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The Fever Report with John & Michelle with Special Guest Mike Hutsell (Aug. 12, 2025; Podcsat 351.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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  [SPEAKER_04]: What you are listening to now is the Central Indiana Sports Report podcast number three hundred and fifty one point one the fever report with John Robertson and Michelle Garmin and this week's guest my cuddle On this week's favorite report we talk about the fever serious problem with injuries of point guard
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Kelsey Mitchell's MVP candidacy.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Lexi Hall's breakout game against Chicago.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: And we ask questions like when is Caitlyn going to return?
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Who's going to make and miss the playoffs?
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  [SPEAKER_04]: And what does the WNBA need to do to change to appeal to the average board?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We're listening to the central Indiana Sports Report with your host, Greg Mengal.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Welcome fever fans to the central Indiana sports report and the fever report with John and Michelle and our special guest today, Mike Hutzl.
• 0:59
  [SPEAKER_04]: He's done it twice.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: He liked it so much.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: He's back again to talk some fever and WNBA and guys Caitlin Clark's been out a while and now her backups out and now her backups backups out and it's kind of a mess, John.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Yes, she's listed as day to day.
• 1:17
  [SPEAKER_03]: She's listed as game time decision for tomorrow.
• 1:19
  [SPEAKER_03]: I would be really surprised if they play her tomorrow, but they've changed her status.
• 1:26
  [SPEAKER_04]: I've heard she's out Tuesday and possible after that.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: That wouldn't shock me.
• 1:31
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think that's both.
• 1:32
  [SPEAKER_03]: I really think it's the smart decision.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Although the standings are getting tied enough that if she's close, I think you have to start really thinking about when do you put her in?
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I think that's a league-wide problem really though.
• 1:43
  [SPEAKER_03]: Like, look how many injuries other teams are getting for on these point guards because there's so many moving hardscreens.
• 1:50
  [SPEAKER_03]: Especially against Phoenix.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I'm not trying to call out anybody specific, but I mean, AT is violently moving screening every but no-one specific.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: You got to feel like against the fever.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: There was definitely a little extra spice in those moving picks because her girlfriend, wife, whatever, doesn't like the fever now.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: That just goes back to the point Mike was making a couple weeks ago.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Like this is the one league where you have to worry about like the extra stuff that comes with the relationships that exist between players regardless of same team or opposite teams.
• 2:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's a big, you know, a big problem in the WMBA has been that way for a couple years and a little longer.
• 2:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's why the league is just terrible about promoting themselves their brand and doing a much best that they want to really grow.
• 2:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, they need to hurt you out and they just need to say, oh, I don't care.
• 2:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: Make a company's out of make a little gruel.
• 2:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: Spaces can't be on the same team.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I don't think they can though, Michelle.
• 2:53
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think with the way they've, I mean, you know, again, I have no problem with people doing whatever they want to do, but I think because that league has been an activist league for so long, they cannot take that stand regardless of how they want to.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: They just can't.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: They can't exist as the league they've always been and then their fans that are that are that are die hard about the activism will turn on them.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: maybe they shouldn't exist as the league they've always been.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: That's fair too, but like just, they don't know what they want to be.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The NBA owner stand in and say, hey, look, you're existed all these years because of us.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And you are not, you're not that a good job of policing yourselves and containing yourselves and branding yourselves, the stand on your own.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The only reason you're doing so well now is because of
• 3:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: primarily because of Katelyn Clark.
• 3:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: But you can't say that.
• 3:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to tell you what you're going to say.
• 3:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: And there's no reason that they can.
• 3:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not saying you can't be.
• 3:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: But hey, if this is becoming an issue, we just can't be.
• 4:00
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think they just have to make some hard choices that like are uncomfortable.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Like that's really what I think it comes down to because there are have to be about the activism and whatever you want to call that or you have to be about the sports.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I don't think you can be about both as hardcore and be successful.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Amen.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I just don't think it's going to work.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: For one and ten percent agreement with what John just said.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: I mean, it's
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  [SPEAKER_05]: You may have to do something that's unpopular to the players.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: You may have to do something that's unpopular and on social media.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: But you've just got to do it.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: And what a perfect time right now to maybe say, look, we are going to implement some sort of fraternization policy because they're in collective bargaining right now.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: You want more money?
• 4:46
  [SPEAKER_05]: Okay, we're going to put a few more rules in place.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: How about this?
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  [SPEAKER_05]: It's not a one way street.
• 4:51
  [SPEAKER_05]: You're going to keep saying, pay us what you owe us.
• 4:54
  [SPEAKER_05]: If you're going to hit somebody, we're going to find you pay it.
• 4:57
  [SPEAKER_05]: We pay us what you owe us.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: You've got to get a little tougher from the ownership side and it may not always be a popular stance.
• 5:03
  [SPEAKER_05]: I made a dooku lost his job with the boss in Celtics because he was dating a staffer in the front office.
• 5:09
  [SPEAKER_05]: I was going to bring that up.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: You know, now you have two players married to each other on the same team in this league where I work on the manager at my office.
• 5:18
  [SPEAKER_05]: If I was trying to date an employee, I wouldn't be working there much longer.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: It's a private company, you know, you can put rules in place.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: I know there's a union that you got to deal with, but you know, bargain with the union.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: And exactly like John said, though, you've got to make uncomfortable choices.
• 5:34
  [SPEAKER_05]: You've got to have uncomfortable conversations.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: At some point, you're probably going to make your fan base a little bit pissed off, but some of the fan base.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: It's a complex situation.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: But thank you.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: If you close the door one thing, you may open it to someone else.
• 5:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's it.
• 5:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, women's college basketball, like what makes
• 5:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: What makes it so nice to go to an IU Women's College basketball game?
• 5:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: Terry, all her play, they're always out for the amp, always.
• 6:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, they have like, inclusive nights and some of that, but it's not rough.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's not ever rub your face and anything.
• 6:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's just something they play the game.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: the internet, they want kids, they don't, you know, they're contacts, they're contacts, it's just overall.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Well, here's the difference.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Here's the big difference to me, Michelle.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: You can have inclusivity nights.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: You can have your pride nights and all those things.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: If you want, there's nothing wrong with that, but like it shouldn't be the foundation.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Right.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Right.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I guess it's what it's right.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's not the foundation of that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's just, it's just not.
• 6:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, I just don't get in, you know, some of these players
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  [SPEAKER_01]: are a private half-in with there.
• 6:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: And now as you get to validate some of them and they are, and then it becomes a mess, you know, what's the character in the least.
• 6:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: But I just get tired of that.
• 6:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, that's all that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You continue to be active.
• 7:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: You're going to take away the wholesome, and I know people are all familiar saying that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But when I say a wholesome, I mean family.
• 7:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, people that payers want to take their kids to just a game so they can
• 7:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: find a player that they can look at, say, hey, look, look at what every other sports league is.
• 7:21
  [SPEAKER_05]: And you know, I'll throw this example out because it's my one experience with a fever game.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: I went my knees played.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: high school basketball.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: And this is when the fever were objectively horrible.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: I mean, if you asked anybody in anyapolis, if they'd rather find five dollars on the ground or get a free ticket to a fever game, everybody's taking that five bucks.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Nobody went to these games.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: But my knees, they played before the game.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Then you could go to the game after it was almost like everybody who was there for the actual fever game were pissed off because there were people there.
• 7:56
  [SPEAKER_05]: because they were trying to experience it for the first time.
• 7:59
  [SPEAKER_05]: Greg, we can talk a lot, you know, all fair about soccer in the fans and like how they just were like proof to us that you're deserving of being a fan of the gay keeping.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, exactly.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: I always say the soccer is always said the soccer is a great sport spoiled by soccer people.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: And then, and that exists, I think, still to some degree in the WNBA now, you.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Right.
• 8:22
  [SPEAKER_05]: I mean, it's exploded, especially in Indianapolis, I mean, you can't get tickets, but it's like there's fans there that are upset because there's only people there to see Caitlin Clark.
• 8:33
  [SPEAKER_04]: And I want to say one more time.
• 8:34
  [SPEAKER_04]: I want to.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: I'm so glad that the fever for the most part are not caught up in this nonsense.
• 8:40
  [SPEAKER_03]: I agree with that one more.
• 8:42
  [SPEAKER_03]: The fact that the fever are out there every time for the national anthem, I respect it so much.
• 8:47
  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm so happy that they do that.
• 8:49
  [SPEAKER_03]: Like the last night's game, it was the last night of the night before when they played, they left a spot for Sid and Nari in the lineup because they couldn't be out there.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So, you know, nice.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I like that they do all of the right things the right way as far as I'm concerned.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: And John,
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  [SPEAKER_05]: who's the most hated team, league-wide, and the W and B. I think everybody hates the fever.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: And we're sitting here talking about how we appreciate that they do things a certain way, and everybody else in the league hates them for it.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: And that's a problem.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: That's a problem.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Is there leaders trying to... Except for New York?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, their leaders try to stay.
• 9:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, like, a leader Boston, and, you know, like Lexi, all so few will just pry it a little bit more.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: direct with him.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
• 9:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: She's kind with it, but they try to stay out of that political stuff, you know, the message, you know, and different things.
• 9:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: They try to, I think the act professionally and that's what I want to say.
• 9:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: They always act professionally and what's really sad is somebody like Alyssa Thomas who is so darn good.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: So good.
• 9:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: There's not always act professionally.
• 9:58
  [SPEAKER_03]: And it can we get to stata Oliya Boston for her perfect answer when they asked her about the fans willing to want to bon her.
• 10:03
  [SPEAKER_03]: Her answer was absolutely perfect.
• 10:06
  [SPEAKER_03]: She said, this got nothing to do with me.
• 10:08
  [SPEAKER_03]: The fans are going to do what they're going to do.
• 10:09
  [SPEAKER_03]: I have whatever.
• 10:10
  [SPEAKER_03]: That was the perfect answer.
• 10:12
  [SPEAKER_04]: She's the freaking best.
• 10:14
  [SPEAKER_03]: Love cheers.
• 10:14
  [SPEAKER_03]: She's amazing.
• 10:15
  [SPEAKER_03]: No, I do like the spice we're getting from Sophie.
• 10:17
  [SPEAKER_03]: I love the Sophie's just owning this this like you know nasty girl or whatever you want to call like she's just like yeah, I'll talk all talk all the trash.
• 10:24
  [SPEAKER_03]: I'll take all the heat screw it.
• 10:26
  [SPEAKER_03]: I love that and then the support but the support she gives within the team is amazing.
• 10:30
  [SPEAKER_03]: Like she was there for Lex when Lexi had a great game or her Lexi played fantastic the other night and Sophie stayed out there for Lexi's
• 10:36
  [SPEAKER_03]: on core interview and stay there and support.
• 10:38
  [SPEAKER_03]: Like I really think this core team loves each other and I love that.
• 10:41
  [SPEAKER_03]: Just like we said about the Pacers, right?
• 10:43
  [SPEAKER_03]: The Pacers really cared about each other and that's why the sum was bigger than, you know, or the whole was bigger than the sum of its parts.
• 10:49
  [SPEAKER_03]: And I think that's what we're going to see with the fever.
• 10:51
  [SPEAKER_03]: Man, we really took a long way to get around to where we are now.
• 10:54
  [SPEAKER_03]: The fever, guys.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: What are they going to do?
• 10:55
  [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, my God.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Here.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Because obviously the loan.
• 10:59
  [SPEAKER_04]: That's right.
• 10:59
  [SPEAKER_04]: Because Odyssey Sims alone probably isn't going to cut it.
• 11:02
  [SPEAKER_04]: They're going to probably have to do something.
• 11:04
  [SPEAKER_03]: let's be honest though when you've got Kelsey Mitchell on the floor you don't need a ton to like really over because she's killing it Kelsey has been playing so well she's the league score in the WMBA right now she's a total point yeah I know that
• 11:20
  [SPEAKER_05]: Minnesota, uh, feature call.
• 11:22
  [SPEAKER_05]: You know, she's hurt right now.
• 11:23
  [SPEAKER_05]: You've got Asia Wilson, but you could make it, you could make a real case that Kelsey's been in the MVP discussion this year.
• 11:30
  [SPEAKER_04]: Yes.
• 11:31
  [SPEAKER_05]: I mean, absolutely.
• 11:32
  [SPEAKER_05]: With everything that's happened around this team and for her to be leading the league and scoring.
• 11:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I was, I was thinking that the other day for that because I will say this.
• 11:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm one who believes just like I believe, Sonny Citroes.
• 11:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: probably give rookie of the year over page backers and here's why.
• 11:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: Some citron have a misogame and I'm a big believer that you need to play at certain percentage of your games to get those big awards.
• 11:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: I have the scene.
• 12:01
  [SPEAKER_03]: Let me make a, you're demonstrating a point that I've really noticed about us and lots of people all season long.
• 12:06
  [SPEAKER_03]: So in your citron's great, I agree with you.
• 12:07
  [SPEAKER_03]: She's probably my pick for a regular year at the moment.
• 12:10
  [SPEAKER_03]: But like we just took a conversation about house spectacular Kelsey Mitchell's been.
• 12:15
  [SPEAKER_03]: and we just glance over it because we're so used to it.
• 12:18
  [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, and I don't mean that as a knock on you, Michelle.
• 12:21
  [SPEAKER_03]: I just, I really think that it does, is a great example of how we just, we don't talk about Kelsey Mitchell enough.
• 12:26
  [SPEAKER_03]: Let's stick with the fact that she really is fantastic right now.
• 12:31
  [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know that she can get it because like she is a little bit one dimensional.
• 12:35
  [SPEAKER_03]: Like if I'm being a realist and not a biased fever fan, she's a little bit one dimensional on the scoring.
• 12:40
  [SPEAKER_03]: Like her thing is scoring.
• 12:42
  [SPEAKER_03]: But like she's been assisting better than she usually does lately.
• 12:46
  [SPEAKER_04]: Before call you're went down, it was a hard argument to make, but now I'm not sure that it is a hard argument to make.
• 12:52
  [SPEAKER_04]: I think she is legit.
• 12:53
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I have one hundred percent would.
• 12:57
  [SPEAKER_03]: I would vote for her.
• 12:58
  [SPEAKER_03]: I do think that you're going to have people that are going to put now that fee has been injured.
• 13:01
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think Asia Wilson's going to be the post as the number one.
• 13:05
  [SPEAKER_05]: Well, suddenly after after a thirty twenty last night.
• 13:08
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
• 13:12
  [SPEAKER_04]: That's legit.
• 13:13
  [SPEAKER_04]: I can see that argument.
• 13:14
  [SPEAKER_04]: I think you probably take a Wilson over Mitchell, but I still think Mitchell has a chance to play her way and do it.
• 13:20
  [SPEAKER_04]: I suggest.
• 13:22
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think right now the ranking is for me, not for me.
• 13:25
  [SPEAKER_03]: Like if I had to guess what the rankings would be is going to go.
• 13:28
  [SPEAKER_03]: Asia Wilson, Alyssa Thomas, and then you could put, call your Mitchell on the same like third fourth ballpark.
• 13:35
  [SPEAKER_03]: like I think Kelsey should get way more consideration but I think but look at the history where she's played great for a long time on a crappy fever team and now on a good fever team but like she's really never gotten that much recognition that she deserves and I think that it's time to really make sure that she knows that she's loved we love Kelsey Mitchell.
• 13:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: I watch the recent ballgame as they were talking about MVP and future and somebody possibly you know probably be
• 13:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: and a B.P.
• 13:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: and it's really going to pop late this year.
• 14:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: She keeps them on a lay-a-boss.
• 14:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: And nothing is because I was low on lay-a-boss, and she's done a lot too, especially passing and assisting and seeing the Caitlyn out.
• 14:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: But I'm like, they just didn't even ignore Kelsey and Mitch, but I'm like, how can you mention the lay-a-boss and web-not mentioned Kelsey Mitchell in that same regard?
• 14:20
  [SPEAKER_03]: But let's be honest, Leah Boston's also been playing great.
• 14:23
  [SPEAKER_03]: They're both playing spectacular basketball.
• 14:26
  [SPEAKER_03]: Like, Leah's development has been incredibly good.
• 14:30
  [SPEAKER_03]: I don't want to take anything away from how well she's playing.
• 14:32
  [SPEAKER_03]: She is playing so well.
• 14:36
  [SPEAKER_03]: That's the back to the feet.
• 14:38
  [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, so in our last in games were six and four if we had said that after a West Coast run of West Coast, you know, long.
• 14:45
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we were right.
• 14:47
  [SPEAKER_03]: You are right.
• 14:49
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I think six and four solid.
• 14:50
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think that's a good good result.
• 14:52
  [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I think they should win tomorrow.
• 14:54
  [SPEAKER_03]: They should be the wings tomorrow.
• 14:55
  [SPEAKER_04]: All right.
• 14:57
  [SPEAKER_04]: Well, let's let's right now they're tied for fifth with the ACEs, two games ahead of the storm and Valkyries.
• 15:04
  [SPEAKER_04]: And two and a half ahead of the sparks for the last playoff spot coming up.
• 15:09
  [SPEAKER_04]: They've got the wings on Tuesday.
• 15:15
  [SPEAKER_05]: Well, we broke down the schedule the last time we were on.
• 15:18
  [SPEAKER_05]: And it got a lot more manageable after that trip out the trip that they were on, especially with Minnesota being, we still don't know what call your status is going to be.
• 15:28
  [SPEAKER_05]: I mean, Minnesota is kind of a, you know, a machine in and of itself right now.
• 15:32
  [SPEAKER_05]: So it's really hard.
• 15:34
  [SPEAKER_05]: But any game to get more games against the, against Chicago, right?
• 15:39
  [SPEAKER_05]: They're not done there, right?
• 15:41
  [SPEAKER_05]: Because those are automatic W's at this point.
• 15:44
  [SPEAKER_05]: Correct.
• 15:46
  [SPEAKER_04]: Washington, they play twice Connecticut, they play once.
• 15:51
  [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and I would say the sparks, too, but apparently the only thing they can beat is the fever.
• 15:57
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, the sparks for whatever reason, we just can't beat.
• 15:59
  [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I honestly don't want to see them in the playoffs.
• 16:02
  [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, the sparks aren't even in the playoffs right now, but if they make it in, and we have to face them, that would be bad.
• 16:07
  [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yes, though, I'd get in.
• 16:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: Did you see where Cameron brings finally?
• 16:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: She had a great game.
• 16:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: She's been playing well with Ethan's been everything,
• 16:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: She played well both into the floor at last night or the night before.
• 16:21
  [SPEAKER_05]: The league is getting annoyed with my daily MVP vote that I keep emailing them for Cameron.
• 16:28
  [SPEAKER_03]: Like honestly, her comeback has been better than I expected after such a long injury, you know, hiatus, like she's playing really well.
• 16:37
  [SPEAKER_03]: And I think she's showing why she was taken as high as she was in the draft.
• 16:41
  [SPEAKER_05]: And since she's come back, that team has gotten a lot better.
• 16:44
  [SPEAKER_05]: I mean, like you said, you don't want to play that team in the postseason.
• 16:48
  [SPEAKER_05]: And right now, they are just on track to maybe sneak in and maybe be somebody dangerous for Minnesota.
• 16:54
  [SPEAKER_04]: If they had to run into them, you know, the I won four of their last five and what nine of their last eleven.
• 17:01
  [SPEAKER_03]: They're eight and of their last ten, eight and two and the last ten.
• 17:05
  [SPEAKER_05]: So we broke down after the fever loss.
• 17:08
  [SPEAKER_05]: It's not a lack of talent on that team.
• 17:10
  [SPEAKER_05]: It's just getting it all in the right place and getting it to jail.
• 17:13
  [SPEAKER_05]: So that that is a that's a dangerous danger scene with the playoffs looming.
• 17:19
  [SPEAKER_03]: Atlanta is on a night and two run also so they're tied with New York for two three spot to New York has the tie breaks.
• 17:25
  [SPEAKER_03]: So I mean honestly, the playoffs were getting close and it is really tight from pretty much to the nine.
• 17:33
  [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
• 17:34
  [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
• 17:36
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
• 17:37
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
• 17:37
  [SPEAKER_03]: Well, she gets a Chicago doesn't matter.
• 17:39
  [SPEAKER_04]: And then the final three or by themselves.
• 17:42
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's going to be interesting what happens.
• 17:43
  [SPEAKER_03]: I do think I do have to take a moment to give my girl Lexi a shout out for having come back to bring it up.
• 17:51
  [SPEAKER_03]: I was so happy to see her.
• 17:54
  [SPEAKER_03]: Like I felt like she had it coming at some point.
• 17:56
  [SPEAKER_03]: Like she just needed to get her confidence.
• 17:58
  [SPEAKER_03]: And she hit that.
• 17:59
  [SPEAKER_03]: She had a three like right off and like maybe three minutes into the game.
• 18:02
  [SPEAKER_03]: And I said she's got it tonight tonight.
• 18:04
  [SPEAKER_03]: She just went all that on Twitter.
• 18:08
  [SPEAKER_03]: I thought that made me happy.
• 18:09
  [SPEAKER_03]: That made me so happy.
• 18:10
  [SPEAKER_03]: You were there, right?
• 18:11
  [SPEAKER_03]: Saturday night?
• 18:12
  [SPEAKER_03]: No, I was not.
• 18:13
  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm going tomorrow, but I didn't go on Saturday.
• 18:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: John's exotic.
• 18:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: I know he's happy.
• 18:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: I was happy before, but I think Alexie's one of those people that are with her comment on that thing.
• 18:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to get like Sophie and even like Caitlin and say, hey, we need, you know, we need you.
• 18:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, was being down McDonald's and being down closer.
• 18:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think it was just like a case of leave.
• 18:46
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think he was a little like a case of the Yips and golf man.
• 18:49
  [SPEAKER_03]: Like she got off her.
• 18:50
  [SPEAKER_03]: She got off her or consistency.
• 18:52
  [SPEAKER_03]: But gotten her own head a little bit.
• 18:54
  [SPEAKER_03]: Her shot just wasn't falling and it just was a continuous, you know, mental thing.
• 19:00
  [SPEAKER_03]: And she finally just saw one drop in it into the game on leash.
• 19:04
  [SPEAKER_03]: So I think she's going to be strong from here on out.
• 19:07
  [SPEAKER_04]: Thank you so much to John and Michelle for joining me as usual for the fever report.
• 19:15
  [SPEAKER_04]: And of course, the mic hotel for joining us the last three weeks.
• 19:18
  [SPEAKER_04]: I think he's really enjoying it and might be becoming a fixture.
• 19:25
  [SPEAKER_04]: John will be taking his daughter to the fever game on Tuesday night.
• 19:29
  [SPEAKER_04]: So we will not have a reaction after the game.
• 19:32
  [SPEAKER_04]: We will get together Wednesday and do another fever report.
• 19:37
  [SPEAKER_04]: with reaction to that game and anticipation of what may be some good injury news for the fever we're hoping.
• 19:45
  [SPEAKER_04]: So, a fever report coming again, coming again on Wednesday, maybe even Thursday morning.
• 19:52
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• 19:59
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