Veronica Burton's Big Year? WNBA CBA Update + 2026 March Madness | Podhalla

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is pod hola time, and it is time to announce that we're changing up how we do this show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you remember back to the Valks Valley days, Valks Valley was a

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[SPEAKER_00]: like a clip that we'd put at the end of the deadline, which is our Warriors podcast.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then last year, we had such a blast with the Valkyrie season.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then Brian came up with a new name for the show, Pot Hall, which is an excellent name.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we tried to do this thing where we wanted to record the Warriors podcast and the Valkyrie's podcast in the same podcast, just mostly for our schedules.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then on YouTube, we would split up the clips and such, but as the audio version, we just put it up as something that we called Golden State hoop.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I still like that name, by the way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But what we're going to do now is we're going to bring Pad Holla into its own podcast.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So what are we going to do with the death line up?

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[SPEAKER_00]: But for now, the death line up is going to be on ice a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to record stuff for YouTube about the warriors under the death line up banner.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But we're not going to put out a consistent audio version of the death line up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Podhala, we will try and record consistently more than likely now on Tuesday for Wednesday, rather than Thursday for Friday, which was our previous schedule.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we're going to see how it goes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think there's opportunity for us in this space with women's basketball to really highlight this podcast and grow this podcast.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Whereas, there's a lot of warriors' podcasts out there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And if the warriors aren't really your focus of everything, I think you can kind of get lost in the shuffle.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But we may bring the deathline out back at some points.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If the warriors actually do make the playoffs, they're going to make the playoffs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and they make it to the actual playoffs, Steph comes back to get on a heater.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We could definitely bring back some death line up episodes in the speed, but we're going to focus on Padhalla for this feed consistently and weekly, which tells you that we got a little bit of confidence in the WNBA negotiations.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so yeah, so that's that's kind of what we're going to do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So you'll see this podcast.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You'll see it up Wednesday for the most case when you know Tuesday night Wednesday morning and we're just going to roll with pot holla as much as we can.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, where are you, how are you feeling like in a 1 to 10, whereas maybe a few weeks ago we were kind of under 5 as far as how we were feeling about the negotiations between the players and the owners.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you feel more optimistic are you closer to like a six as far as they're going to get this thing done sooner than later and we're not going to miss any games or are you still a little pessimistic about where they sit with this current CBA negotiation.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So like it's been a while since we recorded and a lot of things have happened, including the letter that was leaked from Brianna Stewart and Elsie Plum, like we haven't recorded since before that happened.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then there was a deadline of March 10th that they had to, you know, agree to a CBA negotiation by March 10th in order to avoid miss season time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Of course, with March 17th now and we still don't have an agreement.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But since the march it was about like March 9th or March 10th is when they all kind of met up in New York all being like some of the WMPA and then people from the WMBA like Kathy and other people they're all like in some like hotel conference room right and they're just like hammering out these like negotiations is doing like a marathon negotiations since like March 9th or 10th and it sounds like it's like eight hour days and

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[SPEAKER_01]: So with that being said, like I feel confident I'd say, you know, in that six to eight range of confidence that within the next week and a half like we'll have something and if we don't have something within the next week and a half to two weeks confidence probably plum is zero man like how do you not if it's going to be eight hour days for three to four weeks straight and you're you don't you don't have anything agreed to so I feel pretty confident that that you know within the next week and a half will have something and that might even be generous like it could be within the next couple days could be within the next week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if you've seen any reports of what they're talking about lately, but it sounds like housing and just the revshare stuff is of focus.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I personally feel like I don't know how housing is is a topic, like I just feel like it shouldn't be negotiated.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like if housing's not included, the players that want to play for the Valkyries have plummeted.

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[SPEAKER_01]: you're a lot of your salary is going to and I'm sure maybe it could be a team choice and if they want to provide it or not, I'd expect the voucher is probably to provide it just because it's so expensive to live here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean Joe's got to have a bunch of a bunch of properties out out near San Francisco that he could just run out for cheap, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Come on, Joe.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Surely.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so the last thing that I saw was Tuesday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, Monday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Sorry, Monday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is Tuesday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The as of we're recording and Alexa Phillip who's been bunkered down with some of the other journalists.

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[SPEAKER_00]: At these where these negotiations are in Manhattan and she wrote on or she posted on Blue Sky.

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[SPEAKER_00]: WNBPA executive director Terry Jackson confirmed progress as being made toward a CBA, but a delay to the 2026 season cannot be rolled out as WNBA Labor Talks stretch into the seventh day here in Midtown Manhattan.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now I haven't seen anything since that blue sky post, so I don't know if they're still out there right as we are recording or not, but

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[SPEAKER_00]: they, these, whatever these deadlines are, which are not really deadlines because they can just keep missing them, but it looks like they created an urgency for both sides to get together.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, the housing thing may or may not still be a big part of this, but the idea that

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[SPEAKER_00]: the revshare is still that far apart when it breaks down to it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think the players are still asking in the mid 20s range for their revshare of the whole pie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think the league is still in the the high teens mid to high teens.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so that part of it

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[SPEAKER_00]: It looks like if the league just got a little bit closer to that 20% we'd probably be done here, but they are still that they're not budging.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you remember where the players started, I think the player started at like 40.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then they've come all the way down that was falling.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We knew that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we knew.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we we we we've been saying that that's where you start.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's why it's a negotiation start high and you come down.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and the league though has not come up nearly as much as the players have come down, but this is the most news that we've heard about this negotiation.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think there were something like

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[SPEAKER_00]: eight proposals of some sort a couple of days ago, maybe it was last week where they're just back and forth proposal proposal proposal.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now we haven't heard anything since then and that that may be that may mean that, you know, they're close that may mean that they're not close, but that is where we sit with this and, you know, there's so much momentum.

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[SPEAKER_00]: coming out of last season for this season the 30th year that you would think cooler heads prevailing smarter heads prevailing that this is like a must have, but there's been stupider things that have happened in the past, baseball went on strike and missed a world series.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think hockey missed an entire year of play.

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[SPEAKER_00]: because they couldn't figure it out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Baseball, our basketball has missed many months of play one year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They started at Christmas as opening day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So cooler heads, you would think smarter heads, but oftentimes, it's like there is locked in on what they're locked in on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that is where we stand as of right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I believe, and you know, some of this might just be because we just got done watching the USA and Spain play in the

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, what it this is the like the precursor qualifying thing for the Olympics, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like the USA's already qualified for the Olympics, but they stuff to play in these tournaments.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I never get how that works if it's like for Fiba.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It might be for Fiba qualifying for the Fiba tournament, which then is like a qualifier for the Olympics, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like what is Euro basket then?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Is Euro basket gets you to the qualifiers?

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[SPEAKER_01]: The qualifiers gets you to Fiba if you look at CD Olympics?

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[SPEAKER_01]: No clue.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, whatever it is, that coming off of unrivaled and then having this little tournament, even though the USA is killing all these teams, the Spain game was sort of competitive.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you're kind of wedding the appetite going like, oh man, I cannot wait.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So the

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[SPEAKER_00]: If they do sign the deal, maybe this is really good momentum, maybe they're just continuing to build because we had unrivaled, which I thought was excellent.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I watched every single game of my missed with Veronica Burton and Brianna Stewart and Alicia Gray, who else is on that, that squad, a RECA who Lee, you kind of got in a little bit of a scrap there after the the championship one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, but that was so much fun, just to see how, like, how hard those women were playing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think for Brianna, it was like, okay, last year, I was not, I was not 100% this year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I am at now it's time for me to flex a little bit and she had, she was, she was great.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was just fun to watch the play and coming out of unrivaled, I have two takes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: One of these takes is Valkyrie's related, Veronica Burton's going to have really good year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, she, she fit in so well with the upper echelon of the unrivaled league and like didn't skip a beat, like it was not overwhelmed in any of this played awesome, even played really good in that one on one tournament.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And my second take,

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think Kelsey Plum's gonna be MVP level this year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Whoa, she was cooking in unrivaled and she's playing in this feeba thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She's playing on the second team with Paige in Katelyn.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The three of them together are just ridiculous.

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[SPEAKER_00]: unbelievable.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Passing ability ability to get their own shots, like when they were on the court together was awesome.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's my take is the problem is, I don't know if the sparks are going to be good enough for her to kind of be in that mix.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I think she's going to have like a coming out party kind of season.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Who says she resigns with the sparks?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you'd think, well, because they've made it all over, but she's and and that that that looked like it was her team, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was like, okay, we need to build around me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Remember that first game against uh, she's like 37.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, like unstoppable.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but but I do like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Those were a couple things coming out of that tournament for them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So let's let's move on here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's talk about a little bit more about this team USA thing hat where you watch like was there anything Specifically that you're watching these games for was it just to see basketball like because for me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was like Kind of want to see Caitlin.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to see page.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to see how they look together because they specifically were playing them together

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[SPEAKER_00]: But these games weren't very competitive so it was kind of hard to figure out what was what but it's just fun to see Caitlin back on the court again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, I think I think I might be lagging a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was trying to load the women's March madness bracket and then they just took over all my service.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was kind of watching just to see professional women's basketball again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I know I'm rivals happening, but three on three is just different from five on five.

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[SPEAKER_01]: When you watch college for so long, you just forget how good the pros are.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I just wanted to see the pros who began really.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, of course, seeing like the page, angel, Caitlyn, rotation is fun and exciting.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I just wanted to see pros who began.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I especially was watching this game.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's been one that I've been talking about.

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[SPEAKER_01]: At least in our discord of like, you know, I will fam.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Number one projected pick.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Number one or two.

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[SPEAKER_01]: beyond a martin, you know, first round projection from Canarao and many other draft analysts.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I was I wanted to watch them play and I'd watched, you know, that Spanish team play in your old basket, but the USA, USA is different competition than anything they see in your old basket.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The audience like all of everyone's pros so.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and these two teams were probably the the two highest level teams and France, you know,

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[SPEAKER_00]: I actually didn't see France play, but they battled in the first half and it was a really close game for most of the first half and the second half USA pulled away a little bit, but I think who's who's the woman who, who's that Gustafson had like the first seven points of the game or something for Spain?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't even realize you were Spanish.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought Gustafson sounds like German or I have no clue what Gustafson sounds like.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't realize she was Spanish though, but yeah Gustafson was cooking early.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Is it Raquel Carrera?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I believe she has she's drafted by someone, but she's just never come over before she only 24 so you'd think that might happen soon and that'd be fun with all these you know players who just haven't come over yet and here comes the new CBA and all the good international players who haven't come over like okay yeah sure well we'll head over I think Raquel Carrera might be one of them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: the and then just yeah just seeing those teams play it was not like

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I have my fix, I'm ready to move on, but it was like again, it was like that moment of like that wedding the appetite like okay, we're getting close.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're getting, you know, we should be talking, you know, draft at this point.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We should be talking expansion draft like that should be in our review, but, but now we're, you know, we're waiting for the negotiations and stuff to happen.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, how much women's college who have you been watching.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's been, uh, it's been a little on and off.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Man, this NC AA website is just taking all of my Wi-Fi.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You have a phone, uh, put it up on your phone.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I should just look at it on my phone, but it's it's it's it's been an often on experience of watching for me like I just really watch try to watch the marquee games and I think the last thing I was watching was LSU versus I want to say South Carolina like I didn't even get to see South Carolina versus Texas for the SEC

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[SPEAKER_01]: championship game, but I was watching LSU versus South Carolina interesting teams and you know, I've also watching Ohio State game, I'm watching old misgame here and there like kind of more so with the teams that have draft prospects is maybe who I'm who I'm tapping into more than the teams that don't have immediate draft prospects.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So if we were to look at this bracket

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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, some got to be last month already, people are fired up about just the idea of who can beat Yukon.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think we pose like, you know, everyone's sort of going for second place.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But if an upset happens, what is the team that could actually beat Yukon?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, some people said you see a lay, there was, there was a South Carolina in there, maybe even been a Texas, I don't remember.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like this tournament, like the last two or three years, it felt like the tournament was slightly more at for grabs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe not last year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think most of said you can't winning.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But this year, it's almost like it's Yukon versus the field.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you had to bet, would you bet the field or would you bet Yukon?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think I would bet Yukon.

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[SPEAKER_01]: that you can do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel I feel so silly for not for not betting them last year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I just feel like I can't turn my back on them, especially when I don't feel confident, like insanely confident about any other team.

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[SPEAKER_01]: At least last year I was like, you know, there's some interesting players, some interesting freshmen on South Carolina, like they have scores, like they can figure it out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But this year I'm like less, I'm less confident, clearly by South Carolina.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like UCLA has just continued to prove to me that they're just going to lose when it

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[SPEAKER_01]: gets closer to like the bigger games and then Texas, um, like me, like I know Texas has lost some games that are, you know, a little head scratching for me for being like a top team.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So you can have they lost?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think they've lost.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Nope.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, 34 no.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Not only have they not lost.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think they've been even within 10 points.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Have they?

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[SPEAKER_00]: No clue.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I have really not tapped into them as much as I should have, but because I know Sarah Strong's incredible.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I know Azis.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was just like, there's just no, they're in a week old conference, too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, there hasn't been many, I think I've actually, I've watched like one or two of their games.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I remember there's an early UC layer.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was in an order game game that I watched.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, but, uh, yeah, no, they just, they're, they're too good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the teams, they've played, they're in like a week of conference, too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: with the big sky.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't even know who's in the thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and that's one of the claims about, you know, if you were looking at seeding over all seeding and people were kind of clamoring for UCLA to possibly be the number one seed because they're 12 and one against top 25 teams, and Yukon is only played five games against top 25 teams, so that was kind of the theory about

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you could, you see L.A. is had an excellent season to show you how overpowering you can has been, you see L.A. is 31 and 1, 18 and 0 in the conference, 12 and 1 against top 25s.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And nobody is talking about them as if they have a chance at all, which is insane.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Again, we've said this before.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They have like seven players who are going to get drafted at the WMBA like this year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like five to six of them is insane and still I'm just like I don't trust it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I want to you Cons just the easiest pick like, you know, I remember the game they lost to it was during that Players tournament when we were in Tucson for Thanksgiving and they played in Vegas against Texas And then they lost and Texas went on to beat South Carolina or loses South Carolina

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[SPEAKER_01]: But it was like, it was just like a, like, oh, I thought you guys were better than that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't really remember the final score.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, it's crazy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They have Kiki getting drafted, Gianna getting drafted, Gabriella getting drafted, Lauren getting drafted, Charlize, probably getting drafted, duke, leech, probably getting drafted and it's just like, yeah, I'm not getting the Yukon, like Sarah Strongspirited and all you guys.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Texas, South Carolina, also have three losses.

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[SPEAKER_00]: LSU has five losses.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Vandy has four losses.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's like you have this power two.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And when you get down to this level, like theoretically, let's say you get every single number one in the final four.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Connecticut and UCLA would play, I think, or not, let me think about this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: no actually they would play in the finals if they if they if they both went out and I think that's kind of the game like if you're selling this tournament that's the game everybody wants to see right you can and UCLA not that I think a lot of people would give UCLA a great shot to win but if there is a team who's got the star power who's got the players who's got the

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[SPEAKER_00]: Lauren Betts, Kiki Rice, those are very familiar names to college basketball fans.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like that's the game that you're hoping for to see.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think Texas

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[SPEAKER_00]: uh... texisters health care line has as many name players like if you're trying to say like who's you know who who should you watch for they don't have as many as those two teams so you know obviously they they could all be in that spot but that that's kind of what you want is UCLA and Connecticut at the end of the day

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm still good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It still give me Yukon.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I still don't trust UCLA.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like I remember last year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like I thought they were the clear in a way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Number one seed to start the year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought they were going to basically just like kind of run through these teams and they had a big problem with USC and like two games and you know they end up losing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: to Yukon and probably, was it the final four?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they got to the final four and just lost to Yukon last year, but I just remember like there were a team where I was like, holy, bro, who's going to stop them?

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[SPEAKER_01]: We went and saw them last year at the Invisaline Bay Area Women's Classic and, you know, no, no, Lauren Betts, but they still cook their opponent.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think their opponent was anything special at all, but, you know, just, I think,

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[SPEAKER_01]: It just feels like they haven't been able to get over that hump and luckily for them like last year they got to the final four so this year all they need to do is get to the champion all they need to do is get to the championship I know that's a high ask but just feels like they haven't been able to get over that hump and I think the year before they lost to you LSU

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, so I'm just, I'm sure, I remember the history of them in the, in the championship, but they have, I, I, I, I don't, I don't, I don't, I've said it like four times in this podcast how many players that they're going to get drafted the WMBA, they are super talented and have a team that should have a good chance at winning at all yet.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just like, you know, genos been there countless times.

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[SPEAKER_01]: AZ and Sarah have now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: got that under their belts and then know what it takes and Sarah another year of Sarah strong is just like she's just the best player and she's going to be a generational talent we already see it now she can get drafted the WMB right now probably go number one in the strapped easily go number one in the strapped so yeah so we have a bracket have you felt that your bracket have you even joined our bracket yet I have not

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[SPEAKER_00]: The only one more day thinks starts on Thursday right doesn't start.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They probably will.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they're not going to do that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Forget if they penalize if you do it after first four or not because it's first full.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, I don't.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think so.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think so.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's what Friday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It starts.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, is it Friday?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we have until Friday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Should we look at some of these tickets?

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[SPEAKER_00]: They have, I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't care.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't care.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, not even just Friday, but South Carolina plays in Sacramento.

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[SPEAKER_01]: UCLA plays in Sacramento.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's Fort Worth in Sacramento.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Those are the two host cities until you get to like, final four or something or sweet 16 or I forget what it is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it is tempting, but at the same time, I have a feeling that tickets are going to be an arm in a leg.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Marshall's going, is he going?

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, that's going.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What, uh, who would you want to see?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'd love to see South Carolina, even if it's against the 16th seed.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Just like get to see like Dawn Staley live coaching and just like how dominant that program's been since I've really had an interest in women's basketball.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's they've been like the most them and you kind of just been like the most dominant programs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, so I'd like to see them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, but I, I have the bracket on my phone.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You can see where other potential matchups would be.

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[SPEAKER_00]: by early early at Chavez is going to be in Sacramento as is jazzy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we've already seen jazzy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't even see jazzy again until she has more help.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Jazzy was fun though.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Added that tournament that we went to.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The only two teams out of that out of the for some is Oregon and USC, the Bay Area teams that you make it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Dude, they're in the NIT.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, I don't get how, you know, I guess I didn't look at the top 25 as we closed out the year, but isn't there 64 teams that make this March madness tournament?

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[SPEAKER_01]: You're telling me that Berkeley and Stanford weren't one of the best 64 teams.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how it gets chosen, but they were in top 25 rankings when we went.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like I at least Stanford was, I don't ever get if cow was, but they were like in and out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm surprised that they didn't match this thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think when you get further down to like the 40s and such, then it's all about conferences and you have all these conferences where you're taking the winners.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it gets a little convoluted, but they didn't play well enough in conference for sure.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's where you're going to win that, you know, you've got to play better in that conference tournament, all that stuff, but yeah, so we'll buy this time next week.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll we'll know the what the sweet 16 is already because I think yeah, looks like you can get South Carolina USC in game two.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, just the South Carolina would run them, but Oklahoma, Michigan State could be a good one in the round two assuming both teams move on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you should, you should hook up with Martian so if you can get out there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, one thing, and I just interested in your thoughts.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then we'll, I want to end with a special topic that I didn't, I didn't mention to Brian.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But if the CBA gets done tomorrow,

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[SPEAKER_00]: What is the one thing you are most excited about hearing about talking about reading about covering like what's that first thing where you're like, oh man, I can't wait to read about x. Geez, I don't mean to get think too much too hard about your question, but do you just mean like absolutely anything or something or specifically something pertaining to the CBA?

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[SPEAKER_00]: just to the start of the season, just to the process of how we're getting through finally getting through the end of last season into the next season.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, just the fact that we're about to have so many things, like if you think about what happened last year before the Valkyries joined, it was a November or December expansion draft.

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[SPEAKER_01]: a January free agency.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then we had until like April until like the women's college draft.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then we had training camp in May.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it was just like you had so much space in between all these things.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And assuming the CBA gets done say next week, all the stuff's going to get smushed into like a month.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So you have expansion draft free agency.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the draft.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And this free agency is like everyone's like on the table, essentially, except

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like that alone to me is the most exciting thing just seeing how like, you know, and like the sham's woes primed days of like waiting for those notifications for the NBA and like 2020 or something where everyone's moving around, like it's going to be like this heightened because this has got to get done quick.

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[SPEAKER_01]: People got to, you know, get to their new homes and settle in before the training camp starts.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's going to be wild and that's what I'm

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[SPEAKER_01]: you

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[SPEAKER_01]: as a player, like I would feel very anxious about how the next couple of weeks are going to go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Even as a content creator for the WMBA, I'm a little anxious of like, okay, when this thing gets signed, I want to guess this day, I want to guess this day, I want to guess, guess, get, I need to line up all these interviews and what we're going to talk about and, you know, it's all going to happen so fast, strictly from like a fan perspective, like this is like Disneyland for like all these stuff, all these exciting, you know, transactional stuff

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm definitely excited to see how free agency shakes out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, it may be a big nothing, like part of the CBA may be coreing is just as big of a part of it as it was before.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But because the top level salaries are so high, I do wonder if some of the teams

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[SPEAKER_00]: are going to be a little conservative, like, right away.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then there are going to be other teams who don't really care about what the top level is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're just like ready to go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I haven't feeling the Valkyries maybe one of those teams who are like, hey, man, like we know what the top level is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We know we understand the cap.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we run the warriors like this is not that big of a deal.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm actually really interested to see if that shakes out and again, and again, and again, it may be quite possible that not a lot of people move, but there's going to be some at least because almost everyone's a free agent and everyone is looking at this, at least, you know, the players who are involved in these negotiations, they're all looking at the idea of

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to make so much more money this year than we did last year and maybe you get to pick your spot and maybe you can figure out, you know, maybe we'll see some players team up who who've been playing and unrivaled or who've been, you know, playing and in the, in the, in the, or the, a fee best stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's going to be exciting.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Which doesn't even come out until this weekend, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: We got a sneak preview.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Not a sneak preview, we just watched the whole thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, but it's called a sneak preview.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's, we got to see it before it actually came out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a sneak premier sneak preview.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, was it all that it was cracked up to be for you?

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[SPEAKER_01]: You've had a couple of days to think about it now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think I was being a little hard on it coming out of the theater just because I read the book and you know there's always like that like all book watchers can enjoy the movie thing because they're too hyper critical of how accurate it was to the book.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think, you know, it was a huge success.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought just like the way it looked was just like incredible.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, even though you know, like these planets that they're traveling to don't exist, they just, they just still, you just feel like, wow, that looked really good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think Gosling does a good job and, you know, exactly by himself for a lot of it, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, and don't get too spoil or have you here, but I feel like for me, some of the stuff where I was like, huh, when I was reading the book, I was like, huh, I wonder how they're going to adapt this part.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think 80% of that stuff that I had that question about just like, didn't get adapted like that was their answer like, I was not going to do it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I think from a fan perspective, just like, or just yeah, an audience perspective, like it was.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're, again, I just love seeing anything I can on that 70 millimeter I max screen and I think that was that was a total pay off specifically for that movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that screen, I think made a big deal.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe if you see it on a normal screen, some of that stuff isn't as impressive, because there's a gimmick, there's a gimmick they do, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's a gimmick they do for specifically for that screen.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't think this is spoiling, but if you feel like the big picture, if you feel like this is a spoiler, I guess turn it off right now, but they utilize the full 70 millimeter IMAX when it's in present day.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then they go into a regular more wide screen aspect ratio when it's when it's like in the past, so they use like a gimmick for it, which I'm assuming if you just see it in a regular movie theater, it's just the whole time it's going to be the same aspect ratio.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Because you don't have that 70 millimeter capability, but it was cool seeing it there because they actually like.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're like, oh, if you see it in this format, like it's kind of a different viewing experience on top of that they just, you know, did this thing where it was like, if it when it's in current day, we're using this aspect ratio, wasn't when it's in, you know, giving you flashbacks, it's in this aspect ratio.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the that is a big part of it, the sound.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So if you have a theater that is a good sound system, there's a nice treat there for you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't know what to expect at all.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you know, if you don't know anything about this movie, you will know a lot about it pretty soon, because I think it's going to be a pretty big deal.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But Ryan Gosling.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The there's a it's it's it is adapted from a book and this is Amazon's big.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The Amazon is kind of in and out of the movie business as far as like important films.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They have the James Bond series.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They have Creed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So they have some stuff, but you didn't really hear a lot about them last year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think

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[SPEAKER_00]: this is going to be a big big thing for them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I hope it does well because I thought it was well done.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm actually interested to see some of the fallout because I wonder, you know, there's always like people are so excited and you're going to hear a lot of people talk good about it and then there will be a little bit of fallout.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Some folks may, you know, talk about certain things about it that they didn't like, but, um, yeah, so I want to see what that is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to see the real

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[SPEAKER_00]: because I mean, I know what I saw and I know what I liked and I know what I was like, and it was kind of interesting.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if I really, really got locked into some of the choices, but overall, like from an in theater experience, I would say go see it in the theater and if possible, see it on IMAX, if you don't have an IMAX grain, maybe shoot for whatever the best sound system is that you can see it on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I think it's going to be a far better in theater experience than at home experience.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So definitely try and see in the theater.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, so that's it from here, our first, this is like one of the first solo pod Hollas that we've ever done.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I think we did a couple before, but this is gonna be where we go from here on out at least in the present time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we'll be back next week, talking about more hopefully we'll be able to talk about the actual start of the season.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And if not,

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[SPEAKER_00]: then we might actually be in some trouble.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So all right, that is it from here for Brian WGCU when we see you piece out.