to 71 to take a 2-1 series lead.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_00: Angel Reese had 21 and 12, Ryan Howard out at 16, and Nas had 15.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_00: 97 points was the most Atlanta has scored against Golden State in six meetings this year.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_00: This was a sold-out crowd.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_00: All the celebs were there, it was absolutely lit.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_00: Then Golden State stole a game in our in our arena.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I guess our arena, because they'd be treating us like second rate, like we like we're renting.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_00: But, anyways, we kind of bar.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_00: You see how I just get like distracted.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_00: Anyways, Golden State stole a game at our house.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_00: Go they won 67 to 62 in Atlanta to tie the series 2-2.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_00: Gabby Williams led with 17.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_00: Kia Stokes grabbed 16 rebounds, and Atlanta turned the ball over 14 times in the first half alone.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_00: The Dream cut a 16-point lead down to six in the third quarter, but couldn't finish.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_00: And Golden State improved a 5-1 in clutch playoff games.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna stop there.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, it's very obvious, right?
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_00: Actually, I'll tell you about game five real quick.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_00: The Valkyries won 64 to 55 at home and take a 3-2 series lead in game five, right?
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_00: The Dream had 17 turnovers.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_00: So my big takeaway from this series so far is Atlanta has won the blowouts.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_00: Meanwhile, Golden State has won the closer games.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_00: As long as Atlanta gets out to a good start, right?
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_00: As long as Atlanta gets a big comfortable lead, we good.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_00: When the game is close, that's when I start getting scared.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_00: That's when things start getting very, very, very scary.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, I think the key in game seven for me is turnovers, taking care of the ball, right?
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_00: Taking care of the ball, everybody playing together, not getting too high or too low, and getting off to a good start.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_00: That is my that is my main main wish for game seven.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_00: Because if it's close, based on how we have seen these games play out, Golden State will be favored.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_00: So those are my takeaways.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_00: I'm nervous, okay?
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_00: I'm nervous.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that a big key in game seven are making sure.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_00: Honestly, whoever wins the turnover battle will probably win the game, right?
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, if Golden State can shoot, shit, fuck damn.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_00: But um, we're gonna have a quick Hoopsar Hotis University segment and talk a little bit about why turnovers have decided this series so far.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_00: A turnover is basically a mistake, it's when a team loses the ball before getting a shot up.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_00: A bad pass, a stolen ball, stepping out of bounds, or an offensive foul, those are all turnovers.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_00: The thing about these teams is they're both really good defensive teams.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_00: So basically, in this series, turnovers have been a really big deciding factor because both of these teams are really talented defensively.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_00: So they can do things like get a lot of steals, knock the ball out of each other's hands.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_00: They're fighting for rebounds.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_00: Like a lot of the physical play are forcing turnovers and forcing mistakes team to team, right?
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_00: Points off turnovers are when a team scores a point right after the other team gives the ball away.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_00: So let's say they lose their handle, like they're dribbling and they lose the ball and the other team gets it, and then they score a point, that's a point of a turnover.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_00: These are usually very easy fast break buckets because the defense isn't set.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_00: So you're like by yourself, right?
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_00: Even though today it was very interesting because even when Atlanta would turn the ball over, because there are times with our offense, and listen, I'm not a basketball coach, but there are times with our offense where they just ball movement, ball movement, ball movement, but they don't know what the fuck they're doing.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_00: Like the ball is moving to nowhere.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_00: It's like we're like on a train, a runaway train to hell.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, girls, do we know what do we know what the plan here is on offense or whatever?
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_00: So there would occasionally be times that we would lose the ball, and then Golden State would get the fast break and miss the fucking layup.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm not talking too much shit.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_00: All respect, all respect to Golden State.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, look, I got your jersey.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_00: Because I'm not trying to provoke nobody.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_00: I got your jersey.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not trying to provoke nobody, you know.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_00: I just wanted to be fair.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_00: But the reason why this matters is you lose your chance to score and the other team gets an easy one.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_00: It kills momentum.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_00: And in low-scoring games, which a lot of these games have been, a few easy buckets decide everything.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_00: In game three, Atlanta forced 17 Valkyrie's turnovers and it's blowout win.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_00: In game four, Atlanta committed 14 turnovers in the first half.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_00: In game five, Atlanta lost when they had 17 turnovers turned into 21 golden stake points.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_00: You cannot win a game like that.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_00: You can't win a game like that.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_00: So that is Humster Hotters University for today.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_00: The turnover battle is going to be very, very important.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm going to be watching that in game seven.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_00: Next, okay, let's zoom out because this whole WNBA season, and listen, no matter what happens on Saturday, the season ends.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_00: And I, unlike today, where the game was at 12:30 in the afternoon, I will be somewhere in a Halloween costume watching this game, hollering and screaming and getting drunk.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_00: So I will not be coming on live immediately after game seven.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_00: So you will not see me to do a post-season debriefing.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_00: I just want to say.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, don't worry.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_00: You'll still see my reaction.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just not coming on live.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_00: When I'm in that state, I can't trust myself to just go off, you know, off the dome and be talking to you guys live on camera.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not stupid.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not Jalen Brown.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_00: I don't need to go live immediately.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_00: I'll make a nice little TikTok, watch it back, make sure I don't say nothing crazy, and then post it.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_00: Not that I usually make sure I didn't say anything crazy.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_00: Anyways, also somebody in the chat said, need that shirt.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_00: Hoops for Hottie's merch?
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_00: Question mark?
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_00: Hoops for Hottie's merch.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_00: Let me know if y'all buy this.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just kidding.
• 15:38
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• 15:40
  SPEAKER_00: It's actually, it's gonna happen.
• 15:42
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• 15:46
  SPEAKER_00: Not that not that you you let's just move on.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_00: We would not this was not planned.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_00: I was not planning on telling you about the merch this way, but here we are.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_00: Because I don't shut the fuck up.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_00: You see why I'm not going live on Halloween?
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, anyways, let's get back to it.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_00: So the dream.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_00: So the season has been absolutely incredible.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of people have talked a lot of shit about the WNBA.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_00: This is why nobody takes the WNBA seriously.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_00: Nobody watches the WBA.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_00: But my thing is this I think off-the-court mess and drama brings casual fans in.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_00: And this season had hell of it.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_00: On-the-court drama, off-the-court drama, relationship drama.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_00: The whole thing was entertaining.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_00: An Asia Wilson MVP.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_00: What would a WBA season be without that?
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_00: So, in honor of how incredible the Did I say did I say Angel Reese got a fifth MVP?
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_00: Because I did not mean to say that.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_00: Asia Wilson got a fifth MVP.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_00: But, anyways, my point is, um, this season has been absolutely incredible, and I've been entertained every second.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_00: And the only way I could properly give a send-off to this WNBA season.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_00: Since we are in the classroom for all things sports, for the girls, the gays, the days, and the straight and gentlemen that they're not actually watching sports.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_00: We are going to be having the first Hoops for Hoddies end of year, yearbook.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_00: Woo! Don't worry.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_00: Don't click off the live.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_00: Don't click off the live.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not about to ask you to spend money.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_00: Chill.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_00: Don't click off the live.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_00: Not about to ask you to spend money.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_00: Seriously.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_00: Okay?
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_00: This is completely free.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_00: It's just post on it's just post on the hoops for Hoddies Instagram.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_00: Calm down.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody, calm down.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_00: And um, my next live, I will be announcing who won each superlative.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_00: How do we vote, Mariah?
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_00: In the Hoops for Hoddies broadcast channel on Instagram.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_00: Follow at Hoops for Hoddies on Instagram, join the broadcast channel, the Hoddies, and I will be sending all of these superlatives in and you guys can vote.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_00: Mariah, please tell us the nominees.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_00: Fuck, tell us the nominees.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_00: Damn.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_00: I got you.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, I will say, you guys know that I'm messy, okay?
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_00: Like, let's be fucking real.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, you know that these you know that these are gonna be a little bit messy.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_00: You see how the live when I start about when I'm about to say something fucking messy, how the live views start going up.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_00: So obviously these are gonna be messy.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_00: So before I get into those, I'm going to tell you as a little bit of a debrief who won the official WBA awards.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_00: The MVP went to Asia Wilson the first time, five-time MVP to ever do it.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_00: And the first to win three straight, the defensive player of the year was none other than Atlanta's Barbie, Angel Reese.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_00: The rookie of the year was Olivia Miles from the Lynx.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_00: The coach of the year was Cheryl Reeve from the Lynx.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um, plot twist, they they both won rookie of the year and coach of the year, and then the Lynx got knocked out of the playoffs by the Liberty in the first round.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_00: Anyways.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_00: Anyways, and we're still waiting to find out who won uh finals MVP.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um, anyways, can we get messy real quick?
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_00: Now that I've I've scared everybody off who, you know, only was here for the mess and the drama.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, let's get messy.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_00: These are the Hoops and Hoddies, end of the year, yearbook superlatives.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and for those of you who don't watch the WNBA, this will be a fun little way for you to summarize and understand the mess that occurred throughout this WNBA season.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_00: If you missed anything, it'll probably come up in these superlatives at some point.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_00: Superlative number one in the yearbook is Class Clown.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I thought that was gonna be a drum roll.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_00: Girl, fuck these sound effects.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_00: The nominees for class clown are Sid and TP, the stud buds, Rakia Jackson, specifically for her TikTok.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_00: Were she was she coming out?
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know, but that shit was funny.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_00: It had everybody on the head of AC.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_00: Anyways, and Page Bickers.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_00: Page Beckers.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, Miss CEO.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_00: And y'all let me know if I miss somebody in the nominees.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_00: I literally came up with these off the top of my head, okay?
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_00: These are my nominees, bitch.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_00: At the end of the day, hoops for hotties is my shit.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_00: So thank you very much.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, Miss CEO, aka, most likely to stand on business.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_00: Angel Reese, for making her haters look absolutely fucking stupid as soon as she arrived in Atlanta, winning defensive player of the year and going to the finals.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_00: Whether she wins or not, she got the last laugh, bitch.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_00: Natasha Cloud, when she made that made that motherfucker Innis Cancer Freedom look fucking stupid coming and sitting courts out at a WNBA game to spread hate.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_00: Paige Beckers, when her girlfriend question mark was drafted to her team, and she set the motherfucking record straight right after the draft and told them reporters, hey, we've always kept it capital P for professional.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_00: So mind your fucking business.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_00: That's standing on business to me.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_00: And Asia Wilson for beating the Indiana fever after Sophie Cunningham made that stupid ass fucking TikTok.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_00: Our next superlative is called Hey! Remember when you Yeah, never do that again.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_00: And the nominees are Sophie Cunningham versus trans women, Kathy Ingelbert being the commissioner, the Atlanta Dream Arena controversy, and Sandy Brondello calling Angel Reese a protected species.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_00: Those are your nominees.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, yes, yes, yes.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_00: Remember that?
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_00: Like what the fuck?
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_00: Your nominees for best dressed are Angel Reese, DJ Carrington, Rakia Jackson, and Skylar Diggins.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_00: And your nominees for Least Likely Least Likely to Return, hopefully, are Dildos in his Cancer Freedom in the same vein.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_00: Riley Gaines and Kathy Engelbert.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_00: And your nominees for Gag of the Year are DeJanae Carrington's All-Star Weekend tweet.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_00: Where she called she called out, she named names for show.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_00: Y'all know what the fuck the tweet I'm talking about.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_00: Asia Wilson saying that she doesn't talk to Kathy unless she's handing her awards.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_00: That's it.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_00: Those are the nominees.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_00: And if you guys have any right, if you guys have any right-ups, oh, oh, I'm sorry.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_00: I forgot.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_00: I have a third nominee, and it's DJ Carrington again, tweeting white privilege after that Indiana fever game.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_00: And for best couple, the nominees are D B and AT, DJ and Jackie, Paige and AZ question mark, and Gabby Williams and Marine, Marina Johannes.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_00: So that's it for today's show.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_00: It all comes down to Saturday, game seven on Halloween.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_00: It's getting spooky in Bahalla.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_00: I'll be watching, and you better be too.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_00: Make sure you're following Hoops for Hoddies so you don't miss the wrap up next week and the announcements of the superlatives.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_00: And go join the Hoops for Hoddies broadcast channel on the Hoops for Hoddies Instagram page so you can vote on who wins the superlatives.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_00: Because don't fucking complain if you don't like the winners if you didn't vote.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_00: I love you, I mean it, and I'll see you after game seven.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_00: Bye.