New WNBA CBA Roster Rules: Valkyries Mock Draft & UConn vs. The Field | Podhalla

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[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome back to Pot Haller.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it is a joyous occasion because this CBA has been signed, which means there's going to be some Valquerese basketball in 2026.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And kind of hot off the presses, Brian, Alexa Filipou, just put up a post with Kendra Andrews.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They got a piece of the collective bargaining agreement.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They got leaked some part of the document.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just wanted to go over some of the things that they pointed out in their piece because we still don't know exactly everything that is in the new agreement because it's kind of coming out bit by bit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But we do know some things and and they're really, really positive for the players and a lot of that has to do with money and the amount of money they'll be able to make.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But here's some other things that just came out this Tuesday as we're recording this Tuesday evening.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, the latest date in which games will be played or in which the championship will be played is November 21st, which is a month later than the previous CBA, and some of that has to do with

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[SPEAKER_01]: uh... the uh... more adding more teams right could you have to add more teams you have to add more games and in twenty twenty eight the season could go all the way till november thirty it because that is an Olympics year so they are giving themselves cushion and i also wonder because you know how we talked about

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[SPEAKER_01]: How it seemed like they played so many games and so many days and in some parts of the schedule, I wonder if they're going to maybe, you know, have less back to backs, but yeah, so the calendar is going to go much deeper in the year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the number of possible games played goes up to 50 next year, and then 52 by 2029.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it looks like by 2030, they want to have 18 teams in the league.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, this league is growing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're actually having, you know, there's a discussion, there's a kid cutting him discussion in the NBA about whether or not the season is too long and, you know, whether or not these, because he got hurt.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So now he may not make all NBA because of games played and stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so there's this like longer discussion on whether these athletes play at such a hard and high level.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If 82 games is too much for the NBA, now for the WNBA, we're getting it pushed out to 50.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I wonder what the maximum would be for them, too, because 50 is in increase from what they have been, and in, you know, they do get a little bit of a longer bandwidth at least, but still, it seems like, you know, the more games that you add,

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[SPEAKER_01]: the the more injuries that will pile up and this is a very physical league.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What do you think about the the addition of all of these games for the next several years?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, I think it's just inevitable if they, you know, the league wants to keep growing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They want to keep adding teams, you know, the players are, you know, wanting to make more money.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, as all those things continue to happen, I think it just makes sense that the games are going to go up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just think it's not they're not in the position yet to maybe have some negotiation about bringing the games down.

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[SPEAKER_00]: like the NBA is like they're still kind of working their way up to get paid a fair share.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I just think that games being added is something that you know like you said with some of the negotiation stuff is like we give you something you give us something and I think them play more games just a result of you know getting paid more and and some of the other benefits they're getting from the CBA.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right other things in this CBA.

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[SPEAKER_01]: the way that the length of the season increases could also be to kind of combat some of the overseas stuff project B, which wants to start in November.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So if you are in the W and B playoffs, let's say you're in the championship series, and you do go into the end of November, you will miss the beginning of Project B.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you are also playing in Project B.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it does seem like, you know, they are combating those other places where players can play and you know,

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[SPEAKER_01]: we can we can say that based on the new salaries like maybe those players don't have to go overseas though you know they do make a lot of money for a short amount of time because the the really, really good players they they do make a lot of money for if you're doing that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and I think, you know, the prioritization rule that was, was that implemented last CBA?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think, or something like that, where it was like, it was like, making it so that you had to report to camp within like 48 hours of your team losing or losing in the, there was some specific rule that was kind of targeted to like international players and players that

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[SPEAKER_00]: you know basically said like oh you're breaching your contract if you don't like fulfill this request and they're kind of almost doubling down on that but I think that yeah like the goal should always be that they should get paid enough so they don't have to participate in these other leagues um and if they do you know that's that's that's they're choosing but again like I said like I feel like you know they're making more money in this new CBA and as a result more games

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[SPEAKER_00]: stricter rules on reporting to camp on time because this is your primary league like this one is more important than all the other ones.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Sabrina Merchant had a piece out earlier this week where she mentioned the bump that the former top draft picks are going to get.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So for instance,

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[SPEAKER_01]: uh... in twenty twenty five page beckers made seventy eight thousand in her rookie year katlyn Clark made seventy eight thousand in her second year

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[SPEAKER_01]: And in pages in pages 2026 salary will be 499,000 and Caitlin's will be 527,000.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they're getting quite a bump from their rookie contracts.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And some of that is because I think some of this has to do with

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[SPEAKER_01]: The fact that they have made all WNBA teams, I think something has to do with some of that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like for instance, Leah Boston in 2026, she can actually make a max salary.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But in 2025, she only made 83,000.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So even the draft picks, we were kind of wondering, oh man, did you get screwed if you were picked before the CBA was done?

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it looks like the really good rookies and the really good young players will benefit from this as well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's actually kind of cool, because

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, you look at who page and Caitlin are to the league, they're I mean, they're still underpaid right based on how much value and how much eyeballs they bring to the league, but it's good to see them actually get their salaries bumped up quite a bit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and yeah, I'm waiting for like spot track or I guess I'm much waiting for like the document to come in and spot track to update all the salaries just to get a look at like who's getting paid what and.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, because that's going to be interesting to see like I think the rookies coming in in 2026 are going to start making like 300 something.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Is that what I was that what I saw on that article.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The 26 first round picks.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Coming up to 86,000 up from 3525.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yep.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so couple of other things will more than two ongoing over four years.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's that's that's a really good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, players signing a contract as part of a sign-in trade can no longer sign for more than the standard max.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Recognition payments for already retired players range from 30,000 for five to seven years of service to 50,000 for eight to 11 years and 100,000 for 12 plus years retired players with four or more years of service will also earn up to 1,200 annual reimbursement for health care.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Teams can provide more guaranteed contracts

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[SPEAKER_01]: For the two new developmental player spots, players must have three or fewer years of service or four to five with minute limits, that's how you can be eligible for developmental player spots and they can be activated for 12 games in a developmental player spot the WMBA PA will manage and control licensing rights for adult jerseys instead of the league, which was how it used to work.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and then teams are required to allow dependent children age 13 or younger to travel with the team and provide an extra hotel room, which is really interesting.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then two weeks of paid leave are now available for non-birthing parents, teams permitted to allow more than two weeks if they wish.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And family planning benefits now available to players with two plus years of service and for their partner spouses previously only players with eight or more years of service or eligible and the benefit was not available for partner spouses so you know more details are coming out about some of the things that they were fighting for and and that they're they're getting you know we interesting.

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[SPEAKER_01]: is, and I don't know if this will come out, but what are the things that they were really trying to get that they had to give up?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, we know a lot of this was just the share of the revenue, but I wonder if there were other things.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We heard about the housing thing, but it sounds like they kind of came to a happy medium on the housing thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I do wonder what were the things that they did not, or were not able to get that they really wanted, and we'll probably see that in the next CBA.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the end of the one thing that is actually interesting, and maybe probably leans towards the WMBA side.

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[SPEAKER_01]: is the length of this deal.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the length is like seven years with an opt-out after six, which means it's going to be a six-year deal.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Instead of, you know, four years opting out or five years, which is kind of the normal.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So the length probably does help the WMBA here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and I imagine what they probably wanted more was, and it sounds like there's a little bit of happy medium with the developmental player spots, but I know they wanted more roster spots, and I wonder, you know, two developmental player spots that are essentially just MBA two-way contracts, but capped at 12 games.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm sure that they wanted probably more spots than that, just because of the turnover, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, these drafts just aren't making roster's.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, now you have the developmental spots, though, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, yeah, you know, you mean that would have been the Caitlyn Chen spot, that would have been the Caitlyn Chen spot.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She would have just got put on one of those.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Last year, if that were a thing, last year, if you are, and like this is this is going to be so interesting to see is because now the time between

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[SPEAKER_01]: all you know all the the the schedule expansion draft we don't even know who the valkyries are are allowing you know all allowing to be drafted and then the college draft and then training camp and free agency and all of these things that have to be truncated into a small window.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I wonder what the Valkyries first or maybe what their most important thing is when it comes to free agency, is it we need to get Veronica Burton back, we need to make a decision on Kayla, obviously, you stay is going to be in, so you stay is contract, they're going to have to sign her to a contract.

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[SPEAKER_01]: some decisions just on roster, you know, that then there's the free agency aspect of this, who knows with with the supermax, you know, can't have any supermax contracts can certain teams give out before you take up so much of your cap, then you got to rely on these low-level

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[SPEAKER_01]: free agents or developmental players or draft picks.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I wonder what like if you were to ask oh him, I was like what is your she wouldn't say anything, but she was on her list if she was like to, you know, one through 20 here are the things we need to do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I wonder what that would be.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no she wouldn't say anything.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She said she would say that she's not given up the sauce.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She's not going to tell us what they're doing behind closed doors, but I mean, I'm sure, you know, just Burton right from the jump, just like I think she's a restricted free agent.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So they just, you know, give her what give her make sure she's on this team for the next five years or whatever they can sign or two.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What do you know?

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a great question.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know because she's not she's probably not even eligible for some like a she's not eligible for supermax nor would I sign her for supermax But then I guess it comes into question like the rest of I that see that's going to be tough that's going to be tough because she had an exceptional season and she was incredible, but it's like how much of the cap do you dedicate to that and We will see we will see but

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'll kind of realize on how this expansion draft shakes out, because all we're waiting for are the rules.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're waiting for on the rules of the entire thing, but we have a good sense of how it's going to look with five protections reported by ESPN, essentially what's,

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[SPEAKER_00]: probably going to happen is that if say, you know, it's Toronto and Portland, if Portland selects a Valkyrie, hypothetically, I think the Valkyries will get to then protect another player, then which still leaves Toronto to potentially select from their pool of players.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I think if they get one taken, then they get to protect another.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But we're mostly waiting on the rules

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[SPEAKER_00]: the Valkyries and their expansion draft were only allowed to select one unrestricted free agent and they use that selection with Monique Billings.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the idea was that once you took a player, once you drafted an unrestricted free agent in the expansion draft that you were expected to core that player, but the Valkyries actually didn't even core Monique.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, just given that feels like a large chunk of the league is an unrestricted free agent.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Do they bend those rules a little bit where they can select more unrestricted free agents?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And if that's the case, then.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You really got to protect some of these unrestricted free agents, but can you do a thing?

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[SPEAKER_00]: It feels like something that I feel like would be smart to do as a GM, but you'll just never see something where it's like, OK, Kayla, we're going to leave you unprotected, they're going to protect you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But come back and we'll give you an extra, so and so is a couple million or something.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know how that stuff works.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I think we're just kind of waiting for that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're waiting for Natalie and Ohamma to get behind a podium.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And just to, you know, get this stuff rolling, Valkyries got what the 8th pick, you know, I know that March Manus is in full swing, lots of entertaining games coming up, lots of games with potential Valkyries prospects coming up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So just, you know, keep a watchful eye and we'll see how this thing progresses.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So speaking of the NCAA tournament here, we have our bracket.

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[SPEAKER_01]: uh... for pod holla and the people who join our bracket i'll give quick shout out to those uh... in the lead marshal he got a uh... sixty out of the first sixty four you got fifty eight out of the first sixty four uh... and i did not do very well i think i'm like forty nine and it's uh... those uh... i was looking at some of the seven tens and stuff like that and

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[SPEAKER_01]: I should have just went, if you could just went chalk, I think you'd run a much better better situation.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think Virginia is probably the bracket buster for a lot of people, but because yeah, for the women's bracket, it feels like you mostly can go more chalk and sometimes just pick the more recognizable school if it's like a five four and then like that's why I did with Kentucky.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Shout out to Sihil, who's also in here, Mike Jay, who I would love to bring on this podcast at some point.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Our friend, Obey, my buddy, Anthony, Konrato, who has also been on this podcast and Eddie Zuko is bringing up the rear here with his first run.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He had to have made some crazy

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, the question that we had in the beginning was, can anybody beat Yukon and Yukon has just been untested in two games, they, they won their first game by 38 points, and they won their second game by 53 points.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just incredible.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They play North Carolina.

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[SPEAKER_01]: on Friday North Carolina beat Maryland who's five to get to the sweet 16.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then on the other side, we saw Notre Dame in a bit of an upset over Ohio State, which was a really good game.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They pulled away at the end.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And if you're going to talk about like tournament darlings and the, you know,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like Hannah Hidalgo has been awesome.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think she's needed to be awesome.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like as good as she could possibly play because her team is so lacking.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, is she on enough of a role to where, you know, can they possibly be a number to Vanderbilt, who, you know, who won their first game by over 40 points and, and there's definitely points, there's definitely upset potential there in my opinion.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The just I mean, it kind of just goes back to like I haven't seen Vanderbilt do this on the biggest stage.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So therefore they kind of have to prove it to me a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think Michaela Blake is incredible, but I think there's upset potential for that reason.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We've seen Hannah do it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Although they haven't really gotten insanely far, but like we've seen her take over in these games against against tough opponents.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, yeah, I want to, I'm very interested in that game.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I don't know who I picked.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I might have not even picked an order to get into the sweet 16, but now looking at that game now is knowing what I've seen from Hannah this tournament.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I just want, I do wonder if there's upset potential there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then in the Sacramento region, Sacramento 4 region, we did have an upset Virginia.

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[SPEAKER_01]: beat number two Iowa.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And now they face TCU.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We thought we're going to get the TCU Iowa match up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, I'm not, I'm not saying that this is an easy win here for, for TCU, though they did struggle against Washington.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They only beat watching by three points.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So this is,

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[SPEAKER_01]: TCU to get to the Elite 8.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe some people did, but that'll be interesting for them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They get a little bit of an easier road.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I would think that, you know, not having to go through Iowa.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then on the in the Fort Worth three side of things, Texas is taking care of business and Michigan as well, Michigan and Louisville is going to be a pretty big game on Saturday and then in Sacramento two.

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[SPEAKER_01]: UCLA is a favorite, but if you get a, who would you rather see?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Would you rather see UCLA Duke or UCLA LSU?

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[SPEAKER_00]: We've seen UCLA versus LSU for like three straight years in a row in the tournament.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But hey, I wouldn't mind seeing it again.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I think Duke has kind of been Roland.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So there might be more of a,

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure, like, I haven't, I feel like I haven't watched Duke in that long, but I feel like I've been hearing a lot about how they're like, they've really turned it up as of late.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I watch LSU more because of their draft prospects there that are coming out this year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, I don't know, you still have UCLA being, uh,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe the best possible team to face Connecticut or have their written other teams that you've watched that you think maybe has a slightly better shot.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I haven't watched the blowout team.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So like the one seeds, the Yukon, the UCLA's, the Texas is the.

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[SPEAKER_00]: South Carolina's like I haven't even watched that myself Carolina, like absolutely blitz to USC, but no, I haven't.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think I still got to go with my gut with UCLA just because.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, like I don't think that South Carolina team is as dominant as a years past, which kind of makes sense.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, you know, some of some of those years where they've, they've won it all like they've had, um, you know, just like a really established like six, four, six, three, six, six big like Camille Cardoso when they last won it and I know they got a livi Edwards, but, um,

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, I don't think that this South Carolina team has been as dominant in some of the ones I've seen, but yeah, I mean, just UCLA, they got they got Lauren Betts and they got shooting so.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's kind of that's kind of what Liberty, I don't say that confidently.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't say that confidently.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think you can't got it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the only thing is you kind of spend so untested and if you give them a little bit of turbulence.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You kind of go, okay, like how do they react and you know, they're, they're, they won the whole thing last year with a lot of the, the same, you know, the super stars were on that team last year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So you kind of hope like, okay, if we kind of punch, you know, they haven't really been punch this year, they, you know, these teams just, it's almost like they just get boat race from jump street and, and it's over and so if you punch back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: can you get them?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Can you slow them down?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Can you get them to be a little nervous because the expectation is so high for them?

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's you know, it's championship for bus for them and it's been championship for bus for them since pretty much the first game of the season.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's kind of the interesting thing to me, who can punch back and stay with them, at least for a little bit,

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's it's been rare this year and you know, and I know the argument was like, well, they didn't really play anybody this year either and if you're if you're UCLA you look at all the teams we we had to play great I think there's value in that, but if we do get UCLA and you kind of which is what I hope.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, could UCLA stay within 10 points of that game, you know, late that that that's more or less with the story is going to be rather than can UCLA actually win.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I would like to see somebody just get hot and start cooking because because the whole the whole story to that game is going to be.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Does anybody have a shot and right now doesn't look like anybody has a real shot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we talked about this last week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's you con versus the field.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I said I would take you con, which I think a lot of people would.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that'll be that'll be pretty big deal.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, well, by the time we record next week, we'll have a good, well, we'll have the final four and we could talk about the final four matchups.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Alright, the last thing that we're going to talk about on this show is Sabrina Merchants, her mock draft here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, the mock draft hasn't been much different than what she's put out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's some adjustments, but the Valkyries pick is the one that has stayed the same for her, I think, and that is the one that you have problems with.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So let's go through,

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[SPEAKER_01]: all the top picks until we get to where the value will go through top 10 and then I want your thoughts on on the picks and then when we get to the vouchpix then you can have your beef with Sabrina.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, number one, and this has been very, this has been very consistent for her, Awafam, number one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We know Konrado has AZFUD at number one and Sabrina has AZFUD at number two.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know the thing that makes me more interested in Awafam is,

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[SPEAKER_01]: watching Malanga in unrivaled.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think that the same player, but that like young athleticism that is kind of like a little new agey.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, Melanga, I think she had like a couple of dunks during unrivaled and, you know, she's just so fast.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She's like beating all the other bigs down the court and, you know, just sort of see the athleticism of someone that tall in, I will famus 64 and has, you know, the ability to to move.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She's not, she's not a six four who can't move very well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She's a six four who can move well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So watching Melanga this year and unrivaled I was like, okay, like this, this kind of makes sense to where the game is shifting having these really athletic bigs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, I think.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think Melonga's just six, six, and moves better.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think Melonga would go number one in this draft without a doubt in my opinion.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think Awa Fando has a good sense.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You could tell she's like a smart offensive player and the way she moves the ball and the way she picks her spots.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I think Melonga's a more like better and like raw prospect and like be a higher ceiling prospect.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I think ever since I watched Awa Fando, I think it was

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[SPEAKER_00]: probably towards the end of the last year after the championship, I think Tyler Cruz is, or hunts some certain are, sorry, it's not Tyler Cruz.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Hunter Cruz is who introduced me to Alabama.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And ever since I've watched one clip, I was like, I think that's the number one pick.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But it has a little bit to do with, you know,

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, the strength of this draft.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think I will fan an AZ-Food who are at the top of the draft or MVP type of prospects, whatsoever.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't mean to put a ceiling on him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just feel like that's kind of, I feel like I'm watching like supporting players.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And while it's still very valuable, I just don't think I see an MVP type of prospect.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And with Melanga, like maybe, I think it's close, you get closer to that level.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, one and two for me, like I probably still, yeah, I'd probably still go out with fam one easy to.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so yeah, so easy to and then.

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[SPEAKER_01]: we have at number three, Olivia Miles and Olivia Miles has been showing out a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She showed out last year too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, she's on the radar.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What Sabrina said is, I don't know, I don't know if I've seen this from from this piece, but I think in the past, the idea is that maybe

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[SPEAKER_01]: Olivia Miles on the defensive end doesn't have the same engine as she does on the offensive end and that that's that's kind of like a real thing for her because she's so talented offensively does she have the will to be a good defender that's kind of in the argument with her while yeah that I'm super I don't even I didn't read her blurb about Olivia but it's something that I've been noticing since I was watching her at Notre Dame was like why she getting benched with two minutes left and like an important game like why she not on the

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I feel like you don't get that type of like reporting in the college scene as much as you do in the pro level scene.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was just like, if that happened in the NBA or WMB, like we know instantly, like I would someone would get at like, why did you bench Olivia in the last two minutes, like, what was the reason in the Niel Ivy would have had to say, because she wasn't giving effort on defense.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But now I think for her, like I know the numbers look good and I know it's kind of just like,

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not like rooted in fact, per se.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I know that I'm pretty sure the three point numbers look good for her like a second year in a row.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just kind of need to see it like another level of like, because it just doesn't look right, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like it doesn't look like a good three point shot.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I wonder if like, you know, can she do that in a catch and shoot type of scenario in the W or is it or she mostly just a on ball creator 3. shooter and like, you know, she takes her step back and she's it's all just on ball so I mean, she looks incredible and like I know when people watch her it's just like how like it's insane vision, you know, it's it's in, she's incredible.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So,

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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like if people watch your offense alone, they're like, why is she not going number one?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I think it's that it's that type of talent from her.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, so the next the next pick here at number four mystics, Lauren Betts, they got some bigs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it would be interesting if they, if they draft bets can bets and kicky play,

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[SPEAKER_01]: ear fin can they play together.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That'll be interesting to see.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It almost seems like they're both that's hand for together.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and you've said this before, which is that double big style seems to be kind of fading out a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And do they double down on that double big style, which is what what you have in Chicago as well with the two bigs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no, I mean, it's no dig to bets like I think she's a talented player.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just think Lauren bets is archetype in terms of like being a top contributor.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like that's phasing out and you know, you're kind of going away from the big center as like your offensive.

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[SPEAKER_00]: engine and like what you rely on on a possession of possession basis and I mean Chicago's got two really talented front court players and I know that the losses aren't necessarily on their fault but two very talented front court players and it has produced little to no wins it seems like and you could point to like the roster construction around them and how available they've been together but you know

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[SPEAKER_00]: Mystics don't just have Kiki area, if and like they also have Shakira Austin, like I wonder what they're going to do with that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I understand why you'd make the Lauren Betts pick like that's best player available.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then this was a little bit of movement here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Kiki race at number five.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that would be the Chicago pick.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, just I guess it's a belief that Kiki is actually raised her game during this season and got pushed up the draft here for for Sabrina.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, not much to say there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, we watched her play like I feel like it's I don't mean this has a dig, but I think you can kind of see like

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[SPEAKER_00]: what level of draft this might be if she's kind of shooting up the boards and I think I kind of feel like we understand her game and we appreciate it and think it's good but it's not like spectacular but I guess considering it's the fifth pick you know stuff the drafts is always going to tend to start falling off or just not being as at the top steady presence plays

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Good size gets the ball to the right spots like you trust her to get the ball to learn bets like in college.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I get like you have your six four player.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You have your six six six seven player.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like a big part of the importance of having that center that really not many teams in college has is having players that can get the ball to her.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like it's it's frustrating just watching those teams where they just can't get the ball to your like

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[SPEAKER_00]: just get the ball and it's a bucket.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, and Kiki is always able to do that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, here's where it gets interesting.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Number six to the Portland fire.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Ionamar teen the five nine guard from Spain.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Then at seven Toronto Raven Johnson five nine guard from South Carolina.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then at eight, she has the Valkyries taking Nell and gloma five 11 guard from France.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so out of those three players, you know, I don't know that it seems like those, you know, after and maybe when it comes to Kiki rise to maybe maybe it's kind of like,

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, Chicago can kind of change the draft a little bit based on who they take.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But it seems like all four of those players could are probably going to be, could probably be available for the Valkyries.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Do you have a preference for either of those or is it someone that you still think that we talked about before?

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[SPEAKER_01]: The other UCLA wings, knee pins and hawkheads are they still more interesting to you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, now this is going to be an interesting one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think they go Nell and Gloma.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I just feel like the Valkyries don't really scream to me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like we're willing to take a project.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I just don't see them doing that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Just based on all the roster decisions last year, like I just don't feel like they're, you know,

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[SPEAKER_00]: going to would would be willing to do like a project experiment.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It feels like, you know, the the lake up win now stuff is is echoing in their minds.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I could see them going for more of a pro ready prospect and someone who can contribute right now and fit their culture.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you know, I don't think they need another person who's question mark is the three point shot.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I feel like they kind of need someone who's going to hit that shot and play defense.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think there are some players around there who kind of fit as that stereotypical 3nd

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[SPEAKER_00]: you know archetype and that's where my I've been like leading this whole time like that's where my mind has kind of been thinking whether that be Raven Johnson, whether that be

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[SPEAKER_00]: uh... hotgez Gabriella hotgez with a beaming like a koteemic man like there's just there's there's players out there and like even if kiki rice is available i'd do think you select her um... and then there's also like who hasn't been mentioned yet is a tena tenia latson and i'm interested to see how she performs in some of these tougher games in the tournament because she's someone who i just feel like

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[SPEAKER_00]: you know, has just like a scoring talent that like, you know, not many players in this draft have.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And someone who's fallen even farther below is flagey.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I can't believe how far flagey is falling.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And she's someone who had to be a little hesitant to select as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But in that late in the draft, I'd

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the flage is available, I would take, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I know that kind of goes against what I just said about like, having someone who's like 3 and D, but flage can, flage can play right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just wonder like what her ceiling is, that might be some project experimentation to like what the ceiling is, but I think right now she could provide some scoring and effort on defense and if flage falls to them, like, that's a win in my book.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and she'll add to the team's swag.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She's a wrap.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, good good hip hop scene out here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Show get the GoValks chant going for the team.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Although that's what that hip hop scene is taking a hit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if it's in the luressel news.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The higher learning podcast with Van Lathen, it talked about it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he was just like,

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not even going to really get into it because it's nothing like terrible terrible but he was just like my producer told me not to put out this song, but I'm going to do it anyway and he just basically kept saying how like these people are heaven sent and then you could see as each person he names they just get like progressively and ethically and terrible and worse like you start off at like Martin Luther King and Malcolm X then you end up somewhere to like Epstein and like it's like how did we get your hour yeah so he's he's been like the poppin

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[SPEAKER_00]: hip hop act in in the bay and then he's taking a hit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so nine mystics, Neapent, Neapkins, like I said, and then 10 Hawkeyes, we'll finish out the, well, the rest from a quickly flagey Johnson to the mystics at 11, feel like the mystics are laughing if they're able to pull off the Lauren bats and flagey Johnson.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that'll be it would be good for them for sure that the because they didn't they have to because they do they still have Who who has a moray who didn't even play last year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, Georgia a more yeah, yeah, no, they more they have Washington had drafted Citron area fan a more and last year's draw

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that'll be five young players in the last two years that, you know, that they they stack the the the draft picks 12 Medina Oket Ocot Ocot from South Carolina 666 Center.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then it's, oh, this is the woman who hit the three, the in like her first three here or whatever.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Probably, yeah, yeah, I think I think that it kind of went viral her shooting a three.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then 13, the dream Charlize Lager Walker from UCLA, that would be, that'd be the fifth UCLA player taken to the first round.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then 14 Seattle storm codimic man from Ole Miss and then 15 to Nailates and who you said so that that rounds out Sabrina's first round mock draft here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So look, that this is a I think I think the draft turns at five and you kind of wonder.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, all this, also there's the expansion thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So you don't know what the roster actually is going to look like, but, you know, the Nell and Glomopick like, all of a sudden, the Valkyries just become team France, because that would be like the fifth French player on their team, depending on it, you know, if they protect Carla and some of the other players.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that would be an interesting play.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, I think at five, where Chicago goes at five, that kind of turns the draft in, and you'll see, you know, there may be there's trades up to so that you get the player that you want.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But the Valkyries at eight after the first season, I'll take it because they were good last year and they should be good this year too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they seem like a smart franchise when it comes to this stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then let's not forget, I mentioned her at the top.

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[SPEAKER_01]: you are adding you stay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So as long as both rookies play on this team, you are adding two new players, two young players, two top level young players to the team.

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[SPEAKER_01]: In addition to whomever else they draft.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So you might want someone who can kind of, you know, you might want that 3 in the prospect.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you, because it's going to be tough to like kind of split your like developmental focus.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because you stay legit coming in as a rookie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like this isn't how tall is you stay, by the way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so she's a little bit taller than Angloma at five, 11 or whatever.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I just wouldn't go in gloomy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like that picks a little rooted in like, you know, the Valkyrie's International Focus, which makes sense.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I understand that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I wonder how much Vanya's servant of it's played into that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And she is now in Portland, which makes sense why Sabrina has her mocked to take Yana Martinez from Spain.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I know, oh, how much got like a very international type of, you know, focus as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I do wonder, like, I think, yeah, just from a GM perspective, like, if you go with a project, like Nell and Gloma, like, then you're just having to split your developmental focus.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I just feel like that won't work out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I feel like you got to go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Gabriella Hakez, you got to go coding man, you got to go Raven Johnson, if she's there, Kiki Rice, if she's there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But of course, I'll take Flage, if she's there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Can Kiki Rice and Karla and Veronica all play on the same team?

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[SPEAKER_00]: You start to have questions, but I mean, I think you like Kiki Rice more than you like Karla, so if that has to.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I mean, I'm not saying you are the same general.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I hope she she's like that spark plug, you know, you'll you love to have a player like Carla, though we have some folks in our discord who are not giant Carla fans who think that, you know, she can't really hit the three three point shot, that's that's mainly what like the I feel like the detractor is of

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, of her ceiling and if you're, if you're going to be a small guard, you kind of got to hit the three and there's exceptions.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I don't know how much Hidalgo shoots the three, but again, we haven't seen her at the professional level.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but she's Irishman.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She's she's she gets whatever spot she wants and just watching her play the other day against who was an Ohio state.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just offensively and defensively.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Whenever she wanted, she was just going to take the basketball.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She was just watching the other one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: One woman wrecking crew, like it was like, it was like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's

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[SPEAKER_01]: so much so that when she would do it the other player who is dribbling would fall right down because it was so unexpected how quick she was.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I mean she's been an archetypal like her she's been awesome like her whole collegiate career but I was just wondering like okay you know with that with that height like it's just a little short you talk about like how the the phasing out of like a

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's still always going to have a spot in the WMBA, but in terms of just being the focal offensive hub, like I see that's phasing out, but also the five, six guard.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We talked about with Sabrina last year, how that's also phasing out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I think Hannah's the exception, I think she's the exception, because I thought it would kind of fall off a little bit, and I thought that, you know, not this year's draft, but next year's draft, it's it's juju, and then you pick between Madison Booker and Michaela Williams.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then after that, you got your Hannah Hadogos.

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[SPEAKER_00]: you got your, and I'm probably missing someone, the Zoe Brooks, you've got your Audi crooks, but I thought that Hannah was going to maybe start trickling down a little, because she used to be like probably lock at top four, but I think she's probably still a lock at top four, like she's that good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And from a fun perspective, she's like number one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This should just like jumps off the screen.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you want to join our discord, we have links in the YouTube video summary, as well as the podcast summary.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And as you can see if you're watching video, you can see BSPNmedia.com, you can find everything.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that is it from here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So for Brian, I am WG, we will see you when we see you piece out.