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Fever 99, Dream 82: 10-Minute Recap + Reaction with John & Michelle (Podcast No. 322.4) · 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 two point four our ten minute recap then John Robertson's and Michelle Garmin's reaction to the fevers big ninety nine eighty two win over the Atlanta dream on Friday night at the fieldhouse
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[SPEAKER_05]: Your visit to the Central Indiana Sports Report with your host, Greg Mendel.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, fever fans.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Today is Saturday, July, twelve, twenty, twenty, five, and I am your host, Greg Minge out podcasting today from headquarters in Jeffersonville.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Producer Suzy is in the control room.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Coming up, we have our ten minute recap of the fever's ninety nine to eighty two victory over Atlanta, followed by John Robertson's and Michelle Garmin's thoughts on the win.
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[SPEAKER_03]: John was actually at the game on a date with his wife.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Before we get to that, just want to remind you that we have John Robertson's fever report every single week, usually with Michelle, and we've been doing some WNBA reports as well with the All-Star Game headed to India in a couple of weeks.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We will have a full report on all of the All-Star activities with John and Michelle, as well as recaps and reactions following every game
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[SPEAKER_03]: through the WNBA finals.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Your ten minute recap begins now.
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[SPEAKER_03]: that of course is the great Pat Boylan and Debbie Antonella on the fan dual sports network and as Pat told you Kelsey Mitchell's three pointer and her steel and assist to Ari McDonald was the nail in the Indiana fever's ninety nine to eighty two went over the visiting Atlanta dream Friday at the fieldhouse.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The fever played a strong second half and were superb in the fourth quarter in their tenth win of the season.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The ninety nine points is the second most of the fever scored all year and they did it with fifty nine points in the second half.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Thirty of those in the fourth quarter when they outscored Atlanta by thirteen points to pull away for the win.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Indiana entered the fourth with a seventy one to sixty five lead before a Caitlin Clark three point play.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Started a twenty five to twelve run that gave the fever a much needed win.
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[SPEAKER_03]: after back to back losses to LA and Golden State.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Indiana is now ten and ten through twenty games.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Here's head coach Stephanie White's thoughts on the win.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I thought we were really connected on both ends.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I thought our sense of urgency was better, our activity level was better, our communication, you know, defensively.
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[SPEAKER_07]: You know, we made things as tough as we could for them.
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[SPEAKER_07]: They're great team, obviously.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And you know, offensively, our second half was much better.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I'm taking care of the ball, moving it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We had a seventy-seven percent assist rate.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And that's what we have to do.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We've got to get the ball moving.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We've got to get multiple touches.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We've got to get it from one side of the floor to the other and get everybody involved.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And that's how we find success.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Indiana lost Wednesday in Clarks return against the expansion boundaries and things did not look great early in this one either.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Atlanta led twelve to four off the jump and twenty three to twenty one at the first break.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Then Jordan, Canada hit five three pointers in the second quarter.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Three of them in the final minute and four seconds.
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[SPEAKER_03]: To put the twelve and eight dream ahead, forty five to forty and a half.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Canada came into the game six for twenty nine from three point range on the season.
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[SPEAKER_03]: In the first half on Friday, she was six for nine and tied her career high of twenty five points before halftime.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She cooled off in the second but still finished with a game high thirty points.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Kelsey Mitchell scored eight of her team best twenty five points in the third quarter when Indiana outscored the dream twenty nine to twenty the take a lead heading into the fourth quarter.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Mitchell was nine for sixteen from the field three of seven from deep and made all four of her free throws.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Here she is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I second half is about taking my actions, muckin' it up, making it ugly on defense these.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So then we can go and transition to get what we want.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I think that truly came from a stand-up point of life, making sure we didn't keep it like Canada, get whatever she wanted, making it tough for Ryan Howard, who's amazing, Lucia Gray, who's amazing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're the whole start and fly, we're like, all started.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we have to take our money still to get what we want.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Sovy coming in had a big, big night for the fever, especially in the second half, and finished with a double double of sixteen points and ten rebounds off the bench.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She knocked down a season best, fourth, three pointers.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You're so happy after the game with the Ion Studio crew of Larry Smith, Autumn Johnson, and Megan McKeean.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's four threes in the last seven games with tonight, four of five.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What got you in the room tonight in this game?
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[SPEAKER_08]: Hey, you know what?
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[SPEAKER_08]: It's about dang time.
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[SPEAKER_08]: Let me tell you.
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[SPEAKER_08]: I have my, sure, it's been a second.
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[SPEAKER_08]: I just think, for the team, you know, we've had a lot of injuries.
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[SPEAKER_08]: You've had a lot of movement.
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[SPEAKER_08]: When she's playing, it's a whole different team.
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[SPEAKER_08]: And when she's back, you know, we got to catch our rhythm.
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[SPEAKER_08]: She's a heck of a player, but we got to find ways to get her involved, but keep people hot.
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[SPEAKER_08]: But you know, for me, it finally felt good.
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[SPEAKER_08]: It felt good.
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[SPEAKER_08]: Like I said, my family's here.
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[SPEAKER_08]: My sister's my best friends.
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[SPEAKER_08]: And so it just felt good to have my family here.
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[SPEAKER_08]: So I thought I should do something tonight.
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[SPEAKER_03]: led by Cunningham's sixteen Indiana's bench contributed twenty nine points to the win.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The Maris Dante's had seven in Ari McDonald's six.
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[SPEAKER_03]: McDonald of course has gone back to her reserve role.
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[SPEAKER_03]: with Clark's return, he finished with six points and three assists at another nice night.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The stars also had big nights for the fever.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Clark struggled from the field going five or seventeen.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It still finished with twelve points, nine assists and four rebounds and was much more assertive in the second half going to the basket, making some plays happen, including the big three point play that started the game winning run.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Leah Boston went eight for eight at the foul line and finished with nineteen points eight assists and six rebounds.
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[SPEAKER_03]: In her one hundredth career W NBA game Natasha Howard also contributed nine points in seven rebounds and a four hundredth and four hundred and first career steals in the win.
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[SPEAKER_03]: After the game Clark spoke with ESPN's Alexa Philippe.
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[SPEAKER_10]: I can't even think it bounced back when for you guys.
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[SPEAKER_10]: What was working for you?
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[SPEAKER_10]: Well, especially in that second half, offensively.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, I thought we just played with a really great pace.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I thought we moved to a ball.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I thought we'd cut hard, which opened up at the three point line for us, and then we knocked down some shots, but also I thought our defense was really good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I think it was both sides of the ball.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I kind of felt like how we should get back out there and play every single game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think ninety-nine points is
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[SPEAKER_02]: probably the most we've put up in quite some time I think somebody said fifty nine is the most scored in a second half and you know quite a few years now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So part of our group I thought we came out and competed well especially there in the second half.
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[SPEAKER_03]: All star Ryan Howard scored fourteen points for the dream despite leaving the first quarter with what appeared to be a spring knee.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She was carried off the floor and came back in the second half with a knee brace.
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[SPEAKER_03]: and was still pretty effective.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Nice play.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Brittany Grindner scored ten points and grabbed eight rebounds.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The ninety-nine points was the fever's best offensive output since a one-o-two eighty-eight blowout of the defending champion New York Liberty on June fourteen.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The fever have another big nationally televised game at the fieldhouse on Sunday against the six and fifteen dollar swings and their star page beckers.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The game is on ABC.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's going to be a huge crowd and TV audience.
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[SPEAKER_03]: According to tickpick.com, they get in the door prices about seventy dollars, but most available tickets are north of two hundred.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And that is your recap in ten minutes or less.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Please stay tuned for John Robertson and Michelle Garmin.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Friday nights in dine eighty two win over the land a dream and the latest version of the fever dream and big win for the fever tonight one they really needed against a good team and especially the second half john you were there uh... tell us about uh... well the game started off kind of crazy uh... land a win on was on full of listen i don't know about land it was on fire Jordan candidate was on fire
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[SPEAKER_06]: Man, Gordon canceled a Canada could not miss anything and like every time the fever started to like you make something happen because they got well on a run to get back in it and then the
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[SPEAKER_06]: Atlanta, the dream just kept coming back.
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[SPEAKER_06]: But the first half was a little frustrating.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I don't remember what the score was at the end of the first half that we look real quick.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Forty five forty forty five forty was the fever.
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[SPEAKER_06]: No.
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[SPEAKER_05]: No.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_06]: So I knew it was really close, but not I didn't think the fear of winning a half time.
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[SPEAKER_06]: But then the second half they came out and they just it seemed like they figured something out in the half time.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Guard Jordan
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[SPEAKER_06]: Well, I mean that, but it really was more the offense, honestly.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_06]: It was.
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[SPEAKER_06]: The offense hasn't been clicking very well for a minute.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And it just seemed like they figured something out that really started the work and they all started to really make things happen together.
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[SPEAKER_06]: It was a really physical game.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It was the lineup of
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[SPEAKER_03]: the starting line up in Sophie Cunningham that really turned it around.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, Sophie Cunningham had an amazing game like her energy out there tonight was unbelievable.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And I don't want to discredit Kelsey Mitchell because I mean Kelsey Mitchell was on fire also like she was really poppin.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, twenty five points for Kelsey's huge, but like you almost
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[SPEAKER_06]: Like, twenty-five for Kelsey doesn't seem that shocking.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I generally expect her to have fifteen, not surprised at all by twenty, twenty-five, you know, good.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Sophie, you don't normally expect to see a sixteen and ten night from her.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And so she really came out fired up.
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[SPEAKER_06]: She'd made some comments on social media recently where she was frustrated, she's we got to figure it out.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Like, not them specific towards anyone, but she wants to win.
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[SPEAKER_06]: She's a fierce fiery competitor.
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[SPEAKER_06]: She wants to win.
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[SPEAKER_06]: So she came out really pumped up tonight.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Leah Boston had nineteen a great night for earlier six assists or eight assists six rebounds six six six six three about she found out of the game.
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[SPEAKER_06]: The last two fouls on a lea.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I thought were pretty bogus.
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[SPEAKER_06]: You know, I'm not one to sit here and and it picked riffs.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I'm really not it was a very physical game.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And a lot of things weren't getting called and I'm like, that's okay if you're not going to call it either way, whatever.
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[SPEAKER_06]: But then like there was one that was definitely just like she may have laid their hand on the back of somebody as they were walking by and they called that like, you know, like barely touched.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And then the last one was I was like, are you kidding me?
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[SPEAKER_06]: And then the one where
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[SPEAKER_06]: Dante Scott elbowed in the forehead and they called the foul on Dante as that one was frustrating.
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[SPEAKER_06]: It was one of those nights where you just, you're frustrated, a little, and you don't want to, you don't want to sit there and complain about refs, but like, they've got to rain some of this stuff in.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Some of the stuff has to start being called and stopped.
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[SPEAKER_06]: They got us into message.
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[SPEAKER_06]: It's not even just Caitlyn.
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[SPEAKER_06]: There was one on Caitlyn that really bothered me where I think it was Canada, like knocked Caitlyn over as she was dressed as Caitlyn was dribbling.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And then she just stood over Caitlyn held her down and didn't let her get back up.
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[SPEAKER_06]: That one really bothered me.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I'm like, that's not a basketball play no matter how you look at it.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And this is the kind of stuff we've got to stop allowing.
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[SPEAKER_06]: That's why people are getting tired of the W. Get it.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, I don't want to complain.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I understand.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And my philosophy at the officials is there's not much you can do.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Sure.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't like to focus much on it, but I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know either, but I'm just saying not even a specific player, not a specific game.
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[SPEAKER_06]: It's league wide.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And I'm like,
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[SPEAKER_03]: I understand the sentiment for sure.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not staying.
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[SPEAKER_03]: There's not reason for complaint and concern.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's just something I just don't vote.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's on very much.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I try.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I think it's stuck in my mind more because I read a Christine Brennan's book and that's something that's focused on in the book.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let's remind people we're going to review that book pretty soon.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Look forward to that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And now we welcome in Michelle Garmin, the sports editor at the Tipton Tribune and Elwood Colleater to talk about tonight's fevers, a ninety nine to eighty two win over the Atlanta dream and Michelle.
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[SPEAKER_03]: John and I were talking a little before you got here that offensively, especially the second half, fifty three points, they started to maybe get there rhythm.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Thanks so, you know, maybe a maybe a little bit like they looked
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[SPEAKER_09]: felt they looked better, offensively at times tonight, and then there were times that, you know, a little stagnant eye.
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[SPEAKER_09]: I was really impressed with Sophie cutting him tonight.
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[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, she was both in the floor, and just she such a hustler and scrappy, and it's really kind of nice because, you know, it's her and Lexi, I mean, they feel they know their roles when they film very well.
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[SPEAKER_06]: There was a moment when I haven't seen the replay so I don't know how it looked on camera and like right there when it happened.
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[SPEAKER_06]: It looked like Sophie pulled somebody down on purpose.
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[SPEAKER_06]: It looked like she really just was like making a statement by saying like all right let you guys want to play rough let's play rough and like that the person the person landed on Sophie's head which I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I would not be surprised if she has a concussion but she finished the game out anyway.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Sound a pretty sprite at the end of the game or post game interview was very good so I doubt she has a concussion but
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[SPEAKER_09]: There's the same though, FEMA are going to be in physical games.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Part of it is because they have some physical players, whether people want to really look at it, Caitlyn Clark is a physical player.
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[SPEAKER_09]: She doesn't like people to get physical with her, but she likes to play physical with them, especially on the offensive end.
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[SPEAKER_09]: She learned how to leverage her arm and her shoulder, and there's nothing wrong with it.
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[SPEAKER_09]: There's nothing wrong with that.
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[SPEAKER_09]: but you can't have it knowing bad thing is you can't then complain if it happens to you when you're playing defense is a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_09]: I don't think she's in our physical team.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I don't think she really starts to get mad and complain until she's not getting calls when she's getting hit in the head and stuff.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Like I think when things aren't fair, she starts to get complaining and start chirping at the rest more.
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[SPEAKER_06]: It's just mine.
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[SPEAKER_09]: John, John, I've seen her for years.
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[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, I like Caitlin, but she does think
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[SPEAKER_09]: She thinks she should get away with more than what she does.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Let's see.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_06]: That's there's been a basketball player.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, that's that's everybody.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let's all start cool and everything.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I'm just saying that like I don't see her get heated.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I don't see her get as heated until it's starting to look website.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Then she gets really fiery.
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[SPEAKER_09]: I wasn't saying that she was seen it.
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[SPEAKER_09]: I was just saying the fever should expect games to be physical and she should expect games physical.
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[SPEAKER_09]: That's her show of play on the offensive end.
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[SPEAKER_09]: And that's where I'm getting it.
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[SPEAKER_09]: She can't play physical in the offensive.
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[SPEAKER_09]: inner self and not expecting to place physical back is what I'm saying.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I don't even think Caitlin's the one that that really I mean it does affect her it affects her game and she's obviously the engine that runs the team right but like really I think that it's like Sophie coming in made a statement and I was like you guys want to play physical fine we're gonna play physical and I think the other people started to play off of the alia boss and was like okay yeah let's go you know we're not getting the calls to let's just play and don't just same way so
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[SPEAKER_09]: There's a fever off physical.
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[SPEAKER_09]: I think they get upset sometimes, but they really need to go back and watch their own films sometimes.
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[SPEAKER_09]: And I don't think there's anything wrong with it because basketball is a contact sport.
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[SPEAKER_09]: I said that as a coach, I was used to come up with a good basketball is a contact sport.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I know I'm biased like I'm fully aware that I'm biased towards the fever, but I do think there's a lot that happens to them.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Like, okay, so let's take like Alia Boston definitely a physical player.
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[SPEAKER_06]: She's bumping in bouncing off people and like I get it.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And there's other people too and Sophie, but like there's some stuff that's like almost to borderline dirty happening at fever games, two fever players before they start getting super physical.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And yeah, I'm biased, maybe I don't see it as much, but I'm telling you, like there was some stuff tonight that really had me irritated.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And as we said earlier, John, there was the turning point with the Chicago Bulls, everybody talks about.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And when they stopped complaining about the pistons being too physical and starting physical back is when they started being successful.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And I think we saw that tonight.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I really think that's what we saw on the second half tonight.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I think that's, and I think that we saw the team figure out what they needed to do to get the win.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Which is where I want to get kind of segue to my next point is Caitlyn Clark is in a shooting slump.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Let's be very honest.
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[SPEAKER_06]: She is in a really bad drought right now.
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[SPEAKER_06]: But I think long term it's going to be a blessing because the team is finding ways to win without that super logo, super power logo three all the time.
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[SPEAKER_06]: You know, it's almost one of those things like it's a guard right now.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Third best scoring guard right now on the fever.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Let's find.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I'm not even talking about that.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I'm saying like mentality wise they've expected she's expected it for herself and she's like relied on it like a crutch like when they're not winning games she's got to hit these long threes and the team's realizing we don't need that she's realizing we don't we can find ways to win without it now I think that it has a place and I think there's a there's a reason for it like when you're in the arena and she hits one of those logo threes oh my god the place explodes but like I think it's good for the team that they're finding that they don't need it to win
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[SPEAKER_06]: I think they need that confidence.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Good point.
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[SPEAKER_09]: You know, I agree on that too.
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[SPEAKER_09]: And what I really like is actually, I thought, here's what I really, and I know people are going to get upset, but I thought the ball and the flow and Caitlyn's passing was really good when she was playing on the wing and when it's not out front.
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[SPEAKER_09]: I mean McDonald and Mitchell are so much better right now at being able to create space.
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[SPEAKER_09]: You know, and part of it is I will admit part of that is their last candidate and left handed cheaters having an advance.
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[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, they'll tell you, they have an advantage.
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[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, Bob Knight said that was one of the Calberate Cheney's biggest, you know, blessings was being left handed.
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[SPEAKER_09]: But they can create space for that jump shot.
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[SPEAKER_09]: And right now, Katelyn Kent, I think part of it is, I'm not so sure that she feels, if she's a hundred percent, or if she feels safe and, you know, being able to really push offers, often just lost a little bit of for explosiveness through this injury.
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[SPEAKER_09]: But when she's facilitating, when she's from the wing, she doesn't dribble
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[SPEAKER_09]: doesn't drip much and I thought tonight when the fever stagnated at times when she was in the game was she did too much purple purpose she dribbled too much without purpose when she dribbled with a purpose driving going towards the basket and not laterally in everything well she got really aggressive and start like when she realized her three was a falling she started driving for less and we need to see more of that what she was doing with the second half was much better
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And that goes back to my like, you know, she's not going to have to rely on that one.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I call it her superpower because, you know, who else can do it?
20:53
[SPEAKER_06]: But like what she started driving, and I think that was, I think that's good.
20:56
[SPEAKER_09]: And the other players that can hit the logo, the reason they're just smart enough to know that the farther out that they shoot the less the percentage of it going in.
21:06
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, but when she's like, look at her up until the last few games, she normally makes them like her, you know,
21:12
[SPEAKER_09]: but she's a street out there, because I'm seeing games, part of it is, I think right now she's just, I don't know, or using college.
21:18
[SPEAKER_06]: I think so too.
21:18
[SPEAKER_06]: I think she's just in a slump.
21:20
[SPEAKER_06]: I really think she's just in a slump.
21:22
[SPEAKER_06]: And I think, and I think that the Atlanta defense was really strong and really fast and made it hard for her to create space.
21:27
[SPEAKER_06]: I think that's fair.
21:28
[SPEAKER_06]: I think she really had our time creating space because the Atlanta defense was good.
21:31
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, better than I thought.
21:33
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I don't want to sit here and nitpick Caitlyn Clark.
21:36
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't want this to be the Caitlyn Clark show because honestly tonight it was the Kelsey Mitchell Alia Boston and Sophie Kenningham show absolutely yeah, but but to sit here and deny that people want to see the exciting brand of basketball Caitlyn brains would be love it.
21:50
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, like people want to see that.
21:51
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, we have a better shot selection, but we love the Steph Curry kind of ability that she has.
21:58
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, think about this way when she's got that shot in her bag and she's hitting it.
22:01
[SPEAKER_06]: Plus we have all the other things the team's doing well.
22:04
[SPEAKER_06]: Like they're going to be unstoppable if they can just get it all together on the same night.
22:08
[SPEAKER_09]: I right now, I'm really, I love her passing.
22:11
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, I think she's her best, the best after you, she's bringing to the fever right now is her passing.
22:19
[SPEAKER_09]: It's just, I think, really, it's really good and even in the half core and
22:25
[SPEAKER_09]: Because she can do that, she's still driven, even though she's in a swamp, she still draws that attention.
22:30
[SPEAKER_09]: She's being able to pass so quickly inside and create great shots for her teammates.
22:35
[SPEAKER_06]: One last thing, let's not forget this was the first night or maybe second night they've played all together again.
22:40
[SPEAKER_06]: This is the first time that I've been there in a while that I said injury report.
22:43
[SPEAKER_06]: Nobody.
22:45
[SPEAKER_06]: Right.
22:45
[SPEAKER_06]: So they need time to figure that out too.
22:48
[SPEAKER_03]: So big national television game on Sunday afternoon against the wings.
22:52
[SPEAKER_03]: What can we expect?
22:54
[SPEAKER_06]: I think it's a match-up everybody wants to see.
22:55
[SPEAKER_06]: You're finally gonna have a game where page and Caitlyn are both playing and I think the page versus Caitlyn is a much better like rivalry than Caitlyn versus Caitlyn versus Angel.
23:07
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh yeah.
23:08
[SPEAKER_06]: I think the fever are the better team overall.
23:10
[SPEAKER_06]: A rekeke could go on a on a streak and go nuts and start popping shots like crazy.
23:15
[SPEAKER_06]: You know, so you never know what's gonna happen.
23:18
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I'm page can't do.
23:19
[SPEAKER_06]: I expect the fever to win.
23:22
[SPEAKER_06]: But I don't know that it will be like a, I don't live with all really be like a Caitlin versus Paige show, but we'll see what happens.
23:30
[SPEAKER_09]: I think that I did the C-roll way, and I think they're the better team right now.
23:33
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, the wings, you know, we talk about consistency with lineups with the C-roll, but the wings have kind of gone through that a little bit too and not, and I think that's hurt them a little bit, often on, but you know, it should be a fun match.
23:47
[SPEAKER_09]: It should be a great crowd,
23:48
[SPEAKER_09]: You know, there are a lot of Keaton Clark fans in there are a lot of page-backer fans.
23:53
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, Butler sold out for women, sold after the UConn game last year, and most of the little girls in that crowd were wearing page-buters' jersey.
24:03
[SPEAKER_06]: Dallas, maybe short, and... I'm not really sure about.
24:10
[SPEAKER_03]: Dallas, wings, injury, report.
24:16
[SPEAKER_03]: Eureka is probable with a thumb injury.
24:21
[SPEAKER_03]: Carrington is out for Sunday's game with a rib injury.
24:25
[SPEAKER_03]: Seagrist is out for Sunday's game with a knee injury and Harris is out for the season of course with a left knee.
24:32
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, so they're sure they got like what eight people on the roster right now.
24:36
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
24:37
[SPEAKER_03]: So that's what the fever need.
24:39
[SPEAKER_03]: And we always hope the fever win.
24:41
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