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Episode 110 - May 28th, 2023 - Boston Making History??? - Burst 12
"This is boss winning game 7, but I'm like they won by one by luck. So I'm like game 7 to me is like, if you're a boss and figure not comfortable. I don't know they're not comfortable. And if you're Miami fan, you're like, you're disappointed, but you're like, okay, we can do it again. But you have the legs for it. You got the breath, you conditioning for it. You have the mental stamina to endure this again. Exactly. I don't know, man. I really don't believe they do man. I'm sure Jimmy Butler does, but this is body can handle it because you know, like I said, Jimmy can he can run against the wall every now and then and burn himself out. And now we don't know. That wall you're talking about, I was looking to see it maybe game three or four of Denver. The wall is going to be tomorrow. That's the wall bro. I think you're right. Walls game 7, man. Whatever energy he could have. You could have had along with rest. That shit be sale, bro that ship is sale. Unless it plays out of his mind, has the best career. Bam is, to me, them is a key. 'cause they're giving you shots. But you gotta make it. Yeah? Yeah, you do. Four or 5 and 6, you gotta come bring it, bro listen. If I'm slow, you gotta put Kevin Love it on that front line, man. It's not right. Grab these rebounds. He's not right. Well, you need someone. You need someone. That's not right. That's a problem. He used to start and then they took on the rotation. I think he's hurt too. It's a damn shame. That's a problem with Miami is that they're basically limping into this playoffs. Damn. Tyler hero, Victor LL depot, Kyle Lowry, Kevin Love. For your players that were giving you quality, you know, minutes, they're hurt. Listen, the window that Pat Riley's got along with the way the east is. You got to get another great player for Jimmy. Now, so what do you predict for game 7? Honestly, if I'm a betting man, I could predict a ten point difference in favor of Boston. Maybe I'd say probably ten 13 point difference to your Boston. Most of my plus 13, I could see I could see an 87 one O one type situation. I got three and a half push. I can see either team pushing. And winning narrowly. I don't see a blowout. I can't see a ten point lead for Boston. What's up, man? I'm just, I'm looking at a team who had them dead to rights, I think that's going to be psychologically spent as they are physically spent. But more psychologically. Like, you know, like, you know, at this point, everybody's, you know, physically spend and stuff like that, but your body adjusts. Psychologically speaking, I think then boys is done, bro, I really do. You know, I don't think so. This is, this is the very worst case scenario for Miami. I think this is something they can salivate. Because if you think about their AC, no, they shouldn't be here, but they should be, but you are. So it's like, okay, if punch way above their way, but I think they've reached their, I think they reach their maximum, man. I really do. I got a three and a half. I think they have a Vegas guy at three and a half. Could usually when there's three and a half, that means you figure the home team. So usually when it comes to sports bets, if you see a plus negative three negative 7 or negative ten, they favor the home team. But I think they got a three and a half. So it was three and a half that means that it's a push. Listen, I'm looking at momentum. I mean, I don't see my ultimate Boston. Games four and 5. Yes. Game 6 to me, I look as a fluke. I think it's the same bet, bro. It was the hand of a guy that got that child 'cause they had less time, like if everybody was 2.1 on the clock, they're outta here. They're not, it's over. But this is the same thing. We said last year in that game 7, between these two teams. You know, there was one shot away from being eliminated. Yeah. It was Jimmy Butler, that made that shot, right? I think he shot a three coming up. He took you, buddy, but then go in. Yeah, he took it. He rimmed out. Yeah, man. So who's to say, but I can say it's a man fortune favors the bold man. We will find out. Boston's been hella bold in a situation that they put themselves in that they are like on the verge of turning around. Here's to me, who's a player, if Miami really wants to help Jimmy Butler out?
AP News Radio
Ramey lifts No. 8 Arizona over No. 2 UCLA for Pac-12 title
"Courtney ramey's three pointer with 16.7 seconds left on the clock helped 8th ranked Arizona to a pack 12 conference tournament championship with a 61 to 59 win over second ranked UCLA. Raimi had not scored up to that point after he missed his first four shots of the night. I kept telling myself the next shot was going in. Found me and my job was to make a play, so I was grateful for the south to go in. UCLA had a shot to win the game, but Dylan Andrews three pointer hit off the side of the rim as the buzzer sounded. Adam spole in Las Vegas
AP News Radio
Allen, Mobley power Cavaliers to 113-85 win over Pistons
"The Cavaliers made it four straight wins despite resting Donovan Mitchell and Darius Garland, rolling to a one 1385 route of the pistons. Jared Allen and Evan mobley combined for 21 points while Cleveland went ahead by 18 after one quarter. I did the Evan did it. We felt like we were attacking the room. I know they still have some pretty decent rim protectors, but we didn't let that stop us tonight. Alan finished with 20 points and mobley had 19 for the calves who opened the fourth quarter by outscoring Detroit 26 four. The Cavaliers also out rebounded the pistons, 48 32, with Alan grabbing 14. I'm Dave ferry.
AP News Radio
Ayton has 31 points and 16 rebounds, Suns beat Pistons
"Deandre ayton ties a season high with 31 points to send the sun's past the pistons one 16 100 ayton and the suns took a 9 point lead under the half behind his 19.10 rebound contribution in the first half. He finished with 16 boards. Taking care of business and finishing down a little finishing the rose that at least to those type of stats 'cause my teammates believe in me, you know, when I'm down there and, you know, just protecting the rim and closing up possessions with the boards. Mikhail bridges chipped in 24 for a son's team that shot 56% from the floor. Sadiq bay had 25 to pay the pistons, which dropped to an Eastern Conference worse 14 and 40. Denny cop Detroit
AP News Radio
Dunn scores 16, Temple defeats No. 1 Houston 56-55
"Tremont Mark shot at the buzzer, bounced off the rim as top ranked Houston loss for the second time this season, 56, 55 to temple. Houston had three chances to take the lead in the game's final 5 seconds, but the cougar shot less than 40% from the field. Temple head coach Erin McKee. Anytime you get the opportunity to beat the number one team in the nation on their home floor, just it was a great atmosphere and it's a really good win for our guys. Especially this time of year. The wink for a temple is its first over a number one team in the nation in almost 23 years. Adam spole in Houston
AP News Radio
Nets top Heat 102-101, lose Durant to right knee injury
"The nets pulled out a one O two one O one win over the heat, but they finished the game without Kevin Durant. The MVP candidate left in the second half with a right knee injury following a collision with Jimmy Butler. Brooklyn went ahead on Royce O'Neal's put back with 3.2 seconds left, giving the nets their 14th win in 15 games. It was a big time play. We knew Kai, you know, it was going to take a shot, and we trust him with that, and then, you know, that's a great opportunity to crash a glass, especially at that time. Kyrie Irving had a game high 29 points for the nets. Butler led the heat with 26 points, but he missed a contested shot at the rim on the final play. I'm Dave ferry.
AP News Radio
Jokic, Nuggets overcome rim delay, top Celtics 123-111
"Nikola Jokić sparkled with a triple double as the nuggets defeated Boston one 23 one 11, seeing as how the Western Conference leaders beat the team with the best record in the league guard Bruce Brown was asked if this could be considered a statement win. Sure. The top team right now recognize the NBA right now, right? So yeah, we take all our victories against the top team in the league right now. So I mean, hopefully we see them in the future. As for jokic, his line read 30 points, 12 rebounds and 12 assists for a nugget team that has won 7 of 8. Bruce Morton, Denver
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
'Car Coach' Lauren Fix on the Impact of a Potential Rail Strike
"The car coach, Lauren fix. Welcome back to America first. Well, thanks for having me. Lots going on and I'm really, really excited. I was able to get you some safe breaks put on your vehicle. 'cause those drum brakes. Yeah, a little bit spongy. And when it's raining, not so exciting. So I've got disc brakes all round. There is my baby, there is my 66 Mustang. I've got the 2020 as one, a 2020 as well for the everyday stuff. And the new steering wheel, thank you for the recommendations and your contact. Last thing, and I'm not going to touch it, some period correct rims. And then maybe some AC, I might put some AC in because it gets a little hot and sticky here in the swamp. All right. Enough about me and my pony, although I do need people to go to my website and tell me a name. I need a name and not Sally. Okay, I'm not doing the stupid Mustang Sally. I need a female name, go to said gorka dot com and send me a little message that said gorka dot com. All right, you've been sending me some fascinating stuff. First things first, it's not cars. Right now he's allegedly negotiating. But what is the impact going to be if we have a rail strike Lauren in America? Oh, it's going to be huge. Now I know everyone's talking about what you're literally looking at billions of dollars of losses. Because everything goes cars get transported from the manufacturing plant. To the sub area where it then goes to your dealer. So that means good luck getting cars. We can't get them now. That means all the components, tires, metal, just think of everything that you need gets from point a to point B from the West Coast to the east coast, usually by rail, then it's transported to a diesel powered rig and then from there to the final destination in the last mile to your store or to wherever you're going. And that includes like Amazon packages, U.S. Postal Service, FedEx. That new planes, but they also use rail. And without rail, we're in a lot of trouble. And we've been using it for years, plus passengers, Amtrak, which is owned by the government as well. They can't seem to organize the postal service or Amtrak. But the fact is without diesel and there's a shortage of diesel and without the railroad system we have a supply chain that nightmare.
AP News Radio
Bell wins, Chastain rides the wall to earn title race spots
"Denny Hamlin dominated most of the day at Martinsville speedway but when he lost the lead Christopher Bell took over and in a must win situation to make the final round of the playoffs he took the checkered flag I mean it's just been a roller coaster of emotions for sure You know I think I've been praying for off weeks or off season for two out of the last four weeks and now I'm ready to race again But in a last ditch effort to make the final four Ross Chastain stole the show rim riding around the outside wall video game style to pass Denny Hamlin for the final playoff spot He joins Bill Joey Logano and chase Elliott in the finals next week in Phoenix I'm Jerry Jordan
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Jim Hanson and David Goldman Discuss Nancy Pelosi's Taiwan Trip
"Again bringing our way toward World War three and I'm not sure why. So because of that, I wanted to bring on someone who may be able to shed some light on this. David Goldman is the Spengler columnist for Asia times and PJ media and the president of macro strategy LLC. And an all around expert on the Pacific Rim and related locales. Now I was a first group guy, so this is my area of operations as well. And I'm obviously I am a 100% believer that we can not allow Taiwan to be pushed around and we can't allow the Chinese to tell us where Americans can and can not go. But I am at a loss to figure out why right now Nancy Pelosi seemed to have a unilateral need to conduct foreign policy into Taiwan. Do you have any idea what she's actually up to? Well, the charitable view is that Pelosi wants to show the flag and tell voters that the Democrats really aren't soft in Taiwan. And a child, which, of course, the Republicans will attack the Biden administration for. The less charitable view is she's doing freelance diplomacy with the idea that we're going to show the flag and intimidate the Chinese and tell them that we're going to stand by Taiwan in a situation where we are not prepared militarily to defend it. Provocation from weakness is the opposite of peace through strength, which is what I believe in. And what she's doing, I think, is exceptionally dangerous and stupid. Of the body of the menstruation owns that completely because he's going to be flying in an American military aircraft.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Kathie Lee Gifford Is an Unapologetic Woman of Faith
"Kathy, you are one of those people I told you this before. You make me happy. I start cracking stupid jokes because that's the way I think it is. Well you better. But that's the wavelength Iran that you're funny. You can do shtick. You can sing. And then you write books. And so the reason you're in the studio today is not to sing, although perhaps you will. I might break into ladies and gentlemen. Pray that I don't. What do you say? She ain't what she used to be. But you have a book out. So that's ostensibly why you're here. But I've known you for quite a long time. Yes. And you are a woman of faith, and the thing that I say to people, and I've said this for years, I don't know if I've said this to you publicly, but what I've always felt we needed in the culture and I've always wanted to try to be one of those people. Is a public figure who is openly Christian. And whenever I talk about that, I immediately go to you because I think who has been out there over the years who has just been leading her life as a public figure, not as a Christian figure, but who is nonetheless openly Christian. And I really think that that's kind of the missing piece in the culture because we've divided. We've got the Christian faith over here, and then we've got the rest of the world here. And anybody with common sense knows that's nonsense. Right. But very few people are willing to live that out. You're one of them. In fact, you might be two or three of them. And I want to say thank you. Sweetie. You know, I've always had a boldness about my faith. I've always had an awareness, even a 12 year old girl when I first asked Jesus to be in my heart that the answer right away. Yeah. To who much is given much is required. Once I started learning scripture, but I was sitting in a little movie theater in Annapolis, Maryland, and God already knew that I wanted to be an actress and a singer and a writer. He knew that I came out of the womb with a rim shot in a prep fall. You know, I mean, people do. And there's a reason for it. God, what everything I am and everything you are, was woven in our mother's wombs into us. Are you saying that our parents were drinking? Is that the issue? No. Something went wrong. Something. No. That's the stick
The Eric Metaxas Show
Kathie Lee Gifford Opens up About Being True to Her Faith
"You're here. But I've known you for quite a long time. Yes. And you are a woman of faith, and the thing that I say to people. And I've said this for years, I don't know if I've said this to you publicly, but what I've always felt we needed in the culture and I've always wanted to try to be one of those people. Is a public figure who is openly Christian. And whenever I talk about that, I immediately go to you because I think who has been out there over the years who has just been leading her life as a public figure, not as a Christian figure, but who is nonetheless openly Christian. And I really think that that's kind of the missing piece in the culture because we've divided. We've got the Christian faith over here, and then we've got the rest of the world here. And anybody with common sense knows that's nonsense. Right. But very few people are willing to live that out. You're one of them. In fact, you might be two or three of them. And I want to say thank you. Sweetie. You know, I've always had a boldness about my faith. I've always had an awareness, even a 12 year old girl when I first asked Jesus to be in my heart that the answer right away. Yeah. To who much is given much is required. I was once I started learning scripture. But I was sitting in a little movie theater in Annapolis, Maryland, and God already knew that I wanted to be an actress and a singer and a writer. He knew that I came out of the womb with a rim shot in a prep fall. You know, I mean, people do. And there's a reason for it. God, would everything I am and everything you are, was woven in our mother's wombs into
The Eric Metaxas Show
Doug Giles Tells Us About His Latest Book 'Psalms of War'
"Back. I'm talking to none other than Doug Giles, GI Ellie S he has a new book out called sums of war. There it is, psalms of war with a picture of David in a sling, and who created that picture, Doug Giles. Yeah, man, I did. And a great pilot for an incredible carrier. I won't mention their names. Because they're in the throes of some legal battles over a forced jab. But anywho, he bought the original painting of king David. This is all young whippersnapper David as a teenager, queueing up to put a big hole in Goliath's forehead as a teenager Eric doing what men should do, but all the men are scared. Yeah. They're lining the rim of the valley of ela and they're afraid to confront Goliath because they see a monster that's too big to kill. And David saw a guy who's too big to miss. So, yeah, I painted that. And throughout the book, I've got 30 different paintings. And I've done some incredible stuff on the biblical bad boys of the scripture that a lot of people when they think, man, when they think about Jesus or the apostles or the prophets, they think that they're just bearded ladies. And these guys were rough cussing fishermen that were hardy that they would stare down monsters had stare down pharaoh. And they took all kinds of persecutions and beatings. And I tried to through my art depict them as dudes instead of these pale skin little indoor boys who drink. And or boys I've never heard that before. That is
The Eric Metaxas Show
Why Are U.S. Doctors So Hesitant to Prescribe Ivermectin and HCQ to COVID Patients?
"Either folks. I'm talking to dr ryan coal. We're talking about the disease. The kovic pandemic. we're talking about the vaccines. I'm of the opinion Dr kohl that honestly It is seriously unwise to get the vaccine. But everywhere i turn. There's a chorus of voices demanding that i get it. I i just can't believe. I live in this kind of an america where something so simple has become so complicated. You just said what they did in a province in. India flat-out works. That all this stuff i ever met in a hydrochloric quinn. All of these things simply work. But if i get this disease. And i go to a hospital or go to a doctor. Chances are they will steer me in another direction. Why what is telling them to steer me away from these things that work and toward what would they. What would they give me. What was the thing that wha-wha-what is mandated. I mean what do they. What is the protocol that they're using well not whole lot for one rendez avert one. They'll give you. They usually by the time the hospital. Your past the viral replication stage. And they still give you rim desert here which has just one mechanism to block viral replication. But it's really kidney toxic and the quarter of the animals in the mammal trials Rim desert put them into kidney failure rim desert here Failed in the abolish trials. Ramda's desert failed in many drug trials. It's it's not a safe safe drug they'll give you oxygen. That's great. they may give you some site akon blockers. That's great but the the thing is if you catch the virus and you treat immediately. There is no reason for our hospitals to be
Around the Rim
WNBA Playoffs Bracket Is Set, Liberty-Mercury and Wings-Sky Set for Round 1
"Yes we are excited. The wnba playoff start this week in fat. That's the most important thing for you to know that. The playoffs off. Thursday september twenty third with first round single elimination. That means win or go home. Don't forget that about the wnba formats at the first two rounds. Hey if you lose. Your playoffs are over. And we've got to exciting match ups that we're going to get into a later in the show eight o'clock. Pm eastern time. That first game of the double is dallas wings versus chicago sky. The second game is ten. Pm eastern standard time and that is between the new york liberty. oh my god and the phoenix
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Governor Gavin Newsom Survives in California
"Are days. I can come into the studio and talk about the political divide in america. Sometimes our side wins. Sometimes their side wins gavin. Newsom held onto his job last night. I'm very disappointed. But extremely proud of larry elder and and the very brief but spirited passionate campaign. He had the democrats are gloating. They're running our noses in it. You know what okay california. If newsom lockdown again shuts down the schools got rising poverty. Crime homelessness filth. Cova disaster. You got you. Hey you deserve whatever you get but politically. I saw the guy from star trek the activists who is the. What's his name. George tocchet or to kai he had. He had a fairly humorous tweet. That said the margin of victory was so big that should constitute elder abuse. You know get it. Larry elder elder abuse. I get i get. Where's my drummer is my rim shot. I can't find my rim shot. I was gonna. I was gonna i was going to do my i get tip george. He's going to be here all. Tip your waitresses georgia at the at the the hot room all weekend long. But i get it. That's political the political victory. A lot of democrats in california and not enough of them stood up and tried to save their state. Okay
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"rim" Discussed on Around the Rim
"Expects punishing. It's the spanish inquisition. It's a speed around ten questions that everybody gets number one. Your current career. All of them are cancelled. What job do you do instead. I'm a photographer. i love taking pictures. i just bought my first like official canaan I've experimented some over the years by I think. I have not nice a number two. What's the most scared you've ever been a most scared i've ever been was probably God that's tough question. I would say When i was in college i had a medical issue that could have prevented me from ever playing again and had to get a lot of procedures done with through. Just it was. It was a it was a nightmare of an experience for a nineteen year. Old girl And i thought i was not going to be able to play basketball so that was probably i was fearful all the procedures that the game was that have been taken away from me number three in the world at one thing for one day. What is it staying in world at one thing for one day. I want to be the best chefs in my bake a food that people never forget. Oh awesome. I've never gotten that one a number four. What current celebrity from music politics. Tv sports would you most like to be your best friend. Beyond saying i just wanna know what perfection feels like. I'll never get there just being a sense or two it just want to be close to someone. Imperfect number five. What's your biggest most. Meaningless pet peeve biggest those meals pet peeve is when people touch me. i just don't want people. Sometimes come up to you with their hand on their hand on your shoulder or you know like touchy with some weird way. I mean you know high fives fists pumps all that. Kind of stuff hugs. I love that. But would you unexpectedly. Just walk up on me for your hanami. Me like might be in trouble number six. What's the most embarrassed you've ever been god So the most embarrassed. I've ever been was. I played in a tournament. When i was sixteen and i was still terrible at basketball. And my team was playing in this game. Want we could go to nationals. Which was a big deal. Because that's where you get. Seen by all the college coaches and in the waning moments of that game it was a tie ballgame. And i was going. Were rebound and i accidentally put the ball into the basket now. And it was heartbreaking. Like i in my team had been together since they were like five years old. I was the new addition to the teams and then looking at me like we want her gone now. It was tough brutal number seven. What's the thing about yourself. You'd most like to improve prioritizing. I don't do a good job of prioritizing. I mean my time is divided ways that at the end of the day. I can't even tell you how we got here so You know. I would like to spend more time with more of the people doing more of the things that are most important to me and that even is just even your time. That's what you think about. It's you talk about is when you do. I just wish. I could push more of those things towards the things that toward what means to me. Yeah i find. It's really hard because work is very easy to schedule. Because they come looking for you. And there's always something that needs to be done. And this sort of vagaries of family or friends or social life They're easier to move around because of that. They ended up just getting deleted entirely sometimes on certain days That's why i have to schedule like giant parties and massive events. Because then it's like i forced myself to like clear out that whole day to do something fun or to like. I'm not good at relaxing. It's either like go hard over here or like a hard over there relaxing as the thing that gets immediately deleted from schedule. Number eight any musician or band alive or dead can play at your next party. Who is it jay z. I've been obsessed with demand. Since i was fourteen years old called radio station just to say hi to him stopped him after the concert. After ice my favorite love it number nine. What would you consider your biggest failure. Failure was that. I did not take my basketball career more seriously as i mentioned earlier on the podcast You know i was just buried into. I've always been interested in a number of things. And i just feel like i was never fully committed to being the best player that i could have been. Sh so yeah. There's definitely some regret there. Because as you know by job in the seed i sit in Would be easier. If i had gone the extra mile it may be gone to the. Wb or play the next level even onto the tournament would have been nice I didn't do any of those things player. And so i wish i had been more serious about basketball less serious about my social life in college. Yeah and finally. What three individual words would you most hoped that people would use to describe you. I would say inspirational Intentional and insistent. I like those final bonus question. Who should i have on this. Podcast doesn't have to be from. Sports can be anyone in the world that i would find interesting. Had had natasha. I have not latasha out to have all right. That's the thank goodness. China is so great to get more. Also i am. I'm still fascinated by the sixteen kids and everybody got to actresses. I barely handle myself three dogs so a lot. You know it was a lot to juggle. No thank you so much for all that you do. Sarah the way you've jumped two feet in with with wnba has been a game changer So thank you for all your support and all she do just being who you are thank you. That's what she said. Oh yeah one more thing. This is a place for ranson raves. I'll complain also something's awesome. I'll tell you to.
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"rim" Discussed on Around the Rim
"That doesn't get the marketing dollars. That's not getting the publicity that's not getting coverage like twitter is splayed space where you can go and say. Hey this is what's happening over at university. We've got a game here. Are things can connect with us this space because there's gonna be a billboard in there's not going to be a commercial there's going to be you know all of the marketing that you see with with major sports and so Twitter in particular has given women's basketball. Wnba place where you will feel like. You're not the only fan because you can feel like that. Sometimes because of the lack of its inches the sport gets well and i think also the gatekeepers are removed right predominantly white cisco. Men have been in charge of every sports page and every radio department and every television network and if those people aren't willing to see that the future is in women's sports and how much money can be made in how much can be built with it. They're going to keep no and so in these spaces that are democratized. You end up finding out what people wanna hear about. And they're what they're drawn to. And all the sudden you see this groundswell of people that are demanding more access more coverage more time and that venture moves those gatekeepers into action in ways. That are you know kind of not possible before all that really been really cool to save. You had an amazing twenty twenty one so far. You won the mel greenberg media award by the women's basketball coaches association. You ended up in tokyo covering the olympics. You've got this new podcast. Huge fan on serious Tell me quickly. Like one of the biggest takeaways from from getting to go to tokyo god One of the biggest takeaways of going to tokyo with that There's a silver lining to everything that we've been going through in our world for the last couple of years if you look for it right For me that silver lining was that i because there were no fans and no one was invited to the olympics. I was literally covering the biggest sporting event that in our world sitting front row. At everything. I mean i was in front of the beam. When simone biles morm- i was watching katie. the decky with no one in these arenas now yes as sad as that is. There's nothing we can do about. What's happening in our world with kobe. But for me it was a game. Changer i mean i. I just still can't even believe that. I that i got to go to tokyo but i got to watch the best athletes in the world. You know it was. It was really incredible in and we worked with a great crew. Nbc was awesome at ripon. Who was my co host day. Twitter tokyo was. Oh my god. He's he's the best human being ever But we also learned a lot. A lot of lessons to tokyo botching simone biles just so many things that are happening so that were happening at that time but i. I definitely just still pinch myself. When i think about the fact that i i got that opportunity. Let's talk about huge fan. My makeup artist around the horn listens to serious when we're getting ready. She picks like music channel and we always get ads for huge fan while we're getting ready And so. I was reading up on some of the episodes coming up and you've got quite an array of different celebrities talking about their favorite sports sports team. Monica drew carey. Bet nicole brown from one of my favorite shows all time community Mel c from the spice. Girl's death. Cab for cutie's ben gabbard michelle williams. I didn't even know she was the chicago. Bulls fan The one that. I freaked out about as adam durrance because i'm obsessed with counting crows and he's on to talk about his warriors Tell me about how this concept came up and this is your first full season right. Yeah my first full season. So last year we did eight episodes. I just got a random email. Sarah this was sedan god It was right after cohen. started in. Got this random email and someone at serious who was like. Hey your name kind of came by us. We're looking for a host shadow. This is what we're doing. And of course like you know the reading it to me. And i'm like first of all. What makes you think. I'm qualified to interview celebrities in men basketball analyst like what if their favorite sport football or hockey. Which we've had those right with qiuping about this podcast is. I'm have to be the expert. These celebrities are the experts era You know tim mcgraw. Does everything about lsu basketball like football. Excuse me. He knows everything. Snazzy coaches big moments crazy losses like. i don't have to be the expert. It is literally the funnest thing i've ever done because i just sit back and i can just be inquisitive about these teams. And how these celebrities families became apart other became a part of family tradition with their fandom and they are huge fans. Like michel blais has an ice rink in his basement for his connects is crazy. So i think the concept is brilliant. I can't take credit for it was serious Their team which is it's it's amazing. How many celebrities are like. I absolutely want to talk about my favorite team and It's been a lot of fun. Awesome very cool. We got to let you go but you do have to do the one thing that everybody does and nobody expects carter spanish inquisition. The spanish inquisition is part of espn nation. Brought to you by dr pepper. College football is back and so are. The fans returned to glory with fans bill by dr pepper. The one fans deserve expects punishing. 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"Just. I'm just thankful in honor to be in the space and to have the opportunity that i have to give back to this game but it was just. We made a joint decision that we just felt like you know what was on. The table was to offer that we had to refuse. Yeah but then. New ownership comes in our girl. Ray montgomery's and charge well at least partly in charge and this season ends up being a return. Not just for you but The whole look of it was all black women on the call right. Yes what was that man First of all to get the call to come back to the dream was awesome right like it was a moment where i was like. Okay baby someone does understand how hard we worked over the years in how much this means to us and to me To get that call from rene I think probably came close to dropping tear. But it was very obvious early on that. Rene larry suzanne. We're going to do things differently for the right You know what happened with kelly leffler and there were a lot of changes made in those last few years of the team where the organization just did not reflect the culture of atlanta and that was an important aspect of what this new ownership group wanted to bring back like this team. This organization should look like the city. You should reflect the diversity of the wnba in the league. Right exactly Obviously they believe in women black women ownership. They wanna see black women broadcasters in all these different spaces not just on the court so You know to do it with with three young women that i've just watched grow throughout their career was also really just it. It was. it was a great moment. so yeah. I mean i think it is sent a message that prefers some changes here in That the value of black women will will be seen in all aspects. A what they're doing. Let's talk about around the rim this podcast and like first of all when you were doing all your gigs as a studio host as an analyst as a working for the dream was there part of you. That felt like oh. They're still something. i'm. I'm not having the time to talk about or things. I want to say that in office space for what. What inspired you to add. A women's basketball podcast. Yes so. I'm sitting in studio at nba tv with today. Grew mckay and we were covering this was was i believe with the still had broadcasting rights to some of the wbz playoff. So i started there in twenty ten as well working in studio as a primary analyst and so we were sitting in there one day we will show by first of all we cannot have felt like wnba had a younger audience that was somewhat captivated but couldn't connect to some of the coverage that we had the board so we needed some energy need some diversity but we also need a space to just have station like sarah. You know this we have the games in then what else. Ri- you're not waking up in the morning and people on your television talking about arcus thirty point game there. That's the biggest issue. It's a highlight. It's a championship win. It's passing a statistical landmark. It's not a lot of debate. It's not a lot of real history or depth to it which is one of the reasons that fans can't attached to it and then argue about it over beer and we want to do that and so you know i had this idea. Maybe we'll start on youtube. Let's figure it out. So i actually flew to new york to meet with origin chilly because i felt like espn w was my best opportunity to do. This was like let's leave. Espn w will back this winter with laura. Hey today an hour and a half this show we really think when fastball deed sent you know the the number of black women have covered our sport over the years especially when i got into. It was like depressing there. Just weren't you know black women covering majority black were so we thought we just had this unique angle in laurel site. Let me see if i can do and to her credit. You know she went back and you know pushed as much as she could and she came back with welcoming you show. But i'll give you black casts so today and i into foster brassy as you know. We all started together williams now. This is six. Wnba sees sarah wife so wild. So yeah i mean. I'm really proud of around the room. Because we have given fans a space to hear from their favorite players to have conversations with coaches. When something major happens women's basketball tried to to get on top of it and it's incredible to see over the last years we kind of we didn't start the wave. There was a podcast before us called. Shoot around with the debbie which which laid the foundation but now. There's nobody more spaces that you can go to to get that debate the discussion but gave us growing the coverage drawing But we just you know we still feel like there's so much work to do in one hundred percent. Gotta keep gotta keep pushing. I do think that there are some pretty great social media outlets and an accounts that are doing some of the best kind of work. It's not s- necessarily as deep but it's exactly the kind that catches the eye of of new viewers or gets people to really find an affinity toward a specific player or team. Learn the story on the stakes of what's happening and then wanna go watch because of that. I think that's a model. That espn w in espn needs to keep building on. Because that's such a big part of it and and you know there's that great fan project research. And i had angela jerrell on this podcast talking about it. The idea that there's this fluid fan and they're less likely to just simply attached to the teams in their own city as much as they are to be drawn to a specific player. Were background or story and have that be their entry way into really becoming more of a of a passionate viewer and feel that's like the entry for so many women sports And female athletes. And that's why those accounts that just kind of highlight who they are and when they're wearing acute fit and when they're going and doing something cool and making their life's look aspirational instead of just like role models like making them pherson. Cool is such a huge part of it. and again just the coverage being deeper and more interesting so that people can can really learn. Know about what they're watching. Wanna watch more we. I mean that's been a principal sports from the beginning. Understand what you're watching. You're much more compelled by even if it's nascar or for people who get into hockey you learn the rules and then you know what you're watching all the sudden it's so much more interesting to you. What is your present. And i always say that if it wasn't for social media like we see all the metrics right now we're when it's basketball is growing growing if i if it wasn't for social media i'll believe this would be happening because it was. It's been free marketing right even for your your local college team. That doesn't get the marketing dollars. That's not getting the publicity that's not getting coverage like twitter is splayed space where you can go and say..
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"Doing here. Why why are you here so I got all the knows it. This isn't gonna work. You know how it happens like you just continue to send out all your little. Dvd's in one day somebody gets sick back in the day we used to me. Dvd's by dvd burner and then burn copies and then snail. Mail them to people. Sarah's get a youtube channel an iphone your set. Yeah these kids had no idea. I still have a lila's dvd's it even getting your radio broadcast who was seen dot source for days so they they thought i was crazy and then somebody gets sick in there like okay. We do have this one spot because we don't have anyone else so come on. Let's just go on a regional networks. Css asked which is not no longer existence. Until i finally had myself on television and send that out. But what we're gotta break was one year i went to napa. Which at the time was women leaders now but you know. National association collegiate women's athletic administrators and they were holding an oxygen. And i'm just sitting there you know i'm broken know. There's no active for anything in this auction. But i'm just listening. I did have one intention is at word Coming to this event that was to be curious so like okay. I see that this woman has espn by her. A i need to meet her at least show her ryan. I i was very good at that networking i had. No experience in broadcast did note. I was doing. But i was very good at connecting people connecting the dots. So i make staff like yes. That's great get into this auction. Did they had his auction items who visit. Espn during selection monday. And i was like. Oh my god if i could get. Espn holy smokes. The auctions going prices going up all right. I'm out of this. So suddenly they get a bid from a woman named mary mcelroy. Who was a mentor. She actually hired me to come to georgia tech and outside. Oh mary's bidding on this. Finally my wheels returning id to. I need her to win. This running winning the bid. I dr to the back of the room is a mary. I have to have this opportunity. I will pay you. Installments fifty bucks a month. You know being like seven hundred dollars something like that. I pay you. Installments displease. so she agreed. Why yeah i know crazy. 'cause she she was doing it for the 'cause like she wasn't really like i'm gonna go to espn. She just wanted to to to help out so she gives it to me. I go to. Espn selection monday. I mean sage steele. I mean you know. Obviously carol stiff. That introduced me to tina. Th or in who at the time was running women's basketball tina thornton happened to be wake forest graduate. the we clicked right away on that And in the next year. I actually was on. Espn so this was maybe three years. After my first radio broadcast may have been less than that sarah But my first game. I have to tell you this really quick. My first game that i got hired for. Espn was the maggie dixon classic at madison square garden. It was passed summit. Lady balls against. Vivian stringer's rutgers scarlet knights. It was a double header. The other teams were boston college. Baylor for british grinded freshman. I did both games. I said this has to be an act of god because there is no way here and this is to be what i'm supposed to do because this is just no one could have i mean is start at msg. I've still never been to msg for any reason. Isn't that ridiculous. what's i know. I know it's spain. I know it has to happen. I never got. I gotta make it out there so your first full season of being an analyst for espn and at the time box. Sports south was twenty ten When did you get in and start working with the atlanta dream. The dream eight so that actually happened a little earlier. I was and they started on radio so the first year. They didn't actually do a broadcast so it would have been radio. The two thousand nine. They started television in two thousand nine was when i had that maggie dixon classic December was the last month of nine with the spn but long story short. Yeah so zohreh. The dream Was just coming to atlanta. I was actually part of the group that brought the team to atlanta in a way know literally well. I'm an administrative assistant. So i'm setting up meetings and meeting people. I'm not making any decisions you know. I'm on the administration side. But george attacked was obviously involves stacey. Abrams kathy betty. It'll group of women who were branly orders for bringing the team so i was kind of a part of that makes i knew conversations for happening and as soon as they were like. We're having a team. I was at every event. Like i need to be on the broadcast. That happens. you know. I need to be a part of this. So yeah it was a two thousand eight at That that i'll start it and you ended up doing the first eleven straight seasons of atlanta dream hoops in existence as as a broadcaster analyst And then they had to make a switch and from what i read it was it was budgetary But what what was it like on your end to be a part of that team from the start and then to be to be. I don't know what the best word is. not fired. not laid off site So it was devastating. Bob and i are still good friends to this day. We just so -joyed calling those games together watching this team grow you know. We had kind of became an integral part of this. Women's basketball space in the city of atlanta is putting team. They had been to three wnba finals which was unheard of relief for a team. That was this young In i would say underestimated in a way like they. I mean there was no waiting whenever said. Oh atlanta's going to go to three finals now. People were pissed when he landed showed up at three files out. But you know. I just i just feel like what they offered bob knight to to stay with the dream at the time. And don't get me wrong. I mean. I miss humble pie as they get You know i understand that. I'm.
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"And i mean when you have sixteen siblings. You're like that. Sounds like some stuff. I need to be learning about. Family dynamics getting up well no. I've always been intrigued by people in how they connected society. You know what shapes them what makes them. They are Just some of those things so it was more that i wanted to enjoy the classes. I was taking in undergrad. I say a lot on this podcast. If i went back i would take so. Many classes in steph like sociology human ecology like the study of people and how we communicate. behavioral psychology all. That stuff like that's the stuff i find so interesting. Now as you move through the world and meet all different kinds people and all that stuff Yeah so you you have this great connection with a bunch of your coaches growing up high school college Was there a part of you that ever thought. I want to stick around and be a coach absolutely not might spheres as a student. Athlete watching my coaches in what they had to put up with with me in my teammates in our parents in the boosters in the athletic department i mean those it was just too much. It was more time than i ever wanted to spend a lot more stress than i thought i could handle. I also really just felt like. I was not cut out for the heartbreak of recruiting like spending all of that time investing and i knew that was going to be a big part of what i would do or what the expectation would be and so i mean god just hearing no over and over again after you've invested so much time in these young people who just decide. Oh i'm gonna go to this school because they have better screens in the locker right. Like i'm not i'm not out at so i knew very early on that Yeah coaching coaching was not going to be my thing. What i don't understand is how super competitive people become coaches because you do have an impact on what happens but only to a certain extent. You can't actually be on the court. i can't do it. I if i want something done. I'm just doing it myself. I don't really trust. Very many people to get shit as well as i think i could get should dung all right. Follow the game plan. What do you do you. yes exactly. Yeah well and that's so much being successful coach setting people don't realize after working at georgia tech for seven years. I worked very closely with the head coach at the time michelle. Joseph and coaching is like ten percent. Coaching it's ninety percent. People management is staff parents fundraising. It's i mean you know all of those other. How do you motivate different people and yeah just mean is one of the hardest jobs. I just yeah. I was like i'm good. So yeah let's talk about that. You were at the ac administration offices for one season right after school. And then you end up at georgia tech like you said for seven years so You did a bunch of stuff administrative assistant of recruiting director baseball basketball operations special assistant to the head coach again. Was this just. I love basketball so much. Now that i want to be near it but i'm not really sure what i wanna do. That was exactly what it was sarah like. I had zero plan coming out of college. I had a small window where i could have gone overseas to go pro But i had an injury my senior year that they have to sit out after i graduated for the tire year And so. I was by the time i did that. I got shave and that was never one of those kids out. Shooting into the lights went out. Like i love basketball and You know again. I was competitive. But i wanted to get my nails done. I wanted to go to movies. I wanna do a lot of other things right But i wanted to stay close to the game. That was one thing i did though and i was so inspired by watching pat summitt. I remember one thing vividly in my mind. It was my senior year. I went to the final four in greensboro very close to winston salem and i watched It might have been regional. I watched pat summitt coach. And i was like just in all of the impact that she was having on these women and thinking about how. The game I wanna close the game. I don't know where. I got an internship at the acc office which was great. Because i got a taste of a championship operation so we ran all the majors or championships for the acc You know. I've got to visit all the different campuses in the league and see what their administrators do like okay. Maybe i'll be an athletic director. So that was kind of in the back of my mind when i went to georgia tech staying close to the game but eventually being an athletic director and that was not the plan after a while they ended up hiring you to do radio broadcasts. What was the impetus for that. Where you just chatting up a storm in the offices and they thought they'd redirected to something right. Gee somewhere well. I hit this. I hit this crisis but my twenty six years. Old okay typing. John mayer called it. Quarter life crisis. There you go. Yes that's where. I was Where i just spanked my really going to become an athletic director where i have to lights sitting in office and you know just it just did not not allergic shirts with like unto too young for this jetting. I need to be close to the game. So i this crisis. I'm going to do in my life And i randomly so part of my responsibilities at georgia tech or iran game operation. so even. i wasn't coaching. I had to be at every game. Make sure the ball kids were in order. Make sure boosters were taken care of marketing had their fliers all that stuff and one day they were life. Hey would you be interested in filling in on the radio broadcasts Sure because what's the game started. I didn't have a ton to do. I just had to make sure everything was ready for the game like sure. I'll sit in so you know i've got my khakis on georgia tech colo. When i'm bringing my point over there to mike okay. Sure what do you guys want me to do now like you know. Just just talk the game. So i put the headset on and it was life changing. Sarah i mean you know how it is when you finally figure out what it is you love to do It just clicked right away. I was like wow. This is did not feel i worked. I could wake up and do this every day. Select i'm not going to work. And that's basically what happened to a ever since that's awesome. So how long. After that did you get spotted by espn and were you on television broadcasts from that point or i mean radio but like the public broadcast from that point on where you always part of the georgia tech games. Well yes so. I was i was i loved radio like if i could go back now in by 'cause you have to wear with what you look like and all those things like radio is a great place to learn so i did that for a couple years while i was doing that. I was checking into opportunities to actually get on television. Like can i do this at the next level. All of a sudden My dreams were just growing But people were looking at me. Like i was crazy. They were like you are not broadcast or communications major. You have never been on television before you have zero experience..
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"Up competitiveness and leadership and all the other stuff So despite saying that you weren't talented in that you were clumsy you still went to wake forest and you played for four years and you left the school third in school history with blocks and fifteen rebounds and all i think. Acc it fresh revered all that stuff so just talk about that experience at wake forest and I of the kids to go to college. Yeah yeah i of the kids of the sixteen siblings. Only two of us have graduated college by mother woods college. She was all about education so something that. She preached about but This whole college. Scholarship thing was new to our family. I mean i remember someone showing up ford official visit. We were totally unprepared. My mother was on that tonight because she's got a houseful kids. Where like it out there. They're pulling up. We're supposed to you know be entertaining some of you. Know one of the top coaches at the time in the acc But it was. It was interesting Wake forest was a place that i ended up for several reasons number one because i needed A small school you know. Four thousand undergrad. At the time maybe has grown a little bit. but that's a very saul power over. Four thousand undergrad. But i love. The individual attention from professors could play in the acc. But not really bad. Good so you. At the time. When i came in we read on bottomley. Acc so i do. I was going to get playing time. some of the other schools. That recruiting me. I was like okay. They're recruiting me to be the fourteen fifty player on the bench. I just wanna play. Because i knew that i had some time to make up. We're all these drills had been planned. They were like six or seven. What like i need to get on the court and see what might potential is But it will also has challenges. I would say Trying to integrate myself into a predominantly white school Being away from from home for the first time like many college students athletes are not have to face but it was incredible. Probably couldn't have made a better decision. As far as a place where i needed to be to work my way through some of those challenging dynamics i had a black woman as a head coach which was unheard of. I believe she was the first black head coach ever in in the acc for women's basketball. So that was important to my mom. And i but yeah. I mean it was the best four years of my life always so far and i had a great time. We'll get right back to the interview but i. What is your favorite word. My favorite word is intentional. You know it's been something that has been a a theme throughout my career in my life i used to be. I will say as a kid the one that always used to ride the wave right so whatever everyone else wants to do. I was in whatever was happening. Let's go for it. But i just found that adult that it worked out very well coming so i started to be more intentional about my brand. Why was the impact on wanted to have in the world. what. I stood for all of those things. So that's probably my favorite word. I i love that word. And i love that sentiment so good on you for understanding that the focus and intent that you needed to thrive and shine and then and then doing it so intentional done with intention designer purpose circa fifteen twenty s It's a great one. Speak great words you today. The word of the week is in honor of china's unique upbringing and many siblings. A new word to add to our vocabularies feel genitive circa eighteen seventeen meaning inclined to the production of offspring or fond of children. It's combination of feel meaning love or having affinity for and latin progenitor meaning bhagat or gotten so it can refer to the production of spring or loving of them and feel per genitive nece. The love of offspring instinctive of the young in general is from eighteen. Fifteen so both were first attested. In translations of johann spurs time. This was a german physician. Who is one of the chief. Proponents of the pseudoscience phonology. Which believed that. You could look at the bumps and shape of a cranium to decide someone's character and intelligence and stuff and for knowledge. Ists use this word feel per genitive to designate a specific bump or organ of the brain that they thought was the seat of apparent instinctual love for his or her children. It is a not off use word but it felt useful for us to learn so in a sentence la- china's fellow presentative father produce enough children to feel two basketball teams and they're competitive. Family gatherings helped make her hoops star. Now let's get back to the interview degree in sociology. What did you think you wanted to do. I mean you're not living unless you change your major lie. Tom so i came in saying i want to be a lawyer or slobs major History or something. Like that undergrad. You know find my way. And then i realized how much reading and writing i was going to have to do in like no fake snacks so then i decided i wanted to be a psychologist because i wanted to talk. People do their problems than commonly on my couch I've always been someone who who cares. So much about people what they're experiencing in life and i was like that'd be perfect and then that's the intro. Class almost failed more science than i could have ever imagined so i was like i'm out of here then. I literally sociology on sleep. Because i really did my homework on. The coursework and i took classes like social inequality loom sports sociology of sport Death and dying marriage and a family..
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"Your dad was an independent newspaper owner and publisher despite not finishing high school. So you see him. Make himself an into an entrepreneur. And also get into the world of media. How much of an impact do you think that had or was it. Not till later in life when you sort of came around and made that connection. Yeah my dad. Lives a very complicated life Him owning a newspaper was god Without getting into a two hour. Long podcast It was his most legit job throughout his his life right And i was not really aware of it at the time. My mother talked about it. I have copies of the newspaper like my aunt worked at the newspaper. You know it was just a kind of like a family thing at the time. But i wasn't really aware of it as a kid. But i do believe that. My dad has such a gift of communication of wanting to disseminate information wanted to help people. He's just been You know kind of that person. He's that guy who would eighty one of the community has the issue up on. They call him. And so that's always been inspired me to see how people adore him. How they rely on him and i do think it has impacted the person i am the media side of it not so sure but again because he has just been Someone that people can rely on. Someone is a public figure in the community. Like like that part of it. I i definitely Tried to take on as i was coming up. Okay so i read that. You were a cheerleader. And that's where you thought you belonged. And then you get up to six feet four somewhere near there early on in high school and realized that you should check out basketball. Why wasn't that the expectation earlier in life. I mean i just that seems wild to me that at no point growing up would it feel like. Hey she's gonna be pretty tall and let's give this a shot well first of all. My mother didn't even realize i was tall and so she tried to give me like a champ down rest for my sister now. My sister Is five six six four and so she tried to give me one of her dresses that she wore when she was four years old issues. Like this is not fitting in. I don't understand what's happening It gone to her on her. Obviously after a while. When i started out my sister she was like holy smokes. You growing like a weed. But i did try basketball in the sixth grade. I just hated it. I was lying. L. this is not fun because my dad was kinda like that that community basketball hero like all the project championships. And you know he was. He was demand and so we would go to his games. I knew he played there. Were no female athletes on my mom's side. That wasn't even insane. My mother was like listen. If you're going to be sweating your hair out if people are going to be your be we will. We won't be there So but as i got older my older sister started to play. Actually two of my older sisters started to play basketball. Which was like okay. But i still wanted to hang out with my friends so i was a cheerleader. I was like i'm going with my girls. Are i wanna wear this short skirt. Aluminum attention And it wasn't until a guy. My community just kept coming around name. Is michael j. He was like telling my mom. She needs to play basketball. Play basketball and at this point. I was probably in the eighth grade. And he's so tall you know. And then he just mentioned to her that i could get a cost all shape and that was this. She pretty much dropped me off at practice back to give me. How quickly did you learn to love it after not liking it early on right away because i was in such a i was in a difficult stretch as a teenage girl where i was taller than everyone myself. Sustain was really low puberty. hit me way late so i was somewhat miserable. Couldn't figure out where in the world i fit in. I was like what am i supposed to be doing with this right. You go to basketball practice and finally like okay. So being tall has its advantages. Started making friends in no learning to communicate and all those things that teenage girls kinda start struggling with over time and so it just. I started to feel like there was a place for me in and to really grow in connect in a way that i could nowhere else. That's woodward started. And then i realized that i was just ultracompetitive. I wasn't talented at all. I don't think anyone ever say. I've been naturally talented. I'm very clumsy all the things that make for bad athletes. i feel like i have it but Yeah it it definitely started with opening the door of Friends in a safe space and then it was just that i. I am ultra competitive. I talked about that all the time. That i don't know if i hadn't been an athlete. I was an athlete from the beginning. Like as soon as i think my first word was ball. But if i hadn't done that how much tougher it would have been. And i was only six feet when i was twelve but that felt way too tall and awkward and puberty didn't hit me well and i was like if i didn't have this thing to feel good about of why i'm tall and strong athletic. If i didn't use that it would just felt like such burden. Instead it became the store..
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"Thing my mother would absolutely demand that i say is that not all those children are hearse so they are all blood related rights. So they're either My mother children or by fathers children. The interesting fact is that. I had no siblings. That have say mom. And dad. As i know yeah And so with that being said my parents separated when i was very young so by time spent with siblings over the years was like summers with my dad's side and i lived with my mom in her kids. So she's got five including my dad has twelve children including me So yeah it was. It was a lot of fun You know we spent time together. I could name every single one of my siblings which i will do right now or tasks i always used to say it. I didn't have enough time to tell the story. I would need to get on oprah. But what i do with sarah spain right yes so it was an interesting dynamic growing for sure. There are joyful big families. There are big families that are complicated. And i would imagine with different mothers and fathers and figuring out schedules and who has whom when it could either be contentious or people could find a way to co parent and make it work for the most part growing up. Did it feel like there was good communication between all the parts or was it sticky at times. Oh it seems like it seemed like the communication was great. I mean there's a reason why my father has twelve kids. He is a smooth talker. He is a very organized guy. He is clearly very ambitious and he's a big family man so it was extremely important to him. My father wasn't only child that was always excused as widely. Need to have twelve kids but it actually went very well One thing. I can distinctly remember about. My dad is that he could remember a phone number off the top of his head and obviously he did a lot of calling checking in with various kids and kids of of lam's of kids But we would stop at the at the phone booth all the time right like that was back in the days where there were cellphones. He would check pager. We've go to phone booth. It would be one of my siblings and you know that's it so I it went very smoothly for us. So you grew up with your mom In alexandria. Virginia and her for other children was it. Were those four siblings from the same dad. Did you ever feel like you weren't as much a part of that as the ones who were all you know. Say mom and dad. Yes oh no. My mother is really needs to be on oprah so my mother was married four times and he has five kids. We have five kids were different. At's so we were all kind of living similar experiences right but it was. It was a lot of fun. You know my mother was a single mom during spurts of that time when she was married But we started out with four girls by little brother was born until i was seventeen years to get to go off to college. So that house was wild. you know finding bathroom time all the things you can imagine but No my mother was awesome is mine has been the backbone for my life for my entire life. So what number were you in that run. I was next oldest. So i had one older sister two younger sisters in my baby brother so that means that you had three different times where there was a new husband in the house. That was your father figure sort and then was gone right. How how was that for you. Because my dad was so active inconsistent in my life as my dad that to me was the most important thing for me growing up right like we talk about girl dad all girl data all the time but one thing i've noticed with some of my friends growing up. I really believe that the differences between kind of how my life went in some stretches in how their lives went in this remind observations but also bears had to do with my relationship with my dad right. My ability to communicate effectively in a male dominated field riot enrolled full of men in places in spaces where You know i. I was just so comfortable with that. That dynamic my dad also has eight boys so you know. I had eight brothers on his side of the family So that to me was was the biggest thing my mom kind of navigated her life about her way when it came to the male figures that my dad was just so president so consistent and so you know whatever else did was guilty. That's great though. Because i mean you hear these stories of people whose whose parents have are bringing different people in and that can be really challenging especially if those people aren't great people or if their relationship start solid Line you know. Yeah well. I think everyone that comes into your life. makes an impact on you right like marriages in those aren't good things happen you know. So there's there's obviously good and bad that comes it but You know. I just think that because my my mom and dad were so strong and so steady who they were their character like that like whether it was they were married to at the time or whatever situation may be happening in our lives. I just felt like we were. We were always in a pretty good spot academy sports and.
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"The dixie fire drifts into paradise california. The dixie ignited in nearly the same place as the two thousand eighteen campfire which killed eighty five people and destroyed almost nineteen thousand buildings here seeing and smelling the smoke is a constant if ominous reminder quite literally. It's it's hanging over your head. We had some days at the sun was blacked out as dark as night. Dan f steph paradise parks and rec director. Turns right off a highway lined on both sides by stumps from logged charred pine trees a narrow steep winding dirt. Road leads us to the rim of the canyon where the flames entered paradise. Nearly three years ago this is not something to fire engine when would even entertain going down. Fire trucks can't get into protect homes and places like this because it's too dangerous. We have twenty one acres down here most. This neighborhood was leveled. it's unrecognizable we standing on. Somebody's old home. I think we are. We are the homes that burned probably wouldn't have gotten building permits today but this neighborhood is no anomaly. In the libertarian rural west. There's a legacy of loose zoning and some people have to live in places like this because it's cheaper and you could see this. This area got decimated yet steph. Sees opportunity here that have been so many instances these fires people know that we have to do something different. The town has bought up land from campfire survivors. Who either couldn't or didn't want to rebuild. The idea is to connected to their existing park land. that's good for recreation. But also as a fuel break they can strictly manage this forest with the hopes that the next wildfire slows down here and gives firefighters a chance. Every single one of these properties were looking at from the standpoint. What can we do to limit. The spread of fire is a staging area. And all of that. And i think it's gonna make the community
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"Career. High seven made triples. And the mercury's nine wins nurse averages nearly twelve points and almost two and a half makes from three to open up. The paint for greiner nurse has to splash from deep encouraging. News over the break. Bria hartley started playing five on five in practice and might be able to make her season debut and shore up the offense also key the second half schedule features only four of the merck spinal thirteen opponents with records at five hundred or better huge thanks to mercury communications manager bryce marcy for his stats assist. I'm cindy brunson from the bali on the mercury are fans. Now that you've heard everything happening out west. It's time for us to take a good look of what's going on out east and we're going to start off with the indiana fever. Tony east is gonna give us all. We need to know about what to expect. Moving forward from indiana. I'm tony east. I cover the fever here in indianapolis for the west side community news and forbes sports and the fever are going to be an interesting team to watch for their final twelve games down the stretch run of the season. Despite their foreign sixteen record the fever have been playing a little better late. They won their last three games before the olympic break. And i don't think the record does their season justice anyway. They've been steadily improving all season long. There was a noticeable flip in about early to mid june where the fever started to really look better on both ends of the floor and head coach. Marianne stanley has stressed for this team. All season long growth and they have really done that. i'll season. They've gotten better on defense as time has gone on. Their timing has gotten better on offense. That's something that stanley has. Stressed as to season has gone. So we've seen this team get a lot better than they looked solid Beating the sun and the dream Heading into the break. So they're hoping to carry that momentum into the second half and continue to be a good team They want to continue to be good on defense. You know they've really struggled on that end dating back to the wobble even last year. So they'll be hoping the fever to continue to be good on defense but they're kind of younger and developing team And that's something to watch out for for them in the second half of the season as well. what can they get from their two. first round. Pick rookies allio. Wilson and kaiser gandara zik Who both have been playing a little bit more of late. A wilson just came back from an injury and and provided the fever with some nice minutes. Kelsey mitchell of course has been tremendous this season especially over the fevers recent winning streak tiffany mitchell as well. It's here mccowan. Continues to assert dominance in the post so the fever can can ride their momentum from the first half of the season certainly As the second begins they've already been practicing quite a bit getting ready for their post-olympic break stretch of the season and they have a nice balance of of of solid role players on the wings and at the guards in the front court. But you know as they kind of pivot from the first half of the second half do they look towards more development can they continue to keep them momentum on defense and offense. I think they can do it. Marianne stanley set an ice space. But we'll have to see. This team is really talented. And and hopefully they can carry on what they did. In the first half you can follow me on twitter for more fever coverage at t. east nba. Hello around the rim listeners. Eric lindsay ayala. One of your hosts of locked on women's basketball coming to you with a chicago sky preview. We're looking at the second half of the wnba season and essentially chicago needs to play the second half of the wnba season like they played the second stretch of their first twenty games. Chicago is at five hundred sitting in fifth place. They have ten wins ten losses early out the gate..
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"Fifteenth. So this episode is dedicated to helping you our fans get an inside scoop on what to watch for when all twelve teams in the league so this is our second half preview episode. There's no better place to start than at the top of the standings with the seattle storm. Seattle has the best record in the league right now. But when they return for the second half they're going to be returning five players from olympic. Rosters sue brianna jewel. They're coming from team. Usa as stephanie. They've played for australia and one has to question. How refresh are they really going to be after spending the last five weeks in tokyo to add to that. They're starting their second half on a five game road trip chicago to a new york washington and minnesota. They're not going to be back home until august twenty seventh. But i'm not worried about seattle and neither should you be number one. They signed kiana williams to a seven day contract and this was the team that drafted her so. She's very familiar with the system. She's eligible to play in. The commissioner's cup You know to give those extra players additional rest if necessary. They also gave coach noelle quinn some reassurance about her role with the team signing her to a multi year extension. So i expect. Seattle is going to be ready. I mean aren't they always right. They have a favorable schedule down the stretch only three of their final eleven opponents have a winning record and if how bard and still we are playing in the olympics is any indication of what we can expect to see upon their return to lead play. I reckon stern fans would be safe in saying that a long postseason awaits them now. Right underneath seattle is las vegas. They're sitting right behind seattle in the standings in the number two spot. This is another team that has players returning from olympic play. Asia wilson chelsea. Gray kelsey plum. Jackie young angie su park for our south korea. The acis side jackie. Kelsey play phenomenally. in three. By three basketball they won the gold medal. In this inaugural event in asia wilson. To me is the mvp of the olympics. I mean she has just put the team on her back. And there's no way that you would pick her out as being the rookie being the first time olympian. That's how amazing. She's played double double double digit games. Every single game phenomenal but they have to collectively get back to that early season form because we can't forget that this team dropped two of your last three heading into the break. Their opening up with two at home against washington opening up the season on the road against connecticut. After those two games against the mystics. They're number one.
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"Being an rachel retrograde point but you know not just losing a natasha howard but losing lisa clark as well Who is arguably a top five player in the league last year but to me it does go back to if you have brand steward especially and sue bird. Obviously as well and jewell loyd. It's very hard for me. Not to think of. That team is a title contender. I did have questions. About how asia. Wilson enlist him. Bauge would operate together. there was a little bit of a bumpy ri- mowing toback in twenty nineteen. They have dramatically improved. What they've been able to do together so those to connecticut with chocolate jones by at an mvp level those look like contenders to me to me. That was the top tier. So i can't say i was surprised about that recently. For me with seattle. It was a question mark. I wasn't sure to lose them. Any key. pieces from a defensive standpoint. What clark brought to the teams even sammy. What come in which the energy she would ring to seattle. I mean then you lose. Natasha howard is someone to such a dominant force as a rim-protector wasn't sure. So that was kind of just a question. Martine obviously i knew they'd be being the top three. I'm not surprised that i am. And i i am and i'm not i think for me. I really saw the acis being at the top. Which obviously i mean right now. Flip a coin between those two as to. Who's the best team in the league at this point I saw chicago being a little bit better than what there where they stand right now at ten nine. I think we have to attribute that to the seven game losing streak. I'm not concerned. I think that could be right there. In the end of the order injured as a part of that seven game. Losing allie quigley. So so i. I saw chicago las vegas connecticut all right there at the top. Seattle obviously is in there as well but it was still. I wasn't sure how this team would respond with the losses and to howard's point. Obviously a team with with jewell loyd greta stewart super crazy. We don't have them in the top three so to answer your question. I i definitely felt like chicago would be a little bit higher at this point where they are. That doesn't mean i'm worried though. All right about rachel's latest article. Because i was in lockstep with it. Check it out when you get an opportunity. Rachel who it's out there that when we get to the all star break that the wnba all stars have more than a fighting chance against team usa. Rachel make your case. Just think i think this is a year that that is unprecedented in what this game means. We've seen this match. Before they were considered exhibitions. Which is which is really interesting to me. This year. it's new. The stakes are a little bit different right him. Usa has to truly be tested and prepared to win a gold medal in before we see all star games. It's time time right. People are kind of having fun. We're not really playing defense. Got flightless cam bayrak the run the point. It's it's a fun experience that's lighthearted here. We have a situation where you've got some players on all star team the the wbz all star team. You have a little bit of a chip on their shoulder. And i think that the most unique part about the all star team is the first timers right there. Seven first timers on the offensive firepower alone with the rega- i mean honestly you could go down the entire line williams. This is going to be such a high scoring game on both fronts. And you've got to wonder like which team whatever team decides to actually play defense and compete. And i think they will because there are actually steaks on this game. There's responsibility to compete. I really think if there was a year where we see team. Usa kinda get knocked off in this all star situation because in the past and the exhibitions. That didn't count cumulus. I won pretty convincingly. I think this could be the year i. I really think that you've got with chip on their shoulder. And you have the offensive firepower. Do it about our what are you. I agree with rachel and to me. There's another element to play here. And you just have a talent pool. And i think this is responsible for why there were so many hard feelings around the selection for usa basketball was we have in this country many more than twelve players who have built olympic resumes. And who are capable and should be chosen to be on an olympic team so the net result is that. If you're building a team that goes beyond those twelve. You're going to build a team that absolutely can compete with the very best and so to see that opportunity before you even get into the fact that there can be players on the wnba ulster team in our who aren't.
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"Podcast. So without further ado. Let's get into the show right around the rim fan so as mentioned we have a guest driver of our show today and i'm super excited. I'm always happy every time we have her on the show but even more so when she is active as our fearless leader. So please show some love for play by play in women's basketball analysts cindy brunson. Hey cindy thanks so much for having me t i really appreciate it and thank you china for being so freaking busy that i get to run the on. This wonderful podcast. We'd like to welcome in rachel galligan and howard medical. You guys know these people really well. Rachel of women's basketball analyst with winds cider and just of these sports and of course howard founder and editor of the nine newsletter. And the next tube. So let's get to a guys as we approach the midway point in the olympic. Rake in the w nba. Which team has impressed you. The most to this point howard. I'll start with you to me. I do think it's the new york liberty and a team that was to in twenty last year. Historically bad offense. They obviously made a lot of changes so far over the off season. We haven't seen those business changes manifest themselves and tasha allergies and played. Much and sabrina national has been at less than one hundred percent. But it's those secondary change that node into into some of those players as well that maybe people weren't talking about as much You know whether it's lane you whether it's semi whitcomb and you see those players making a difference in this team is absolutely making a playoff push And expect natasha howard back pretty soon of course rookie of the year teenage mccain way helping drag us as well. How about for you rachel. No i don't wanna be. Maybe this'll be controversial. But i feel like it's just expected the seattle is going to be at the top of the standings but for me it's seattle. This is a team that lost key players or what they've been able to do. Yeah you could argue that. We still have a stories still have a lawyer. You still have super but make really key pieces last year and it's like the haven't even missed a beat. I think what what they're doing on the court from offensive and honestly defensive standpoint continued to get better throughout the season For me it's seattle. And if i had to say a second one just to kind of throw it in there i think the wreck the record should be better than what it is. It's analysis. ooh i love that. You said the dallas wings. I am really on that team and as pacific northwest native. I have no problem with you going with at all if they were to win back to back. Titles that's eight okay with me. Even though i live in the desert and i am of edicts mercury season ticket holder. I really love what the sar have done. I thought when they lost howard that that was it that the run would be done and like you said they have just been absolutely phenomenal. Okay so those are teams that have really jumped out with us Are these the teams that you both predicted with. Perhaps the in the wnba finals are your predictions at the start of the season. Where you thought they'd be right now. I see seattle being an rachel retrograde point but you know not just losing a natasha howard but losing lisa clark as well Who is arguably a top five player in the league last year but to me it does go back to if you have brand steward especially and sue bird. Obviously as well.
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"Basketball fans and welcome to a new episode your favorite. espn's women's basketball podcast around the rim. I am to rica foster. Bradsby you our producer and i guess you can say host. I i mean like i kinda do that from time to time so i'll take that i'll own that title for today but i'm excited to be here with you guys and excited to kick off this show if i am introducing the podcast that i'm sure you have assumed that china robinson our host in fearless leader won't be joining us today. But do not fret because she has given the reins over to someone who we absolutely love who is more than capable and who we are going to enjoy sitting in the driver's seat today and that is none other than women's basketball analyst and play by play you may may have heard her on the pac twelve network and i'm sure you have seen her across social media representing for the pacific northwest. Cindy brunson super excited to have her acting as guest host today and she's going to be joined by two panelists who we know. Bring the absolute best to women's basketball. And that is rachel. Gallaghen of wind cider and the nine newsletter's founder and editor chief howard meg dole la- china is one of those amazing a women's basketball voices in analysts whose coverage goes beyond just our podcast and so and certain moments she needs to take a break Not necessarily because he's resting but because she's continually working to spread our game. It's a cover women's basketball so we're going to allow her an opportunity to take on some other endeavors and while she is out we are going to have some other voices on our podcast over the next couple of weeks. Some you may know some. Maybe you don't know In across all spectrums so espn voices. Non espn voices but we just wanna make sure that we provide an array of all types of analysis to help us as we head into the second half of the season just a couple of quick things to note before we get into the podcast. And i know the china usually has. It's her clipboard. Where she talks about some things that are very important to her. But i don't have a clipboard. I have a tablet. So we're gonna call this to reestablish tablet so just a couple of things on my tablet. I we want to most certainly give a congrats to ty young tamra young. She retired from the wnba this week after twelve years. You have seen her with the dream you've seen her with the aces you've seen her with seattle but most notably. I'm sure you remember her stint which chicago twelve years in this league and she announced via a video in a message on instagram. Why she decided to walk away from the courts. Or if you're interested in seeing her why you can definitely had overturn instagram and check that out but listen tie. Young has most certainly been one of the best in our game She spent the two thousand nine to two thousand seventeen season in chicago appearing in two hundred sixteen games. She was drafted Eighth overall in the two thousand eight draft by the atlanta dream and listen. She's played overseas She's just been one who has most certainly made her mark in the wnba. And so we just want to congratulate her and wish her well on whatever she chooses to endeavor post a basketball career. Also want to give a shout out to my colleague here at espn. Chennai go mckay as well as her sisters. Neka in erica. As they have been listed on nigeria's provisional roster which means they could all play together for the nigerian national team which is something that we have not seen before. We've never seen three siblings. All play in the olympics together in that way and so that would be super fears for them to do so. I know that there has been lots of controversy. Recently surrounding neka mckay's emission from team usa. And so this is most certainly something that i know would be very special to her as well as to chennai and erica day. Come from nigerian ancestry. Their mom and dad or nigerian-born and they themselves hold dual citizenship between nigeria. And the united states. So i know the pride that they have in their nigerian routes. I know the love and pride that they have in in for the game of basketball so just want to give a shout out to them. There has not been an official naming of them to the twelve persons roster just yet but just the fact that you know they have been named to the provisional roster and have the opportunity to represent nigeria in the olympics as a family is just something to be commended. So kudos to you. Ladies before we get into the show we just want to share with you. An opportunity for you to relive one of the greatest icons and most successful teams in sports history michael jordan in the nineteen ninety seven. Ninety eight chicago bulls..
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"I just feel like. I want to know so much about you right now. Yeah so i grew up in a really small town in indiana and a lot of people say a small town and they mean like thirty thousand people. i mean. thirteen hundred people is a small town. It's this resort town on a lake and there's a boarding school there and that's where my parents teach their both educators and so my mom wisconsin. My dad grew up in ohio and the pay decided poor better to raise their black gay child than indiana so here we were As like every good hoosier. I grew up. Playing basketball. Started playing competitively. When i was eight years old I play a you. I started all four years As our point guard on varsity. I coached basketball. When i was in college like it. Was you know it's always been a huge part of my life It's very much like my my grounding sport. I suppose and during the time. When i was young. You know trying to find myself. And i bought a lot of grey's anatomy. It's the whole thing. And i was ready for this has to do with writing. I started writing. Fan fiction And i wrote graz ninety fan fiction for the better part of a decade From when i was sixteen. All the way up. Until i finished grad grad school and no longer exists on the internet. So do not try find it. I gonna look like eaten. I delete it as soon as i realized that. Like when i got to. Espn there's way too much personal identifying stuff in here we got a. We got to take this off the internet. nobody can find it So that was like my real first writing experience. There were a lot of infection. And i was always kind of writing on the side As i was trying to figure my life out and it will. I went to grad swell. When i was in college. I majored in history. Russia's study is an american studies never minor and women gender studies and then i got a master's degree in student affairs and higher education with a concentration diversity equity and culture which is a fancy saying i have a master's in verse education more or less and are very little ball that your your parents are educators. This happens a lot with my friends who have parents that. Are teachers. Like they can tell. There's been an influence. I mean goodness. How many letters do you have after your name. Katie just just a couple of sounds way more impressive than it is While i was getting my master's degree. I went out to the lgbt's sport summit than nike hosted in the summer of two thousand fourteen Editing a very transformative. Summer i met my wife there so that was kind of funny in portland not at the summit itself by also met my mentor at that summit and He kind of just let me go into every room that he went into and i started writing for feminists dot com decided. I actually did not want to go into higher education. That sounded terrible to me. And so while i was Trying to figure it out. I went on a fifty state. Lgbt food tour. It's a whole thing and I applied cold to a job at espn as a digital media associate program that no longer exists sadly and they took me and i was like i read on the internet. That's digital media will call it a day. And then alison overhaul then editor in chief of espn w dot com current gm for oprah fine. She was like pitched me. And i said okay. I did and the rest is kinda history. I just sort of clawed my way and got different opportunities and kept sending stories and manage to not like flame out and hear him way way way. who's doing. What for oprah. Alice overhaul is now the general manager for like the oprah daily Brand oh where have i been clearly..
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"Thank you to everyone that reached out with comments after our mental health episode with dr dawn coming off of the naomi. Osaka french open situation. We appreciate it because the feedback is very welcome to recognize are probably going to go over a few of those interviews At excuse me those emails at some point. Just to debrief with our friends that are so kind to write us so yes thank you so much and continue all the kind words or comments and questions coming in with that we will get to the show. I basketball fans. This woman needs no introduction. Because to me she is the queen of many things because she wears a lot of hats that she wears them also. Well i still don't know how she does it. Maybe she'll share with me her secret sauce or tea or coffee. You'll coffee drinker christie. I am a coffee drinker. You now here and there little jato every other day or something like that. It's a good thing for me okay. Well i'm about to add that to my diet. Because i need to be wherever you are in this world. If you are buried somewhere in a whole you don't recognize that voice. E christy winters scott fantastic basketball analyst on many levels but you probably know her bass as the voice of the dmv for basketball men and women But we are on this podcast to talk about the wnba. Where she's the voice of the washington mystics. A welcome christi the china. Thank you so much for having me. Your bright light is just making me so proud everytime right here your name your face. I smile so bright. You you are just doing the incredible thing so kudos to you while. I'm just trying to get to where you are but i got a lot of work to do in the meantime we have some catching up to do in the wnba and i'm gonna do something a little differently for our conversation. I usually start at the top of the standings and talk about the teams that are competing for championships. And not that these teams in the bottom arnab. But i feel like one of the trends in the league right now is that the teams at the bottom are starting to make their push in starting to rise. So we'll start at twelve with the indiana fever. They are a little bit of an exception here because they are struggling They've lost six in a row. One ten a team that you know has some pieces young. Still need to figure things out I definitely believe in marianne stanley. But they've got something got to figure out for the fever but not catching company. They'll get it get it turned around. chicago sky candace. Parker is back. They lost what seven games in a row But guy candace back and beat the indiana fever this week. So that's a good sign to have parker back in the lineup. They now have dawson bad. They have quickly back so As we said all season the sky's the limit. But that's another team in the eleven slot right now and that bottom half of the league that i think is going to see better days ahead. The minnesota lynx is a team that you saw recently christie against your washington. Mistakes and i mean god cheryl. Rivas is brilliant as we know as a coach. We're actually gonna talk to katie smith a little later in the show but they got call your back into the lineup which is seems to help laser clarendon at that point guard. Spot seems to have been something. That's working well. Now you're you're mystics. Put a weapon on him. But what did you see from the minnesota lynx that may be encouraging for their fans in the weeks to come. Tell you about china win. Minnesota came and the challenge was definitely on the table and sat especially with the addition of malaysia. Clarendon springs that dog mentality that grit to the court. But i think what washington did that and dangerfield as well was to play much defense. They heard just down and in a stance communicative. I think tasha cloud in the second half really made a difference in that regard. But i thought that all domestic starts really did a good job of pressure ring. Antiquing minnesota's cards out of their comfort zone. And even with that being said i think sylvia fowles had limited touches and month. Muscle is still doing her thing and i think washington also did a good job of of containing her touches which you did get it. She was always. But i think just overall for minnesota coming into that washington game one three games in a row and with that came a lot of confidence. So those three wins. I think they got them because they continue to gain that chemistry with collier back they were missing. Heard the very beginning. And i think with having her back in the lineup thing made a big difference but i also think the addition of Clarendon who was released from new york her up. I just thought that A terrific move for the lengths in terms of her experience level her knowledge on the defense van in particular but also her ability to score the ball. So when you add a player like that's in the mix of relatively young team. I think that has been a good calling card for shall receive. I know she was frustrated at times. Mystics game because they were turned the ball over or a you know some of their heirs were unsourced situations. But i just love what she has in her bag in terms of what she can work with how to get them back in that great flow because they were slow entity gates before they won those three enrolled than a washington on gave them that loss as well but i think they have so many fantastic parts in crystal dangerfield and the way she plays especially down the stretch of the game before that i believe was against atlanta and they had a backpack with atlanta over the weekend last week and she was just magnificent in the fourth quarter. I believe she did. Mrs. schott Ten points four four in the fourth quarter alone so she possesses that Gene and she's baby. You knows the. She's she's getting things done as well. But i love the dynamic. I love the coaching staff. There with rebecca said katie smith and gwinnett years in a sitting right next to the basketball In shell read so. I think you know there's time to figure it out. I know that they had a stretch Things look great by. They have to get it and do it again for another stretch. Yeah i mean you mentioned the three in a row coming in which included those winds over atlanta which. I was impressed by because they did it. In different ways first time they played atlanta still was not as involved second game..