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FEVER 86, MERCURY 77: Reaction with John Robertson & Michelle Garmon (2.289.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: You are listening to a special edition of the Fever Report with John Robertson and Michelle Garmin, their reaction to the Fever's 86-77 win over the Phoenix Mercury on Monday night.
• 0:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's only on the Central Indiana Sports Report.
• 0:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome Fever fans to the Central Indiana Sports Report for a special edition of the Fever Report with John Robertson and Michelle Garmin.
• 0:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: John and Michelle's reaction to the Fever's 87 win over the Phoenix Mercury on Monday night and John, it was a wild game.
• 0:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: It was a weird game.
• 0:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it ended up exciting, but it was quite the roller coaster.
• 0:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: Let's get part of it that people are going to forget probably good to forget it, but the opening quarter was terrible.
• 1:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: rooting for the fever at that game bridge had gone silent.
• 1:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: Started hot with a Lexi 3, which for those people that are new here, Lexi is my absolute favorite player on the team, so we were excited for that and then nothing.
• 1:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: The whole quarter was just bookended by a Lexi 3 and a Kelsey 3 and that's it.
• 1:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: Six points in a professional basketball first quarter.
• 1:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and what, uh, Lexi's came in the first 30 seconds.
• 1:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: And Kelsey's came on the, like, it was my last five second.
• 1:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, uh, it was a really bad quarter.
• 1:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: And honestly, I thought that that was the sign that the team was done because they had no energy.
• 1:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: They didn't look like they wanted to be there.
• 1:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: They looked defeated.
• 1:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: The body language for the whole team was terrible.
• 1:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: Fans were less, fans were,
• 1:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: Restless is a word.
• 1:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: I would they just look like they didn't know but he wanted to be there It's like you're at your kids high school basketball game and the no one is doing anything and the other teams the state champs And that's what it looked like and felt like in there It was just everybody was there because they had to be and they didn't want to be because it was embarrassing But boy did the momentum shift It was like quickly.
• 2:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: I just I don't know.
• 2:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think you have to discuss that first quarter a little bit because that's the fever at their worst
• 2:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: that you John, I thought part of their problem was they just settled for three point shots.
• 2:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: I know that's what the, that's what.
• 2:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: the mercury were giving them, they were leaving them open and it's because they weren't hitting and I just thought they not all those three point shots, although they may have been a lot of more uncontested.
• 2:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't think they were in rhythm.
• 2:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now that said, I thought Caitlyn had two really nice three point looks, they just didn't go down in that first quarter for her, but I just thought sometimes the shots just looked rushing, you're right, they were out of
• 2:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: movie, they were just like farjick and just settling and the main thought that stuck with me during that first quarter other than they just looked like they the whole team the one in particular it looked like they just weren't bought in and they looked defeated and they were resigned to their fate as well it looked.
• 3:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: But the other thought besides that I had is this team really just lives and dies with their shooting percentage on any given night.
• 3:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's pretty much a race to 80 85 and whoever gets their first is probably going to win the game.
• 3:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: So if the fever cannot run and they're shooting well on a night, they're probably going to win the way they're constructed right now.
• 3:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: If they're not shooting well and just nothing falls, they're not going to be able to hold the other team low enough that they can catch most nights.
• 3:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: But I do think that's until something major changes, that's kind of what it's going to be like, it's just can they outrun outpace and are they shooting well.
• 3:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: What are that, you know, the first quarter they had now, I know they were.
• 3:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: They had more rebound than Phoenix because, and I think that first quarter, the fever had like seven or eight often subboards because they were kind of missing so badly on those shots.
• 4:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: But I thought defensively, they also, they did not control the boards as much defensively and defensively, they weren't creating any really any turnovers that allowed them to get out in transition.
• 4:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: And you're right, this team, it's their shooting percentage and they have to be able to run.
• 4:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: This team is at its best when it is full court basketball.
• 4:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, no, I just think that that gives us an insight into kind of the, I don't understand what say the flaw or the problem.
• 4:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's just the makeup of the team, really.
• 4:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's they need to run.
• 4:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: They need to play fast and hopefully they're hitting because honestly,
• 4:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't even know how to describe it really, but it looked like no one even wanted to be the one to take the shot after that.
• 4:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: It was like three minutes ago in the first quarter when they only had one shot fall.
• 4:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: It looked like they were just trying to give the ball, everyone, look like they're trying to give it to somebody else to take the shot because they didn't want to be the one to make it some missed the next shot.
• 5:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: And again, I don't want to harp on it too much.
• 5:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's worth acknowledging, and I think the discussion about it is important, but I don't think that should be the big takeaway from the game because the game beyond that first corner was absolutely crazy and exciting and lots of good basketball and then a lot of drama.
• 5:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I really thought the second quarter.
• 5:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: I thought of course Caitlyn obviously was had a huge huge plus in that.
• 5:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, she hit a couple long three.
• 5:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: She scored points.
• 5:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: She got out was running the fever word, but I thought a lot of that set coming back and in that separation.
• 5:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: I really thought in the second quarter you had dumb.
• 5:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: You had Caitlin and you had Monique Billings and then you had Raven Johnson come in off the bench and I'll tell you to get she when they're struggling because love Kelsey Mitchell, but her first half last night may have been one of the worst times I've ever seen the scene her play on both ends of the floor now she came out the second half and in that third quarter and was much better, but in that in that first half she she was lost on defense her shots weren't going on she what?
• 6:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't Kelsey.
• 6:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's just put it that way.
• 6:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: It wasn't physical Kelsey.
• 6:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I hear you, and I'm not saying you're wrong, but I think the more important point we do need to focus on is how what Caitlin did pull off helped get the team motivated and back in there.
• 6:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: Like I think we've got to not gloss over that fact.
• 6:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.
• 6:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, no.
• 6:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: You're right.
• 6:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: I was also she did it in the hotel.
• 6:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: She told her teammates what that they needed to start cutting and moving.
• 6:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, and then she just
• 6:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, she, it was like, I just, she lit a fuse under herself too.
• 6:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, but for all the, for all the people don't like Caitlyn, I have no problem with him.
• 6:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: But Caitlyn's firing us in her emotion and how she displays that.
• 6:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: And there's people that love it, people that ate it.
• 6:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: If you're, if she's on your team, you probably like it.
• 6:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: And if you're sure of the other team, you probably hate it.
• 6:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: But it's on Iowa, I hate it.
• 6:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: And now that she's on the fever, I love it.
• 7:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 7:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: So.
• 7:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: As we've discussed before, I don't pay that much more care about college basketball.
• 7:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I had no feelings at the time.
• 7:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: I just thought she was excited to watch.
• 7:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: But I'm just saying what she does, that fire and the energy brings other people up around her.
• 7:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: And that's good.
• 7:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: Her double back to back long threes.
• 7:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I was actually fine with the third one she took.
• 7:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: even though she missed the third one.
• 7:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: I was fine with it because those things get the crowd back.
• 7:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: And let me tell you, they had to get the crowd back last night.
• 7:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: The first quarter killed the crowd.
• 7:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: I was, you could say the cliche, you could hear a pin drop.
• 7:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: But I literally think you could have heard an actual pin drop.
• 7:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: It was that quiet during the first quarter.
• 7:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: But then as soon as Caitlin hits the first long three people start to be into a
• 7:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: the second one, the crowd was going nuts.
• 7:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: When she takes the third one, people were cheering before it even hit the rim.
• 7:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: But I'm just saying that, put the energy back into the team.
• 7:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: And you can agree or disagree all you want, but the crowd being loud affects how they play.
• 8:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: It really does.
• 8:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: And oh my gosh, did it get into one of Bonner's head?
• 8:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: Obviously, the one of Bonner was like, oh, let's get to the drum now.
• 8:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the one I was on super tilt.
• 8:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, I do want to hit the drama, but I also before we do, I would feel horrible if I didn't acknowledge that yes, because she'll is right about Monique Billings had a game.
• 8:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's right.
• 8:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: So they're in a fit-in, isn't she?
• 8:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, so I think the things that really helped the offense were Caitlin starting to hit to get the energy back.
• 8:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: Caitlin driving, we talked about the last episode, her drives to the to the hoop and layups are definitely improving the defeat of the offense as a whole, but last night we got the
• 8:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: the Caitlin 15 footer.
• 8:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: So now she's triple threat with the with the three the lay out the drives for layups and the turnaround Kobe look and mid you know 15 footer.
• 8:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: But the connection with
• 8:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: Monique Billings also like when Caitlyn draws the double and Monique's cutting to the rim, she had so many good passes to her last night and Monique played great on the board.
• 9:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I think if that starts to develop, this team really does have a shot to be much better than we've seen and several games so far.
• 9:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, you're right in that, and then I am, because Caitlyn was fabulous, I just, another Raven Johnson's defense when she came in in the second quarter, she just saw something, she can get up and pressure the ball, she'll pick you up for core and can stay in front of you.
• 9:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, she does not give up, dribbled rise very often.
• 9:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: And if she does, she's able to recover and cut off and not give up and open lane to the basket.
• 9:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: I thought and you know,
• 9:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: always, which I think is really good.
• 9:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then I will say this about Alia Boston.
• 9:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not really sure what she did offensively as much last night, but her defense was good.
• 9:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: I was sitting there saying I can believe they had her playing up high, but they had to.
• 9:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: She is probably one of the best at coming off and hedging or switching on screens and she can do it.
• 10:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: Her ability to play defense
• 10:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: So to get to the drama, Greg, and connect it with Raven Johnson, I absolutely thought the her expression during
• 10:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: the drama Raven's expression was hilarious.
• 10:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: She just looked like, and I don't mean this in a drugatory way, but she looked like that little kid.
• 10:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: He was like somebody else's friend's house when the fight was going on between the parents.
• 10:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: She just had this innocent, what is going on?
• 10:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: Look, so when DeWanna started going off on her little Jim Jam nonsense, Raven's just looking at her, like, it first is almost like an admiring, oh, there's that pert-left player, but then it was like, what is going on?
• 10:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: Just an innocent, I don't know, it was, if you go back and watch the video, look at Raven's offense,
• 10:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: of, I don't know.
• 10:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: But anyway, so then the drama starts.
• 10:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, I would say I would say it had been a little chippy up until that happened, but then, so what, what really started as Caitlin was defending the war on a, the war on us trying to post her up because obviously the one is much taller than Caitlin.
• 11:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: And Caitlin's just got her arm there and the
• 11:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: and then it just exploded from there and it got ridiculous.
• 11:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, we need to look and find out when these two teams play each other again.
• 11:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, they have their schedule in front of us.
• 11:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's tomorrow.
• 11:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
• 11:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: So at the beginning of the season, I told my mom I'd take her to a game.
• 11:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, well, game, do you want to go to?
• 11:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: And she didn't know.
• 11:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: We were going to end up like so.
• 11:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: It ended up, she was like, how about the second Phoenix game?
• 11:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: That should be fine.
• 11:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: So we decided weeks ago that my mom was going to this game in a while and I told her a last night.
• 11:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I think you may have just randomly looked into the most exciting
• 11:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be, it's going to be interesting tomorrow, I think.
• 12:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think it is, too, but I want to go back to that little bruhaha.
• 12:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'll tell you what, I just, I said it last night in our group text, I just love Sophie County, him.
• 12:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I just does not back down and she just keeps it going in the right way.
• 12:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I mean,
• 12:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, first of all, I had to just take them off.
• 12:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: I just love Sophie.
• 12:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I think that gives us a clue into some of what happened last year.
• 12:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: Like I think I had to do, I think Sophie into what I had to have been part of the personal reasons of why Bonner quit.
• 12:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm not even saying that Sophie's fall.
• 12:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm just saying like something personal had to have happened between them.
• 12:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: No, whatever happened, I'm glad I did.
• 12:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, sure.
• 12:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: I get to entertaining, right?
• 12:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm glad to want a bonder's no longer on the phone.
• 12:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, agreed.
• 12:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: She's horrible.
• 12:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: She is awful.
• 12:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: But I also want to talk about Sophie, but let's not forget my Isha Heinz Allen, because she really stood up for the team.
• 13:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I loved her little flex on Alyssa Thomas.
• 13:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: And again, go back and look.
• 13:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: She was just like not taking any nonsense.
• 13:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: I really do think that this team has got that scrappy dog and then where they're like, what would screw it?
• 13:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: You got
• 13:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
• 13:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: I just, I love that.
• 13:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: Hinds Allen, I love Sophie.
• 13:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: I love, I can't believe Caitlyn got a tech for clapping.
• 13:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: Caitlyn got teched up for clapping.
• 13:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: That was actually what got her teched up during all that.
• 13:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: The physical touching and shoving between the other players, that all makes sense to me.
• 13:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: But Caitlyn does one of, did one of her reasons for having to get the crowd in.
• 13:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: We know all this is happening and my crowd just exploded and went nuts.
• 13:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: or some one of them got the technical.
• 13:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, but do you think that's where the tech?
• 13:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: Given it there because I'm guessing the official thought it was something but she wasn't close enough.
• 13:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't not have given it because she wasn't right in her face.
• 13:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't agree with that technical either.
• 13:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's just part of the motions and part of basketball.
• 14:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, and you can tell Kate Loons taking some of the stuff that happened in the past personal because once the stuff all started to go nuts, she really was getting the crown of the she enjoyed the fact that the crowd was destroying boner with booze.
• 14:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: And he's I'm boner touched the ball, the crowd booed.
• 14:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: Nate's when she got announced, booed when she did anything, booed.
• 14:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: So right before the technical free throw, and I think Phoenix purposely sent out boner to take the free throw just as I like.
• 14:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: knife twist, poke jab, whatever you want to call, I think it's a little games with ship a little mental game stuff.
• 14:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I looked at my wife and said if bottom misses this, game bridge is going to explode.
• 14:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: And she misses the one free throw and oh my lord, it was the loudest cheers of the night.
• 14:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: And you and the other thing is you could see it got in bottom's head.
• 14:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: That was bothering her.
• 14:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: It was really bothering her.
• 14:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: that all the stuff was happening, she's got to hate coming back to Indianapolis.
• 15:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: And again, when, when's your next visit to the fieldhouse job?
• 15:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: She's probably still in town today because they're back tomorrow.
• 15:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: She's probably trying to not go out in, indeed this week.
• 15:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: I've done it today.
• 15:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure they're having door dash to the hotel, so AT&T and the Wanda.
• 15:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: Don't have to go out in public in Indianapolis today.
• 15:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he was, I did not.
• 15:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: Now, I do think after all that happened, I will give credit to Phoenix because I think they did kind of something smart because fever want to run and fever were up by almost 20 because they were running the game, but with all the the officials were going to definitely call it tighter from that point on because they kind of had to to keep the game under control right I had to prevent another brawl happening or whatever.
• 15:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: So Phoenix was allowing and making some tiki tacky fouls that they knew we're going to get called because it really grinded the pace of that fourth quarter down to it felt like the last two minutes of a close college game where they're playing the foul free throw game you guys like but it felt like that for like seven minutes of a fourth quarter so it took forever and and I was trying to explain to my daughter why that benefited Phoenix and why they were doing it and I was I said first of all they're behind by 20 and they
• 16:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: and second of all, a slow-paced favors Phoenix.
• 16:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: So if they consciously thought of that strategy, strategy, good for them, but I'm glad the favors stuck it out in one.
• 16:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: Winning by 10 after being only 26 points in the four quarters, great, I wanted the 20 point wins just to really put them through, but.
• 16:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, in this glad that she's definitely there in that final minute there, get all her key players off the court, just just in case.
• 16:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I had not really a couple arguments, but I had, I was defending, and I don't always defend Coach White.
• 17:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: We all know that I don't always defend her, but in this specific case, I will.
• 17:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: People were frustrated that Caitlyn needed one, one assists for a double double and Stephanie Polter, and I really wanted Caitlyn off the floor.
• 17:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: because I felt like Phoenix might do something stupid because there was no reason not to at that point.
• 17:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I did not want to see her.
• 17:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: on people were upset when didn't make that challenge, but on I was watching on TV and I'm not lying.
• 17:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: She turned to her bench once and looked, waited and she was then talking one of the players and then she turned and just kind of stared at who and I'm not sure who it is.
• 17:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's like we're three people that sit behind the bench and one of them is in charge of letting her note or you know, it's a replay and they were just not doing anything.
• 17:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: I was sitting there thinking
• 17:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: Is that the one where Lexi apparently found somebody with her face?
• 18:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: Because I wanted that one challenge.
• 18:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'll be very honest with you.
• 18:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: What would you?
• 18:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: But I'll tell you what, John, I don't think they win the challenge.
• 18:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: I really don't, because Lexi went for the rebound, but she went into that player.
• 18:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: She went in to space.
• 18:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: She didn't go straight up and down.
• 18:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I don't know that there was a nut would have been enough to overturn it.
• 18:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm just, first of all, it was Lexi.
• 18:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: We all know she's got favorite player.
• 18:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: And second of all, anytime someone fouls another player with their face, I tend to think that that's stupid.
• 18:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
• 18:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: I struggle with that.
• 18:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: I struggle with it when they call it found someone who just got hit in the face.
• 18:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, part of it was she kind of, you know, she's don't get wrong.
• 18:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: She's a tough nut and she's pretty strong, but she's also kind of slender and lanky and everything and I think she kind of got sandwiched by Thomas and Bonner and that.
• 18:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: legal.
• 18:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Thomas was turning to blackouts, Lexi's going and she goes forward a little bit.
• 18:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was like I said in the text, I personally probably would have just said play on and no, no foul call, whichever because it was like a rebound, a middle of three people and you had three people going after the ball and none of them had established position right below the basketball.
• 19:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's just like when you can see a collision when two people are going after a loose ball and you see a collision and sometimes there's no father shouldn't be get two people going after a ball this not in anyone's possession going hard.
• 19:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes is going to be a nasty collision and it's going to hurt.
• 19:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: Let's talk about the the one where Kelsey got elbow to the nose.
• 19:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: I honestly didn't think they were going to upgrade it to a flavor.
• 19:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: I thought they were going to, I truly believe they were going to say, oh, that's a natural basketball movement as she crossed over to make the lay up.
• 19:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: But I was glad they did because that looked nasty and big props to Kelsey for getting up and finishing the game after that.
• 19:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'll tell you what though.
• 19:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: I was when you, when you see the replay on TV,
• 20:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't look like she got her with much of the elbow.
• 20:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: And so I was surprised that she had the bloody nose.
• 20:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was a very, I could just bend the camera angle of the TV because I'm just, it looked like it could have been much worse.
• 20:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: No, she was gusting blood over there in front of Tyre's halberd on the sideline.
• 20:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: No, you could see the blood on the floor.
• 20:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: It was a lot of blood on the floor.
• 20:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: It should be an exciting game Wednesday night.
• 20:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: It just feels so weird to say, I'm happy with the way they played after they started so bad, but the first of all, resilience, that was nice, and second of all, like they played fast and strong for the rest of the game.
• 20:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: We had a 35 point, a second quarter, and a 30 point, third quarter.
• 20:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: If they could average to 25 point quarters,
• 20:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: they're going to be fine.
• 20:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: I know we were coming off of a double loss to Atlanta which had everybody kind of down because you know they hate losing to Atlanta anyway but there were definitely positives from the game on Monday night and hopefully again on Wednesday and then if they can kind of use them because we talked about it they have to beat the teams are supposed to be right they have to win the games are supposed to win.
• 21:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then we got time to work on the strategy for the playoffs, because I do think that the fever dream is going to be a playoff series.
• 21:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: My concern of heading into Wednesday is because I think of everything that happened.
• 21:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: you know, on Monday, is I wouldn't be surprised that that game is not taking tack fouls early.
• 21:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, well, on both sides, I would not be surprised if the officials don't try to make sure they have control of it early.
• 21:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: How many players did Phoenix injure last year in the playoffs or before right before the playoffs?
• 21:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: Was it two or three?
• 21:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was something like that.
• 22:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
• 22:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: There's obviously no love loss between these two teams, and I agree with you, it could get ugly quick on the Wednesday, and I would worry about injuries.
• 22:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: I do worry about injuries.
• 22:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: Hopefully the fever just squash him.
• 22:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: And when they do John and Michelle be here to talk about it on Wednesday night, probably Thursday morning.
• 22:22
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• 22:23
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• 22:31
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• 22:54
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