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Fever 88, Wings 78: Recap & Reaction with John & Michelle (Podcast 342.3) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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  [SPEAKER_03]: What you are listening to now is the Central Indian Sports Report podcast number three hundred and forty two point three a rapid recap and then reaction from John Robertson and Michelle Garmin to the fevers fourth straight win and eighty eight seventy eight win over the wins and of course we're back after every single game to recap and react plus the fever report once a week
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You're listening to the central Indiana Sports Report with your host, Greg Midgales.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Welcome, fever fans to the central Indiana Sports Report and a recap in our reaction of the fever's eighty-eight seventy-eight win over the Dallas wings.
• 0:59
  [SPEAKER_03]: Another big, big win, even though it might not have been very impressive.
• 1:04
  [SPEAKER_03]: John, before I bring you in and we're also joined
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  [SPEAKER_03]: John Robertson and Michelle Garment of the Tipton Tribunal would call it her.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Let me do a quick look at the box score for everybody.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Kelsey Mitchell had a huge not twenty three points.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: She was nine for nineteen from the field.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Alia Boston, another double double, twelve points, eleven rebounds, and again, five assists.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: He is passing so well.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Natasha Howard, eleven points, sixteen rebounds, five assists, two steals, O Boston also had three steals.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And Ari McDonald continues to impress.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Chloe Bibi continues to impress and has been signed long-term.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And this is four wins in a row for the fever.
• 1:52
  [SPEAKER_03]: John, these are huge wins without again without Caitlin Clark.
• 1:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, excuse me, you're happy to see him continue to stack wins.
• 2:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: This is one of those games that they should win Dallas is not super strong.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They kept it close from the first half, but then they just started to play good solid basketball.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This is second half and then pulled us to the start of the pull away.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The half court John every win.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Every win without her is a big win and it allows her to recover at her pace.
• 2:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, that's fair.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And I had this discussion this morning with some people at the golf course.
• 2:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: I said, I think she needs to stay out as long as she needs to be fully healthy, because the team's doing okay without her.
• 2:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like, we're gonna need, we're gonna be more time to get back in rhythm once that she could as come back before the playoff so fully.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Few games before the playoff would be good.
• 2:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: But big win.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But again, like, there was nothing really spectacular about tonight, but it was just good solid basketball.
• 2:51
  [SPEAKER_03]: I love that Alia Boston is averaging five, six assists tonight lately.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, how many steals did she have?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I remember at least she had three steals because they were a couple really good ones defensively the team looked solid tonight, but then you have to ask yourself how much of that is because the team played good defense and how much was because it was Dallas, but regardless, regardless, then matter.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, there may have not been anything flashy about tonight, but
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  [SPEAKER_02]: mundane pedestrian.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Those wins are good and great and really good teams.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Those are games they win.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It wasn't an ugly win.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, it wasn't necessarily spectacular.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: No.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: But John, I do think some of that is when you say it's kind of who their opponent is too.
• 3:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think Alice is kind of a team.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, pages, pages good.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They have some things.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: But they're not the kind of team that's going to lead you to necessarily
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  [SPEAKER_02]: be super impressive all okay, because they have to kind of keep stuff a little ugly at times for them.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But how much is the difference?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Dallas didn't even play a recay the entire fourth quarter.
• 4:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: So you kind of wonder if they're trying to tank a little bit.
• 4:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you do.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, maybe they're thinking, hey, maybe if we think we'll get lucky like the fever and get back to back.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Number one picture, you know, they had Boston and then they got Clark.
• 4:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: We got backers and you know then maybe we will get the number one.
• 4:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: We can go get us out of UCLA and we can have our big post player with our guards.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you just don't know.
• 4:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, that was just the one thing I had to wonder because they had asked the coach if Rika was injured and they said, no, we're just trying to get our rookie some rotations, which makes sense and whatnot, but it's just
• 4:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: There are only three games up on Connecticut, so you have to, you just have to wonder if it's a thing.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just happy the fever got a win.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I will say that there was some really good passing from multiple players, you know, some really good half-core offense, which was good to see.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You saw them running, and airy had like a full-on full-core assist, soapy at one point, and it was very, what you would expect to see from Caitlyn, but like now, we've got airy doing it too, so.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I have high hopes for that.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you know, when we announced that they had signed her, we were kind of like, yeah, all right, whatever.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And what in addition, she's been for, absolutely.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And then the same thing with Chloe Bibi, she was in for, she made two, three, and thirty seconds.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And then they pulled her.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I'm sure I don't want to question Stephanie.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: She's obviously a much more experienced coach than me, but if somebody makes two, three, and thirty seconds, I'm probably going to leave him in for a little bit.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: A lot of coaches go in with a game plan, and they're sticking to it no matter what happens.
• 5:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I'm just saying, I think Chloe's going to end up being pretty solid, even though she didn't have a ton of points tonight.
• 5:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think she did well, and she's been a good addition.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Also, she's now a permanent member of the fever.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: She's no longer on seven day.
• 5:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: We hadn't mentioned that yet.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The great thing about Chloe is I think she's a player that is a great situational player and I think she's a player that she will do her job whether she's tasked with five minutes or she's tasked with twenty minutes.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: She seems ready to still her role and they need that.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean because her role is to provide outside shooting and score points off the bench and they need that.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Guys, twenty one points off the bench tonight.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: probably below what you want for a regular season game, but you also have to take in the consideration that Caitlyn Clarks out.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: When she comes back, area McDonald moves to the bench, then when you do that, then they had thirty six points as a bench unit.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So how much confidence does that give you with that more than that's more than fine?
• 6:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I was like, how much confidence is Eric going to have coming in off the bench?
• 6:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like, when you've got that level off the bench, that's almost like a TJ McCommel again.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And she's probably going to get minutes with K-One.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Two.
• 6:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, I would imagine.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: TJ would to Arizona, right?
• 6:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: So today, Ari's Arizona, we got a lot of connections here.
• 6:59
  [SPEAKER_03]: Did Ari go to Newcane first because TJ McConnell, what did Newcane say?
• 7:04
  [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know that much about her lore.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm guessing that.
• 7:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to do it because, you know, I think Lexi Hall is finally back to feeling and looking a hundred percent out there on the floor.
• 7:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you know, whatever little thing she was going through before the all-star break and everything here these last
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Three, four games.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: She is really back to her early season four.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, she's just doing what needs to be done.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Her defense.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Do you like her coming off the bench?
• 7:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, I think it's fine.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I can't find.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I prefer as a starter.
• 7:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: The record's better when she starts, but you know what?
• 7:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Whatever's working.
• 7:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: As long as she's happy and playing well, I'm good.
• 7:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: And she seems to be happy and she's playing well.
• 7:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm not one of these people that's going to sit here and complain until my favorite player gets exactly what I want as long as the players happy and the roles being filled the way it's supposed to.
• 7:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm good.
• 7:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think Sydney Colson has been playing better, too, is like.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Love Sydney.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And by the way, the other night we had a podcast saying the WNBA has no sense of humor.
• 8:08
  [SPEAKER_03]: It should have been the WNBA has a little bit of sense of humor because Sydney Colson is hilarious.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: No, she's funny.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: She's absolutely funny.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: All right, guys, the
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  [SPEAKER_03]: fever go out west now on sunday and a quick turnaround for a three p.m.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: game on ABC against the Seattle storm.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: They're a new arena there in Seattle and then on Tuesday they are in Los Angeles play a spark scene that they just can't beat.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: That games on the CBS sports network at ten p.m.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: on Tuesday and they're in Phoenix on Thursday the seventh.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: That's on prime video.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: That games also at ten.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So guys, three straight games on the road, what's the expectation?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'll say two and one.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know which two will get.
• 8:54
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think you're really, really happy if you're two and one.
• 8:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: No, yeah, I think two and one.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think they're going to look to get the get back against Los Angeles, because we haven't been Los Angeles this year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So I think they're going to try and get out of the every time they play them.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think the fever at Phoenix is gonna be exciting to watch.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I can't wait to watch that one because I think Phoenix has some, some feelings.
• 9:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think Phoenix has some feelings after the booing.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Phoenix definitely has some feelings.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: The fever, by the way, are now within a game and a half of the liberty and second place in the WNBA standing.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be tight.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, honestly, the top places, what?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Three, three, six are going to be tight.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The whole thing.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Two, it looks, well, we expect the liberty.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: We expect Stewart to come back and they're probably going to be the two seed.
• 9:57
  [SPEAKER_03]: But from the two seed, all the way down to Los Angeles, Sparks, eleven and fifteen,
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  [SPEAKER_03]: is only five and a half games.
• 10:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but how many games we have left?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Twelve.
• 10:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It'll be interesting.
• 10:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm expecting a fever to end up in about the four four seed.
• 10:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's my guess.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Four seed is where we get up to the third with all these games missing Caitlyn.
• 10:21
  [SPEAKER_03]: That would be huge.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And then you probably go into the playoffs thinking championship.
• 10:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, I think that we're already kind of thinking about.
• 10:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just curious to see how Caitlyn looks when she comes back.
• 10:33
  [SPEAKER_03]: Here's a point in the season that I was not thinking that for sure.
• 10:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, understandable, but I really just think it's going to depend on how Caitlyn looks when she gets back out there.
• 10:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, you know, just because she comes back, doesn't mean she's going to be playing at the level that she wasn't the start of the season.
• 10:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, right.
• 10:49
  [SPEAKER_03]: And he just comes in and a theme is disruption.
• 10:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
• 10:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: It is.
• 10:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think this team, I think even without Caitlyn,
• 10:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: If they continue on this path of kind of the connective, because they've got connectivity.
• 11:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: And as you get some more men's in the way, if it's close and continues to play, like she's playing, like she suddenly feels totally comfortable in the system, and Ares playing, well, and Kelsey's telling me, this team, if anyone doesn't play, no one should still count out the fever.
• 11:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be a little tougher, but they're good enough at least to make the finals, I think.
• 11:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: without her, I don't know that they could be really too, that the link, the liberty and links back to back, you know, if they had a plan that way, but I liked this group, but I, even though it wasn't flashy, I think I really liked tonight's game, because I think it told me a lot about this team, because it wasn't ugly.
• 11:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: It just wasn't flashy, but they're, I mean, they're, yeah, it was just good, solid, fundamental basketball.
• 11:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's what it was.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Worked been like.
• 11:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 11:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to say that it without Caitlin, they can go send my finals.
• 11:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't see him getting to the finals without her.
• 11:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think Caitlin is like a huge, huge, huge step-diff up difference, you know, because I think the team is playing incredibly well right now without her.
• 12:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: And they beat the links without her, right?
• 12:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: But I think that she gives you that enough of a nudge and enough of opening up the court that it gives everybody, I just think that it makes enough of a difference to give them finals and potential championships if she's back.
• 12:20
  [SPEAKER_03]: Hey guys, did you also see that the Valkyrie is one in Chicago or not?
• 12:23
  [SPEAKER_03]: Any news out of that one?
• 12:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm not going to talk about it.
• 12:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't blame you.
• 12:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: First, first time it's funny, in top, worth mentioning seconds.
• 12:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: You're right.
• 12:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: Somebody's trying to just... Yeah.
• 12:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: It needs to stop now.
• 12:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 12:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: Even if it's a gimmick to draw, it doesn't do some kind of brand new company or something like that.
• 12:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's dark.
• 12:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's dark.
• 12:46
  [SPEAKER_03]: Got to stop.
• 12:46
  [SPEAKER_03]: Like Hudson said.
• 12:48
  [SPEAKER_03]: If you're going to do something that's got to be better than that, otherwise you can't do it.
• 12:52
  [SPEAKER_03]: Thanks.
• 12:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: You've got to improve upon that.
• 12:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: You've got to improve on that.
• 12:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's right.
• 12:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's really done.
• 12:59
  [SPEAKER_03]: Otherwise, it's just pathetic.
• 13:01
  [SPEAKER_03]: And again, we're not encouraging doing anything else.
• 13:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: No.
• 13:05
  [SPEAKER_03]: It all.
• 13:05
  [SPEAKER_03]: Well, it's worse than basketball.
• 13:07
  [SPEAKER_03]: But if you've got, you've got to top it if you're going to do it.
• 13:09
  [SPEAKER_03]: Thanks, guys.
• 13:10
  [SPEAKER_03]: See ya.
• 13:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
• 13:15
  [SPEAKER_03]: Thank you so much once again to John and Michelle for joining the Central Indiana Sports Report and recapping the fever game.
• 13:23
  [SPEAKER_03]: And thank you so much for listening.
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• 13:54
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