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Natasha Cloud & Aaliyah Edwards React to Every Unrivaled Roster · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Before we go, we want to go through every team,
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  Speaker 1: circle through all the rosters so we can just see
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  Speaker 1: them whole.
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  Speaker 2: Starting with the Breeze. Who again, this is.
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  Speaker 1: Gonna be one of them teams we talk I talked
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  Speaker 1: about tunnel walks. So we got Pages probably gonna be
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  Speaker 1: stepping out. This is Miami, Sure we got. But also
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  Speaker 1: to that point, the length of it all and the
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  Speaker 1: defense of it all.
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  Speaker 2: When you look at this roster, what do y'all see.
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  Speaker 3: The biggest wingspan probably between Kim and dom Uh.
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  Speaker 4: You have a fast.
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  Speaker 3: Athletic team and Rikia Area and Paige and Cage just
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  Speaker 3: adds like, I love Kate, I love her play.
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  Speaker 4: I love that she's just like tough.
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  Speaker 3: You punch her in the face, she's gonna get up
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  Speaker 3: and wipe her No, she just does all the little
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  Speaker 3: things and there's that toughness piece that every team needs.
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  Speaker 2: Love that all, right, So let's go.
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  Speaker 5: I want to say, they probably put Page on the
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  Speaker 5: team for a purple page, so.
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  Speaker 4: Bring it back.
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  Speaker 2: I love that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Page is definitely gonna like this colorway
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  Speaker 1: to your point, she has a lot of stuff that she's.
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  Speaker 2: Already in that purple what do you call it? Purple page. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: purple page world. I like that.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's see the next one high next time
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  Speaker 1: next Okay, So I actually got a tweet that said,
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  Speaker 1: y'all sleeping on the high there.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not sleeping.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, we're not sleeping.
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  Speaker 4: We know we got all the all these people.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, we're not sleeping. I think this is a really
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  Speaker 3: tough team. Starting with Kelsey. I think she's one of
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  Speaker 3: the most underrated and hardness farts the guards period.
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  Speaker 7: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And then you add in Sonya, who I was so
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  Speaker 3: impressed with.
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  Speaker 4: This season on both ends of the floor.
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  Speaker 6: It just sounds like get sped up.
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  Speaker 4: She's cool, calm and collected. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Ezzie, another underrated big who I love her versatility. Uh man,
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  Speaker 3: she's a rim protector. She just really does all the
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  Speaker 3: things team my dog. She just man, she is such
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  Speaker 3: a get energy piece, the environment piece.
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  Speaker 4: But then she's gonna come.
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  Speaker 2: And just impact player.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 3: Another rookie that I was really proud of this rookie class.
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  Speaker 4: How they came in, especially her, and she improved throughout
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  Speaker 4: the year too. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Could to continue to get better and then you got
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  Speaker 3: my soul system.
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  Speaker 6: I love her.
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  Speaker 3: She did work her ass off, and she's such a
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  Speaker 3: beautiful soul.
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  Speaker 1: Love that, all right, So next we're going to the Laces.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see. Okay, so the Lakes, the Lakers got it.
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  Speaker 1: Lazers is man strong in here, so we know that,
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  Speaker 1: but also that I think this is gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: physical team, a good defensive team, but a fast paced team.
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  Speaker 1: And I looked at because you got a list of
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  Speaker 1: Thomas at the four instantly changes the paces of the game.
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  Speaker 4: Your thoughts.
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  Speaker 5: I think what Jackie was saying earlier is she had
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  Speaker 5: to deal with a couple of injuries, and I think
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  Speaker 5: Laces throughout last season they dealt with that for the
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  Speaker 5: second half of the season. So I think going to
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  Speaker 5: this season they were kind of like the middle team,
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  Speaker 5: middle top tier team in the standings. I think going
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  Speaker 5: to the season they kind of know what to do
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  Speaker 5: to get there and to get beyond. So with Jackie
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  Speaker 5: and at leading the way, I think, you know, I
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  Speaker 5: gotta to slim slim off.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I think that edition makes them competitive team too.
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  Speaker 3: They already had a competitive piece and Adam Jordan, who
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  Speaker 3: can also run your offense facilitator is great and pick
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  Speaker 3: and roll great with the hesitation.
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  Speaker 2: Wasn't that your crop top poppy.
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  Speaker 3: Crop that was over here, Like crossing my fingers under
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  Speaker 3: my legs that please come to fane.
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  Speaker 4: They can't do that.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, they knew it would be too crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Poppy crop is hilarious.
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  Speaker 8: All right, Where are we going next?
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  Speaker 1: No Man of the Year one of those players that
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  Speaker 1: took a crazy jump, like I love that's honestly speaking
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  Speaker 1: of unrivaled watching players take this jump. We can almost
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  Speaker 1: see it happening in arrival, like confidence building where a
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  Speaker 1: player have an amazing game and then they fall out with
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  Speaker 1: an amazing game and then they take it to the
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  Speaker 1: next arena. So it's like what we're thinking about the
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  Speaker 1: mist here. We got big out MVP caliber candidate Alana
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  Speaker 1: Smith of the Year, Stewie Veronica Burton was an other
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  Speaker 1: year candidate.
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  Speaker 2: This is a very this is a team.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it gets so damned like we were saying with this,
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  Speaker 5: like we didn't have a great show in last season,
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  Speaker 5: but you know, having Stewie bforms around these great players
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  Speaker 5: and great assets, I think they can really do some.
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  Speaker 3: Some business this season, especially with the combinations that they
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  Speaker 3: could potentially play together. Yeah, I mean, you're looking at
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  Speaker 3: the guards alone, are all capable of pick and roll situations,
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  Speaker 3: can all shoot.
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  Speaker 4: From behind the three, can all get to the basket,
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  Speaker 4: and then they have the versatile posts that helped compliment
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  Speaker 4: them that Stewie Alana. They can all the three as well.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like all six players can shoot the three
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  Speaker 1: at a high clip to your point.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, and then you have players that are going to
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  Speaker 3: be able to play with that field basket too.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a tough squad right there.
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  Speaker 1: Next we're going to the Owls.
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  Speaker 2: HOOTI okay, this is a squad, right.
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  Speaker 5: Who go to Scott?
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Scout on the ouse.
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  Speaker 4: I love Scott. I know y'all don't like her fire
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  Speaker 4: from time to time.
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  Speaker 6: I love that ship.
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  Speaker 4: I think it gets a team going.
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  Speaker 3: I think it can change and shift them.
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  Speaker 4: So you have that.
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  Speaker 3: You talked about the Phantom being crash outs, but I
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  Speaker 3: think this is another.
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  Speaker 4: Scene that.
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  Speaker 3: Marina my goodsess just such a versatile guard that's gonna
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  Speaker 3: compliment Sky very well.
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  Speaker 6: Fee Fee is true.
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  Speaker 1: That Hanward I likes.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, okaya, madam likes y'all.
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  Speaker 2: Were her stepping back, okay, but that's what the Owls
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  Speaker 2: are getting. That's just a little.
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  Speaker 1: Taste of Leah Edwards joined the Owls. That is what
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  Speaker 1: they're getting alongside obviously you know phoebe back Allen, they
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  Speaker 1: got shooters and to your point of sky dig She
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  Speaker 1: I think set the tone for the whole unrivaled program with.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah first game she I loved buzzer beater. Yes, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean and people didn't know. Honestly, you never know
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  Speaker 2: what pros fans don't know. If you're going to play hard.
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  Speaker 4: That's going to take it. And I was like, she
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  Speaker 4: set the tone.
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  Speaker 3: I love that ship because this is like for me,
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  Speaker 3: this is an off season, but it's an off season
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  Speaker 3: that we're trying to grow this league.
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  Speaker 4: We're trying to grow women's basketball here.
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  Speaker 3: And also like we're going into a huge CBA, like
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  Speaker 3: show everybody what what you do. Let's be authentic to us,
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  Speaker 3: which I love that on arrival, lets us play. We
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  Speaker 3: get to talk ship to each other and not get
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  Speaker 3: teed up for it like in other leagues that were playing.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to be fine on this either, but.
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  Speaker 3: I love it because you get to see like everything
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  Speaker 3: authentic self.
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  Speaker 4: And I think Scott set the tone for.
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  Speaker 5: The surrounded by so many great vets a lot of
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  Speaker 5: experience just with basketball overseas and.
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  Speaker 4: Here in North America.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm loving it.
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  Speaker 4: We also.
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  Speaker 9: We got a little Canadian and Ozzie going okay, loves together,
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  Speaker 9: get together, Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So I love that. I love that. All right, Let's
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  Speaker 2: go see what the phantom talking about. Let's see what's
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  Speaker 2: the phantom squat.
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  Speaker 1: Look look at the scouting report of Leah.
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  Speaker 2: She gave it on the owl.
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  Speaker 5: Let's get a little scouting report. No, but for real, like,
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  Speaker 5: I think you guys got a pretty good squad.
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  Speaker 6: There she goes cut like.
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  Speaker 4: That, but.
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  Speaker 2: Almost about look short face.
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  Speaker 7: So I ain't know lady, your old point game you
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  Speaker 7: you I didn't even yeah, y'all because she had to
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  Speaker 7: I thinking of arrival.
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  Speaker 2: You started to say, hey, people be like, let him
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  Speaker 2: know that she was a shooter out here.
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  Speaker 3: I know I didn't start there, y'all, but I've been
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  Speaker 3: working my ass off. I either fixed this little form
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  Speaker 3: and everything.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, I love the respect is definitely.
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  Speaker 2: We love to see growth. That's the thing though.
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  Speaker 3: And I like to talk shi to Kelsey Plum too,
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  Speaker 3: because I was number one off the dribble two years
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  Speaker 3: ago and I definitely told her.
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  Speaker 6: About so I said, I love this.
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  Speaker 4: It's gonna go.
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  Speaker 2: We're both gonna be shooting threesc You was number one
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  Speaker 2: off the dribble of what three Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Ain't that surprised you.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: Gonna say I'm shocked, but I mean that's like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I love.
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  Speaker 4: I love this about me?
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  Speaker 3: What's about Kelsey a year and love it? I want
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  Speaker 3: that sat that was in Phoenix, the Unicorn that was
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  Speaker 3: in Pheenip.
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  Speaker 4: Tear it up?
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  Speaker 2: Love that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the squad, Squad, Squad we got fact.
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  Speaker 2: Baby's tough.
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  Speaker 1: I think you at the dead is always tough when
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  Speaker 1: you got somebody that's aggressive as you are.
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  Speaker 5: And that Dan said it too, Yeah, you know, defensive
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  Speaker 5: team and offensively like they didn't get their point.
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  Speaker 4: And Kiki were not forgetting you, sister. I really to
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  Speaker 4: play with you. Man just works hard, good energy all the.
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  Speaker 3: Time, and I no really talks about I love how
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  Speaker 3: you pay home and see your culture to all the
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  Speaker 3: that you.
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  Speaker 2: We love to see that.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's go see what the Road is talking
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  Speaker 1: about the Phantom, Let's see what the Rose talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, this is a team though this was a reigning champs,
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  Speaker 2: so not often.
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  Speaker 1: Do the reigning champs look as different, but there was
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  Speaker 1: again there's an expansion happened in a redraft, So this
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  Speaker 1: team looks different, but they still got Chelsea Grant call
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  Speaker 1: Leah Copper.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: What are y'all thinking about the Rose as a whole?
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  Speaker 2: The new look?
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  Speaker 5: As we said, I think they got some They have
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  Speaker 5: their returning players, and they're just gonna build off that
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  Speaker 5: momentum from last season, but with new pieces with Kira
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  Speaker 5: and with Shug. I played with both Kira and Shug,
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  Speaker 5: and I think that they're just gonna add to it,
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  Speaker 5: you know, and elevate whatever their identity is and what
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  Speaker 5: they got going on. I think, you know, Kira really
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  Speaker 5: position positioned herself last season in the league of just
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  Speaker 5: being that more dominant Yeah, yeah, you're here. And then Shug,
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  Speaker 5: like I think some of the other players that we've
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  Speaker 5: been talking about, she's making a name for herself as well.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yes, not only defensively because she can lock it up,
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  Speaker 5: but offensively like with her threes and with.
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  Speaker 4: Her mid range games.
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  Speaker 5: So I think it's just gonna compliment to everyone who
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  Speaker 5: I think z had a great season too, Like as
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  Speaker 5: you were saying Toash, like everyone's just gonna build off
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  Speaker 5: of what they did and it's just gonna make unrival
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  Speaker 5: even better.
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  Speaker 4: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I agree. I think that the Rose is
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  Speaker 2: one of those.
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  Speaker 1: Teams that again they're the Rainy champs, but honestly, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta throw that away because this is a whole new team.
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  Speaker 2: This is a whole new roster of clubs, and.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, no, I think that it's gonna be interesting
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  Speaker 1: because some of the pieces on the roads that made
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  Speaker 1: them go. I want to see if that replaces it,
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  Speaker 1: if it works the same. But this is gonna be
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  Speaker 1: all these teams are squads. It's like I look at
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  Speaker 1: every squad and it's like they got it, Like everybody
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  Speaker 1: got something. Let's check out the vinyl. Is the last
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  Speaker 1: one the vinyl that we haven't seen yet. Yeah, let's
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  Speaker 1: check out the vinyl. Let's see what they talk about.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So this team right here, this is a
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  Speaker 1: tough team.
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  Speaker 4: Don't want to break it down with the three.
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  Speaker 6: You're right, I'm trying to like you three and three.
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  Speaker 3: And you're like, man, this is a really tough team
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  Speaker 3: overall to have to match up again starting with Courtney.
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  Speaker 3: When you say, like when you start with the Dog,
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  Speaker 3: at the head of your and then you compliment her
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  Speaker 3: with Rye who already has her dog like she did
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  Speaker 3: they played tough, and then the Erica might not say
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  Speaker 3: a lot but just does her work.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, crazy, yea, this is what people love about un
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  Speaker 8: Rival though, like were watching it live, the players are
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  Speaker 8: watching it live.
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  Speaker 2: We're reacting to the players reacting to watch it live.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a little inception, but this is one of
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  Speaker 1: these teams that, like I've said, we can say it
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  Speaker 1: about every team. I honestly, I know we supposed to
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  Speaker 1: like do predictions. It's hard because y'all are I mean Phantom.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you're predicting the Fantom to do well.
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  Speaker 3: It is hard for It's just like it's hard to
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  Speaker 3: particular the w Every team gets better, every team as
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  Speaker 3: with talent, and it's like, man, you got the best
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  Speaker 3: of the best playing.
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  Speaker 4: In one central league. You never know what's gonna have. Fact.
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  Speaker 5: I think also with three on three too, like you
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  Speaker 5: don't know how fast you're gonna do that's the thing,
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  Speaker 5: and you got this much time to do exactly. I
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  Speaker 5: feel like last year it really took us, like yeah,
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  Speaker 5: to really get adjusted to everyone. I think I'm really
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  Speaker 5: big on like knowing your personality, on who you're playing with,
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  Speaker 5: what they like, so like three on three you're exposed, Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: both ends.
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  Speaker 4: Do you know what you're really doing?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that's it'll be quicker to get adjusted
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  Speaker 1: now that you'll kind of understand unrival because I mean,
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  Speaker 1: like last year it was like the whole concept of
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  Speaker 1: three on three, the rules, what the system was, like,
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  Speaker 1: what your days were like.
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  Speaker 2: Do y'all think this year now you're like, all right,
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  Speaker 2: I feel little bit better.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I even think last year for like a first startup,
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  Speaker 3: first year with phenomenal across the boards, and like you said,
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  Speaker 3: I think they did the good job in exit interviews
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  Speaker 3: listening and then implementing what we asked for, which is
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  Speaker 3: when you're heard as a player and you're.
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  Speaker 4: Seeing in your values, which is what we're asking for now.
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  Speaker 3: In other ways, it's like it makes the world of
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  Speaker 3: a difference, and it makes us want to play harder
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  Speaker 3: for this league wants us to be.
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  Speaker 4: It makes us want to be more loyal to I.
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  Speaker 2: Love that we got a page tweet coming up, But
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  Speaker 2: what are some of.
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  Speaker 1: Those things that what are some of those things that
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  Speaker 1: was asked and answer team youngins. I know you've seen
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  Speaker 1: a purple too.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go it is the purple hair coming back. Think
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  Speaker 4: people want to know.
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  Speaker 5: That she was gonna say it's all about the purple
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  Speaker 5: purple over here too.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I listen Page and the Breeze.
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  Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be one of those teams we
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  Speaker 1: talked about it.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be fun.
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  Speaker 1: But I think one of the funnest parts of unrival
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  Speaker 1: Too is that how the players almost take ownership of
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  Speaker 1: the branding of the team, of how the team acts, looks, feels.
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  Speaker 2: It's like everything is player led and unrivaled