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A Special Fever Report: Another Season-Ending Injury (Podcast 2.4.3) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

0:03
[SPEAKER_05]: Welcome to a special edition of the fever report with John and Michelle.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Today, joining John Robertson and Michelle Garmin are my cuttle and Sam Frick talking about another season in the injury.
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[SPEAKER_05]: How it all got this way and what it means.
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[SPEAKER_05]: and we will not have a reaction podcast following Friday night's game because it's the opening night of Friday night football but we will have a feeble report on Saturday again with John and Michelle and at the end of this podcast he gave you a great teaser.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're a listening to a special edition of the fever report.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Today, Greg, John Robertson and Michelle Garmin are joined by Mike Hutssel and Sam Frick.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And here's your host, and my favorite person in the world, Greg Midgelt.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You may be say that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Welcome, fever fans of the Central Indiana Sports Report and a special edition of the fever report.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I think the plan John and Michelle is still to do one on Saturday between the two links games.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We had to do one tonight because more bad news.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, the official news that comes out today.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Sophie Cunningham is out for the season.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So yet another guard down for the fever.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Roodle.
1:28
[SPEAKER_04]: You can say bad luck.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You can say Indiana's basketball teams are cursed right now.
1:32
[SPEAKER_04]: If you want, or you can say that the WMBA is allowing people to just play incredibly dirty against Indiana.
1:38
[SPEAKER_04]: And I think that's the actual case.
1:41
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, I hate to be that guy, but I'm going to die on the hill that right now, other players are targeting fever players and they're letting it get in the W and Bayes just letting it happen.
1:51
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, Brea Hartley, she's been doing this to other players.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The view been seen as social media clips.
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[SPEAKER_04]: play of late has been cheap and very it's not basketball play it is just I agree with you Michelle she's been doing it to other players but it's not just one one player that's doing it like look at the Phoenix game look at how hard like AT was dirty against the fever and we lose
2:17
[SPEAKER_04]: Sid calls in an airy McDonald to ridiculous stuff.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I guess I feel like it's been going on all season and we've gotten to the point that we've added enough games that the players are already fatigued and then when they're being attacked by people that just don't like them, we have so many injuries.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So, I mean, it's probably partially just bad luck, but I do think that the WMBA has to get the riffing under control and like, get these games.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Like, you know, you can say it's a physical league all you want, but when you have this many injuries to guards, it's ridiculous.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And I'm pretty frustrated with it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I do think it's ridiculous, because I think that the officiating is just so, just so inconsistent on what they allow and what they don't allow.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You can't have
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[SPEAKER_03]: some of your best players in your marketable players.
3:06
[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm sorry, Alyssa Thomas, you're not a marketable player anymore.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, you're on the other side of the hill going down.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You're not climbing and you're rising and I can't help it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Then WMBA wasn't in a spotlight saying why it is now.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But you should enjoy it and reap the benefits from it instead of go out and
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[SPEAKER_03]: and be nasty about it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But we can we agree that the league is supported by two different types of fans.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'll even go as far as three types of fans if you want to separate the purely Caitlyn Clark people as their own thing.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But there's the newer fans that care about basketball and enjoying the fast-paced game.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And then there's the old guard that only cares about the activism in the nonsense.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And like the activism nonsense people do not want to see the fever be successful.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And they cheer and love all this injury in the league doesn't know who to to support.
4:02
[SPEAKER_04]: So they're just like, let's just try and keep everybody happy by letting them attack the fever and break the plate.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I just really hit me wrong.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You guys know I'm a huge fan of the league.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I love watching the fever and I go to lots of games.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And I watch other games I have in B or W and B a league pass, so it's not like I'm only a fever fan, but like it's I'm pretty tired of watching it with the what they're allowing to happen.
4:27
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, no, I agree.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I don't like that activist that old fan base that you're you're not about they're not about basketball and I will agree with you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think there are three types of fan bases just because and I think the part is I think that third fan base, the obsessed Caitlin Clark group.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think they agitate and make it worse.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's just like this.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if you saw the tweet today.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They were talking about somebody tweeted about Kelsey Mitchell and she's been doing an elite score level for two years and and how important she's been the fever this year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And he's Caitlyn Clark obsessed fans are like, oh, I mean, I can't believe you forget all about Caitlyn Clark and everything.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's like, you, you can appreciate Kelsey Mitchell.
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[SPEAKER_03]: There's nothing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That post said not didn't even mention Caitlin.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It wasn't even in comparison.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I didn't have Katie shouldn't have to say anything.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Caitlin stand out eventually.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She shouldn't.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You know, not her fault.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Joining John and Michelle and myself today is my cuttle and Sam Frick.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Let's bring them in now starting with my cuttle your thoughts.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Well, I'm going to go back to kind of what John and Michelle were just talking about there.
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[SPEAKER_06]: You know, you could almost compare the
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[SPEAKER_06]: Katelyn Clarkies to a group of people that I absolutely low than this world in those of the Swifties.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I don't have a single issue with Taylor Swift.
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[SPEAKER_06]: It's the best way Taylor Swift that I can't stand.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I don't have a problem with Caitlin Clark.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I don't think anybody should have a problem with Caitlin Clark.
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[SPEAKER_06]: But the people that just
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[SPEAKER_06]: can't have a rational conversation.
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[SPEAKER_06]: So I think that's where a lot of the animosity comes from is because all this praise and everything that's being heaped on Caitlin by this like hive of people this weird like cultism of Caitlin Clark.
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[SPEAKER_06]: She's a tremendously talented player.
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[SPEAKER_06]: She is transcendent.
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[SPEAKER_06]: She is
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[SPEAKER_06]: the LeBron James Michael Jordan of this league.
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[SPEAKER_06]: She's brought so many eyes to this league and it's just created jealousy because people hate what's the most popular thing.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And then there's this entire like web of people who just can't have a rational conversation about her.
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[SPEAKER_06]: because their fanboys, their fanatics.
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[SPEAKER_06]: So, her fans are kind of the Swifties of the WNBA, and it's just created so much A&Mossy that has spilled over to the fever franchise.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I agree with everything you said, but I think we have to separate, because I would consider myself a Caitlyn Clark fan, and I think there's lots of rational Caitlyn Clark fans who absolutely love her, but it's the extreme weirdos.
7:03
[SPEAKER_04]: it's kind of like anything the the small wacky do extremists are always the loudest ones and the people go nuts I responded to tweet yesterday because somebody was ripping on how the indiana fans don't love Kelsey Mitchell and I'm like the majority of us do we all love Kelsey Mitchell and we all scream for it games and cheer for us loudly as we can it's just the vocal the extremely vocal Twitter idiots are the ones that don't
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[SPEAKER_06]: We on this podcast were trying to get her an MVP discussion just a few episodes ago.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I don't think it's that the fan base hates Kelsey Mitchell whatsoever.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, we love her.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We do over.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Here's the thing and that those Clark like you said, like a world call in the Clarkies, I guess.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's just like there was a tweet about Paige Becker's setting a franchise record for assist.
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[SPEAKER_03]: All of those Clarkies went nuts.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Caitlin Clark, that's not
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[SPEAKER_03]: They didn't see franchise record.
8:00
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, Caitlin Clark can't set the Dallas franchise record because she's not a member of the Dallas friends.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And that also brings up, there's a lot of different players that have their own sub little fan groups.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Like, Angel Reese has, has her, whatever, I don't forget what they're called, the Reese's Pieces.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And they have, yeah, they have some.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And then pages, pagebackers, fans are, so they all have these little pockets.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, we can all be, we can all be fans of the Cameron Brink just because, I mean, without the name.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Not silent.
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[SPEAKER_06]: That's an island of one.
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[SPEAKER_04]: This is kind of modern sport where everybody has their their fandoms but I feel like it's exacerbated in the WNBA where like they can't like anyone else.
8:46
[SPEAKER_04]: It's like if you say anything about someone you have to acknowledge their favorite or you're just wrong or you have to acknowledge their demographic or your a bigot or whatever and that's just very tiresome.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I just want to watch basketball.
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[SPEAKER_06]: That's the other thing is so much of this league and we talked about it before it feels like
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[SPEAKER_06]: almost feels like a job just trying to be a fan of this league because you have to like just listen to all these tires and debates and all this conversation about everything except what's going on on the floor and now you have to break down a photo of Breah Hartley like just absolutely like grinning about what looking like she hurt
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[SPEAKER_06]: Sophie, whether or not that was actually real or not.
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[SPEAKER_06]: The photo was real, but whether or not she was like lashing about hurting her.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Now we have looked really bad though.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Let's discuss that for it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It looked really bad.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know if they just happened to catch a bad snap like moment of the action, but like that that photo made me angry as a fever fan on the fan of Sophie.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I was inclusive, John.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It could be she was grunting and making that face.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's
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[SPEAKER_04]: I get it, but man, I'm telling you, like photos, evoke emotions.
10:01
[SPEAKER_04]: I agree with you.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's probably just a bad snap, but it's kind of like that dunk, the the Murphy dunk on the one guy.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The guy looked like his pooped his pants in midair, right?
10:11
[SPEAKER_05]: It was bringing Sam and his thoughts on the entire situation.
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[SPEAKER_02]: First off, it is a pleasure to be on this show, talking about the Indiana female voice as women's basketball grown so much in the last several years or so.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I remember being in attendance for opening game against the Chicago sky, my sister enjoying basketball game to talk about basketball, something that we don't always have in common with sports and getting here to enjoy the game of women's basketball and talking about it, you know, she shares for a different team, but watching that game and opening game, seeing that Caitlin Clark triple double, watching what this team could look like
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[SPEAKER_02]: when they're healthy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You can see the potential there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think the thing that's most fortunate is, is we looked and we looked back at this season.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to be looking at a lot of what ifs, the whole thing to want to bond or write the injuries, the Clark situation with the growing right now is so becoming her.
11:00
[SPEAKER_02]: Ari McDonald, what a story.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Ari, we forget this so much about Ari McDonald coming in.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Have an amazing story after being cut by the L.A.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Sparks and what now having a great season by Ari McDonald's standards and tell that injury, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Leah Boston had a great start to the season as well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think we looked back in the season as it was a season full of potential, but unfortunately with the bad luck of the injuries, the physicality lead maybe
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[SPEAKER_02]: going a little too far, whatnot.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think it puts the fever in this situation where it's a lot of what is, what's interesting about this season is we're still in a playoff position and we have all these injuries right now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's the thing that's amazing about this season is even if we don't do anything in the playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The fact that we're even knocking on the door, getting into the dance in the playoffs is way better right now than what we were in, two thousand, twenty-two when there were only about a thousand people in attendance.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You can feel the energy with the Indiana fever with Caitlyn Clark.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The fans, they have there.
11:58
[SPEAKER_02]: They got the Lexi Hall thing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We forget so much about what Lexi Hall brings on both ends of the floor.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We don't forget about Lexi Hall on this show.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Definitely do not forget about Lexi Hall.
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[SPEAKER_05]: This is the official favorite of the central Indiana sports report.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Although I want to say this as well.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Thank you Kelsey Mitchell on a Lea Boston, otherwise the season would be just completely mess.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Can we get a Lea and like bubble wrap or something?
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[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, no kid.
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[SPEAKER_06]: We can't get something bad happened to her or to Kelsey or to Lexi.
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[SPEAKER_04]: My biggest question is like, I agree with all the way.
12:37
[SPEAKER_04]: Say it like it was a I picked the fever to win the championship before this evening even started before we made all the trades.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I made a bet on them at like ten to one because I thought it was a solid solid bet.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I think it's no good now and I'm not that worried about it, but like
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[SPEAKER_04]: The complication is with the expansion draft for two teams next year, who do we protect and what is our roster look like next year?
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[SPEAKER_04]: I agree that there's not much chance that they go far in the playoffs this year, even if they make the playoffs, I think we're maybe at one and a half long as they're healthy, they'll be all right.
13:06
[SPEAKER_02]: I think that's a really good question because I think not even just next season, but in the many years to follow aside from two thousand and twenty seven, I think is the only year
13:15
[SPEAKER_02]: that we don't have an expansion team, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Because there are going to be several expansion teams when that's five years.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So not only county, what's coming up next season, but you got teams in Detroit, Cleveland, Philadelphia, and whatnot.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And don't forget, it's coming all season, about eighty percent of the leads are going to be free agents as well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So what you're seeing today, so I think the fever, much like all of us, I think they're probably pondering what that roster is going to look like next season.
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[SPEAKER_02]: How they're going to build around Caitlin Clark, can they
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[SPEAKER_02]: continue to, to convince Kelsey Mitchell about the vision of the Indiana fever, you know, get lia busted committed into that process.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then try to build that roster from there because I think you can tell on paper when the when the team is healthy and everything is at least clicking to the level.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We think this is a team that can't compete with the lights of Minnesota New York.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They just all sorts of things are right now.
14:06
[SPEAKER_02]: I think right now is just there's just that sense of short term uncertainty has to what free agency to look like and all by the way.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We have
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[SPEAKER_02]: the CBA situation right now, which is currently on Boeing as we speak.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that was something I was going to bring up here in a minute, because I didn't, I, I have thoughts on on that too.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But back real quick before we move on, I think that Kelsey, Alia and Caitlin have built a friendship that goes beyond just, they're worried, like I really truly believe they, they are in it together, kind of like the Pacers were like the power of friendship.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I really think that's, I don't think they're going anywhere.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I worry beyond that three who we have, if we lose Lexi Hall, albeit the saddest person in Indiana,
14:49
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know if you were an agreement or not, but I think the league's expanding too fast, and I think that's gonna hurt the overall quality of basketball.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I worry about that as well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then just a situation with Connecticut alone is already a mess in itself.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know the Lee's been trying to get Houston involved as well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so that's already a mess there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I worry about maybe delete going a little too fast and maybe the sense of maybe being overly saturated if you would have talent.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I worry about that just to hear as well.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think growing too fast and sitting at teams, but I want to tell you what, I am watched women's
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[SPEAKER_03]: basketball and women's college basketball for years.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not a casual fan of fact.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I probably have seen more women's games in the last two to three years than men's games.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And there's a lot of, through the lot of really good players in the women's college basketball right now.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm telling, they're still a couple years away, but they can make.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That was my argument Michelle and John was saying they were spending too fast and he might be right still.
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[SPEAKER_05]: There's so much talent coming.
16:01
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, you're expanding too fast for talent.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I just think maybe some of the other stuff.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Think about it like this though, with all the injuries that the fever have had this year, how many times they've had to go to the street and just get somebody off the street who should very easily be on a roster.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Are you McDonald was not on an active roster?
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[SPEAKER_06]: Praise the industry for you, agent.
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[SPEAKER_06]: They just got beyond when
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[SPEAKER_06]: Grace Burd.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Grace Burd.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Grace Burd.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Her struggle to find a role for months.
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[SPEAKER_06]: She was signing seven day contract after seven day contract.
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[SPEAKER_06]: She finally found a rest of the season deal.
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[SPEAKER_06]: That's the type of player that is just not because there's not enough spots right now.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Now, John said he'll be the most upset person in the world if Lexi leaves.
16:47
[SPEAKER_06]: I think the most upset person in the world is whoever gets drafted to the city of Detroit.
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[SPEAKER_06]: So I do feel that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I agree.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm sure there's plenty of talent.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That's not my concern.
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[SPEAKER_04]: My concern is getting fan bases that we're going to support these teams and make it viable because it looks really bad if you are like getting a team into Troy again and they fall off again.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's just a bad look and I think the over expansion too quickly is just not good for the league.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And the other bad look for the league is going to be if we have a lockout in the middle of the playoffs, which I think is going to happen.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And as the expert on Philadelphia in this group, they don't care that they're getting a WNVH.
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[SPEAKER_05]: No, you're going to have another parent like care every time Caitlin comes to tell.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, yeah, that's the thing.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You're going to have an empty stadium except for when Indie comes to town or maybe Dallas at this point.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I bet they end up playing at the Polastera.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I'm almost willing to to bet they'll play home games at the Polastera.
17:51
[SPEAKER_03]: But here's the play.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The NBA office is stupid.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That's the pull point I've been trying to make this entire time.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They don't know who to take care of.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They don't, they don't know whether they want to support people who like basketball or if they want to support activists.
18:05
[SPEAKER_04]: And that's why the WMBA is terrible at business and has not been profitable for a long time.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Caitlyn Clark is amazing in generational and I love her so much and she's the reason that there's eyes on the league, but you can't tell me there hasn't been talent in the past that they haven't promoted.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The WBA League office is dumb.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They're just dumb.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They've done.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_05]: They do everything they can to make me not want to be a fan.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They do the same thing.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Obviously, what you fetch from the other hand have done pretty much everything right to make me can didn't you being a fan, which is why I'm still a fan.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I'm still a fake because I love I mean Caitlin brought the eyes and then she's gotten people to fall in love with everyone around her so that thank you to her.
18:42
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not a Clarky, but I'm in I love I do love Caitlin, but like it's made me care even more about Kelsey Mitchell.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's made me really pay attention to the boss and it got me my favorite player in the world Lexi Hall.
18:54
[SPEAKER_04]: The fever's done everything to market correctly and I even know the Clarkies get mad when the fever like socials are posting about other players and they're not putting Caitlin on the on the front of the graphics and whatnot, but they have to they have to build a brand around everyone letting Caitlin lead it.
19:11
[SPEAKER_04]: They can't just only market one player because if the player ends up heard or gone they're in trouble.
19:17
[SPEAKER_03]: I think Luke everyone's on.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What if Clarkies going to do with Caitlin decides that
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[SPEAKER_03]: She's going to get married and she's going to say, you're all because she wants to have to.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I can't, you know, a child.
19:28
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, oh, well, I was parking.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to react.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They're going to hate the baby.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They're going to be pissed off for the baby.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They're going to want to sacrifice it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They'll hate the snappy together.
19:40
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, they already, the way I saw a lot of them already do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I imagine what he is being would say.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, no, no, keep it for a year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What can we do?
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[SPEAKER_01]: We can't get, we can't get somebody else going.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, but they hate Kate and I'll call it too because there are two sides to this war, the WNPA.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's kind of, it's kind of obvious and the fever on one side and a lot of them are on the other and ESP and of course he's always seen him.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I want to talk about my conspiracy theory about the lock-out situation.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know if I've told you guys about it or not yet, but I have this belief that definitely the CBA was going to lock out regardless of whatever the deal was if the fever were in the hunt for championship.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I think that was a back pocket play by the players that don't like Caitlyn or the fever.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I still think that I still think there's a chance that we can unlock out.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm telling you, like, I truly think that the level of hatred for the fever runs that deep.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Well, John, let's talk more about that on Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That was a really nice teaser there.
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[SPEAKER_05]: On Saturday, I want to get the full conspiracy.
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[SPEAKER_05]: How's that?
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[SPEAKER_06]: That's an ultimate tease, man.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I was having, I was just having issues with Brianna Stewart being on the board when she
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[SPEAKER_06]: literally owns a competitive league but a competitive league but man you've got a next level with it so.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That all does play into the into the deal so there you go.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Same bat time.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Thank you so much guys.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Thanks so much to John Michelle Sam and Mike.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Once again, please join us again on Saturday for our regularly scheduled fever report.
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[SPEAKER_05]: where John Will reveal his Kennedy-like conspiracy theory.
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