Alley Oop | EP 24 Indiana Fever SHOCK the Aces, MVP Reactions & Coaching Changes

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We're going to do some murder in the curbs, some trending videos.

Sounds like we're going to talk about some Gamecocks and some cock-un-crock crimes.

So what do you two think about this little side host, that little side hustle that Don Staley's got going?

A side hoe?

Don Staley?

She is not a side-hole, bro.

Miss Don Staley is not a side hole.

She called her a side hole.

That's disrespectful.

Is she bowling right there?

It looks like she's playing Cornhole.

Cornhole.

Corner in the Cornhole Championships.

Cornjolio.

Yeah, she's doing side quests.

She out there.

Did she win?

Do we know the results of this?

Or what's happening here?

Well, that's the one she hit.

Listen, listen, Don Staley maybe should stop playing Corn Holio if she wants to cement her legacy.

We got Carol Lawson right now taking fucking Don Staley's spot and becoming the head coach of Team USA Women's Basketball as of 60 minutes ago.

Putting her in rarefied air.

We can't talk about Don Staley on her little side quests.

You know what Kara Lawson has?

No side quests.

One focus.

Women's hoops.

No side.

Kara has no outside activities that she's interested in doing.

Okay?

That came out angrier than I thought.

That was more rageful than I thought.

it was gonna be listen cornhoy

look Carol Audison she got one of the best ponytails her shit wavy as hell her shit be wavy salute to Carolina she has the literally she literally has the waves in the in the slick back but see this is what you don't realize too though about dying right now she can do that on the weekend because she here in America because guess what she's doing during the week recruiting she probably had a recruit that she could see in that city and they say hey come ball with us, Don.

So corn colleagues is just a tax write-off.

I'm sure you've both heard about the Enhanced Games.

Am I correct?

Nope.

So the Enhanced Games are new games where, like the Olympics, where all steroids are allowed.

Thoughts?

I think steroids should be allowed always.

I think steroids should never be

like taken out of anything.

If it was destigmatized, Juju would be on the steroid right now.

Get the fuck.

Hell no, I wouldn't be on no damn steroids.

I like this steroid Olympics.

Salute.

It's way different, though.

I feel like world record should be every damn trial, every heat, damn near, right?

I've changed my mind.

The caption has made me change my mind.

Hold on, what'd it say?

It says, backed by high-profile investors like Donald Trump Jr.

and

Peter Thiel, I already know what time it is.

These people, they're turning them into super soldiers.

They're turning them into.

What it is is not even what they're saying.

This is lies.

They're turning them into super soldiers, and they're going to turn them into the National Guard, and they're going to take over D.C.

That's what they're going to do.

But they're like literally roided up, and they're also Olympians.

It's a no-scope.

This is pre- and post-the enhanced game.

This guy is a game.

Oh, that's the same

joke.

Same news.

Yeah, he looks like.

I mean, he is not all right, this guy.

He's not.

He's set to launch in Las Vegas.

I'm surprised they're not doing it on the White House lawn.

Bruh, fast as hell in the swimming, probably.

Bruh, imagine if you're trying to run from somebody and you turn around and he follow me and you went

in the water.

Listen,

he's probably got a gun now attached to his arm, too.

This is super.

Yeah, this Olympics is going to be crazy.

You just got to keep your eyes on all the participants.

That's got to be so hard to find a t-shirt.

Oh, my God.

That's like those traps.

I've never seen anything like that.

No, and those lats.

Those lats lats come off his pec further than his pecs.

Respectfully, his trap game is

stifled by.

I don't see how I think y'all really notice how long this brother neck is.

His neck is super long.

His brother neck long as hell.

Listen.

He needs a bra for his back.

I don't give a damn.

Like a hotel with no time to kill.

I'm afraid Lana.

Meant these broken wings.

So Atlanta can't fly again.

So the dream can't fly again.

I see you got the black glasses on.

We're now not even rocking the WNBA stuff anymore.

We're going right to unrivaled, Juju.

What?

Would you like to say anything?

Ouch.

Ouch.

I don't have anything.

I'm so hurt right now.

Like, everything about it hurts.

My back hurts.

My positivity hurts.

My self-esteem hurts.

It's just hurt.

Does it hurt more based on how the end of the game went with Ryan?

I mean, it just hurts because we didn't score as much points as they scored.

That's the automatic.

That's it.

That's the end.

Bruh.

Oh, my God.

The referees,

24 free throws to 11 free throws.

And that number got...

Like closer as the game like was ending.

The referees was on.

They wasn't calling travel.

They wasn't calling nothing they don't give a damn about nothing except the damn tide look at them look at them that's the oh my god by the look by the time lexi hole passed that ball i was already outside of the arena no you were not

no you were not bruh this hurts so bad

it hurts so bad

oh my god there's no way in the world it's supposed to beat us

But look, man, great season.

Salute to Big Carl.

Salute to Big Al.

Salute to Big Ryan.

We're going to be back next year, man.

Salute to Big B G.

Salute to Big B Jizza.

Salute to Pow Powell.

Salute to Nia

Koffe.

Salute to everybody on the bench.

Salute to Big Al.

Shatori, Walker, Kimbro.

Oh, all of them.

We're going deep into the bench.

We're going deep into the bus.

Exactly.

Everybody, man.

Salute.

Maya Caldwell.

Maya Caldwell, I see you.

Exactly.

That's why I got it on today.

It's unrivaled season now.

He's not watching any more WNBA games, but he will provide the analysis.

I called the Indiana Fever cockroaches, and people got very upset with me, so I'm going to call them the Indiana Fury, aka the Tyson Fury of the WNBA.

You can't knock them down.

If you knock them down, you think they're dead.

They just get right back up, somehow winning the fight.

Does it make you feel better, Jew, that they ended up doing the same thing to the Aces?

It does not.

I'm not a hater.

I don't operate like that.

It hurts me just enough to see.

Oh, no.

Look at her.

She was.

Look at her.

Salute to Ariel Powers X-Dream.

Look, that's what we can talk about right there.

Kelsey Mitchell,

there should be a separate award in the WNBA for dog.

Like, you know how the UFC got the BMF trophy?

It should be a BMF trophy in the WNBA.

And Kelsey Mitchell gonna win that every single year, bruh.

Because she got none but dog in her.

Big shot after big shot.

Crossover after.

Oh my god, did they say ATL?

What?

Oh my God, that's disrespect.

But isn't it from because they're from ATL?

Am I wrong wrong on that?

Or are they really?

Yes, you're wrong, Miss Rebecca.

The fever are from Indiana.

You think they just right on them?

Yes, they shit right

on them.

Time out.

Harassment.

This is harassment.

Sorry, Salt.

HR, help me.

Oh, man.

Y'all gonna jump me?

Miss Rebecca, come in with that question.

I thought this was from Atlanta with the fever jerseys on.

I thought these were from Atlanta.

They just told you me to tell me they're just gonna shit on them like this.

Yes, Miss Rebecca.

They're sh on us just like that.

They even, they did the scooper, the, the, the, we eat in Atlanta.

It's chicken wings and magic city.

That's not that too.

See, I got a school, y'all.

This is my partners, y'all.

This is the, I'm so ATL.

Get in there.

I'm so ATL.

They're doing the.

I'm so ATL.

Not the Ezekiel Elliott.

Okay, I'm so ATL.

Two Americas, people.

Two Americas.

Still.

I have a question.

I hate to spin this in the negative.

But because that's what I do.

I think that's what I'm trying to do.

Is to point out what's wrong versus pointing out what's right.

Ain't that a b.

I know.

I'm not right.

I don't know.

There's something sick in the head.

Are the Aces guards?

What's the right word?

Spry.

Washed?

Are they washed?

Are they

cooked?

Look, believe that what I said.

Spry.

Are there ligaments?

How are there,

are there quick twitches not twitching?

Because it felt like Asia had to do a lot of cleaning up on aisle 9 on the backside because they were getting barbecued chicken around the perimeter.

Yeah, I mean, look.

I think that it was a very emotional day in Las Vegas.

People was up early.

They was doing more photo shoots than they usually do.

So I feel like the everybody's routine was just off in Vegas.

I'm going to give them a mulligan for that game one because, wow.

Wow.

There was some game cock on game cock crime.

Okay.

Cock-on-cock crime.

Okay.

Here we go.

Trista, ladies and gentlemen.

Cock-on-cock crime the sword fight.

We're calling cock-on-cock crime the sword fight.

So we had Aaliyah Boston making life absolutely brutal brutal for Asia Wilson, fouling the shit out of her really a lot.

Cock on cock.

You know what I mean?

The cock fighting.

Not roosters.

So

the question, though, I have is, is Aaliyah Boston

to you the most

like a different off the court than she is on the court player?

I think so.

Because off the court, she's the most Disney princess.

She was so well spoken, so everything, nice.

Takes every photo with the kids, sign your book.

She would probably Christian your baby on the court, though.

Take these bows.

Cock on cock.

She really is a dirty player a little bit on the court.

I don't even know if dirty is the right word.

She just gives you a f ⁇ .

You know what I mean?

And really scrapes, claws, grabs you, wraps you,

elbow swings you,

grabs you around the waist, puts the booty up, puts the booty into it.

Doesn't she?

Didn't it feel like it was a bad thing?

I don't know what she'd be doing in that.

What did you see in that matchup?

Was it, because it felt like she was the reason that Asia was frustrated early.

Yeah, she was the reason that she was frustrated.

It was a lot.

I think, like I say, bro, that day is so emotional for a four-time WNBA MVP that I don't even give it.

I don't think I knew she was getting the award three days ago.

I understand that, but still, it's a lot.

I'm just going to throw her bail money to them.

Listen,

I was her on Friday when they gave me the award.

Stop.

Forget about it.

Forget about it.

Don't give me this award right now until some days are off.

I don't want to know on a Friday, and then you're going to give me the award on the Sunday, and then the fever are going to come up in our house and make our life a living hell.

I feel like that's out of pocket.

That is very out of pocket, but at the same time,

we got to give some credit to the fever because

they continue to just continue.

It's like every time you think, all right, here we go.

Here's the wash that's supposed to happen.

Let's see it.

They come out, Kelsey Mitchell.

I don't understand what in the hell.

Like, whatever award we got to give Kelsey Mitchell, this makes it a good thing.

She needs something.

She needs, we need, yeah, we need to make an award up for her.

She, doesn't, she, didn't she, hold on,

didn't she lead the league in scoring?

I'm pretty sure she did.

I mean, even unless Asia was up there.

Yeah, she did.

No, she led the league in scoring at 26 a game.

Bruh.

She, James Hardy.

We can't let a performance like that go without reward from this year.

Because whenever every single person stepped out or got hurt on their team, she stepped in and helped them with that specific thing.

You feel me?

Like when Caitlin got hurt, oh, we need more distribution.

Distribution.

That's it.

Distribution.

Distribution.

Distribution.

We need more distribution.

Damn it.

Get what?

She got something.

That's something that somebody at George would say, distribution.

Yeah, we got some distribution.

Hey, Kelsey Mitchell was distributing that guy all year, bro.

And then we need scoring.

Get what?

Haha.

The wettest, purest jumper I have seen in the WNBA.

Her shot just go like, it's just so pretty, bro.

She puts him on skates.

Like, she got like the back, like behind the back.

Ah, man.

Jab into the MIDI, pull-up right in your dome piece.

It's a wrap.

She hit that one from the elbow early on in the game, and I said, oh, it's going to be a long night for these Aces guards.

Oh, my goodness.

When she stepped back from the three, she'll give a ha ha ha and step back and steal in your mouth.

And that has so much arch on it.

It did before

draws like

you feel me.

How about okay, so we know Kelsey Mitchell's player of the game.

She's the best player on the floor that day.

Yeah.

Some unsung heroes.

Number one,

Natasha Howard, I don't think is being discussed for how she's bringing the ball up in transition as a big.

Her handles are pretty nasty.

She's getting timely rebounds.

She's bodying other people out of the paint, clearing the way for Kelsey Mitchell to have an open lane.

She's making life hell on Asia.

Not as much as Aaliyah Boston, but she's a player that people thought was done.

And not only was she not done, she took it to a whole new level and I think is showing some versatility.

We talk about like when the fever needs something, someone steps in to deliver the hole that was missing.

They just boop give you that.

That's her.

Yeah, speaking of when the delivering in,

did the referees deliver a $200 fine to Caitlin Carr?

Yeah.

Because she said the refs couldn't stop us on social media.

Is that fine-worthy?

It's not.

And stop finding these folks $200, man.

it's embarrassing you embarrassing us like we trying to keep this shit going to playoffs y'all pop up with 200 fine stop don't announce that yeah just say hey man we don't

do not do not make the wmba look like a mickey mini mouse league 200 fines make it seem like everybody's broke come on man i would have been like look

Yeah, I just find Caitlin Clark.

You do not want to know how much I find her.

Trust me.

I find it.

It was a lot.

Just know it was a lot.

So stop talking about the referees.

I don't give a damn.

Nah, they're like, yeah, we just find Caitlin too hunch.

Yeah, two big.

And you know what, Caitlin said?

She's going to come back on social media and say more shit about the referees.

Exactly.

Oh, that's all y'all.

That's all y'all charging for referees.

That's how much I tip my waiter.

200 bucks on a night-to-night basis.

Caitlin Clark's got cheese.

She's got bread.

She doesn't care about your little $200 raggedy ass fine.

Exactly.

Like that LeBron meme.

How about this?

Here go another one.

Facts.

Come on.

I'll just shoot them folks a banjo and be like,

I'm finna say what I want to say this week.

How about that?

What'd you think about Sophie Cunningham's comments?

Man.

Okay, what's Sophie say?

The league is so mad that we won because we are literally not supposed to be here at all.

And that just fuels our fire even more.

Girl,

salute to my sister Sophie.

But the league is happy as hell, y'all won.

Are you serious?

It's the exact opposite.

Ain't nobody mad y'all won.

Only people mad y'all won is Atlanta fans.

You know, but he's like, oh my God, we really wanted Atlanta.

We really wanted it.

We really wanted to have our...

You know what?

Talk about a player who's just slept on and disrespected.

It's Big Al.

Big Al should have won most improved.

Big Al is consistently left off a three-point percentage and three-point scoring lists, guard lists.

Like she's one of the nastiest in the game.

She's consistently disrespected by those who are making said lists.

And so you think that the league was like, oh, we need more Alicia Gray.

You know what?

We need more goggles.

More players that don't get, come on.

Even just this fact that we see Caitlin Clark with her little Stranger Things Fever t-shirt on and her big ass.

She's like black Air Force Ones brushing with the black Air Forces.

I'm like, damn, Caitlin, don't do it like that.

Is her fashion sense changing?

Her fashion sense, I feel like, sis been fresh, like, for real, for real.

It's just that.

No, no.

I feel like she has stylists that sometimes miss the mark.

I feel like if you leave it up to a lot of most WMBA players to just dress themselves and come out the house, they'll most likely land there.

Most of these sisters got swag.

But at the same time, once you sign that deal with

a Filipino who's going to style you in the back, Filipino.

Now he got you out here wearing the sweatpants with some jean shorts painted on the front.

Oh my god, not Filipino.

Isn't she with she style for with Prada as well, which they've got some stuff and Prada, Prada, you could be dressed to the nines in Prada, which you're working, but you could also look like you're a 47-year-old accountant ready for her next job interview.

So there's different levels to this.

Come on, she was doing her Murphy Brown.

Murphy Brown swag.

I see sis.

Come on.

By the way, Sophie Cunningham, speaking of Sophie Cunningham, she's got style too.

She finds a way to make a baseball cap look good.

I mean, hey, salute to Sophie.

She also found a way to argue with the cops and hit court during the game.

She's going crazy, man.

Salute to Sophie.

Salute to them fever.

Also, too, quick sidebar.

It's still not ideal that we got to watch these WNBA playoff semifinal games during

NFL Sunday.

What the hell is this?

Bruh, Miss Rebecca, do you got the picture I

sent to you?

I sent Miss Rebecca a picture of what my Sunday looks like because I'm not gonna not watch what I'm paying for.

I love the NFL.

We shouldn't have to make people make choices.

I got so many damn screens over here, and I just got barely enough.

So I imagine the random person at the house, they ain't got time for all these screens.

Stop making us choose between our favorite sports football team and the WNBA.

Guess what?

There's no games tonight.

We could have had a game tonight on Monday night.

Monday, Wednesday.

I think there is a game tonight.

The Ravens play the Lions.

I'm saying, but I would rather have one game to go against as far as the

WNBA.

You can do the cross-border multi-box and have them both on.

Exactly.

But what I'm saying is there's no WNBA games tonight.

No, there's not.

So what I'm saying is, why not just postpone that day?

Bam.

Monday, Wednesday.

Bam.

Look at this.

Why the hell do I have to watch the Aces like this?

In the bottom right corner, you see the Aces.

I do not know why I had Bengals Vikings on the big TV.

I promise to God.

I thought it was finna be Jamar Chase versus Justin Jetis.

It didn't end up being that.

But look what I got to deal with.

And this is a loyal...

This is a loyal WNBA member fan community.

Come on, bro.

Let's do ourselves a favor.

Nobody loves the WNBA more than Juju, and yet he had to put it on the MacBook Air.

Come on, man.

What are we doing?

Bad choice, though, Vikings Bengals over Aces.

Bad choice was a reporter, Juju, asking Sabrina Yanescu and Brianna Stewart if Sandy Brandello, their head coach, should be fired.

Bruh, that was the worst choice ever.

Miss Rebecca, you got that video?

What the f?

They said, hey, people be asking, the streets are talking.

And the streets are saying,

how come you think Sandy Brandella, your head coach, should be fired?

And Brianna looks at her like,

what?

The f?

You crazy?

And then the reporter's like, I'm not saying it, but like,

she pulled the Donald Trump.

I'm not saying it, but like, other people are saying it.

It's like, who's saying it?

Who's saying it?

Whenever somebody say people are saying it, tell them to tell you the people.

Yeah, who are those people?

Exactly.

It's you.

You are saying it.

You're stirring the pot.

Right.

You are people, man.

The streets are talking and they're saying your coach should be fired.

About like off of a championship after some of the most brutal string of injuries you've ever had.

You know who did get fired, though?

We got to talk about storm head coach Noel Quinn getting fired.

What you think about that?

I mean,

maybe I'm missing something.

I know that the storm were having a rough couple of years a couple years ago.

I know it was rough, but I feel like this year.

They turned the corner.

Right.

Because you don't just have the mind to sign Erica Wheeler and know, bruh, you don't really like to me.

We know the streets know Erica Wheeler is a dog.

But for a coach to know that and give Erica Wheeler such a big roll on that squad, on that squad that was seconds away from advancing.

Right.

Come on, man.

Put that pairing well with Skylar, the milk, Diggins.

Like, I think that

she did phenomenal to me.

NECA, aging superstar, still giving us what she needs.

Ezzy, giving us the rebounds, blocks all year long.

B Sykes came over and transitioned well into a great storm player.

Gabby Williams stepped up in the play.

I don't see what happened there.

Maybe it's above my pay grade.

Maybe I'm not G14.

Right.

I'm not G14 classified.

But I think it's a bad move by the Seattle Storm to get rid of sis.

I'm so conflicted.

Yeah.

I'm conflicted because I like Noel Quinn.

I think it's fed up that there's not really any black female coaches in the W when that's primarily what the W is made up of.

So that's fing rough.

Was she the last one?

I think that's it because they fired Teaspoon.

Yep.

I think this is it.

I think that's it.

Damn, bro.

I think that's it.

That's a whole nother topic for a whole nother day, right?

So, but anyway,

what I will say is that we talked about how the Storm were underperforming based on the roster that they had.

And so, yes, you use Erica Wheeler in a way that's very effective, but there were a lot of games that this team just didn't come out ready to play, and they played down to their competition.

Now, I don't know about these things.

I don't know if that's a player, cohesive, individual thing, or you can put that on Noel because having a bad game plan.

But we know at the end of games they've melted into the sun.

That's a slight coaching thing.

But I think like they also performed great

against the aces and probably should have won that series.

But it did take Skylar Diggins going crazy.

And that offense is brutal.

That offense really gets run like

a stick in the mud.

I don't know what is going on with it.

So,

I just feel so conflicted.

Bruh, I'm talking about if Erica Wheeler hits a mid-range free throw line

jumper,

we're not having this conversation today.

Like, Noelle Quinn would be coaching her team in the similarity.

If Erica Wheeler didn't hit the mid-range jumper at the end of the game, one of the last games of the season, we are having this conversation two weeks ago.

Look, exactly.

Long story short, salute to Erica Wheeler.

Long story short, Erica Wheeler, now promoted coach of the Seattle store.

Look, man, see,

she got it going on.

It's gonna be a bidding war for her next year, neither here nor there.

Moving on, New York Liberty.

The f out of here.

Man, John Quill Jones.

John Quail Jones had the worst series that I have seen her have ever.

And I love John Quayle.

Come on, man.

You got to love John Quayle.

But it was a rough series to watch.

I don't know what was going on with John Quayle.

This series.

I know what was going on.

John Quayle probably thought,

listen, it's just not our year.

We've had issues.

You know you're about to play the Lynx, right?

You know what it is.

Brianna Stewart's got a

no, listen.

Brianna Stewart's got a bionic knee attachment on her knee to take away the pain from whatever sprains, whatever ligament is going on.

So Brienna has been injured on and off all year, and she's having a brutal series.

You've got John Quelt's been dealing with injuries as well.

This team, already, you already know Brianna's not right.

She's doing everything she can for you and like shout out to Brianna Stewart who's fucking phenomenal in the fourth quarter the only Liberty player to score.

But now you're about to go on a five-game series with the Lynx

you know you're now beating the Lynx.

You know that this is a this is a wrap for you.

Brianna's probably

operating at 50% health.

And the pain level is gonna be immense.

I just think John Quill wasn't mentally ready to go to the level that she went in the finals where she was finals MVP, especially considering they've been up and down and up and down, up and down all year.

Don't nobody from the Liberty look at the damn links and be like, oh yeah, we can't beat them.

Are you crazy?

Well, they probably, if you ask them today, they probably be like, yeah, we can beat them still.

We lost to them.

That is not how they operate.

I think something happened in Alyssa Thomas land.

I feel like something happened in Satu Saba Lee Defense Mechanism.

I love you.

I love you.

You're like the opposite of me.

Do you know what I mean?

That's why people like you more than they like me.

Ah, come on.

Come on.

Everybody likes me, bro.

Everybody likes you, bro.

You're like, oh, man, Satu and Alyssa, they just took it to another level.

And I'm like, nah, John Quill kind of blew it.

You know what I mean?

Sabrina kind of blew it.

They did.

They blew it.

If we were male

NBA commentators, we would be like, see, the thing about John Quill Jones is

you can't be the finals MVP and go Houdini the next playoff time you get in there.

That's what we can't do.

This is why people thought John Quill was cooked when she came out of Connecticut.

That's what they would be saying.

And if you were an NBA commentator, you would be like, nah, the the thing is, Alyssa Thomas deserves her lack of shoulders and her lack of labrums.

She needs more respect.

You know what I will say, though?

John Quel should be held accountable for that tension she threw at the free throw on the floor.

What the hell is that, John Quill?

Come on now.

You know I messed with you.

But come on now.

I mess with all of them.

Come on.

I love them all.

But they know that they did not perform.

And even Sabrina said, we didn't give our fans what we should have given them.

Yeah.

You know what?

You're going to make me better.

You're going to make me better.

You're going to make, I just want to do this, and you just want to do this.

That's the difference.

That's the promo.

That's the promo.

I just want to do this, and Juju just wants to do this.

Exactly.

I want to raise the roof, man.

Yeah, I wanted the damn liberty to beat this Phoenix Mercury for Tasha Cloud, man.

Same thing.

Nevertheless, Sis still balling.

Sis still going to be balling next year.

So all the haters, step off.

Before we wrap Juju, I think the Lynx are the most dominant team of the WNBA all year.

They show it again.

Their fourth quarter was ridiculous.

And I think the thing that was lovely was you got 42 first half point paints from the Mercury, which is bad, really bad.

Cheryl Reeve went in there and said, grab your ankles.

I'm giving everybody whoopings.

I've got the switch out.

And then they held him to only 10 points in the paint in the second half.

They end up going on a crazy run, making this thing not even close.

Courtney Williams continues to be my favorite guard in the league.

She had five steals.

She was the leading scorer for the Lynx.

Not only that, did she have

multiple moments where she passed up her own shot to get our girl Bridget Carlton multiple, one deep three, one cutting layup, which really, I think, iced and sealed the game.

When you're on a heater, that's super hard to do, like mentally, because you're like, nah, I got this.

And you know, Court, Court likes to shoot it now.

So, Lynx, what'd you think about them?

It's a wrap for the rest of the league.

Look, I feel like when Courtney playing like that, it's wraps.

It's a raptual.

Like you say, she passed it to the bridge.

Guess what?

The bridge is going to knock it down no matter what.

Damn near nine out of ten times, the bridge gonna knock it down.

Like, I ain't never seen a more reliable supporting cast, no matter who's got it going, whether it's fee.

She got it going.

Guess what she can always do?

Pastor Courtney, mid-range, in your mouth.

Get what she can also do.

Behind the back, Kayleigh McBride.

Release so fast, you don't even get a chance to get over there before it's in the nets.

But you can get it up out the nets if you want it.

And guess what?

Post-moves.

Jessica Shepard stepped up this year in a way that people may not have expected, but I know that in that on the defensive end of the ball, she's so reliable alongside the defensive player of the year, the co-defensive player of the year, Atlanta Smith.

Come on, man.

It's like that's what separates

the Links from the squad, the rest of the whole WNBA to me.

Because no matter who is having a great night, they all so unselfish when it comes to that.

Bruh, they're going to let them have that great night and just be ready when you need them.

Even sometimes, Fiji is be like, bruh, like you said yesterday, Courtney, you got us today.

If you need me, you know, it's dog food in this post.

It's Scooby snacks in his post if you need me.

You feel me?

So, yeah, I definitely agree.

Minnesota Lynx looking like them.

Yeah, and then, yeah, I think that that's a good point.

That Alyssa Thomas matchup with Fee, where Alyssa Thomas looks absolutely

psychotic, smiling from ear to ear that way.

Like when she's getting D'd up by Fi, going face up on her, and Fee's bodying her, she's smiling.

I'm like, what is AT about to do next?

So, yeah, the Lynx,

they're so hard to guard because they've got great ball movement.

They're a great defensive team.

Let's not even count the fact, we didn't even count the fact that Fi was a defensive player of the year last year.

So, you got the back-to-back team with back-to-back DPOIs and the best offense in the league with multiple players who can shoot in your eyeball from deep.

So deep they'll put your ass to sleep.

And reliable.

So, yeah, I mean, it looks like Minnesota is finally going to get their revenge.

Speaking of revenge, Nas Hillman got the last laugh in that Sixth Man of the Year race.

Salute to my dog, Sixth Man of the Year, even though we would rather have this semifinal birth.

Neither here nor there, it hurts.

Shout out to Nas, you deserve it.

All right, see you later.

It's been all the time that we have for the alley oop.

I allied, he ooped, he allied, I ooped, and then Rebecca, multiple oops.

Stupid oops.

Dumb oops.

Incredible how the fuck did you get there, oops.

I did it again.

So full of oops, baby.

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