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The WNBA Report with John & Michelle: All-Star Draft Reaction (Podcast No. 321.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_03]: What you are listening to now is the Central Indiana Sports Report podcast number three hundred and twenty one point one The WMBA report with John Robertson's and Michelle Garmin's reaction to Tuesday nights All-star draft between Caitlin Clark and
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're listening to the central Indiana Sports Report with your host, Greg Mangales.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome WNBA and fever fans to the central Indiana Sports Report and our WNBA report going over the All-Star Rossers with John Robertson and Michelle Garmin.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We did a mock draft where
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[SPEAKER_03]: John played an incredible Caitlin Clark and did his own picks and Michelle did hers.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But Greg had technical difficulties, which has happened, I don't know, a dozen times in the fouls and podcasts that we've done.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So we were incredibly accurate to be honest with you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We're gonna go over that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And John, of course, has some opinions on
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[SPEAKER_03]: John has some opinions on that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Of course, John Robertson is our fever guy.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Michelle Garmin is the sports editor at the Tipton Tribune and L. Wood Colleter and my favorite sidekick.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We did a Pacers podcast the other day.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It was fantastic.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She filled in.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Everybody was on vacation or on a town.
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[SPEAKER_03]: John was in Detroit dodging knife attacks.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it was actually, it's really nice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The trade is a whole.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I wouldn't want to spend time with the area on the sports stuff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's beautiful.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, and the suburbs is incredible.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's a city.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You wouldn't want to get lost in downtown and because then that would be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But if you're right around Ford Field or a little season arena or a tiger stadium, it's all gorgeous.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And just so you guys know, the street where the right next to Tiger Stadium is John R Street.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I got my picture taken on that too.
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[SPEAKER_03]: John the WMBA all stars were announced since the last time we've podcasted and then Katelyn Clark and Nefisa Collier drew or drafts.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So give us your initial take.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Before we start talking about the draft rosters, I have a hot take about the draft itself.
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[SPEAKER_01]: First of all, super happy that they did it live, or at least recorded it and played it like it was live.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Love that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But, and I love Nefisa Collier, but I have a bone to pick with her as she wore her unrivaled jersey shirt.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Live during the draft, and she was shouting out unrivaled teams and teammates during the draft.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I thought that was a little, I don't know that I want to say inappropriate, but I thought it was unprofessional.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, inappropriate.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't, I just like, like, I get you want to support your business and unrivaled as their business, but it's kind of a competing league.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I felt like that was kind of, unless you think the WNBA doesn't think and they think that if there's more, the more fans unrivaled gets it bearings more fans to the WNBA.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how they feel about it, but I think we'll know a little more once collective bargaining happen in the afternoon season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's, that's kind of where I
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[SPEAKER_01]: I wasn't a huge fan.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Again, I like the feast, so I'm not, I'm not on the feast a heater.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I agree with you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She had no business wearing the unrivaled dream.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't like that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And she kept caught like I said, and they were shouting out all their unrivaled teammates, isn't that?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I get it, but like...
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would have liked to say your state out of that a little class here be above it, but whatever.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's just my first comment.
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[SPEAKER_01]: As far as the draft itself, unless you guys want to comment on that anymore, the draft itself was really entertaining.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm glad they did it live.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've said you guys didn't get to see the video.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's on YouTube, go back and watch it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Caitlyn was a lot of fun and the Pisa was more business.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But it was just really entertaining.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Of course, Caitlin took who I wanted her to take first.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She took a Lea Boston.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That was the absolute first pick.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That should not shock anybody.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think those two have, you know, those two have become really good friends.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, the same as, like, Lexi Fault, Lexi Hall.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think that's a trio.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But a trio of close friends that came about last year, Dayton's rookie year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: real fast my favorite team obviously has always been the fever and they've been to make a catchings all that but I didn't really start paying attention until I fell in love with Alia Boston at South Carolina and was like oh I hope she comes to the fever I love watching her play basketball I love her enthusiasm and her smile and her
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[SPEAKER_03]: And so my love for the fever began for sure before Caitlin.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I agree with all of that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Leah is awesome.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She's so happy and fun to watch.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I've never really met her, but she seems like it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And she just enjoys the game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She plays strong.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She plays stuff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And she stays above the mess.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All the petty mess.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I like that too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I like that Caitlin took her first because it sends a sign to her teammates.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But like both times she had a chance to take a teammate first, she did.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And as the so she's showing like, you know, she's got her fever teammates back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I love that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That was such a classy move regardless of like, you know,
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[SPEAKER_01]: you know Kelsey Mitchell was the first one she took in the raw and the reserves pick she said I'm going to first pick with Kelsey Mitchell like I love Kelsey there but if we're looking at the reserves probably someone slightly better than her on that roster but Caitlin took her first as a genuine gesture of fever fan fever family first well not only that but think about it it's in Indianapolis okay you got the fever player all for you on the same team gives him a little bit of an advantage because come the second half you know
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[SPEAKER_02]: The first half, you have your starters and everything, but if they take these game serious, I will say this.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It'll definitely make America take a lot.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I do think the WNBA is going to be better at taking this serious than the NBA.
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[SPEAKER_02]: One, Caitlyn Clark is his competitors.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is going to be serious.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is competitive as anybody.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's kind of like back.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The NBA all stars were pretty serious from Michael Jordan play.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Why?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Because he was highly competitive.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They all were magic times.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They were very bird.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I hate to let you guys down, but Caitlin made a comment during the draft.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She's like, well, it's the all-star game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's supposed to just be fun popping up threes and what, so I don't know if you're going to get asked.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, of course it's not going to be a regular battle.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But you know what I'm just telling you, if you think it's, if it's close down the floor in the park order, what do you think's going to get in?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I mean, she's not, it's going to become, I don't actually hastal loose.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, if they put on a clown show, like the NBA does, the fans are not going to like this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's true.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, they won't.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I do think that the fee was drafting for size and for, you know, like an actual physical game, Caitlyn was drafting for, let's have a good time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She took Sabrina with her second pick.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So could you like, Caitlyn and Sabrina on the same team?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's going to be entertaining.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think the field bad for the other team in the arena because they're going to feel like the visiting.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I'll tell you what, in that in the whole All Star thing, and only me because Caitlyn's been injured and
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[SPEAKER_02]: not quite a hundred percent.
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[SPEAKER_02]: To me, Sabrina, I an SQ, was the best car in the world.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We said that on Will's podcast today.
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[SPEAKER_03]: best garden in WNBA.
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[SPEAKER_01]: One of the bigger controversies if you follow along on social media was everybody was furious that Asia went as the fourth pick for a third pick for Caitlin and like six pick overall.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So Asia Wilson is on team Clark.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it was Caitlin's third.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, it went.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Caitlin was herself and Alia Boston and Sabrina Inescu, then Asia Wilson and then her last of the starters was Satsu Saboli.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, man.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's a good team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Tell me the starters for the other.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That would, for the starters, that would be fee, of course, because she's the captain.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That would be, um, Alicia Gray.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She made the team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She was not her first pick, though.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, well, I'm not saying for it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not trying to go in order.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm trying to get it because he won't let me look at the throttle.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I have to go through the top of my head.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's good to look at who should I see if you knew who was first.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No, well, if you told me, but I would take first.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Who do you think he would take first?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I'm trying to remember who is left.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no, gosh, I'm stupid.
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[SPEAKER_02]: One I took first, Brianna Stewart.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, she took Brianna Stewart first.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's why I would take.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because their business partners and unrivaled.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, not only that, she was doing Stewart's really good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Stewart, Stewart can really play one through five.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, if you need her to, she can play one through five.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Stewart's a great pick.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just thought I was interested in Caitlyn took, Alia, her friend, who she plays with first, and then feed decided to go with her friend and also business partner Stewart first.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then Alisha Gray, you got right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then that would, okay, I'd try to go through all of them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and Kate was like, well, well, well, you'll get a picture and say who you want.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So Kate was almost hate drafted page, but she didn't because it didn't fit with her team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like so it was funny to see the I really it really was a good back and forth between the two.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was all fun and you know, there wasn't a lot.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If you had given me homework John out of watch.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Although I will say this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm surprised because Paige would have fit with Caitlyn's team, which with Wilson embossed and then would have got her three perimeter players and in Paige Sabrina and herself.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Paige Sabrina and Caitlyn all three on the same team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a lot of guards shooting guards.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, but you just think what you can do with having Wilson.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But think about it with the
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[SPEAKER_02]: Hi, Lo that you get with Wilson and Boston, that would have been a formidable scoring team.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I think you're thinking too deep into what, how they do these things.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know, but I mean, I would, I'm just saying, you could, I could would do it that way.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I wouldn't.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then so, okay, so that's page, are we missing?
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the starters.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That was the starter round.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So then, Fee got to pick first in the, in the reserves round and she took Courtney Williams first, who's her teammate.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And we'll just go through it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Fee went, Courtney Williams, Skyler Dickens, Angel Reese.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She said she shouted out me bounds.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She said we're going to need some me bounds over out there, which I think is hilarious.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it wouldn't be a thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, well, yeah, Angel's already like,
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[SPEAKER_01]: copyrighted the phrase we're using it to make fun of her and she said well I'm just going to copy right at that I love it I'm going to get I'm swimming up against the stream on this one I love Angel Reese I think she's been playing really well and deserves credit for playing really well after her start because it was a really ragged start yeah which is fair I don't particularly like her personality and the way she carries herself sometimes I think there's a level of
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[SPEAKER_02]: She likes to create drama and I'm not a big draw.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if she doesn't like drama.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to say I'm going to take this out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm a reporter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I like a little drama.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I don't even know that she creates it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, but I think she feeds into it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She creates it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Go back to the national team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She gave me that was over.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, that is sure she creates it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yes, she did.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, in the ring, yes, she created the drama.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, that's it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Here into there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She fell in Clark's lights a little drama too.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And she's good at it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, we're going to get to a little car drama.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Taylor drama in this draft.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I want to get to Taylor's way better at the drama than Angel.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So just a recap.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So feed to Courtney Williams, Skylar Diggins, Angel Reese, Alyssa Thomas, Kelsey Plum, and then Ryan Howard.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's a good team too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a good team too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Alright, so then Caitlyn's reserve, she took Kelsey Mitchell first, followed that with Gabby Williams, and then the next two picks I thought were very Caitlyn.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She went with Sonya Citron and Kiki Arafin back to back, so she took both the rookies, and then you'll like this one Michelle.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She took Jackie Young, and then got Kayla Thorden as the her last.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And that team's gonna be easy to cheer for.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Again, I feel bad for call, I really like call your two.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Sure.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I feel bad for that team because they're going to seem like the villains and that ability.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but yeah, but yeah, but I will say this to I said I kind of think it's neat that Caitlin ended up and taking Jackie because I I really think
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[SPEAKER_02]: not necessarily close relationship but I go back to Caitlin's rookie year last year when there was that foul she got bumped and you know young it's it's part of it and wasn't very but young knew she was needed a moment and took the time out to go to her knees
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[SPEAKER_02]: to touch slowly tire shoe and look at Caitlyn and make sure she was all right before they got up and played again.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Such a classmate.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I, you know, that's the kind of move that somebody like Caitlyn's not going to forget plus by taking Jackie in.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She's taken in the native Indiana girl, you know, in Indiana girl, which is kind of neat than because you know, the fever players are going to get cheered.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So with Jackie young being on
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[SPEAKER_02]: on that team that she gets to be a part of all of that cheering to.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that you'll definitely obviously with the fever players on team Clark, they're going to be the favorites in the building, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: The fans are going to cheer for them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think you kind of get like the teen fever.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right, I think the other thing you notice is team Clark is kind of like team youth team rookie team first couple of years right stars and then team call years a lot like veterans so that that could play into a factor of what we're seeing here and there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right, like not completely, but if you're trying to make a couple of generalizations, that was kind of what I come up with.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, one of the things I thought was funny is as we're going into the last two people left.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was Kayla Thorne and Ryan Howard and I really didn't I don't I don't think Caitlin likes Ryan Howard.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they have beef.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think when you watch them play it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, oh, man, we love beef on the center.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, sure.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Let me tell you Ryan Howard is a phenomenal player.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Sure.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I saw her in person because Kentucky came to Indiana for the NCAA tournament and I can see why that
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[SPEAKER_02]: like, she does not attract because she's got a she's got a she's got a big time attitude.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And we're like, well, I'm just but on on the fever.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I wasn't I didn't bother me when she like fouled out of in the out.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You can call for attitude was just.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But if you look at some of the fever, Kentucky kind of makes that happen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If you look at the fever dream matchups, we've had so far this year, there's been some chippiness between those two.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So so when feet took a son of been the worst.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Fair, but when feet took Ryan in the draft Katelyn said, Oh, that's a good pick for you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a really good pick for you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I like that one for you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like it was that it was one of those like you know, there was a little bit of subtleness there, but like only good at drama only if you knew there was someone was there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So the big the big things that prove she thinks.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, but here's the thing there's a difference between Katelyn's drama
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[SPEAKER_01]: angels angels is more catty this angel is more of that female that you don't like that has the claws that come out and we're not just like is my I'm gonna say with Greg here a little bit like it's not just angel I don't like angels attitude but like there's so many more people than angel that are worse about that than her so she yeah
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I don't like Angel's attitude, but I'm saying like she's not even the worst, like look at these and they're carrying them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She is by far worse than Angel about starting a big drama.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The best thing though is she's been injured from us.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She's been injured a lot of years.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, we have to watch Garenton on the sun.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, one in the eye.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that was J.C.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sheldon, but you know that that's you got shut up by Sophie cutting him though, so I'm gonna be like, listen, I'll tell you what, I saw a lot of Sophie cutting him jersey just today at the fever event.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, you will.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean Sophie has become a big fan favorite.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, she's just it's
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[SPEAKER_02]: But you have to kind of, you like Sophie.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I just like watching her.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's not even that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's just how much fun that she has when she's playing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She's out there having for her.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a good time and it's fun.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Don't get me wrong.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She's highly competitive, but she enjoys the game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, there's no reason not to love Sophie for sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to get too far off the draft because we have one more big piece of the draft that happened that was very exciting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So after they had picked their rosters, they were open to allowed to make trades.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're like, look at your rosters, do you want to make any switches?
17:00
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, one has to be one for one, starter for starter, reserve for reserve and Caitlin goes, you know, I don't I don't I don't I don't have any players.
17:06
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to trade, but I I
17:08
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if this is allowed and she's I don't care if it's allowed we're gonna do it anyway.
17:11
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to trade coaches she's like we want to trade coaches.
17:14
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't she's no Cheryl Reeves is going to coach fees team and the New York Liberty coach is going to coach Sandy
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[SPEAKER_01]: Brondello.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So Caitlyn basically said, we don't care if this is allowed or she said, I don't care if ESPN allows it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't care if the WMB allows it.
17:31
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to switch coaches.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So Sandy Brondello is going to come over to team Clark and you can have Cheryl read.
17:37
[SPEAKER_01]: And the feast that tried to try to like make it seem chill.
17:40
[SPEAKER_01]: She's like, oh, yeah, she's my coach.
17:42
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm used to her.
17:42
[SPEAKER_01]: That's comfortable.
17:42
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a bad move for you.
17:44
[SPEAKER_01]: Caitlyn and Caitlyn's like, whatever, Sandy's going to let me do whatever I want.
17:47
[SPEAKER_01]: And she's going to have Sabrina on my team.
17:49
[SPEAKER_01]: They started to make a swap for
17:52
[SPEAKER_01]: because Caitlyn said, if you want to send studio over here to stay with Sandy, we'll take her.
17:56
[SPEAKER_01]: But then Fee said, then you're going to have to give me a lia boss and then Caitlyn was like, absolutely not.
18:04
[SPEAKER_01]: It was really good energy by, it was honestly, this is why when we talked about it last week, I wanted to see the draft happen because there's a lot of entertainment there and it really wasn't too caddy, but there was just enough.
18:14
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
18:15
[SPEAKER_03]: Like I said, Caitlyn is outstanding at doing the stuff at promo.
18:20
[SPEAKER_03]: She thinks this stuff through.
18:23
[SPEAKER_03]: She doesn't say anything that she doesn't mean.
18:26
[SPEAKER_03]: And she does it with a level of class.
18:28
[SPEAKER_01]: I like that way.
18:29
[SPEAKER_01]: Caitlyn has classes.
18:30
[SPEAKER_02]: She thinks it's true.
18:31
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, and other than wearing the unrivaled stuff, it's probably good that Fee was the other captain because Fee, because Fee's kind of like that too.
18:38
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you know, she speaks well.
18:40
[SPEAKER_02]: She thinks things through.
18:42
[SPEAKER_01]: um she doesn't try to put her you know it's so that was uh yeah and I mean maybe I'm being too sensitive about the unrivaled stuff I mean I'm just honestly maybe it shouldn't bother me at all but like for some reason it just I do have to be kept in issue
18:58
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think we'll see how it plays out.
18:59
[SPEAKER_02]: It would have been interesting had it been it had a we have awesome in the second top vote get her in Caitlyn and Alia had been head to head in the future.
19:09
[SPEAKER_02]: I think I know it could happen in the future.
19:10
[SPEAKER_01]: I do think that would have been an interesting storyline since it's in Indiana.
19:14
[SPEAKER_01]: You have two Indiana girls be the captain.
19:16
[SPEAKER_01]: That would have been a good storyline, but I'm happy that Caitlyn and Alia are on the same team.
19:19
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I am too.
19:20
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I really do love that Caitlyn used her first pick and the
19:24
[SPEAKER_01]: and the starters and in the reserves to take a teammate.
19:26
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's just a good overall team building thing for not just the all-star game.
19:31
[SPEAKER_01]: Just chemistry wise.
19:33
[SPEAKER_03]: John, are they going back to East and West when they expand?
19:37
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
19:38
[SPEAKER_01]: There's been no talk about.
19:39
[SPEAKER_03]: I would prefer any Swiss all-star game with with a big cash prize would be to make it a little more competitive.
19:47
[SPEAKER_02]: Well and do you I wonder too when they you know because right now the playoffs are just the top the top teams record wiser is no east west in that so as they expand I wonder if they'll go back to east west when it comes to playoffs.
19:59
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think that's the better way to do it.
20:01
[SPEAKER_01]: I wish the NBA would do it and they don't though they still do the four different teams drafted and whatnot like they have the rising stars the rookies And I don't like that either
20:12
[SPEAKER_01]: So we'll see how it plays out.
20:13
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm excited for it.
20:14
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know though.
20:15
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to go to the game.
20:16
[SPEAKER_01]: I looked up ticket yesterday.
20:18
[SPEAKER_01]: They're still about like one, seven.
20:19
[SPEAKER_03]: You just go down to my assumed or in the weekend.
20:21
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, we will.
20:22
[SPEAKER_01]: Because Kyrie's participating in that they're doing one event where they're having like, twenty five hundred kids dribble from a park to the circle of Kyrie signed up for that.
20:31
[SPEAKER_01]: and we'll go down to other to have a WNBA like convention center thing where you can go and meet players and one should have had a sign up for his all his basketball team and got a couple activity buses and driven them down at the one team.
20:44
[SPEAKER_01]: It's free, it's completely free but you like had the register very quickly and they like I've got an email yesterday they said if you're not coming tell us because we have a thousand people on the way list so.
20:58
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
20:58
[SPEAKER_03]: Now, this is a good time to remind everybody that we are at Tipton Municipal Golf Course, our favorite place every Wednesday.
21:04
[SPEAKER_03]: Bye.
21:05
[SPEAKER_02]: If I enjoyed crowds more as I get older crowds, I would probably go down there.
21:14
[SPEAKER_02]: But because I'm not into that, especially if it's hot and everything and I would probably.
21:19
[SPEAKER_02]: I would probably stay away and just look for highlights and tweet on you.
21:23
[SPEAKER_02]: John, you'll provide us the problem.
21:25
[SPEAKER_03]: John, we're having fun.
21:26
[SPEAKER_03]: John, we're having fun.
21:28
[SPEAKER_01]: So we're going down for that.
21:29
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going down for the thing that KC's participating in.
21:32
[SPEAKER_01]: And then
21:34
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if we'll go to the game.
21:35
[SPEAKER_01]: I spent so much money on tickets last three, six months and like we're going to LA this year for the Pacers so I don't know that I'm going to spend more money on all star but
21:46
[SPEAKER_03]: We'll see what happens.
21:50
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if I've talked to you since Casey and I had court side seats, but that was ridiculously exciting.
21:57
[SPEAKER_01]: That was a, if you ever get a chance to do that at a fever game, I highly recommend it because they have a line where you can high five of the players coming in and out and just she was on cloud nine.
22:07
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I think the other thing we really wanted to talk about is the Wanda Bonner.
22:12
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a little bit of drama with that.
22:13
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, the Wanda, you know, came to the fever and then sat out for six games after she only played like a few games and now she just resigned with Phoenix yesterday.
22:25
[SPEAKER_01]: So people have a lot of feelings about it.
22:27
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, let you guys go with what you think and then all all it's time in after that.
22:31
[SPEAKER_01]: What do you think, Greg?
22:33
[SPEAKER_01]: You got anything on that?
22:33
[SPEAKER_01]: Anything about the Wanda Bonner?
22:36
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm glad the team is the way it worked out.
22:37
[SPEAKER_01]: We ended up getting
22:51
[SPEAKER_01]: agree so like if that's the never felt like boner fit I didn't I didn't either so I'm happy that I worked out the dairies here metry yesterday super awesome person super happy super nice But if my my only thing is that if boner knew she was gonna leave and didn't want to fit white of the X she just came because of like some sort of get some money and then bounce Here's what I'm I'm only gonna say this if her heart wasn't in Indiana I'm fine if she wants to go to Phoenix I'm fine with that because I think in the long run the fever
23:21
[SPEAKER_02]: You're better off when you don't have a player on your roster that doesn't really want to be there.
23:27
[SPEAKER_02]: I think that's fine.
23:28
[SPEAKER_02]: I think there was a little more to her leaving and a little drama, but I'm not going to get into that because it's, you know, that's supposition on the personal front, but obviously she didn't want to really be here.
23:39
[SPEAKER_02]: And if she didn't really want to be here, then she needs to be gone.
23:42
[SPEAKER_02]: And if she wants to resign,
23:44
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, she's a better.
23:45
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not going to hold that tour.
23:46
[SPEAKER_02]: It's her livelihood.
23:47
[SPEAKER_02]: Let her go.
23:48
[SPEAKER_02]: Let her, I don't think she should, I don't think she should be punished because she with her livelihood.
23:56
[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you so much to John and Michelle for joining the Central Indiana Sports Report.
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