The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Alley Oop | EP 24 Indiana Fever SHOCK the Aces, MVP Reactions & Coaching Changes

Episode Date: September 23, 2025

The WNBA is heating up and Alley Oop has you covered! Co-hosts Juju Gotti and Trysta Krick break down:    •    The Indiana Fever’s shocking wins over the Atlanta Dream & Las Vegas Aces, pow...ered by Kelsey Mitchell    •    The Minnesota Lynx comeback thriller vs. the Phoenix Mercury    •    A’ja Wilson’s historic 4th MVP award    •    Caitlin Clark fined for her ref comments + Sophie Cunningham calling out the league    •    All the WNBA drama, reactions & what’s next for hoops fans Alley Oop = your home for basketball news, WNBA highlights, NBA talk, culture, and unfiltered hoop debates. Don’t forget to subscribe for all things hoops, WNBA, NBA, and basketball culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:02:26 Learn more at sap.com slash uncertainty. We're going to do some word on the curbs, some trending videos. Sounds like we're going to talk about some gamecocks and some cock on crack crimes. So what do you two think about this little sidehose, that little side hustle that Don Staley's got gone? A sidehole? Don Stadley is not a side hole, bro. Ms. Don Stadley is not a sidehold. She called her a sidehold.
Starting point is 00:03:02 That's disrespectful. Is she bowling right there? It looks like she playing cornhole. Cornhole. She's like in the Cornhole championships. Cornholio. Yeah, she's doing side quests. She out there.
Starting point is 00:03:14 Did she win? Do we know the results of this? Or what's happening here? Well, that's the one she hit. Listen, listen, Don Staley maybe should stop playing cornholio if she wants to cement her Legacy. We got Kara Lawson right now taking fucking Don Staley's spot and becoming the head coach of Team USA Women's Basketball as of 60 minutes ago, putting her in rarefied air. We can't talk about Don Stanley on our little sidequest. You know what, Kara Lawson has? No side quests.
Starting point is 00:03:46 One focus. Women's hoops. No side. That, that, Kara has no outside activities that she's interested in doing. Okay? That came out angry than I thought. That was more rageful than I thought the cornhole was going to be. Listen, cornhole. Look, Carol Larson, she got one of the best ponytails. Her shit wavy as hell. Her shit be wavy. Salute to Carol Larson. She has literally, she literally has the waves in the, in the slickback. But see, this is what you don't realize too, though, by darn. Right now, she can do that on the weekend because she here in America, because guess what she's doing during the week?
Starting point is 00:04:25 recruiting she probably had a recruit that she could see in that city and they say hey come come bow with it's done so corn so corn holy on is just a tax right off i'm sure you've both heard about the enhanced games am i correct no so the enhanced games are new games where like the olympics where all steroids are allowed thoughts i think steroids should be allowed always i think steroids should never be like taken out of anything. If it was destigmatized Juju would be on the steroid right now.
Starting point is 00:05:01 Get the hell no, I wouldn't be on no damn steroids. I like this steroid Olympics salute. It's way different though. I feel like a world record should be every damn trial. Every heat. Damn near, right? I've
Starting point is 00:05:16 changed my mind. The caption has made me change my mind. Hold on. What is it? It says, back by high-profile investors like Donald Trump Jr. and Peter Teal, I already know what time it is. These people, they're turning them into super soldiers. What it is, is not even what they're saying.
Starting point is 00:05:34 This is lies. They're turning them into super soldiers, and they're going to turn them into the National Guard and they're going to take over D.C. That's what they're going to do, but they're like literally roided up, and they're also Olympians. It's a no for me. This is pre and post the enhanced game, this guy. Oh, that's the same
Starting point is 00:05:50 That's the same joker? Same dude. Yeah, he looks like... I mean, he is not all right, this guy. He's not all right. He's set to launch in Las Vegas. I'm surprised they're not doing it on the White House lawn. Brough, fast as hell in the swimming, probably.
Starting point is 00:06:05 Bro, imagine if you're trying to run from somebody and you turn around and he fought with him in the water. Listen, he probably has... He's probably got a gun now attached to his arm, too. This is super... Yeah, this Olympus is going to be crazy. You just got to keep your eyes. on all the participants. That's got to be so hard to find a t-shirt.
Starting point is 00:06:25 Oh, my God. It's like, those traps. I've never seen anything like that. No, and those lats. Those lats come off his peck further than his pecks. Respectfully, his trap game is stifled by, I don't see, I don't think y'all really notice how long but his brother neck is. His neck is super long.
Starting point is 00:06:42 His neck long is hell. Listen. He needs a bra for his back. These broken wings So Atlanta can fly again So the dream can fly again I see you got the black glasses on We're now not even rocking the WMBA stuff anymore
Starting point is 00:07:04 We're going right to unrivaled, Jujoo What? Would you like to say anything? Ouch Ouch I don't have anything I'm so hurt right now Like everything about it hurts
Starting point is 00:07:17 my back hurts my positivity hurts my self-esteem hurts it's just hurt does it hurt more based on how the end of the game went with Rhine I mean it just hurts because we didn't
Starting point is 00:07:37 score as much points as they scored that's the ultimate that's it that's the end bruh oh my god the referees 24 free throws to 11 free throws And that number got Like closer as the game like was ending
Starting point is 00:07:56 The referees was on They wasn't calling travel They wasn't calling nothing They don't give a damn about nothing Except the damn tired Look at them Look at them That's just, oh my God
Starting point is 00:08:10 Look at the time Lexiho passed that ball I was already outside of the arena No, you were not. No, you were not. Brud, this shit hurts so bad. It hurts so bad. Oh, my God. There's no way in the world that's supposed to beat us.
Starting point is 00:08:31 But look, man, great season. Salute the big Carl. Salute the big Al. Salute the big Ryan. We're going to be back next year, man. Salute to Big G. Salute the Big Juzza. Salute to Pau-Pow.
Starting point is 00:08:48 Salute to Nia coffee. Salute to everybody on the climate. Salute to Big Al. Shatorie Walker, Kimbrough. Oh, all of them. We're going deep into the bench. We're going deep. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:09:01 Everybody, man. Salute. Maya Carwell. Maya Carwell, I see you. Exactly. That's why I got it on today. It's an arrival season now. He's not watching any more WMBA games, but he will provide the analysis.
Starting point is 00:09:17 I called the Indiana fever cockroaches, and people got very upset with me, so I'm going to call them the Indiana Fury, aka the Tyson Fury of the WMBA. You can't knock them down. If you knock them down, you think they're dead. They just get right back up somehow winning the fight. Does it make you feel better, Jew, that they ended up doing the same thing to the Aces? It does not I'm not a hater
Starting point is 00:09:42 I don't operate like that It hurts me just enough To see Oh no Look at her She was Look at her Salute the Ariel Powers
Starting point is 00:09:54 Extreme Look that's what we can talk about Right there Kelsey Mitchell There should be a separate Award in the WMBA For dog Like you know how the UFC
Starting point is 00:10:06 Got the BMF trophy Yeah It should be a BMF trophy in the WNBA. And Kelsey Mitchell going to win that every single year, bro. Because she got nothing but dogging her. Bit shot after bit shot. Cross over after. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:10:22 Did they say ATL? What? Oh, my God. That's disrespect. But isn't it from because they're from ATL? Am I wrong on that? Yes, you're wrong, Ms. Rebecca. The fever are from Indiana.
Starting point is 00:10:35 ATL. No, I know, but aren't those players from ATL? What? You think they just shit right on them? Yes, they shit right on them. Time out. Out. Harassment.
Starting point is 00:10:45 This is harassment. Sorry, Saul. HR. Help me. Oh, man. You're going to jump me. Ms. Rebecca, come in with that question. I thought this was from Atlanta with the fever jerseys on.
Starting point is 00:10:57 I thought these were promulana. So you mean to tell me they're just going to shit on. I'm like this. Yes, Miss Rebecca. The shoohing us just like that. They even, they did the scooper, the, the. But we eat in Atlanta is chicken wings and Magic City. That's not that, too.
Starting point is 00:11:14 See, I got a school, y'all. This is my partners, y'all. It's just the, I'm so ATL, get in there. I'm so ATL. They're doing the, I'm so ATL, not the Ezekiel Elliott. Okay, I'm so ATL. Oh, my goodness. Two Americas, people.
Starting point is 00:11:28 Two Americas. Still. I have a question. I hate to spin this in the negative. Okay. Because that's what I do. I think that's what I'm trained. to do is to point out what's wrong
Starting point is 00:11:40 versus pointing out what's right ain't that a b-b-t I know I'm not right I don't know there's something sick in the head are the aces guards what's the right word washed are they washed
Starting point is 00:11:56 are they cooked believe that what I said spry are they are there ligaments how are they Are there quick twitches not twitching? Because it felt like Asia had to do a lot of cleaning up on aisle 9 on the backside
Starting point is 00:12:15 because they were getting barbecued chicken around the perimeter. Yeah, I mean, look, I think that it was a very emotional day in Las Vegas. People was up early. They was doing more photo shoots and they usually do. So I feel like everybody routine was just off in Vegas. I'm going to give them a Mulligan for that game one because, wow. Wow. Wow. There was some game cock-on-game-cock crime. Cock-on-cock crime. Okay. Here we go. Trista, ladies and gentlemen.
Starting point is 00:12:47 Cock-on-cock crime, the sword fight. We're calling cock-on-cock-cock crime, the sword fight. So we had a Leah Boston making life absolutely brutal for Asia Wilson, fouling the shit out of her really a lot. Yeah, cock on cock. Cock on cock. You know what I mean? The cock fighting. Not roosters. So the question, though, I have is, is Alia Boston to you the most, like, a different off the court than she is on the court player?
Starting point is 00:13:24 I think so, because off the court, she is the most Disney princess. Yeah. It was so well-spoken. So everything. Nice. Takes every fourth. though with the kids sign your book and she would probably Christian your baby
Starting point is 00:13:39 on the court though take these bows cock on cock She really is a dirty player a little bit on the court I don't even know if dirty's the right word She just just gives you a fuck You know what I mean
Starting point is 00:13:54 And really Scrapes claws grabs you Raps you Elbow swings you Like grabs you around the waist puts the booty up puts the booty into it Doesn't she
Starting point is 00:14:08 I didn't feel like I do not know if she I don't know what she'd be doing in that What did you see What did you see In that matchup Was it
Starting point is 00:14:18 Because it felt like She was the reason The Asia was frustrated early Yeah She was the reason She was frustrated It was a lot I think
Starting point is 00:14:27 Like I say Bro that day is so emotional For a four-time W NBA MVP She already knew she was getting the award three days ago. I understand that, but still, it's a lot. I'm just going to throw her bail money today. Listen, if I was her on Friday when they give me the award, stop, forget about it, forget about it.
Starting point is 00:14:50 Don't give me this award right now until some days are off. I don't want to know on a Friday, and then you're going to give me the award on the Sunday, and then the fever are going to come up in our house. and make our life a living hell. I feel like that's out of pocket. That is very out of pocket. But at the same time, we got to give some credit to the fever because...
Starting point is 00:15:13 Oh, my God, yeah. They continue to just continue. It's like every time you think I... Here we go. Here's the watch that's supposed to happen. Let's see it. They come out. Kelsey Mitchell, I don't understand what in the hell.
Starting point is 00:15:30 Like, whatever award we got to give Kelsey. Mitchell, let's make one up. She needs something. She needs, we need, yeah, we need to make an award up for her. She doesn't, didn't she, hold on, didn't she lead the league in scoring? I'm pretty sure she did. I mean, unless Asia was up there. Yeah, she did.
Starting point is 00:15:49 No, she led the league in scoring at 26 a game. Brough. She James Hartner. We can't let a performance like that go without reward from this year. Whenever every single person stepped out or got hurt on their team, she stepped in and helped them with that specific thing. You feel me? Like when Caitlin got hurt, oh, we need more distribution. Distribution.
Starting point is 00:16:15 Distribution. We need more distribution, damn it. That sounds like something that somebody at George would say, distribution. Yeah, we got some distribution. Hey, Kelsen Mitchell was distribution that guy all year, bro. And then we need scoring. The wet is purest jumper I've seen in the WMBA, her shot just go like, it's just so pretty. She puts them on skates.
Starting point is 00:16:41 Like, she got, like, behind the back, jab into the middy, pull up right in your dome piece. It's a rap. She hit that one from the elbow early on in the game, and I said, oh, it's going to be a long night for these Aces guards. Oh, my goodness. When she stepped back from the three, she'll give a ha, ha, ha, and step. back and still in your mouth and that shit has so much arch on it. It does. It's a rainbow.
Starting point is 00:17:08 Drowds. Like, you feel me? How about, okay, so we know Kelsey Mitchell's player of the game. She's the best player on the floor that day. Yeah. Some unsung heroes. Number one. Natasha Howard
Starting point is 00:17:25 I don't think is being discussed for how she's bringing the ball up in transition as a big her handles are pretty nasty she's getting timely rebounds she's bodying other people out of the paint clear in the way for calcey mitchell to have an open lane she's making life hell on as much as a lea boston but she's she's a player that people thought was done and not only was she not done she took it to a whole new level and i think is showing some versatility we talk about like when the when the fever needs something someone steps in to deliver the hole
Starting point is 00:18:08 that was missing they just boop give you that that's her yeah speaking of when the delivering and the referees deliver a $200 fine to Caitlin car because she said the reps couldn't stop us on social media is that fine worthy it's not and stop finding these folk $200 man it's embarrassed you embarrassing us like we're trying to keep the shit going to playouts and y'all pop up with 200 out of fine stop don't announce that yeah just say hey man we don't just find sis do not do not make the wmba look like a mickey minnie mouse league 200 dollars fines make it seem like everybody's broke come on man i would have been like look yeah i just find katelyn clark you do not want to know how much i find her trust me i find her ask her just know it was a lot
Starting point is 00:19:01 So stop talking about the referees. I don't give a damn. Nah, they'd be like, yeah, we just find Caitlin two hunch. Yeah, two big ones. And you know what Caitlin is saying? She's going to come back on social media and say more shit about the rest. Oh, that's all y'all, that's all y'all charging for referees-landers? That's how much I tip my waiter, $200 on a night-to-night basis.
Starting point is 00:19:21 Caitlin Clark's got cheese. She's got bread. She doesn't care about your little $200 raggedy ass fine. Exactly. Like that LeBron meme. How about this? Here go another one. Facts
Starting point is 00:19:32 Come on I just shoot them folks A banjo And just be like I'm going to say What I want to say This week How about that?
Starting point is 00:19:38 What do you think About Sophie Cunningham's Comments Man Okay What Sophie say The league is so mad That we won
Starting point is 00:19:47 Because we are literally Not supposed To be here at all And that just fuels Our fire Even more Girl Salute to my sister
Starting point is 00:19:58 Sophie But the league is happy as hell y'all won. Are you serious? It's the exact opposite. Ain't nobody to match y'all won. Only people, mad y'all won is Atlanta fans. You know, but he's like, oh, my God, we really wanted Atlanta.
Starting point is 00:20:13 Exactly. We really wanted to have our, you know what? Talk about a player who's just slept on and disrespected is Big Al. Big Al should have won most improved. Big Al is consistently left off a three-point percentage and three-point score. in lists, guard lists. Like, she's one of the nastiest in the game. She's consistently disrespected by those who are making said list.
Starting point is 00:20:38 And so you think that the league was like, oh, we need more Alie Chagray. You know what we need? More goggles. More players that don't get, come on. We even, just this fact that we see Caitlin Clark with her little stranger things, fever t-shirt on and her big ass jeans. She's like, black Air Force warns, bruce you out of the Black Air Force. I'm like, damn, Caitlin.
Starting point is 00:21:00 Don't do it like that Is her fashion sense changing Her fashion sense I feel like Since been fresh Like for real for real It's just that No no
Starting point is 00:21:10 I feel like she has stylists That sometimes missed the mark I feel like if you leave it up To a lot of most WMBA players To just dress themselves And come out of the house They'll most likely land Most of these sisters
Starting point is 00:21:23 Got swag But at the same time Once you sign that deal with The Filipino Who's gonna style you in the back Now he got you out here wearing the sweatpants with some jeans shorts painting on the front of him. Oh my God, not Filipino.
Starting point is 00:21:39 Isn't she with she style with Prada as well, which they've got some stuff and product, you can be dressed to the nines and Prada with your burking, but you could also look like you're a 47-year-old accountant ready for her next job interview. So there's different levels to this. Come on, she was doing her Murphy Brown. She was a Murphy Brown swag. I see sis. By the way, Sophie Cunningham, speaking of Sophie Cunningham, she's got style too.
Starting point is 00:22:06 She finds a way to make a baseball cap look good. I mean, hey, salute to Sophie. She also found a way to argue with the cops from here at court during the game. She's going crazy, man. Slipped to Sophie. Slukew to them fever. Also, to quit sidebar, it's still not ideal that we got to watch these WMBA playoff, semi-final games during.
Starting point is 00:22:30 the NFL Sunday what the hell is this bro miss rebecca do you got the picture i sent to you i sent miss rebecca a picture of what my sunday looks like because i'm not going to not watch what i'm paying for i love the NFL we shouldn't have to make people make choices i got so many the damn screens over here and i just got barely enough so i imagine the random person at the house they ain't got time for all these screens stop making us choose between our favorite sports football team and the WNBA. Guess what? There's no games tonight.
Starting point is 00:23:05 We could have had a game tonight on Monday night. Monday Wednesday. I think there is a game tonight. The Ravens play the Alliance. I'm saying, but I would rather have one game to go against as far as the WNBA. And now ESPN allows you do the multi-box. You could do the cross-sport multi-box and have them both on. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:23:23 But what I'm saying is there's no W-NBA games tonight. No, there's not. So what I'm saying is why not just postpone that day, BIM, Monday, Wednesday. Ben. Look at this. Why the hell do I have to watch the Aces like this? In the bottom right corner, you see the Aces. I do not know why I had Bengals Vikings on the big TV. I promise to God. I thought it was going to be Jamar Chase versus Justin Jetis. It didn't end up being that. But look what I got to deal with. And this is a loyal, this is a loyal WMBA member fan-wide community. Come on, bro. Let's do ourselves a favor. Nobody loves the WMBA
Starting point is 00:24:00 more than juju and yet he had to put it on the macbook air come on man what we're doing bad choice though vikings bangles over aces um bad choice was a reporter juju asking uh sabrina yunescu and brianna steward if sandy brondello their head coach should be fired bro that was the worst choice ever mr becky you got that video what the f fs they said hey people be asking the streets are talking and the streets are saying um how come uh you think sandy brondella your head coach should be fired and and brianna looks at her like what the fuck you crazy and then the reporter's like i'm not saying it but like i she pulled the donald trump i'm not saying it but like other people are saying it's like who's saying it whenever whenever somebody say people are saying it
Starting point is 00:24:57 tell them to tell you the people yeah who are those people Exactly. It's you. You are saying it. You're stirring the pot. Right. You are people, ma'am. The streets are talking and they're saying your coach should be fired, like off of a championship after some of the most brutal string of injuries you've ever had.
Starting point is 00:25:16 You know who did get fired, though? We got to talk about Stormhead coach, Noel Quinn, getting fired. What do you think about that? I mean, maybe I'm missing something. I know that the storm were having a rough couple of years a couple years ago. I know it was rough, but I feel like this year... They turn the corner. Right, because you don't just have the mind to sign Erica Willer and know, bro, you don't really...
Starting point is 00:25:47 Like, to me, we know the streets know Erica Willer is a doubt, but for a coach to know that and give Erica Willis such a big role on that squad on that squad that was seconds away from advancing. Right, come on, man. Put that pairing well with Schuyler, the Milk, Diggins. Like, I think that she did phenomenal to me. NECA, aging superstar, still, giving us what she need. Ezi, giving us the rebounds, blocks all year long.
Starting point is 00:26:19 B. Sites came over and transitioned well into a great storm player. Gabby Williams stepped up in the, I don't see what happened there. Maybe it's above my pay grade. I'm not, maybe I'm not G14. Right, I'm not G14 classified, but I think it's a bad move by the Seattle Storm to get rid of this. I'm so conflicted. Yeah. I'm conflicted because I like Noel Quinn.
Starting point is 00:26:45 I think it's fucked up that there's not really any black female coaches in the W, when that's primarily what the W is made up of, so that's fucking rough. Was she the last one? I think that's it, because they fired a teaspoon. Yep. I think this is it. I think that's it.
Starting point is 00:27:03 Damn, bro. I think that's it. That's a whole other topic for a whole other day right there. So, but anyway, what I will say is that we talked about how the storm were underperforming based on the roster that they had. And so, yes, you use Erica, wheeler in a way that's very effective, but there were a lot of games that this team just didn't come out ready to play, and they played down to their competition. Now, I don't know about
Starting point is 00:27:31 these things. I don't know if that's a player, cohesive, individual thing, or you can put that on Noel because having a bad game plan. But we know at the end of games, they've melted into the sun. That's a slight coaching thing. But I think, like, they also performed great against the aces and probably should have won that series. But it did take Scalar Diggins going crazy, and that offense is brutal. That offense really gets run like a stick in the mud. I don't know what is going on with it.
Starting point is 00:28:04 So I just feel so conflicted. Brud, I'm talking about if Erica Willer hits a mid-range free-throw line jumper, we're not having this conversation today. Like, Noel Quinn would be coaching her team in the semifinal. And if Erica Wheeler didn't hit the mid-range jumper at the end of the game, one of the last games of the season, we are having this conversation two weeks ago. Look, exactly. Long story short, salute to Erica Wheeler. Long story short, Erica Wheeler now promoted coach of the Seattle store.
Starting point is 00:28:42 Look, man. She got it going on. It's going to be a bidding war for her next year, not here nor there. Moving on. New York Liberty. The fuck out of head, hey. Man, John Quo Jones. John Quill Jones had the worst series that I have seen her have ever.
Starting point is 00:29:02 And I love John Quo. That's, come on, man. If you got to love John Quayle, but it was a rough series to watch. I don't know what was going on with John Quet, the series. I know what was going on. John Quill probably thought, listen. it's just not our year we've had
Starting point is 00:29:22 issues to you know you're about to play the links right you know what it is Brianna Stewart's got She did not know what it is No get listen Brianna Stewart's got a bionic
Starting point is 00:29:37 knee attachment on her knee to take away the pain from whatever sprains whatever ligament is going on So Breena has been injured on and off all year and she's having a brutal series. You've got John Quillett's been dealing with injuries as well. This team, you already know Brianna's not right.
Starting point is 00:29:59 She's doing everything she can for you. And like shout out to Brianna Stewart, who's fucking phenomenal in the fourth quarter, the only Liberty player to score. But now you're about to go on a five-game series. With the links, you know you're now beating the links. You know that this. This is a wrap for you.
Starting point is 00:30:20 Brianna's probably operating at 50% health. And the pain level is going to be immense. I just think John Quill wasn't mentally ready to go to the level that she went in the finals, where she was finals MVP, especially considering they've been up and down and up and down, up and down all year. Don't nobody from the liberty look at the damn lengths and be like, Yeah, we can't beat them. Are you crazy?
Starting point is 00:30:51 Well, they probably, if you ask them today, they probably be like, yeah, we can beat them still. We lost to them. That is not how they operate. I think something happened in a list of Thomas land. I feel like something happened in Satu Sabaoli defense mechanisms. I love you. I love you. You're like the opposite of me.
Starting point is 00:31:12 Do you know what I mean? Just that's why people like you more than they like me. Ah, come on. Come on. Nobody likes me, man. Everybody likes you, bro. You're like, oh, man, Satu and Alyssa, they just took it to another level. And I'm like, nah, John Quill kind of blew it.
Starting point is 00:31:27 You know what I mean? Sabrina kind of blew it. They did. They blew it. If we were male NBA commentators, we would be like, see, the thing about John Quill Jones is, is you can't be the finals MVP and go Houdini the next playoff time, you get in there. That's what we can't do.
Starting point is 00:31:49 This is why people thought Jean-Quil was cooked when she came out of Connecticut. That's what they would be saying. And if you were an NBA commentator, you would be like, nah, the thing is Alyssa Thomas deserves and her lack of shoulders
Starting point is 00:32:04 and her lack of labrums. She needs more respect. You know what I will say, though? John Quell should be held accountable for that tension. She threw that. The free toll out on the floor. What the hell was that, John Quill?
Starting point is 00:32:17 Come on, now. You know, I mess with you. But come on now. I mess with all of them. Come on. I love them all. But they know that they did not perform. And even Sabrina said, we didn't give our fans.
Starting point is 00:32:28 Well, we should have given them. Yeah. You know what? You're going to make me better. You're going to make me better. You're going to make, I just want to do this, and you just want to do this. That's the difference. That's the promo.
Starting point is 00:32:40 That's the promo. I just want to do this. And Juju just wants to do this. Exactly, I want to raise the roof, man I wanted the damn liberty to beat the Phoenix Mercury for Tasha Cloud, man But nevertheless, sis still bawling See still going to be bothering next year
Starting point is 00:32:59 So all the haters step off Before we wrap, Juju I think the links are the most dominant team of the WMBA all year They show it again, their fourth quarter Their fourth quarter was ridiculous and I think the thing that was lovely was you got 42 first half point
Starting point is 00:33:17 paints from the mercury, which is bad, really bad. Cheryl Reeve went in there and said, grab your ankles, I'm giving everybody whoopens. I've got the switch out, and then they held them to only 10 points in the paint in the second half. They end up going on a crazy run,
Starting point is 00:33:34 making this thing not even close. Courtney Williams continues to be my favorite guard in the league. she had five steals she was the leading score for the lynx not only that did she have multiple moments where she passed up her
Starting point is 00:33:51 own shot to get our girl Bridget Carlton multiple one deep three one cutting layup which really I think iced and sealed the game when you're on a heater that's super hard to do like mentally because you're like nah I got there's a new court
Starting point is 00:34:05 court likes to shoot it now so links what do you think about them it's a wrap for the rest of the league. Look, I feel like when Courtney playing like that, it's raps. It's a rhapsual. Like you say, she passes it to the bridge. Guess what?
Starting point is 00:34:20 The bridge is going to knock it down no matter what. Damn near nine out of ten times, the bridge is going to knock it down. Like, I ain't never seen a more reliable supporting cast, no matter who's got it going, where there's fee. She got it going. Guess what she can always do. Pass to Courtney, mid-range in your mouth. Get what she can also do.
Starting point is 00:34:39 behind the back Caleb McBride release so fast you don't even get a chance to get over there before it's in the Nets though you can get it up out of the Nets
Starting point is 00:34:48 if you want it and guess what Post moves Jessica Shepard stepped up this year in the way that people may not have expected it
Starting point is 00:34:56 but I know that on the defensive end of the ball she's so reliable alongside the defensive player of the year the co-defensive player of the year
Starting point is 00:35:05 Atlanta Smith come on man it's like that's what separates the length from the links from the squad, the rest of the whole WMBA to me, because no matter who is having a great night, they are all so unselfish when it comes to that.
Starting point is 00:35:21 Brough, they're going to let them have that great night and just be ready when you need them. Even sometimes Fidges be like, bro, like you say yesterday, Courtney, you got us today if you need me. You know it's dog food in his post. His scoobie snacks in his post if you need me. You feel me? So, yeah, I definitely agree.
Starting point is 00:35:39 Minnesota lynx looking like them. Yeah, and then, yeah, I think that's a good point, that Alyssa Thomas match up with Fee, where Alyssa Thomas looks absolutely psychotic, smiling from ear to ear that way. Like, when she's getting deed up by Fee, going face up on her and Fee's body in her, she's smiling, I'm like, what is AT about to do next? So, yeah, the links, they're so hard to guard because they've got great movies. ball movement. They're a great defensive team. Let's not
Starting point is 00:36:12 even count the fact. We didn't even count the fact that Fee was a defensive player of the year last year. So you got the back-to-back team with back-to-back DPO-WIs and the best offense in the league with multiple players who can shoot in your eyeball from deep. So deep they'll put your ass to sleep
Starting point is 00:36:31 and reliable. So yeah, I mean, it looks like Minnesota is finally going to get their revenge. Speaking of revenge, Nass Hill, and got the last laugh from that six man of the year race, salute to my dog six man of the year
Starting point is 00:36:43 even though we would rather have the semi-final birth neither here nor dare it hurts shout out to Nas you deserve it All right See you later It's been all the time
Starting point is 00:36:54 We have for the alley-oop I allied He upped He allied I upped And then Rebecca Multiple oops Stupid oops Dumb oops
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